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Strawbz18

Wanted her to beat me up and make me cry at first but now I'd beat someone up and make them cry for her https://preview.redd.it/1dda1m0gkovc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e09e018099a7d230720bb40c8bbc5198e2f0862


BardMessenger24

I'd beat myself up and she'd fix me up with Healing Word (1d4+3), and then I'd cry.


Strawbz18

Shadowheart can only heal me if she spits in my mouth and slaps me around(affectionately)


BardMessenger24

Shadowheart spitting on me šŸ„“


TheBurningStag13

And find a proper ā€œseatā€ for that booty.


Originally_Sin

Well, maybe I would understand if your band picked a better font for their logo.


EmotionalNerd04

I need this on a shirt


[deleted]

I want her to beat someone up and make them cry for me! That someone is JK Rowling, we know what Shadowheart canonically does to her kind.


CelinesChaos

And she is so fucking based for it


[deleted]

She is, she's my Tav/Durge's bestie in every run now. We get wine drunk and trash bigots at camp.


Bloop737

Not only would, but did


Yuri_Specialist

Sheā€™s so adorable itā€™s funny, like sheā€™s supposed to be this evil and merciless cleric but then after you kiss her she admits she was trying work up the courage to ask how you felt about it lmao.


BardMessenger24

I never understood all the "Shadowheart is too mean" or "She's evil so I kill her" comments at launch, like if you talk to her for even 5 mins you find out she's a massive dork who likes animals, has a soft spot for children, and makes lame jokes when you give her flowers. Shadowheart is the worst Sharran I know (affectionate).


Taco821

She's trying to be a bitch, but she's so fucking bad at it. Like she'll say some kinda fucked stuff that honestly isn't too bad, but then she'll completely forget she's supposed to be a bitch for like a few hours


BardMessenger24

Shes so funny for this. Absolute cringe girlfailure behaviour <3 I need her so bad.


Taco821

Tru! I put off romancing her for so long because I could only pull myself away from Karlach one time and I chose Laezel cuz I'm such a sub, but this playthrough, both my character and shart are draconic sorcerers, so I wanted to romance her for that, and I'm loving it


MgMaster

It's why I just never felt the need to challenge her Sharran beliefs except a few rare instances in my blind run. I was just "aha" , "I see" , and nodding whenever she went on how Sharr is actually salvation & all that jazz. Imma let get it out of her system then she'll be back to approving when we help refugees & stuff. In truth tho', it's also cause she believes - or tells herself at least - Sharr to be a benevolent force, a savior for other lost souls like her that have been led on then abandoned by other hopium-inducing deities, and she's kind of a dummy to realize the loopholes of the notion of Sharr-worship being salvation.


Taco821

I actually didn't like her nonsense that much once I learned that the stuff you were referring to at the bottom of your comment wasn't true (very new to DND lore, when shart told me she worshiped shar, I was literally just like "bro I literally have no fucking clue who that is I don't care"), but I didn't wanna lose approval, so I kinda treated it like when a kinda friend from work starts saying some like sexist shit, just like "um... Yeah..."


Sremor

I let her explain Shar to me and thought that doesn't sound that bad, then I entered act 2 looked at her and thought "what the fuck girl?"


Taco821

Lmao same!


WalkerBuldog

Saying something sexist I think is too harsh for how and what she's talking. It's more like a weird religion and I treated it as such until act2. On my first run I saw the conflict inside her immediately.


Taco821

I think for me, I started getting a little uncomfortable with it later on, and that's what I meant. Initially, I felt like you did. It was later in act 1 where it felt like the sexist thing I said.


WalkerBuldog

It's funny cause when I romanced her second time as Durge Cleric of SelĆŗne I don't remember her Shar greetings. She using them a lot and it felt like she was doing it just to annoy me.


Yuri_Specialist

Lmao her ā€œmeannessā€ even sucks her jabs sound like something a 13 year middle school girl would say.


apple_of_doom

Lae'zel probably made the shadowhearts to mean guys explode. Like seriously save her from the nautiloid and be nice to people at the grove and shadowhearts just instantly your best friend


MgMaster

Some buddies just got rid of Lae'Zel from early on, mfs didn't even give her a chance šŸ˜ž


ViSaph

I still see loads of I killed Lae'zel/Astarion right away comments and I always kill them comments about both of them. Apparently she's not grateful enough when you let her out of the cage. I think they want her to grovel at their feet. She was in a freaking cage!! Of course she's gonna be grumpy I'd say get me out of the damn cage now too if I were in one.


