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Thalia reads Gale's letter explaining his experience growing up learning magic.

This is in response to @letters-from-dekarios 's response to my anon ask. I absolutely adore the way Gale is written in all of the responses and also really enjoyed the fics currently there so please do read them if you come across this little post of mine.

Also hello I kinda just made this tumblr account so I can look at Gale content all the time but I also really like doodling Gale with my tav so I guess this will be a place for me to dump my Gale doodles when I can hello welcome

Thalia finally stopped avoiding Gale after reading the letter

Based off of this post

Ooooo I wanna make a comic so bad but idk how but I'm trying to cook here

Gale & Thalia

Based off of this excerpt from Pierre & Natasha from the musical Natasha, Pierre, And The Great Comet of 1812:

You have your whole life before you—

Before me?

No, all is over for me!

All over?

If I were not myself,

But the brightest,

Handsomest,

Best man on earth,

And if I were free,

I would get down on my knees,

This minute,

And ask you for your hand.

And for your love.

(Give it a listen if you want but this is the song right before the finale of the musical so it may not make sense but it's a very soothing song - the format of the musical is they're basically singing the narration of a novel so that's why they sing what they're doing)

So I got hooked on the idea of Gale as Pierre from Great Comet of 1812 and the Gale brainrot is now leading me to trying out a more painterly style - starting with greyscale then adding color. I am, once again, cooking. Please have this WIP thank you

Thalia, Gale, and the Great Netherbrain of (insert BG3 year here)

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I'm not done adding colors to it but I'll post the greyscale now :)

Photo I used for the reference!!

Hey!! I’d love to see Thalia and Gale being domestic, if you don’t mind!! Your art is GORGEOUS.

I’d also love to learn more about Thalia’s backstory or any Gale headcannons you had!

I hope this counts as being domestic I just can't resist a good nap time moment :') and I also wanted to just do doodles but I got carried away and started coloring 😭 coloring has never been my strong suit so I hope this is fine

And uaaa thank you for thinking my art is gorgeous!!! I'm honestly really glad to see people are enjoying my silly doodles here thank you!!

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In terms of backstory, honestly I haven't been able to flesh it out much yet! I also don't know much about dnd lore (I really wish I did) so anything I say here may not be consistent with lore :'D

However, what I have so far is Thalia used to be Thalia Adkrana, daughter of a noble family from a powerful bloodline of storm sorcerers. Despite being the 4th born child out of 5 children, since birth she's shown to be more blessed with magic than anyone in her family, powerful storms raging around her constantly when she was younger and destroying anything around her, causing trouble for her family. As she grew older, she may have logically understood how it is to keep her lightning under control, but whenever she gets very emotional her magic tends to lash out in response to her reactions. Growing up privileged and powerful, she also developed a bit of a superiority complex and an awful temper when things don't go her way, so not really a good combo when her magic gets unstable when she's upset.

Because of this, her family preferred keeping her within their property as much as possible to avoid dealing with her and to avoid troubling others, especially when one wrong outburst from her could ruin their family reputation. Growing up isolated from world didn't really help her grow and mature properly either, and her temper tantrums got worse and worse the longer she was kept in there and the more her family seemed to just give up on her. The only one she could really confide in and find comfort in was her younger brother.

Everything really changed when one day she decided to speak up against her family and demanding they let her leave the house, let her come with them to one of their social gatherings. Hells, she's been trapped in their property for so many years at this point she wants to engage with people, even peasants at this point because she'd rather deal with them than look at the same suffocating decor for even another second. Voices and tempers rising, she grew more and more frustrated as her parents kept shutting down every argument she could come up with, and the more the storms around her grew the more she proved that her parents were right for keeping her in. Angry at them, angry at herself, thunder roared and the lightning sparks dancing around her gathered into huge bolts of lightning, surging out of her in rage as if her magic itself was screaming out for her if her words and her voice couldn't reach her family. She knew they had every good reason to not let her out, knowing her own lack of control over her own emotions - but maybe if they trusted her just once, guided her, saw her as someone in desperate need of help instead of a stain on their family name, maybe things could've been different.

But that's not how we got to this point. A loud thud of a body falling flat on the ground snapped her out of her state and right beside them lay one of their servants, dead at her feet, and as if the panic she was feeling couldn't get any worse, just close by she saw her younger brother lying on the floor, badly hurt and crying out from pain. Immediately her parents, older siblings, and anyone who heard them nearby rushed to her little brother and the poor servant, doing their best to take care of the situation and Thalia stood there silent, watching her world fall apart in front of her eyes.

The order to banish her from their home came soon after, no longer Thalia Adkrana but simply Thalia, removing her status and all the benefits that name gave. Since she so desperately wanted to go out and see the world, now the world is all she'll have and no home to return to.

Kinda really awful timing when shortly after she started her new unwanted life as an adventurer, she got picked up by a nautiloid and had a tadpole squirming its way behind her eye.

And also shortly after meeting poor souls who shared the same unfortunate tadpole situation she was facing, it's no wonder Thalia fell so hard for a certain wizard who showed her in one night how beautiful, intimate, and warm magic could be as it enveloped her whole being like a gentle embrace - that her power and her emotions were something she could learn to channel and not be afraid of, a perspective her family failed to teach her for years. And even if at times she still found herself electrocuting the waters they stood on in her anger or excitement and hurting them, or maybe her temper would get the best of her again and she would unconsciously lash out at them before she could even realize she was yelling, after every argument or petty insults thrown at each other, they would still watch out for one another and care for each other and soon after they'd be sitting around a campfire laughing and enjoying each other's company.

It's no wonder once she's found a family she truly belonged in and felt safe in that her true nature finally bloomed after being suppressed for so long - a kind, lonely girl who loved being around people and helping them in all the ways she wished she could've helped her younger self ages ago, never letting anyone get left behind and given up on like she was back then.

Although being out of touch from reality for many years did create a lot of very awkward moments when interacting with people during the beginning of their journey, she did learn very fast how best to compose herself in public - best she could when the ones teaching her are also a couple of social outcasts but hey it's fine.

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Whew! That's a lot actually. Idek if any of that makes sense I'm not going to proofread all that :') I also don't really have any Gale headcanons I do really enjoy reading other people's headcanons about him though!

I hope this answer is sufficient ^_^

More doodles :) with professor Gale who still has the orb

I really like him with glasses actually or maybe I just like Gale

"You're already everything I need you to be."

I dunno man have my rough Goddess of Temperance/Self-Restraint Thalia in the Hades style

I can not find the post anymore but there was someone who made God of Ambition Gale in the Hades style so I wanted to draw my Galemancing tav Thalia if she ever ascended with him and in Hades 2 style very impulsive and self-indulgent doodle that's not a doodle anymore

(Might clean this up and make it better another time)

Wip of Hades stormweave

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This Hades AU is on my mind actually whole idea of like him regretting his ascension, never having told Thalia that he ascended because of ambition but also because he wished to spend eternity with her, she assumed he just left her for power so she broke things off with him, listening to their respective stories and like Hades-Persephone you can reunite them and Thalia would ascend with him etc etc

I'm still trying to do that cozy sleepy Gale but Hades AU has taken over temporarily

Actually, speaking of the anniversary, here's the Stormweave doodle that started the Gale brainrot:

Here's what propelled the tee-dohrnii blog:

And here's my current fave and more recent doodle!

And before BG3, I've been pretty down on my art and not very motivated to draw, but then Gale happened!! It's been very fun since then :)

Gale hugs