GALE SMILE VARIETIES GO (not an exhaustive list):
There's the Gale of Waterdeep™ smile, bold and brilliant and not entirely sincere. It's the kind of smile Gale wears when he wants To impress someone, or to hide what he's really feeling, when he's vulnerable--it's bright and hard as a shield. Not artificial, but superficial, saying both more and less depending what you're looking for. You learn that this smile is for show and distraction--an illusion, if you will--and learn how much more beautiful the real thing is,
The quiet half-smile he wears whenever he's immersed in something he loves, whether it's the Weave, reading, or staring out at the gulf from their balcony. It's the smile of someone content to just be in the here and now, who isn't thinking about ambition and the future and always being better, greater, perfect.
That, sudden, bright "oh, it's Tav!" smile when he sees you--maybe first thing in the morning, or after you get back to camp from another day of saving the world, or get home early from running errands. As if every time you reappear, no matter how expected, is a gift and Gale wants them to know it.
The wicked, knowing smile he gets when he has Plans for you. It's an expression that has fear and anticipation zinging through you every time he pins you with it. He knows what he does to you, damn it, and knowing that he knows just makes waiting mored delightfully excruciating.
That smile, the one he gives you when it's either just the two of you or he's so happy he doesn't care who's watching. It's the kind of happiness they never invented the words to capture, not in any language. It deepens the lived-in wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, around his mouth, and the warmth in his eyes becomes this quiet warmth. It's not blazing like a thousand suns or bright like a thousand stars--it's quiet and utterly complete, everything, all his joy laid bare for you.
My friend,
I don’t even know what to say, I think you’ve said it all 🙌🏻
Let me just add this: it’s a complete and utter shame that we don’t get to see Gale smile very often in-game, because, when he does, I feel that I can walk on water, eat a ton of chocolate without putting weight on and get Astarion to walk in the sun.
It’s the purest, sweetest thing in the world and I live for those little stolen moments of sincere happiness that we are occasionally treated to. Don’t get me wrong, I love sexy, brooding Gale but smiling Gale is my Christmas morning 🥹
Don’t even get me started on that little wicked smile of his, that half smirk, half just-you-wait-until-I-get-my-hands-on-you 🥵 That’s the smile that renders me into a puddle and sets fire to my loins without the need for him to even say a word. That’s the smile that turns my love for him into the visceral need to let him have me in whichever way he likes.
What can I say, I have never encountered a character (or a real man, in fact) that can bring out the polar opposites of my personality quite like him. I could be his angel, I could be his whore - and yet, all he has to do is smile.
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Best picture. Childe having his phone struck between his ear and his shoulder talking about bodies that was supposed to be burnt. Wearing a cute apron (something with "Best Hubby" or something like that written there is hilarious). And dealing with one boiling thing in the casserole, two flying pan and while watching the cake in the oven is not burning. All this while you tried to study in the sofa. And even with all this, he still find a paranormal way to tell you to not stand up to take the chips in the cupboard. Not good for your health and dinner will be ready soon enough. I'm sure this guy have eyes behind his head for that. Or prophetic power at this point.
He looks like a mother gossiping on the phone while doing so except that he isn't a mother (yet) and is in no way gossiping. Sometimes hearing his phone calls makes you wonder whether you are allowed to be hearing all that. Didn't he say you'd have to be assassinated if you learnt of sensitive information? Why are you still alive? Most importantly, what level of attention span does he have to be balancing a phone call about a serious issue like an improperly disposed body, two frying pans, something in the oven, and your every movement. You haven't even gotten up yet and he's already called out to you amidst his conversation, telling you to stay seated since dinner is almost ready. Sometimes he even throws an orange over his shoulder to land perfectly in your lap without looking. That occurrence alone makes you respect him and not get too antagonistic with him.
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honestly me coming home from work, having a minute long brainrot that resulted in me opening sketching app on phone after centuries as well as finding angelic aesthetic just to yeet this.
count it either as Jin-Chul in his AB form or simply someone dragging poor man for a matching photoshot with Jin-Woo because apparently they contrast nicely (and because KHA needs money and someone proposed they get them from simps—)
/god I need to refine it more and YES HE HAS A BACK WINDOW AND WHITE HIBISCUSES IN HIS HAIR WHAT WILL YOU DO TO ME I’M IN OTHER COUNTRY—
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greetings fellow genshin enthusiasts, i hereby present my beloved character playlists, one of which i'm greatly satisfied with (kaeya's), one which i cannot help but feel dissatisfied with despite everything, even if i treasure it (diluc's) and one which is still a work in progress and coming along over time, but which i thought i should share nevertheless (venti's).
i dare say that all playlists are very character accurate, although some songs may be there solely because of my personal/niche headcanons or interpretations for said characters. but, since i like to believe i know my favorite characters better than myself, i doubt i'm wrong about them. shrugs and leaves these playlists here for you to use for your amusement
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