#achilleanwizard

[kittlesandbugs]

🌹 ?

Yooooo long time no see! 🥰

Here is a Riley engaging in some sneakykill...

Settling back against the trunk of the tree, you turn your armor and body over to your little compatriots to safeguard as you slide into his skin. He startles a little, nearly knocking the glass of whiskey over, but you tamp that down and wrest control of his body from him easily.

[rosenfey]

#4, 16, and 24 for the Rook questionnaire, pretty please?

hi, thank you for asking! — rook questionnaire.

4. — If your Rook was a companion, where would they be found? You would find her in the Necropolis! She works on her personal research while spending her time down there, by which I mean she studies fungi and their effects on dead matter. Her particular Watcher skills involve using fungal spores to sense the emotions of the undead or see the visions of the last thing they saw before they died. So I imagine this would make her useful as a potential companion! Alternatively, she has been adopted by a noble family from Nevarra and even though her father is a member of the Mourn Watch himself and spends most of his time around the Necropolis, they do have a family manor. It's your very high gothic high romance sort of building, with a big rose garden. I think it would be quite endearing meeting Faerene there and then finding out about all her necromancy stuff afterwards. Would be a nice way to show her character as that of a gentle mushroom enthusiast and floral necromancer that she is.

16. — Do they have a favorite creature in Thedas? Maybe a little obvious but it's a halla. She finds them graceful and beautiful and they are quite rare where she is from so seeing one in person feels like a little blessing to her. Faerene isn't religious and she doesn't venerate the elven gods but Ghilan'nain's symbolism plays a huge part in her story. That's because Ghilan'nain is her mother. Faerene was one of her pet projects, a tree that would one day bear a fruit blossoming into a newborn child. Ghilan'nain hoped having a fail-safe like this would get her out from beyond the Veil. Which is why the events of the game hurt extra hard for Faerene.

24. — Does your character believe in the afterlife? The question of the afterlife is such a classic for a necromancer and I'm sure it's been discussed heavily around the Mourn Watch. Faerene shares Emmrich's belief that something of the soul remains during a resurrection but this poses further questions about what happens next. it might be ironic then that Faerene tries to avoid thinking about it as much as possible. She likes to believe that there is something after but the fact that we don't know really freaks her out. She doesn't do well with uncertainty and would rather focus on things that she can change somehow.

[averagejermafan]

#13, #27, and #53 for your favorite lyrics on your Spotify wrapped, pretty please? (I know, I’m greedy. I ask for more than one song lol)

hihi !! no worries, ive asked ppl for more than one song as well lol, the more the merrier!

13 // Passerine - The Oh Hellos "you were the song that i'd always sing / you were the light that the fire would bring / but i can't shake this feeling that i was only / pushing the spear into your side again"

27 // Eat You Alive - The Oh Hellos "she'll string you along and she'll sell you a lie / but there's nothing but pain on the edge of a knife / and there is no courage in flirting with fear / to prove you're alive"

53 // Curses - The Crane Wives "there's still cobwebs in the corners / and the backyard's full of bones / won't you stay with me, my darling / when this house don't feel like home?"

[lesbianmizisua]

What about number 30 for your Spotify wrapped?

hi there!! & ty <3

"Eye roll unimpressed // Heart cold in her chest God bless just my type of girl"

Send me a number between 1-100 and I’ll give you my favourite lyric from that song on my wrapped 🥰

[kittlesandbugs]

How about force, gun, and wound for word search wednesday?

Force got a bite on Riley returning to LD fic! You can't wait to turn it back on them in force. You'll show them. You won't ever be at their mercy again. They'll be at yours. Everyone will be. And your mercy doesn't exist anymore.

Gun got a bite on something that's technically done but it's heavily heavily redacted but the part gun got the bite on doesn't spoil anything lol The door creaks open and it's—

"Chen?" You lower the gun. Uncock. Safety. 

"What are you doing on the floor?" he asks, frown lifting as the gun goes away.

I'm going to guess you were going for the other way to pronounce wound but this one got a bite on haircut fic! She starts parting your hair, digging out the line she's going to follow. Cool hands, cold metal clips to keep it in place. You let your eyes fall shut. Breathe. You're wound tight as a spring and you haven't even gotten to the main event yet.

[kittlesandbugs]

What is 'gun'? 👀

There was QnA a while back where Malin said Ortega had Step's energy caster and since Riley tried to... you know anf Ortega stopped her during Heartbreak, it was too good to resist. Tagging @achilleanwizard, they asked about this one too.

It's a familiar weight in your hand as you stand and raise it to the light. Looks like no one fixed the gash you put through the lacquer when— 

"Riley!" 

Glass shatters to your right and the gun falls from your shaking hands. 

Breathe. You have to. 

It's not—

You're not— You're just in Ortega's apartment. 

Rough ragged breathing echoes yours. Ortega stands in the doorway, a shattered beer glass at his feet. Red runs down his ankle into the acrid puddle, but he doesn't seem to notice. You aren't even sure if he really sees you anymore with that nowhere stare. 

You swallow, breathe, voice shaking as you call out, "Ric, you okay?"

[kittlesandbugs]

5, 16, 18, and 36 from the character development questions for Riley, pretty please?

5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why? Riley's book style is grungy streetwear, described as distressed jeans and flannels and hoodies. She tends towards reds, purples, and darker neutral colors. Baggy jeans and cargo pants. She has some Rangers memorabilia thrown in for funsies. She doesn't really tend towards accessories beyond an occasional necklace and earrings. She has four piercings in her left ear and three in her right. She almost always carries sunglasses around with her because she's very sensitive to light, and they're sporty purple and black or black rectangles.

16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like? She dreams and she hates it. They're frequently dark and ominous and suffocating, mixing and matching old Farm and new with Heartbreak and close calls as Sidestep, new fears of being caught again, of being repudiated, cast away. She can't remember the last time she dreamed and it didn't end with her waking up in a panic.

18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why? Answered here!

36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this? Riley will tell you she doesn't make decisions based on her emotions, that she is first and foremost a logic-driven creature and while she believes that, it is very much a lie. She frequently rely on instinct and intuition in a fight when she doesn't have time to plan. She thinks faith/spirituality is a Very Human thing and she absolutely does not understand why they would believe in something that allowed something like her to be created.

[kittlesandbugs]

3, 10, and 20 for the writing ask meme, please?

3. what makes you love writing? It's a fun way to explore my characters and some things that I think could be expanded upon from canon. I don't do original fic lol I just have fun shipping my idiots with other idiots. Also, it's a great way to make friends and start conversations! 🥰

10. which patterns keep popping up in your projects/characters? I mean if you look at my top tags on AO3, fluff is the main name of my game lol. All my projects are basically loosely connected one-shots. Uh, I start almost everything in media res because I have no idea how else something should start lol.

20. where do you begin a WIP? ex: a mood, a scene, a certain character dynamic, etc. does this differ per project? Hmmmmmm I guess I think of a scene I think would be fun to write and go from there. Sometimes I end up incorporating other ideas into it (like movie fic wip started with the question "what would your sidestep be like in a bootleg movie and how would they feel about it?" and now it's also branching into some hair lore because that's something else I wanted to cover and it fits in nicely.) But I don't have the attention span for anything big so it's all focused on a specific setting/mood/scene I want to explore.