#poor little Gale

[hogans-heroes]

Do you think Gale could have had a bit of a bad rep growing up? Maybe not exactly a rep but like.. people probably knew what his dad was like and I could imagine it kinda haunting Gale, gossip or people expecting him to turn out the same, and so no matter how hard he tried to be good, to be perfect, people would still look down on him. And Gale probably didn’t have his more aloof veneer until he was in his teens and it makes me sad to think of a tiny baby Gale who’s probably on the quieter and shyer side trying his best and people sorta sneering or giving that condescending pitying look or telling their children not to befriend him. Now I’m thinking of a baby Gale that likes to hide against and clutch at his mom’s skirt… this is derailing lol

Oh man you’re killing me with this concept 💔 I can definitely see this happening. There would be this stigma forced on him from his father’s reputation that just shadows him everywhere. When he’s young he doesn’t quite understand it or why people are treating him this way, but as he gets older he starts to realize and maybe that’s when he starts developing his mask, his aloof personality and detachment. He can pretend it’s not there or doesn’t affect him.

I’d imagine that contributes in some way to his drive to succeed, to be the best, to get people to respect him. I feel like a part of him is always afraid of what people will think of him and or how they’ll treat him, and maybe he never talks about his past either because he’s afraid of that stigma coming back. It takes a long time for him to even open up to Bucky, and only after he truly realizes that Bucky won’t judge him like that. Maybe the pressure in combination with his baggage is stressing him out and something happens to bring it to a head, and Bucky gets the story out of Gale. It’s definitely a wound Gale would carry, and drives his actions in adulthood.

#my heart #poor little Gale #mota #masters of the air #thanks for the ask! #gale cleven

[lexch4n]

5 hours into Act 3 or Gale gets a new ex ?

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#artwork #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 durge #durge #dark urge #gale of waterdeep #Astarion #Minthara #shadowheart #I surely did not expect to change of romance but character development baby #my Durge is poor little meow meowing her way out off this #gale x durge #minthara x durge

[general-dweebous]

I love the idea of Gale being totally oblivious to reader’s crush on him

How they’d spend hours together just reading at the library, book shopping, talking about a shared favorite subject, or sometimes both doing work or something else independently but enjoying the company of having one another near

How reader would remember little things about him, such as a favorite treat, and the next morning after a particularly rough day he’d see that favorite treat sitting on his desk with a little note inscribed “in hopes to cheer up my favorite Dekarios”

The way reader would smile softly at him, eyes practically gleaming as they listen to one of Gale’s stories

Or maybe how on a holiday or birthday, reader would gift him the exact book he’s been looking for- or maybe even the first edition of one of his favorites, and lights up when Gale raves about the gift to everyone he possibly can, making sure to give the reader the warmest happiest hug possible

The best part.. hear me out- would be that Gale is smitten with reader too. He’s never given it a chance because he hasn’t picked up on the (painfully obvious) clues, and assumes reader only views him as a friend.

It isn’t until one evening when the gang is together at the tavern that Astarion and Karlach tease Gale for staring at reader from across the way like a puppy.

“They’re quite remarkable, aren’t they?” Leaning slightly across the table to his friends with a smile and flushed cheeks. “Any man would be lucky to gain their affections. …Do you think I could?”

You just know that Karlach and Astarion would immediately (comically..) look at eachother in disbelief. Imagine the possible conversations that would follow informing Gale of how awfully oblivious he’s been.

