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)
Quick question: why doesn’t Gale land ON TOP OF ME when I pull him out of the portal?
Like if Larian can give me sexy knife time with Astarion as the first meeting, give me an awkward Gale who has just fully landed on top of me, almost nose to nose, with Gale stumbling over his very eloquent words.
Gale and Tav, former academic rivals at Blackstaff Academy who vehemently “hated” each other. The day they graduated and never had to see each other again was the “happiest” day of their lives.
And then years later, Tav pulls Gale out of the portal, goes “This fucking guy?”, and immediately tries to push him back in.
I think a lot about counterspell in particular. Like, the idea of Gale standing across the battlefield and sensing a crackling shift in the weave as he’s surrounded by his own adversaries.
But as enemies close in on him he finds the source of the shift, the wild tangle of that magic coalescing into something with murderous intent.
He whips his head around and sees you first, careening toward an enemy with knives drawn. Then he looks up and sees a warlock forming an incantation on her lips, one heading straight for you.
And just as you’re about to be utterly eviscerated by a bolt of lightning, the electricity in the air simply comes to a sudden stop and evaporates into a cloud of sparkling, red mist.
You and Gale meet eyes for only a moment. Something desperate glinting in that gaze that you can’t quite place. But you can’t address it now, you’re surrounded and vastly outnumbered.
The moment passes as soon as it came as you lift your blades to stop the curving arc of a great axe.
Anyway that’s it. I just think the idea of gale choking a spell out before it can get cast is just… so incredibly tasty. Especially if hes utterly, devastatingly in love with you.
I've seen too many times people saying Gale goes to sleep early or is a morning person but that's just not correct. The truth is right there in his Act 2 scene. Twice if you're romancing him.
It's literally so hard to miss but people really be stereotyping him as the nerd or whatever and then attribute a bunch of traits that they think are ~nerdy~ instead of looking at canon.