i may be returning soon! trespasser has put all kinds of feelings inside me. i have to figure some things out with bull, though. no spoilers to be found here... until i come back. if i do, expect all kinds of new meta!!!! the quality content u’ve come to expect from bullshittting dot tumblr dot com
not really a hc. just a shower thought. and it’s probably been said a million times, but: the qunari are given job titles and nicknames, and that’s all they go by. the iron bull is bull’s creation: his job. bull is a nickname
that being said, iron bull has never said anybody can ‘call him bull’ as far as i can remember and i doubt he’d ever tell him to call him that. he legitimately prefers the iron bull. it’s because he’s just such a chill and relaxed guy that people think it’s fine to call him bull, which it is, because he IS such a chill and relaxed guy, but he really does prefer the title.
he prefers the nickname ‘bull’ to ‘hissrad’ though. who the fuck wants to be called liar
(i figure hissrad isn’t a title because his title would’ve changed from the one he was re-educated )
i haven’t been on here in a while but something has been BOTHERING me. time for the lengthy hc that ur clearly all here for on bullshittting dot tumblr dot com
i've never heard anybody talk about it, so i'll just say it plainly: iron bull doesn't agree with dorian on a lot of things, but imo, he only REALLY agrees with dorian's choices to leave tevinter and not get married because he thinks tevinter is a god-awful place with no redeeming features save dorian himself, the food, and the dancing girls. if the situation had been reversed, if bull had grown up in tevinter and had somehow kept all of his qunari morals--almost certainly impossible given the nature of growing up under the qun and in tevinter--and the values we see in canon, then i have no doubt in my mind that if bull's family told him to drop everything and get married and become a magister, he would, even if he didn't love the girl. even if he was strictly gay, which he obviously isn't, he would do it. that's his role, and if he ever wants to make tevinter a better place, he would go through with it. you gotta go through the system to get shit done in his head. you can't do anything without power.
he doesn't think it's right dorian's parents tried to do the blood magic ritual on him, in fact, he thinks its abhorrent. he also doesn't agree with the concept of parents--and dads, so he's biased against them from both the start. they prove they can't handle parenthood/fatherhood and they're also blood magic users after telling dorian never to use blood magic. it's so easy to demonize them. but in essence, iron bull believes in following orders and making due with what you got. he approves everytime you amass more power. you don't amass power by running away.
i know what you're thinking. but sami, he wanted to side with the chargers! he even defended them! he believes in love over authority! yeah ok but listen: he'd side with the qunari just as easy if you tell him to. he follows orders. he's willing to give up everything he is, even the people he loves, for orders.
after you side with the chargers, i imagine he tries to get out of that hole, because he has to. it's unhealthy for a non-qunari to have that mindset, because people outside the qun HAVE to make decisions for themselves.
that's when the fascination with dorian becomes something more. he starts to believe in him, and admire him for more than just his courage in getting through something awful--but his courage for getting out of it all on his own, and still wanting to make the decision to go back on his own terms. he's always thought he was brilliant, dangerous, but brilliant, but the way he makes decisions about his own life seems so simple and complex and he wants to take his brain apart with his fingers and see everything that makes him tick even though in theory he already does, and learn... how to be more like him. how to be his own person, and to be legitimately proud of everything he's become.
dorian says it best, when you live a lie it festers inside you like a poison. bull's lived in half-truths for so very very long, lying for fun AND survival and he's hurting and now he's all on his own. he needs to figure out who he is, he needs to heal his own hurt, and in the back and front of his mind, he knows he can do it with dorian. and that he wants to.
tldr; bull doesn’t agree with dorian’s choice not to get into an arranged marriage and become a magister but he does want to learn how to live his own life like dorian does, and he admires him greatly for it. it’s how he knows dorian will make his life and the bull himself a better, fuller, and his OWN person. he hopes he helps dorian too.
as a sidenote, even if bull did decide to get married to some girl to become a magister, he’d probably still bang who he wanted discreetely. maybe even fall in love or some shit (even though he wouldn’t want to lol). there are ways through the rules when there aren’t ways around them.
as u may have noticed.... i have not been here. at all. i still love bull very dearly but i’ve lost some of the steam i had for dragon age and tumblr rping. from now on, expect me on pretty rarely until i get my dragon age/tumblr rping muse back. if u ever want to rp on skype i’m SO down, but yknow. on here its harder. sorry for any inconvenience on ya’lls part.
expect me back 4 real some day, but not TOday, u know what i mean? : / love u guys. stay safe
She lights up the second food is involved. As if her ravenous howling isn't enough of a sign, she's shaking the tree limbs she's standing on, sending leaves and whatever else may be loose falling. [Food!!! Food!!! I want it! Please?]
He smiles up at her. “[Come on down here and I’ll give it to you.]” He’s been trying to get her out of this forest and into the arms of an adult since the last time he came, but he figures today he has more of an in.
Magical anonnie? Bull's in trouble! A little bundle of qunari infantry has just landed in his outstretched arms and will not be gone for 24 hours, so he has to look after him/her! ( I'm mobile and can't see if no magical anons or not!)
When Bull wakes up to the sound of a screaming child, his first though is that it's just a remnant of his dream. He had saved so many lives in Seheron. Kept so many people safe. But the people he didn't... especially the children... they haunt him, even now, so many years after he's left that war behind.
His eyes burst open and the scream doesn't dissipate. It rings in his ears still. This would be nothing new, on ocassion the screams can remain dun in his head for what feel like hours. But this is crisp and clear and REAL and jars him alert. He scans the room, but he doesn't have to scan far.
There's a kid crying by the doorway, their hand still on the knob. They can't be any older than two. He has no idea if they can talk--or if they can talk, it's in Common.
Their horns are still growing in, but they're most definitely qunari, grey skin and all.
He smiles down at them, sitting up in his bed ever so slightly. "Hey, Imekari. How'd you get up here?" They fall to the ground and cry harder. He groans inwardly, only a small grunt falling past his unparted lips.
Some post Ohayocon Iron Bull and Calf doodles. Just wanted to do a bunch of just quick stupid drawings :’D Iron Dad is really great for doing relaxing drawings TTuTT
I think the thing I like about how you play Bull most is how thoroughly you immerse yourself in his world. It's obvious from your many and detailed headcanon posts that you have put yourself into this man's shoes in a way few others do, and tha yo uhave dedicated yourself to having as thorough an understanding of your interpretation of his character as you can. It's refreshing and inspiring to see someone who cares about their muse, and their unique interpretation of their muse, so very much.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH i’ve been searching for the words to say how much this message means to me because you’re such a good writer and this is such a thorough compliment lol. thank you so much, this is, imo, my greatest strength as a bull rper and i’m so glad it shows <3 :’ )