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"Cheer up! All we gotta do is swoop in, save Jenna, beat their elven asses into next week, take the Stars back, I'll give Felix a kick to the face, and then we can all go home and eat your mother's cookies. How bad can it be?"

"...Thanks, Garet."

Isaac and Garet from the GBA RPG Golden Sun, right after starting their Quest (tm).

Garet notices Isaac isn't in the best spirits after leaving their home village to Save the World from a bunch of guys who also kidnapped their best friend, and technically it's their fault that it happened, so he tries to be a good friend. Or something. Garet always struck me as the sort of guy who will be there for you, no matter how bad you fucked up. He may not know much about geography or maths or history, but he knows when his buddies need some alone time or friendship time or whatever.

Inspired by this song, and me recently playing through the first game again.

I'm rather peeved at the way the game portrays Garet as a dumb brute, since sometimes he's the only one with some common sense. Sure, everyone, let's help a shady invisible dude by recovering a medicine he's placed behind a magic seal, for some reason. Let's ignore that the only people apart from the main characters who can use magic, are the villains. Also let's ignore that the guy a) keeps innocent girls hostage to b) ransom her people to slave over a construction that has no benefit to them whatsoever and c) regulates who can come and go into an entire continent just because he can or something. What was that, Garet, you say we shouldn't help this guy? PSAH, don't be dumb, obviously we should trust him.

But what can I do about it, except obvious headcanon.

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=Steffel Nov 19, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I must admit I never was a fan of Garet but I think I would have liked him much more if they had put scenes like the one you're depicting into the game. I think I warmed up to him just reading the image description.

I also really like the way you did the grass and the mountains. All the bright colors give the picture a nice, cheerful mood that fits pretty well with cheering someone up. Great job!

~Veriun Nov 19, 2012

GS pretty much shafts every single character when it comes to development.

Thank you! GS itself is pretty vibrant and colorful, I tried to capture that.

=Steffel Nov 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

That's true. They are really fun games but the characters are all full of missed opportunities.

~Tiramia Nov 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I love the different take you have on Garet, especially since I used to be one of those in the dumb brute group. Thanks for helping me see the light and realize Garet really is smarter than he looks. I remember after the Colosseum, when he's yelling at Isaac for fainting. He's not impatient to get on the road, he's worried about Isaac after having to run a gauntlet just so Babi can "see his powers".
This is truly a work of art, and one that deserves appreciation.

~Veriun Nov 8, 2012

The problem is that Garet, in the beginning, actually is quite sensible and smart, and the game acknowledges him as such, because it has no other choice. It's only when Ivan and Mia get into the picture that Garet is demoted to dumbass comic relief status, because we now have our resident infodumpers, and even when he legitimately has a point (my memory's bad, but I think he's usually the one who say "we don't have time for this" when the sidequests pop up), he's treated as hotheaded to the point of stupidity. I always saw him as being extremely duty-bound and rule-oriented, since he's the Mayor's grandson and all. He might not be very academically smart, but he's loyal and honest, he goes straight to business, and he's there for you.

Thank you!

~CrimsonValefor Nov 1, 2012

wonderful GS fanart~

~RandomPedestrian Nov 1, 2012

Beautiful background is beautiful.

~xBlackRelinquishx Nov 1, 2012

My goodness! Those mountains! So epic!

~Seztren Oct 31, 2012

Garet WOULD call the Proxians "elves".

His son called Sveta a "Kitty-doggie", so I guess it runs in the family.

Thanks for making him more in character than I've ever seen him before. People usually fail at Garet...
He's not dumb, he just acts before he thinks. He's hotheaded. And a total bro.

~Veriun Oct 31, 2012

I didn't even notice their pointed ears before very recently. Then I went OMFG THEY'RE ELVES. The guys in Loho also looks like their ears are pointed. They're pretty close to Prox, so maybe they're... dwarves or something.

Tyrell also lampshades the fact that the party spends way too much time sidequesting than doing what they're supposed to. (When they sleep under the Kolima tree to fix the curse or something, I think it's Rief who goes "how did we end up in this situation" and Tyrell goes "because Matthew can't keep his mouth shut, is why". I find that in the first two games, Garet's sometimes the only one who remembers that we're supposed to save the world, we can't sidequest for hours in every town, realistically.)

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