#and Revka Amell

[wild-houseplant]

WIP... good lord it’s Wednesday

I don’t know how this happened. One minute I’m on Tumblr the next minute I’m posting punctually. Thank you for the tag @heniareth I have been looking for an excuse to post this snippet. Lemme tag you back, along with @rlainarin, @anna-the-great-and-terrible, and @icy-warden if I may, for I do crave your snippets (and Icy also because you were wondering what happened with Revka). Below features Rhodri making Zevran uneasy (quelle surprise) the morning after Broken Circle.

Rhodri wrung her hands. “I… wanted to check how you’re faring after yesterday.”

Zevran chuckled airily. “Ah, that was a memory, nothing more. And this time, a Grey Warden with the most marvellous set of eyes came to my rescue! It seems I have landed on my feet yet again.” He flicked his eyebrows once. “Let us hope my luck holds out, no?”

Rhodri stiffened. “You don’t think this is luck, surely.”

“Well, good luck, of course,” Zevran attempted, faltering a little when her staring wasn’t supplemented with any other response. “Excellent fortune? … Maximal serendipity?”

She raised an eyebrow at him. “My mother was kidnapped,” she said after a moment. “That was why she was missing.”

The abrupt change of topic made Zevran’s pre-prepared quip die in his throat. 

“She was taken during a morning walk in Kirkwall, I was told,” Rhodri continued, not missing a beat. “Her brother, my uncle Damion, had accrued enormous debts to shady characters and told no-one about it. They took my mother and not him because they know she married a rich Tevinter. My father paid the million-sov ransom, and then another half million when they demanded more. And when that wasn’t enough and they demanded more again, he realised he would have to take her back himself.

“He tracked her down to a small village on the Nevarran border. The cartel had emptied it and was using it as a hideout.” Rhodri’s upper lip bulged as her tongue passed over her teeth. “Would you like to hear what my father did when he found her?”

Zevran smiled thinly. “I imagine the kidnappers were struck off the Satinalia greeting card list, no?”

She gave a small, wry smile of her own, which quickly tightened into a frown. “For a start. By the end, all twenty-six of the kidnappers, thugs, what-have-you there, were turned into blood sacrifices to restore my mother’s health, and the settlement was razed to the ground.”

Rhodri lowered her head to eye-level with him, pinning him with a stare he couldn’t quite force himself to wish away. 

“I would do this much, and more, for you,” she said softly, fervently. “House Callistus fights for her people, Zev, there is no luck to it. You are one of us. Don’t cheapen my devotion to you by calling it luck.”

[laniardraws]

Continuation of this

I'm once again thinking about the Hawke-Amell family

[mossyarts]

my Amell family !! Aila is my Hero of Ferelden, those are her tragic dead/assumed dead siblings.

( I finished these a while ago but was unsure if i wanted to post. now that i wanted to my computer lost its mind and deleted all my saves of the up close versions of them. i even typed out their stories and ages and everything. im freaking out over it but im also so done so whatever, maybe ill redo all these soon)

[cyngharris]

Portrait of Revka Amell, mother of five mage children, including a veteran of the fifth blight

[image ID: A digitally painted busy portrait of Revka Amell. She is looking out at the viewer and appears to be East Asian. She has black hair braided behind her head and she is wearing a red top with a white frill on a yellow-gold background. She is wearing Pearl earrings and ornate pearled hair accessories. End ID]

[moontheoretist]

I just had a realization that despite Hawke's mansion appearing small in the game, as per lore it's a place where most probably Revka Amell lived as well. At first I thought that maybe Amell family had several mansions in Kirkwall, but no, lore states clearly that they had only one, so the logical conclusion is that Revka and Leandra lived in the same place and grew up together. Which also means that the Warden Amell may be able to recall the place from their early childhood memories.

[vigilskeep]

ASDFGHJKL The Amell family amd their inability to NOT stop themselves from wanting an Apostate.

