Summary
You know thatkind old womanyou meet inBaldur’s Gate 3, clearly up to no good asshe keeps someone captiveright in front of youin the middle of an eerie swamp, all by herself. What if she was young, pretty, and… clean?
Good news! You don’t have to imagine it, because it’s real.One modder yassified Aunty Ethelbecause “why not”? The answer of course being that everyone thinks it’s a bit weird. Let grannies be grannies.
What’s Wrong With A Few Wrinkles?
“She’s a literal hag meant to look like an older kind woman,” the Twitter user who first highlighted this mod said. “Why does she need to look like a young adult with good skin and fancy clothes? Y’all are so fu–ing scared of wrinkles and pores and spots that you have [to] get rid of it all and make the older characters look like they’re 20/30. Why does an older character to have to pander to your sexual rotted brain”.
Plenty in the comments and quote retweets were quick to agree, with the post itself reaching over 6,000 likes by the time of writing. “NOOOO HOW CAN [I] PLAY THE GAME IF NOT EVERY CHARACTER I ENCOUNTER IS SEXUALLY GRATIFYING TO ME,” commented one such fan.
If you wouldn’t fu– old Auntie Ethel you’re a coward.
“She went from an actual hag to what VTubers on Twitter call hags,” said one fan. “I’m crying.”
“FU– OFF, she’s LITERALLY A HAG LET HER BE OLD AND WRINKLY,” another—very passionately—commented.
Out of interest, I typed ‘young’ into the Nexus search bar and there are alotof similar mods out there. Jaheira, Lae’zel,Astarion,Halsin, and even Shadowheart have all been yassified.
It’s an epidemic, but it’s hardly new in the world of modding. This has been going on since time immemorial, just look at anyWitcher,Dragon Age, orElder Scrollsgame. As one commenter puts it, “It’s like people just want plastic dolls”.
Baldur’s Gate 3
WHERE TO PLAY
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.
