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Sweet Fenris for earringtober

I love DA2 and he is my eternal L.I.

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Things that happen in dark alleys in Kirkwall.

(hopefully this isn’t too spicy for tumblr uhhhhh he’s just. helping anders with his trousers. sure. yeah.)

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a handers comm i got by aer0spac on twitter!

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Niall and Orsino doodles because I'm in rarepair hell 🥰

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Colored pencil study

Dragon age: Solas

Inspired by this gif set by @mrs-gauche because helloooo

Colored pencil on paper

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Niall edits, yippee!🎉

I am positively smitten with a guy who has like 5 collective minutes of screentime

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I present to you — a cat

You know, this is a very painful character for me I love what the fans have come up with for him and how he's been reimagined in the community (the message of his storyline was understood) But I'm so fucking annoyed with the way his story was presented in the canon, I want to climb up the wall every time I play da2 and da3

You were almost there, you ALMOST GOT IT And the worst part is that if da2 hadn't gone through that development hell, we could have had a really cool representation of opposition to repressive regimes, of peaceful protests and what leads to riots and bloody revolutions.

But alas

Still love him

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i feel super artblocky at the moment and everything i draw is bad ugh it’s making me v frustrated

anyway i like anders. he’s a real…. blast

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Niall edits, yippee!🎉

I am positively smitten with a guy who has like 5 collective minutes of screentime

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Reminder that I have a bluesky account!!

This is where I post all my uncensored NSFW art + regular posts/art ✨️ I'm also more likely to post sketches here and eventually some screenshots, rambles. etc.

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More Ser Gilmore (classic appearance this time!)

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Thinking of starting a longfic for my NPCs I'm now obsessed with 🤡

I may be the only reader of this ultra rarepair (if I even make them a pairing, they may just be pals) but "write for yourself!" and all that 🎉

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young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

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thank you for reblogging my 10-note flop post you are like a wife to me

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This is probably just me with my pro-Anders goggles (and my "Orsino needed more depth" goggles) on but, after the initial shock wears off, I'd love for Orsino to recognize that Anders has done the one thing he was afraid to do. He crossed a line that Orsino was often toeing but never had the strength to step over himself.

There was no compromise and he knew it, but he was still too subconsciously bound to the Circle's teachings (its their job to break their mages after all, even Anders suffers this when not overridden by Justice), too bound to the idea of being an exemplary mage and a palatable leader to look that idea in the face and accept it. He had desperate measures in his back pocket that he could never get himself to pull out until the biggest step was already taken by someone else.

I will never accept the "Okay, we tried everything but then Anders fucked it up, time to bring out ✨The Harvester✨" ending they gave us. Orsino was radicalized by seeing his friends and peers driven to suicide through oppression and unlivable conditions. He saw the worst that the templars and Chantry could do, he saw the oppression and looming hammer about to come down on them.

For all the pain and loss he suffered and the good he tried to do, some part of him had to know they'd already reached the point of no return and protest and talking were no longer an option.

This (and the fact that Orsino being a boss fight was an EA decision, not an intentional writer choice) is all the more reason why I simply headcanon that he survived and Varric covered for him with a damning and conclusive end that distanced him from the uprising and Anders's views/actions enough to allow his escape.

I'd like to think he's still out there fighting the good fight and aiding mages during the war and aftermath.

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Still playing NPC matchmaker and I'm thinking a bit about post DA2 Niall/Orsino??

This would be in a canon where Orsino only "died" in Varric's retelling but is actually alive and well, and Niall survived the circle and escaped the fade during DAO but with lifelong injuries. Niall now leads a group of apostates wishing to isolate themselves from non-mages during the mage-templar war (aligning with his isolationist views) and Orsino is doing more quiet, underground work to aid displaced apostates and turn the tides of the war. They meet, find common ground... cartoon hearts flying around, idk.

Is this a thing? (It is definitely not a thing but maybe I should make it one lol)

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kicks at a rock sulkily. why is this man so hard to draw