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• still in love with dragon age •

#gorgeousss #warden cousland #hawke #inquisitor lavellan #rook mercar

by the way why on earth did they give bryce blue eyes eleanor green eyes and then fergus brown eyes. like i’m sure that can probably happen irl but as a character design choice for establishing these people are related isn’t it kind of bizarre

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ok um. anyway

Replaces Josephine and Dorian's light eye colours with Vivienne's darker colour.

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like do you think we can’t tell…??? they’re very clearly not brown in the game like it’s exceedingly easy to notice that. dragon age is one of many contributors to a trend of fantasy/sci-fi media giving darker-skinned characters light hair and/or light eyes to make them appear closer to a white supremacist ideal of attractiveness. zevran and fenris have light eyes and hair; sebastian, josephine, and dorian have light eyes; isabela’s eyes have gotten lighter in every subsequent appearance. there is a specific reason fans will draw these characters with darker eyes and it is that their canon designs are rooted in racism and we would prefer to push back on that

#good post also hey i made that mod! glad people are using and enjoying it

and the idea of cousland mac eanraig tension appeals to me with this idea of my new cousland having spent several years of her youth with her maternal family. because it makes her sort of a peace offering or a bridge between them, to soften these tensions by having one of the cousland children essentially raised as a mac eanraig, to understand and value their storm coast way of life and be trained in their combat style and so on. bryce and eleanor are repeatedly mentioned to basically let their kids do whatever they want so i feel like they would only have let this happen if she wanted to go. so there must be love there. the fearsome storm giant softening for his little cousland granddaughter and erin admiring him (and the stories of her mother) so much that she insisted on going with him is very cute.

#erin cousland #i think she had the full tough demanding experience on the actual ships #with an aunt or uncle running it. ooooo maybe they didnt think much of her at least to begin with...#but her grandpa (retired) was always a total softie for her #that’s fun to me #i wonder if the mac eanraigs DO have more discontentment with cailan #how she feels abt her dad’s royalism. whether she even instinctually agrees with howe’s talking points #i’m interested in her background creating a little bit of distance with bryce #she acts more like a mac eanraig now and of course eleanor knows how to respond to that in a way bryce doesn’t #where in this sharp-tongued disciplined sailor is his little girl who used to always want his help even when she didn’t need it #i should finish the origin before i get this into it.

Why would Bryce Cousland's in-laws hate him?

i was outlining here that the mac eanraigs might reasonably be expected to have issues with the current monarch and the tentative peace with orlais. bryce is an ardent royalist who tolerates zero dissent about the king’s policies within his hearing and believes the only smart thing to do is to obey the king to the letter, and eleanor also mentions that he visited orlais last year, which could well be him representing ferelden diplomatically there. so he’s veryyy tied to everything that i’m theorising might be difficult for them right now. that combined with the fact that there are popular shanties about how badly his first interaction with ur daughter went, and the fact that ur daughter has fully abandoned the life she led with u to devote herself to being teyrna cousland, and i feel like this is a recipe for drama

#and i like drama.

stonesense

beginning to believe that bryce cousland’s in-laws hate his guts which is really funny to me

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when u r the third most powerful man in ferelden but it doesn’t stop ur father-in-law (popularly nicknamed the Storm Giant) from showing up to every family event you’ve ever had and making jokes that Clearly aren’t jokes about how your wife inexplicably hasn’t left you yet despite having the sense to chuck you off a cliff on first meeting.

#at ur son's wedding he's still doing this.#it would be both funny and for obvious reasons devastating to decide that fearchar is still fucking alive in dao #outlive ur loser son-in-law but at what cost.#he's not canonically dead is he? i couldn't find anything like that abt him on the wiki #it's not out of the realm of possibility is it. eleanor isn't That old

beginning to believe that bryce cousland’s in-laws hate his guts which is really funny to me

i think the idea of the mac eanraigs still being around and still being raiders by tradition is fascinating to imagine in a post-occupation ferelden. bc presumably taking basically any foreign ships but especially orlesian ones was totally fair game during the like 60-80 years of occupation. and of course they were glorified for it and eleanor and her father were popular heroes. but what does that look like when suddenly there’s a free kingdom to legitimise in the eyes of the world and they’re trying to have trade routes and alliances again and it’s your own son-in-law doing the diplomatic visits to orlais? do cailan and anora look as kindly on you as moira and maric might have, or do they see you as a problem to restrain? but how can you abandon the way of living that you protected through those brutal years and that in turn ensured you survived? that’s crunchy to me

