#lacha brosca

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Hi! Um, odd question to spring on you out of the blue, but if all your Wardens got together in a pub somewhere, how would they all get on?

Griffon, Mahariel and Orlena are Too Autistic for this shit and find a quiet corner to escape to. They end up having a good conversation about the stress of the Blight and of other people’s expectations and Griffon ends up asking Mahariel and Orlena some stuff about Daish and Circle culture they want to know but have been awkward asking about. In return, Mahariel asks Griffon about some noble stuff he doesn’t get. Griffon doesn’t get it either. Neither does Orlena. They complain about nobles.

Meanwhile Lorrel is adopting Everyone, whether they like it or not. Vari likes it a lot because this is essentially her grandmother and she’s really cool, and Seren’s really excited about having a city elf declare that she’s family now. She wants to know Everything about life in an alienage, which Vari and Lorrel kind of agree is “it sucks but also we’re the Greatest, and will fight anyone else who says it sucks.”

Elora tells Lorrel she doesn’t need or want a grandmother, or any family. In between mocking her little brother Thosk for all his shitty life choices. Which Thosk takes, because okay fair he has made some really shitty life choices. But some of the rest of you must have made shitty choices too right??? Isaline agrees that yes, she did. She’s not going to go into it. Mags says she did everything wrong, which Isaline and Lorrel tell her they’re sure isn’t true. Mihren says humans deserve what they get. Lacha isn’t comparing her mistakes to some fucking dwarven noble’s, and would prefer not to speak to Elora or Thosk at all actually. 

Annabeth is…… not going to be doing at all well considering she did a lot of Terrible Things in the pursuit of stopping the Blight Whatever The Cost, at the knowledge that 13 other people were able to stop the Blight without being fucking terrible about it. But if we’re being nice, we can have pre-dead family and Blight Annabeth, who is incredibly down to party and hang out with all this fun new people and hey do any of them want to make out maybe?? Therlia has no objections to that.

Mags is very shy and awkward, and Lacha, who doesn’t want to be here at all and sees no reason to hang out with these people, sighs and starts talking to her. She tells Mags a lot of stuff about her life and her own feelings on leadership and People, and ends up giving Mags some blunt but very helpful advice. Mags isn’t sure whether or not Lacha likes her at all (she does).

Therlia, Isaline and Mihren end up having a very deep discussion about how terrible Circles are and the stuff they suffered there. Seren tells them her girlfriend was made Tranquil but would prefer to go back to talking to her City Elf friends instead of saying more about it. After a while of just talking about her abusive templar ex, Isaline lets slip his name. Therlia and Mihren are very quick to agree that yeah, Cullen Rutherford is the fucking worst. Seren looks back over and vehemently agrees. Orlena approaches the main table for the first time that night to tell everyone that yeah that guy’s a massive creep. No one else likes him either.

So tl;dr there are some disagreements and then everyone bands together to talk about how much they hate cullen rutherford

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[asks from charamei, who has not used tumblr in Eighty Years]

'If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person?' for... hmm. lacha? and also rynessa just for the lols

'How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?' for vari and... hm... corinne

Lacha:  If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person?

I think “i want another Zevmance” was where Lacha came from, so a lot, I guess. Although I do think that Broscas canon backstory is just really compatible with Zev. “This guy tried to kill us, because that's what the organisation he belonged to told him to do, and without them he'd have Nothing and they'd probably kill him. Yeah, I know that feel.” I just played on that a lot. 

I also was also getting pretty squicked out at the time for how a lot of fandom zevmances go, and needed a character who was incredibly aware of the fact that Zev swore an oath to serve them in exchange for his life, and worried of taking advantage of that. And again, I think Brosca works really well with that because they've never been in a position of authority in their life before and may not know how to handle that. So the basis of Lachas personality, “tough thug whos never been given the opportunity to be anything else” and “really worried about abusing her new position of authority and being like all the  people who've spent their lives hurting her” came from Zev.

Rynessa:  If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person? 

