#gale things

[perenians]

on the subject of gale's relationship with love, i find it curious when he says, "to know that you love me for the man i am and not the magic i command—none have loved me so purely before."

it's tempting to jump to the conclusion that gale has never felt loved for who he is, but like...magic was such a large part of his identity for his entire life. he has never been without his magic. perhaps it was impossible for him to even think of anyone loving him without it.

loving gale as he is when you meet him was simply incomprehensible to him, i think. he was no less of a scholar, but as a wizard he had fallen from mystra's graces as her chosen to being a near-powerless recluse in a tower with only a tressym for company. like damn if that isn't a blow to the ego. and yet you're in love with this version of him—just gale, with none of the pomp and glory of Gale of Waterdeep.

none have loved him as he is because he had never been without his magic, and he's always defined himself, first and foremost, by his magical prowess. with you on the road, tadpole in his head and thoroughly underbathed, he hadn't even the power that he did at five years old, and yet you love him anyway? you love him as he is, not as the competent wizard but as the man, gale dekarios, and i think that's just...eye-opening for him.

[perenians]

so the thing with gale is that he's a romantic, right? he believes in serendipity, that love is a beautiful thing grasped at just the right moment—something that one must choose to keep hold of. love is the bond between souls, a single-minded devotion, the joining of two into one.

and so it stands to reason that he knows that to love is to be vulnerable. two souls cannot meld, not truly, without being fully bared to each other—the good, the bad, the ugly. still he chooses to love. he lays himself out for his beloved and says, i am prepared to be devastated by you. i will choose you, even if it means damning the entire world. he is willing to be destroyed by love, consumed by it, swallowed whole.

"have you ever walked to the edge of a great precipice, and marveled at just how easy it would be to fall into the void?"

[perenians]

i like to think that tara is so fiercely territorial when it comes to gale out of a sense of protectiveness. oh, she knows gale is a more than formidable wizard—she'd even go so far as to say that he's one of the best—but she knows what he's like in love. his actions are of utter, nearly thoughtless devotion. dangerous.

once he starts falling, he falls willingly with open arms. he gives all of himself to the person he loves—and that is what scares tara. his heart, given so freely, must be loved in return and taken care of. but how can tara trust gale's lover to do so, when tara does not know them at all? she's seen the damage that careless hands have done to her little love, and she doesn't want that to happen again. but gale's heart is his to give, it is not hers to protect, and i think that hurts her more than anything.

[perenians]

thinking about how in gale's dialogue whenever you approach him from like. mid-act one onwards. he asks you what you need. and it just shows that when he begins to truly care about someone he'll worry about what he can give them

[monochromaticmonsoon]

Describe + Mane

Long, luxurious, and all consuming, Gale’s ink-black mane is long and wild, splitting off in all directions as it trails down her back, and front to where her humanoid upper half meets her bestial bottom, despite her lack of using any sort of conditioner it somehow retains it’s soft texture and is something she is quite proud of....even though she does lose a few small objects inside it.

[hornyfishprince]

The last thing my stupid ass needs is to be diving into classpect theory at a quarter til midnight, but here I am... Every time I think I have Gale figured out, I realize there's so much more to do with her.

And like, i took that fucking true sign quiz back when it came out and answered the questions the way Gale would, and the results weren't necessarily inaccurate to her character... But it came back as her aspect being Life, and before that I had done a little digging and had been thinking of her more as a knight of mind.

So now I'm just kind of stumped, 'cause i have to rethink all this. I already wanted to get further into it before that stupid quiz went up, but the results have been making me wonder. I need to be sleeping so I don't screw up my schedule again, but my head just won't shut off about this specific thing...

[monochromaticmonsoon]

Gale: *picks up Andrew by the shirt with her mouth*

Andrew: What are you doing?

Gale: Simple, I have adopted you.

Andrew: Don't I get a say in this?

Gale: No.

[comfort-and-campfires]

Colby

Gale

Shawn

Atticus