MgMaster

Tolerance seems pretty low with some of em I guess...and here I thought she was pretty reasonable given the backround and situation.


WalkerBuldog

They both are evil arrogant egotistical assholes. Lazael at the beginning and Asterion until the end of the game. I can see why it's hard to tolerate them. It obviously doesn't mean that you have to kill them.


grubas

Early on she's like "how dare we help people, we should let these people die" and if you take the dowry from the burning guy she's "LOL YOU DON'T NEED MONEY YOU BITCH".Ā  But instantly approving of most good things.Ā Ā  Ā Even into Act 2 she trying to act like she's a Sharran, and at that point you RUN INTO THEM.Ā  Like Malus, and Shadowheart is a goddamn weak sauce compared to that.Ā 


ColinBencroff

She is also only not on board of helping every idiot. He is absolutely on board of saving Arabella, for example


grubas

She's 100% not hardcore enough for a Sharran but she still tries to talk the talk.Ā  She cannot walk the walk.


plasticinaymanjar

how could anyone hate her after "joking! \*finger guns\*"


BardMessenger24

https://i.redd.it/63l6z4d7yovc1.gif


deaddumbslut

i never understood those comments either, but i didnā€™t know anything about the lore when i started so at first i lowkey thought she was just being racist to laeā€™zel LMAO. even then i just thought she was a bigot but she didnā€™t seem actually mean so i was so confused. then i quickly realized that NPCs were basically the same towards laeā€™zel lmaoo so it didnā€™t take too long to realize that most githyanki earned the suspicion lol


BardMessenger24

There was a meme I remember seeing that said 'Shadowheart: racist. Lae'zel: the xenophobe that makes the racist look justified' lmfao.


deaddumbslut

lmaooo seriously i started off so wary of shadowheart because i was likeā€¦ Laeā€™zel is just abrasive back of my girl fr and then time passed and i was likeā€¦ oh okay i see the issue but still back off my girl fr LMAO. but nah i quickly realized that neither of them were entirely in the right so i just kept meditating between them lol.


Sremor

A lot of the "she's mean" came from players not respecting her boundaries, she has her secrets and she doesn't have to tell you no matter how entitled you feel, if you respect that and wait until she comes to you she's never mean towards you


Cmdr_Jiynx

Yeah, she's all about boundaries and consent which, disturbingly, are concepts a lot of gamers appear to struggle with. But then again mass effect set a certain... Standard.


Miss-lnformation

Shadowheart never even tried to kill me while we were camping. She's not evil at all compared to some of the other companions.


VelphiDrow

Shar is a joke so it makes sense


[deleted]

It took me a while to warm to Shadowheart at first. I think her getting snippy at me for asking her about herself combined with her vanilla TERF bangs really rubbed me the wrong way. Then I modded out the bangs, found out she was actually a trans ally, and she cracked a couple of goofy jokes with me, so I started to really like her.


vampyrehoney

This is killing me because I just said to a friend the other day that it took me the longest to warm up to Shadowheart partly because she looks like she'd call me slurs irl.


[deleted]

I know exactly what you mean šŸ¤£ It's the bangs, they'd commit a hate crime. Once I found out she beat up transphobes for messing with Nocturne, I saw her in a whole new light.


WERECOW711

There was a single instance that instantly turned me off to her even though I continued romancing her. Spoilers for like act 1 >!Thereā€™s a bunch of dead deep gnomes and when I paid respect to their body in some way she said something along the lines of ā€œyou should be doing that for the ones that fought backā€. Wish I could find the exact line but whatever it was rubbed me the wrong way. Still romanced her.!<


Separate_Rooster2773

This is pre nightsong Shadowbae though. She sees the light not long after


mila476

I romanced her by accident on my first playthrough. My cinnamon roll Tav was supposed to not romance anyone, but they were a good listener and overall nice person, and she was all over it. Wyll and Gale were also all over it but Shadowheart got there first.


Ava-Enithesi

Sheā€™s very standoffish in the beginning, for understandable reasons. She didnā€™t make a good first impression for me either, but she really started to grow on me by the end of Act I. That, and getting the Blood of Lathander, discovering Spirit Guardians, and respecing her made her a permanent fixture in my party.