I mean her character is more tailored for it to be Hilarious that she romances Solas, rather than necessarily all that compatible with him. But you know, Rynessa is an immortal asshole who thinks she's better than everyone else, Solas is an immortal asshole who thinks he's better than everyone else, they are pretty compatible! And I have had to make sure she won't be too annoying for him. They have some lovely pretentious Intellectual discussions.

Vari: How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

I try not to think too far ahead because DA4 could just fuck everything up. The main thing I've got is Vari and Zev breaking into Josie and Estella's house to hide from Crows fairly often, and occasionally crashing family dinners. I'm considering the idea of it coming out (in a very Dramatic Reveal) that shes the Dark Wolf, but idk if I will actually do that. (But if it does happen, it needs to be the same time everyone finds out Solas is the Dread Wolf, so everyone gets them confused and Solas gets really pissed off.)

Corinne: How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

Well, I know that she spends over a year planning her and Josie's wedding, and also that she wants to make sure the world is going to not be in the middle of falling apart when they do get married because she needs to be able to devote all her time to making sure the wedding is perfect and she can hardly do that when she's needed to save the world. And if there are people dying in this world falling apart nonsense, that might mess up the seating arrangements. She has to know who's still going to be around before she plans much of it. And it has got to be better and more elaborate than her wedding to Sebastian. So yeah, idk exactly when the wedding will happen, da4 should help me work it out.

Other than that, I know she'll still continue working for the Inquisition, and writing her romance novels. And one day Varric and Rynessa are going to go “Hang on. Corinne is?? the most interesting person I have ever met?? Fuuuck.”

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oh gosh i spent a really long time trying to come up with a good scenario to ask you about....i dunno, i think the one scene for me that always kinda DEFINED my wardens was their first impression of duncan so like???? you could talk about that if you want! :3

Huh, I never really felt that defined my Wardens for me. But ye, is still nice question!

Therlia was mostly just interested in having a person from outside the tower around, and asking him about life outside the tower. She liked that he didn’t look down on her for being a mage.

Vari disliked him quite a lot, because he’s a dick at the start of the Tabris origin and she feels he could have done a lot more to help rescue Shianni and the others.

Elora is quite impressed by him, and thinks Grey Wardens sound great. (Not that she’d want to join, she’s just been given her first military command.)

Isaline sees him as a Proper Person, because he’s not a mage, and therefore treats him with respect. She’s a little confused and nervous about the fact that he’s treating her like a person too.

Mahariel hates him because he blames Duncan for Tamlen being gone. And unlike Vari, he doesn’t mind being a dick about Duncan in front of Alistair, too.

Lacha doesn’t really care who he is when she sees him at the Provings, and ignores him because she has a job to do and Beraht won’t be happy if she gets distracted talking to a a human. After their actual first conversation, she quite likes him because he treats her with respect and lets her bring Rica with her, but she’s also suspicious of the fact that he’s treating her with respect.

Annabeth thought he was hot, and that it would be fun to fuck him on her first day in charge of Castle Cousland.

Lorrel I’m not sure about, because I know they’ve met before the origin story. So when he turns up at that point her impression is “hello friend it’s good to see you, please don’t recruit any of my grandchildren into your cult”, but idk how their actual first meeting went.

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What were your various Wardens' decisions when it came to softening/hardening their companions?

I’m never really sure what to do with softening/hardening because like in theory, it’s good, it’s getting Alistair to stand up for himself more and telling Leliana she shouldn’t hate who she is but in game it’s just the warden picking a kind of mean line and then bam they are Harder now. For all my problems with Inquisition, I do prefer the softening/hardening mechanic for Leliana a lot there.

So for the most part in the game I tend to end up ignoring getting into softening/hardening and just harden Alistair if I want him to be king, and don’t harden Leliana because she ends up hardened anyway so there’s not much point in just picking a mean sounding dialogue option.

With a lot of Wardens I do kind of headcanon that they tell Alistair something like “I’m sorry, but look you have other people who care about you” immediately after meeting Goldanna and then in various other situations sit him down and encourage him to stand up for himself more and reassuring him that he’d be better at stuff than he thinks.

