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perenians · 5 months

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it is incredibly hard not to grab the wedding rings from the skeletons (both the true love's embrace/caress pair & the worn gold rings that used to have a date on them) & have galecassia equip them. the only thing that's stopping me is that they give no advantage of any sort (warding bond Does Not Help at ALL) so i'm currently making gale carry them around "secretly" like he just slipped them into his pocket while she wasn't looking.

my hc is that when they found either pair, gale watched her eyes linger on the skeletons' eyeless sockets & ever-grinning teeth with an expression of grief & longing & something else he didn't have the words for. he picked the rings up after cassia left them to rest, suddenly reminded of what the dawnmaster said in his final letter. in death, there is new life. these rings are not remnants of love, but rather a love born anew. the rings are representative of finding love in the midst of the shadow-cursed lands, finding hope where there seems to be nothing but despair. like the land around us is rotting & twisted but i can't imagine any place that could turn my heart from you, cursed or otherwise. time is short. i'm in love with you.

#ahhhhhhhh cassia i love you so much #and gale too #yes. i know.#this post is barely about her #BUT #it is four forty in the morning and i just woke up #i will go back to sleep now but i'm emotional about this #imagining gale using the rings to propose to cassia. dying.#not their wedding bands tho ofc. those will be a new design that is ridiculously symbolic because cassia is here for the Poetry #gale dekarios #cassia zhang #galecassia #calm down per #per plays #bg3 #galecassia is bi4bi btw.#nerd4nerd cringe4cringe #english major squared

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perenians · 4 months

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meet my galemancer tav, cassia!

i went a bit overboard with headcanons so they're gonna go under the cut

cassia is a wild magic sorcerer/circle of the land druid with the sage background

her birth parents gave her to druids and she was taught to use nature to quell her magic—or at least, to have a better handle of it (these druids live in the forest of lethyr)

little cassia was a bit of a pyromaniac—something that the druids were not too excited about. the only times she was allowed to use fire was when they needed to do a controlled burn of the brush, and even then they were hesitant to let her

her explanation: "fire is beautiful and it is wild. it has captured the attention of many a human since the dawn of time, and i am no different."

cassia is pure unadulterated weave and nature combined, something that gale finds refreshing after spending a year locked up in his tower

she is most powerful and her magic is most erratic when she's emotional. when she was younger, this was when she'd be most dangerous, so she kind of just. represses her feelings as a habit and focuses on other people as a distraction

she tries to reason with their enemies, even though it usually doesn't work and encounters still end in fights. still, she tries!

she is kind but firm, though some would call her stubborn. she also loves people very easily and readily, though she keeps that to herself.

she is gentle, but it's very clearly learned. it doesn't come naturally to her

at some point, she makes a joke about her being the druid but gale's magic coming to him more naturally. the conversation follows like this:

gale, matter-of-factly: "well, of course. i was educated by the best of the best. from a young age, i could compose the weave like a musician composes music."

(cassia is slightly irked by this)

to her, magic is her very being instead of something she controls. it's part of the reason why she dislikes mystra—she doesn't want to be something that is manipulated and used.

gale does not know this. this is a point of contention between them (from cass' pov. gale is not aware of this) until gale speaks to mystra

gale: "if you like, i could show you some of what i learned."

cass knows that she could use the practice and proper training. and gale does have the skill to back it up, judging by the way he casts spells. so she agrees, albeit warily, and leaves the fire to follow him to somewhere more isolated

gale turns out to be a very good teacher. he meets her where she's at and works with her magic instead of trying to control it. he corrects her form when spellcasting and helps her refine her gestures and movements

slowly, she relaxes, and they begin chatting amiably and trading anecdotes after each session

she tells him why she never pursued training and why she doesn't like mystra and it bothers gale

after a tenday of practice sessions and conversations, she asks him to show her his favorite spell, and he shows her the most beautiful dancing lights she's ever seen. the lights twinkle like stars as they twist and turn in a circle, and she watches them in awe. too soon, the spell ends, and the two of them are once again in darkness.

she begins to understand, then, just how much he loves magic. she caught a glimpse of him while he was casting the spell, and saw how much care he put into the lights, how fondly he looked at them—like they were old friends, and he was seeing them again for the first time in a while.

that's when cass realizes that his favorite school of magic was illusion. never evocation, though the raw power of it was attractive. no, he was a wizard who loved weaving visions of beauty and wonder.

the weave scene happens, but cassia pours some of her own magic into the weave. gale feels it and startles a little, and there are visible little wisps of wild magic intertwined with the weave. she imagines the two of them, their magic flowing together and just. being shared

she meant it as a friendly thing (like playing a duet), but to wizards sharing magic is Very Intimate, so gale's flustered. the scene ends in the same way it does in the game

she absolutely fumbles her charisma checks and fails her persuasion/deception rolls with true soul gut and the duergar (this is what happened in-game and i thought it was really funny)

her first encounter with sussur blossoms was vexing, to say the least. she'd always been able to channel her magic through nature—this was the first time nature absorbed her magic and gave nothing in return. the sussur blossom remained unchanged by her magic, and nearly sucked her magic dry. it was terrifying

cassia looks really pretty in the sunlight of rosymorn monastery. it looks like she's glowing in the soft light

when disciple z'rell says the line about gale cassia casts hold person on her and slaps her. the Big Moonrise Towers Fight is triggered

they barely make it out alive.

gale confesses!!!!! and cassia tells him that loving him feels as easy as breathing, but she's not in love with him, not yet. they sit under the stars together, still. in the morning, gale is left with hope, and cassia with a seed planted in her heart.

cassia gets a confession scene too!!!!! it parallels the weave scene but instead of gale showing her the weave, she shows him her magic. except this time she infuses emotion (love) into it and it comes out wilder than it did before (yay no repression) and she imagines the same thing she did in the other scene because she knows what it means, now

the entirety of this post happens

gale's earring really starts to bother cassia in baldur's gate, but she doesn't say anything. gale thought she was mad at him because her face would get pinched whenever she looked at him but in truth she was looking at the earring

she buys him a new one—white gold with a peridot teardrop. she thinks that the gold suits him better than silver

she knows herself well enough that she recognizes that her intentions behind getting gale a new earring are not entirely pure. she ends up keeping it because she doesn't know if such a gesture is welcome, and because she's afraid that it'll make him feel weighed down (<- this is her projecting onto him)

she buys a pair of earrings for herself, too, and wears them—they're identical to gale's, but with amethysts instead because they remind her of him. to her, it represents a commitment. it's a promise she makes to him that she does not ask him to make in return. but if he does she will coincidentally have an earring to give him LOL. okay i'm. gonna stop now bc this is getting absurdly long

#i am cringe but i am free #jesus CHRIST this post is long #cassia #galecassia #bg3 tav #peren procreates #per plays #bg3 #calm down per

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