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Gale Dekarios 😊

Thank you for the ask! So, let's begin my essay about my favourite wizard, Gale Dekarios of Waterdeep.

How I feel about this character – I love him, I adore him, he owns my virtual heart (my real heart being in the possession of my IRL husband). At the same time Gale is me, I can relate to him in so many ways.

All the people I ship romantically with this character – all my Tavs, on every playthrough. And Lae'zel, she would like his fascination with the Astral plane, he would admire her bravery and teach her what love is.

Maybe Karlach is a viable option, but she fits both in this and the second question.

My non-romantic OTP for this character – Astarion! I cannot see them in a romantic relationship, but they would make funny buddies. As I said somewhere already, they would be the type of friends, in which one is of often embarrassed of what the other said.

My unpopular opinion about this character – that he is not rich, only middle-class (maybe not so unpopular). And that his mother is a wizard herself.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon – practically everything I want for him I can make through choices in BG3, so it exists in canon. I wish he would never have been told to kill himself, my heart aches for Gale every time Elminster comes and every time he tells Tav about his "last night alive". And I wish he could adopt Scratch and bring him to the City of Splendours.

It partly answers the ask from @waterdeep-weavemoss

Do we need to "officially" recognuse character traits as disability? I think it is a matter of individual interpretation. Why should the whole fandom perceive the work of art in the same way? Isn't it the very essence of fandom that we can come with different interpretations?

Yeah. This fandom really needs "Astarion's bloodthirst is a DISABILITY actually!"

It's not like we have four out of six other origins who are physically disabled in some form. It's not as though Astarion himself (among others) clearly has PTSD, making him disabled as well. We've just GOT to say that him literally consuming others' blood and vitality to survive is a disability analogy.

I mean, fuck actual disabled people, right? (Or, I'm sure we should be grateful to be compared with everyone's favorite vampire.)

Reblogging to help OP find mutuals.

Out of the list I'm only into Baldur's Gate 3 and The Beatles. And the old movie "Interview with the Vampire", where Tom Cruise is Lestat (haven't read the book, don't want to watch the new version).

Looking for Baldurs Gate 3/ Hannibal/ Interview with The Vampire/ Beatles mutuals 🙏🙏

The devil works hard but fanfic authors work harder 🖤🖤 take a gold star ⭐, an optional forehead kiss 😘, and a mandatory glass of water💧 you all deserve the world

@ all of my mutuals and followers: you’re really important and pretty. go drink some water ily