[ it is the eternal wizard brain conundrum to find a problem and then poke and prise apart and over analyze every specific little detail and turn it over in his head until it makes complete nonsense of something probably perfectly obvious. the action of repeating a word until it is only noise instead of understanding the meaning. basically the entire thing was driving him completely insane and if he didn’t ask he was going to freaking explode with or without the bomb.
he starts - surprised - when his wrists get grabbed and stands there completely dumbfounded while astarion does this entire little meltdown without interruption. it would be very easy to cut and run at this point. to go no it was a fun laugh and maybe it should stop and then it could be over and no one the worse for wear. gale is more than expecting it: the wall being rebuilt as quickly as it had been torn down, a safe distance re-established. but then he doesn’t. ]
Alright. Okay, okay—-
[ theres both a visible and internal obvious flood of relief at this most astarion of answers. a real “or what” style reply to the question of “do you want me or what.” but he is not insane, he is not building something in his head that isn’t real and he has not romanticized something he shouldn’t have. again. the messiness of it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. messy is real, while too pitch perfect can ring false.
sort of a soft hurt of a laugh, letting his forehead drop to rest against astarion’s. ]
no subject
he starts - surprised - when his wrists get grabbed and stands there completely dumbfounded while astarion does this entire little meltdown without interruption. it would be very easy to cut and run at this point. to go no it was a fun laugh and maybe it should stop and then it could be over and no one the worse for wear. gale is more than expecting it: the wall being rebuilt as quickly as it had been torn down, a safe distance re-established. but then he doesn’t. ]
Alright. Okay, okay—-
[ theres both a visible and internal obvious flood of relief at this most astarion of answers. a real “or what” style reply to the question of “do you want me or what.” but he is not insane, he is not building something in his head that isn’t real and he has not romanticized something he shouldn’t have. again. the messiness of it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. messy is real, while too pitch perfect can ring false.
sort of a soft hurt of a laugh, letting his forehead drop to rest against astarion’s. ]
I like it too.