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As someone who made their Inky a 14 year old kid (Pa was a Templar, Mama was a Mage they made it work and then died at the Conclave and Now Everyone has to grapple with the ethical conundrum and implications of a kid being the Herald of Andraste etc.). I need the lore on your kid! Inquisitior and the fluff.

oh I love that! feel free to tell me about your inky too if you wish, they sound so interesting. 💚

okay I haven't played as them yet so things may change (I am slowly going through the DA games again but DAO has so many parts I don't enjoy it's been hard 😔 but soon I'll get to play the DA games I do enjoy)

Drawing of an idea of how they could look. I do want to add some freaky shit more from the anchor to show how much it's fucked them up.

Looking into their eyes is like looking into the fade, this kid like partly fade nonsense at this point.

will put this under a readmore so it doesn't get too long. this will all probably be a mess so hopefully things are understandable, and also shows I'm trying to not get lost in thinking about them too much when I'm still playing DAO and need to still play DA2.

Lior is eight years old, goes by they/them, is an orphan that got super attached to Divine Justinia to the point Justinia had no choice but to accept she had a kid now. That's why they were at the Conclave, they were meant to stay put and out of everything but they went looking for Justinia when they ran into Corypheus and took the anchor from him without understanding anything what is going on.

Cassandra and Leliana know this kid well, the worse they could do is not clean up a mess they made or steal sweets from the kitchen when they were told no, they both no this kid would never have any way of blowing up the Conclave, so the start of the game is one they do need to try and close the rift but also they need to keep this kid safe and try and shield them from the horrors (they can't)

Varric is for sure the first to speak up about how fucked this is putting a kid through all this.

Solas is suffering he never meant for a kid to be brought into his mess, he takes up teaching Lior how to control their newly gained magic. Lior gets super close to Solas like they get super attached to him so Trespasser is gonna hurt.

Vivienne also becomes another teacher when she joins because there's no way she's gonna let them only learn from an apostate.

The advisors + Cassandra all make the decisions so Lior is nothing but the figure head, the face of the inquisition because they're the Herald of Andraste.

I do have mods all set up for the playthrough so I'm gonna be using one that let's you do both the templar quest and the mage quest so I like to think they believed it was a good idea to take the kid to Therinfal Redoubt and that it should be safe (it wasn't), but Lior wants to help the mages too and won't shut up until they all go help, so they end up having to somehow get over to help the mages before anything happens, Lior and Dorian are stuck in the future for over a week as they try and get back to their time, what isn't easy when he has to keep this kid safe who is scared and still doesn't have the best handle on their magic at that point, they start calling Dorian uncle no matter what he says or thinks and this will never end.

Poor Lior is gonna have nightmares of the future for a very long time after this. They probably cling to Solas anymore than usual after they saw him corrupted by the red lyrium.

They of course befriend Kieran, they can be weird kids together (and maybe something else in the future because it could be fun to if they start having feelings for each other in veilguard but still haven't acted upon said feelings)

Also I keep imaging Blackwall making toys for them <3 he takes one look at them and knows what he must do, and also could partly be him trying to make up for things he did in the past.

They learn more than anyone probably wants them to from both Sera and Cole, two very different things but they're a kid so the pranks would be fun and I think Sera knows it and wants the kid to remember they're still just a person (and a kid) I feel like with Cole it's to do with the fact they're some mess of the fade now thanks to the anchor and somehow understand him really well so they both end up being weird together in ways that I think are really sweet.

Piggyback rides with Iron Bull is a must, sadly I think I'm gonna have him sacrifice the Chargers :c so Trespasser is also gonna hurt here too. (but this world state is about doing things a little differently than what I usually do so...)

The two DLCs will be done by other people, they won't send the kid into danger where they aren't needed, Lior only gets to go anywhere if there are rifts to be closed. Every mission becomes a escort mission if Lior is there.

By the end of the game they live with Divine Victoria (Leliana) and my HoF Aisling, those two take care of them until they're old enough to be on their own.

I like to think when my Hawke shows up they yell at everyone for letting any of this happen to a kid.

Also imagine an eight year old kid telling everyone at the ball how stupid they are all and they need to get along and work together.

In veilgaurd they would look probably like this (just with me leaning more into maybe some scaring left from the anchor I'm still trying to figure out how they'll be):

they've been through so much, losing their whole arm at age ten and now there's some new blight and they have to help? Kid needs help they're only 18 they can't be helping with saving the world again.

They still have a connection to the fade, it's just not killing them like the anchor was. (but anyone who knows me knows I love giving my characters chronic pain so you know they're dealing with pain from it all for the rest of their life)

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I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise

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literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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Tumblr 2021: he is SO soppinf wet, my scrimpy little fiction boy

Tumblr 2025: sodomizing and spanking that man #TheCharacter

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Noooooo they retconned Star Wars Jizz

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Losing my mind at this poor girl in Argentina who found a kitten on the side of the road and adopted it only to find out it was a freaking jaguarundi. Look at that fucking thing. That's a whole ass kiddy cat

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there’s a big difference between “i’m sad because a character i was emotionally invested in was killed off” and “this character’s death served no purpose, was used for shock value, and is the product of bad writing and i’m upset about that”

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I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.

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each year congress people should be required to go on a field trip where they each get dumped in the middle of a random u.s. town & handed a phone with google maps & forced to find their way back to washington solely through the use of local public transportation systems.

to be clear i don't think this would improve our political reality in any way, but it would be fun to watch

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the concept of a child inquisitor is very fucked up (said in the tone of someone clearly considering adding it to their worldview)

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*holding clipboard* hm…. *kisses your cheek* interestning… *writes down results on clipboard but the results are a drawing of us holding hands*

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fuckkkkk i want mint chocolate chip ice cream so bad rn