BG3: still on my nonsense

I could just, idk, actually play the game, but ... I'm honestly just sort of baffled at how the Gale/Larissa game is going to go. I really thought that, if being a cleric of Mystra had any effect on romancing Gale, it would make things more difficult. But while it certainly has an effect (/cough), thus far it's been entirely helpful. Like:

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BG3: look. I know.

But I was doing this WIP meme on Tumblr and, in the meanwhile, my friend venndaai made a truly genius post about how they'd genderbend the various BG3 companions (when at all). And as soon as they mentioned f!Gale, I was like ... omg, the vision. F!Gale would be incredible! I love him but just imagine. (I was also genuinely surprised that I, of all people, hadn't yet considered this. I'm slacking.)

And then ... okay. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be into writing BG3 fic. And I wasn’t. Even in the Larissa/Gale campaign, there was just … idk, something that made it not really a fic-style canon for me. But Larissa/f!Gale lit up my brain like New Year's Eve and, as I said on Tumblr, "well, I have to actually play the rest of the game, which is most of the game, and a longer piece would probably be in drawerfic territory anyway, but I’ve already played through one very shippy scene and………….."

This is a long prelude for my final excerpt for the WIP meme:

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BG3: Larissa's party is not exactly optimized, so—

—the idea came to me that the difficulties facing my cleric-cleric-wizard-fighter party could perhaps be pretty easily resolved by doing the unthinkable and ... replacing Shadowheart with Astarion. It's probably a good idea, and it's not like Larissa was ever going to romance Shadowheart or anything (L only has eyes for Mystra and Gale, lmao).

Downsides:

+losing Shadowheart!!!
+specifically losing the Shadowheart-Lae'zel chatter
+losing the cleric-cleric dynamic
+enduring Astarion in two games >_>

Upsides:

+having a rogue with all that entails (fantastic sleight of hand, sneak attack...)
+more mechanically balanced party
+Gale and Larissa being the only nice people in the party could be pretty funny

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