#MERRILL MY WIFE

[lelianasbong]

as a follow-up to my previous poll (below) which only had dao/da2/dai characters, i wanted to include the veilguard crew now that the game's been out a while.

women and nonbinary characters only because men usually dominate romance polls on tumblr. this way we can get a better idea of the relative popularity of everyone else's romance.

i wanted to include anora and tallis because despite being kind of barebones their romance arcs are There but alas, ran out of room.

[arrowfortea]

i think.... i miss my wife*

*vivienne, anora, sera, merrill, sigrun, velanna, dagna, calpernia

[gift-of-prophecy]

merrill song of all time btw

[eavangeek]

Yeah! It looks like (at some point this is basically non canon now) he was involved with lots of things at one point. He’s so powerful they had to nerf him

Truly the Merrill of his time. They had to nerf him b/c his meat was too big, his science too well-founded.

But also everything about this game and it's development makes me wanna *sniper takes me out before I can finish*

[hadescavedish]

Around level 20, Merrill is already the tank of the team this is so funny

[plaguebirds]

who is the lamb and who is the knife?

[mageswithcats]

MERRILL ❤️

[zevzevarainai]

CARLY'S DA2 MOD LIST

Since a handful of people interacted with my dao mod list here's another! mostly just visual stuff

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CHARACTER CREATOR

KS Hairs for Dragon Age 2 - in which the long flowing hair i had in my head for my hawke playing this game on the ps3 is finally realized

LOTC's Eyelash fix and Female Eyelashes - changes eyelashes for hawke and npcs

Make Up Tweaks and Tints

Natural Skin - adds more skin tones and alters Hawke's family to match theirs

Natural Hair - adds more hair colors

The glow-up of the century

you can see my hawke with these mods in this fenris gifset and this gifset. i also have a mod that lets you edit the default hawke face but it's not showing up in my download history. maybe it's included in one of those and I'm not reading closely right now

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VISUAL

Anders' Awakening Earring - what it sounds like!

No More Bloody Teeth - gets rid of the nasty blood splatters on their teeth. how does that even work, staying like that

Improved Fenris Glow - turns Fenris' cyan pixel mess glow into just his tattoos glowing

Elves with Human Skin REDUX - i dont really care about it changing the skin tones to be warmer however i like the side stuff it does:

makes it so vallaslin is way more visible

makes Merrill's skintone closer to the color it is in origins

makes Zevran look less like... that...

gets rid of Orana's jarring makeup

changes Varania's features so she looks actually related to Fenris

Ashara Party dress for MotA - various formal wear options for Hawke to wear instead of that weird suit. As you can see in the picture above I picked the green and copper and her tits look fantastic

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THE REST

Zevran Romance Dialogue Fix - if your Zevran smoocher is alive this mod makes it play the correct dialogue. thank you for healing teenage carly's soul

Repeatable Romance Scenes - I only just downloaded this one, so it has not been tested by me yet but it looks promising!

[nanowatzophina]

Last doodle for today!

Wish me luck for tomorrow, hopefully I’ll do some more sketches but that really depends on my mental fortitude…

[a-drama-addict]

i'd say all my first romance choices for dragon age are telling but all it tells is i love women.

[hezjena]

What in the queer audacity do I think I'm doing trying to create a Stardew Valley mod? :')

(Started with Jazzybee's creator, because I've never made pixel art before - https://jazzybee.itch.io/sdvcharactercreator)

[hongjoongpresent]

My interests are too old man for a lot of ppl my age but the way I talk is too youth for most people my parents age

[halliserres]

my brain truly is cursed to only be struck with inspiration when i’m in bed and trying to Fucking Sleep

[big-cheesy-productions]

My ttrpg character Ren is heavily inspired by Merrill from Dragon Age 2, specifically the use of ethical blood magic and the fact that Merrill herself doesn't actually cause anything bad to happen (looking at you, Marethari. You literally didn't need to do any of that). But I realized today that Ren is what would happen if a friend/romance Hawke were to turn Merrill into the Templars, and that thought is just... oof...

[antiqua-lugar]

Merrill: (Laughs). If you were an elf, Master Hawke, birds would swoop down out of the trees and compose songs just for you.

I was already not normal about Merrill's romance with a Male Hawke and now I just keep getting more unwell.

[baelavelaryon]

waitwaitwait if you're playing femshep you can't romance tali???