#dabb 2024

[veilkeeper]

fully submitted everything to the dabb collection!!! now i just... wait for it to be revealed and then i can share it with you. absolutely wild ride.

[theoriginalladya]

Will & Might: The Test of Time

Title: Will & Might: The Test of Time

Fandom: Dragon Age

Word Count: about 12,000

Rating: T and Up

Summary:

William Trevelyan and Cullen Rutherford spent ten years together as Templar recruits at the Chantry monastery in Jader. Closer than brothers, until a revelation forced William to leave the Templar life behind. Reunited fifteen years later, their friendship is put to the test a second time by the same choice that drove William from the monastery. The world may be falling apart around them, but perhaps a reforged friendship is just what these two old soldiers need.

Characters: William Trevelyan, Cullen Rutherford, Varric Tethras, Solas

Pairings: William Trevelyan & Cullen Rutherford, William Trevelyan/Dorian Pavus

Tags: Friendship, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Drinking, Drunkenness, Mentions of addiction (lyrium), mentions of withdrawal (lyrium) Chess, get by with a little help from my friends

Snippet:

He should have gone the other way. “You look like you’ve got your hands full there, Inquisitor. Let me get that door for you.” In all his days, back in the Free Marches or even during his years at the monastery for training, William Trevelyan had always maintained a fine sense of humor. Puns, witty one-liners, word play of any kind – “It’s knight errant, not knight errand, you arse!” – Will savored and appreciated it all. He’d built a reputation for himself of being quick witted and, when necessary, as vicious with his words as he was with his blade.  Until tonight. Maker, but he’d forgotten that the easier route to his destination would bring him right past the dwarf currently sitting at the table in the Great Hall in front of the hearth, an inkwell, quill, and bare pages open before him. Right in front of the door Will needed to get through, and almost as if expecting he would come by. 

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I decided to go back to my roots in Dragon Age to try to get my writing mojo back and participated in the Dragon Age Big Bang this year with a (not so) simple story about friendship, separation, and the reforging of that friendship fifteen years later.

I was fortunate enough to get paired up with @blasteddoodles as my artist, and oh man, did she bring my Inquisitor, William, to life! Thank you, my friend! Also huge thanks to @shadoedseptmbr and @happychica for betaing for me!

Enjoy!

[veilkeeper]

got 3k written on day one for dabb, which is a solid start, even though i have already gone through the 5 stages of grief about this project like, twice

[veilkeeper]

i need to be writing my dabb fic not getting ideas for a whole new longfic in a completely different fandom

[veilkeeper]

how is it that no one reads my fics but every time i publish one i am convinced that like a million people are going to come out of the woodwork to hate it

[megthemariner]

I finished my Dragon Age Big Bang piece!! It was a lot of fun to work on and I can’t wait to see everyone’s work in November :)

[veilkeeper]

my dabb fic is officially edited and complete!!! some minor formatting edits will need to be made for posting to ao3, but it's READY!!!! i am so ecstatic and relieved. i really thought for a bit there that there was no way i'd be able to do it (and there were some dark days where i thought what i was writing was absolute trash), but now that i'm out the other side i truly can't wait for you guys to see it ♥

[veilkeeper]

i am so close to being halfway thru my dabb wip. i am SO CLOSE.