Listen. The masses liked the first redraw and honestly? I'm surprised I haven't redrawn this scene sooner lmao.

Ref under the cut~

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You shouldn't keep secrets like this from me, Wyll. I know. And you're right.

No one asked, but here’s my headcanon heights for all the companions in BG3

• Shadowheart: 5’7 (just seems right to me.)

• Lae’Zel: she gives tiny, but powerful energy to me so like 5’2ish

• Jaheria: 5’6 (feels right.)

• Minthara: 5’9 (She gives model energy to me.)

• Karlach: 6’4 (Shadowheart was so me when she said she wanted her to throw her over her shoulder and carry her to safety.)

• Astarion: 5’9-5’10 (He’s average height, but probably looks taller because he’s got lanky elf limbs.)

• Gale: 6’1 (Like Shart, it just feels right.)

• Halsin: 6’7 (Giant bear-sized bear-man)

• Minsc: 6’6 (Purely because with the arm wrestling thing, I think it’d be funny for Halsin to just be slightly taller than him.)

• Wyll: 5’11 (It feels correct for him.)

Bonus: visual aid

finally finished these little portraits of the tadfools <3 including durge!aune and tav!aune at the end. right at the last minute I had the idea to design these little emblems to reflect each of their individual stories. I'm happy with how they turned out! also this was supposed to be grayscale but then I started playing around with gradients and now I like the funky colors best.

original greyscale versions under the cut:

The babes

BALDUR’S GATE 3 (2023) — developed by larian studios.

I usually only post wips on twitter but I want to be more active here, so here's a wip of Wyll and Ansur 💕

The Boys, adventure continues

I just think it would be interesting if wyll had more devil-ish features and how he adapts to them, starting with some little fangs 🤭

"Oh, love...I'm merely waiting until you're happy."

Yeah listen man, this crossover is a thing now because dreamstat can't stop spitting bangers and this line's been haunting me for a week.

Marie and the boyz in their jimjams

Edit: after some analysis, I will admit that a lot of what I say here is wrong, although I do still stand by the distinction I make in the post. Please do not continue to reblog this as it spreads the wrong message. Sorry.

One of the things that I love about Baldur's Gate is how any one particular theme can apply to multiple characters at the same time. Baldur's Gate also goes about these themes in unexpected ways. One of those themes, is forced servitude and slavery. There are five companions who have experienced some form of servitude and that is Karlach, Wyll, Astarion, Halsin, and Minthara. All of these characters have experienced what can be considered slavery, except for one: Wyll.

I often see this misconception that Wyll's pact with Mizora is an allegory to slavery. A lot of people tend to be upset (and rightfully so) that this theme has been attached to the one POC character in the game. Now, I do think it is worth having a conversation as to why themes of servitude keep getting attached to POC characters in fiction. However, in Wyll's case, his situation isn't exactly slavery.

Karlach was sold into slavery to Zariel for 10 years in which she was forced to fight in the Blood War and complete any mission Zariel gave her. She had no choice but to obey as disobedience would be punished. While under servitude, her heart was forcibly removed and replaced with the infernal engine that puts her life in constant peril while not in Avernus. She has also been in non-stop battle for all of those 10 years and her body is just littered with scars.

Minthara was a slave to the Absolute, although it's not exactly clear as to how long. While under the Absolute, she was repeatedly tortured by Orin (and I do think Orin did something much worse to Minthara than just torture). While under the Absolute, she was robbed of her own free will and was forced to commit atrocity after atrocity after atrocity. She may feel no remorse for it, but she did make it quite clear that she would not have done all those things if she was her own person. Because Minthara had no free will, she was actually incapable of disobeying or even thinking about disobedience.

Astarion was a slave to Cazador for 200 years in which he was forced to use his own body to lure victims for Cazador to feed on. Even though he did not want to, his body was forcibly compelled to obey whatever command Cazador gave him. Any disobedience would be rewarded with torture. So, there came a point where Astarion "willingly" captured victims while under constant threat of torture.

Halsin was a sex slave in the Underdark for the matrons of a drow house for three years. For his own survival, he did what he had to do to avoid any pain or punishment. And the drow can be exceptionally cruel to slaves who disobey.

