This has literally taken me a couple of weeks now, which is funny bc it was initially going to be a doodley comic but I ended up having fun with the lighting and then procrastinating on drawing Zevran’s fire and rendering his face for 2 days instead… so yeah. I’ll ramble a bunch now.
So! Pardon the jumbled words but this has lived in my head rent free for a month at least! Vasylysa isn’t suuuuper stoked to be out of her element and around so many people she’s unused to, and gets through the first few weeks avoiding socializing with her teammates, aside from maybe Barkspawn. She does, however, like observing, and spends quite a bit of time off to the edge of camp taking little notes and doodling things around her. (Which is also why her image is so much darker! She sits away from the fire, at the tree line.) Which…. Admittedly kinda creepy maybe, but I don’t reckon the Circle is well known for good social skills, especially for ND mages. She is content with staying unseen and minding her business, and captures some things from around camp - Alistair dozing off with Barkspawn, lulled to sleep by Leliana’s songs (I think it’d be of some comfort, given his upbringing. Also Vasya is guilty of that too, Ferelden is rubbing off on her), Morrigan reading what seems to be a grimoire(where did it come from?), Leliana jamming to some tunes with the Fat Lute they picked up from Bodahn(you can really hear the Orlesian in her singing voice), Sten looking over the fire with a bit of a softer, more melancholic and introspective expression than he usually permits (he must miss home, surely), and the newcomer rogue… he almost looks… sad? Which nearly catches her off guard, given his outwardly disposition the past few days. The doodle comes out almost automatically, as she looks up and back down at the page, adding the finishing touches to the eyes. Once she looks up again, the eyes meet hers, the rogue’s face donning a smirk that almost certainly was not there before.
I’m both uncertain and amused about the face I ended up giving Vasya here - she looks absolutely mortified, and she would be, but by the Maker, she takes things a little too seriously. Also, she should really have known better than to spy on an assassin who also happens to be the only other person in camp who’s capable of seeing in the dark. It’s funny, because in truth, both of them are fairly uneasy in their position, Zevran is just much better at masking it with a smile and a wink. That and the Warden’s reaction itself is hilarious and who knows, perhaps he is also flattered?
