If Tav went to Avernus instead of Waterdeep

Romanced Gale longs for Tav to return to him.

[@amduil8168]

Gale just dropping that he casually threatens to nuke his students is the reminder that the forgotten realms is a fuckin weird place.

[@Chasandor]

Wait…he DOESN’T break up with you if you go to Avernus with Karlach?!? B R O Give this man a medal of loyalty

[@Archris17]

He fumbled one bag in possibly the most spectacular manner conceivable in any plane. He is NOT about to make that same mistake again!

[@2abby1221]

ugh how can anyone hate on SUCH a sweetheart? it's so hard for me to romance anyone but Gale. I love that angel

[@myemolove13]

I honestly hated him at first. He grew on me.

[@mackenziesherry4894]

Who hates him? 😂 he's so funny, talk to much, but I love him.. all the guys in BG3 have their very own charm 🤣 I cudn't even choose cuz I wanna see each one of them in romantic terms.. 🤣 even for Halsin, the natural pervert daddy..

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

For me, it was just everyone else was more interesting and he was just a dude. Then the more runs I did and the more I learned about the dnd verse, the more he grew on me

[@thekameru6058]

Always liked him as a friend but was a bit put off by the entire Mystra thing. The romance switch got flipped for me when someone told me a) he would very literally love you even if you were a worm (and they were right), b) Mystra told him to kys, c) and when he started to drop the facade of 'Gale of Waterdeep' and fessed up to the insecurity that runs through him like letters through a stick of rock candy from Blackpool. Its a nice change of pace storywise, in a game, to have someone who is into you from nearly the get go, but whos arc is about then having to option to give support as they work through those issues. Or making him worse, whichever. But after the first three boots to stop him writhing in pain, and just treating him with fundamental respect, he is so on board. Also Im a sucker for nerdy men and slow burn romance arc so yeaaaah....

[@lunamoon5858]

real

[@sillylover9470]

WHY THE FUCK HES SO SWEET. he loves you even if you turned into mindflayer and he is waiting for you even if you left him for avernus. the best man really

[@katieconigliaro6945]

He waits for you I'm 😭😭😭

[@soupsnail9979]

hes so sweet

[@ggfri5713]

I know right? My first play-through, as soon as he started speaking, I was like ooooo I like him. No matter what, I can’t quit Gale.

[@kmcg959]

I'm quite far through a second playthrough romancing Astarion and... I just can't finish it because it doesn't feel right ending without Gale! Astarion is so brusque and glib, except in a very few moments. I miss my emotionally available wizard!

[@veganryori]

​​@@kmcg959Astarion is what? 😅 Honestly Bg3 is incredible... We're really not playing the same game 😂 He's been nothing but nice (and chaotic) to my Tav, which she appreciates. Gale was mean 🥲

[@jenni6259]

They really made Gale pull off Spongebob's 'Imaaaginaaaation' rainbow

[@WATCHINGBYPROXY]

He is 10000% hubby material

[@BriarHartRPG]

THE BOOP oh gods my heart.😭😭😭 I just love him so much.🥲

[@torided9773]

not me chanting HUG HIM!!!!

[@druid_the_lizard_wizard]

I don't think I could ever leave Gale like that. UGH I love him 😢😢

[@linah1998]

I like how this kiss somehow makes even more sense in this scenario compared to if you went to Waterdeep with him. The happy/surprised exhales, the soft smile, how he leans back for a moment.. as if he's lingering on your shared past memories for a moment

[@Celeste_51]

I love Gale 😭 his romance is just the sweetest! “A crackling hearth, two cosy armchairs, a bottle of wine to be poured and your battle boots discarded at the door for long last❤️”

[@topazdrake42]

I didn't know how much I need to see Tav on tippy-toes while trying to kiss Gale

[@Skrighk]

"I'll come back when the blood war is over" Oh you mean the war thats been going on for over a thousand years and if it ends it can only mean the apocalypse has happened? That war? Yeah, im sure I'll see you in a week tops babe.

[@naingmon]

Main character energy fr fr

[@ghosttea3769]

I love him so much it isn’t fair that he’s a fictional character

[@ArthurTorrias]

Now that's fascinating. So Canon Gale is an Illusionist. Always figured Conjuration or Abjuration.

[@caitlinnittler2337]

Right!? Same here.

[@ruriva4931]

I like it for him, it’s somehow both grandiose and humble

[@Minerva_Sparkle]

And some people dare say Gale ascending is not a bad ending.

[@gwenpool6748]

I finally got that ending… it made me so, *so* sad:(

[@Chasandor]

@@gwenpool6748 Just out of curiosity, why did it make you sad? I have my reasons for calling it a bad ending. But I wanna hear others.

