#fadey

[cheaploafs]

It is always morally correct to steal your lover away from talon duties, trust me.

Close up under cut <3

[felassan]

Dragon Age vinyl disc held up to the light. pretty ◕‿◕ (image belongs to, and was taken and kindly shared by kiranox of Bluesky. posted here with permission, thank you kiranox!)

[inkandpaintsnowleopard]

”You’re gone, gone, gone away, I watched you disappear”

“All that’s left, is a ghost of you”

“Now we’re torn, torn, torn apart, there’s nothing we can do”

“Just let me go, we’ll meet again soon”

In order to get my full vision, you must stare at this while listening to Little Talks, by Of Monsters and Men, the best song ever made, which will become the new foundation for all my Cosmo/Sprout stuff

[spookie-puppy]

Didnt feel like working on the Char rn

[fossys]

do any other systems have switches that are more like. shifts? like its less its this person then switch then its this guy its more. its this guy now its blurry then it feels like this other guy but its like, consistent?

for us theres usually no moment of bam ur done fronting its this other guy now, its more u kinda blur out then this other guy blurs in (or other guys). i always felt kinda weird about it bcs it felt like we were 'switching wrong'

[x---23]

its common i can levitate n fly in dreams even when im not lucid, it just comes like second nature. in one of my dreams last night i was showing several of my relatives that i could levitate, and some were freaked out, and my mom especially didnt believe me(despite like. literally showing her in that moment)

its just something i know how to do, like walking. which makes me feel a bit better about the sex stuff im kinda realizing now. if i can have memory for knowing how to do something thats literally impossible for me to have ever done(and for anyone to have done), it can be the same for when i fuck in dreams…..

[felassan]

since we saw this image from the 2022 in-game cinematic and speculated that 1. this image shows Solas doing something to the Veil, and 2. the item he's holding is the red lyrium idol in its ritual-blade form, what it's reminded me of is the Subtle Knife from HDM (Pullman). Æsahættr cuts windows in the fabric between worlds; I wonder if the idol's power as a magical ritual-blade is the ability to 'cut' through the 'fabric' of the Veil (of reality), thereby tearing open the barrier that has been separating the two realms.

Folks on Dragon Age discord server made a discovery. First, peachypowder found this little asset

Then, ttdub7254 noticed a simililar thing in Solas' hand in here

🤔🤔🤔

[taldigi]

I know it's semi-canon, but in the P2 drama CD Tatsuya casually summoned Vulcanus in a hot spring and Michel tried to wash him. So, maybe once they have developed their powers more the IT could summon their Personas in Junes and Kanji can knit cute scarfs for them :)

edit: WHOOPS I GOT SO EXCITED TALKING PERSONA MECHANICS I FORGOR yes, Kanji needs to make silly outfits. TM wears different outfits every scene hes in.

persona can manifest in the real world in canon too! We've only seen it once IIRC, when Chidori's persona lashes out. Its also mentioned in Ultimax when Fuuka is able to use her navi abilities outside of the TV world!

Oh, also- the "kill ryoji" bad end, Makoto is able to summon a persona to do the deed in the real world.

A theory that's pretty good is that: even tho the dark hour is still considered the "cognative realm" it's sort of.. layered on top of reality. So a natural persona summons might be way more difficult. Mitsuru naturally summoned her persona the first time after all, and she was only in tartarus. (IIRC? might be remembering wrong) and Koromaru summoned his without his evoker collar.

somewhat for the final boss of royal, though you could argue that the metaverse and reality was on the brink of merging.

p1 and 2 are big examples of persona in the real world, but their canonocity to the newsona timeline is dubious at best.

Teddie, Morgana, and the Velvet Assistants can exist in the real world, despite being some form of shadow each. Same could be said for the Anti-Shadow Supression Units with their plumes of shadow... while not 1-1 with a persona, per-se, I think are good enough examples to consider.

Also, persona-related abilities can manifest. Joker's third eye. Chidori's abilities. Teddie's nose. Morgana's ability to cross whenever (and communicate, too.) all things worth considering.