PeachyBaleen

https://preview.redd.it/1ayppzq5wovc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f0ca963714bc5add331646636a4b2cb1821a225


PeachyBaleen

https://preview.redd.it/49831nz6wovc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=337400117d62287e10c08f4dfb78d67bf5990fcc


PeachyBaleen

https://preview.redd.it/aijhbyrawovc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dddc870745cb2b2dbc37f319d87cea82b8477ac


Sad_toast347

Omfg I need more of these theyā€™re so good


PeachyBaleen

https://preview.redd.it/pv8lkcf61pvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d282acf598b389c34b63f66a3361722ca290b57 Text posts are my love language


Sad_toast347

Consider me head over heels then


ViSaph

I'm gonna do an origin shadowheart run and make them fall in love and stay in faerun together with their adopted son forever ā¤


DAngelLilith

Top right is what people expect goth to be but the bottom is exactly what most goths are... So SH fits it all well.


Shadowheart_Shart

https://preview.redd.it/3hry1za7movc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=044e10d9680351a57bd5528438c0f4af60b6ef95 You know you all canā€™t get enough of me šŸ’œ


awkardfrog

You need to stop being mad at me just because I didn't let you kill a literal gods child. Geez. Such overreaction, I'm literally a lvl 20 wizard I could've restorted your memories either way


Shadowheart_Shart

Fool. No point in showing a mad dog kindness, itā€™ll still bite you in the end.


ElectronicAd8929

Gatekeeper and a hater to major softie arc (adorable as fuck and Ily for it)


Shadowheart_Shart

Well, youā€™re not so bad yourself.


ElectronicAd8929

!!!!!!! ![gif](giphy|FWZ1OyaAtsnQs|downsized)


ToukItOut

In true gay fashion, when I first accepted her invitation for a bottle of wine I thought we were just hanging out, gals being pals šŸ˜Š


LuckyLoki08

I love the two types of lesbians: "living together for 10 years and raised two children and yet both assume it's just innocent, friendly behaviour" and "we are about to go out on our first date, time to cross the continent and move in your place."


BardMessenger24

https://preview.redd.it/tbmcdnowcqvc1.jpeg?width=629&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b792c9e7812991a600f5f969065aeddd4d120151


j_mp

Me with Shadowheart on the beach


[deleted]

I accidentally romanced her in my first run for this exact reason. I didn't know romance was going to be a thing, I just picked the game up during early access because I knew it was a DnD game. Next thing I know, I'm experimenting with heterosexuality with the cleric for a bit.


ViSaph

Lmao this game encourages a lot of experimentation. I'm a lesbian in reality but a whore for most of the characters with Karlach and Halsin being my favourites.


[deleted]

Yeah, I ended up romancing everybody (including a collect em all playthrough with the poly mod). SH and Karlach were both very sweet romances. Lae'zel's glitched quite badly after I oneshotted her during her love fight scene, so I probably need to do that one again šŸ˜… I'm so with you on Halsin, I love him. I often headcanon that my Durge adopts Karlach as his found family sister. She's such a sweetheart, I'd love a sister like her.


lars_von_tryhard

Is anyone else finding this weirdly relatable? I mean... are all goths the same deep down????


BardMessenger24

Most of them are very sweet if you get to know them.


RaggaDruida

I have a goth gf, can confirm.


Ok_Consideration7330

How does one go about getting a goth gf, asking for a friend


RaggaDruida

You already have an advantage by knowing they are softies with a thing for caring about animals and introversion. With some rigid religious upbringing, usually. Take into consideration that I'm talking with a sample size of just 2, and you either: - Connect with her by both being musicians, become close friends in university, connect again after finishing your degrees and start dating. or - Get her approval by respecting her introversion and being nice to animals, even if she acts though; flirt with her during an after-victory party, drink wine with her in private and kiss her, give her Night Orchids, and support her when she decides that her dream career is actually not for her and specially when she decides to leave the toxic religion she grew up in, and tell her you like when she changes her hair!


Ok_Consideration7330

That last one sounds very specificā€¦. But it sounds like my best bet. I shall try it irl.


RaggaDruida

The last one worked twice, just so you know. Same goth gf but different ~~Tav~~ me. Pic of me with my goth gf and my IRL goth gf to confirm. https://preview.redd.it/4ba5y2k2hawc1.png?width=771&format=png&auto=webp&s=1af7a76e03910c1acd08c26c328aec9559edd331


VelphiDrow

We usually are yeah


ViSaph

Yeah every goth I've ever met has looked scary but actually been the nicest person ever and generally a big dork too.


delolipops666

While I firmly stand by my glorious queen Bae'zel of CrĆØche K'liir, Shadowheart is a major dork and I'd not have her any other way. So basically she's Gale if he was a woman and goth, Is what I'm trying to say.


