Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Originally Posted by neprostoman
The difference between a neutral and a good character is in their motivation. Neutral character cares more about themselves while good characters care about the others. Gale puts the safety of others above his personal desires, as he states he'd better blow up in solitude rather than threaten the lives of others.
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[list of "Good vs Bad Things"]
I wouldn't call this putting the safety of others above his personal desires. It's more: "if I'm almost certainly going to die, I don't want to kill a bunch of people along with me." Which is nice, sure, but not Good. At this point, when he knows he's going to explode in the next few hours and almost certainly can't be saved, there's no real cost to secluding himself.

Similarly, most of the positive things in your list don't come at any significant cost to Gale, so they're more him being nice than Good. He's certainly closer to Good than to Evil, but I'd still peg him as overall Neutral, as not much indicates he'd sacrifice things important to him in order to help others.

If anything, I'd say the single Bad Thing on his list (making a deal with devil to preserve his own life) shows more of his Alignment than practically any of the Good Things.

Yeah I can somewhat agree and see to my argument about his "condition" being rather weak.

One of the reasons those reactions and actions bear no cost is Gale being a companion, not a MC. This overlaps with another topic - the group leadership. BG3 has a MC-centric leadership system (which I don't like), where companions in 90% situations submit to the player's actions. But if we put this intersection aside (which is not healthy for the analysis, but whatever), that also brings in the reverse logic argument. If one hasn't yet established his personality fully, how can you state that they are neutral? Neutral does not equal "did nothing substantial" or "beared no heavy cost to one's actions". I made the analysis - the list, from a standpoint of the limited data we have from the EA, datamined materials excluded. With the info we have, Gale definately reaches for the Good rather than Neutral. Unless you have some strong argument regarding his actions that I haven't noticed.