#izzalea

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Izzalea Trevelyan. Inquisitor. Warrior. Champion.

As the misfit youngest of five, Izzy was happy to claim her place in the Inquisition and bring glory to her name. But was the cost more than she could bare?

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Want to get better acquainted? Want inspiration for prompts? Just curious? Below are links to each lady’s filled prompts on Tumblr as well as general info and links to their stories on AO3.

Izzalea Trevelyan -- Champion Sword and Shield Warrior Inquisitor.

Aurora Monroe -- Non-Inquisitor Force Mage who works for the Inquisition. 

Abner -- Non-Inquisitor Assassin and Inquisition Agent.

Anne Branson -- Skyhold servant.

Ian Hawke -- Victorian Kirkwall AU 

My current prompt list is here, I will take prompts any time and they do not have to be from this list!

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Varric: Ok, folks, get together, let’s do this.

Elizabeth: I wanna be next to Aurora, I wanna be next to Aurora! *excitedly*

Izzalea: Very well, Tess, come between me and Aurora.

Alice: *Look at Izzy, looks at Abner* Nah! I wanna be between Rory and Abner!

Izzalea: ...

John: *looking up with heart eyes* I shall be next to you, my lady Trevelyan!

Varric: *facepalms*

This is a little “thank you / you rock” gift from me and @bloodmagespectre to the awesome @ladydracarysao3!

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Had my girls printed. I am so excited, they look so great! They feel real. Thanks again for your great work, @xla-hainex!!!

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Send me ‘voice’ and a line from my character’s canon (or of your own design) and I’ll voice act it as my character

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Izzalea Trevelyan

The Basics Age: 28 Ability: Champion Warior / Sword & Shield Personality: ESFJ Sexuality: Straight Face Claim:  Emanuela De Paula 

Pairings: Commander Cullen Rutherford

Flaws and Qualities

Prideful

Arrogant

Loyal

Prompts featuring Izzalea (Not including anything pre-ILS rewrite)

“Modern Night Club AU - Meeting Cullen” Izzalea & Cullen

[Izzy’s Main Fic: In Love, Serenity - AO3 Home]

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Don’t mind us. Just 4 women kicking ass and working together to stabilize Thedas.

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Izzy is so pretty... even when her face is covered in sweat and blood and weird shit, and when she’s tired and angry and aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!

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In Love, Serenity  

Chapter Thirty Four: Control & Careful Watch

Summary: A day has passed since the siege on Adamant. The Inquisitor stares into the camp of her surviving fighters and attempts to find something she can change…something she can make better…

Notes: This is a shortie, and the next one will be too, but I should be able to get 35 out sometime this week or weekend :) Thanks for your patience, and as always, I love your feedback. Don’t be shy, say hello! It helps give me the motivation to write this thing, knowing you’re there and learning what you’re thinking!

[Read Chapter 34 on AO3]  or  [Start from the Beginning]

-Izzalea-

Rich amber patterns move slowly across canvas as the desert sun casts its final evening glow on the Inquisition. Izzalea stands at the mouth of her large, central tent, eyes silently surveying the expansive camp around her. She watches smiles as soldiers embrace, celebrating their victory and rejoicing in the discovery that their friends survived. She watches downcast eyes and shaking heads as soldiers mourn the loss of those who did not.

Throughout the entire day of marching, she was congratulated and thanked for her victory. But it does not feel much like a victory. Not like this. Not with the hit Thedas has taken. The corners of her mouth weighted down, a deep pain in her chest, her mind filters back to Hawke’s sacrifice, and she stares off in the direction she knows her prison cart sits.

A hand comes from behind and lightly clutches her shoulder. Cullen stares into the camp beside Izzalea and holds her silence, waiting patiently.

After a few long moments, her voice cracks softly. “I still don’t think she should be locked up.”

Cullen’s strong hand slides down the inside of her arm, fingers finding hers and twining together. “She threatened to kill you. I know that you like her, but the woman is unhinged. It is not the first time she has stepped outside the boundaries of propriety, but it was surely the most severe.”

Izzalea drops her hand from his. “She had just lost the man she loves,” she says sternly, turning to stare into Cullen’s amber eyes, amber and soft like the light of the setting sun. The warmth of them trips her anger and she hesitates, feeling a tremor roll through her heart. The loss Abner endured… A loss Izzalea cannot fathom, staring into those soft, golden, lion eyes. “If something had happened to you… I… I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same.”

