LADY OF THE FOREST

i have a river in my mind — and if i follow it, what will i find?

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ELETHEA COUSLAND, CHAMPION OF REDCLIFFE, TEYRNA OF GWAREN, THE HERO OF FERELDEN — no more must you grieve, my girl. take the pain & the guilt, acknowledge it, and let it go. it is time. you have a long journey ahead of you, and you must be ready. set your eye on the horizon, do not look back, and do not falter. ※ #GWAHREN, a private & mutually exclusive writing blog for the protagonist of dragon age: origins. est. 2019, rev. 2026. all standard etiquette & rules apply.

CARRD. VERSES. RULES

A STUDY IN: the dutiful daughter, theseus' paradox, the ends justifying the means, to do what must be done, losing yourself to grief / finding yourself in rage, the fall from grace & the bloody climb back to the top, the unwilling hero, the obsession with perfection, the true meaning of ruthlessness, keeping the peace by any means necessary, niceness vs. goodness.

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mermaid verse elethea........ thoughts?

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[ WINDSWEPT OC MAKER ] BEFORE & DURING THE BLIGHT

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ELETHEA COUSLAND [ 1 / ? ]

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the worst part about elethea is that she does know how to read a room; she can be very diplomatic and civil when she chooses to be. so know that, if/when she is being mean to you, it is an active choice not to be civil and diplomatic.

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Q. WHAT KIND OF HERB ARE YOU?

A. DANDELION. You grew up too fast, and all you know is the calluses on your fists and the thousand invisible scars that you pretend don't ache. Your anger burns so bright, so hot or maybe not at all, so deep you could never tell it was there. You are yours, and you will defend that to the death after so many years of being ripped apart and denied your own agency, and maybe you are still facing the bastards who stole your innocence — but you will survive because that's the only thing you know how to do without breaking, the only thing you know besides protect, protect, protect, protect, yourself or sometimes those few others you claim as yours. You are a thousand sharp edges — but impenetrable, a traumatized child so covered by thorny armor that you promised yourself you're grown now, you're stronger than anyone who has ever hurt you. You're safe. Nothing will ever hurt you again. You're so alone though sometimes, in a world that sees you as too much or too broken or too angry or too hurt, and you want to scream with the too-much of it, prove that you're okay, that you're self-reliant, that you are strong enough to stake your claim on your body, on your mind, on your heart, on your people, and protect it from any who dare take it away from you. You are the sea in tempest, a howling sky, a tsunami in motion, a force of nature, no matter how much you sometimes yearn to be still, to be safe, to be small. You are a dandelion, stubborn and determined to grow in the rockiest of soil, and bloom again in spring.

tagged by: @halbrnd <3 tagging: @anoffering, @4educan, @thrndy

[iheartgot]

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the concept of posting a starter call and writing starters 🥴

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elethea: i hate the grey wardens. i am NOT a grey wardens. i forsake my vow i will not be associated with them also elethea: establishes a new warden outpost in gwaren as soon as she's teyrna

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“One thing which makes me curious- did you encounter the Hero of Ferelden at Adamant Fortress?” / “She is not the sort of woman to fade into the background, if she was there, you would have known”

MORRIGAN AND ELETHEA’S FRIENDSHIP YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SO IMPORTANT AND DEAR TO ME

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cultivate a reputation for being… a task. 

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I love raising the castle drawbridge. Like, bitch, you thought you were getting in? THUNK!!!!!!!!!

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The Borgias 2.07 The Siege at Forli

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Vikings (2013 - 2020) | s02e05 | 25/?

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its a shame that at her most elethea moment (the white queen) emily berr.ington was given that fuckass wig

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and then when they upgraded her wig its only in THE WORST LIT SCENES in the history of man

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its a shame that at her most elethea moment (the white queen) emily berr.ington was given that fuckass wig

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@anoffering, [ alistair ] says ... Crowns do strange things to the heads beneath them.

                it troubles him — his birthright; it troubled him long before the crown was ever set upon his furrowed brow. it was one of the first things she had ever learned about him, that he did not want the throne. she empathized with this plight- but elethea cousland did not pity, no matter how much she loved him. duty had been instilled in her from her first breath, perhaps even earlier. it coursed through her veins as surely as calenhad's blood ran through his. that made protecting ferelden his duty, however much he may dislike it. but her tongue is held on this matter; now was not the time for such debates, and the debate that would arise from that conversation would not be very productive.

                graceful fingers grasp at his chin, his jaw, and pale eyes narrow upon his face. gently turning his head this way & that in thorough examination of his skull. a pensive hum reverberates from her chest as rosy lips purse to match her knit brow. "no, your head seems exactly as it was before..." there is no mirth in her tone, but she teases. playing the studious physician as she searches for any sign of abnormality. her hand releases his jaw to settle on his chest, smoothing invisible wrinkles. "i'm quite an expert on the subject, you know. there's scarce an inch on you that i'm not intimately familiar with," only then does she smirk, tipping her head playfully to one side. "or is this your way of telling me that my head has grown large lately?"