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Ugh I keep fighting it, but I have to face the music that I am just not as motivated to dig into DA lore as I used to be. I still enjoy DA. I could even still write the characters I have from this setting. But, I am just not deriving the joy I used to from digging into codices, etc. and writing sweeping metas. That is integral to my enjoyment of rping a character. I just feel so blech about a blog if I'm not motivated to ramble about nonsense re: them at all hours.

So I'm going to formally close down my DA blogs. I'll still make DA verses on other blogs, and I still very much want to write with all of you. In fact, I think y'all're pretty much all following me elsewhere anyway. If this changes in the future, y'all'll be the first to know, but for now, DA will no longer be my primary rpc.

#OOC / HOLLY.#PSA.#not gonna delete any blogs yet but honestly . . . has this not been coming for a while

Johanna is convinced she would not only survive Veilfall but come out even MORE powerful. However, I am not convinced it's that simple.

#OOC / HOLLY.#that having been said I don't think she herself has any designs on Veilfall #she has other priorities. like conquering the world.#after she's done that then she'll consider completely reshaping it via Veilfall #may or may not attempt conquering the stars first #this sounds so Looney Tunes but truly she will never be satisfied #she needs something to cut her teeth on #no victory will ever sate her #she'll just move on to the next challenge even if she must invent said challenge #but like if someone else wants to bring down the Veil in the meanwhile —

I shall plague y'all with Jo again in a bit. In the meanwhile I'm back on my Will Turner bullshit.

#OOC / HOLLY.#I think most of y'all are following me there anyway so y'all already know #writing on Jo did exactly as I hoped and has made it possible for me to write again In General #when I can get back my Aylin energy too . . . it's over for y'all

This is so Madame de Fer to me

#OOC / HOLLY.

gwiazdzisko

You thought *you* were doomed by the narrative? lmao it's not even your narrative loser. you don't get to have a narrative

#QUOTES.#Jo to Rook. Jo to Solas. Jo to everyone.#Jo and 'this is my narrative you're all npcs'

Man after writing so many characters who have big opinions about the Chantry and politics and whatever, it’s so odd to write someone who has nothing to say on the matter

#OOC / HOLLY.#MOBILE.#well she does have things to say but there’s little that inspires any like . . . complexity or conflict y’know #she so capped out on disdain for any ‘authority’ anyway #she doesn’t recognize any power higher than herself #the Maker Himself could manifest before her and she’d tell him to get on his knees and bark like a dog ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#hubris thy name is Johanna

kicking rocks because I could put Jo in DA:O and DAII except she doesn't have any reason to get involved in any of those plotlines

#OOC / HOLLY.#ironically it'd be easier to swing if she was half-lich at those points but she's Not #she's been not only ousted but declared an apostate by DA:O #so I could put her in Ferelden just til things cool off #but she doesn't care enough to join the Warden's group #the end of the world to Blight is barely a b plot in Her Story lmao #I mean there are things in DA:O that would interest her but she'd have to hang around long enough to encounter them #and she ain't doing that #DAII . . . idk I could finagle her being in Kirkwall to conduct a study on the city #you know how the city was built to form glyphs + priceless lost treasures will just crop up in back alleys?#she'd be there for like one of the acts tops #the funny thing is even if I give her a questline Kirkwall is already so batshit she wouldn't stand out #she's not even up to her worst stuff in Kirkwall b/c she's not putting down roots there #anyway I don't need to put her in these games it simply plagues me that I'm so close to being able to

