#i imagine gale being.... like mid 30s. thats younger than a lot of people do but im living in my world baby!!!!

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i was thinking. i said that marian was in complete isolation for years but im going to retcon that -- she got taken to Wizard Conferences and stuff on occasion. Useful For The Growing Wizard or whatever. would be boring for most fourteen year olds but it was like Christmas to her. anyway she definitely. DEFINITELY. met gale at one of them. he does not remember it but she eventually does.

#i imagine gale being.... like mid 30s. thats younger than a lot of people do but im living in my world baby!!!! #anyway marian is 23-24. so gale is maybe 10-12 years older than her. at the point when she met him he was. yknow. 24-26. #young handsome charming prodigy wizard who everyone is praising everyone wants to talk to and meet and hear what hes up to #her inferiority complex is well-ingrained at this point. she has no ambition. hes not inspiring. #hes just a portrait of the kind of wizard she will never be. her master drags her around the room and praises the work of every other mage #and she is the lone failure in a room of successes. youngest person in the room. gale is the second youngest. #she is just so bitter. envious i guess. she doesnt hate him until many years later (lol) but his existence is like a bruise #gale of course doesnt remember. she probably didnt even talk to him or get introduced. #marian honestly barely remembers. drop in the bucket of painful experiences for her. #she doesnt remember until theyre friendly. mayhaps not even until theyre intimate. #shes incapable of reading a room so she tells it to him like a funny anecdote and he responds soso sincerely jdjdjd #carly.txt #carly's ocs #oc: marian