the righteous stand before the darkness

a dragon age sideblog. 18+. mdnf.

[andrasteschosen]

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⋆ zi (she/her), 28 & this is my dragon age sideblog, i follow from @jacknought

dragon age is like a bad habit i can't kick, so i keep coming back to this

⋆ i post about:

(dao) f!cousland x alistair, f!cousland x leliana, f!cousland x anora, f!mahariel x morrigan

(da2) f!hawke x sebastian, f!hawke x varric (often unrequited), f!hawke x isabela, f!hawke x anders, f!hawke x meredith

(dai) f!trevelyan x thom rainier, f!amell x cullen (hced), f!lavellan x solas, f!trevelyan x sera, f!trevelyan x josephine, f!trevelyan x iron bull

(datv) tba

[parkchanwoohoo]

Found abusive family

[parkchanwoohoo]

Sometimes a group of queer, traumatized people come together and beat the shit out of each other and do DARVO tactics to recreate what their parents did to them. And that's beautiful.

[andrasteschosen]

How I Explain SweetDream to Total Beginners

When someone has no idea what an AI girlfriend even is, I keep it simple: you design a companion, and then you can talk, call, and share moments with her like she's real. SweetDream makes that whole idea easy to grasp by just doing it well.

The reason the explanation lands is the quality behind it. You see the natural chat, hear the warm voice, look at the beautiful photos, and it clicks. sweetdream.ai is the easiest way to understand the appeal firsthand.

[hyperbali]

"Veilguard isn't bad, you just didn't like it"

[hyperbali]

Bringing this back in light of some poor idiot soul who wanted to try and foment a "what game will you never stop defending" trend and the game in question was Veilguard

[dragonagepolls]

Which DAI companion would be the most vanilla during sex?

Which DAI companion would be the most vanilla during sex?

Solas

Vivienne

Dorian

Blackwall

Cassandra

Iron Bull

Sera

Cole

Varric

Voting ended onApr 8

[nikiferous]

The Chantry / The Inquisition faction for DATV

A part of my worldstate i wish to share; many aspects of the faction are tailored specifically to my own worldstate, but other are not, and I encourage to take from this what you want and make your own spin!

[sevibun]

i still think of you

[siriusdraws]

early morning war room set up

[dykieran]

well now i'm curious

how long have you been playing dragon age

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

11-12 years

13-14 years

15-16 years

the whole time (17 years)

Voting ended onApr 1

[androidtrashfire]

It's so weird when people are like, "Ugh why is Aveline even here, she sucks??"

Aveline is here because on top of everything else, DA2 is a refugee metaphor. Kirkwall is a place actively hostile to Ferelden refugees, the Hawkes and Aveline have been through the hell of losing both their homes and families together. And like many refugees from the same place who traveled together irl, they are bound as tightly as blood and are now literally ride-or-die family even if they wouldn't normally have had anything in common to even make them friends back home. The Hawkes are the only family left that Aveline has, and it doesn't matter if Carver sucks or Hawke runs around with their collection of weird borderline-criminal bisexuals. They are her people and she is theirs. It would take a literal city-destroying cataclysm to even think of putting them at any sort of real odds.

Hope that clears up a very basic straightforward dynamic within the game!

[the-overanalyst]

unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

[dragonagepolls]

I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE ORIGINAL POLL I'M SORRY IGEL

Which companion would be the sole survivor in a stereotypical* horror movie?

Alistair

Leliana

Loghain

Morrigan

Oghren

Shale

Sten

Wynne

Zevran

Voting ended onMar 23

*I think what anon means by this is a slasher movie, and since I accidentally deleted Igel's poll anyway I'm going to weigh in here as someone who is a slasher fan and has read/watched a fair amount of analysis on them as well - this trope is called the Final Girl trope (though the character is not always female they're still referred to as such), and a misconception held by a lot of people who don't watch slashers or have only dabbled in watching slashers is the nature of the Final Girl. It's not the toughest or edgiest character, or the one with actual survival/combat skills. It's usually a girl-next-door type, a "sensible" and practical sort who manages to survive through sheer determination. There are a lot of connotations to why this sort of character is the one to survive and/or defeat the slasher, often rooted in judgements about how young women should look and behave, but I'm not going to get into it here because there is plenty of literature that explains it better than I can and I'm sure anyone who isn't a slasher fan isn't really interested in all that anyway (for those who are interested, Carol J. Clover's "Men, Women and Chainsaws" is considered a pretty core book in analysing the tropes of various genres of horror movies, include the slasher genre)

[morticianart]

✦︎ Queen of Swords ✦︎

[andrasteschosen]

truly nothing like the end of the world to reignite your ten year old situationship

[fruitzbat]

does anders have good pullout game

yes

no

yenteschaft

Voting ended onMar 13

[andrasteschosen]

so theres this one piece of cullen concept art that people love to clown on because he looks like jared letos joker but I was looking at the dragon age inquisition art book again and i am pretty sure thats not supposed to be the actual cullen at all and is reference to the part in champions of the just where the envy demon is mimicking him

because this is actually cullens concept art

[thedeafprophet]

2026 time to be unabashedly real and engaged with your own ocs. we are DEFEATING self embaresment. we are KILLING fear of judgment. if anyone talks shit i will PERSONALLY BITE THEM

[stonesense]

do you romance the video game characters that you personally are attracted to (i.e. not just your preferred gender but your “type”, you personally are Into That)

i exclusively romance characters i’m personally attracted to

i mostly romance characters i’m personally attracted to, with some exceptions

it’s sort of a 50:50 whether or not it’s about personal attraction

there are a handful i pick for that reason, but mostly it’s something else

my choices aren’t about personal attraction at all and only cross over by chance

i do not experience personal attraction to video game characters or at all

i do not do romances in video games

Voting ended onMar 18

if you do repeated playthroughs to experience all or most romances, please as usual try to answer for your “main”/“canon”/favourite playthroughs, or your first playthroughs if that makes more sense