[overcrowded-camp]

ok pinned post. here we go.

call me tad or red. 18+. pro doing whatever the fuck you want in stories (even the gross stuff). ocs under the read more.

my ocs :)

erion (tav) - he/him - half elf draconic sorcerer twunk. mischievous but ultimately a good person. enjoys causing and then solving trouble. the kind of folk hero who saves your life and picks your pocket as he carries you to safety. loves kids and theft and theft for kids. adopts yenna. galemancer.

dal (durge) - they/she - zariel tiefling open hand monk butch. likes punching things. you could carbon date their layers of eyeshadow. fucked gortash and accidentally fell in love with him. falls in love with karlach and VERY reluctantly decides that they could maybe be convinced to care about refugees and possibly try not to murder everyone. “Someone is going to die.”/“Of fun!”

culiwen (durge) - she/her - not done cooking in my brain yet so all of this may change - high elf ilmateri cleric of life. low maintenance femme (wears makeup but can’t be assed to take it off at the end of the day so she almost always has raccoon eyes). grew up in the monastery of ilmater after killing her parents. taken by the bhallists at 13 or 14. essentially has all of the fight beaten out of her and becomes the leader of the cult. she allows orin to ambush her because she can’t stomach who she sees in the mirror. when she wakes up on the nautiloid she gets her second chance from ilmater. astarion trips over alfira’s body and falls in love with her.

ask me questions about them. i will talk for hours.

[miraculan-draws]

SO I was thinking about how strongly Tara dislikes Gale's in-game hair and beard and it made me wonder if it was originally a result of him locking himself away from everyone but then sort of became intentional later. Also brace yourselves for some character analysis which seems to be unpopular in fan works but is interesting to me:

Gale knows he's handsome.

There always seemed to be a bit of a mismatch between how people depict Gale's confidence in fanworks and how he presents himself in-game to me?

One of his very first interactions at camp he does, admittedly cheekily, play off his Mirror Image as fastidious grooming habits, and dismisses the spell with a sly little "Handsome devil, isn't he?" It's playful and could be read as a bluff, but it does exist and doesn't feel particularly misplaced. This is a man that fucked God. I think that is great assurance that you must on some level be looking pretty good on the regular.

He also thinks he's charming, which he is! He has a line somewhere about having a dazzling smile. He calls Karlach "rough around the edges" but that he supposed he could be "smooth enough for the both of them." He is entirely confident that he can befriend Minthara and is the only one to even think to attempt it.

He is not a shy lover, either, once you are in private. Some of his lines are straight up scandalous. He may be a bit shy and bluster when you're the one to bring it up, but later on he is shameless. The "For now, I'll keep my mouth shut. Unless you have use for it, of course" line made my jaw drop. ALSO when you ask Gale if you were his first aside from Mystra, he says no, you are not. But you are the first AFTER Mystra. In fact, Loroakkan insults Gale by implying it was NOT by magical merit that he gained her favor, and all that merit did was insure he lost it.

Gale's insecurity is about his sense of self worth, and how the metric he judges his own worthiness is by what he can do, not who he is.

I think the reason it bothers me to see this TYPE of insecurity attributed to Gale is that he is our token "bookish nerd" character, and it feels too easy to just assign the one "nerd" character the traits "inexperienced virgin who wishes he looked more like the leading man but actually the lead romance thinks he is sweet despite all his shortcomings." Especially when there's almost nothing in game to draw this conclusion from. And I dunno, maybe some people think that formula is still satisfying as a story but I think its boring. This dude is an absolute dweeb who is also handsome as all hell which is one of the many reasons you are able to pay attention to his forty-five minute long speech about the history of gnolls. He does that and then shoots Astarion down in the same breath. Let autistic people be hot. That's allowed.

[strange-mage]

- one with the weave -

I... went a bit insane with this one.

[arczism]

just realized i never posted this gale??

[hellothisisangle]

[skipppppy]

Baldur’s Gate 3 experience is going fine i guess

[nihildep]

Too Sweet

[trashmancer]

Please, do not mourn for me. This was all my fault—and this is how I fix it.

After penning a message to his loved ones, Gale had set off from Waterdeep to get as far away as he could. He was going to end his life to put an end to the Netherese orb once and for all. Of course, then his carefully laid plan was thwarted when he was abducted by mindflayers and whisked into an adventure.

[hellmurderisland]

[Fictional character who is worse than me in every way] save me

[hellmurderisland]

#me with gob #me with shmilk

[mint-swirl]

slogans for the upcoming orc election

[not-a-cursed-amulet]

Evil? That’s such a reductive term. I prefer “passionately goal-oriented.”

[akelan]

[sad-mourning-crow]

my Gale doodles 🥰🥰🥰🥰 “I need that man to be like a freshly baked oven roll” -my friend

#NOBUFFGALE #NOTMYGALEDEKARIOS #BARKBARKBARK #2028 #godbless

[starlightweave]

Gortash's office be like

[lucky-clover-gazette]

you don't understand the religiously traumatized murder lizard and raccoon tyrant man from game of the year 2023 baldursgate3 is the greatest love story of our time. i'm going insane. i'm going insane

[lowrifaberart]

Redrew a Gale art from a couple of years ago. Settled with my style pretty much these days - so I expected the differences to be minor.

[hyperbali]

CEO of Larian Studios: holy fuck you guys we are not replacing concept artists with AI. We're just using generative AI as a tool to build off of, everybody is more or less okay with it

[hyperbali]

[hyperbali]

OH. OH IT GETS WORSE

[tadfools]

I said it about BioWare after Veilguard and I’ll say it about Larian now, it is not wise to put something so high up on a pedestal that you can no longer see it’s flaws

[theknightartorias]

a collection of some of my favorite durge lines/flavor text

[karamatsulover69]

i can never get over gort always putting on his evil conniving dictator face talking to everyone else but having the shiniest eyes and happiest softest smile when talking to durge its really just diabolical. why does he look like that. dont do that

[bleecake1]

Exhibit 1