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ryssabrin · 6 months

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incredibly cold take but i really do not understand how bl*od/weave became the most popular origin/origin ship, both for each character or like. just in general. like they both make way more sense in a romance with wyll than with each other and more compelling cases could also def be made for gale/shadowheart (both having a crisis of faith and struggling to define their identity outside of said faith) and astarion/karlach (touch-averse vs touch-starved and jaded pessimism vs boundless optimism). hell i'd even see gale/lae'zel before i'd see gale with astarion. they simply do not like or respect each other. it's literally anders/fenris all over again tbh.

#madelyn rambles #i think the prevalence at least in fandom spaces #comes from either gale fans or astarion fans wanting to play their respective origin #to see all of their specific scenes and such #but they also want to do a romance #and for a lot of gale fans the next best romance is astarion #and vice versa #so it's become this monolith among a lot of fans #that act like it's just such an obvious pairing #and ofc ship and let ship it's not that deep #but they're really missing the forest for the trees here lmao #sometimes things that are popular or worse etc etc

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