#gale knows you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar

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Tim has called Gale "a rabid golden retriever". He's a character who's prone to limerence, and is more likely to voice his qualms than act upon them (see: him being able to be convinced to stay after the druid grove, v. Karlach and Wyll*). Mechanically, he's the easiest to get an "Exceptional" approval from (I got this before we hit the goblin camp; I think Karlach was still on Medium and Astarion on Neutral).

(* Gale staying may admittedly be a character facet borne from the mechanical practicality that without Gale, you'd be running either 2 or 3 (if you recruit Minthara) other party members (I doubt Halsin or Jaheira would be recruitable for an evil run, and Minsc isn't until Act 3). Someone had to stick around. Gale is also one of the longer-developed characters, while Karlach and Wyll were shorter development times -- a writer has half as much dialogue to write if the characters refuse to participate in half the possible adventure.)

Gale's answer to his partner telling him "no" (repeatedly! as a goddess!) isn't to respect her boundaries, but to spend months researching and digging up a piece of her past that he knows killed her. Then getting a slice of evil/anti-magic embedded in him Iron Man-style. (It's likely this recklessness that reminded the first tagger of a red-bull-fueled engineer.)

By the time we meet him, he's tempered these responses a bit, but compare breaking up with Gale vs. breaking up with Astarion (I'm using Astarion b/c he's the only other character I've broken up with; I love both in different ways): Gale mopes, is bitter about it (An act later, and I haven't gotten gale's colder "yes?" or "what is it?" dialogue to change back to the more jovial "how may I help you"), and tells you to go away. Astarion asks if it's his fault and Approves of being friends now.

This isn't even mentioning the Crown of Karsus.

BG3 is a game of possibilities; your Gale might be kind and romantic, but Gale also has the option to become the God of Ambition; I've never heard of a god of such a domain being particularly good, or nice.

I just saw someone in the tags of a post imply that Gale isn't romantic, sweet, or ethical.

Hello, are we playing the same game?

I think they meant well because the original post was a Gale positive post. About how Gale is strong, competent, and poweful, not weak or pathetic. But we are not taking positive character traits from another character and projecting them on to Gale.

Gale IS insanely romantic. Gale can be salty, but he is also sweet. Gale might be willing to turn the other cheek on occasion, but he is moral and ethical.

They also implied in their tags that Gale would have no moral qualms with morally and ethically dubious things, such as bombs and dubcon, which is also untrue. Gale is not evil. His alignment has now been confirmed as Neutral Good via the Idle Champions.

Yes, you can manipulate him to stay with you in an evil run, but the keyword is manipulate.

I don't have the time to explore this further at the moment, and I'm not going to call the user out. But bad character takes annoy me.

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I went into BG3 knowing next to nothing about fandom stuff. I knew a bit about the game but no fandom going-ons. When I created my Durge it was the half-elf with the neck tattoo which y’know, I didn’t know was half the fandom lol.

Below the cut is my ramble about my random musings about my half-elf Durge. I don’t like to take up too much space so I just cut things that are more than two paragraphs.

Also below is my Durge <3

Not to cope but to also cope; I think the neck tattoo is great symbolism. Gale has the orbie in his chest peeking out from his robe and the lines creeping up his face. Astarion has the bite marks on his neck. It makes you think ‘tf is going on there?’. With the neck tattoo my line of thinking was on the same wavelength. A whole creeping darkness thing but straight up slapped onto Durge’s face.

Now, being attracted to someone is highly subjective but half-elf Durge is quite conventionally attractive. What I like to say is that ‘you catch more flies with honey than vinegar’. Durge is a killing machine which turns alive people into dead people and as proven by society you’d catch more alive people if you’re pretty without having to work as hard. Also you get away with more if you have long pretty eyelashes you can bat.

This was all my line of thinking when I created my Durge cause I like to think too hard about my little murder guys. But like there’s something there if a lot of people are making this half-elf neck tattoo Durge.

All this to say; this is my Durge currently. His name is Thantian. Made him a bard because I thought it would be funny. I love him.