i know that people have wanted varric to be romanceable for years but i actually think it's a gift that he's not because it means i can delve deep into his intimacy issues without him having a romance path in either da2 or dai lmao. like this is a dwarf who talks a good game, especially to isabela in their very sexually charged banter, but cannot finish his own romance serial, which he claims is because it's not that popular but i think it's also out of insecurity about it not being that good ( considering he writes the next serial only when prompted by the inquisitor to do it for cassandra ), whose only confirmed romantic relationship is with a woman that he cannot actually be in a functional relationship with and who arguably doesn't care as much for him as he does for her, and who he then names his crossbow after because that's a totally normal, well adjusted thing to do.
i personally think this all has roots in the fact that he has been a caregiver for almost his entire life. he took care of his mother after his father died and his brother was trying to restore the tethras family name, dealing with her alcoholism while also trying to cover up her issues in order to keep the family name intact. he cared for her all the way up until her death and then in hawke + the da2 group he found new people to care for and that's the primary way in which he knows how to function in a social situation. he's the one that everyone relies on, that looks out for everyone and who dismisses any troubles of his own so that he's not burderning anyone with them. he's a fixer: he fixes problems, he comes up with solutions, he's always moving forward with some kind of plan. he very rarely, if at all, wallows in his own self pity, even when it comes to his bartrand personal quest line. i don't think varric knows how to be properly vulnerable with another person; the closest he gets is naturally with hawke ( though it's never romantic ), plus you see this side of him with the inquisitor if you sacrifice hawke in the fade but that is an exceptional set of circumstances and definitely not something that is the norm for him.
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part of spring cleaning includes doing slight redesigns for 8-year old OCs, right
Especially since i've recently drew the KFC Trio, it's now time for more fallen humans!
UTY has gotten me straight back into my old hyperfixiation, so of course i have been thinking about my dear daughter again especially if it helped me develop slight changes in her backstory and fighting style too
oh and also! the small doodle of eva is of course from the lovely @kitsunekisara i simply missed those two girls together again <3
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girl help how do i prioritize (not actually asking for advice just ranting). i have a performance tomorrow that's technically part of my final but also the Events of the last week on campus it's technically optional. but that being said i really want to be memorized for that performance and put the time in to make it really good bc even if it isn't graded it's still an opportunity for me to test out new aubrey material (and i'm definitely gonna film it and send it to bellini). i have to turn in a "final" for my independent study which is just my way to get credit for the buddy cole doc, but that final is editing a ten minute piece out of my tour footage and because of the Events i think i will get more grace if it's not a great edit but i need to turn something in by wednesday. i have a final for my history class that's just a presentation and i've already made the powerpoint and researched so i'm confident i can improvise (it's fairly low stakes) BUT i still have to do a quiz for my history class that was due last week but i somehow missed and i haven't been able to get to it bc stressed about finals and also the Events but since it was assigned before the Events i don't think i'll get the same grace as post-Events assignments, and this quiz is worth like 10% of my grade so i need to turn something in like even tho i currently have an A in that class and Cs get degrees i still don't know what grade i'll get on my final so better safe than get a zero on the quiz but i have no motivation since it's not a final like the rest of my stuff (even if the aubrey thing is lowkey not graded??? even before the Events that class had a unique grading system so i already know i've got an A in that class regardless this is just like an optional showcase). and i also have a zoom with bruce tomorrow for the buddy cole doc which i'm very excited for but also will have to plan around the amount of hours in the day i have left to get things done lmao
anyway it's wild being in finals week bc half of me is like "i just wanna go hoooome alreadyyyy" but the other half is like "holy fuck there is too much to do i need an extra week to get it all done"
but anyway less than a week from today i'm gonna be done with my penultimate semester of college (graduating in december!!!) and i have literally zero plans for the months of may and june rn so like. i know i'm going to get incredibly bored super quickly but like one of my favorite inspirational quotes is that tumblr post that was like "in two weeks you will have different problems" and yeah that sure is true
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an ongoing source of comedy in my life is that I was never taught grammar in english at school and so to this day the only grammar sytems/grammatical terms I know are from studying french & latin
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