Semicanonly, trinity soul also has persona regularly active in the real world, though fadey. But they can interact with their users- in fact, what charmed me about TS in particular is how Spartacus (Takuro Sakakiba's persona) is rowdy and disobedient.

[endlich-allein]

Till, Olympic Sports Complex, Moscow, Russia, 28-02-2010 © Fadey Ivanov

[missterious-figure]

Stella let out a whine as Moon left, but still held on to Sun and messed with his hair a bit.

"Where go?" She asked in that choppy speech of hers, wanting to know where they would be migrating to "Big hill? Water path? Big pool?"

(Mountain, River, and Lake is what she means)

"We're heading to the lake, er- pool, little one."

He bounced her to the center of his back when he noticed her slip alittle. A youngster with a bright green bottom half of a elk came running past him, almost causing him to trip.

"Emerald! Remember what we said about watching our surroundings?"

"Sorry! I was trying to get away from Sky! He's it!"

Just then a small centaur with the underbody of a pony came dashing from underneath Sun. His legs had white socks that faded into the rich blue coat he sported. He had lots of white, fadey splotches that look like clouds all over his fur.

"Sky! You almost made me fall! And I'm carrying Stella, too!"

"Sorry, Sun. And Stella."

Sky said sheepishly, before going back to chasing Emerald.

[ceevee5]

I wish my work week was narrated like the skateboarders at the Olympics. “The first ever 900!” … “She hasn’t asserted her dominance” … “Gone for the full side fadey!” … “This is anyone’s right now” … “Oh Yes! Sticks it good!” … “Real urgency!” … “Where is she going here?”

[felassan]

Thoughts on the new images of the Lighthouse Part 1. DA:TV spoilers under cut.

[Link to Part 2]

general: the Lighthouse looks so cool, it's beautiful 🥺 I can't wait to explore it fully and see the companions' areas change over time.

outside many of the windows are pieces of floating rock and odd architecture, a feature of Fadey scenery.

This can only be Emmrich's room. :) the giant skeleton statue on the left is exactly like the ones in the Necropolis Halls. the hanging lanterns have hexagon shapes, which I've become convinced is part of Nevarra's visual design in this game. the slab-like table in the foreground looks suspiciously like it's meant to hold a corpse/skeleton, and we can see Emmrich doing just that here. the room is filled with lots of flasks and other glass vessels, reminding me of the artbook concept of apron!Emmrich holding a smoking glass flask. I wonder if any of the jars/vases are more like urns and canopic jar kinda deals? there's a big scroll on the desk and lots of books and scrolls everywhere, as you might expect from a scholar and a professor. there's lots of skulls and skull-themed decor everywhere, even affixed to the wooden part of the upper floor, as you might expect from a necromancer. Emmrich really said okay I'm moving in now and my huge collection of skulls is coming with hhh. in the righthand corner of the room it looks like a giant skull (the bottom part of it looks to me like teeth), and on one shelf there's even a ribcage.

do the statue-figures on either side of the fire look like humanoid figures holding their heads in their hands to anyone else, only their heads are like vase-shaped?

maybe he sleeps upstairs somewhere?

the big spiral staircase is beautiful and so is the sunlight beaming in through the windows from above. :) the fireplace looks cozy. in the arches of the windows you can see the curves of ancient elvhen architecture. the view from up there must be so pretty!

This item on the top of one of the shelves caught my eye. I can't place it atm but haven't we seen this shape before?

This room can only be Neve's. :) in the bottom left is a stand with a different leg on it, the same as one of the ones shown in her artbook concept art. there is serpent imagery. I think diamond shapes and pointy objects like the wall-lights are part of the visual language design of Tevinter. the hanging lanterns look magical, a common thing in Tevinter. the rug is pretty and incorporates her turquiosey color palette. on her desk there is a turquoise pot (teapot?) - if you look closely, its coloring and the swirling designs on it are very similar to Neve's teacup here. :) there are various teapots and decanter-type things around the place that she could use for coffee.

it's smart room design, the big ceiling-high windows give the room the impression of a workplace office, like something out of a crime procedural.

