#DA Blogging

[krshush]

Veilguard is NINE YEARS after Inquisition. Trespasser was in 9:44 Dragon. so it's 9:53 Dragon. At that point it will have been OVER 20 YEARS since the Warden did their thing. Wow. Wow.

[merrybandofmurderers]

you know sometimes i’m playing dai and i’m looting a house while the owner literally stands there and watches me and i think it’s weird they don’t say anything

but then i think that if i was sitting alone in my hutch eating my gruel and a person of ambiguous gender COVERED in blood with a glowing hand walked in flanked by a qunari so tall his horns are scraping the thatched ceiling, a best-selling author with a crossbow that legally doesn’t exist, and the fucking Imperial Enchanter to the Empress of Orlais, and they started rifling through my things, i probably wouldn’t say anything either

[dykerightsmp3]

Anders blew up the chantry so Gale could come close to blowing up but then not blow up in the name of healing

[jo2ukes]

they are gonna do crazy things to this old man's cervix on tumblr dot com

[collegeoflore]

i think i was made to be a solas girlie but my main worldstate inquisitor does not care about him at All and between that and never being able to forget the concept art solas we lost out on he never grabbed me the way he could have…… the awful dragon age man who got away

[clowndensation]

meet n greet but your mark is on the body of another man which renders your temporarily more familiar with his body than he is. could be a precursor to anything.

[maternalcube]

3 & 13? 🤩

3. Do you usually play as a warrior, mage, or rogue? Which class are you planning to try first this time around? Which subclass?

i play mages a LOT esp in da2 but ive also done a lot of rogues... mages have all the really fun subclasses 👀 there's a pretty high chance im gonna start veilguard with some kind of arcane warrior/knight enchanter. but then, the character im thinking of playing is probably more suited as a rogue. not sure yet what subclass!

13. What's one thing you've seen confirmed so far that you're a fan of?

lol its such a small thing but nonbinary rook? hell yes. (it also amuses me how theyre saying all the companions are pansexual... like thats not an unrealistic choice for bioware to make but also, is it because trying to gender gate the romances when you can be any gender was too complicated... lmao)

[aylaaescar]

Sidane and Morrigan: 12 and 16. Rionne and Josie: 23 and 24, please!

thank you!! 🖤

12. What struggle have they seen each other through?

there's the whole Blight, but that's a cheap answer so I will not go w that lol. okay here's one that idk if I've ever shared before, but Sidane lost their vision to an injury at the top of Fort Drakon.

(injuries/eye pain cw) a shriek was going to catch Morrigan off-guard, and Sidane just... jumped in the way. they weren't really thinking, bc if they were, they probably just would've used a magical barrier or something. but instead they panicked, and their face got clawed instead of Morrigan's head. now I'm perfectly aware that Morrigan canonically leaves after that fight if the ritual happened, buuuut it's my brain and I say that she stuck around after that, at least for a bit. it wasn't for long and might not even count for this question, tbh? but she stayed with them for a few days until they woke up, since the shriek got them badly enough that they were out of commission for the rest of the fight. Alistair was the one to get the final blow against the Archdemon.

16. How do they react when the other is upset? How do they try to help?

I won't lie to you, I feel like they're BOTH bad at this, at least initially lol. Morrigan grew up w friggin Flemeth as her role model, so I doubt she has any good examples to follow? Sidane is a liiiiittle better, since they have Jowan, their sister Perry, and best friend Ramori, so there's experience there in comforting others even if they're not the best at it. but Morrigan? nah. I feel like she doesn't know how to handle that at first, but learns as time goes on.

tbh they probably just kind of give the other space, at least in the beginning of their relationship? neither of them know what to do but don't want to make it worse, so they'll just leave the other be. but that changes when they start to fall for each other; Morrigan is a bit harder for me to pin down in how she'd comfort them, aside from spending time w them and listening to them vent. Sidane, on the other hand, tries to make Morrigan feel better by leaving a pretty flower or two in her tent, or on her things. historically they've always been a casual hook-up sort of person, they don't have experience with actual romantic feelings, but plenty of novels say that flowers are a good gift, right? they're trying. give them both some time in their relationship to not be as awkward with FEELINGS.