#maybe I’ll write a little one shot about this if I can muster it up #but please feel free to use as inspo #I just love Gale Dekarios #he’s so cute #our poor oblivious wizard #he’s so infatuated with him and never had a clue #he’d propose tomorrow if he could #gale of waterdeep bg3 #gale bg3 #gale fluff #gale headcanons #gale dekarios

[theladyofravenclaw]

I finally got Halsin in my solo playthrough at camp and at the tiefling party everyone in camp was flirting with my Tav and now all I can think of is the other companions trying to warn Halsin not to fall in love with her and he's just standing there like "We just met lol I'm sure I'll be fine" only for them to have a conversation five minutes later and he goes back to the others like "Alright, yeah, I get it. Sorry to have doubted you all"

#video games #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate posting #baldurs gate tav #baldurs gate playthrough #bg3 playthrough #halsin #this little drow has a lot of rizz apparently #poor gale

[fortnitejotaroballs]

much to think about.

drawn over this

#gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #gale bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #poor little meow meow #wow this guys the bomb

[aastarions]

#c plays bg3 #i have more ss and screen recordings too and i could go on and on but i squealed SO MUCH I PANICKED THOUGH WHEN HE RAN AWAY AFTER THE SUN #CAME OUT I WAS LIKE WAIT LET ME FOLLOW YOU I THOUGHT I MESSED SMTH UP DSFLKJ #karlach went to avernus with wyll her scene on the docks hurt me sm i love karlach dearly im glad shes alive #shadowheart was so cute at camp too so excited we hugged :') #poor gale though my playthrough he really got the shit end of the stick OTL #BUT ASTARION SAYING WE HAVE FOREVER AND THE SIX MONTHS OF HAPPINESS I SQUEALED #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #i cant believe its over #until i make a new chara KSDFJ BUT IM GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BREAK #TO FOCUS ON MY IRL STUFF THATS GOING ON #BUT I WANT TO DO A DURGE RUN

[argetcross]

My Tadpole Party dynamics, featuring Keres, my Sorcerer Tav! This is what I have headcanoned for the party dynamics and relationships, including some major Act 1 -> Act 3 shifts. I love them all so much... ;u;

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 tav #my tav #my art #it's all very much based off my playthrough #and the headcanons i formed while playing #for example everyone loves wyll #keres #i had so much fun drawing the little heads #poor gale was on camp duty for most of the adventure but #i like to think he had a good time cooking and not getting beat up by goblins #i had so much fun thinking of the little tag lines for each relationship #i also wanted to solidify keres' specific relationships to everyone #as opposed to just a generic “the kind leader” #since she's a little weird and chaotic and has her own baggage #anyway talk to me about baldurs gate i love baldurs gate

[ansburg]

bg3 fans showing their da leanings in how allergic they are to nuance 😔

#likeeeee can't y'all let your faves have some bad traits. seriously. #my fyp had some longass meta on how ga!e's folly isn't really a tale in hubris but in approval seeking #and that certainly is a component of his character fr #but are we really going to ignore the myriad of stories gale tells the pc about how someone tells him not to do something #and how he does it anyway? #and how in his youth he was spared poor outcomes either by luck or by the intervention of others #save for the uhhhh orb. which was a fafo situation #LIKE it irks me to no end that a character can't have flaws without fans needing to smooth them into something so woobifying #'it's a little hubris but REALLY he's a burnt out gifted kid like me 🥺🥺🥺 his need for validation is his WORST trait' #i just know that when interviewers ask them 'what's something you need to improve on' it's some ~im too hardworking~ shit 😔 #sorry i will be sexualizing gale for his dual arrogance AND poor self-esteem

[bhaalble]

The epic highs (Hearing him referred to as a "walking apocalypse" and that fundamental sense of connection over what that idea represents for both of you) and lows ("A Bhaalspawn? Gosh...") of romancing Gale as the Dark Urge

#poor man #unfortunately melkior is definitely going down a dark path #also probably breaking up with him after meeting gortash #in fairness its also that his way of loving is a little uh #incompatible #with melkiors overwhelming need to be loved wholly #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dark urge #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios

[suitetarts]

at first i thought the fire was going out bc shadow curse or shar or something sinister. but nah. rat

#i love finding these little tid bits i missed on other playthroughs #btw gale honour run is going strong despite the odds stacked against it (my poor impulse control) #balthazar was such a wad jesus fuckin christ i cant imagine taking him on in the shadowfell on this difficulty #bg3

[a-snowpoff]

POV: You just realized you had spent the past 10 minutes talking non-stop about your favorite video game and all the theories you had about it. Embarrassed you were about to change the topic and insist that Gale share about his interests. Instead he seems to be enamored listening to you talk about something you’re so passionate about and encourages you to continue.

