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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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Emma Greenwell as MANDY MILKOVICH

SHAMELESS US S03E05 - The Sins Of My Caretaker

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people without any whimsy scare me. why are you like that. where are your trinkets.

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french kissing your lover with arguably slightly too much tongue — edward bluemel

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𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝙸𝚂 𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙰𝚈𝙰 𝙻𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙰𝙽 ?

NAME: lanaya lavellan. NAME SYMBOLISM: lanaya means "she who has given everything" & lavellan means "they who journey to a hopeful place". NICKNAMES: haludh, halu ( baby fox in elvish, childhood nickname ), won't answer to shortened versions of her first name. ALIAS': herald, herald of andraste, inquisitor, inquisitor first-thaw.

AGE: lanaya is 29 during inquisition, and 31 during trespasser and 40+ during veilguard. BIRTHDATE: april 9th. BIRTHPLACE: free marches. SEXUAL & ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: bisexual, biromantic, leans a bit towards demisexual. GENDER IDENTITY: unlabeled. MAIN VERSE: dragon age timelines -- inquisition, post-trespasser + veilguard timeframe. WANTED CONNECTIONS: tbd. PLOTS: tbd.

SPECIES: dalish elf. CLASS: tempest rogue (+ archer), though was also born with some capabilities for magic but there were already so many mages in her clan and so few hunters that she opted to leave it alone, which also allowed her sister to eventually become the clans second to the keeper. WEAKNESSES: chronic pain from the anchor, varies. ABILITIES / SKILLS: archery, tracking, animals, survival, swordsmanship, knowledge of wild herbs and plants, tactician skills. OCCUPTION: hunter, adventurer, inquisitor.

FACE CLAIMS: game models. tehya elam (20s). no age accurate face claim atm. EYES: golden-brown. HAIR: ginger, long, curly under humidity. she almost always wears it up during inquisition, but post it's worn more freely, curls are let loose. BUILD: tbd. HEIGHT: 5'6. NOTABLE FEATURES: tanned skin, covered in freckles from head to toe, full lips, wide nose. CLOTHING STYLE: TATTOOS: as a hunter and an archer she chose a vallaslin inspired by ghilan'nain. it had deep importance to her. allowed to be removed by solas. PIERCINGS: earlobes only. SIGNATURE SCENT: forests, dirt, pine, florals, rain on cement, the slightest hint of metal, old ruins, moss.

MENTAL: ptsd. PHYSICAL: loses her forearm when the mark gets uncontrollable (+ saves her life by getting it removed by solas), had a new hand/forearm made for her by dagna, phantom limb at times, still deals with chronic pain from the mark but she's never sure if it's in her head or truly physical. ALLERGIES: none. SLEEPING HABITS: restless, frequently takes midnight walks to calm her mind. SOCIABILITY: could be considered high but it's all a mask and part of the inquisitor persona. BODY TEMPERATURE: warm. ALCOHOL USE: socially, doesn't love the taste.

WORLD SLATE. [ please note that i will most likely use a writing partners world slate instead of my own !! i prefer to meet in the middle instead of using 100% of my own. also a lot of the options change characters and if mine isn't what a mutual uses i don't want to force anything on them. the world slate is under the cut in the main blogs pinned. ]

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𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴𝚂.

DRAGON AGE : INQUISITION .

MAIN :

events of inquisition, including the time between inquisition and trespasser. self explanatory. see the pinned for most of the world slate choices, but most is verse dept.

TRESPASSER :

the events of trespasser. self explanatory. she vows to redeem solas and save him from himself.

BETWEEN TRESPASSER + VEILGUARD :

canon divergents. this is a somewhat miscellaneous or wip verse, as i’m still working on what she does during those eight years and there’s not much to go off of. this works well with solas or inquisition members — she’s actively searching for solas to stop him from tearing down the veil and releasing complete chaos. there’s plenty of potential for the dynamic between solas and lanaya to become complex and messy. the inquisition has been “ disbanded “ in that it’s kept much, much smaller ( leliana, dorian, cullen, josephine, varric, harding, charter — to name a few ) and not many know they’re still active. lanaya is at the head of the search for solas, but it’s not always known or common knowledge. they make people think the inquisitor is off doing other things.

DAI : COMPANION VERSE :

after clan lavellan is wiped out ( also works if they aren’t ), lanaya will be found by the inquisition and will join, regardless of the actions to get there. she hesitantly offers her skills to the inquisition, but does it due to wanting to help close the breech and end corypheus. does not believe the inquisitor is andraste. if inquisitor is an elf, they can be cousins or even siblings. may have a romance with solas behind the scenes, can also romance a non-lavellan inquisitor ( or any of the canon companions apart from sera ). her approvals include being kind to refuges, animals, nature, spirits, mages, respecting elvish history ( no disapprovals in questioning the dalish or being critical of them ), letting her talk about nature and animals, being able to not kill a hostile animal. in haven she can be found by the horses, in skyhold shes in the library with dorian.