A somber smile glides across his face as his hands glide down her arms. “Keeping you safe is more important than whether or not you understand her motives, Izzalea.”

“If she wanted me dead, I’d be dead.”

Cullen’s brow furrows and his fingers squeeze her for a fraction of a second before he sighs a quick, frustrated sound. “Regardless, as long as she believes Hawke alive, we cannot guarantee that she won’t try to force your hand again. It’s best that she cools off under our control and careful watch.”

Izzalea scoffs. She turns her gaze back to camp, firelight peppering the canvas peaked horizon. “She’s locked in a cage. Are we letting her cool off? Or solidifying her hatred?”

Cullen’s thumb finds her chin and tilts it back to him. “Please trust me on this, Izzalea. I’m only looking out for your safety.”

Izzalea raises her hand to squeeze around those caring fingers. She attempts to smile, but the motions result in a thin pressed line, and she turns into her tent. Cullen follows by her side, but he falters and groans as he slides into the nearest chair. Izzalea kneels beside him, worry in her eyes, she inspects his clammy, pale skin. It is a state that he is in often, growing worse by the day, though he tries to deny it.

“Your withdrawals are worsening,” she says, reaching for a cloth to gingerly pat his forehead dry.

“I can endure.” The words attempt to sound confident, but the meaning is lost with his jaw clenched so tightly and his visible agony tremoring through his limbs.

“There must be something we can do.”

Cullen pinches the bridge of his nose and grunts through the wave of pain accosting in body. “I have a potion that Adaan put together back at Haven, the healers are good about mixing it when I need it.”

“Are you taking it?”

He smiles coyly for the briefest of moments, his stubbornness shining through the pain. “I’m not interested in replacing one substance with another. I try my best not to.”

Frustrated, Izzalea slumps fully to the ground in a huff. “There must be another way. Have you ever looked into it?”

“The Chantry is not partial to finding ways for Templars to stop lyrium.”

Crossing her arms, determination washing over her as Izzalea’s own stubbornness gleams through. “Well… we aren’t the Chantry. They certainly made that clear, and now knowing that I was not sent by Andraste, I think that pretty much solidifies our separation. Perhaps the Inquisition can look into it. Perhaps there are more Templars who would like to stop, but are too afraid… Or the poor souls who also left the Chantry and are going mad, or worse, resorting to red lyrium and Corypheus.”

Cullen grimaces. “I wouldn’t know where to begin.”

Mind reeling and searching for an answer, Izzalea pauses and thinks. No matter what, they must find a way. At his current rate of deterioration, Cullen’s life is in jeopardy. And then is strikes her.

“Aurora.”

“Aurora? She… I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Cullen attempts to stand but slips back almost as quickly. Izzalea presses her hand upon his knee in a firm, voiceless command to stay .

“Why not? She’s certainly powerful, we’ve learned that. And I’ve heard her discussing research and theory with others while we’ve been in this Maker forsaken desert. She’s quite smart. Maybe she could figure it out. That is her role here anyway, a researcher…a thinker…a problem solver .”

“There are people here who wonder if she’s even safe to have freely walking the camp, let alone put to work on finding a way to remove lyrium from Templars ? Izzalea, that’s a dangerous combination.”

“Cullen.” The hand holding his knee squeezes him gently. “Listen to yourself. Aurora saved my ass back there. And then she saved the life of the Knight-Commander. I won’t have these superstitions about mages poison my Inquisition. I thought you knew better.”

A long frustrated and pain-filled sigh radiates through the golden haired man. A hand finds it’s way through his blonde locks - locks made ever the more curly by the heat and sweat of desert and stressful living - and then moves to the back of his neck, an attempt to rub away his shame. “I… I know… But I also know what is whispered in my ranks. People fear her, Izzalea.”

“Well, they shouldn’t. If not for her, I’m not sure we would have taken the east wall. The Templar wall, Cullen.” She rises to her feet and paces a small line through the dirt. Smacking her fist into the palm of her left hand, she continues, “We need to change the narrative. We need to come together.”

“What are you saying?”

Bending over the chair where her love sits, hands on either armrest, and fire igniting in her green eyes, she stares into his. “I want you to ensure none of your men whisper about what happened at Adamant. Everyone that was there. Everyone that saw what she did. They all need to agree to protect her. We owe her our lives.”

