#/ I moved sera !

[serrennedyanonwriter]

Capcom needs to drop a Luis DLC for me, my almost 60K word-count Luis autism doc doesn’t have enough information on him, I need more /hj

[saintberceuse]

It is a shame Lilith is getting all this build up mystery when she's probably going to be the most flat one-note character that's just "irredeemable, 100% evil b*tch for reason" meanwhile Lute and Sera are there and more compelling female antagonists that could be great if writing permitted it.

Honestly, I am disappointed Lute and Sera weren't given more time or build up when they are sort of valid female antagonists (no lame usual "she's a meanie to her husband that's gay and traumatized :'("). It's sucks that Sera is being established as "secretly, completely cruel for no reason" though and Lute is really just there to backup Adam (and likely since Adam may be redeemed she'll get the usual Vivzie female writing as mentioned before - "Lute was mean and made him like that :(").

[fisherrprince]

quickly before i have to go make dinner. miku miku butch beam

[lelianasbong]

"just like when i first laid eyes on you and wanted to lay other things..." the way sera says this to all variations of a romanced femquisitor. she was down bad from the start <3

[keykidpilipili]

If Gosho let his characters be more morally gray on family issues Masumi would have FeelingsTM about 2/3 of her relatives obssessed with the death of a man she never knew. Not to mention how the 'last' time she saw Shuichi before he faked his death he yelled at her, driving her to tears. Masumi receives the news of it while Mary is chasing her could-be-back-could-be-a-trap husband in England and wonders if the MI6 will send her effects to her the way the FBI did. Then Mary nearly dies and has chronic health issues forcing her to rely on her daughter full time. Masumi full of abandonment issues takes relief that her mom won't have a choice in bringing her along.

[mimzalot]

feeling very rambunctious about Luis Serra these days, all the time, for years now [RE4R]

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Are there any companions you can't stand?

I wouldn't say I have any that I can't stand. Something that's so engaging to me about DA is that the companions have good, bad, and a lot in between. Honestly, I don't hate any of them. There are companions that I have more issues with than others, but I like them all; even, and sometimes especially, the ones that tend to be heavily hated on by the fandom.

The only companion that might fall into this category for me is Sebastian, but I totally acknowledge that I've yet to make an effort to use him when I play DA2. I legit just forget about him. How am I supposed to have a good grasp of his character when I don't engage with him outside of his companion quests? Plus I usually romance Anders so Sebastian always leaves my party in the end with threats of bringing an army down on Kirkwall for not killing Anders, soooo... yeah. Not the greatest impression he's left me with.

I would like to have a more well-rounded opinion of Sebastian because the concept of him is interesting; he's this chantry brother who is also a prince, but his family was murdered so he puts up a bounty on the chantry board [which admittedly is SO funny] and his companion quests are about avenging his family and helping him decide if he should take back his lands or remain a chantry brother. But then I talk to him, I listen to him talk to the other companions, and it's like... oh, the chantry has become his entire personality because the dude was brainwashed and now he's saying shit like the maker was actually the one who freed Fenris from slavery, and when Fenris tells him a story about how Denarius killed a child in a ritual for more power, Sebastian just doubles down that the maker has his reasons, like....babe, c'mon now.

I feel like I've read pieces about him written by fans who love him that are more compellingly written than he is, if that makes sense. Really, I would love to be educated by those who love him, especially Sebastian romancers because of all the love interests in all of DA, he's the one I look at and go, "....okay but why?" I have a lot of fun with character discussions and other perspectives so I mean that sincerely.

Also I think it's worth noting that when I play, I tend to get super into the roleplay of my warden/hawke/inquisitor, but while they have party members they can't stand, I have opinions that are separate from them, y'know?

For example, since I've talked about it a lot recently, my mage Hawke and Aveline butt heads constantly. By the end of Act 3, they're rivalry is heated and Ed's surprised Aveline even sided with him in the end because THAT is how much their relationship deteriorated over the course of the game... but then there's my warrior Hawke who adored Aveline. The two of them were best friends and Aris always gave her the benefit of the doubt, like she had Aveline's back through and through.

I've complained about Aveline a lot in my posts so it probably does sound like I can't stand her, but that's not true. Aveline's actually a companion that fascinates me, like she makes me go, "God, you're such an asshole, tell me more right now." and it drives me crazy how she and Carver are foils, like I love it so much, I could go on and on about how foiled they are, it makes me want to bite something.

