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[sisifroggy]

Unhinged Text Posts: Lady Vivienne de Fer (Part 3)

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[emmavakarian-theirin]

EVERYTIME WE TOUCH FRIDAY (REMASTERED)

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Remember in DAI when Krem has no real words to describe what he is in Tevene but The Iron Bull is able to lend him words in Qunlat to explain his transness. And how Krem murmurs 'and the qun doesn't treat them like any less of a man?' and bull says 'they are a man.' and it's one of the only places in DAI where the Qun is not only portrayed in a positive light but is portrayed as a place with a different cultural understanding that is actually interesting and nuanced??? And then in DAtV the Qun goes back to being kinda just evil bad and Taash has to go to Tevine to get words for what they're going through because qunari/Rivain doesn't do that whereas enlightened tevinter the imperial ruling power does? And they wanted to humanise tevinter and dock town so they removed slavery but despite saying they wanted to humanise the Qun they instead made them all growling evil mega mobs? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[what-a-bastard]

I love shipping characters as exes, like yeah no they're not endgame, they could never be endgame, but they've absolutely fucked nasty and changed who each other are as people and at least one of them got their heart broken

[thessaralka]

what makes me saddest about da4's treatment of Solas is how they chopped his arc in half, they made him soooo physically alone, when canonically he was surrounded by agents and people helping him fight for his cause. it cheapens his mission and makes him look like some crazy loner loser asshole, when the entire time he was trying to help the elves - and thousands of elves would have been on his side in that mission.

"i have people, Seeker" - he's had people (both physical and nonphysical) supporting him for thousands of years. freeing the elves from slavery and oppression is his thing. he only pretends to be alone in inquisition, where we see more of Solas and less of Fen'harel, because yeah, Solas is lonely, despite Fen'harel having support, and being some nobody suited Solas's intentions in inquisition. in DAI when we meet him, he just recently killed one of his oldest friends in cold blood. that's not the action of somebody who has a dearth of supporters, but it is the action of an out-of-touch leader who thinks his way is the only way and he will bulldoze anyone in his way to get there, no matter the cost to them (the action of a person who feels trapped by circumstance).

it's like they thought the players are so stupid that we wouldn't be able to see how lonely and sad and emotionally isolated and tortured solas was if he was surrounded by agents and armies. and yeah sure, some small amt of people might need hand holding like that, but most of them are not playing dragon age.

[dudewheresmynug]

Propaganda this, propaganda that. You should take a propa ganda at these Fine Dwarven Crafts, direct from Orzammar! You won't find better.

[stonesense]

i still don’t know why we can’t kill the guy in cole’s personal quest

[stonesense]

i’ve done it twice and both times when solas is like “we cannot let him kill that guy” and varric is like “yeah obviously no-one was thinking that” i’m there thinking that.

[stonesense]

dragon age got so scared about vengeance after da2 that if you say it’s fine to kill a guy who (accidentally??? or something??? NOT BETTER) starved a child to death everyone looks at you like you’re crazy

[silver-horse]

and this is supposed to be a medieval-style fantasy rpg !! a little bit of killing should be part of our enrichment !

( tags by @arasaka-android so true! )

[riggedbones-moving]

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

[blackheartbiohazards]

I am not blorbo’s apologist, I’m blorbo’s defense attorney. And baby, we are going for a plea deal cause he absolutely did that shit.

[the-savage-nymph-art]

A list of consequences your choices in DAO, DA2 and DA:I could/should have had for Veilguard:

- having Kieran with Morrigan leads to Solas being significantly more powerful (Urthemiel's soul absorbed through Flemythal)

- making Gaspard Emperor of Orlais leads to an orlesian/fereldan allied war against Tevinter (because he chummies up with Alistair and/or Anora), weakening the Imperium significantly.

- giving Briala any kind of power supports Solas indirectly. (For elvhen glory™)

- disbanding the Inquisition lowers the Inquisitor's influence and reach, but they can act much faster. And Inquisitor in Chantry service has more power, but much less freedom with it.

- different support for the Inquisitor depending on their choice of ally or conscript/recruit mages or Templars

- Zevran alive and as leader of the Crows (in Antiva City) could mean infighting between houses or a different approach to certain missions, because of 'the purge'.

- Leliana as Divine might try to find an accord with the Imperial Chantry. Maybe.

- Hawke in Weisshaupt?

- Hawke sibling in Weisshaupt?

- Fenris in Minrathous (one way or the other)

- The Hero of Ferelden finds a cure for the Blight if still alive

- depending on who rules Orzammar key dwarf based mission follow different paths, because either you get in or you don't.

- being at least friends with Dorian in inquisition grants a boost in Shadow Dragon trust and influence

- ...

[seracadash]

Cullen (was a templar in Kinloch Hold) seeing Anders (mage in Kinloch Hold) face to face at the gallows at daylight and talking with him in several occasions: Surely this man arguing about mage rights is not an apostate i have to deal with

Cullen seeing Samson 484744747 miles away in the middle of the fucking night: That's Samson

[vlwv]

[icpe]

Dragon AGE 2

[janusfnc14]

At last, she could Serve Cunt as she yearned to do.

[linka-from-captain-planet]

the Grey Wardens being a coercive death cult is so under-utilized imo

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[sunlight-shunlight]

i'm always gazing into the distance thinking about city elves bc, despite bioware forgetting them entirely, there's stuff like this dagger from the tabris origin in dao:

elves are not allowed to own weapons in denerim to begin with. so this means that they went to SIGNIFICANT effort to keep this thing at all.

it survived hundreds of years from the dales collapsing to the present day thedas, with the name and story attached, despite the various displacements and woes the elves went through in between then.

the fact that it's named after fen'harel, and yet has this positive connotation of defending a home rather than betraying allies, is huge actually! like that's wild. not only did the city elves remember fen'harel at all As A Concept despite their forced conversion to andrastianism, they ended up with a very different view of it than the dalish.

i would argue that given how the city elves are always struggling under corrupt and brutal nobility, they might have retained a stronger cultural memory of the arlathan rebellion as a positive thing in their stories. and the dalish clans are technically descended from dales nobility too, so that would also have an effect on their ideology?

FURTHERMORE. if we assume there were multiple felassan-style immortal elves running around, with varying loyalties and agendas, then... i am once more on my "the dalish Historical Misinformation Nightmare has been fomented intentionally by immortal elf agents to keep them worshiping the evanuris" ted talk.

which also explains why the city elves didn't get affected by that! bc... the type of immortal elf who would be an evanuris partisan, would also see the city elves as hopeless and not even worth the trouble to influence.

THIS is how the city elves can still win-

[natequarter]

listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

[aromanticofficial]

official aromantic post

[arienai]

"my fave did nothing wrong" oh yeah well MY fave fucked everything up and she's still my fave so