“That power is not something people will ignore, and as people tell the tale, she will only get more powerful. The story will warp until she is an abomination working for the Inquisition,” he advises.

Izzalea shrugs and stands tall once again. “In that case… It didn’t happen.”

“What?”

“It didn’t happen. It may still drift around as a rumor, we can’t help that, but every soldier who witnessed it will deny it.”

“Izzalea…”

She swivels back to him, brows knitted in the center, stern power emanating from her voice. “That’s an order,” she says, crossing her arms. Chin high, she looks down at her Commander, awaiting his compliance.

Cullen glares back in return, but his code of conduct won’t allow him to push farther, no matter how scorned he may feel for her slamming him back in his place so suddenly. “…As you wish, Inquisitor.”

Izzalea softens again, remembering her goal for this entire thing. She crouches beside the sick man to which she is falling in love. The sick man for which she would do anything, if it meant saving his life. She reaches for Cullen’s hand, runs her thumb over his rough knuckles, and smiles coyly at him through her lashes.

“Trust me, Cullen. I’m only looking out for your safety.”

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TMI Tuesday: How/where did Abner get her tattoos? What is the one thing that Izzalea dislikes about Cullen? How does Aurora feel about her past now that she's found Barris?

Hi!! Thanks for the questions :)

How/where did Abner get her tattoos?

I may or may not talk about this in ILS, but it was something that happened while she was running around with Zevran. She admired his tattoos and talked to him about the markings her father sometimes painted on himself, and the Dalish tattoos her mother had. 

That ultimately lead to an intimate encounter wherein Zev drew markings on her body that she later had tattooed on as homage to both her mother and father <3

Thanks for asking, it’s a story that I have cannoned but never knew if I’d have the chance to tell it. Maybe I could do the actual scene in a one-shot or something at some point.

What is the one thing that Izzalea dislikes about Cullen?

She doesn’t like how he internalizes his thoughts. She wishes he would be more open about his heart/desires/wishes instead of being so serious and all-about-work so much. She wants him to be more forthcoming about his feelings so that maybe she won’t feel as vulnerable in sharing hers.

How does Aurora feel about her past now that she's found Barris?

She feels a bit raw and ashamed and really confused. She’d put up a barrier between herself and the world, and one look from him made it start to crumble. She feels ashamed about who she is, what her intentions were, and things she has done. That’s why she tried to stay away from him, but I think she will start to heal now that he has made it clear that none of that matters to him.

TMI Tuesday

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LOOK AT MY BABIES!!!!!!

I need an intervention....

          I can’t stop           

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Izzalea Trevelyan

Inquisitor Wardrobe

Your Worship | Travel | Halamshiral | Battle

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My Holy Trinity from In Love, Serenity

All three of my beautiful wonderful ladies as painted by @xla-hainex !!! I am SO HAPPY. Look at them! they turned out SO PERFECT.

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Questions for Inquisitor please (Izzy would be your only one, right?): 23, 25, 26, 27, 44

Thanks @kagetsukai! You’re right, she is the only one I write about. I also have Aoife and Fergus, but not in a ficing capacity :) Izzy is also the only one I have done a complete playthrough with

23. Which members of the Inquisition do they stand closest to? And why?

Izzy was closest to Cassandra, Sera (though that hasn’t been included in ILS), and Dorian. She and Cass became best friends right away, they have a similar drive and need to right the world. Sera cracks Izzy up, she loved her from day one, even though she didn’t understand what the heck was going on, she even joined the Red Jenny’s after the Inquisition disbanded. And Dorian, she thought he was great, she wanted him around all the time, loved his quips, desperately missed him when he went back to Tevinter.

25.  Name a person they respect.

Cassandra and Leliana, she really thought Cass would lead the way with Leliana right beside her. When they said she should do it, she was shocked and honored, and she took guidance from them very seriously. She truly respects and sought out their opinions of any major decisions.

26. Name a person they do not feel connected to as much.

Vivienne and Izzy never clicked. She was intrigued when she met her but started to keep her distance almost right away...there was an air to the woman that Izzy didn’t like.

27. Name a person they are critical or suspicious about.

Solas and Izzy had a very cold and suspicious relationship. It started out okay, but they quickly became at odds and barely spoke. She didn’t trust him, something seemed off but she didn’t know what. He even told her that he had no respect for her of her decisions during their one truly heated argument, and she accused him of not giving a shit about the elves.