It's very easy to look at Aveline and think she's just a bitch, she's a cop, she's a bad character, #Aveline-critical, bad companion, etc. I see it all the time, and not just with her, but with every companion in dragon age, y'know? I'm not saying that's wrong or anything; some characters just don't vibe with you or you have legit reasons for hating them and that's fine. I'm just saying some of it's very surface level unless you make the effort to elaborate.

If you don't like a character, you're less likely to make an effort to understand or see anything positive about them. You're more likely to have confirmation bias, so whenever they do or say anything, you go looking for the worst interpretation. I try not to do this just because for me, that's the "boring" approach to games like this but as we've seen, I'm not immune either... y'know, Sebastian.

But Carver gets this a lot, too, and I think I've made myself clear that Carver is my favorite, I love him, the Hawke twins are S-tier companions and I would throw everyone in Kirkwall into the ocean if it meant Bethany and Carver's happiness.

Now that I'm thinking about it, the characters a lot of fans can't stand are some of my favorites?

Like a lot of people shit on Sera, and I'm like "Nah, that's my girl! Listen, she's got a LOT of internalized issues, but we're working through them okay! She's getting better!"

And Vivienne? Oh, don't get me started on Vivienne, I have a whole deal about her. She's also an asshole and I love her.

My canon inquisitor is Surana who escaped the circle and joined the dalish, becoming Lavellan. Vivienne is a reflection of what Ash could've been if she hadn't run away with Jowan. She played the game of the circle, she stepped wherever she needed to step because Ash knew she was at a disadvantage by being an elf, for one, and for two, not coming from a family with wealth that would give her special privileges. Her downfall was buying into her own hype and believing she couldn't be wrong about Jowan, believing that she could either prevent them from making him tranquil or help him and Lily run away, and believing she was above punishment because she worked her way into being Irving's favorite. Yet it all bit her in the ass and she had to run… so then years later after living outside of the circle and realizing just what the chantry is, how it conditions and abuses mages and shit, she meets Vivienne who also played the game well and came out on top, who now spouts the same shit Ash used to spout and it's makes their dynamic sooo chewable.

Then there's Cullen who's not a companion but I lump him and Josephine in with the companions anyway. They're advisors, they're in the inner circle, they count.

He's such a spineless ass in DA2 like believe me, I get all the criticisms he gets... but he's also fairly polite to Hawke even if they're openly anti-templar, he's softer spoken, and he's unwell after what happened to him in DAO and Meredith's clearly taking advantage of his state... but then he becomes an advisor in DAI who is so done with people's bullshit and blatantly honest about it, like he looks at Chancellor Roderick like "this fucking guy again" and he's so ready to just go for it, y'know? Well... unless you're a pretty lady who bats her eyes at him, then suddenly he doesn't know how words work. Like sometimes I feel crazy because I find him to be so funny in DAI, and overall a compelling character that I enjoy interacting with even when he's being a total asshole. Yeah, there's issues in his writing but I appreciate the vision the writers were going for, even if they stumbled... except for Sheryl Chee, I don't appreciate her contribution of those few posts on the DA forums that everyone uses as a smoking gun to "prove" awful things about him. Nothing gets under my skin more in character discussions than bad faith arguments and there's so much of that when it comes to Cullen.

Actually, while we're on that, can I just add a note that when I first got into this fandom, I saw someone's post about Chee doing an interview where she said all those bad things about Cullen wanting to assault the mage warden and I was like, "What? An interview? What interview?? Where??" and I couldn't find shit until much later when I read another anti-Cullen post that cited a DA forum as the source for her saying those things... so not an interview. I went digging for the forum, went into the way back machine to find it.... only to discover that this smoking gun comes from a fanfiction forum where Mary Kirby was also talking about Sten and catgirls and y'all expect me to take that seriously?

We can have discussions about whether or not Cullen's a bad person or a bad character, but the moment you bring Sheryl Chee into it, I know you're here in bad faith and your argument is void.

Sorry for the tangent and the long answer but this is the stuff I enjoy. I could talk about the characters of DA for ages unprompted that when someone does throw me a bone, I will discuss and gush about them all.

[pretty-haunted]

Finally starting to put paint down on this. I did the undersketch over a year ago and it's just been sitting on the easel until now. 😅

-Bonus pics of my painting area(kitchen) that i took a while ago-

[zestials]

and if i gently soft - launch @killejoy & @paymons what then ?

