layonmacduff

As everyone who talks to him for longer than a minute will hear in graphic detail, Gale Dekarios was once an archmage so brilliant and powerful that the goddess of magic herself came down from on high to make him her lover, protege, and chosen avatar of her will.

He fumbled that so badly that she now wants him to blow himself up with the unstable magical nuke he accidentally embedded in his own chest while trying to impress her. And on top of that, he might also turn into a brain-eating squid creature. (This part is not actually his own fault. Or his ex's. It's sort of unrelated.)

Gale is a guy so rizzless that it manages to swing all the way back around into genuine romantic charm, earnest and passionate about his life's work even when forced to start it all over from scratch, intensely eager to please and impress, and not really as arrogant or hung up on his ex as he initially appears--though it takes some getting to know him before that becomes apparent. He's a deep well of Former Gifted Child self-loathing who also, at the same time, thinks he both can and should become a god. He contains multitudes.

I definitely want to make him a Token, because a Gale who wasn't something like a wizard or sorcerer would have no idea what to do with himself and probably be too sad to play, but I'm torn between Pyromancer and Aeromancer.

I'm leaning heavily toward Pyromancer, because I have a lot of fun playing with fire motifs for him in RP, and because so much of his dialogue about magic suggests that fire is really his go-to. But I like the aesthetics of Aeromancer a little better, and I don't think he'd mind it, because (a) it would give him an excuse for stupid puns about nominative determinism, and (b) he wouldn't be weak to water the way he would with fire, which would be nice because having to avoid it would bother him.