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in her DMs giving away my weaknesses with reckless abandon

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sorry if this is an annoying question cause i'm guessing you probably spoke about this before but why did trisha leave duncan? and where did she leave him/how did he become a grey warden?

it is impossible to annoy me with oc questions literally don't worry. i made a whole post detailing the situation here but the tldr is she was in this middle of this urgent chase in tevinter and basically dropped him off at a porch somewhere because he wouldn't stop crying and she panicked. had second thoughts and came back for him but someone was already picking him up and he was giggling (never did that ever) so she just. left. good mother moments.

in the funny shared origins worldstate i have with @fadeling he basically gets picked up by helia (her tabris) after basically strongarming her into letting him become a warden ❤️💔

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i dont have any good screenshots of fenris and aniera. but ueah

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Ok but seriously if you'll allow me to get extremely ill and talk about feniera in a serious capacity I do really like the interaction where hawke tells him he must've been frightening to everyone else and he responds in a tone of admiration, stating that none were like them. It's sooo..

Likely not really the intent behind how that red hawke line is written, but for aniera I had her say it. Not in an accusatory way. but with a sort of inquisitiveness. Fear and violence are how she understands the world, and she's hardly a perceptive person but she suspects that Fenris understands that too. And of course his response is in recognition to that; cutting right past the "yes they feared me" because of course they did. Both of them already know that. But you know what's more interesting to him? That Aniera wouldn't be. That he knows she could've been there and look at him the same way she looks at him now

So effectively what they're saying to each other is that I see that you aren't what a person is supposed to be, but I think you are something like me. we didn't get to be people. we're something else. [fails to continue talking about this seriously] game recognize game

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i broke alistair

for some reason a formalwear replacer mod i downloaded did this and it's my new favorite thing

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ok god fine. can't please anyone in this house 🙄

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father's day. i might finally write that "alistair and duncan(finch) meeting for the first time" fic.

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finally my beautiful angel

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I'm curious, since you've talked about how you enjoy the themes of Inquisition but not the execution, how would you rewrite the main story?

honestly i think just by virtue of making it more self-aware you would immediately fix like 75% of it's biggest issues. i mean the game already has sooooo much going for it in theory just by having it revolve around religion and faith and the way politics are inherently linked to both of those. i would love if the game actually dealt more with the implications of the inquisition being a theocratic military power that has to negotiate the fact that it's a) not officially part of the chantry anymore but still perpetuating the chantry's agenda and b) that there is literally no way it can ever hope to actually exist as a politically neutral force in the world. i think it would be very very easy to take the plot of inquisition and reframe it in such a way that the inquisition itself is the antagonist. not the inquisitor, not the advisors, but the very concept of a theocratic military force is inherently antithetical to the ideals you're trying to uphold. you cannot be both a force for peace and order and also a paramilitary organization with no oversight or accountability.

you know how dragon age origins is only kind of about the blight. like the blight is absolutely the big event that is driving all the major plot beats, but the game isn't really about fighting the archdemon. it's about the civil war that is going on in ferelden at the same time that happens to be creating the conditions under which the blight is allowed to fester. that's kind of what i think most people were expecting out of inquisition. a game that, in the most shallow and literal reading of it's premise, would technically be about closing the breach and killing the big bad guy, but would really be about the chantry schism that created the vacuum for someone to exploit in the first place. like the pieces were all There. we had the mage/templar war, we had that philosophical confrontation regarding the """true""" nature of spirits/demons and how much of it is perception, we had tevinter as a major player on the scene and a foil for the chantry's ideology and the way that gets taken advantage of. it was all there. but inquisition never really went for any of it. it introduced all this stuff and then the game just sort of. walks away? takes it completely at face value even despite those Liddol hints to a bigger picture.

and i know they kind of tried to fix this with the inclusion of trespasser and credit where it's due, trespasser DID address a LOOOOT of inquisition's most glaring shortcomings. it just. did it two years later in a short dlc. i want an actual version of the full game that goes into the actual meat of the chantry and all of its good and all of its bad. and i kind of? feel like? there WAS a version of that game somewhere in the blueprints? i mean i genuinely do not think it's possible to just accidentally stumble into all these hyper-specific plot beats right LOL like no matter how stupid you think bioware is you'd have to believe they're REALLY. REALLY. REALLY. REEEEEEAAALLLY stupid in order to believe that they never intended on any of that going anywhere. so it's not that i think the story is irredeemable, i think that like. somehow and for some reason a crucial element of its dna was removed, thus neutering its primary theme entirely and creating this hilarious oxymoron of a story that doesn't seem to realize its own irony

also i would make blackwall and cassandra bisexual.

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im not going to pretend i have no idea how it could possibly be like this but every time i see a post where cullen and alistair are talked about like theyre similar characters who have a lot in common it does kind of make me want to eat some glass

not to imply they have nothing in common. objectively they do. and i think if dragon age was good it wouldve been fair to consider them parallels. i'm not actually interested in writing a whole thing about the differences in the character and arcs of these two white blonde ex-templars because i dont Really care that much but let's make one thing clear.

cullen was a brown-noser teacher's pet while alistair would've shoved him into his locker on a weekly basis. and i stand by that

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Sorry for my absence... I've been busy lately (gross) and the rest of my time has been spent with my good friend deltarune

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"there will come a soldier who carries a mighty sword. he will tear your city down" = esther

"there will come a poet, whose weapon is his word. he will slay you with his tongue" = trisha

"there will come a ruler, whose brow is laid in thorn. smeared with oil like david's boy" = elnora

if you even care.

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take my quiz boy.

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wrt to your last post da:o having that exact same kind of horrific forced birth storyline with both morrigan and the broodmothers is sooo damning to me any kind of poignancy or charitable examination of morrigan’s storyline (breaking the cycles etc) is lost because it’s clear the real intention is just that some evil guy in bioware hq thought this specific form of violence against women was the pinnacle of shock horror

i think it's actually extremely charitable of you to even believe the writers consider the dark ritual to be sexual assault/reproductive horror and not just hot sex with mildly unusual circumstances

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being a dragon age fan and finding gaider's characters really compelling is so scary because he's always out there just having said things. gaider voice oh you like justice or morrigan or alistair or fiona or meredith. you idiot. you dumb fuck

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you have to understand that the main way aniera and fenris's relationship works is that theyre that "how about we stop talking for awhile" meme except for literally every question. what do you think about fenris? how about we stop talking for awhile. you seem to hang out with fenris a lot. how about we stop talking for awhile. did something happen between you and fenris? how about we stop talking for awhile. are you and fenris together? how about we stop talking for awhile. no, seriously, whats your relationship status with fenris? how about we stop talking for awhile. how are fenris and the kids? how about we stop talking for awhile.