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Maybe if you wanted chronic pain/illness individuals to want to live, you shouldnt call it eternal slumber. Life sucks at baseline but you are telling me that I can not live AND get some restful sleep?!?!

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Damn that's a big route!

Chapter up! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/collateral-damage/list?title_no=351232

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Damn that's a big route!

Chapter up! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/collateral-damage/list?title_no=351232

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Next DA FAN-tasy character coming along. They have given me the most trouble so far!

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My partner thinks I'm an idiot and I'd have to agree.

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Maybe I got to ornery in my last scheduling call, cause now the medical services hold music stops every few minutes to let me know how super uncool it would be to bring a weapon to the doctors.

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Working on the next character!

New Fanpanion for DA

Callio the Tevinter General

Born in the outskirts of the Qun's territory, Callio was raised by the Tamrassan. He was a boisterous child, who was cared for, until he showed an affinity for magic.

Like the Qun dictates, one with magic is a Saarebas (dangerous thing) and must be controlled by an Avaarad. He wanted to serve the Qun but, when he saw a Saarebas for the first time, he watched his future be dragged away in chains.

When his Avaarad was chosen, a child around his age, Callio was brought to the church to begin the rite of passage. As the thread pierced his face and pulled through, he knew he was a failure to the Qun. Callio released a torrent of magic, right as the war drums of the Tevinter army sounded.

The Tevinter army took him in with open arms and anointed him Callio.

He would serve with the army for decades in Seheron close to his home town. Callio joins the team as his admiral had commanded, after Callio injured his arm in a battle. Many in Tevinter do not want to see their way of life disappear and are willing to set aside differences to assure victory....for now.

Callio sees the world as neutral but, is grateful to the empire that saved him from a life in chains. He is stoic with a penchant to treat everyone like a soldier in the field.

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Gotta love when your brain decides that THIS corner panel of a boot will be my magnum opus.

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More things should have a with-a-sword option.

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Actually, getting back on my dragon age bullshit.

Not only was BioWare afraid of their audience (because they can’t tell the difference between bad faith internet troll moralizing and genuine attempts to critique and interact with fiction) BioWare is ALSO afraid of the story THEY wrote.

They won’t touch Anders or the Achitect, they won’t touch the very complicated Qunari situation (which made the already racist portrayal *worse*), and they won’t touch the intelligent darkspawn, and instead turn them into regular ass zombies (complete with “you turn into one if they bite you” which is NOT how it works in any other game and is straight up cowardly compared to the hell the blight was before).

If you’re this afraid of the content in your game, maybe you just shouldn’t make the game.

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Me when I'm running out of ways to say penis in a smut scene

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I really wish people would understand that 'dragon age game' means something that has the right spirit or vibe not the exact same game.

Like 'DAV is a dragon age game. Yall just have nostalgia glasses.' But no. Thats so reductive. The other games, have the lore, companion interactions and dynamics, character writing and moral complexity that made them feel like a Dragon Age game. Every game leaned into different aspects and had plenty of differences but they all felt DA.

Veilguard is like the Disney version of DA.

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i dont remember the post i saw or who made it so this doesnt count as a vague but 'actually it's good bioware retconned the agents of fen'harel because it would've been Bad Representation to have an antagonistic faction made up of the in-universe oppressed minority' well no it was straight up cowardice and the refusal to grapple with the reasons why marginalized peoples might come to believe their best recourse for a world that wants them dead top to bottom is fundamentally changing the nature of the world in a way that, yes, may read as apocalyptic to those currently in power, but the alternative is for the forgotten to continue slowly bleeding out to sustain their comfort

Not that bioware could have landed that but don't pretend it's More Nuanced not to even try. and it's literally just narratively stupid as hell

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Chapter Update!

Need first arc outfits of course~

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Nobody who types something like this out and posts it has any business lecturing anyone on using their brain.

I get it, you don't want to actually engage with the critiques because it scares you to think that maybe, just maybe, you spent 60-70 bucks on a mediocre game and maybe a giant company used "representation" as a device to sell you a half baked project. And it's much, much easier to be a condescending douche who uses social issues as props and terms you genuinely don't understand than to acknowledge that.

It is not unreasonable to expect either consistency in the lore or at least have the inconsistencies explained with more than "because Blight!" It is not unreasonable to expect ACTUAL roleplaying in a role playing game. The game doesn't allow roleplaying. Even the devs said they didn't want to "force people to role play" in a ROLEPLAYING GAME. It is not unreasonable to expect a sequel game in a series with established lore to actually connect to the lore.

I am begging you to either ACTUALLY USE YOUR BRAIN and engage with the critiques instead of snidely dismissing them as "surface level" and "pulled from YouTube" OR just go and enjoy your game and stop being douchebags to people who do not like it. No one is forcing you onto the Veilguard Critical tag. No one is forcing you to read anything. You're not going to bully people into liking this.

Furthermore, half of you fuckwits have been telling us to "turn our brains off" and now we're not using our brains? Pick one. Either way, you sound like a stupid, insecure prick.

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Man it's been a crazy week.

(It's only Wednesday)

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New Fanpanion for DA

Callio the Tevinter General

Born in the outskirts of the Qun's territory, Callio was raised by the Tamrassan. He was a boisterous child, who was cared for, until he showed an affinity for magic.

Like the Qun dictates, one with magic is a Saarebas (dangerous thing) and must be controlled by an Avaarad. He wanted to serve the Qun but, when he saw a Saarebas for the first time, he watched his future be dragged away in chains.

When his Avaarad was chosen, a child around his age, Callio was brought to the church to begin the rite of passage. As the thread pierced his face and pulled through, he knew he was a failure to the Qun. Callio released a torrent of magic, right as the war drums of the Tevinter army sounded.

The Tevinter army took him in with open arms and anointed him Callio.

He would serve with the army for decades in Seheron close to his home town. Callio joins the team as his admiral had commanded, after Callio injured his arm in a battle. Many in Tevinter do not want to see their way of life disappear and are willing to set aside differences to assure victory....for now.

Callio sees the world as neutral but, is grateful to the empire that saved him from a life in chains. He is stoic with a penchant to treat everyone like a soldier in the field.