What kinds of stuff/people is Alhanin into, romantic wise? Does Inan have a fave food?
Alhanin’s got no real preference genderwise really but romantically she likes sensitive people. She usually gravitates to people who’re also chill and mature or people who are sweet but a bit troubled and need a solid support. She’s not really big on like expensive/fancy displays of affection and prefers more domestic-y sweet things.
Basically i want you to imagine the cowboy love interest from a romance novel, now picture him as a tall wiry elf lady with wild hair and lots of scars. That’s Al. Alternatively just picture dating Sebastian but a dalish elf lady. That’s also very apt.
Inan’s fave foods are probably like, Meat especially stews or braised, and cheese and fruit platter type situations. I mean hoW CAN YOU GO WRONG WITH THOSE????
Some wips of Alhanin one of my many MANY Lavellans. I’ve been having problems with my drawing arm these r pm all i’ve gotten done recently while i try to let my arm rest a bit.
first thing is a style/coloring experiment and the is a obligatory ‘draw ur oc in some couture shit’ thing.
i cannot begin to express how difficult drawing a broken nose in and i Regret that design choice every time i draw her no matter how cool i think it is.
Doodle ideas: inan and aelynthi and their trash band. or victory and alhanin being cop buddies?
i hadn’t wanted 2 color things but ya can’t just get that Shitty Camera + Filter indie vibe w/o it jlhffjdghdgdhls
and victory and al combined w/ @feynites suggestion of Neat Hats! i have no fucking clue what the fuck is going on here. and don’t think about the Height Stuff. Just Don’t.
8, 11, 13, 33, and 39 for Inan, Alhanin, Tace, and Fewena, E and H for you plz and thank you :D
UNSURPRISINGLY THIS IS V LONG SO IT’S UNDER A CUT
8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a childAlhanin:
to stop goofing off and do her chores, she was fairly good about doing things since she was Mom’s Little Helper when they weren’t with the clan and had that Be Good and Do Things mentality really early so she could help mom out but she’s always been really bad about stopping her chores to goof around with children.
Féwena:
to stop arguing or fighting or picking on someone. she was a tiny terror.
Inanallas:
to stop wandering off. to start their homework, do chores, try playing with the other kids more. the sort of things you’d tell a daydreamy child to do/not do.
Tace:like, everything. stop back talking, stop trying to skip class, stop lying, stop reading above your approved level like– just think of what someone could tell a kid to stop doing in the circle/a circle like environment and he got it.11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?Alhanin:
asks questions like a functional grown ass adult until she’s sure she gets it. Especially when it’s really important. if it’s not too big of a deal might just let it slide tho.
Féwena:
basically interrogates, them/whoever’s available and is like Weirdly Annoyed she’s confused. But she’s always kinda >:| so but yeah also tends to get progressively more snappish and heated as she asks questions for literally no reason. she’s just too salty to act normal.
Inanallas:
depends on who’s involved, if it’s someone they know p well they’ll just ask them for clarification. but if it’s a stranger or someone they consider intimidating or something like that they’ll either look around fervently for someone like Thenvas, who they know and will see the confused terror in their eyes and know what to do, or feigns understanding long enough to scamper over to one of their friends and plead for help.
Tace:
gets really mad and petty for no fucking reason and bitches while asking questions then cuts them off from explaining to bitch more. or just doesn’t fucking care and ignores that the interaction even happened bc like, he wasn’t gonna do jack shit with that anyway.
13. What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?Alhanin: greens, especially olive-y ones. it certainly doesn’t look like shit but idk if it’s the best since she and few’s coloring is basically “different shades of red/red-orange”
Féwena: deep reds, darker colors, olive green, basically Edge Lord Colors generally. Overall yup on point tho idk how good the red and green are since her coloring is so red, more red is possibly just too much and green runs a risk of gross.
Inanallas: light blues. it does actually look very good on them and helps soften how pale they are while highlighting their eyes. also makes them seem more approachable and less spooky which the tattoos tend to do.
