okay i need the deets about your surana-lavellan i am so intrigued 👀🙏 -merrybandofmurders
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I'll have you know, I am OBSESSED with my Surana-Lavellan. I am OVERJOYED to tell you, every single one of my lurking followers, and the whole world all about her. 🥰🤩😍 Welcome to my Very Long Post to justify having Surana as my Lavellan!!
Okay! It starts with: I didn't put enough memory on the MS side of my Mac laptop 😅
I played DAO with my Cousland, went on to play DA2, but I went back and started my Surana file for funsies and Tabris as well. Just because I love building characters and I wanted to experience the other Origins. I fell IMMEDIATELY in love with my Surana. I played her with high Willpower, a bit of a bully and an arrogant one at that, who'd drunk the Chantry Kool-aid and was going to slowly, as she ventured out into the world, realize the Kool-aid was gross, and she and all mages deserve better. However, before I even finished the first few Main Quests (I think I did Broken Circle and Orzammar), I finished my DA2 playthru and my friend helped me set up for DAI.
This is where the lack of memory on my laptop comes in. I had to delete my Origins file to make room on my laptop for DAI. I didn't want to close down the entire partition and re-allot the memory so I just deleted everything but DAI. I was so sad and upset, I remade my Lanil Surana as Lanil Lavellan and added an entire amnesia-ridden backstory for her 🤣 Her personality and character growth was going to be along the same lines, and her appearance, of course. And then I set sail on DAI~
Basically: During Origins, someone *coughCullencough* helped her escape during Uldred’s Uprising and she couldn't get back. She barely escaped through a tunnel in the storage rooms full of giant spiders (a little bg for her DAI phobia 😉) and wandered around poisoned and pissed off with vague plans to go back home anyway when the Sabrae Clan picked her up. She ended up leaving with them instead to the Free Marches, but after everything with Uldred, didn't trust Merrill enough to stay. The blood magic and the demon on Sundermount scared her, especially since she's still a little Kool-aid drinker at heart at this time. Marethari eventually sent Lanil off to the Lavellan Clan and Lanil became a Second. Mainly because she was highly educated and a Healer with spells she could teach that they would never have heard of. Her becoming First was out of sheer moxie. She refuses to let anyone tell her she can't do something and she'd always been rather ambitious, aiming and being groomed for First Enchanter most of her life.
Along the way she does actually grow and change. She starts to care a lot more about elves and Elvhen, becomes fascinated by this history that was denied her during her Chantry-filled life, and throws herself into the culture with wide eyes. It's about more than being powerful, it's about wanting to use that power to make things better, to protect the People that have welcomed her and her magic and made her feel like she finally had a family. (Dregs of this inform who she is as an Inquisitor.)
Then, the Conclave. She's sent because she's Chantry-educated and knows the lay of the land well. She's FROM there; she has studied the geography and knows the politics. She can blend in better than any of them. When she and the Divine are blown into the Fade, though, the Nightmare doesn't just take her memories of that night and Corypheus, it took ALL of them. She had nearly nothing left and doesn't even know her own name for most of her story. She's just Lavellan, because Leliana found her belongings and the only personal information included was the Clan name: Lavellan. Dorian (I think? It might have been Sera) eventually dubs her "Lane" and she responds to it automatically. She doesn't get her memories back until after Into the Abyss, of course, which I played AFTER Wicked Eyes Wicked Hearts, and after her relationship Cullen was already pretty deep and "locked in".
I had a lot of fun with writing her and Cullen's first meeting and then after she figures out who she really is 🤣 Cullen definitely gaslit himself into thinking he's crazy for noticing how similar they looked/acted. Since she was much older, heavily scarred, and had vallaslin (and amnesia, so even her personality was affected in a way), he told himself he was being stupid, how could Surana be a Dalish elf now? She's probably dead and his one truly rebellious act was for nothing. Lavellan just looks *a lot* like her. Don't be so racist, Rutherford! Surprise! It's really her! 🤣🤣🤣 (tbf, they did only know each other for a year, and even then, it wasn't like they knew each other well)
She starts off DAI ruthless and stubborn as hell, aggressively doing the Right Thing and taking everyone along with her. She consolidated as much power as she could, and does everything possible to make the world better for mages and elves, but she's not exactly wise or clever and makes some truly upsetting mistakes. Learning to rely on others, to be vulnerable, and to care more about the small, important details rather than the Big Picture is how she grows. Although she never quite shakes her knee-jerk aggressive and stubborn-jackass personality, she does soften slightly and learn empathy. The Iron Bull's betrayal much later shakes her down to her core, and it's the main reason why she chooses to save and forgive Solas instead of kill him in the end. She doesn't want to let down and lose another close friend like she did the Iron Bull.
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To follow on from that last ask answer:
Lorenza’s succubus companion (screen left) compared to her initial form directly after the Flood of Darkness (centre) ..compared to her form directly before the Flood of Darkness (top)
And if you want to know the full story (Endwalker spoilers for the last picture, technically)..
This is (my in-game recreation of) her counterpart shard ^-^
(Cessair is apparently an Irish name meaning “sorrow” or “affliction”, so part of me is tempted to call her Thirteenth counterpart Tristezza, which means “sorrow” in Italian. But I’m not sure if I will go that far yet; my focus is moreso on Cessair herself. I have quite inexplicably gotten attached to her despite this encyclopaedia entry and Cait Sith’s dialogue during the Shadows of Mhach quests being just about the only information to exist regarding her. When Lorenza enters the Source in the main story, it is the third time she has done so. Appearing to Cessair in the Fifth Astral Era was the second! The first was to the Allagans.
How do I know Cessair had counterpart shards, you might ask? Because you can see her unsundered self in the game as well - next to Cait Sith, at that!)
(..You would not believe how much trouble I had to go through to unmask her and the others. But I got there in the end!)
Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this ^-^ I’m just having fun here, hehe
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@thundertempo asked: ✏️for Nami
Send in ✏️ and I’ll use this (improved) incorrect quote generator featuring both our muses! (Always Accepting!)
Ikkaku: Someone care to explain why we have 6 dogs in our apartment?
Nami: They're golden retrievers, dude. They retrieve gold. I did this for us.
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Kidnapper: I have your partner.
Nami: What? I don't have a partner...
Kidnapper: Then who just called me a lowlife bitch and spit in my face?
Nami: Oh my god, you have Ikkaku.
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Ikkaku: I’m genuinely surprised you haven’t gotten arrested, let alone gotten a felony yet.
Nami: Nat 20 Charisma.
Ikkaku: That is NOT how that works-
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Ikkaku: You know, people treat me like a god.
Nami: How?
Ikkaku: They ignore my existence unless they need something.
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Nami: You use humor to deflect your trauma.
Ikkaku: Awww, thanks-
Nami: That’s not a good thing.
Ikkaku: All I’m hearing is that you think I’m funny.
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last line of wip!
Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line.
i was tagged by @mayberrycryptid! thank you!! 💖 this forced me to open the document and figure out what the last line i wrote even was, which was a pretty useful exercise in figuring out what’s going on all by itself.
i’m going to skip officially tagging people because i’ve already thrown so many tag games at so many of you this week, but !! this is an easy one! genuinely, if you see this (and you’re a writer, and you want to) do it and tag me, please (or even drop an answer in the replies)! i want to see your last line! 🕵️♂️📃
mine is from the starsky-watches-westerns wip, from a discussion starsky and hutch are having about stagecoach, the 1939 john ford film:
“Of course not,” Hutch says, only to immediately follow it up with, “Her name is Dallas.”
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