EXILED PRINCE.

— for all who walk in the sight of the Maker are one.

[mournflame]

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.

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?

[starkhvn]

I can guarantee you Team Blight is supposed to be stealing his red lyrium research (which the Inquisition thinks it stole years ago), and their frankly hilarious failures are what spiraled into assassination attempts that fail even more hilariously

[starkhvn]

How many assassination attempts do you think the Team Blight make against him during DA:TV

[sashasparrow]

not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

[starkhvn]

So glad we're on the topic of assassinations. I am once again saying Sebastian is the target of so many throughout his reign they become mundane, and they all fail like Looney Tunes villains

[starkhvn]

I honestly think shipping with Sebastian is a tricky endeavor at this point in his life, becoming nigh impossible once he becomes prince, but I LOOOOOOOOVE to create in-universe rumors about his love life. I know the rumor mill goes crazy.

[starkhvn]

Let's be real, any ship involving Sebastian is a rarepair, but let's hit a few anyway.

I am not immune to Sebastian x Fenris, although I tend to see them more platonic.

Sebastian x Inquisitor It definitely did not rewire my brain chemistry so bad I started a section on his pinboard for it.

Sebastian x Flora Harimann

Sebastian x Nathaniel Howe

Sebastian x Devon

Sebastian x Josephine Montilyet

I can be talked into almost anything, though

[regicidal-defenestration]

She would not fucking say that. Yes she said that in canon, but I perceive a greater truth unaffected by her writer's misogyny

[inkpressedpetals]

[starkhvn]

Not only do I get Naraka, I get an excuse to talk about Sebastian being a nun. This is like Christmas

[bithand]

BITHAND. And the People raised the blades of the fallen soldiers to the heavens and rejoiced. And Shartan said to them: “No longer are we hunted! We shall never again be prey, waiting to be struck down! Let us take up the blades of our enemies and carve a place for ourselves in this world!” The People heard him, and girded themselves in the armor of the dead and sharpened their blades and arrows and prepared for war. // Vauquelin, Independent Original Character, Primarily Based in DA:TV, Written by Holly

[starkhvn]

It divides into a branch similar to the Spirit Healer specialization tree and a branch which resembles the Reaver specialization tree, only adapted for a mage.

This is about Anders' DAII spec. Kinda sexy of him actually

[starkhvn]

Lady Gertrude showing zero interest in her newborn son to the point of telling the nanny, "Take him away. Bring him back when he's six." Unfortunately, Meghan Vael coded

[gingerbug]

step 1. get everyone in the world to want to fuck me

step 2. vow of celibacy

[starkhvn]

Gonna pause the queue for a bit, least til I can get more in there. I think I'm gonna mosey over to @bithand for a little while, though. I'm feeling Vauquelin

[starkhvn]

I really am stuck on the “Sebastian is really chill about violence and killing people” train of thought. It’s just one of those details that seems normal for the setting but when you actually think about it, it hints at things in his history.

He was raised to be Starkhaven’s marshal which means he’s been trained since he was a child to lead an army, even if he didn’t particularly like that training. He also spent his youth in brawls and hunting dangerous groups such as slavers. His parents were the iron-fisted sort, and he implies they killed or did worse to protect their position. He’s certainly not surprised when they put a death order against him, and we know they didn’t think him steeled enough as an individual. He has also spent his entire life saturated in the “your Prophet wants you to kill people” religion. (The essays I could write about this w/ re: Andrastism.)

He was desensitized to violence and killing from childhood, and it’s something not even years in the cloister could change. Again, it doesn’t help that Andrastism and especially the Chantry flavor of Andrastism is all about righteous violence. That’s the important part: Sebastian is down with righteous killing. It has been an undisputed fact of his life (except by Elthina, ironically) that some people NEED to be killed. That you have a moral obligation to eradicate certain people from the face of the earth. He only balks at violence, at killing, when it targets the “innocent” (i.e. potential civil war in Starkhaven, potential Exalted March on Kirkwall). But, when it targets “bad” people? He won’t lose a wink of sleep.

But, I really do think the immense violence of DAII challenges this for him. More specifically the outcomes of that violence. It’s after those events that he begins to reexamine his own relationship with bloodshed. Playing executioner isn’t necessarily the crux of the issue; it’s playing judge and jury too.