However, toward the end they mended fences a little bit, and warmed up to each other, found some kind of mutual respect. By the end, Izzy was shocked at what he was and his plan. All of her worries about him suddenly made sense. But ultimately, she was determined to help him find another way, rather than destroy him. 

44. Which mineral does your Inquisitor consider the most beautiful?

DRAKESTONE she loooooooved the look of drakestone, she got allllllll decked out in it. Shiny, coppery, wonderful, pretty, DRAKESTONE

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10, 14, 31, 42, 50 for everyone you want to include please?

Thanks Mappsie! how about a different one for each question?

10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect?

Abner has never much thought about children. At first she hoped they wouldn’t come, when she was married, and then found out from the auger that they did not because she was barren. That was a blessing in her mind. She didn’t want to bring a child into that world.

However, I like to think of her and Rhaegar settling down way in the future, and adopting an older child. They will make great parents and their rascal of a daughter will one day lead a rebellion.

14. Do they have any specific memories of food/a restaurant/meal?

Once Eli was sitting down for a meal at a local tavern when a man was harassing a lady near by. He made a comment insulting the man’s intelligence and suggesting the man take her hints and fuck off. The man knocked Eli’s food on the floor with a snide response only to immediately find himself with a broken nose (when his head was smashed into the wooden bar top) and bruised jewels (when the lady then kneed him in the groin). That’s the night Eli met Isabela.

31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing?

Izzalea isn’t much of a drinker. If she does, it’s maybe a glass of wine to unwind, but not to get drunk. She will just kind of roll her eyes at you if you’re drunk or hungover. She doesn't have time for that nonsense.

42. What are their goals? What would they sacrifice anything for? What is their secret ambition?

Aurora’s goal is survival. Especially since the fall of the circles, she has been terrified that she will be killed or made tranquil by zealous or rogue templars. She thought she’d sacrifice anything for it, even the dignity of another...until she met Delrin and actually cared to not screw him over for her own personal gain...now she wants to keep him safe from her, and also finds herself being a lot more risky with her power than she’s ever been before.

Her secret ambition is to be ‘normal’ she doesn’t want to be different, she wants a normal life with a house, and a family...but she doubts she can ever have that...she can’t.

50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials?

He may not seem like it, but Rhaegar is very resourceful. He can survive just about anywhere if he puts his mind to it, it’s how he lived while on the run for a couple years. He doesn’t need much, because of his magical talent, and he can talk people into a lot of other things that he needs. 

All he really needs is his wit, his charm, his know-how, and his magic. Send him out with his armor and his staff, and he will find a way.

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Sexual Sunday (is it still Sunday where you're at?): 7, 8, 9, 11

It is not! but I don’t care ;) Thanks for the asks Kage. You didn’t specify who... so I will be brief with all three ILS girls ;)

7. What are your muse’s kink(s)?

Aurora: Pretty sure Sera would butt in here and yell out, “BEDDING KNIGHT-COMMANDERS!” But in all honesty - Being watched by her lover as she touches herself. He can look...but he can’t touch. 

Abner: Being outside. Just right there, in the open, check me out. Or hiding it in plain sight, like in a crowded marketplace or tavern.

Izzy: The thrill of two alphas... is that a thing? Like aggressive sex where they are both trying to be in control, no one is really submitting and it just gets....rough. Power struggle. A challenge. That and... the opposite. Softness. Slow. Intimate -- but she doesn’t know that.....yet.

8. Is your muse content with their breast/penis size?

Aurora sometimes wishes they were a little smaller...like when they swell and hurt once a month. Abner’s are small and she doesn’t care, they don’t get in the way. Izzy doesn’t think much about them, they’re average she guesses.

9. Is there anything your muse wants to change about their body?

Aurora is soft and curvaceous, but she likes how it makes her feel womanly under the strong hands of a man. But she does get a little jealous of some the the toned female bodies she sees in the Inquisition.

Abner is fine with who she is, she made her ‘faults’ her strengths.

Izzy hates being so tall sometimes (she’s like 6 feet and muscular, and broad). It works well in the battlefield, but she’s never had luck finding a man that could make her feel like what she thinks smaller women feel with a man... until she met Cullen. So while she would like a smaller frame, she needs to be large in battle, and she wants to intimidate...and now she has Cullen, so she’s good ;)