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Was thinking about how Lora is kind of overprotective over Zea, while Noel is like. Lets just say she will NOT be going easy on them during combat training. (tho i guess thats her being overprotective in her own way...)

anyway. it made me think of this meme

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Was thinking about how Lora is kind of overprotective over Zea, while Noel is like. Lets just say she will NOT be going easy on them during combat training. (tho i guess thats her being overprotective in her own way...)

anyway. it made me think of this meme

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sneek peek <3

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Memeguard dump

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Got tagged in a WIP thing by @captainmagpie-risha 👉👈 ty for giving me the opportunity to ramble a bit <3 I'm not a huge writer and i dont rly have any art wips at the moment, but i DO have a bit of this text that i dont think i'll finish ever/any time soon, so...may as well post what i do have

idk who to tag and im too awkward to ask, so if you see this n you want to do it, consider urself tagged💁‍♀️

Anyway. This is taking place during the 'broken circle' quest in DAO 👍 Noel is having a normal one

The Circle, undoubtedly, has seen better days. The smell of blood and burning flesh makes the air heavy and cloying, prodding at memories she keeps carefully buried. Bodies, both disfigured and not, litter the floor, laying in the narrow passages between the bunk beds that fill the apprentice quarters. The space, despite its grandiose size, feels crowded, suffocating.  Noel looks around, towards the walls and up. There, so far away you can barely see them - windows. Tiny and beyond anyone's reach. No way to see the sun, no way to let in fresh air.  She visited the Circle once before, with Duncan, on their way to Ostagar. She didn't care, then. She never thought about the mages much. Their worlds were so far away from each other, so completely different, she never expected they would intersect.  And yet.  She looks at her companions, at Lora, crouching by the body of someone she probably knew. Nikolai has his hand on her shoulder, quietly speaking words of comfort. He's always been the gentlest of the three of them, despite the odds.  Lora isn't crying. The expression on her face is caught somewhere between grief and fury - a mix Noel knew all too well.  This was her home. The only family she ever knew. This was, she confessed one evening, under the stars and by the fire, a cage she was never going to be put into again.  Yet even in its destruction, it hurts her. Noel hates this building, its towering walls, its rules, its cruelty.  She thinks of Lora, forced to live her whole life with no space to herself, with no way to even see the sky - always performing, conforming, scrutinized by men in full armor, always knowing in the back of her head that it is either this or death.  The kind of life after which The Joining feels like a mercy.  She almost wants to laugh at the fact that the templars are surprised it ended up like this. Even a rabbit will claw you open, given enough reason to.  And, Maker, there were plenty of reasons given.  Noel can feel a familiar anger rise inside her, gripping the hilts of her daggers in lieu of strangling the templars left back at the entrance. She would burn this place to the ground, if she could.  But it isn't her leash to cut.  Throwing one last glance towards the distant windows, she rejoins the group.

also this bit a while later just because idk. I love Noel for her (feral)dog-like devotion. She is not a person of half-measures. If she loves, then she loves deeply!!!

Out of all the templars they've met so far, Noel thinks she hates this one the most.  She almost pitied him, at first, before he opened his mouth and started crying about his unfortunate infatuation with Lora. As if he ever really knew her. As if he had any right.  She saw what her mage was like at the Circle, briefly, when they first met. A perfect example of a model student, pristine robes and not a hair out of place. An easy object of affection. A mere shadow of the real thing. 

art repost just for funsies <3

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i find it really funny when people complain about like...'oh, they have [insert thing here] in the game that is set in medieval times when IN THE REAL WORLD that thing hasnt been invented yet in that time period!!!'

its like. well. you see. we are playing pretend in a fantasy world. there are dragons. i dont think it's meant to mirror real life development stages. its tuoys. were playing tuoys.

Like, no harm done here! but maybe you need to relax a little...

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I remembered recently that I gave Zea the best tattoo in the world, so...

I'd like to think that Davrin also likes nugs :) (based on the sheer amount of them that this man carves on the daily)

closeup under the cut ✌

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the funniest (not really) part of that last art is that ive been trying to wrangle this joke into existence for half of the goddamn day and i only managed it when i fully abandoned the OG sketch. such is life sometimes. anyway. here's a half-finished zea from that OG attempt bcs ithink they are so cutes

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I remembered recently that I gave Zea the best tattoo in the world, so...

I'd like to think that Davrin also likes nugs :) (based on the sheer amount of them that this man carves on the daily)

closeup under the cut ✌

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and then they went back to the lighthouse n slept for like 2 days. in an actual bed <3

But yeah, i think Rook will have the Crash Of The Century after it's all over

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AND zea's scars on the second pic. but thats not as visible so i guess im just. not gona go back and fix it. my GOD

I FRUCKIGN FORGOT TO DRAW DAVRINS VALLASLIN

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I FRUCKIGN FORGOT TO DRAW DAVRINS VALLASLIN

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and then they went back to the lighthouse n slept for like 2 days. in an actual bed <3

But yeah, i think Rook will have the Crash Of The Century after it's all over

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no character or plotline will ever fully explore an issue from every point of view, and that's okay. art can and should be a starting point for a discussion rather than seen as a 'one size fits all'. each and every person who experiences a story will see it in a different way, will pick up on things that someone else didn't, and might find a viewpoint that speaks specifically to them that even the creator themselves didn't intend.

art is a conversation, not a textbook. it is not supposed to tell you a fact, but rather show you an inkblot test and ask what you see.

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ok sorry for oc posting (not really) but OGUHGHG NOELLLLLLLLL

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what do you think theyre talking abt. wrong answers only

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Dragon Age Veilguard they can never make me hate you