Neve's casework wall. wanted posters/mugshots/suspect/missing person (they could be any of these) pictures, lots of notes, papers that look like they could be maps, strings linking together different papers in a clues-board like this meme, papers that it looks like Neve has annotated in red ink while studying them (circling and underlining things). a nice touch is that one or two of the papers are drawings of snowflakes, fitting for an ice mage. :)

I'm curious, what is this and what is it for? Bellara has one of these in her room as well, as does Lucanis (see Part 2).

these hanging objects are also interesting. they look like glass cases containing pieces of parchment on which a snake is drawn.

This room can only be Bellara's. :) it's filled with floating ancient elven magic-tech triangles and in the middle it shows the detached head thing from her artbook concept art. (he looks like if you activated him with the blue crystal or something that he could talk..). the room has a workshop vibe; she has a workbench and a stool, different instruments and gismos, and there's an array of artifacts on the shelves. the orange wall hanging on the right is triangular, flanked by two arrows in the nets and contains the skull of a deer/halla or similar animal. this must represent the Veil Jumpers given that many of them use archery, the triangles and the fact that their faction logo is a deerlike skull. it's a nice touch that even the structure of some of Bellara's furniture, like the sidetable on which the head rests, are triangular in design.

All the picture frames everywhere - are those mirrors? could they have something to do with investigating eluvians, or the network?

this looks like this halla statuette asset from DA:I. :) there's one of these in Taash's room too.

the ancient elven face motif, like on Solas' Trespasser armor and the Temple of Mythal Sentinels' armor.

hanging bone hh?

Left: what is this contraption? the ear is human Center: very ornate box. what's in here? maybe the animals on the top of the lid are stylized mabari? Right: Fereldan mabari banner.

Left: this pattern of walls and the triangle pattern on them is a feature of ancient elven architecture. Right: the way the walls (behind the frames) are designed here, it makes it look like pipes. Bottom: curious that we cannot see the ceiling.. :)

This looks like a sort of magnifying glass or microscope-type thing that would allow her to closely examine things she finds.

What does this do? :D

This (left), along with the head, feels like a focal point in her room. this hanging thing almost looks like a model of a planet or solar system - a planet in the middle, a ring of asteroids or something around it, smaller orbs around the place like moons. we've seen part of something similar before, in the ancient elven ruins in Arlathan Forest in the screenshot on the right. compare these bits; the rings, the paired triangles.

looking at the wider structure of the thing in Bellara's room, it also reminds an awful lot of this place (whatever it is), which even has the ring of rocks going around it.

feels important. :D

I feel like this is Harding's room. :) it's pretty and cute, a nice rustic space (suits her). the simple bedroll under a cloth canopy propped up with some sticks has the vibe of something a shepherd and scout might rig up to rest in when out in the wilds. the pond / water feature transforms it into an outdoorsy, nature-y space, as do the leaf-strewn floors and the plants growing up the walls. there's vegetation everywhere - potted plants and some areas which look like raised planting beds, basically little indoor gardens. this includes windowboxes, flowers and even mushrooms (I know that's fungi. yk what I mean hh). this makes so much sense for Harding - we know she loves nature and plants, and Ali Hillis mentioned that Harding also raises plants. I wonder if as the game progresses, she will grow more plants and the ones she has already will grow some more? like maybe she'll finish planting up the area around the pond the whole way round? and I wonder if her lil pond has fish? that would be so neat. please can I buy some beautiful koi for Harding to put in her pond to raise? also I wonder if any of the things she grows are edible? like imagine Bellara and Lucanis cooking with e.g. salad greens grown and raised here by Ms Harding :D and/or healing herbs we could use in the field?

this plant for example resembles the model for elfroot in DA:I!

