Fairy Tulip

And obviously, you’ve got classics like Minthara telling him he “has the air of a third-born song about him” (<- third-born drow sons are usually killed by their mothers lmao) which gale anticipated with “:( you’re going to say something awful, aren’t you?” which is so mean and so funny to me. can i be so real with you. i think this is minthara’s version of pulling someone’s pigtails, laden under weird drow gender beliefs and her own. well, the Everything about her. she is bullying him because she likessss him!

the question of godhood is a big one they have in common. Gale’s pursuit of the crown versus Minthara’s pursuit of control over the absolute. these are based both in ambition, yes, but also in a sense of powerlessness in the face of what they’re chasing. Minthara was tortured, denigrated, mind-controlled, discarded by Orin and the Absolute cult. Gale will tell you on that boat ride he makes for you that part of his reason for wanting the powers of the gods for himself is that the gods treat people like toys, pawns, playthings. his lover just told him to kill himself. it’s personal. and so I think you could make a very strong argument that by crown or by brain, one of them could convince the other to stand with them and take their godhood by their side, and that support would be unwaveringly strong.

Minthara fun fact of the day! did you know you can get a hug from her if you play as Origin Gale? In the epilogue party, and only if you didn’t romance her, I believe, and it doesn’t matter what ending you pursued for him yourself. Minthara will hug that wizard. She’s fond of him, despite herself, and that’s so charming to me in the face of how adamant she was about not even caring to get to know him. I like to imagine Gale approached her in a very similar way to how he approaches Act 1 Lae’zel, with genuine curiosity about culture and customs alien to him and important to her. Minthara, of course, responding in a far more acerbic way that would probably drive off anyone else, but this is a very determined wizard we’re talking about. So he’s going to wince and grit his teeth and hiss his way through uncomfortable subjects, but he’s also going to hang onto every beautiful description of her lost home, memorize drow words that slip into her speech so he might learn her language, study the history of her that she lays out before him in snippets and secrets until he feels better equipped to understand her. ah, there’s the key to it. I think Gale would make a real effort to understand her, and that Minthara would feel… respected? flattered? intrigued by his willingness to do so. And that’s how a stupid wizard who made himself into a bomb worms his way into her heart.

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Writers Note: I really loved writing this chapter. And so many lines came directly from ex-boyfriend's own mouth. Write what you know! HAHA! Dear readers, everything comes to a head in the next chapter! I can't wait for you to read it!