i would anything just to hold gale dekarios' hand. this is unfortunately a side account, so... follows will be from @minamisconcierge29 // she/her/they
Gale really said "There's a real possibility I'm going to die soon. If you'll let me, I'll show you the room in my house that is a manifestation of my soul. Then, if you're chill with it, we'll make love with our literal hearts and minds." HE'S SO INTENSE AND IT MAKES ME INSANE.
i watched tim's interview a while ago, but i loved this part so much i had to share it:
question: "what do you want people to take away from gale?"
tim: "there's a real joy about gale, and also longing, and sorrow, and hope, and there's so much. he yearns to go back to waterdeep. he yearns to be in his library with his tressym, and he wants all those things. he wants a simple existence at the end of the day.
yes, he also kind of wants to be the greatest wizard of all time, but there's also those elements of homeliness, of just kind of wanting to be at ease and calm within your space in a world that's actually gone insane and crazy.
so, actually, i think there's a bit of gale in everybody whether they want to admit it or not. it's that yearning for a better thing. he doesn't particularly want to fight, he doesn't particularly want to do this. he's thrust into it. this is just where we are. we have to do it. it has to be done. we have to do this.
but all he wants to do is, you know, have a sherry and read a book. lead a quiet life in waterdeep, probably eat some cheese, sit on the veranda."
I haven't stopped thinking about Wyll since the moment in my first playthrough where he instantly dropped his mission to slay Karlach when he spoke to her and heard her side of the story. He was just so incredibly open-minded, so ready to listen to an alternative viewpoint and accept that he'd been wrong when faced with evidence that contradicted his own assumptions and expectations.
Even when that acceptance came at such a MASSIVE cost to himself, and he knew that going in.
listened to an interview with Karlach's VA and they said that Karlach's like an almagation of Aphrodite and Ares and I cannot stop thinking about it. like. she is adored by everyone because she has so, so much love to give, sees so much beauty in the world and wishes to preserve it, but the war she was dragged into prevents her from it, literally beats and bursts in her chest like a molten core of lead, but even then still she's proud, valiant and good, because if she isn't, what was all the suffering for? If she doesn't breathe in every little second she has, what good was all the fighting to death, what good is any loving to life?