Oh I could do a DA:TV pt as Vipsania . . . diabolical

#OOC / HOLLY.#MOBILE.#smth smth her disappearance after Jo’s death #was facilitated by her changing her name (to Thorne) and joining the Wardens and moving to Weisshaupt #there are aspects of canon Rook’s struggle with leadership that work for her too #yeah she’s fifty smth in terms of age but a) she’s been through it and b) she’s never been in a position like this #anyway she definitely recognizes Volkarin but he probably wouldn’t recognize her #and just imagine being her and going to do Volkarin’s pq #and running into the haunted corpse of your wife who you SAW get murdered and it’s kinda your fault but kinda not #and you’re haunted all these years by the moment she almost backed down #the moment a fight was almost avoided entirely and there could have been a world — a life — where she didn’t die and you remained together #you saw that moment in her eyes and then you saw it evaporate #oh and your haunted wife wants to trap your soul in a jar which is somehow more terrifying than the Evanuris #I could go in on this. I could have fun with it. I could concoct such psychological damage #insert Carmilla quote I’m too lazy to pull up #you must come with me loving me into death or else hate me and still come with me

I gotta be real: the Inquisition wouldn't interest Jo at all. That's the real problem here. There's very little she doesn't consider beneath her. She's working with the Venatori at this point, but they're merely a means to an end and she doesn't join them. They're far from the only unsavory association she builds. She doesn't give a rat's ass about Corypheus either. She is a former Watcher and now a half-lich. Also incredibly arrogant. He is like a sideshow pony to her.

The Inquisitor is, frankly, not even that. She regards them as one might a court jester who's become king for a day. The Inquisition is a Satinalia festival that didn't have the good sense to know when to end. There's no sufficient benefit for her in any working relationship with them. Sure, I've said before she'd be interested in Veilfall, but the Breach is both botched and inelegant, and the Anchor is like comparing a water balloon to a nuclear bomb re: what she can accomplish without it. Would she benefit from studying it? Absolutely, but she's too full of hubris to recognize that.

The only reason she's even bothering with the Mages' Collective is vengeance. Plus she can squeeze them for resources. The Inquisition backing the Collective does help resolve the situation, but only because she's already gotten what she wanted and isn't that interested in pushing further.

#OOC / HOLLY.#truly love Jo considering the entire rest of the world #including all protags and antags #mere background characters in HER story #but it does make certain things...............tricky

I should replay DA:I to finetune how precisely Jo plagues the Inquisition, but I simply do not have the motivation

#OOC / HOLLY.#honestly I haven't been into playing any games for months now #aside from like. low effort mobile games y'know #anyway the point of this is to open the door to more interactions #but most of what I can think of rn would be resolved via the war table #maybe I can finagle an in person meeting . . . but how to keep that from going badly . . .

I should probably recolor her goggles to green, but I simply do not wish to

#OOC / HOLLY.#it wouldn't be difficult I am simply being lazy #maybe in the future

Me making icons like:

#OOC / HOLLY.#no more (un)dead who are agelessly beautiful #we need more flesh sloughing off bones

I love every version of Victor's hearing. It is always Jo coded to me

#OOC / HOLLY.#holly watches movies

Oscar Isaac in this movie specifically sounds so much like Paul Bettany that I keep having to check it's not him

#OOC / HOLLY.#holly watches movies #it's not only the accent but the cadence

Time to finally watch Frankenstein 2025

#OOC / HOLLY.#we'll see if I can actually focus on it #it's not the movie's fault it's mine lol #anyway icons and Frankenstein it's Jo time

Jo leans more toward games involving dice but I just knowwwww she has some sick cardistry tricks up her sleeve

#OOC / HOLLY.#MOBILE.

chaostides

ᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʏᴍʙᴏʟ ɢʟᴏᴡꜱ, ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴄᴏᴜʀꜱᴇꜱ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ʏᴏᴜ. ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀɪᴛʏ.

She felt as if she were floating up through the ceiling, over the roof, into the night sky, as if her arms had lost their shape, curving outward and becoming wings. The emotion that spread through her blood, the wild and terrible potential...

There is nothing I might not do.

#CHAOSTIDES　　⸻ 　　a private & (s) low activity canon divergent menace of a sorceress alara kaptonneme " TAV " from BALDUR'S GATE 3 .

#PROMO.#MOBILE.#oh I look at Goose with the largest of doe eyes at all times #to no one’s surprise Alara is an intricate character written so well

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