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[galedekarios]

seeing a post that basically confirmed the obvious disparity in content made me think more about a scene i would have liked to see with gale and that i've been thinking about for a while now.

i always felt a bit sad that his condition is so often treated as a joke by the fandom and to a lesser extent by the game itself. i always thought that this is partially down to the fact that we don't truly get so see gale actively be in pain due to his condition, other than brief glimpses and hints:

we do hear the urgency in his voice when he explains when and why he needs an artefact and the relief in his voice when the protag chooses to help him.

we see it, too, when he is afflicted by the arcane hunger condition:

we get glimpses of it when he consumes an artefact:

he mentions it, too, in his dialogues, but it's very much downplayed by gale or phrased in such a way that is meant to overplay it with humour, or perhaps even to distance himself from it by using metaphors:

that is until we actually get to see it through his eyes, if only for the briefest of moments:

*Its teeth, its claws, it's unstoppable as it digs through and becomes part of you. And gods, it is ever-hungry...*

gale also has an idle animation where he--quite often--reaches up to touch the orb, perhaps because it flares with pain, like an old wound is wont to do:

(gif by @bladeofavernus)

from the last conversation we have with gale, and after catching all of these little moments of things he says or does with how the orb affects him, we learn that consuming the magic from artefacts no longer has any effect at all. the only solution that tara and he were able to find no longer works:

it would scare him and imbalance him, and it would finally destabilise the orb, make it more volatile.

but what happens in the game after that? the orb becoming volatile enough for the artefacts to no longer have an effect has no consequences at all: you are able to do the tiefling party, all quests in the underdark, the entirety of the grymforge, and, should you choose to do so, the entirety of the mountain pass and rosymorn monastery without an incident at all or any mention of the condition itself/any discomfort or fear it might cause.

there's no urgency here, no follow-up, to what the narrative set up... and then we meet deus ex elminster and the orb is stabilised, and the urgency that came before literally is handwaved out of existence.

what i would have liked instead to happen--or at least to bridge the gap between the artefacts no longer working and elminster stabilising it to be used on mystra's behalf--is the following:

i think it would have been nice to have a scene with gale where we do get to see--on a much smaller scale--him losing control over the orb, have the protag and the companions see what he is trying desperately to keep contained within himself, what gnaws at him, what continues to haunt him.

it could happen perhaps after a particular gruelling and intense fight--and there are enough of that in the underdark and at the mountain pass. it could have been a ! conversation, providing both friendship and romance content.

have the orb act up after expending so much energy to manipulate the weave to the fullest of his abilities, have gale manage to reign it in, but barely, show that it takes a lot of power and effort for him to do so.

that it hurts, with none of gale's metaphors to hide behind or jokes to play it off.

have the audience truly see the gravity of what he is going through.

[onii-onahole]

I don’t think it’s supposed to do that 🥲

[chdarling]

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? has me in a chokehold, my god.

[seidraikiri]

been binging monk [2002, tv] for a week or so now. i am season in 4, having the time of my life rewatching one of my fave childhood shows but also i'm drowning cause shipping is both a gift and a curse.

stottlemeyer x monk why'd you have to catch MY EYE?

[loganslowdown4]

More from Roleslaying filming this week!!!

[coredrill]

i think that when we find smith again he should be missing an arm and also be 30% robot parts at minimum

[cinammonelles]

Sketchbook is full so here's a little ts sketch dump :>

Bonus Xi Ping I literally don't remember drawing

[anzellla-remade]

[galedekarios]

Sorry, I... didn't see you standing there! Lost in the steps, truth be told. I need them to be just right. I wouldn't want to fail my new partner.

[janiedean]

I saw a post that says boromir gives off girl sad vibes (and I agree, pippin and meet are his daughters) and one of the tags was like this is why boromir was reborn as ned stark with 2 daughters and I'm just thinking if need and boromir switched places quite a lot of things would resolve faster lmao. The ring would find it harder to manipulate ned because how to do it even, meanwhile boromir would see right through Joffrey lmfao wdyt?

I mean YEAH XDDDDDDD also tbf boromir in middle earth would have fared WAAAY better than ned like no way that guy was gonna not grasp what the fuck was going on behind the curtain like bless ned but politically savvy he was not XDDDDDD we stan the switch uwu

[chdarling]

I was handling this album with so much stoicism and emotional disconnect and then I got to I Hate It Here and I feel so called out.

Well, ouch, babe. 🥲

[seidraikiri]

Lookit Midoriya being a good lil' housewife

[loganslowdown4]

Roleslaying With Roman Ch4&5 Filming Has Begun!

[yunwooz]

mutuals pls feel free to tag me in all ur bg and gg content i will reblog anyone and everyone outside a select few 🫶

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

Finding out you actually have a speech impediment after living your whole life thinking you just had a wacky accent is wild

[dinaur]

loser line is now being rebranded to whore line btw