#pfff okay that technically isn’t the original context but it is as far as you know lsdkufsjdgfkjg #asked for suggestions on captions and a friend suggested viewer is infodumping and im like heck yeah that can work #also i just watched some game theories on Poppy’s Playtime… #sooooo there’s that hahahah… #papyrus #papyrus with fangs #swap papyrus #swap!papyrus #dusky's oc #gale #a-snowpoff #my art #gif #undertale #technically the context is just some lighthearted very totally platonic rp #i was just being a little chaos gremlin pushing this poor skellie around I just didnt expect to get this response asjkdfgaksjdg

[ciitrinitas]

anders is one of the few faves of mine where i think it is incredibly funny when people hate him. as far as da goes, my jimmies can be easily rustled by morrigan or sera bashing, but anders bashing? let me help you throw the tomatoes. love him dearly and deeply and he is poor meow meow-coded, but he is also very annoying and often unlikable. those are traits that i enjoy about him, but he's a very extreme, sometimes hypocritical person with Loud Opinions, and you can easily dislike him without disagreeing with him.

#there's overlap between anders and gale stans #and i can tell which ones were probably wankers in da fandom #bc they are so thin-skinned that a dev calling the wizard 'annoying' in a likely fond way is Too Much #gale's a little weirdo! he's annoying sometimes!! #i call my ocs annoying with great love all the time #era.txt #(wizard stans also being mad about the devs responding conversationally to an interviewer saying they picked for the wizard to explode #and that it felt right to them is like...there's no conspiracy against gale by the devs lmao. you cannot seriously imply that when poor wyl #was shafted so hard. ugh you just can't have any sort of discussion either about why a player could view a sacrificial gale bomb as 'right' #bc gale stans think he didn't do anything wrong in going after that karsite weave fragment in the first place lmao)

[renaultmograine]

Worshipper of Lolth Tav: Our goddesses have much in common, would you do me the honor of witnessing a prayer you would do in her name?

Shadowheart: Sure!

Gale, looking on:

#me when im in a wettest poor little meow meow competition and im against gale #bg3

[fuzzydefiance]

inktober prompt wander

#myart #inktober #bg3 #bg3 fanart #gale dekarios #poor guy is going through it #he needed this little aside #kinda wish i was romancing him this playthrough #no no #next one i swear bb

[zenatness]

Oh, bless you modders <3 There's a BG3 mod that reduces or flat out removes the defined abs from the gentlemen in your party.

#baldurs gate 3 #it feels so weird to see over the top defined abs on them #especially since not a single one of them has above average strength #give the poor men a little bit of padding ffs #and don't try to convince me that Gale the puny wizard is jacked #dragons and magic and elves sure #I'll go along with it #but not Gale's excessive abs #there are limits

[cxldblxxded]

today in bg3 i had the rogue throw a healing potion on my bard while he was downed bc i thought it would heal him. it in fact did not and instead had the opposite effect, doing damage that killed him. bard later in a different scenario accidentally turned around and shot the rogue in the face bc i was trying to switch to him on the turn tracker but forgot to cancel my crossbow attack first.

they had more gay sex that night

#ooc #moopisms #shovel also went to hit gale to wake him up from a sleep he’d been put under and crit his scrawny wizard ass and left him with 13 hp #karlach punting poor gale to safety while my bard and astarion kiss sloppy in the corner (we are stealthed) #one of my friends has dubbed karlach “the fruit keeper” of my party bc it’s just her and three wretched little queers #anyways. we are in the underdark suffering bigly 👍🏽 #bg3 spoilers