[deva-arts]

Holy hell it's finally done

I underestimated the herculean efforts that animators put into making things because this thirty second clip took so much out of my feeble illustrator hands. Anyway here you go! I added a few details that might make things fun I think

[grapecaseschoices]

is vivienne allergic to bears? i cant turn around without her being dead. omgoodness. i know she's a mage but she did pretty well in fallow mire. and thsoe were zombies

[serrennedyanonwriter]

Part Two of ?? Of the HCs

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Ada Wong

Bisexual/Trans Feminine/Aroace

Bisexual because I see her being interested in both men and women.

Trans because yes.

Aroace because I don’t see her interested in anyone, and yes, that includes Leon. I see those two more of bisexual besties that are each other’s wingman/woman even though both of them never really score /hj

Sherry Birkin

Bisexual/Asexual

Bisexual as like Ada, I see her being interested in men and woman.

Asexual as she’s like me (heard about sex and said no thanks /hj).

H.U.N.K.

Aroace

No questions, that is all /hj

Actually, I don’t know why, I just see him only really being married to his job, and for that reason, he isn’t attracted to anyone.

Carlos Oliveira

Bisexual/Trans Masculine/Asexual/Demiromantic/Polyamorous

Bisexual as he’s like Leon; I would hc him as gay if he didn’t flirt with Jill.

Trans because I can.

Asexual because I don’t know, something about him screams asexual.

Demiromantic as he does flirt, but he doesn’t like anyone romantically unless he’s close with them.

Polyamorous because he is with Leon and Luis, and they live in an apartment together with a wolf and a cat.

Steve Burnside

Bisexual

I really hate that they made him act weird with Claire because he gives me hella gay man vibes.

Crossing my fingers they get rid of that in the remake.

Jack Krauser

Bisexual/Asexual/Demiromantic

Bisexual but he’s in denial even though he’s 100% kissed Wesker a couple times /hj

I keep seeing people hc/say that Krauser’s bisexual awakening was Leon, but no thanks, Leon technically his student as Krauser is his mentor (aka a student/teacher relationship), and I feel weird about it. I prefer to say it’s Wesker, thank you-

Asexual because he doesn’t actually like sex.

Demiromantic because it takes a lot of closeness for Krauser to actually fall in love with someone romantically.

Manuela Hidalgo

Pansexual/Aroace

Pansexual as I can see her not really caring about the gender of who she dates, just as long as she loves them, she’s with them.

Aroace as I see her being so.

Ashley Graham

Lesbian/Demisexual

I actually flip-flop on her sexuality a lot. She’s either 100% a lesbian or bisexual with a preference for woman.

Before anyone says, “What about when she flirted with Leon??”, shhhh. Let me have this.

Something about her gives me “I love woman more” vibes.

Anyway, demisexual as I can see her only being okay with it when she’s close with someone.

Ingrid Hunnigan

Lesbian/Aroace

I’m not kidding when I only started seeing her as a lesbian through a Hunnigan/Ada fic. It was really fucking good that it made me only see her loving women, not men. I didn’t even ship them, but it convinced me.

Aroace because she doesn’t seem interested in anyone really.

Luis Serra-Navarro

Genderfluid/Bisexual/Polyamorus

I have this thing that I look at characters in fandoms I’m in, and if their hair is very gender, they get genderfluid as a treat.

That’s what happened with Luis. Plus, I see him possibly fluctuating between femininity and masculinity a lot in terms of how he dresses.

Bisexual because have you seen him? He’s clearly a bisexual man.

Polyamorous because he’s definitely dating Carlos and Leon /hj

[remythologise]

btw I've changed url and avatar, I hope this isn't too confusing - one of my followers of many years has recently started using a very similar url/pfp to my usual one & is posting in very similar fandoms, and I was getting confused, especially when reblogging their awesome content! I know thylaa has been my url for a long time and on several platforms so again, I hope it's not too confusing for everyone.

[pebblezone]

🦭

[charliemorningstars]

hazbin hotel easily one of the most difficult medias for my little autism brain to make a fnaf au from...except.....major character named charlie who wants to save everyone but herself.......with an emotionally distant and neglectful but ultimately loving inventor for a dad..........

[vigilskeep]

sera inching ahead in the sera vs iron bull discussion because sera being able to theoretically say “my wife lady helena” is REALLY funny to me