All of these companions have been forcibly compelled to do things against their own will and were enslaved by their respective forces. All of them, except Minthara, had the ability to rebel but chose not to for they feared the painful consequences. But the same is not true for Wyll.

Wyll is not compelled to do anything Mizora says nor is he forced to do anything, he is contractually obligated. The fact that he has a contract, in the form of a warlock pact, makes his situation fundamentally different when compared to the others. The existence of a contract means what Wyll's form of servitude is not slavery, but indentured servitude.

Yes, we can make the argument that Mizora manipulated him and took advantage of his inexperience with the world and the situation he found himself in. But he was not coerced not forced into signing a pact with Mizora, merely manipulated. In the end, he still made the choice to enter into this pact. None of the other companions chose to enter into the servitude.

Now Wyll can rebel against his contract, but he too will be punished, we saw that in the game. And for a long time he may have done some morally questionable things in fear of that punishment. But again, these are all terms details in his pact, one he signed and agreed to. He went into this pact knowing the exact consequences of disobedience. But, there is something else in his contract that is deep and purposefully hidden away from him. Something that none of the other companions had. His time of servitude had a method to guarantee its end.

Karlach only got out of slavery by pure random chance and that the Nautiloid went through Avernus while she was, ironically, being chased by Wyll.

Astarion got out of his slavery by pure random chance when he got swept up by the Nautiloid and met someone who was willing to help him be rid of Cazador.

Halsin got out of his slavery by pure random chance and that an enemy of his captors house raided their compound. Halsin took advantage of the confusion and escaped on his own.

Minthara got out of her slavery by pure random chance that someone came and saved her in Moonrise and returned her free will back to her.

Had it not been for the pure random chance of outside forces, all four of these companions would still be slaves. The same is not true for Wyll. His pact always had a clause that allowed it to be broken, providing a method for him to be free. Now, Mizora has this clause very well hidden and Wyll was most likely not aware of it. But, all contracts can be broken, even tricky ones with devils. It had merely never occurred to Wyll to ask for it to be broken until Tav/Durge came along and proposed it. But the ability for him to choose to be freed from his servitude was always there, he just never thought to ask. I mean, someone who is a slave at least tries to get out of it, but Wyll never did. This is something that is not true for the other four.

Even if you don't ask for the pact to be broken in Act 2, Mizora still shows back up later in Act 3 and gives Wyll the opportunity to break the contract. This is something that would never happen for the other companions, to be given a chance by their enslavers to be freed. But, once again, Mizora is forcing Wyll to make an impossible choice: his father or his freedom. Wyll, being the man he is, will always choose his father and sign away his freedom. Personally, this is why I think the game forces this decision to be the player characters choice and not Wyll because Wyll will always put others above himself. He will always make the same choice. He will always sacrifice himself for others. He will always choose his father. But, no one is forcing him to do that. He is choosing to. He will always choose to remain in servitude to Mizora if it means his father lives. He is willingly discarding his own freedom for the sake of someone else and he will always do that. Someone who is a slave does not choose to remain a slave when given a free opt out by their captor.

One thing this game is really good at is subverting expectations of what we think about themes like this. Wyll, in a way, is a subversion of that expectation. I mean, it's already subversive for him to be a warlock and be good aligned. Despite the fact that he is contractually obligated to do bad things from time to time, he still manages to make himself a hero out of it. He still manages to be a good man and risks his life to help people. But, it isn't just that, he wears his scars without shame when he is punished for disobedience because he knows he has them because he did the right thing. He is in a position of servitude when you find him, but it is not one he is forced to be in nor compelled. He may have been manipulated by a devil who promised him the power of the Hells, but he is a willing participant in that very servitude.

Yes, it is concerning that indentured servitude has been attached to Wyll as he is the only POC companion. But we need to be very careful when throwing words like "slavery" and "racism" around, especially when he is not the only companion that this theme has been attached to. We also need to be very careful when accusing people of racism when it comes to Wyll. Hurling these words like this around with absolutely no thought or consideration for the reality of the situation only dilutes the true impact of a story like Wyll's. One of the points of Wyll's story is that it is okay to be selfish sometimes and to choose yourself. Another point is that signing a contract that also signs away your freedom isn't worth it. Especially since we live in a world of contracts.

This is what Wyll’s camp clothing looks like to me btw

A wip I started working on cus I was thinking about flowercitti’s beauty and the beast fic