#apparently eleanor had three siblings who were also raiders. i wonder how many made it

i was thinking abt playing rogue cousland as like a cunning seafarer archetype who for one reason or another spent a lot of her youth with eleanor’s family the mac eanraigs who are known, like, waking sea raiders essentially. and she hasn’t been back all that long and she’s struggling to adapt from the predictable discipline and unpredictable violence of life at sea to the more sort of relaxed and permissive environment at castle cousland and the kind of dutiful benevolent young noble lady in a time of peace that her parents envision. i think it’s fun to play with and reasonably covers the “why has duncan heard so many accounts that you’d be a good recruit that he doesn’t even need to see you fight” and “why has the unmarried sole daughter of the nation’s second most powerful family been too busy to meet the king or attend court” questions that plague me with this origin

#erin cousland #i think it’s an interesting dynamic with eleanor to have you follow in her footsteps essentially #when she seems pretty contented with having left that life behind #and while indulgent of you she does gently chide you towards the ‘softer arts’ and getting married and so on #and relies on you her daughter to be Womanly and not make crude jokes like the men in her family do #i think there’s some interesting gender politics and history with the occupation there!!#eleanor who was this famed sea wolf trying to be the traditional lady who sees the boys off to war and stays home #bc idk she values being able to lay down her weapons? because she wants to believe such desperate times are over #and being a warrior won’t be required of her again?#how much femininity was demanded of her back then on her father’s ships? did the female raiders never make crude jokes?#are these fereldan nobles trying to reinstate their legitimacy by being more ‘civilised’#and does that mean conforming to more widely acceptable gender norms?#idk im just saying things i dont have fully formed thoughts i just think there’s material to work with #a lot of eleanor’s backstory obviously reads as a retcon #(‘it was the softer arts that landed me a husband’ or whatever. the softer arts of shoving him off a cliff??)#but i think those contrasts are interesting and the idea that eleanor’s choice to #not be that person anymore is a deliberate one she is making #and whether that is ever a point of real conflict with a daughter (who by default has to have taken up some form of combat diligently right)#or if eleanor genuinely sees it fondly and she’s merely teasing. or she sees it as a childish whim to be indulged until it naturally goes #away when cousland learns to appreciate the benefits of not being a warrior #or if it can only be mild exasperation as long as she’s satisfied that cousland has all the freedom of choice that their generation didn’t #bc i think part of the reason eleanor does seem to really enjoy playing the lady now is that it simply wasn’t an option then #oh man i really get going in the tags huh. ok.

this is the cousland i started playing yesterday... sometimes the character requires a bangs situation

#i didnt get very far and i dont know if i will #i just wanted to chatter through the ideas process with u all #in a weird mood today so i gotta perceive dao for my health #erin cousland

thank u for all the happy birthdays from yesterday 💛 i rlly appreciate it

#there were a couple more i didnt get to but i clogged up the dash enough probably. all appreciated though!!! thank u thank u

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let's hang out with mama

#warden tabris #adaia tabris #omggg

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Strikingly lifelike mid-13th century sculptures by the anonymous sculptor known as the Naumburg Master

when i watched that movie version of much ado about nothing as a kid i was young enough to be unaware i was exclusively attracted to women and i thought it was just factual that there were only like 5 or 10 attractive men in the world and many billions of attractive women, and denzel washington don pedro was in that lucky category of being one of the only men that my young self had ever been on board for. and the fact that he didn’t get one of the marriages at the end made me feel insane

#i had to watch another version of much ado abt nothing before i Got beatrice and benedict #bc the whole time i was like Hello. this man is nothing.

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the funniest part of much ado is after claudio and hero get engaged and beatrice is like “meanwhile I’m over here!!! forever alone!!! I wish someone like don pedro would ask me to marry him haha!!” and don pedro is like “would you like me to marry you?” and beatrice says no.

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#im always thinking abt this.

omg happy birthday !! Ur still officially a slightly older baby than me . Remember these words of wisdom

i will remember 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

#ty!!!!!!!

Happy birthday!!

thank u!!

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