#esti lavellan

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Inquisiting text posts ft. Esti Lavellan, Ena Lavellan, and @runningwolf62's Brennan Trevelyan.

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The Brennan and Esti met as kids AU except when Brennan gets thrown out of the Templars he runs away to find their Clan and has been living with them up to the conclave. This means Solas gets the honor of killing Maxwell when the conclave explodes.

Excerpt from the journal of Ena Lavellan, circa 9:33 Dragon: 

-Esti’s argument: Adult shemlen disappear all the time, esp if committed crime or disgraced. Will not be blamed on Dalish like a missing child? Will think he simply left, not left WITH anyone.

-Keeper says we don’t take fugitives. What if someone recognizes? If Templars/family find his trail. Always bad when Templars interested in Dalish. Asks what skills Brennan has. Can he cook? Sew? Hunt? Says he can fight. Does not help us day-to-day.

-Falwen wouldn’t feel good about throwing him onto the road with no ability to survive.

-Arassan says he’d be fine on his own if he had coin, asks why he didn’t steal more coin from his family when he left.

-Everyone pretending Arassan doesn’t have a point re: theft.

-Falwen suggests we let him travel with us to next city. Make sure he isn’t slain by bandits/starve/freeze/etc. Most other hahrens seem willing to accept compromise. Keeper relents. Fallen says brokering understanding is good.

-Arassan says understanding can happen just fine from distance/brief meeting. Like bears. Or wolves. Don’t need to let one into the aravels.

-Told him that we let Fen’Harel into our aravels when we travel. Pointed in direction of statue. Arassan concedes point. Keeper not happy. Tells us to stop invoking his name else he’ll hear us. I do not say that he must be deaf if he hasn’t heard me or Esti by now.

[doodle of a wolf in the margin]

-Keeper says he will be an apprentice hunter to me until we give him back to his people. Think she expected me to argue/refuse, looked surprised when I agreed immediately.

-Brennan says he knows bit about horses, asks if halla are like horses. Tell him that Vardhal would sooner kill us all than let a shem touch our halla. 

-Vardhal skipped meeting. Of course. No question what she’d say. Or will say when decision is known. If she wanted to make final ruling she should have stayed Keeper. Only my problem if I have to be the one to tell her. 

-Ask Brennan if Templars taught him archery or only stabbing innocents with sword. Says mostly the latter with a side of inflexible dogma. Arassan laughs and pretends he didn’t. Suspect Brennan will grow on him quick.

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Excerpt from the journal of Ena Lavellan, circa 9:41 Dragon:

-Asked Josephine if Conclave attendees were recorded anywhere, any way to know all who died. Specifically asked about Trevelyans, she did not push further when I did not elaborate on why. Large family, known to her, said she will look into whether they had anyone in attendance. 

[Some pages later]

-Josephine says main house Trevelyan in Ostwick lost son Maxwell. Brennan never offered specifics on his family or names of anyone. Will have to tell him, anyway.

[a note added in a different ink] -Older brother

[a note added in another different ink] -ADDENDUM: fuck that guy I hope it hurt

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@runningwolf62 (at least) one more meme for the road before Veilguard drops. They're manifesting.

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The hypothetical concept of a fic I'd write about Ena returning to Clan Lavellan after Trespasser is funny because half of it would be a fraught examination of Ena's relationship with her mother, with the backdrop of all of the elven lore and history Ena learned, and the other half is a conversation like

Esti: You got dumped by the Dread Wolf.

Arassan: And he's going to destroy the world, and you still believe he's not wholly a bad person. He'd better be the most handsome man in the world if you're going to keep talking like this.

Ena: sighs.

Esti: He's not even the most handsome man in the world, is he.

Ena: I do think I am obliged to tell you that I have met the most handsome man in the world and he is my dear friend Dorian. He would want me to make sure to tell you this.

Arassan: 'Dear friend', hm?

Esti: Would he dump you and then try to destroy the world?

Ena: No, but he's not interested in women, so your next question is moot.

Arassan: Well, now I'm more interested in an introduction.

Ena: I'm not saying no, but for disclosure I should also tell you now that he is a magister who just moved back to Tevinter.

Esti: You got dumped by the Dread Wolf and your best friend is a magister?! Did you make any normal friends while you were with the Inquisition?

Ena: No.

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I heard about some “OC Kiss Week” thing this week and had to scribble out something with my Esti Lavellan and @runningwolf62 ‘s Brennan Trevelyan

tfw your shem bff is too tall and you gotta strangle him down to your level

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oh hell yeah

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For the record I almost sent 30 for Asa and Solas.

30. “Do you think you could just please go one day without pissing me off?”

holy shit that’s too fucking funny so of course I had to

"--and maybe sure we could get back some more of this lost knowledge you're talking about if our Keepers just wandered the world sleeping in giant spider nests, but unfortunately they have responsibilities to our people and not just our past."

Esti stretches her eyes wide and slowly drags a hand down her face. Brennan tries to pretend he is deeply absorbed in studying the horizon ahead of them, which is difficult because the Western Approach is nothing but empty desert scrubland. Sera has never tried to pretend that she is deeply annoyed by Solas, Asa, and any interaction of the two of them, and she groans loudly, comically slumping her shoulders until she is close to doubled over. "Shut uuuuuup," she moans. "You've argued about this like every day."

"Well, if someone would stop acting so self-righteously superior --"

"Well, if someone would stop picking these fights and then being indignant when I respond --"

"Asa's right, what she was just saying about our people and the past and all," Esti says, "but Solas is right that she's the one who keeps bringing it up."

"Except when I'm not," Asa snaps. 

Esti sighs and rolls her eyes at Brennan. He pantomimes slitting his own throat. She snorts.

"Your hostility does you no credit," Solas says to Asa.

"I wouldn't be hostile if you weren't an asshole - do you think you could just please go one day without pissing me off?"

"Do you think --"

"What I think," Dorian says loudly, his voice rising over both of them, "is that the two of you need to either fight each other to the death, or maybe just make out."

Asa and Solas' unison exclamations of distaste are drowned out by Sera's laughter. "Right that!" she cheers. "I kept saying this is some weird flirt thing!"

"And I kept not wanting to think about it," Esti mutters. Both of her hands are on her face now. "You shut up, you and Dorian shut up about them and next cave we find we're just stranding them both in it."

"Where," Dorian says, "they will proceed to either murder each other or --"

"DORIAN!"

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Okay but like here me out. We're combing AUs for this. But Modern AU version of 'they met first as kids AU' for Brennan and Esti trick or treating together.

she drags him out of town through the spooky forest to her clan because they give way better candy than the shemlen and he’s missing out.

(okay so I couldn’t figure out what Brennan should be and then I was thinking about this one text post that I’m always laughing at that the Trevelyan family is mostly a bunch of hicks because there’s one war table mission where a bunch of them get to fighting because someone insulted someone’s cows, so I started thinking about what if most of the Trevelyan family is a big rowdy country family of cowboy types and the Ostwick Trevelyans have spent generations setting themselves up as dignified people of the city who spend their time in service to the Chantry and the people and don’t get into petty disputes except Brennan visits the countryside family once and is like “I wanna be like them!” and his parents wonder where they went wrong.)