Tace: Every Color Bitch. he’s…. well he’s arrogant but he’s technically not wrong. his best colors tho are pastels and saturated colors, they really pop on him.
33. Could they be considered lazy?
Alhanin:
only in her wildest fucking dreams, she likes to pretend at being the lazy lovable rogue but nope she’s a lil worker bee.
Féwena:
kinda, she certainly doesn’t lift a finger if she doesn’t see why she should.
Inanallas:
they can seem lazy, but it’s all the mental anguish keep them from getting things done. It was big problem in their inq au to manage their image, thenvas was doing all the inquisitorial work in skyhold (so basically running the whole dang thing) in their stead while inan still did all the field and in person work. it was month before they could even bare to leave their room after they got made inquisitor. it can take them ages to get anything done and to others it can look like their total slackers and completely irresponsible but the reality is they’re grappling with themselves over what to do.
Tace:
lol YUPPPPPPP. tace is HILARIOUSLY LAZY. he HATES working or doing ANYTHING and loves lounging around. to be fair, a good part of that tho is just like complete and total burn out in effect. but he also genuinely fucking hates like, all the kinda academia-esque shit the circles did and would just Not fucking do it bc Fuck You and go take a nap instead. even when he was in his poorly thought out affair with anders in his da canon verse and helping at the clinic he was forever moaning and groaning and whining.
39. How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people?
Alhanin:
Honestly fairly easy. it’s a bit difficult to explain exactly but for Al, giving people a chance and not holding them to their flaws, thinking the best of them (within reason) is natural and also an important part of her whole philosophy. compulsive lying is bad, but the reason someone does it could be to protect themselves from something worse, so it’s important not to immediately judge or write people off because of flaws or actions and to reserve judgement until you know more and to always be willing to give people another chance. but at the same time, alhanin is always involved in the justice system somehow and is forever looking for people’s flaws and any/all potential red flags that they’re genuinely Bad or will just do it all again. So she’s both willing to forgive a lot but also ready to pin people at the drop of a hat.
Féwena:
depends on the flaws, if it’s one she finds unforgivable and/or annoying then NOPE and she will beat you up for it, mentally/emotionally or physically. otherwise she’s pm lets things slide until someone else says their not okay w/ something or w/e. she’s aware she’s really not in a position to throw stones most of the time since she’s a belligerent, kinda xenophobic/bigoted/anti-human aggressive asshole (tho it doesn’t stop her from ridin’ that high horse around town whoops).
Inanallas:
kinda, it’s harder for them when they’re younger and things always feel more dire or visceral and they hyper focus on and distort the negatives but it gets better as they get older and they understand more about life and other people. post-trespasser or the au appropriate exp/age equivalent is very good at being kind and forgiving flaws, even when they’ve personally been hurt because of them. standard inan, which is aprox dai inan (usually pre-skyhold or near to the end bc of the Dark Zone) is very mixed and sporadic about it and hypocritical, clearly still trying to come to terms with how some flaws are okay, some are not, and how extremely situational that can be.
Tace:
TACE DOES NOT FORGIVE SHIT. TACE DOES NOT FORGET SHIT.
He fucking remembers every last fucking flaw a person’s got and will hold them against them until he fucking dies you can try and pull this from his cold dead hands and even then it won’t budge. even once he’s basically married to keshet and living in domestic bless he still is hilariously petty and loses his mind about all of keshet’s flaws (and tbh keshet exaggerates some, like the shitty jokes, just to rile him up), it’s kinder when it’s with people he likes/cares for, like Keshet and CONSIDERABLY less frequent and nicer when it’s someone he cares about and is Highly Sensitive like Thenvunin bc he’s not trying to make them feel bad. but he’s still judging, silently, in his Heart, and then out loud at home over wine while keshet very Obviously ignores him.
QUESTIONS FOR CREATORS
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?Alhanin: ye ye, al is super chill and encouraging so that’d be cool. we’d get on just fine.
