Would love to hear your early draft dorianmance oc thoughts. Intrigued by the vint violence post....
the thoughts r not super complex
mostly i don’t think i’ll be continuing nina cadash at all especially now i have a different seramancer. but there were a lot of elements of her character i really loved—a slightly haphazard approach to decision-making, a very kind character who also just thinks murder is basically okay, and a cadash who truly believes they’re andraste’s herald, first and foremost—so i was considering scrapping those elements for parts for maybe a male cadash and i believe in cadash/dorian supremacy. also i think a tempest rogue dwarf would be fun maybe?
idk i’m not rushing to play inquisition a bunch of times and to be honest i don’t really see myself playing it for more than helena and juno’s playthroughs. but you all know me, i love to be throwing concepts together
21 notes
·
View notes
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)
As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)
He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.
(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)
It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.
(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)
166 notes
·
View notes
Could you imagine teen skk and teen kunikida accidentally running into each other, like Kunikida walking home from school and all of the sudden these two idiots absolutely blasting through a wall on his regular path and he’s staring and vibrating with barely restrained outrage like who are these Delinquents?! and goes to tell them off and Dazai and chuuya are probably so confused like who is this schoolboy talking to like that?!
605 notes
·
View notes
literally though they were so smart for working out how objects fell in a vacuum more that 1500 years before anyone managed to actually make an observable one
105 notes
·
View notes