I think maybe this is Taash's room. first off, near the middle of the room it looks like a makeshift weights bench, and we know that Taash is a gym bro. the hanging rings nearby that remind me of these. even the 'horizontal ladders' on the ceiling look like you could use them as monkeybars - if you look on the left, there are even ladders in the form of rings protruding from the wall that you could use to climb up there to access them.

even these frame things look like they could be used for some kind of physical workout/climbing situation.

on the table to the left it looks like piles of big coins, fitting for a Lord of Fortune. elsewhere in the room behind the weights bench it looks like there might be some gold bars. in the background is a hammer leaned against a crate.

this crate has her color scheme - the tealy hue, gold pieces and red ropes.

a Qunari symbol, in drapery that has her color palette, the teal with the red ropes. btw, comparing this and its location to the new screenshot of Taash, I think that this banner is the thing in the background that I was talking about here (the "something blue-green"):

in the background to the right is something blue-green with what looks like red rope hanging off it. a belonging of Taash’s? maybe this shot is from a quieter moment, somewhere in the Lighthouse, maybe her space? if you look here (Arlathan, the ruins are ancient elven), it has the same sort of repeating zigzag patterns on the same sort of arch-like curves as here. it makes me think that this shot is set in a room with ancient elven architecture. (and the Lighthouse was Solas’, so it would have ancient elven design).

If you look at the banner with a wider crop you can even see the "arch-like curves" with the zigzag patterns that she's standing in front of in the new screenshot. this area has fire to the left of the arch, which would cast the warm firey glow you can see from stage-left in the new Taash screenshot. so it looks like in the new Taash screenshot she was standing somewhere around here:

And that my guess of the setting of the new Taash screenshot was correct. :D

crate of some kind of weaponry or bones, including a map with a knife I imagine you'd use to mark spots on it with. :) piratey vibe.

clever room design btw, it has the vibe of belowdecks/the bowels of a ship.

horned statue or carving, like an ogre.

Top: the silver shield-like things on the wall have the same sort of scale-mail appearance as Taash's field armor. Bottom: this thing reminds me of a boat in shape. like a small fishing boat or something.

I wonder why Taash has a Grey Warden shield and an eluvian in her room? maybe the shield is just general decor (like the Fereldan banner in Bellara's room? unless Bellara is from Ferelden??). maybe the eluvian ties into why she apparently has some involvement and a strong interest in a main story mission set in the far reaches of Arlathan Forest, as described by Corinne Busche during the second Discord Q&A? -

"I was out in Arlathan, actually doing, on my way to do a main story mission, and I get to the far reaches of Arlathan Forest, and I already knew that Taash wanted to help me with some of the challenges of that arc. Well, Taash is right there waiting for me, so I actually chose to instead like, ah, Taash seems impatient, I’m gonna actually jump on that story arc right now instead of what I intended to do"

And what is this? Looks like a sun or an owl. ^^

I ran out of image allowance on this post so I'll put the rest in another post!

[Link to Part 2]

[lovelandfrogispookybear]

20: D-neD

Otto's pov

We make it back to home. The girl who I found trapped in her mind is layed down on a bed, and everybody goes to talk to her, even Eddie. I am by myself, and I decide I want to go on an adventure. In a normal day, from what Eddie tells me, it would be dark soon. But it is almost always dark here anyway, and I will be able to know my way. Especially if this really is like over there as it is over here.

I wear a white sweater, sweet Joyce gave it to me. I am still wearing Steve's pants and shirt, and my pinchy boots I remember having for forever. I have my red glasses and a lighter I found in the pants pocket, and that should be enough if anything goes poorly. I walk out the door.

I go down the same road I ran away down last time. Except instead of going to my old home, I decide to take some other looks. I go into some trees, I would like to say I recognize them but I don't ever remember exploring this part of town. Vines creep everywhere, but I just step right over them and ignore them. I look upwards, seeing the sky through the shriveling trees. In the far off, I can hear radio statics and people talking. I want to investigate that, but Eddie said to avoid anything "milytary", and this sounds like that. I keep walking forward.