DRAGON AGE : THE VEILGUARD . [ please note that I have mixed feelings on the inquisitors lack of involvement in the game as a whole, especially regarding solas. i will eventually write more about what she’s actually doing but do know that she was a driving force in finding solas with the plan to redeem him. she splits her time, but leaves the south to her allies who she feels can handle such large duties — her priority was solas and then switches to her eleven gods ].

COMPANION VERSE :

after the first meeting with rook, lanaya will offer her skills and knowledge to the team with an option to be fully recruited as part of the team. once adjusted, she can be found in the music room. more tbd. she will also give out quests in relation to the inquisition, elves, dark spawn, venatori and helping out whichever city is not saved. she's more of an advisor than a full companion.

CANON COMPLIANT :

lanaya is protecting the south alongside her inquisition allies. she's one of the few forces that's keeping the south together, and it's struggling. they've retaken skyhold from the dark spawn and have set it up to house and feed anyone who's lost their home or is in need of shelter and a bed.

AU : FADE PRISON : REQUEST ONLY.

having joined varric and the others on the hunt to stop solas' ritual, lanaya got caught up in it all and got absorbed into the prison alongside him. she escapes also alongside him or alongside rook. she's unable to escape on her own due to her own guilt surrounding clan lavellan.

AU : BLOOD LINK : REQUEST ONLY.

alternative of the above, the inquisitor is part of a three-way blood link that connects rook, solas ... and lanaya. yet another " wrong place, wrong time ". she has a real knack for that.

AU : ROOKQUISITOR .

lanaya is rook. wip.

POST - VEILGUARD.

lanaya joined solas in the fade, not willing to let him go alone. likely for solas rpers. unsure about the details right now.

DRAGON AGE ( COMPANION VERSE, DAO, DA2 ).

clan lavellan is camped out along the free marches but are at risk of being wiped out. they are attacked, accused of being a plague to the free marches. x group of companions will walk right into the fight — if they help, lanaya, the head hunter, will ask for more help in finding out where the bandits and rumors have come from. if they help further ( regardless of potential outcomes ), lanaya will join the group and will be grateful of their attempt to help her clan, even if it isn’t successful.

GENERAL FANTASY.

lanaya is one of the best, if not the best hunters of clan lavellan. they travel across the free marches, typically settling on the outskirts and nestle by the woods. they deal with humans at times but not often, humans are more violent and ignorant of the clan than not. could be flexible for any misc dragon age or fantasy verse that isn’t related to being a companion.

BALDURS GATE 3 .

lanaya is a wood elf ranger who's raised by druids -- who send her to spy on and follow the shar agents + githyanki and figure out what they're doing, which lands her kidnapped, with a tadpole in her head after a mishap with a magical orb on the ship that granted her abilities connected to the weave, included being able to open and close it at will while the mark on her hand kills her. she escapes on her own and can be found in the druid grove trying to reason with kagha. she'll join as a companion after what happens with kagda, no matter the results. you'll get approvals if you save arabella and find out the truth on kagda / try to reason with her. approvals include : being kind to the tieflings, being kind to animals, reading books, discovering ancient ruins. given that she's also infected, she will remain with the group but if they kill all the tieflings she'll leave anyways. also her character background is ‘ outlander ‘. she is a wood elf but also dalish, which is the same as it is in DA.

AU : ANCIENT ARLATHAN .

wip. once, lanaya was a spirit of curiosity and a close friend of ghilan'nain. then, she was changed for the worse and watched as her friend became the worst version of herself.

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𝙶𝚄𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂.

01. THE BASICS. this blog is mutuals only, selective, divergent in some areas and medium - sporadic activity. if you are expecting a lot of replies then this might not be the blog for you! i also post a lot of ooc and headcanon posts, which i know isn't always everyone's cup of tea. you're more than welcome to not follow back or blacklist my ooc tag, which is OOC . ( very simple ). i am typically duplicate friendly and have a verse where lanaya is a companion, i love other inquisitors and lavellans and would love to figure out a way to write with them all, if you're also dupe friendly. but i won't follow first just in case you're uncomfortable. if you don't follow back within a few days i will unfollow. i understand some take time to follow back but i'd rather not accidentally interact with your blog when we're not mutuals and you're mutuals only, it's kinda embarrassing ngl. if you unfollow, please softblock or hardblock. i am also going to attempt to keep this blog low stress and keep the follower amount lower so if enough time passes with no interactions ( ic / ooc / reactions to posts ) i may unfollow. i am also not entitled to follow every blog my mutuals make and you also don't have to follow all of my blogs! especially if it's a fandom i don't know about or i just don't have a character that goes with them ( and vice versa ). if you have multiple blogs i'm also entitled to softblocking any of them and remaining mutuals on others, especially if as time goes by i don't see interactions happening.

