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The Absolute Can Wait
My first time drawing The Emperor in a serious way, this is after the sleeping scene. If he and your lady share the bed dance moment and you want to repeat the ballad he says "LOL I don't think I have more male milk to share, you're going to kill me!" XD So sad you can't have another bed scene later on, but he's true, you're supposed to kill the Netherbrain as soon as possible, probably the same days, so rejecting doing it again immediately after the first encounter considering he's trying to recover from how good you milked him minutes ago has sense, yet, I absolutely wanted to do it again XD Yet I imagined that Franceska asked him so many times to repeat than she eventually convinces him XD Probably flashing her big tits in front of his tentacled face to aggressively tempt him. This is what I pictured in my mind of him finally succumbing to her XD
How do I manage his genitalia... there are some people that claim that Mind Flayers have no genitalia as they reproduce by Tadpoles infecting people, but, also, the wiki says that they're hermaphrodites having both genitalia, which is stupid that you grow a vagina besides your penis if you don't reproduce by normal coitus, so why the hell to have both genitalia with no purpose at all? It's easier to discard the one you had when you were another entity before ceremorphosing... My headcannon? BG3 has no claims regarding their sexual aspect more than saying, in a book you can read in a lot of places, studies can't confirm if they have genitalia or not; due to the same, the way I manage this is that Mind Flayers conserve a vestigial version of the sexual reproductive organ they have before transforming; they're sterile and can't conceive with another race (unlike other races that can actually give birth to hybrids), but it is there anyway.
My headcanon and what I'll be using for all my Mind-Flayer-related pictures from now on: if the entity parasitized by a tadpole was female, then the Illithid would have female vestigial genitalia, if it was male, then vestigial male genitalia. Due to their almost inexistent sexual dimorphism, the only way to recognize if it's male or female before going to bed with them is by the voice projected in your mind. We all know The Emperor is male, while the Netherbrain used to be a female Illithid.
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Franceska (my custom FemTav) and The Emperor (c) Baldur's Gate 3
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