Leandra and Malcolm... Keir with Morrigan/Merrill/Anders... Bethany and Morrigan... Carver ALMOST with Merrill.

my surana also dated my amell they are literally a hazard

[jellydishes]

✨henrietta amell✨

[fergus-cousland]

Revka and Leandra being close as sisters when they were young and then Leandra leaves but Revka still writes to her with every big life event, so Leandra knows the names of Revka’s children and the dates they were born, and then Revka dies and the only reason Leandra knows her cousin is no longer on the material plane is because the letters stop--

[pinayelf]

we must know more...how does Violetta and Branson's relationship develop? how much parallel does her love life parallel Amihan's?? 👁️👁️ also istg i read somewhere on ur blog that Violetta and Amihan have a younger sibling?

thank for enabling me to infodump abt my amell twins ❤️

Branson fell first! Everyone has their own hcs of how the Rutherford siblings are and I see Branson as an easygoing and chill guy. He adored how outspoken and unabashedly herself Violetta is.

Violetta is the Emotionally Constipated Circle Mage TM lmao, so it took a while for her. She finally found a place she could call home and she felt it could ruin it if she pursued Branson (even tho she was in love w him too). She also didn't have good romantic relationships - especially the ones in the Circle. Anyone she met while she was on the research group were just flings.

Eventually, Branson proved to Violetta he was true, and she felt safe and loved around him. She also realized she did deserve to be loved and it all went from there lol

I think Amihan and Violetta's love lives parallel in the whole...scared to love/doesn't think they deserve love thing. They both eventually found partners who are willing to be patient with them ❤️ It's honestly very similar haha, I think the twins deserve love and I gave them that

OKAY so that is either the unnamed siblings that was in one of the WoT books, basically after the twins Revka and Bayani (what I named their dad), had other kids who all ended up mages too. In my canon, Bayani regretted letting Revka get their daughters taken away, so he runs away with the other kids and their whereabouts are unknown.

The OTHER is like prime family drama lmao. Revka has an affair with Quentin after Amihan and Violetta get taken away. This guy from DA2:

She gets pregnant, and breaks it off with Quentin. She goes "away" claiming it's for family business, until she gives birth to a baby girl, Monica, who she leaves with Chantry sisters.

Monica is...unhinged lmao. She has her own worldstate, which is absolutely insane, but I haven't figured out what happens to her in my Canon worldstate yet.

The Amells have to be my fave noble house in DA just because even without my stories, they're so messy and it's fun to create OCs within them lmao.

[scribbledquillz]

Ohhhh are we doing a fact for a fact? DONE DEAL!

Rhodri's favourite colour is black. The story goes, according to her father, that she decided this when she was just about two years old and she met her twin siblings Mazarin and Evander (next born after Rhodri, who is eldest). Her parents had been hyping her up about getting sibs as a gift to her, and she was completely and totally smitten with them from the first.

Didn't really look at their faces, though, god bless the little autistic kiddo. What she noticed was that they both had thick crops of black hair, and that was what she associated with them. From that moment on, she insisted on having everything in black. Her clothes had to be black. Bedsheets, pillows, books, everything of hers black. She wasn't talking much at that point, but she wasn't calm unless she either had something black to hold (while watching the siblings), or could actively stroke her siblings' hair. Black is love and devotion and two little heads of soft, dark hair.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll just sit and vibrate excitedly while awaiting a fact back @D@ hope you're having an amazing day!! <3 <3 <3

Tell me a fact about your oc(s) and I'll share a similar one about mine. 🙌 - @wild-houseplant the more I learn about Rhodri the more I fall in love with them. I'd wondered why it was black was their favorite and this is just about the sweetest answer you could have given me so thank you for that. ToT <3

Revka has been close to Ceral from the start - a benefit of there being such a large age gap between the two of them. She was eleven when he was born, and doted on the little curly haired baby constantly. After their parents passed away she insisted - despite the Hahren's concerns for her ability to do so - that she remain the caregiver for Ceral rather than seeing him lost to another elven family or Maker forbid, another Alienage. Her relationship with Ceral, because of her shift into a caregiver rather than just a sibling when she was only sixteen, is an odd mix between the two. Revka sacrifices just about everything - her free time, her relationship with Arden, her coin, hell even her meals some days - to provide for him. She is loyal and devoted to her brother as she can be - to the point where she hides his magic from the guard for as long as she can, and tries (very unsuccessfully - this run in is what led to her recruitment into the Wardens) to intervene when a pair of Templars come to lay claim to him.