02. PSA. many of my characters are strong and don't like to be backed into a corner. don't provoke them unless you want to deal with it ic. and please don't woobify lanaya. she IS naive at times and TRUSTING, but she's thirty+ in main verses. she's strong and capable and has a naive wonder about herself. both are true at the same time. she is not a child nor has she been one in a long time.

03. MAINS AND AFFILIATES. i mostly practice mains and affiliates but i don't do exclusives. affiliates is someone who's intertwined in my characters development and characterization but aren't exclusives. i'm not against having multiple mains of the same character, as i see every version and dynamic different since everyone may see said character in a different way! however, i don't get in the habit of " collecting " muses, since i also personally don't like the feeling of being " collected ".

04. STAR WARS + MARVEL PSA. i have been in and out of both rpc's for awhile and i'm really not here for drama. i just want to write. i am a bit more selective with star wars blogs, just due to swrpc. i will be picky about empire and first order muses and kylo ren blogs. i am very anti reylo as a romantic dynamic, just as a warning. i don't mind if i see it on the dash but i'd like for it to be tagged. mcu blogs i'll also be somewhat picky about but thats mostly in related to the fcs that make me uncomfortable. i am also very against whitewashed maximoffs, hydra and sabra blogs. if you don't explicitly state / make it clear your maximoff muses are romani then i might be a bit hesitant to follow first, since i've been surprised in the past to find what i thought was a comic-based but they used the mcu fcs.

05. PERSONAL BANNED FCS/FANDOMS/CHARACTERS. mcu!maximoffs, rdj!tony stark, rdj!doom, scarjo!black widow, chris pratt!peter quill, james marsden!scott summers, gina carrano!cara dune, rosario dawson!ahsoka tano. won't follow anyone who writes hp characters, multimuses will be on a case by case basis. any and all hydra muses ( as in WILLINGLY being part of hydra, this does not count people who were brainwashed and controlled, like the winter soldier for example ), hydra!cap, n*zi affiliated muses, billy hargrove, harry potter muses.

06. SHIPPING. i loooove shipping, i love ships !! and most of the time, it doesn't take much for me to ship something but i am usually a bit hesitant to message first, just due to normal anxieties and not being sure if someone is as interested as i am (i'm even kinda hesitant with shipping calls ... i just get nervous, okay!!). chances are if you ship it, i do too!! or the idea of it!! i just won't do any weird ships. i ship my lavellan with solas but i will never pressure someone into it!! ( i'm actually quite hesitant to even suggest it to people because i'm shy/anxious about being perceived as force shipping or pressuring someone into it without meaning to ) i'd rather build the dynamic and if we feel like they're better as friends or a " never happened but there's lots of tension " then that's okay too! i also ship lanaya with other inquisitor characters, like josephine and cullen. but she's such a lover girl that it's easy to imagine her with most of the characters. also super open to shipping with characters not in inquisition -- though by the time of veilguard, lanaya is in her forties, so said character would have to be in their thirties at the minimum. inquisition era is a bit different, so twenty-five is the minimum there. i'm also okay with shipping with multiple versions of a character. like i said above, there's so many different concepts and takes on a character that if i were to ship with more than one solas or (insert character name here) the dynamic may be completely different from the other one.

07. ACTIVITY. i am a neurodivergent person who deals with depression, anxiety, working full time, etc so i'm not always on. i don't even regularly do replies even though i want to, so sometimes it's just not going to happen. please me patient with me. if you genuinely need me to be consistently active this might not be the blog for you to follow and that's a-okay!! my reply lengths will also vary -- i absolutely can write a lot and used to write more novella but pre-indie i started cutting it down because my partners wrote less, but i'm looking to get back into writing longer replies. that being said, you never have to match length (of course don't reply with a one liner, but if i do multiple paragraphs i don't expect you to do the same or have the same energy).

08. NSFW AND TRIGGERS. i do not have triggers of my own but i will always try to tag them. my usual format is trigger cw or trigger //. i have a lot of mutuals so it's impossible for me to remember everyone's. if i ever forget just send a message on/off anon or dm me and i'll fix it asap!! nsfw content may also appear, including smut, but i am more selective about it. as a general rule, smut will never happen if a character is under 21 -- but given lanaya's age i won't ship with a character under 25 during DAI ( or write smut between them ) or 30s during DATV.

09. FREE PALESTINE. FREE GAZA. VERY ANTI-ZIONIST HERE. do not follow if you're pro-israel. free palestine!! also no homophobia, islamphobia, racists, tr*mp supporters, anti-semitism, transphobia, jkr supporters, etc etc. just don’t be weird.

note: I know a decent amount about dragon age but i've only been playing it since last year !! so i still don't know the entire world super well. i’ve also played through DA2, DAI and DATV at least once each. DAO refuses to work for me so i won't be playing it at this time (i also don't know much about the game aside for major plot points but i'm super open to learning about your characters/verses from that time frame and make a verse for lanaya there).