Féwena: there’s a chance we could but it’d be rocky there for a while, few is Rough to deal with sometimes and has a very brusk personality.
Inanallas: we’d get on really well and also overshare and cry a lot it’d be a sad lil tiny losers weeping club. inan would probably ask me to draw them shit all the time.
Tace: i have noooooo fucking idea. it’s hard to tell who tace will tolerate until he meets them. i’d probably wanna be friends w/ him but be too scared to talk to him bc he’s so INTENSE and he’d be like w/e, too busy losing his mind over shit elsewhere.H) What trait do you admire most?
Alhanin:
how committed she is, how deeply she takes being Fair and Just to heart, how genuinely altruistic she is and how dauntless she is.
Féwena:
her fire, passion and tenacity and her total fearlessness to stand up to anyone over anything. and her ability to actually control that somewhat so she doesn’t go completely out of control.
Inanallas:
their bravery to push through and find a way to do things they need to even while scared shitless and the seriousness they treat things with when they finally accept responsibility or even if they haven’t accepted it yet. when they got made inquisitor they knew they were the worst choice objectively for a myriad of practical reasons and when thenvas arrived immediately began basically therapy w/ him and gave him pm all her responsibility bc he WAS the best choice and he knew her well enough to be able to help get them functioning again so they could do right by this shit.
Tace:
how totally unrepentant he is for his existence and how he refuses to let people try to convince him he’s the bad guy or that he deserves the abuse he gets and how he constantly stands up for himself against literally everything and everyone while doing his best not to fall into the trap of becoming as bad as them to survive it.
“Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.”
a doodle that started to get out of hand but i managed to keep myself from going whole hog on, tho now i’m losing my mind looking at it. halfway through i decided to forgo my plan of regular coloring and go for a kintsugi, scar emphasized look.
Alhanin may be a chill person but she did dedicate herself to Mythal and justice. That has never been a fun job.
“She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
general information.
full name Alhanin Sahlin’ehn Lavellan ➶ age 27~34 (depends on verse) ➶ place of birth Free Marches ➶ zodiac Libra ➶ gender Female ➶ religion Devotee of Mythal ➶ orientation Good Question
physical attributes.
height ~5'10 ➶ hair color Brassy Red ➶ eye color Amber ➶ skintone Russet ➶ vallasin Mythal - Full Face ➶ distinguishing marks freckles, a lot of scars, broken nose ➶ clothing style any verse’s equivalent of lumderjack
background information. (Modern Aus mainly)
hometown Dalish camps + outside ➶ Ostwick current residence Starkhaven (aus) ➶ past residences All over the Free Marches and Antiva ➶ spoken languages Common, some Elven, some Antivan, all badly ➶ financial status Working Poor ➶ education level Base requirements + master level hunting (canon) | Military (aus) ➶ occupation A Lead Hunter, Mid-rank Mythal Devotee, Successor to Elder(s) (Mythal’s Judgement + Master Hunter), Starkhaven Militiaman (aus only), Inquisitor (sometimes), Herald of Andraste (sometimes)
familial information.
mother Who I Need to Name (biological) ➶ father ???? (biological), Needs a name (step-father) ➶ siblings Féwena (full sister), 3 half sisters I still need to name ➶ children Currently none
personality.
positive traits Funny, Loving, Competent, Fair ➶ negative traits Strict, Workaholic, Doubting ➶ likes Kids, Hunting, Bow and Arrow, Halla, Camping, Music, Comedy, Friendship ➶ dislikes Injustice, Cruelty, Cowardice, Prejudice, Party-poopers ➶ moral alignment Lawful Good ➶ mbti ENFJ ➶ enneagram Type 6: the Loyalist +Type 9: the Peacemaker ➶ temperament Sanguine
“She left a week to roam/ Your protector's coming home/ Keep your secrets with you/ Safe from the outside/ You walk along the stream/ Your head caught in a waking dream/ Your protector's coming home, coming home” ―Fleet Foxes, Your Protector