But that loyalty and devotion also brings strain to their relationship once Ceral is old enough to want to become his own man and make his own path. Given she's spent the whole of her young adult and adult life as the parental figure in their family, it's difficult for her to step back and not intervene, particularly when it comes to Ceral's role in the Inquisition. She tries, but it's a slow unlearning process.

A smaller fact for Ceral - one of the few possessions he's able to bring along with him to the Circle is a patchwork doll he's owned since he was about six years old - the first Nameday gift Revka made for him after their parents' deaths. His name is Ser Velvet, seeing as the bulk of his body is made up from spare swatches of velvet that Revka had left from one of her seamstress jobs. Ser Velvet - worn out and thinning in a few places - can still be seen perched on a shelf above his apothecary station once he moves into his room in Skyhold.

[themaybug]

had the most heartbreaking thought of what if the Amell family in a desperate attempt to save face visited the Fereldan court to pay their respects to the king. what if Loghain was there and met Kathy's parents, who she hasn't seen or heard of since she was 9 years old? he tells her this and Kathy has to come to terms with the fact that her parents were in Ferelden, they could have come to see her, but they didn't? cries

[laniardraws]

Insane about the Hawkes and the Amells

[moss-flesh]

genuinely living for the amell siblings now actually theyre everything to me

[wild-houseplant]

HELLO!! I AM COMING BACK AT YOU!! With questions for Rhodri and Zevran!!!!! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

29. Describe their nighttime routine

42. What’s their relationship like with each other’s friends/families?

I hooe you have a splendid day my friend!!! Let the asking games begin \OoO/

HI THERE HELLO 8D 8D 8D 8D I have been sitting here with my eyes on stalks at these questions because! As usual! There is plenty of rambling as I sort out a decent answer and I absolutely did not get out under a thousand words for these ToT condolences but THANK YOU plenty for these!! I'll stick it under the cut because by god it's another long one folks!

Describe their night time routine 

Ohhh I love this question because I love every opportunity to come in with my clown car full of headcanons and pull an implausible amount out of the passenger seat window. My thanks and condolences!! 😂

Ok so I will start by saying that for Rhodri and Zevran, night time is a large part of the day. In tropical Tevinter and tropical/subtropical Antiva, there is very little fluctuation between day-and-nighttime hours throughout the year. It’s dark from 6pm-6am, give or take maybe an hour down in Antiva. Which means, of course, that locals can coordinate their entire day according to light and dark on a very consistent basis (Rhodri, quite predictably, exults in this).

So, with all this in mind, if they have no special plans, these two are usually home by dark. First things first: a bath. Vints (and, to a lesser extent, Antivans) take their bath culture seriously: there are magnificent public baths (thermae) aplenty, and most houses/apartments have a communal bathing facility. Whether you’re in the home tub or the therma, the bath is a place to socialise, cool down, luxuriate– and get clean, of course. 

If Rhod and Zev aren’t meeting friends/family at one of the thermae, they’re bathing alone at home. That’s at least an hour down the drain (so to speak). Hair is washed and oiled, bodies scrubbed and moisturised. They will talk about their day, complain a little perhaps (for their health, of course). Zevran has a fairly detailed beauty regimen that he attends to while Rhodri floats close by (or, if they’re at the therma, he’ll get some fancy treatment package and rope his forbearing spouse into getting it done with him). They usually come straight home afterwards if they were at the baths.

At home post-bath, things are a little up in the air. There’s dinner, certainly, and that’s usually eaten with the entire family and 50/50 chance there will be guests, too. That can be another couple of hours at least, especially if the guests are great company, or if Revka and Aurelio open their mouths.

After that, though? Well, Rhodri’s an early bird, and Zevran is a night owl. Try as they might to make their schedules overlap in that regard, Rhod is almost guaranteed to be ready for bed first. If they’re not gasbagging with the fam and guests right up to bedtime, chances are Rhod and Zev will be off doing their own thing together: dancing, reading, doing extra paperwork in Rhod’s case. Usually it’s all in the one room, which is a sizable office next door to their bedroom, sequestered off in their quarters within the estate. 

