#Baldur's Gate 3 Gale Romance

[half-dorks]

BG3 Epilogue : Origin Astarion (Spawn) x Gale

BOOK CLUB IS REAL

Well, they read for a reason.

[literallybyronic]

poetic cinema

[druidgroves]

the baldur's gate 3 experience when you accidentally trigger an unintentional romance because you thought you were just being a really supportive friend

[mutualcombat]

SPIDERWEAVE GANG RISE UP

[thewizardhole]

[theharlotofferelden]

“Gale is so boring” he had a emotional and sexual relationship with a goddess and was so down bad for her that he tried to reclaim a small aspect of her power just to please her and in doing so ended up with a magical bomb in his chest yet that doesn’t keep him from being a kind, slightly condescending, enthusiastic malewife nerd who thinks your dirty ass smells good GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

[topbanana-art]

Breaking news: Durge monk realises they have a crush on Shoe eating wizard

[blighted-elf]

Every dialogue between Karlach and Gale is wild, I swear.

[annahideyuki]

husbands sketch

[ssalballoon]

tiefling gale! he looks a little familiar...

(context may be a little off, i haven't fully watched the dnd campaign yet!)

alternate crops + lineart below for better quality maybe

[partially-controlled-chaos]

My mother has absolutely fallen in love with Gale and it’s the single funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.

So for some context:

My mom is in her late 60’s and can’t live alone so she lives with me. She enjoys watching video games as an alternative to tv (this woman played the hell out of the PS1 so I’m not surprised). She always gives me her reviews on the games I play and loves some more than others. With that being said…

She hates Baldur’s Gate 3. Hates it. Despises it. “Worst game you’ve played by far.” She doesn’t like fantasy genres and doesn’t like a whole lot of combat. Now admittedly she didn’t start watching the game until Act 2 (health issues) so she missed the entire opening and Act 1 and had NO idea what was going on. I tried explaining as best I could but she didn’t fully understand.

Now she doesn’t like anything remotely spooky so the shadow lands was a nightmare for her to watch. Hated it. Hated the characters.

Astarion was too mean. Didn’t like Wyll’s horns and red eye. Karlach was too loud and didn’t like the horns. Shadowheart was too gloomy. Lae’zel was too creepy looking and mean (still haven’t won her over in Lae’zel). Halsin was “creepy looking” (I don’t get it either). Hadn’t met Jaheria or Minsc yet.

Now admittedly I hardly used Gale in my first play through so she never saw him or knew he existed until Act 3. But the second she saw him? Heart eyes. Put on her glasses to look at him better. Rizzard of Waterdeep got her GOOD.

Loved him to the point where she asked if I’d play it again JUST to romance Gale so I agreed because I was going to romance him at some point anyway. And when I tell you that woman is SMITTEN.

Every day I get home from work and it’s “when are you going to play your game? I want to see Gale.” “Kiss Gale. Do a kiss. There’s different kisses? Do them all I want to see the kisses.” “HE HAS A CAT??”

Very quick to tell me on what romance dialogue options to pick. I have no say in the matter they’re all her choices.

Oh and Mystra? Hates her. Can’t stand her. “Blast Mystra with your fireball thingy.” “Can you kill her? You should kill her.” “Gale better be praising you and not Mystra.”

I mean it’s a complete turn around and this is now her favorite game simply because of Gale Dekarios.

And if you’re curious, here’s her ranking of most to least favorite characters.

Gale (and Tara by extension)

Karlach

Astarion

Wyll (was very upset when I had to reject post dance kiss)

Halsin

Boo (not Minsc, just Boo)

Jaheria

Shadowheart

Lae’zel

Withers (genuinely afraid of him)

[lunian]

this man is a FREAK (lovingly)

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Guys he's so pretty..

[sleepycrawly]

what if the always amazing gale of waterdeep did one of those 80’s style televised dating profiles? <3

full and total credit to Fae Galicaea or @/faedoesntrun on tiktok for requesting this cameo from tim downie, it was such a hilarious and wonderful idea I’m sobbing <3

[skelvron-keiman]

♡ First Kiss ♡ Don't get too used to these cuddles because Astarion will be back next week

[gale-dekarios]

gale spent so much time as a Very Serious Archmage, Lover Of Mystra, Goddess of Magic, and so it means so much to me that the closer you get with him, the goofier he gets.

the teasing, the sincerity, it's likely something he hasnt had in his life for a very, very long time, and the fact that despite everything that looms over the two of you, he finds time for that? its beautiful and its all he deserves.

i like to think that after the events of the game, when everything's calmed down, living with gale is living a life filled with laughter. youre constantly wrapped around each other, sharing another in-joke. enjoying life like it was made to be enjoyed. regular people enjoying regular lives.