Josie/Rionne

23. What was their first impression of each other?

was Josie there when the Inquisitor was unconscious after popping out of the Fade? if yes, then I'd imagine she was probably curious as well as cautious? they just survived a huge disaster and they have that glowing arm now, so I think I'd feel the same way. if not, I think Josie might have thought Rionne was impressive and brave for how she'd sealed the Rift, but was also... kind of chilly? which isn't wrong, bc Rionne IS a chilly person in general - that just gets amplified when she's a Dalish mage surrounded by human Chantry members who seem to think she's a prophet for their religion. Rionne didn't enjoy her time at Haven, lbr.

on Rionne's end, she was initially suspicious (as she was with everybody), until Josephine greeted her in elvish. for Rionne, it was the first time anybody at Haven had treated her with respect; praising her for the Rift or being their Herald set her on edge at the least and irritated her at worst, because she had no choice in the former and she outright denied the latter every chance she got. so Rionne kind of decided that she had a soft spot for Josie from word go, haha.

24. How did they fall for each other?

would it be corny to say just by being themselves? 🖤 okay less corny, I think it happened just as they got to know and understand each other. they're both hardworking women who put their families (Lavellan and Montilyet) first, so much of what they do is for the people they love and there was a real solidarity that came with that. Josephine is caring and compassionate, gives Rionne cuddles while respecting her asexuality. she knows that sometimes Rionne's just going to be prickly, or not touchy-feely, and it doesn't mean that she's any less loving than she was yesterday. Rionne went out of her way multiple times to help Josephine with her family, and outright dueled somebody else so Josie wouldn't have to marry a stranger. lots of little things and big things adding up to a nice picture.

[theboringsoliloquy]

Mid twenties smell like a sultry afternoon after a long day at school, when days felt less disgusting yet a pall of dread hung over the line of sweat on the forehead.

Fast-forward to growing up, everyday, there's an exhaustion, there's a piece of you left behind for yesterday to feed on its remains, as it looks up at you, with its hungry eyes, and rabid skeleton, asking for you to feed it, who said demons are scary? Demons are pathetic pitiful creatures, manipulating you with dead beady eyes of yearning and heartbreak.

Heartbreak is a funny word. Heartbreak is a tragicomedy. An ironic and iconic episodes of morbid shedding of childhood skin into a grown up motherfucker, hunched over a book with words, and that's all you'll ever be, until you jump off the chimney, or become an Orpheus like pitiless fool, you look back at life, don't you, you punk ass cosmonaut.

Twenties start the never ending brawl of disgust that keeps coiling itself into a knot, your gut is your attic, of stored memories with apparent rots, you still keep them- pathetic fallacy is your identity, why not drown yourself instead?

- letters to myself everyday I live and leave twenty

[paulnewmanlover]

absolution MAJOR spoilers

NOOOO how could they do my boy like that!!!! killed him off in the second episode and everything!!!! 😭

the rest of it was really good tho! it had everything: great fight scenes, lesbian betrayal, juicy gay kisses between two manly dudes with beards, a good setup for either season 2 or a tie into the next main game, [insert meme] how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old (wo)man!!, and a really fun cast of characters I'd love to see more of

[fantasyweed]

This is my first time playing a fem cousland and damn... fuck Cullen and his ramen noodle ass head but also the fact that his temptation by tower demons took the same form as Cousland... that is undeniably sexy and I can't lie

[krshush]

Hey also! Hi! Hello! To anyone who's followed me in this last decade (holy shit), and not already known: I'm a Dragon Age person! Hi! I don't just mean in passing, I mean this was a SEVERE Dragon Age blog almost ten years ago and while I've been rumbling abt it here and there in those years, I need you all to Understand: I'm a Dragon Age Guy.

[merrybandofmurderers]

Dorian: How can you eat when there’s a dead guy laying there!?

Iron Bull: What, is that rude? Am I supposed to share?

[cheezitofthevalley]

webcore stamps

aka stamps that actually look good on a website

[jo2ukes]

actually u know what. im going to come out and say it. da2 is my fave game in the series. now what.

[collegeoflore]

also. btw. no one else has a chance i’m romancing neve if it’s the last fucking thing i do