I feel it’s worth mentioning that although I tend to portray Zevran as very clingy and fretful about being separated, Rhodri gets terrible at night. Too many nightmares about him dying helpless while he was away in Antiva, I suspect. Now, she gets distraught if she’s preparing to fall asleep and she can’t see, hear, or feel him. 

This reached a point where she was forcing herself to stay awake on the nights where Zevran was nowhere near ready for bed, just so they could stay in the same room. Sometimes Zevran would be able to transfer what he was doing from the office to the bed, but if he was trying his hand at, say, painting or playing an instrument, that was impossible. They ended up investing in a very plush chaise sofa, and now, when Rhod’s beginning to wilt, she takes herself off to get changed into her PJs (and inevitably to be waylaid as Zevran decides to ‘help’). When she’s dressed and her teeth are cleaned, she reclines on the aforementioned furniture with a book, and if Zevran even tries to say goodnight, she assures him she will not be sleeping. She’s just resting her eyes, dulcis. I was going to say it’s one of the only lies she ever tells, but it’s not a lie because she believes it.

Once he's ready for bed, he'll stomp and make noise and flop extra hard on the chaise to get Rhod's attention (not to wake her because she was not sleeping), and they'll stagger off together. Rhodri rarely remembers the journey from couch to bed but Zevran reliably advises her that she will, without fail, mumble that he is to stay behind her please, dulcis, while she opens the bedroom door to check for god-knows-what. What, precisely, she could achieve protections-wise while in a state of twilight anaesthesia is anyone's guess, but Zevran always felt it's the thought that counts. He humours her, and for that he ends up in bed beside her, as safe as safe can be, night after night.

What is their relationship with each other’s friends/families like?

😭 Oh, Zev. I hate that he has no family for Rhodri to get to know, and he hates it too, but he makes the best of it.

As far as friends go, Rhod's old mates (Maevaris, Dorian, another friend called Phoebus, and the surviving old guard from the Fereldan Circle) are all very taken with him. Since he and Rhod aren't usually apart when they're around, he doesnt' get much one-on-one time with them, but they all get on like a house on fire. As for Zevran's friend, Isabela... well. I like to think that now that Isabela has shacked up with Tank, Rhodri's cousin, she won't be constantly re-trying her luck on Rhodri. I am probably wrong though, and she will likely give it a go once or twice a year, though these days mostly as a joke (unless she said yes, of course). Good old Isabela, always shooting her shot. Amuses everyone to no end.

As far as the Callistus-Amell household goes, Zevran overall gets along well with everyone in the fam, to varying degrees. It must be said that everyone had a moment where they issued a quiet but decidedly bloodthirsty threat to Zevran upon finding out his history as a Crow– or rather, upon finding out that it was in the context of Rhodri being said (former) Crow’s mark, now-spouse. Which, fair I guess. I think most of them moved on from it quite well, though. 

Revka and Aurelio consider him a sixth kid. He gets greeted the same way as the other kids. Aurelio gives him a nickname like he gave the other kids (Zevran’s is Caligattae– ‘little boots’). Zevran calls them Mother and Tata. When he made it clear he was open to it, he got the pats and the hugs and the kisses on the head like the other kids get. 

(In fact, that entire family LOVES kissing him on the head because he’s so bloody tiny next to the rest of them and they can’t resist reminding him of it by bending down sooooo dramatically. He takes it with his usual good humour, god bless him.)

Mazarin and Evander, who are both very noisy, filter-less, and have huge reserves of, and needs for affection, attention, and exciting things… well, they love Fun Brother Zevran to bits. It’s non-stop racing other people to sit next to him and Rhod (or on his/Rhod’s lap, if allowed), or squabbling over who gets to tell him the NEWS THEY WERE WAITING TO SHARE ALL DAY EVANDER IT WAS MY TURN TO TELL HIM THE NEWS! 

They’re the kind of people who will keep boredom at bay (something something untreated ADHD) by actively going and looking for parties to attend, or making up the wildest and most fraught games on the spot, and if Zevran shows even the slightest willingness to join, he’ll be roped in all day and night. It’s fun and incredibly exhausting, and Zevran is never going to be alone again, whether he likes it or not.

