#RaeBG3
✨ Rae's jars! Both romantic and #nsfw. ✨

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
5 songs that explain Rae and fit him well:

1. POSSESSION by KiNG MALA - The intoxicatingly seductive voice opposed by the condescending and threatening lyrics fit Rae so well. There is also religious imagery, which I love using to contrast Rae's unfavourable views on it. (1/7)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae doesn't necessarily have a dream life, but a dream childhood.
Even now, with over 170 years of age, he often finds himself being disgustingly envious when he sees happy children with their parents. He then wonders and dreams what that would be and feel like. (1/2)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae despises getting involved in strangers' (personal) affairs unless there is money or some benefit for him involved.
His ironic curse would thus be that he'd be compelled to inquire every person that talks to him about their life and if they need his help. For free.
The horror!

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
- I am compelled to sort everything rather meticulously. Inventories, skill bars, bags. Even the food.
- I make Astarion bite everything/everyone that is somehow unique at least once. The beholder? Yurgir? Raphael? Let's go! In my head, he wants to taste them all. (1/4)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae has quite a few hyperfixations, like swords and the arcana, specifically the way warlock pacts work.
The one field he unconsciously (and embarrasingly) always finds himself info dump about is history and all of its components though. He simply finds it fascinating. All of it!

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
There is no such threshold for Rae. He knows he needs the others and the artefact—should he not be its holder—to get the tadpole out of his brain.
Besides, he's a mercenary. He has done vile things for coin. Why would he care about morals now that his life is on the line?

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae is best presented by punk rock or nu/progressive metal. Raw and heavy riffs. High energy. Screaming one's lungs (and feelings) out. And telling the authorities to eat shit.
For specific bands I'm thinking TOOL, KoRn, Slipknot, BmtH, Avenged Sevenfold, AC/DC, MCR, and some such.

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae's dream guardian took the shape of his dead partner of 80 years, Jysral. Seeing and hearing him again after 50 years—just as he used to be—made Rae want to throw up. He wanted to stab this faux Jysral when it was offered to him, but couldn't. Seeing Jysral die again? Impossible.

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
I am and have always been a sucker for canon compliancy, no matter the fandom. I don't know what it is about being capable of slotting my story seamlessly into canon, but it has always tickled my brain in a particular way.
That said, I totally understand when people don't (1/6)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
The main source of Rae's magic is his patron, who is a powerful devil. While he did not sell his soul and struck another deal entirely after four days of bargaining with her, Rae feels a pull from down below every time he uses too much of the magic granted by her. (1/3)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
When Rae was young, his father explained to him that compassion is an unconditional reflex a person experiences and that it has pure intentions—or that it should.
Rae partially agrees with this. He does feel this kind of compassion, but only towards a fair few people. (1/4)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Encourage?
Pah, that doesn't work on people like Lyra; Rae would know.
He'd drag her to bed and tell her to fucking stay there, or so the devils below help him. Knowing she's very likely to try and escape, he'd camp out in her kitchen and make her some turmeric and ginger congee.

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 mild #nsfw
Rae will be attending and of course his mere presence is a gift in and of itself. However, he also gifts Eliza a small jewelry strongbox. Having used one of the portraits he drew of her as reference, he asked his favourite blacksmith in Athkatla to make earrings. (1/2)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 cw: self-harm
Rae's body is littered with scars, many of them coming from battles with men and monsters.
The sea of scars on his back was mostly inflicted by his mentor as disciplinary measures. Sometimes Rae was even forced to self-flagellate. Alas, this stuck to him, and he (1/3)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 #nsfw
Rae loves to gently cup one or both of his partner's/lover's cheeks or the side of their face. He then, more often than not, finds himself rubbing soft circles into their skin with his thumb.
A touch that is reserved for those he holds very near and dear to his heart (1/2)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae would work over-time and even carve two pumpkins! Just ignore the fact that one would say "Fuck" and the other "Off" and that they're rather badly carved to boot.
Look—he's not big on holidays, and he sucks when it comes to using his hands for anything finesse-based. Oops...

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae'd be a combination of The Scholar and The Last Girl. He'd figure out what's happening, but no one would believe him—typical horror movie.
When he kills the killer at the end, he'd just say, "I told you so," to all of his dead companions. Well, not his fault they were dumbarses.

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3
Rae's colour scheme revolves mostly around black and gold. Aside from it being a combination I adore, it fits Rae's core identities of being of warlock and mercenary quite well. Gold in general is something he *always* wears.
Other colours you may see him in are green or blue. (1/3)

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 #nsfw
Rae is very sexually experienced, all pooled together from a variety of good, bad and shit experiences. There are many of the latter two he regrets, but it helped him figure out what he likes and what he doesn't, and that he actually has standards—and what those are. (1/4)