anyway yeah I kinda learned how to mod inquisition just so I could give Old Lady Cadash her wrinkles back? and then i edited her face a bit while i was at it.
also I’m trying to shake off seasonal depression (aka January Is A Terrible Month And I Don't Like It) & general listlessness, so I’ve decided that this week is My OCs, Let Me Show You Them week, b/c I never actually talk about my OCs even tho it's literally in the blog's description:
-her name is actually malika
-yes that is the default name
-listen i am not good at naming things and i just wanted to play the game
-dual-wielding rogue (assassin) who would've been an archer if i'd known then what i know now but i'm not retconning it
-i am retconning her using the default worldstate tho
-listen i didn't have one ready to use and i just wanted to play the game
-instead she comes after a surana who survived the blight without morrigan's ritual and a hawke that is actually a shepard (... loooong story)
-officially Too Old For This Shit
-stubborn and set in her ways
-they're good ways. they've kept her alive so far
-she’s p laid-back and chill, which tends to make people forget that she and her brother p much single-handedly turned the family into a Carta powerhouse
-turns out it's very easy to be laid-back and chill when you can just get people stabbed, js
-was at the conclave both b/c the conclave was Serious Business and to supervise her grandniece (?) who was just about ready to take her succession at the head of the family
-her own survival felt like the punchline to the worst joke ever
-honestly i don't really have anything interesting to say about her relationship with the Inner Circle? she ended up befriending everyone partly b/c it was my first pt and partly b/c again, laid-back and chill
-she treats all of them like they're her kids anyway
-but mostly like she won't really argue with you, she'll just listen to your take on things and then have you carefully watched should your take on things run counter to her interests and then have you slightly killed should she feel the need to
-for all of that, she herself had hardly ever killed anyone before joining the Inquisition
-she may or may not have some unresolved guilt re: all of the deaths she did order or indirectly caused, in a 'well someone had to take charge of things after everything went sideways in orzammar and besides it was all just business, but maybe i should feel bad about it' sorta way
-that's her private business tho and she's still 100% unapologetic about her past to anyone who asks
-i really need to replay her game so i can take her through the dlc and also possibly maybe write that cadash fic i've only been planning for like two years now
other mods used: Deshine Series for stock PC textures || Immersive Starting Armour || No Sideburns || Wavy Hair