With Leliana, I kind of feel it’s harder to have separate conversations to harden her and you do kind of have to have the “it’s okay that you enjoy fighting and killing people” conversation which most of my Wardens don’t really think to do. Leliana is a good person, so they tell her so, and will continue to reassure her of that if she needs and that’s it.

I think it’s actually only Lacha who hardens Leliana. Mihren probably would have if she hadn’t like, poisoned the Sacred Ashes and then had to kill Leliana. But Lacha has Issues with “if you do bad stuff you’re a Terrible Person Forever” having spent years working for the Carta so that she and her sister wouldn’t die. She also kind of believes you sometimes need to be Hard to survive. She also hardens Alistair, because she’s very cynical and hey, everyone is out for themselves Alistair. People suck, don’t let them take advantage of you.

Most of my Wardens do the later encouraging Alistair to stand up for himself hardening. I think the only ones who don’t are Isaline, Griffon, Mags, Mihren and possibly Therlia. Mags and Isaline are very bad at standing up for themselves and kind of need to learn to do it themselves before they can encourage Alistair to, but they’re also both very unhappy with the idea of forcing him to be king when he’s always said being king wasn’t his idea and he’d rather stay a Warden.

Mihren and Alistair don’t get along until almost the very end of the game so he doesn’t actually meet Goldanna until the point when Mihren is being asked to choose a ruler and why would she make this guy king when he keeps saying what a bad ruler he’d be? I think it’s actually Wynne who visits Goldanna with him, he and Mihren may be getting along better but she’s still a bit of a dick. Wynne might harden him a bit, but again, this is right at the end of the game.

Griffon doesn’t harden him because a big plot of their game is Eamon trying to force Griffon and Alistair into being rulers when they don’t want to be. So they just tell Alistair that yeah they’re both going to be shitty rulers and it would be way better to stay Grey Wardens but they should try and trust Eamon. Until Alistair wrecks Eamon’s plans by like. doing the Ultimate Sacrifice.

Therlia was my first Warden and basically just hardened Alistair because I was told “hey this dialogue option may sound mean but if you’re romancing Alistair, things will go better later if you pick it, you should do that”. And then I ended up with Alistair doing the Ultimate Sacrifice anyway so I’ve been wavering a bit about whether to keep it, since whoever Therlia decides should rule at the Landsmeet and whether or not Alistair dumps her isn’t actually going to Matter for very long. I think she probably still would harden him?? But I should replay her sometime and see how I feel then.

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Did you know you can find both D7 and D30 rollers online? Anyway, thanks to the magic of Random Dice Rolling: World state 6! Questions 28, 13 and 4! i hope this is not the Offensive Combination!

oops i just remembered i don’t have a full world state 6 yet either. but let’s give this ago anyway with Lacha Brosca, Kid Hawke and Chevalier Not-Trevelyan.

28. What is their favourite location within their own game and what would be their favourite in each others?

I mean Lacha hates Orzammar but also thinks the Surface is Weird and Bad. I think she ends up being fond of the Denerim marketplace though. Kirkwall is awful, so her favourite DA2 location is the Sundermount Cave, because one time her husband is in there. I think her favourite DAI location is Redcliffe, which is much nicer once there aren’t undead and darkspawn in it.

I’m really not sure about Kid Hawke, like I don’t have a great idea of her(?) starting personality yet and I also know she will develop a Lot within the seven years the game is going on. Chevalier’s favourite place in Inquisition is probably going to be the Winter Palace, which she is delighted to get the opportunity to attend, and her favourite place in DA2 is Chateau Haine, because look I don’t know all her personality yet but I definitely know the Orlesian part. She seems to quite like Orzammar in Origins actually.

13.Do your protagonists share the same opinions on The Game?