"Ah!" I fall down onto the ground. I do not trip over vines, so this must be different. I turn around, and look at what is on the ground.

It is a pile of sticks, taken over by vines a long time ago. There are torn papers with color and blankets and toys all over the ground. I wrestle a wooden board from the vines, and try to read the fadey writing.

"Cas-tle... biers?" I've heard that last word. I need to get back home.

Eddie's pov

Otto pops up from behind the couch.

"Hello Pipsqueak!" I ruffle her hair.

"Ah, Otto, we meet again!" Hopper waves. Everyone else must still be in the other room.

"Say hi to Hopper," I nudge her. She waves reluctantly.

"Him and I go way back," Hopper explains. Otto nods.

"Eddie, what does the word 'biers' mean?" Otto rolls over onto the couch and fiddles with one of the pins on my (newly hand cleaned) vest.

"Byers? Well, that's Joyce, Will's, and Jonathan's last name," Hopper explains. "Why?"

"Nothing," Otto bounces up and down. "Just asking."

Robin and Steve, followed by Murray, walk out of the hall. They're all carrying armfuls of bedding and pillows.

"Everyone can grab from here, and find anywhere they want to sleep," Steve says.

"Tomorrow, we can take a trip to my warehouse, I have cots and sleeping bags there," Murray says as he drops the sheets and pillows on the floor. I sit up, and walk over to the pile. I root through it until I find some sheets I like, and drag them back over to the couch.

"If you wanna sleep there kid, I'd hang tight. I'm going to cook something up for dinner, so it might not be the quietest place to sleep," Murray walks into the kitchen.

"No worries, I go out like a rock." I turn to Otto. "I'm going to sleep, and odds are I won't wake up until tomorrow. Be good, eat some food that isn't Harrington's 15 dollar raw steak, and get good sleep. Goodnight Buggo." I ruffle Otto's hair, and turn over to fall asleep.

Otto's pov

"You want risotto?" Murray asks me. I don't have a know what reesotoh is, but I am hungry. I nod, and he plops a spoonful of something brown into my bowl. I take a handful of it, and gobble it up. It is very good.

"Uh, you want a spoon?" Hopper asks me. I shake my head, hands are better for eating. Everybody looks at me then looks at their own food as I continue eating with my hands.

"Just let her eat," Will takes a spoonful of his food. Everybody begins to gobble up their food too.

"So, Otto is it? How did you find this lovely lot?" Murray asks. I look upwards to him, and

Robin pushes a napkin towards me.

"Things that happened," I mumble through my last mouthful of food. I don't want to explain it, when Eddie wakes up he can. I grab my bowl, and get up. Like I saw people do when I came back earlier, I set it down by the sink. Using napkins and the sink, I clean my hands off. Now what to do. I want to go to sleep near Eddie because he is really all I know here, but I am not tired. Maybe I should figure out what the Castle is. And then I will grab the fresh white blanket, and go to sleep.

As for the Castle, I will start with Joyce. She seems like someone worthy of a Castle.

"Joyce?" I ask, tugging on her coat. She turns around.

"Yes sweetheart? What's up?" Her eyes are soft.

"What is Castle Byers?"

Her face rumples into confusion, but smooths out again after a moment.

"You know what? That is a question for my boy Will. You ask him when he's done eating, okay?" Joyce answers. I nod, and skip over into the living room to wait.

Will's pov

"Otto? My mom said you had a question for me?" I sit down next to her.

"Yes. What is Castle Byers?" Her eyes cut right through my memories. I look at her, trying to figure out how she knows what that is and why she's even asking.

"Castle Byers?" Mike walks over. "We should visit it sometime! It's been a while since I've been out there!"

"Um, haha, yeah! Good idea!" Will laughs. "How about you go help El clean up dinner, yeah?"

"Um, okay?" Mike looks at me oddly, and walks towards El.

"What that all was about?" Otto asks curiously.

