#now I just gotta get to the Shadowlands so we can be official lol

[avelera]

I decided to replay my first Tav character with everything I know now but still going for the Gale romance (which I picked sort of accidentally the first time because of the bug but then I fell in love with him, whoops).

And it’s a little funny to romance the heck out of Gale on purpose, the guy loves attention and praise and being a do-gooder, which my Tav, Avelera (yeah, yeah, it’s always my first run name, so sue me), is.

Which leads to a situation where we can’t be official because of, y’know, the bomb in his chest. And meanwhile her approval with the others is, y’know, sensible. Like 30-60 range whether or not they’re evil or good-aligned (Astarion still neutral, Karlach favorable, etc etc). And meanwhile Gale…

Gale is at 100 approval already. We’re still in the Underdark.

Which makes me imagine a scenario where everyone else, y’know, likes Tav to varying degrees, but Gale and Tav are just so. Freaking. Obvious. For each other. It’s sickening.

I’m imagining long soulful looks at each other while they think the other isn’t looking. I’m imagining Gale asking Karlach, very subtly of course, if she thinks as a fellow Tiefling if maybe possibly there’s signals that Tav might be interested too? And maybe the flirting is deliberate and, dare he say it, intentional? He saw Astarion proposition her but as far as he could tell, she didn’t take him up on it (I opted for no messiness, so she thought about Gale that night instead of taking up with anyone else for an evening), despite Gale saying she should go enjoy herself…

And Karlach just making a noise of utter disgust and leaving to go chat with Wyll because honestly. Could they be any more oblivious??

Just imagine being stuck in this party, fighting for your lives, any day might be your last, and the recluse wizard and the nerdy sage warlock are apparently head over heels for each other. Everyone is is trying to survive the night and they’re in their own personal romcom.

(Also imagining Gale stuck alone in his tower for a year, no friends, only Tara, and heartache as his love and his life and everything he worked for falls apart, counting the days to his own inevitable death, when suddenly he gets whisked away to a complete nightmare scenario on the Nautiloid and then, suddenly, on the other side getting yanked out of the gate and into the arms of a found family of weirdos, one of which is the love of his life. Wild. Talk about a meet-cute of the most statistically improbable kind. I bet he never shuts up about it at parties.)