Well, one is Ferelden and another is Orlesian so no, absolutely not. Chevalier thinks it can be a little annoying or go a bit too far sometimes, but it is Necessary. Lacha, who believes nobility should not exist, thinks it’s evil. At least during DA2, Kid Hawke thinks it’s a bullshit orlesian thing and doesn’t really have any more nuanced thoughts on it than that.

4. What would they think about each other’s love interests (if they romanced someone of course) 

Lacha romances Zevran, Chevalier romances Blackwall and dumps him after the reveal, Kid does not romance anyone because she is a teenager. Chevalier seems to like Zevran. He’s a little bit Much, but he’s agreeable and she’s surprised by how competent he is considering he is an elf. Kid seems to think he’s cool and he’s a friend of Isabela’s, so he must be a good person.

 Lacha doesn’t have that much of an opinion on Blackwall before the reveal, she’s wary about him as a Grey Warden who talks about Honour and how great the Order is, but he seems a good guy. After the Reveal, she disapproves of the way he handled almost Everything, but she’s sympathetic. With the Kid, I again have the problem that they’re going to go through a lot of character development I’m not clear about yet. I think she would be forgiving in the end though.

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I can’t sleep so have some pretty pictures of all my DA OCs, part 1

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autisticmimikyuu said: my brosca’s reaction to mages was “shot, you want LESS people who can shit fire? I’ll take all of them”

XD Nice. Lacha says the Surface is full of weird scary things like people shitting fire, and trees, and rain and how is she meant to know whether any of it is safe??

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lorpus said: hmm, what about choosing templars or mages?

I mean all of my characters choose mages (except Amity, who’s evil) because templars are icky and siding with them makes me uncomfortable, but the character who came closest is Lacha.

Lacha is my Brosca and she’s incredibly pessimistic and has grown up just looking after herself, and her sister, because going around trying to be nice to everyone is just going to get her killed. So near the start of her game she hears that all the mages need to be killed to make sure no abominations get out and goes “Okay, I guess I’ll do it.”

Except Zevran, who is also her LI, is in the party and he gives such a long and good argument in defence of the mages (It is here if you haven’t heard it, it’s perfect, Zev is perfect) and manages to talk her round. (Even if in game there are no options to actually let him persuade you, which is bullshit.) And while at this point in the game, Lacha is still generally very guarded and not really willing to open up to anyone or show any kind of softness, after the battle she goes to Zev and thanks him for talking her round. She doesn’t have to be the ruthless criminal who can’t afford to take chances helping people any longer, and she’s grateful to him for reminding her of that. And Zev kind of knows the feeling and they can both continue to become better people together. It’s basically the point that they become friends and it’s really sweet and Lacha is really happy to have not killed the mages and given them a chance. (And also the tiny dwarf who is scared of all the things that aren’t in Orzammar becomes a bit less scared of magic.)

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Lacha Brosca: Elfroot, Deathroot, Embrium, and Arbor Blessing

Elfroot :: What is a small, mundane thing that brings your character great comfort?

Being indoors. I don’t think Lacha will ever be totally comfortable being exposed to the sky

Deathroot :: What is the most horrifying thing the Nightmare can cause your character to see?

Hmm, maybe golems?? She is very scared of the idea of Orzammar making golems again, because she knows it’s the Casteless who’d suffer. Despite the fact that she thinks feeling loyalty to other Casteless is pointless, she doesn’t want to see her people suffer any more.

Embrium :: What is the kindest thing anyone had ever done to your character, and do they remember or even know it happened?

Duncan recruiting her, I suppose. I mean, it was as much out of practicality as kindness, but he was basically the first person other than Rica to ever respect her, and he wanted to help. Plus he let her bring Rica along after she cried and refused to leave without her.

Arbor Blessing :: What is the happiest ending you can think of for your character?

Well I mean first off Orzammar would have a non-shitty king but that is not really in my control. Other than that, she survives. She gets called a hero. Humans respect her. Dwarves respect her, even the nobles. She has money and stability. She can do what she wants to do. She gets used to having friends and relying on other people. She gets a chance to actually be happy. Honestly it’s so easy to give Lacha a happy ending because she’s expected so little from life.