"Want to take this conversation into a different room?" I stand up quickly, and motion to the hallway. Mom gives me an odd looks as I usher Otto into one of the bathrooms, and I smile weakly.

"I destroyed Castle Byers a year ago!" I whisper-shout. "I got in a fight with Mike, and I... I tore it down. With a baseball bat."

She stares at me blankly, sits on the floor, then opens her mouth to speak.

"Why fight. If you like?"

"It's... it's more complicated than that." I sit down next to her, and bury my head in my knees.

"I know complicated," Otto says, grabbing the lighter again. She flicks it , illuminating the room.

"I... I wanted to play DnD. It's one of my favorite things to do-"

"Dned?"

"D - N - D. It's a game. Anyways, I wanted to play it and nobody else did. Hardly Mike or Lucas or anyone wants to play it now it seems. And I tried to get them to play, but nobody wanted to. I got upset, because it seems now all either of them think about is their girlfriends. I stormed out, and Mike followed me, and hit me with-"

"He HIT you?" Otto asks angrily, beginning to stand up.

"No, no! Not like that. I mean what he said was unexpected."

"Well, what he say?"

"He... he said that it wasn't his fault I don't like girls, and it just took me by surprise. I ran off, and got mad, and broke Castle Byers."

"Yes... but what was it? I know a castle is a big huge rock house with lots of colors and riches-"

"It wasn't that kind of castle, it was just a little fort. Something I could hang out in, color, read, be to myself."

"A fort..." Otto nods ominously. She stands, nods at me, and walks out,

[thefinalwitness]

thinking about her a lot so she gets a rework of her favorite ascian form (a much, MUCH younger empress of garlemald). the fadey parts on her arms and legs are tattoos she can magically conceal while changing forms, but the void scar on her left arm persists in any of her forms. :)c

[anonsally]

Day 3 in Rome

We had breakfast with the in-laws and then saw them off.

We were sorry to see them go, but we'd enjoyed spending some time with them, and we probably won't see them again for at least a year, so it was great that we were able to fit it in.

However, we were staying another few days in Rome.

We headed to the center of Rome and went to one of the Capitoline museums. We only saw a small fraction of it, but there were some very interesting archaeological items. After a little while, I got sort of fadey so I ate a very mediocre sandwich in the museum cafe. The original bronze she-wolf and baby Romulus and Remus were in the museum, and we had some great views of the Roman Forum.

Eventually it was too hot. We decided to acknowledge that we wouldn't get to see as much as we would like because the weather wasn't cooperating. So we went back to the air-conditioned hotel to rest until dinner.

We had reserved at a splurgy restaurant, where we ate an exquisite several-course tasting menu; my favorite course was perhaps the vegetable "ceviche" involving corn, sweet potatoes, radishes, and passionfruit.

[seiun-glows]

Wait ok— im minecraft obsessed, so ima put this into minecraft perspective for fun:

(Format—- effect: [in game] what I equate it to irl)

Slowness: [decresed walking speed] having to walk slower cause of pain

Mining fatigue: [decreases mining attack speed] having to slow down cause heart rate got too high

Instant damage: [damages living entities] IBS flare (they come on pretty sudden for me)

Nausea: [wobbles and warps the screen] either “fadey” (what my partner use to refer to as fainting because its less- mentally jaunting to try to intake for us) or reaaaaally nauseated

Blindness: [impairs vision] stood up too quick (or stretched)

Hunger: [increases food exhaustion] eating everything but endless hunger nausea

Weakness: [decreases melee damage] flare up/body feels like a weight

Poison: [inflicts damage over time; cant kill] migraine

Wither: [inflicts damage over time; can kill] migraine that went too far, or infections of any kind

Levitation: [floats affected entitity upwards] probably fadey or didnt eat - or went in an elevator

Darkness: [darkens players screen] probably passed out or close to

Being chronically ill is like having a curse where every 4 hours you get a random status effect, and most of which are debuffs.

Also you only have 1 action per day and long rests heal 2 hp. You're cooked.