#I do like Gale a lot too

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

[rosiesriiveters]

Keep thinking of Buck and Bucky's perception of Rosie through their eyes. When they meet him, Rosie's a great pilot, has been training gunners for ages and knows his way around a plane well - but has yet to see any combat. He's that wide-eyed kind of hopeful that he can make a difference.

When they meet him again by the end of the series, Rosie's gone on to fly 52 missions. He's well and truly past his first tour, and well into his second. The rest of the 100th adore him and respect him as a leader; and Rosie adores them all right back.

Despite all of that, Rosie still seems like the same person - undemonstrative, and a little more heaviness to his shoulders perhaps, but that wide-eyed hope that I can make a difference hasn't faded.

[endtimers]

love hitting characters with the transgenderfication beam. shadowheart is soooo transgender. alfira is transgender. gale and wyll are also very transgender no quastion. smacking Wulbren Bongle witj the shitty transmasc gun.

[augusts-sketchbook]

it's you my sweet love, oh my love

and the light, bright light

the light, bright light, bright light

it's all around me

been a little art blocked lately but I was listening to a beginning song by the decemberists (a song very personal to me already) and thinking of a screen cap I caught of gale and my tav at the end of act 2 and well. art block cured and also gonna go cry on the floor for a bit for reasons

[leavemetoplaythesims]

this game is so fucking pretty

[buriedgalleon]

i gave himb a ponytail

[merlinmerlot]

i finally finished bg3

and it only took me [looks at steam]

SIX HUNDRED HOURS

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

My personal hot take for BG3 is that I see the appeal that Astarion has but personally he’s far too mean for me to get into him and the fan base surrounding him makes turns me off from him so much.

[onewingedangels]

i've been looking at bg3's stats again and i'm honestly surprised that tieflings are not as popular as i thought they would since i've been seeing so many badass looking tiefling ocs around

[mokeonn]

I spent the last 7 hours trying out a monk in bg3 and playing it in honor mode, and Gale's stupid stinky corpse being in the camp ended up causing him to kill Scratch with his nasty aura. Since it's honor mode, I can't reload a save, so I simply blew my character and Gale up and ended the run with honor.

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

Man Baldur’s Gate fans really hate Cullen and it’s giving me war flashbacks

[toestalucia]

the day we get an evokers event its over for me

[blackjackkent]

Gale, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 19

(Character Ask Meme)

Ooh. I feel like I don't talk about Gale much. :O

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

I think Gale has an interestingly complex series of outcomes in the game (there's a fairly wide range of discrepancy between "college professor" and "god" although I've known some college professors that didn't think so XD ). His characterization is interesting, too, because it's a really tangled mix of hubris and insecurity, arrogance and self-deprecation. And his relationship with Mystra makes me want to put him somewhere safe out of her reach forever.

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

Gale's diction is super fun to listen to and to write. (I've described writing Gale's character as - write what you want him to say, and then go back and add extra words everywhere unnecessarily. XD ) He clearly really enjoys language and his own use of it on a level completely separate from its usage in verbal spellcasting. (This could be also described as enjoying the sound of his own voice, which is also probably true. XD But he likes an elegant turn of phrase and I love that for him.)

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Mystra. Mystraaaaaa. [shakes fist] Gale has been treated very badly and it really is kind of heart-wrenching to realize how thoroughly he's internalized his relationship with his goddess as a normal thing even when it clearly is not.

(I'm taking "least favorite" here to mean - thing I think was least good for him in-universe. I think his growth around how Mystra treated him and how he can learn (or fail to learn, or overcompensate in trying to learn) how to exist separate from her is a very good story in a Doylist sense.)

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

Hm. Other wizard-related fiction. Let's put him in Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy. :D I would be interested to see Gale's take on the magic in that realm, its intrinsic ties with the true names of things. Kind of hooks in with his enjoyment of language as mentioned above.

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

Again, taking "don't like" here to mean - in-universe not good for him. I don't think Elminster is actually a good influence on him. (I'm not sure if this is a hot take or not; my mutuals who are more in the Gale sphere than me can weigh in.) Elminster and Gale clearly consider each other friends, but given Elminster's stature there's still a distinct power imbalance there. I think I read (not sure if this is fanon or canon) that Elminster was the one responsible for headhunting Gale into Mystra's service originally; it definitely is canon, too, that Elminster had his own relationship with Mystra and thinks Gale getting back in her good graces is the best thing for him, which I think we can all agree it is not.

(I don't think Elminster's a bad character though; I've mentioned before that I think it's interesting that he's being framed as a more fallible and less omniscient individual than he was in the previous games.)

[kethabali]

the way people hate brown coded armed rebel gale is so weird to me you cant convince me its not rooted in racism and anti armed resistance

[arolesbianism]

Sier? I haven’t even met her! Laugh.

[catboypheromones]

mannn i love mods and the ppl who make them. i can just be like "i think all the dudes on my squad need a makeover" and make all my BG3 guy companions look different and more to my personal taste anytime i want to and Larian cant stop me. if i think Astarion needs a cute little haircut he will have one. if i think Gale needs to stop looking so unemployed well then he will (i tried shaving his face and he looks SO bad without his beard so. he can keep it...). Wyll's beautiful the way he is but i still gave him some diff horns and more hair bc it suits him so well

anyway screenshot dump from some recent playthroughs