Bethann is the youngest (15-16 by the end of the Blight), and opens up Very Slowly. Initially she refused to interact with Zevran, mostly because she found the idea of being murdered by someone she’d been friendly with to be a galling one. She made him earn their friendship 😂

And Zevran DID! He was in it for the long haul. Learned Tevinter sign (she’s nonverbal) from the get-go, gave her all the space she wanted, genuinely engages with her on her interests. Never infantilises, but he meets her where she is. Took a Good Long While but he won Bethann hook, line and sinker.

And Bethann takes good care of her newest brother, too. She’s an observer by nature, and very interested in learning how to read people, and she’s got Zevran clocked as someone who is inclined to suppress themselves for the sake of others. He won’t let on that he’s an introvert, or how embarrassed he feels when someone does something nice for him that he can’t return, but Bethann knows it already and makes a point of stepping in when she feels it’s necessary. Sometimes that means saving him from the noisy twins/parents when he’s getting tired and Rhodri isn’t able to save him– saving, in this case, is dragging him away to the library and declaring they’ll be pursuing separate hobbies in peace. She has two empty shelves, one for her and one for him, where they know to put books the other might like, and they’ll do small tutoring exchanges on whatever topic takes their interest at the time. 

I think of all the siblings (aside from Rhodri), Bethann ends up being someone who really makes Zevran feel understood in his need for downtime and give-and-take, and he treasures that– and his youngest sister– hugely.

Owen is by far the most difficult one. He’s nice to Zevran, don’t mistake me. They can talk and laugh and play games without trouble, but at the end of the day Owen sees Zevran, first and foremost, as the man who tried to kill Rhodri. And he and Zevran both know it.

Further complicating this is when Zevran departed alone for Antiva to take on the Crows. It was a huge social faux pas on Zevran’s part, because in doing so he implied to the whole of the Altus society that capable, dependable Rhodri was unable to manage the problems of her spouse herself, as is expected of someone of her status and influence. Or, at the very least, Zevran implied that he thought her unable. However you look at it, it was an enormous loss of face for Rhodri. Owen, knowing how proud Rhodri is, was ready to flay the hide off Zevran’s back for it. In fact, once he saw Zevran again in Kirkwall, he very much did the verbal version of that. Well, rather, he attempted to, but Rhod immediately shut it down.

On the other hand, Owen does know why Zevran did it, and it does engender a bit more confidence that Zevran isn’t, in fact, planning to off his own spouse. But you never really know, and so Owen is forever watching Zevran for any sign that he’s about to turn on her.

All this is hard on Zevran– more than he’d ever admit– because he likes Owen. They’re naturally very compatible: Owen’s a shy, retiring version of Rhodri, and he has a devotion to Rhodri that Zevran recognises in himself. He really wants Owen to like him back, and because of circumstances essentially out of his control, it’s just not happening.I think Owen wants to like Zevran as well. He does like him, really. But Rhodri was there for Owen when no-one else was (glass child, anyone? More on Rhodri and Owen’s relationship here), and he’s terrified this charming sonofabitch will harm the only person he feels he can trust. It’ll take a lot of time and talks between Rhodri and Owen before Owen really gives Zevran a proper chance, I feel.

Crumbs! that was really long xD And be assured I did a LOT of paring down for this because the rant on Owen and Rhodri's relationship was looking to go on for a good long while. Thank you again for this!! It was such a joy, as always!!! Hope you're having a gorgeous day with abundant misbehaviour >:)

[chantlight]

I wonder if Kirkwall and perhaps much of the Free Marches is matrilineal. The Amell and Harimann families could be outliers, but for both of them, the name has passed through the female line. We don’t know if Johane has siblings or how much age factored into things with Leandra, but Johane inherited from her father and Leandre was the heir to her parents before she left.

[vigilskeep]

I went feral over How To Prevent Magic In It’s Earliest Stages with my Amell, it’s such a fascinating bit of worldbuilding.

Given Revka’s public grief over her first child being taken, worry for her subsequent children, and finally disappearance I like to headcanon that my Amell is her youngest, conceived after the oldest went to the circle, and that banned or not she tried to follow the book to the letter while spiraling out of fear until her husband caught her trying to leech the magic out of the baby

aughaghogh....

man. i also think abt how malcolm so much hoped his children wouldnt be mages. like not to the extent of All That but i feel like there definitely was dried embrium under the pillow and such little superstitions