slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
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- Creator:
- gomensgay
- Series Begun:
- 2024-01-31
- Series Updated:
- 2024-11-22
- Description:
a loosely-connected series of works about the origins, thoughts, and feelings about my favourite sad wet cat, the Dark Urge. many headcanons in the series are more broadly applicable to durges in general but all these fics are actually about my resisting drow durge named Tavian and his personal journey
- Notes:
here is my boy if anyone is wondering
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- Words:
- 185,557
- Works:
- 12
- Complete:
- No
- Bookmarks:
- 10
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Child of murder. Tav had grown up in the Gate. He knew what that meant.
Bhaalspawn.
Tav was a Bhaalspawn.
Gods, it made so much sense.
How The Dark Urge became Bhaal’s Chosen.
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The Dark Urge has been nothing but Bhaal’s bloodstained lash for his entire life. He was never meant to be anything else. But when a strange note from an even stranger man finds its way to the sewers, Tavian finds himself drawn into an alliance that has the potential to change everything– should his Father allow it.
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Kressa Bonedaughter experimented on The Dark Urge for months. Orin watched, and laughed. And the Dark Urge was lucky to remember none of it.
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Memory is a funny thing. What the mind forgets can linger in the body. And the smallest things can bring it back…
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No one reacts well to learning that Tav was the one behind the Absolute plot. Tav can’t blame them. And he can’t shake the creeping, insidious knowledge that they’d all be so, so much better off without him around.
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Tav needs to know more about his past. About himself. There is only one person who is both able and willing to answer his questions.
But can a man like Enver Gortash be trusted?
For that matter, can Tav?
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- Part 6 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 1 of hound, brought to heel
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“I don’t want to form an alliance with Tav,” Enver said. “He is stubborn as an ox and entirely intractable, and I doubt that whatever Orin did to him managed to change that. No, I want to form an alliance with you.”
Gortash finds Astarion hunting by the docks, and the two have an illuminating conversation. Afterwards, Astarion considers his options.
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- Part 8 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
- Part 7 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 2 of hound, brought to heel
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“We’ll be gods. The whole world will be ours.”
Tav’s lover is chasing ascension, and the safety it promises. Tav has doubts.
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- Part 9 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
- Part 8 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 3 of hound, brought to heel
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Touch is… risky, with the Urges. Tav tries to hide how hard it can be. It doesn’t take long for the others to notice.
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Below Baldur’s Gate, in the fetid halls of the Bhaal Temple, Tav confronts his past.
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- Part 10 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 13 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
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Tav has a tendency to throw himself into danger as though his own life couldn’t matter less to him.
Astarion is sick and tired of it.
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- Part 11 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 14 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
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“We found a lead on Haarlep,” Wyll said. “They’ve fled to Mephistar.”
“Mephistar?” Gale asked. “Tav, who do you know that would retreat to Cania, of all places?”
Six months after the defeat of the Netherbrain, Tav and his friends decide to hunt down Haarlep, and free Tav from their control. They’ve faced more dangerous threats before, after all.
What could go wrong?
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- Part 12 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 15 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)