#per plays

[perenians]

i've been thinking about the fuckin boat scene in the outer planes and when gale says, "with you i forget my goddess. i love you." i used to wish that there was an emphasis placed on you, like "i love you" but like. now i love it as it is because gale says it so simply, like it's just a fact, a truth that is easily told. i'm going to eat rocks now.

[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]

we are looking at possible divorce on the horizon for mara. sorry logan

[perenians]

w. why is there a photo of kaidan/i assume whoever shep romanced in shep's cabin on the normandy 2. who put it there. it looks like he's dead or something??? why is it here 😭😭

[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]

i have so much wheat and i am turning it all into flour but now i have so much flour and it's freaking me the FUCK OUT

[perenians]

GOD. HIS FUCKIGN ARMS.

[perenians]

you know when after the fight with the ch'r'ai at creche y'llek, lae'zel says, "what good, this heart of stone, for it to be shattered?"

it hurts so much more when you realize that this is after you've (presumably) walked through the entirety of the creche. lae'zel's commentary is all about the ruthlessness and harshness of her upbringing; all the things she endured, that she was told were necessary for her to become a warrior worthy of defending her queen. the devotion and fervor she initially exhibits when speaking of vlaakith are all she's ever known, and in a heartbeat it has all been ripped from her. she says so herself in her dialogue after kith'rak voss visits your camp!

everything she's been taught to be proud of, all the cruelty she has endured...it was all for a lie. when her voice breaks????? GODS. that hit me so fucking hard this playthrough.