Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fan regains confidence from \u201chot\u201d companion Larian StudiosEveryone\u2019s favorite vampire from Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is inspiring other curly-haired silver foxes to embrace their unique \u2018do. Plenty of us have video characters that we closely identify or are inspired by. Whether you seek to emulate their heroic actions or just want to look as cool as they do, a part of them follows you into your real life. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is filled with figures like this. Both the game\u2019s companions and quest NPCs have complex personalities and gorgeous character designs. Like, who doesn\u2019t want to be Shadowheart when they grow up? Sometimes video game characters wind up affirming traits we already have. One Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player took to Reddit to share their example of this. For them, the Origin character, Astarion served as a positive representation of a character with curls and grey\/white hair. The user, who is in their fifties, explained that due to social stigma around the supposedly \u201cuntidy\u201d look of curly hair, they had spent their life with their hair tied back to minimize the texture. Additionally, they felt pressure to tend to their greying hair using dye, as they had been instilled with the belief that \u201cnobody thinks white\/grey looks good\u201d. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fan learns to love their locks thanks to one \u201cwildly attractive\u201d character Thankfully, the pressure to perform these grooming practices came to an abrupt end for them after witnessing the community-wide thirst for Astarion. The poster explained their confidence was helped by seeing \u201chordes of horny people\u201d lust after the character not despite, but because of, his distinctive curly white\/grey mane. As another user pointed out, Astarion is just one part of an overarching curly hair renaissance or \u201ccurleissance\u201d happening in popular culture. Embracing ringlets like Astarion\u2019s is the just tip of the iceberg when it comes to tackling the issue of texturism. Still, stories like this show that the representation offered by Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a valuable step in the right direction. Of course, Astarion\u2019s locks aren\u2019t just supernaturally silver; he shows other signs of aging too. As one commenter put it, \u201cThe sexiest characters in this game imo have wrinkles and sun spots and greying hair and that is so cool\u201d. Users decried \u2018de-ageing\u2019 mods that seek to remove these details, with one even referring to them \u201cblasphemy\u201d. Who knew fans being so down-bad could make someone feel so good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fan regains confidence from \u201chot\u201d companion Larian StudiosEveryone\u2019s favorite vampire from Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is inspiring other curly-haired silver foxes to embrace their unique \u2018do. Plenty of us have video characters that we closely identify or are inspired by. Whether you seek to emulate their heroic actions or just want to look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}