#gavyn x cassandra

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i see no difference love is love (picrew)

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guys i think gavyn & cassandra might be a little bit toxic but like. in a fun way.

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sad that i don’t have any art of these two yet

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no one asked for this but i’m trying to weave a delicate web of how all the dragon age companions + my ocs know each other in a modern au

here’s what i’ve got so far:

rhian is a mechanic who works with alistair at an auto shop. he met josephine—a wedding planner—when her car broke down and he pulled over to help her. rhian and kiernan, obviously siblings. kiernan and solas met bc solas is a grad student and a TA at the college kiernan goes to and kiernan had a bug display up for a school event that solas went to. leliana and josephine are friends who met in college.

uh what else. ehsaan is a physical therapist who met bull when he was recovering from a knee injury. he and anders worked at the same hospital. and probably wynne but i honestly forgot she existed until i typed that sentence. anders and ehsaan are friends, and anders is dating fenris, so fenris, ehsaan, and bull know each other. anders and fenris work at a gender clinic together, where kiernan was in a youth program when he was younger. ehsaan volunteers for some of their events. anders and my hawke meet bc they’re both Anarcho Communists. all of my ocs are commies except gavyn but noel is the most likely to be Involved in a local anarchist scene or what have you.

anders and rhys know each other because [ ] so he also knows alistair, and rhys and rhian would know each other even if he wasn’t married to alistair bc they’re both observant dalish people living in the city and they go to the same synagogue. also fenris, velanna, and merrill go there. kiernan doesn’t usually go to services with rhian but he shows up often enough that he’d know these people’s faces at the very least. also oh my gd kiernan and merrill interacting is a Concept. merrill runs a flower shop and she’s josephine’s go-to for wedding flowers. her and isabela are together. alistair goes to synagogue with rhys. if you have a dalish oc who would go to synagogue i want them to be friends with rhian and kiernan and rhys. sera has been dragged with great force to shul exactly Once.

varric owns a bar, cole is his adopted kid who is Also a student who IS in one of the classes Solas is a TA for, and cole and kiernan have had classes together + probably met in some like. autism support group that rhian pressured him into going to. sera is a bartender at varric’s, she and meraad work together and start dating after a while. they have a Thing with dagna but idk if they ever end up becoming a triad. isabela also works there. i’m stealing this idea from @queerspacepunk but sera should be in roller derby. bull and the chargers are regulars of the bar.

dorian is a hot young professor at kiernan’s college, so he knows kiernan, cole, and solas. vivienne should be the dean. this is not an original idea but it would suit her.

cassandra is a pastor at a semi-progressive chantry. gavyn is a youth pastor and they have a torrid affair that ends up getting them both fired bc it’s only a semi-progressive chantry. but they find a new one, where leliana leads the worship team. leliana and toshie are together, idk how they meet. sebastian also works there. KFKEJGJKSKFKD GD I BET GAVYN WORKS IN THE ANDRASTIAN EQUIVALENT OF CRU NAD THATS HOW THEYVE MET KIERNAN AND COLE. gavyn i love you so much but you’re my most cringe oc. sebastian is DEFINITELY in cru as well. this is by extension how gavyn and sebastian know dorian, solas, and vivienne. it’s not a very big college.

zevran and luria are dating, not sure how they met. luria, toshie, and anders were in the same circle. can’t have zevistair in this au but zevran and alistair definitely know each other and zevran delights in making alistair flustered. this is not an original idea either but it’d be fun if alistair worked for like. a medieval reenactment group. IF HE AND BULL DID IT TOGETHER….

i still have no idea how dorian meets ehsaan and bull. fucked up.

i’m still missing nathaniel, sigrun, carver and bethany, and sten. and blackwall. (and ogrhen but like. who cares)

aveline is a cop. can’t decide if i dislike cullen enough to make him one as well.

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i honestly kind of like that cassandra ‘misgenders’ the inquisitor in a modded romance bc it enforces that i’m playing a genderfluid character. like she’ll call gavyn a woman and then 2 seconds later when they’re flirting with her she’s all “my lord…. 😳” and it’s fun. yeah switch up those pronouns.

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miss them

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looking over some of the random crap i have in my notes app for fic ideas and

“- gavyn obviously thinks cassandra is being homophobic and it hurts

- and she sort of is, but it’s the closeted/in denial gay christian paranoia that makes you feel like you can’t be around certain people because of The Temptation To Sin

- gavyn, being a precious little heretic and inveterate sinner, encourages her to”

“precious little heretic and inveterate sinner” i know this is my own oc but Kin

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proposing that before they got together cassandra said some synonym for “tits” by accident while talking to gavyn. mens tits tuesday thursday babie gavyn is like an f cup

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inventing problematic queer plot lines in my head abt cassandra being a pastor who is a woman and that’s totally chill but then they hire this new youth pastor gavyn who is really gentle and charming in a way that makes cassandra so flustered and the two of them start dating in the way that only closeted christians can and then they both get fired when their relationship comes to light but they find a different church that’s chill about it and they get married there a few years later

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“i know” by fiona apple may be about being the other woman in a relationship but you know what else it’s about? modern au gavyn/cassandra where cass is a closeted bi pastor with loads of internalized homophobia