“In Another Life” headcanons that probably will never make it into the fic but that I have to put somewhere otherwise I will explode:
Wyll was initially insecure about confessing to Gale because with him talking about Mystra first and the brief crush on the professional milf that is Shael after, Wyll didn’t think Gale would be interested (no, I don’t know how Wyll could have possibly thought Gale was straight, he’s young and dumb, cut him some slack.) -
The verses that Sarevok recites in chapter 13, while from a Saint Mesa song irl, are from a play in-universe. Specifically, from a play written by Haer’Dalis about the events in Saradush and how Sarevok went from Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Good. Yes, he is aware that Haer’Dalis would be very disappointed with him for what happened under the Tribunal, but hopes that his efforts to get better are evening the score once more. -
Shael has heard of the play but has never seen it. She has told, not asked, Sarevok that as soon as they’re free and able they will go to Sigil and visit Haer’Dalis and his troupe to watch it. - 3b. She finds the fact that they never quite found an actor of Sarevok’s exact size hilarious. -
Tino was 100% mortally embarrassed when he realised that Gale had been hitting on his mother. The fact that Gale himself was mortified was the only thing that helped him past it. -
Incidentally, a conversation between Gale and Sarevok might have happened where Gale tries to apologise for attempting to woo a taken woman, but Sarevok dismisses it, since he couldn’t have known and Shael was keeping Sarevok’s existence secret. -
Sarevok might then have had a little too much fun in pointing out that “It is for the better that nothing came of it. She would have eaten you alive... and so would have I.” At Gale’s slightly strangled “I beg your pardon?”, Sarevok’s response would have been “You don’t really think that she would have accepted your advances without sharing, do you?” - 6b. It was mostly a bluff, Gale is way too young to be Sarevok’s usual type, but still –if Shael gets to tease, so does he. Gale and Wyll are probably scarred for life by the mental image. - 6c. So is Valentyn. -
Contrary to popular (?) belief, Sarevok is not in the least bit homophobic –he has historically only been with women because he only ever had positive experiences with women, and the type of man who would find someone like him attractive is not the type of man that Sarevok would feel comfortable putting himself in a vulnerable position for, so questioning his own sexuality simply never even occurred to him, but he does know what's up. - 7b. After all, he did once command an entire mercenary guild, and had a bandit camp several dozen strong, of which mostly men. You don’t stay in an environment like that without knowing what’s going on if a tent’s a-rocking.
That's it for now, but I'm sure there'll be more.
