I have a lot of feelings and a lot of OCs

31, she/they, main is @doctormage tungle won’t let me update my bio and deleted my old one lmao so. my bad

[lavellander]

tumblr won't let me fix my bio and also my prev pinned post was like a yr and a half old so links are going here instead <3

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[taguroc]

Does your OC have any nicknames? Who calls them these names, and how does your OC feel about it?

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[miyuliart]

Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.

[rats-on-ice]

puppy crushes are such an underrated relationship dynamic. I love a character that's admires another character so much they can't help but have a little crush about it, and the other character has no obligation to return the sentiment. I love when romantic tension/ yearning is resolved by evolution of character rather than obligatory fulfillment of the desire. I love romantic feelings that have to be grown out of for a character to mature.

[have-an-oc-who]

Do you have an oc thats completely 100% cishet ?

Do you have an OC who is completely 100% cishet?

I do

I do not

Voting ended onMay 20

[lavellander]

anyone want to rb and tell me a fun fact abt your dragon age ocs. doesn’t have to be a warden, hawke, inq, or rook either just any of em. or all of them idc i just want to hear abt ocs today 🫶 definition of fun open to interpretation btw

[lavellander]

having so much fun reading abt yalls ocs!!! thank u for allowing me to play dolls with u. also keep going

[lavellander]

anyone want to rb and tell me a fun fact abt your dragon age ocs. doesn’t have to be a warden, hawke, inq, or rook either just any of em. or all of them idc i just want to hear abt ocs today 🫶 definition of fun open to interpretation btw

[lavellander]

anyone want to rb and tell me a fun fact abt your dragon age ocs. doesn’t have to be a warden, hawke, inq, or rook either just any of em. or all of them idc i just want to hear abt ocs today 🫶 definition of fun open to interpretation btw

[vigilskept]

it would be neat i think if developing autoimmune conditions was a fairly common side effect of undergoing the joining. arthritis, lupus, vitiligo, psoriasis, crohn’s, hashimoto’s, diabetes… one way or another your body’s being made to endure the infection of the blight, to coexist with it somehow, unable to fight it off. it makes sense that this would get your immune system misfiring in all sorts of unhelpful ways

[lavellander]

woe, pre-relationship leliwarden be upon ye 🫵

[lavellander]

woe, pre-relationship leliwarden be upon ye 🫵

[atiya-nagrano]

i do think you can interpret the warden as having been deliberately sabotaged in being made warden-commander (and that is my interpretation). they've been warden for a year. they've met a grand total of 3 wardens, possibly adding avernus if you do soldier's keep. they've been given shall we say a rudimentary overview of what being a warden entails. at least one big reveal is locked behind the alistair romance. none of the origins except maybe but quite-frankly-not-rly aeducan and cousland are well equipped to handling a territory as large as amaranthine pulling double duty as arl/essa and warden-commander. warden-commander for all of ferelden, when duncan seemed to kind of just be freelancing it.

weisshaupt is reluctant to send more than riordan after having a bunch of wardens turned away. they're all of a sudden v confident abt filling vigil's keep w orlesian wardens in a way that's weird even taking into account loghain being out of the picture. even if the darkspawn hadn't slaughtered anybody, that's kind of provocative! that's kind of a huge mess for the new fereldan commander of the grey to manage! and if your hof dies, then they just straight up send an orlesian to be commander! this is bad diplomacy even if the wardens and ferelden have historically been on good terms, which they have not!

but then everybody gets slaughtered DAY ONE and................no reinforcements are sent? it's just 'well you better recruit some more!" the first warden sends woolsey DIRECTLY, and she is, as far as i can tell, just sort of there to manage money and observe how the wardens having legitimized control over an arling impacts their influence. i think she's also reporting back, tho this is conjecture on my part. her presence is bizarre, esp given that varel is local, gable has been working in the area for a while, and garevel is ambiguous but at least willing to go toe to toe w woolsey.

i think, esp in a worldstate where the warden-commander is the surviving hof, that weisshaupt makes them warden-commander with the intention of forcing them to either resign in disgrace or otherwise be removed. humble the person who survived the unsurvivable! ensure their legacy crumbles before it has time to set! make them inconsequential so that all the other wardens aren't asking 'well how'd THEY survive. it's possible to survive killing the archdemon??' i think weisshaupt isn't interested in curing anybody but they certainly have huge archives and resources with which to conduct that kind of research. but curing the taint does create a scenario where wardens could just up and leave, and that weakens warden power.

a surviving hof warden-commander starts performing joinings straight away. they potentially don't know wardens are infertile. they've had zero training. AND they're expected to balance the needs of a hard-hit arling as well as building the fereldan branch of the order from the ground up. if i am the warden i'm going hey it kind of seems like i'm being set up to fail.

[dreadblaidd]

This alternate mural of Solas giving Mythal the dagger is so different from what they ultimately gave us. Subservient, head bowed low, on his knees before her. This is the relationship they had. It was never one of equals. It was master-slave.

To reconcile Solas’ mural to this far more accurate one, I’m choosing to say Solas knowingly misrepresented it when he later painted them. I’ve headcanoned before that he purposefully erased his vallaslin in his self portraits because he’s never been able to face that he was her servant rather than just her companion. Whoever painted this mural drew their real relationship. It might’ve been Solas during the rebellion and before her murder, when he was less wrapped up in guilt over her death. Either way, this is the real version.

(src)

[lavellander]

I really will do just about anything (making up a list of warden recruits between the end of awakening to the start of veilguard including all their physical descriptions, where they’re from, why they joined, and what situationships were occurring after they joined) before I’ll fucking write the goddamn fic

[lavellander]

doing shitty little drawings of all these made up fereldan wardens now. so that I can have an idea of who’s who in my mind while pondering the many complex relationships they all have (that will almost certainly never see the light of day outside of my zillion page google doc). normal behavior

[sheepcounts]

today i redesigned my old character development graphs to make them a lot more accessible and easy to use! i've always wanted a visual resource to build the general outlines of a character's personality, so i tried to create some templates that could be used for tons of different scenarios, no matter what kind of universe your character exists in! these can be filled out in ms paint, with a multiply layer or however you choose - feel free to use and repost them for your ocs, or even use them for canon characters!!!

(edit: imgur link with hi-res images for cleaner editing <3)

below the cut is an example of how they can be used!

[doctormage]

so I made some angry solas memes after playing through the crestwood scene last night

[lavellander]

happy fifth birthday to this post