History Characters / BaldursGateIIIOriginCharacters

** May also come up when playing as a bleeding heart good guy with Astarion in their party. He will frequently mock their decisions and complain about being roped into being a hero, especially in Act 1, but follows them all the same because he needs protection both from his tadpole and Cazador. He even admits, when romanced in his Spawn ending, that he didn't much care for them when they met.

* ObliviousToLove: Or oblivious to sexual interest, anyway, perhaps most hilariously shown if Tav presents him with Halsin's proposition for a three-way.

* ChickMagnet: They are basically the most eligible bachelor/ette in all of Farun, capable of making eight of their possible ten companions fall madly in love with them. Not to mention catching the eyes of several npcs, some of which they can additionally sleep with.

* LightningBruiser: She can equip the heaviest armour and joint-heaviest weaponry of any Origin character, with only Minthara matching her amongst your recruitable NPCs, and her githyanki psionics and the Action Surges she gets for being a fighter make her extremely mobile and extremely capable of dishing out absurd amounts of attacks in a single turn.

** If you feed and care for the owlbear cub, Astarion will approve, even letting it loaf on one of his cushions while idling in camp. It's notable that he's only neutral to Scratch (an already lovable dog), but it does say something about him (and you) when you choose to take in a known monster.

* ProudBeauty: Despite having no idea what he actually looks like.

* VampireHickey: He still has the puncture wounds from when Cazador turned him, though the high lace collar on his starting armor partially obscures the scars.

** '''Astarion:''' [[spoiler:If he remained a Vampire Spawn, Astarion has re-acclimated to living in the shadows and has undergone a HeelFaceTurn, having decided GoodFeelsGood after his travels with the party and helps whoever he comes across at night (also, he has discovered that people don't actually care about murder if the victims are the "right kind," to his delight). If the PlayerCharacter didn't complete his questline and/or didn't kill Cazador, Astarion still lives in perpetual fear of him tries to convince the avatar to help him kill his old master. An Ascended Astarion, meanwhile, has taken over Cazador's palace as his own base of operations, and will gloat to the avatar about how his schemes will eventually ensnare Baldur's Gate. You can either act impressed by his ambitions, or tell him that his megalomania will eventually blow up in his face. If romanced, Ascended Astarion is also incredibly possessive of the avatar, especially if they complain about their lack of freedom thanks to being trapped in his GildedCage.]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Most likely to come up with Shadowheart, if Tav is a cleric of Selûne or even just very devout in their worship of her. They can turn openly hostile towards her once they find out she worships Shar, and Shadowheart herself will mock their religion whether met with hostility or not. That said, the player character generally takes steps to subvert this, quick to remind everyone that [[WeAreStrugglingTogether they all have a common goal here, and fighting amongst themselves won't help anything]]. This is also prominent with Shadowheart if you play as a cleric or paladin of another deity, albeit to a lesser degree than if you were to worship Selûne, and even then, her disapproval only happens at neutral approval.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler:As the party meets up after the Absolute is defeated, she mentions that after all that, she needs "a drink in each hand and one more on the table.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Prior to their amnesia, the Dark Urge committed a series of brutal murders in Baldur's Gate. It's not entirely clear whether these murders were intentional or the Dark Urge just failed to curb or suppress the Urge, though they did have enough control of themselves to deliver a taunting letter to Tav daring the detective to catch them before they added ''Tav'' to the pile. The memory described after consuming a Noblestalk gives us a glimpse of the Dark Urge pre-amnesia, but it's ultimately up to the player to decide whether they were just as helpless against the Urge then as they are now. Gortash also claims that when the Dark Urge was Bhaal's Chosen and representative in the Cult they showed restraint, though this just raises the question of whether the Dark Urge's "restraint" was because they were resisting the Urge or just PragmaticVillainy.

* DraconicHumanoid: The Dark Urge's default race is a white dragonborn[[note]]Note that despite their name, the dragonborn actually ''[[BerserkButton hate]]'' dragons for enslaving them in the past[[/note]].

* TokenEvilTeammate: The most outwardly callous and purely selfishof the Origin characters, his taste for bloodshed and conflict surpassed only by BloodKnight Lae'zel. He's out for himself first and foremost and makes no bones about it, being sour and abrasive to the party for most of the game and having no qualms with killing whatever is in his way. He can show a softer side if the player appeals to him properly (or plays as him), but he's also the only Origin character (other than the player themselves) that can dive headlong into purely self-serving villainy after his character arc.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: If he detonates the Orb in the final battle to stop the Netherbrain, a projection of him will appear at your camp in the epilogue, explaining that with both his physical form and soul completely erased from the mortal plane, there's no way to bring him back.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler:If she kills the Nightsong at Shar's command, Shadowheart will become conflicted about continuing her romance with the player, as her devotion to Shar would mean that she must fully commit herself to her Goddess at the cost of everything else (which the Nightsong even warns her about). The player can try to continue the romance nonetheless, in which case she'll engage in this trope to continue the romance, even pointing out that it's a widespread practice among Shar's followers, as otherwise they'd be an outright celibate order. If she kills her parents as part of Shar's final test, she'll separate from the PlayerCharacter, but leave an open invitation to the House of Grief where they can reconnect, and will happily get intimate with them once more during the Patch 5 epilogue.]]

