So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
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Hiiiiiii
While we all know that Gale is a master at kissing/making out/anything and everything involving his tongue, he also gives amazing hugs.
Sometimes it's a casual arm draped across your shoulders, tucking you into the warm curve of his body as you wander the windy, winterchilled streets of Waterdeep--and tucking you conveniently close enough for him to press a kiss to the bit of ear peeking out from under your cap.
Sometimes it's a hand that trails possessively across your hip when you're at a tavern and some of the clientele is too forward for Gale's sense of propriety. Not that you can't take care of yourself, he murmurs to you while his fingers trace maddening circles under the waist of your trousers, he would just prefer slightly less violence tonight.
Sometimes it's morning and it's him wrapping you into an embrace from behind, pulling you gently against his broad, warm chest, a gentle sway that entices you to dance while you both sleepily wait for the tea to finish steeping.
Sometimes it's him melting tiredly against you after a long day. You've had a long day of your own, but lacing your arms around his neck and inhaling his familiar scent--parchment, Weave, crackling heat--you find your own worries slipping through your fingers like sand.
Sometimes it's him holding you crushingly tight, murmuring his love and reassurances into the tangle of your hair as you sob and shake. His fingers stroking across your back, his voice saying your name like the gentlest summoning, tug your mind back to the here and now. It had been lost in nightmare (you had been running, running, through the streets of Baldur's Gate and Gale was climbing up to the Absolute, intent on its destruction and you weren't going to make it, panicked crowds pushing you back, your terror paralyzing you, GALE) and his arms around you pull you back to yourself.
And sometimes you wake to find him gathering you close--something he'd only learned to do very recently--and you taste the tears on his cheeks when you kiss him, and his heart gallops like a frightened horse under your palm. You're here, you're here he mutters into the shelter of your neck, over and over again until he can make himself believe it enough to relax in your embrace and let your reassurances (I'm here, I'll always be here my love, you're all right, I won't let anything happen to you) lead him back to sweeter dreams.
My friend… First you take my heart and make it pound maddeningly inside my chest, only to then dig your claws in and rip it out?
HOW DARE YOU??? (affectionate)
Aaah, Gale’s hugs. Warm, strong, tender… and altogether too difficult to extricate yourself from.
You remember the way other people have hugged you before — a parent, a sibling, a friend, a former lover perhaps. You remember how nice it felt. And yet, nothing could ever have prepared you for the overwhelming feeling of being in Gale’s arms.
The moment his arms close around you for the first time, you just know no embrace will ever be able to rival his. He has ruined you for all others, for all time. Not that you care, mind you — for his embrace is the only one you desire.
You are lost. You are found.
You simply melt into him as you breathe him in — your thoughts swirling in your head, dancing to the steady beat of his heart — all your worries and fears dissipating like the morning mist on a hot sunny day.
He doesn’t even need to kiss you, he doesn’t even need to take you — you are already his, just as he is yours, bound together in this silent ritual that makes realities of your hopes and dreams.
It’s intoxicating, it’s addicting, it’s the comfort of a bracing cup of tea and the excitement of being dangerously close.
It’s natural, it’s safe — it’s home.
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I don't know if anyone will even see this, but I was curious what others may think! I know there's no right or wrong class to romance anyone with, but I think it's fun to theorize which combos would be most interesting thematically or just seeing what dynamics people come up with. Feel free to elaborate and explain your ideas to your hearts content because I love to read it!
For me personally I'm leaning towards Sorcerer, in order to challenge his preconceived notions of magic - or a non-magical class like Fighter, to show him the wonders and worth of a mundane life.
Realizing I made a typo but can't change it 🙃 I do know how to spell ***Romance***
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Minthara because I've never even recruited her.
When I was doing my good playthroughs there was no option to recruit her other than stuff like sheptara exploit so in my case she just ended up dead every time.
And now when we can recruit her without massacring the Tieflings? I really don't see a reason why any of my good OCs might want to romance her, because she is and stays evil. She's not like other companions who can go either way. Unfortunately for Minthara I have several good/neutral OCs and only one who has the potential to be evil - my Durge - so she just doesn't have much chances with me.
Now even if I managed to do a sort of alternative-reality evil playthrough with my Durge (I'm really bad at being mean to pixel people, gods I still remember Wyll's sad face when I've refused to dance with him T.T ) I still see no reason to choose Minthara if I can choose Gale instead. Corrupting him (Gale's speech at the goblin party, the shadow lantern) and fueling his ambitions about the Crown feels far more satisfying for me - and fits my Durge's story better. Why stop at conquering some people if he can become a literal deity as the ultimate middle finger to his dad?
BG3 romance poll time.
EDIT: Wyll is not an option because nobody needs to hear that he's boring/bland/sucks....etc for the millionth time..
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