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rulez

1. hi im tau, this is my cole sideblog which follows back from @ebelas. so if i’m following u over there im already following u here!! yaaaay!!!

2. uhhh low activity and probably plotted threads only bc.. yeah

3. i could not be less interested in romantically shipping cole skhgkjbg but other dynamics are fun & cool & should happen so let’s chat :)

4. i’m really excited to get funky & non-linear over here bc cole is awesome & his character just kinda lends itself to being written that way. if something i write ever gets too abstract or hard to follow just holler & i will tone it down

5. my v gorgeous dash icon is by m-oshun

6. anything else u need to know is prolly in my rules on main so go read those :)

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pov you’re in a meeting with every single member of the inner circle and you’ve got to go to the bathroom really bad and cole looks at you and says aloud, “you should go if you need to. they’re all willing to wait”

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*HOLDS YOU* *HOLDS YOU* *HOLDS--

HIIIIIIIIIII

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ヾ( ･`⌓´･)ﾉﾞ he!! is!!! such!! a lovely!!! boy!!

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cole is content to sit near you for hours while you relax in the pub or by the campfire, conducting long and meandering conversations with someone else. he won’t intrude. he won’t get bored. he just wants to listen

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“but i have lost all faith in what’s outside.”

“it’s hard, isn’t it?” he bends to snatch up a pebble. small and round and dull brown.

“outside as not a part as separate as not in me, not of me.” he creeps along the squat stone wall, scanning the dirt. the next rock he picks up is bigger, flatter, sharper-edged. bluish-gray with ripples. he wants a smooth, oblong one. palm-sized skipping stone. maybe one with an earthworm underneath. “it’s scary outside of us. it’s easier to stay in. sometimes i burrow so deep down inside of me that no one can see. i can’t see. hiding in me keeps me safe.”

a woman passes them by. cole tries not to let the ugly, raw, used-up feeling rolling off of her distract him from his stone hunt. he’ll go to help her once he’s found it. he’ll give her the stone.

“but if i stayed inside forever, i would miss things. people and chances and colors i wouldn’t get to see because inside me there isn’t very much light to see by.” there. swiftly, he pockets the perfect stone and rises to his feet. and he remembers that the warden is there, and that she’s listening. “oh. right. is this helping? i’m trying. solas calls it ‘perspective’ but he’s better at it than i am.”

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sarahfinchers-blog​:

hand. cannot. erase.

“you think of love as just a memory.” “but when you’re on your own ; that’s when you’re free.” “you’re three years older, and you’ll always be now.” “i can feel you more than you really know.” “i will love you more than i’ll ever show.” “there was a time when someone seemed to care.” “you found a simple life with no-one to share.” “you make a list of all your big regrets.” “shame on you for getting older every day.” “this place is not for you so why do you still stay?” “life is not some sinecure for you to pay.” “together we have this love.  even so, it’s not enough.” “it’s not you, forgive me if i find i need more space.” “’cause trust means we don’t have to be together everyday.” “hand cannot erase this love.” “for a few months, everything about our lives was perfect.” “but gradually, she / he passed into another distant part of my memory.” “we have got the perfect life.” “routine keeps me in life.” “don’t ever let go.” “try to let go.” “another day of life has passed me by.” “but i have lost all faith in what’s outside.” “remember, it’s only the start, it’s only the start.” “reason never seems to come to guilty men.” “things that meant so much mean nothing in the end.” “come back if you want to.” “’cause there’s nothing here for you my dear.” “when the world doesn’t want you, it will never tell you why.” “you can shut the door, but you can’t ignore the crawl of your decline.” “hey ____, happy returns.” “i bet you thought that i was dead.” “i’d love to tell you i’ve been busy, but that would be a lie.” “i feel i’m falling once again, but now there’s no one left to catch me.” “i feel like i’m living in parentheses.” “i got gifts for them, and for you, more sorrow.” “i’m feeling kind of drowsy now, so i’ll finish this tomorrow.”

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spirit-like cole not minding when people refer to the mage who died in the white spire as “the real cole” vs human-like cole appreciating it when you instead choose to say “the first cole”

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“a moon is a sad—is a lonely thing. it’s lonely. even though there are two of them, they never touch. to me, you almost feel like you were born there. in the air between the moons.”

hewwo; @lunsai

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