* PerkyGoth: Downplayed, but at the beginning, her raven hair, penchant for dark clothes, and worship of a goddess who is associated with darkness and the night definitely marks her as a goth, but while she's quite haughty at firs she's ultimately quite a friendly and easygoing woman with a penchant for snark. As part of her character development, she actually becomes much more perky, but with it far less goth, even dying her hair silver-blonde.

* SecondActBreakup: [[spoiler:If she kills the Nightsong at Shar's command, Shadowheart will become conflicted about continuing her romance with the player, as her devotion to Shar would mean that she must fully commit herself to her Goddess at the cost of everything else (which the Nightsong even warns her about). The player can try to continue the romance nonetheless, in which case she'll engage in whatever LoopholeAbuse she can to continue the relationship. If she kills her parents as part of Shar's final test, she'll try to break things off for good at the end of the game, but the romance can once again be rekindled in the Patch 5 epilogue.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Astarion is the only one of you who was actually ''strengthened'' by the tadpole. Namely, it grants him immunity from the sun -- which freed him of a vampire's greatest weakness and allows him to hide his true nature -- and freed him from Cazador's influence, allowing him to finally act against his former master. He also still possesses Vampiric Bite, which enhances his abilities further.

* DefrostingIceQueen: He's initially very condescending and brushes off any attempts to get to know him with [[DeadpanSnarker mean-spirited snark]]. If you accept [[OurVampiresAreDifferent what he is]] when it finally comes out, he's genuinely grateful once the surprise wears off, and sincerely thanks you if you let him drink some of your blood. If you don't romance him but still keep his approval high, he'll greet you with a genuinely cordial "What can I do for you/, my friend?" or call you "(his) favorite traveling companion."

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:If the player allows Balthazar to capture the Nightsong, since Shadowheart has been tasked with killing the Nightsong by Shar.]]

* FireForgedFriends: Subverted. Wyll quickly realizes that Karlach is not evil, simply another poor soul being used by devils, and gets along very well with her since she's just as gung-ho about doing good as he is. The feeling is reciprocrated, as Karlach also finds him to be good company despite their first meeting involving him pointing a sword at her. [[spoiler:He can even go to Avernus with Karlach when her infernal engine cannot support her anymore and protect her from Zariel's henchmen.]]

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The charisma score is generally focused on strength of personality. Standing firm, willpower in regards to influencing the world, proactivity and the ability to influence others. Wyll generally comes across as being weak-willed, is easily influenced and people see him more as a joke than as an impressive individual.

* HeroicSacrifice: Deconstructed. Wyll's big sacrifice, selling his soul to Mizora [[spoiler:to stop the cult of Tiamat]], is all in his backstory, and instead of his big glorious moment, we just get to see the fallout. It's an interesting examination of what making sacrifices really costs.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Downplayed. If Wyll spares Karlach, then his patron Mizora would later arrive at night to punish him for refusing her order to kill the tiefling by pulling a LoopholeAbuse to put Wyll through a ForcedTransformation. A player character that succeeds in an Arcana check can point out to him that [[YourSoulIsMine Mizora would've claimed his soul for breaching their contract]], and Wyll would respond that the only reason she hasn't done so is because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou she still has a use for him]].

** During your second playthrough and beyond, she has a rare random conversation trigger to show you some "devil magic" interogation method which consists of a non-violent technique torturers use to gleaning the truth out of someone. If you agree to it she will ask a few test questions, finding it odd when the ability triggers when she asks and is given your player characters name, despite knowing the answer is right. She delves further into this, having a minor freakout as the weave of reality and the metaphysical opens up to her sight, seeing her reality as fixed lines of potential permutations mixed in with chaos. Cue her suddenly turning to look straight at the screen, at US and addressing us directly to ask about our nature, how many cycles of events have we gone through and then, after squashing down her existential crises, she asks us the most important question of all to her, ''Are you having fun?'' The entire scene is very non-sequitur but heartwarming and wholesome. At the end she goes back to addressing the group and player character, who is left very confused even after she shrugs it off.