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I have another entry for today cus I love me a guilty man. And I think we don’t have enough Loghain x Surana arts.
Day 3
Guilt trip
@dafuckedupshipsweek
It’s not a good story unless the hero dies
Ship Tournament — Round #1 / Match 72 of 88
Briala/Merrill
"Briala and Merrill as a couple would be unstoppable, just imagine. On the one side, you have a city elf who for over half her life has been working behind the scenes to improve city elves' lives and position in Orlais. Who said "And your people are my people, even if they’ve forgotten it. I will work with the Dalish, but only if they help all our people.". On the other, a Dalish mage who has been trying to reclaim elven knowledge and give at least part of it back to her people. Who at the end became part of the Kirkwall alienage and had been helping them during the worst times. Both could learn so much from each other, become better people, understand the other side and put away any lingering prejudice. Together, with working eluvians and ancient knowledge, they could bring a new era for the elves, both city and Dalish. Also, they both deserve to be happy, with someone who will see them as equal and will have aligning goals."
vs. Branka/Oghren
"there’s no way they win even this bracket but there is something to be said for a man who can find traces of his wife simply looking at the walls of a cave. He called her brilliant and had such faith in her that he KNEW she would be alive even after 2 years in the deep roads. And he still mourns her in Awakening"
Which is the better ship?
Briala/Merrill
Branka/Oghren
this loghain line will forever haunt me. what do you mean you never forger a face when she just said she's never been out of highever...
loghain knows because
he has been to highever before
anneliese looks a lot like bryce so he made the connection
bryce walks around with a portrait like a dad with pics of his kids in a wallet
something i havent thought of (comments?)
unhappy side effect of "morally ambiguous" being treated as the pinnacle of writing is that you will often be made to experience what a not so talented writer with big aspirations thinks is morally ambiguous
increasingly digging in on my position of How Can You Not Like Elthina. she’s manipulative she wields passivity and benevolence like weapons she’s super mega evil but like basically no more evil than the institution she serves. the only thing that really distinguishes her from any other grand cleric is the skill she brought to the position. if she weren’t there kirkwall would be completely different. if she weren’t there kirkwall would be exactly the same. she calls her knight commander a good girl in public
colored pencil merrills
Something I'm thinking abt in regards to why Veilguard feels so unchallenging in its messaging compared to like, inquisition. And media in general, on this theme:
Even if a piece of media wants to be didactic and Teach You Goodness, it does matter whether that is done through handholding (as Veilguard does) or challenge (as Inquisition does).
For example. You can argue with Dorian about slavery, and he will defend it; his arguments are even realistic coming from someone in his position, and. They're kind of hard to counter? Because he can turn most things around on you. "Poverty is not much measurably better than slavery. Is the concept of being free actually helpful to a man who is starving?" he'll say (not a quote but basically the sentiment).
The game asks you "do you like slavery? No? Well, are you able to ARGUE this?" and you may find out that you weren't prepared to. Even outside of the fact the dialogue is written into the game, I (when I first played this game as a teen) found that I did NOT in fact have much better arguments than "slavery is bad because it's BAD". That's challenging. That's the game, a piece of art, asking you a question. And it's going to trust you to come to the conclusion yourself. It trusts that it can ask you to think about slavery (or the other problems it tries to tackle) without having to restrict your thinking to make sure you only arrive at the right conclusion.
Veilguard does not do this. If it asks a question, it often presents you the answer right away, and then gives you three options for which tone of voice you want to use when learning the correct answer. It will show you the correct answer, modelling perfect didactic example of how you should behave. This is how you support people when they have problems! This is what makes it such a childish and grating game imo. Children are shown things this way. Morally and behaviorally instructive media is for kids.
Adult media can still teach you things, but like. Through asking a question, posing a challenge. I didn't feel like Inquisition was trying to teach me to Be A Good Person at all like Veilguard was. "What do you think?" versus "this is how you think".
This again I will bring back to the Antaam, finally. Inquisition asked you, in a way, where Bull's true loyalties should lie. The people he fights and dies with? Or the people he belongs to in a grander scale: HIS PEOPLE. Do small scale human connections matter more than grand ones? Are your friends more important than your society? Do you save the people you have met, or the ones you haven't met? It doesn't hold your hand. It asks you to choose. To think about that.
The Antaam are just generic bad military men. The game never examines much about them (outside the three minutes of the Butcher in Treviso, that could have led into a challenge but ultimately did not). The Antaam are bad because they're violent, and they're violent because they're bad. Wow.
And the Antaam are in effect child soldiers. Picked out for military service at young ages, told not to hone anything else about themselves but that. "What use does a soldier have for knowing how to sing?" or something such as Sten said. What use do the Antaam have for this new "freedom"? What would they DO with it? What SHOULD they do with it? Die to your blade, of course. The game asks nothing more of you. It just repeatedly tells you the Antaam are violent and have no reasons for anything that they do. They do violence because they're evil, and they're evil because they do violence. The Antaam start and end at what they are. They could have been so much more! But they're not.
Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.
And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.
And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.
This fanfic shit is easy
To my favorite game and gang!
hawke babes 0 of your usual flirting techniques are gonna work on merrill
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Thats fucking dragon age right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging roll out on steam deck bullshit. Men puke, men shit themselves fighting the high dragon in haven, men deliver their new born dark ritual old god baby. Fucking hard core dick in the ass tactical real time with pause RPG fuck it chuck it nightmare mode shit. Take it to the forums. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Dragon Age is back baby.
The path of righteousness is full of hardship, but the Maker smiles upon its travelers.
she says stuff like this but u cant romance her as a woman evil age origins
It’s a cliche that there are always rpg companions who disapprove of you dragging the party around to help random people out of the goodness of their heart but honestly I’d probably be one of them. Like if I was grouped up under some incongruously beat face CC’d ig baddy or worse, some fucking guy, because we had a job of world saving importance to do and they kept getting distracted by every sad peasant who lost their family heirloom, insisting we help and not accept a reward, you’d be seeing Nico Disapproves in the corner too. Bitch we have a job to do the darkspawn tadpole chip in our head is going to summon the reaper Sith invasion of Hoover Dam any day now get with the fucking program