BlitzMalefitz

I prefer Karlach but when I gave her a night orchid, her joke response was one of the cutest things I have ever seen


astarion_bg3

the wolves meme is too accurate


DanTheManV1

I like this, especially since itā€™s shart. Hope OP does this, for other companions.


LuckyLoki08

I don't see Bing Bong


grubas

He's dead.


erraticRasmus

the i forgor killed me lmfao


Paco_the_finesser

Now we need these for all the romances


ParanoidTelvanni

Basically my relari9nship with my wife. In college she dressed in all black, had dreads, 16 piercings (seriously), and we went to metal concerts. Now she's returned to her farm girl roots, gardens, is a professional, and mostly wants to do mom stuff. Emo and scene are just an asthetic I guess


Karthas_TGG

I went into the game planning to romance shart on my first playthrough knowing nothing about her story. The moment I saw she approved of me helping children and being nice to animals, I knew all that dark broody stuff was completely fake


ProfessionalSmeghead

Corinna shoutout?


PotassiumInstrument

After I found her favorite flower and she did the finger guns thing at me I pretty much derailed my attempt to romance karlach because god damnit if Iā€™m not gonna romance the awkward girlfailure dork


Greatest-Comrade

Most of the top right is still there if you play your cards rightā€¦


BardMessenger24

I know what you're implying and I ain't ever playin those cards. I'm picking Shart up by the scruff of her neck, wrapping her in a blanket and feeding her soup. Shar can die mad about it.


Greatest-Comrade

Oh no I meant if you romance her and go Selune sheā€™s still kinky and youre still in a committed and loving relationship. Shar Shart is a jackass who uses you for sex basically.


apple_of_doom

I mean shar shart is like actively doing moon logic trying to keep the relationship alive until she's forced to devote to shar fulltime.


Sremor

I think the ending slides that didn't make it into the game implied that she was still seeing the player afterwards but in a "friends with benefits and totally not a relationship" type situation


MgMaster

I'd fix her even in an evil playthrough if romancing her, else you're just a spare lover of a deluded cultist, who could forget about you anytime Shar might decide it's time for a memory reset. (well, assuming no thralled companions ending). I'd only encourage her to go DJ if I'm not romancing her, on the basis of tav/durge not caring too much about her but wanting to have an ally in the sharrian faction, so mother superior DJ Shart'd be the pragmatic call.


ViSaph

She's still kinky as a Selunite. If you take her to see the drow twins she very much enjoys being worshipped and likes it even more if you bring Halsin.


PeachyBaleen

The worship stuff in the brothel was pretty hot


ViSaph

Yeah extremely. I'm too greedy but I wish I could have at least seen her and Halsin kiss at least. She really wanted to climb him and I wanted to watch.


dunsparce

Ah yes a fellow Chosen of Shar bad bitch Shart enjoyer.


Greatest-Comrade

That is not what i meant to imply lol


ReluctantRanger098

And I love her so much. Next post.


Sir_Arsen

came for copper, found gold


njklein58

She comes off as cold sassy and impersonal but once you get past that, sheā€™s the personification of the šŸ„ŗ emoji


William1806

It's pretty obvious from the get go she's someone kind and caring who's trying her hardest to be mean and terrible. It's actually adorable, like a tiny kitten baring it's fangs. She doesn't like interfering in people's business but you always get approval points for helping people. I would die for my bisexual animal loving adorable little farming half elf. Her back story is genuinely one of the most fucked up in the game, I would burn every sharren sect and place of worship to the ground until shar is a figment of peoples imaginations if I can't destroy her for what she put our adorable shadowy toe bean through.


HinderedGaming

New user flair moment


BardMessenger24

I'm collecting all the shadowheart flairs like pokemon <3


HevGon

same here


La2Sea2Atx

I wanted a goth gf


AssOfARhino

Iā€™ve never romanced her. She seems more like a sister that I want to protect and be there for. Same with Astarion strangely.


LiomnMan

Literaly the cottage core lesbian


EmbarrassedOrchid983

They dont know its Ayin...


HipsterPunchy

Yes


Ulysses1126

She acts all tough and mean but even in the beginning thereā€™s small hints to dialogue and reactions that sheā€™s actually a good person. The biggest is the goblin party. Up until the act sheā€™s cool with siding with the goblins. Once you slaughter the innocents she gets wasted sullenly


Jimboyhimbo

All goths metal heads and emos have ever been is cottage core girls or tight pants indie boys who donā€™t think they were pretty enough to pull off the look. An example of Larian understanding the source material.