[@gwenpool6748]

@@Chasandor it’s the fact that in the other ending, Gale is still himself- kind, not too caught up in himself, funny, sincere. But in the ascended Gale ending, he’s lost any assemblance of who he was. He’s condescending, cold, and basically a dick. If you say that the old Gale is gone or anything about being disappointed in him (IIRC), he acts wounded but also condescending (again). He’s not the better version of himself that the other ending presents, imo, even though he is a God in this one. It’s *sad*!

[@vandalvandalism3341]

Awwww...she got on her tippie toes ❤

[@WhatsNextIWonder]

The nose boop was PERSONAL. I'm going to need time to recover from that.

[@kylebrowder5754]

This is sooooo cute that you can still do the romance AND save Karlach. Did they fix this for all the romance able conpanions?

[@Kimbersism]

I'm not sure, but if they haven't, yet I bet it will come later.

[@poisonerlady]

But it is not more simple to have Will complete his personal quest and have him go with Karlach to happily romance each other?

[@kylebrowder5754]

@@poisonerlady I do love that ending/idea. But sometimes I like going with Karlach to avernus, cause she's my homegirl!

[@poisonerlady]

@@kylebrowder5754 so you go with Will too? I finished it.just once and i sent Will xD

[@kylebrowder5754]

@@poisonerlady I've only finished the game in its entirety twice. I went with Karlach during my Wyll romance playthrough. On my gale romance playthrough, it was just Wyll and Karlach

[@MomokaViixiv]

why is he so perfect... aaahh... makes it hard to romance anyone else.... his line of introduction with the he likes to read write poetry likes cats and drinks wine i was like this is the perfect man wtf

[@ashleylaricci2023]

When the Blood War is over? If I’m going down there it’s just to get Karlach fixed up, after that I’m rushing to that tower in Waterdeep !

[@blearyeyedchangeling]

HE'S SO LOYAL IM SOBBING

[@willow6549]

I’ve been trying, and I mean TRYING!!! So hard to romance Astarion this second play through, and don’t get me wrong, I love Astarion, but it just doesn’t sit right with me that I’m not romancing Gale😭

[@selsen9011]

not glowing laezel in the background destroying the moment by hiding a trinket in her pants

[@sindyk2719]

very cute indeed 😊

[@bravobrisky4957]

Omg would you do the other options for this!??? Some of the other ones are so sad and sweet!

[@Kimbersism]

I'll try!

[@sans_person]

I'm literally crying

[@Jagger-Tyr_13]

I love Gale. Hes way more interesting than players give him creditnjust because hes not a simpable posh vampire prick. Dont get me wrong Astarions hilarious. But I dont take him seriously at all. I sympathize for him, but Gale just has way more that interests me as a character. He also seems like hed be a cool fuckin friend.

[@travelerofthemultiverse9444]

I get not letting him teach every subject. But come on at least teach one other. at least let him have a simulacrum do it.

[@andrencfilho]

Is the topic Gale teaches affected by his subsclass and the end of the game? Or is it always ilusion?

[@Kimbersism]

I would assume it's always illusion.

[@LittleMrsNonsense]

It's always illusion, as far as I understand. I've never reclassed him from evocation and he's been illusion every time.

[@sametekiz3709]

Beatifull.

[@emoaf8555]

I turned into a squid and went to hell for Karlach and Wyll while romancing Astarion but his lines were lackluster considering how he's a little selfish and snarky. He should've said something along the lines of, 'so, neither did you think about yourself and nor of me, hero?', or, 'remember when you promised we'd overcome anything together?'. Because when you sacrifice yourself for the greater good, you also give up on your close ones since it's a thing of mutual interests. Or maybe he's just written shallow like that. Compared to him, cottage ending Shadowheart and professor Gale were more emotional to see me.

[@cat_astronaut_]

I could never do this to him lol sorry, karlach

[@lindiedayo]

I was in an rship with him and him alone the whole time and did everything but when i went to Avernus, this convo just seemed like friends. He didnt reference our relationship at all. I think it was a bug 😭 super lame.

[@nnna_]

i’ve heard that happens across all the relationships if you go to avernus

[@TheHumbleWriter]

Yeah this happened to me with Astarion 😞

[@autumncitie]

THE BOOP

[@itscassieyeet8610]

GOD THAT'S GOOD does this happen with other love interests too?

[@selsen9011]

how is tara in your camp, i thought she is only there, when you play gale as origin character. Mod?

[@arjay9745]

Where's his tattoo?

[@aquarose9390]

"That is if you wish to return to Faerun... Or to me." 😍🥰🫠