#galeach

Ship Tournament, Round 1 — Match 17 / 30

Halsin/Minthara

"the archdruid whose whole early story is tied to protecting the grove and the drow paladin who literally leads the attack on it. there is no world where this starts normal. but also?? they’re both leaders who have had their lives wrecked by forces bigger than them. halsin carries guilt like it’s a job requirement, and minthara has been used by the absolute, discarded by lolth’s world, and left with nothing except her own will. i think they would understand each other’s stubbornness before they understood anything else."

"They have really interesting tension because they both have very strong ideas about survival, but they come from completely different moral ecosystems. Halsin believes in restoration, community, healing what has been damaged. Minthara believes in power, discipline, loyalty once earned, and never trusting safety when it’s offered too easily. The fun of the ship is that neither of them would fold quickly. Halsin would not be charmed into excusing her cruelty, and Minthara would not suddenly become nice because a large sad druid looked at her with patient eyes. It would be slow, difficult, and full of arguments where both of them land hits because they’re annoyingly perceptive."

vs. Gale/Karlach

"they are both walking around with magical death devices in their chests trying to act like they’re fine about it. like sorry but the orb + infernal engine parallels are RIGHT there. two people who know what it feels like to have their own body turned into a countdown, still trying to be funny and useful and lovable through it."

"wizard who says “erm actually” x barbarian who can throw him over her shoulder when he gets too sad"

"gale: ah. a fascinating infernal mechanism, volatile but magnificent, housed within an equally magnificent— karlach: you’re staring at my tits, aren’t you gale: i was going to say “warrior,” actually, but now i fear the moment has rather escaped me anyway they’re both hot, doomed, funny, too willing to die for other people, and desperately in need of someone who will yell “NO MARTYRING” across camp. ship of all time."

Ship Tournament, Round 2 — Match 9 / 15

Gale/Karlach

"they are both walking around with magical death devices in their chests trying to act like they’re fine about it. like sorry but the orb + infernal engine parallels are RIGHT there. two people who know what it feels like to have their own body turned into a countdown, still trying to be funny and useful and lovable through it."

"wizard who says “erm actually” x barbarian who can throw him over her shoulder when he gets too sad"

"gale: ah. a fascinating infernal mechanism, volatile but magnificent, housed within an equally magnificent— karlach: you’re staring at my tits, aren’t you gale: i was going to say “warrior,” actually, but now i fear the moment has rather escaped me anyway they’re both hot, doomed, funny, too willing to die for other people, and desperately in need of someone who will yell “NO MARTYRING” across camp. ship of all time."

vs. Shadowheart/Wyll

"I really like the Selunite Shadowheart version of this especially. Wyll’s whole thing is trying to be good even after being punished for it, and Shadowheart’s is trying to find herself after a goddess spent years cutting pieces away from her. They’d both understand what it’s like to have someone powerful claim ownership over your choices. There’s something soft in the idea of them post-game, maybe in Baldur’s Gate, trying to build something ordinary after all that divine/devil nonsense. Shadowheart with her animals and flowers, Wyll with his stories and dancing and stupidly earnest compliments. They’d still have scars, obviously, but I think they’d be careful with each other in a way that feels really earned."