eyes that gleamed like justice

@shurlock

ruining my life more by liking dragon age

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about

santiago, 21, they/he

primarily a dragon age blog but i post about other video games sometimes. i did not like veilguard and i will talk about it (tagged as #veilguard critical). i am the only fan of evangeline de brassard. anyone who says otherwise is wrong. remember: all skeletons came from someone

main worldstate

lucis surana | mage | blood mage/shapeshifter | ♡ zevran

morrow hawke | mage | force mage | ♡ anders

venicia trevelyan | warrior | templar | ♡ cassandra

starling hawke thorne | mage | evoker | ♡ neve

Blood magic

#merrill #dragon age 2

many things going on here. to me. but it's 1:30 am i have to fall asleep to a video essay

going through the main evangeline tag and shaking my head

biggest difference between me and people who post in the main tag is i don't believe evangeline sincerely cares about mages. because she doesn't. she saw one (1) "attractive" mage and went, "huh maybe they do deserve rights"

#evangeline caring about mages depends on the assumption that there is such a thing as a noble templar. which there isn't #blorbo i dislike

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

going through the main evangeline tag and shaking my head

#i'm the only one with the correct opinions about her 🤓☝️

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Cities and Port Towns

#deadfire i miss you.....#pillars of eternity

wait okay. akotsk watchers weigh in

does show!dunk give daddy dom vibes

yes open your eyes

no what the fuck??

nuance (explain)

haven’t seen show

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

#NO!!!!!!#he's really similar to book!dunk actually #biggest criticism of the show is they forget the line “a knight who remembered his vows” in an otherwise pretty faithful adaptation

not sorry for multiple evangeline posts. will happen again

While I left the templars as an organization, I always believed in the ideals for which they stood.

and then she signs the letter with "knight-commander." girl who promoted you

according to cole's codex entry, evangeline was somehow promoted before the mage rebellion which can't happen because her ass got demoted for siding with the mages. she left the templars and followed rhys to andoral's reach. where in that time could she have gotten promoted. girl did you promote yourself

#i am forcing you all to see my vision

evangeline risking lyrium withdrawal in an arguably worse position. she's with the rebel mages. sure, mages have lyrium, but do you really think a bunch of mages would be willing to give her lyrium? it's a valuable resource that they can't afford to give to their former jailor, especially since it's vital to her templar abilities. along with that, she has no home to return to because the only home she had left was the templar order. she's wanted by that same order for defecting. she has to spend the rest of her life on the run with rhys. this is why she should've worked harder to reestablish the tem—[i get hit by a car]

saw take about evangeline that i Do Not Agree With!!!!

by being possessed by a spirit of faith she can do everything a templar can do and more. evangeline will in fact think of herself as the One True Templar among them all. i am forcing you all to see my vision

look. being a templar is just such a vital part of her identity. i don't think she's abandoning it any time soon. she signs letters as knight-commander (which wasn't her rank btw). she holding on to that with a white-knuckle grip

#blorbo i dislike #already wrote a post on how becoming a templar was a path of freedom for her

WYNNE DIED FOR A TEMPLAR?????? WYNNE WAS KEPT ALIVE BY A SPIRIT OF FAITH NOT TO STOP THE BLIGHT, NOT TO CHANGE THE CIRCLE OF MAGI, BUT SO HER IDIOT SON CAN HAVE A TEMPLAR GIRLFRIEND?????? FUCKING INSANEEEEEE GAIDER I WILL FIND YOU

#wait this post is kinda funny but also #Gaider You Will Pay For Your Crimes

the thing with a lot of the templars dragon age deems as "good" is that said templars believe the templars as an institution are perfectly fine. instead, it is individual people who are giving the noble templar order a bad name. the rampant abuse in the circles is only the fault of some templars who had "forgotten" the true purpose of the order. if only those bad apples are rooted out, the templar order will be what it "originally" was—nevermind that the whole barrel is rotten.

exactly!! even if you get rid of every single "bad" templar, the practices of the templars themselves are still harmful. every single templar who assaults and rapes mages is expelled from the order. but the order still requires you to watch young mages face demons. the order still requires you to kill young mages if they fail the harrowing. the order still requires you to make mages tranquil. the abuse of mages is built into the duties of templars that there is simply no way for a "good" templar to say the templars should only get rid of the "bad" ones, say thedas should keep the templar order, and still claim to protect mages.

#my beautiful post ABOUT EVANGELINE DE BRASSARD

love that evangeline is forced to face the wanton violence the templars enact on mages and her response to this is to double down even harder. actually she is the only true templar among them. these people betrayed the ideals of the templar order.

i think evangeline's refusal to let go of her identity as a templar is because it was her avenue of freedom from the "womanly" duties that has been forced upon her since birth. taking up swordmanship, becoming a templar, is her defying the expectations placed on her as a noble lady. so being faced with the fact that, no, the templars are not this noble order she believed them to be and maybe have never been that in the first place, of course she'll continue to deny it. she can't confront that the thing that liberated her is the same thing that oppresses others

saw take about evangeline that i Do Not Agree With!!!!

by being possessed by a spirit of faith she can do everything a templar can do and more. evangeline will in fact think of herself as the One True Templar among them all. i am forcing you all to see my vision

#blorbo i dislike #nothing against the person who posted i'm just the no. 1 evangeline stan. you must understand

saw take about evangeline that i Do Not Agree With!!!!

#why would she give up being a templar. that's literally all she is #blorbo i dislike

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