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bisexual flag color picked from the Chantry explosion!!!

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You ever get lightheaded thinking about whatever Hawke was doing with their life before the Blight

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- The Long Awaited Meeting Between Times New Roman and Comic Sans | Zac Oyama and Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Thinking about the implied missing scene between these dialogues where Anders smugly tells Fenris that Isabela supports mage rights

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literally nothing will ever be funnier than this oneshot kill from merrill

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- By the Ancestors, what’s gotten into you, my boy? - Enchantment? - That’s more like it. 

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✨🐉🌈 it's pride month 🌈🐉✨

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I really didn’t ever expect we’d ever even see Veilguard. In light of this article…..once again shoutout to the dev team for making such a beautiful game under the absolute worse time crunch. For the writing, characters, and gameplay itself to be this good under such hellish circumstances is incredible. Also fuck Bioware and EA for the record.

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grand enchanter fiona. kill these clowns.

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veilguard is the most finished unfinished game ever. it's hard to explain if you haven't played it but it's the most polished half-baked experience I've ever had with a game

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when you're in the mourn watch this kind of thing just doesn't really freak you out

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the thing i love about the hawke family is that it's entirely a reflection of hawke. hawke is shaped by the family, in the sense that all people are shaped by where and how they grow up, and the family is shaped by hawke in turn, because you create the family by your choices.

carver is your surviving sibling because you chose to be a mage, but carver is also carver because his siblings were both mages. i'm not here to tell anyone what to think, if you think carver would have been the same person regardless, that's totally fine, but i think the carver who grew up with an "ally", a non-mage sibling who was like him is a fundamentally different person than the carver who grew up having to protect two mages.

similarly, the bethany who grew up with self-loathing isolation... i think that's a different person than a bethany who grew up with a mage sibling, particularly if that sibling felt differently about their magic. that's a bethany who couldn't blame only herself for the family's situation, who wasn't always the odd one out, the one with the biggest and worst secret.

i love that the narrative bends around hawke, creates an arc where the defining feature of the surviving sibling is isolation. loneliness.

malcolm is the ghost in the machine the haunting at the center of the narrative, yes, but he is also shaped in your image. hawke is canonically like malcolm, which means that malcolm is canonically like hawke. leandra, who loved him, who gave up everything for him, then changes too, maybe more subtly. but who hawke is has to reflect on who leandra is, because leandra becomes the type of person who would anchor her life around a person like hawke.

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4. skill issue

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Fenris spread page

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me when we first meet verso: who are you. i don't want you here. i don't trust you. how dare you.

me now: