#harding

[lostiel]

dragon age the veilguard | progression deep dive

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Here's a Harding portrait! Figured it was about time I drew her!

[drathe]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard DA Keep tiles <3

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Blood & Bond

Pt.2 Pt.3

Summary: Jake’s daughter from earth leaves earth to help protect the western frontier of pandora.

The RDA is rotten to its core. Nothing but greed. Maybe that’s why you joined. You would be dead if you didn’t join.

No money, no stable job. You got a mouth to feed at home. Little girl you took in not long ago. To say shes a pain in your butt would be an understatement.

She may be just a few years younger than you, but she’s still your baby. And your whole reason of living.

“Cora, baby come on I told you to pack.”

The teen looked up to see you standing at her door, dressed in your RDA uniform.

“I did.”

Your brows furrowed as you scanned the messy room and a suit case with a few pieces of clothes in it. You gave Cora a look.

“Little girl, pack your things. This ain’t a week vacation.”

Cora sighed and got up

“I don’t want to go to Pandora. I thought humans can’t breathe air there.” Cora lazily tossed more clothes into her suit case.

“You want that new gaming console you’ve been begging for?”

“…yeah.”

“Then shut it and pack.” You walked off as the teen’s loud groan echos through the empty halls of your apartment.

Halls filled with pictures now empty. Those were the first things you packed up.

The day you took in Cora was the day you realized your dad wasn’t coming back. The day you were told he was dead. The day you nearly lost hope in living. You found Cora, small, abandoned and crying.

Something in you just wanted to keep her. And make sure she was warm and safe.

It was hard, raising a kid when you were still a kid yourself. Giving up your own childhood for another’s. Alas, a small sacrifice for a greater purpose.

You sighed as you sat down on your bed, the door half-way open, your packed things neatly placed at the door. Your eyes shift to the file placed on your nightstand.

You grabbed the file and flipped through it with a frown. Pictures and details of your Avatar was all in the file.

Honestly, you don’t know why you were even given an avatar in the first place, didn’t only scientist from that Avatar Program get these bodies?

Then again, wasn’t that program shut down?

You decided to not think too much about it. You decided long ago to not question the morals of the RDA. As long as you’re paid and your baby is fed and safe. Your good. Nothing else matters.

Jake’s first time holding Neteyam, he felt pride. This was his son! Look at him, so small and beautiful just like his mama.

Now when he held Kiri for the first time. He nearly sobbed. His first baby girl… no that’s not right. He had a baby girl before.

(Name)

Yeah that’s right. He’s forgotten what she looked like now. Only her voice is clear. If he thinks hard enough about her he could try to form what she looked like.

If he still had that picture he had with him when he first got here. It wouldn’t be this hard to remember what she looked like. But no, he just had to leave it in the pod which got blown up during the battle.

So much is happening around Jake right now, time feels like it’s going too fast. Next thing he knows he has four kids. All his pride and joy.

But when everything is calm, when it’s just him and his thoughts. He thinks of that little girl. So bright and filled with love in a world that was cold and dark filled with bad people.

Then his mind moves to a darker place. What did the RDA do you to you when they got back to earth? Are you okay? Are you mad? At him, for not keeping that promise of coming back?

He left you alone. What was he thinking? Just leaving his little girl there. What an idiot, such a stupid, stupid man-

“Ma’ Jake?”

A sweet voice brakes him out of his thoughts. Jake felt a hand gently placed on his chest. When he looked up to see the love of his life, all those bad thoughts are washed away. He smiled and touched his head with hers.

The two have a small moment before Neytiri pulls away.

“What is on your mind?” She asked, concern and curiosity is mixed with her expression and voice. Jake let out a small sigh.

“Nothing my love. Just- just thinking about earth.”

At that, Neytiri seemed to understand. She gently holds her mate, her head rested on his shoulder.

Neytiri is well aware of (Name). She remembers Jake just wouldn’t shut up about you. Neytiri only knows the version of (Name) Jake remembers. And that is what she will think of you as well.

“Walker, I’d like to remind you, the dangers of having anyone wonder the age of 18 going into the cyropods-“

“Shut it. I’m not leaving my daughter on a dying planet.” you shoved your daughters documents into the soldiers chest, storming past him with Cora following behind, giving the solider a sheepish smile as she passed.

Now, you stood at Cora’s pod, “Okay. Your going to go to sleep, and when you wake up your gonna take it nice and slow okay?”

You gently strapped her in. The teen nods, trying to keep her cool, but it was clear she was nervous.

“I’m kinda scared. What if I wake up before we get there? Like that one movie.” Cora nervously fiddled with her bracelets.

You chuckled.

“That won’t happen. Just relax. Close your eyes. Everything will be fine. I’m right here. Okay?” You gave the teen a smile of reassurance, settling into your own pod.

Four Months Later after arriving in pandora

“Alma! Alma! Oh my gosh you will not believe this!” Priya rushed to Alma(who was in her Avatar). So’lek and Daniela along with Alex were at the hologram table with Alma.

“This is insane like- totally insane! Like-“

“Priya, get to the point already.” Daniela cut off the purple haired woman. Impatient especially after the RDA just set up another facility close to HQ, polluting the land around it.

“Right, sorry. Okay, I’ve been in contact with this RDA soldier right? Shes the one who’s been giving us layouts of new facilities and blueprint of the new AMP suites.”

“Oh yeah, the Ex-Marine right?” Alex asked as her pushed himself away from the hallo table.

“Yes! So you guys know how she didn’t give us full information about herself? Well I just found out why. This is our supplier ” Priya connected the large screen with her tablet. Showing a young woman in an RDA uniform.

Her name bigger than the bottom text, her whole info.

(NAME) WALKER

Alma, Daniela and Alex seem to Freeze. The three got too quiet for too long So’lek spoke up. His brow raised at the three.

“This one, is she not to be trusted?”

Daniela scoffed.

“No! Hell no!”

Alex chuckled nervously.

“This is… very unfortunate.”

Alma just stared at the picture than back at Priya for some sort of explanation and hope. Hoping Priya didn’t give too much information about HQ, especially their location.

“I know this looks bad…” Priya nervously says as she held her tablet close to her chest.

“Bad? It’s not like it’s Gray Hound Walker we’re dealing with- oh wait! It is.” Daniela’s distress came out as aggressive hand movements made So’lek look at Alma for an explanation.

Alma, sighed as she had both hands on her hips.

“(Name) Walker, aka Gray Hound is a level four threat, Ex-Marine, dishonorable discharge, multiple arrests charges, joined the RDA not so long ago yet made a name for herself in less than two years.. Like her code name applies, she hunts down defectors, sends them back to General Ardmore or…”

“Kills them off herself. Shes cruel and is as greedy as the rest of the RDA. Hell she could be a damn mascot for the RDA.” Daniela has seen Walker’s work up-close. And it was not a pretty sight. She rather eat class and die then work along with someone like (Name).

“Now just hold on a second, if our supplier really is Walker, then… maybe shes changed? Maybe she can’t take being in the RDA anymore?” Priya tried to defend Walker, even if she was suspicious herself, but was hopeful.

“Priya might be right, I mean, she even leaves scraps for us in certain areas. She’s been a big help…” Alex, who was a little reluctant to speak up about this was still not sure of this himself, but like Priya, he hoped for the best.

If they have someone like Walker on their side, then they might actually have a chance on more people joining the resistance.

“Or it could be a trap. A way for her to find us all and take us out at once.” Daniela folded her arms as she glared at the picture of the RDA soldier on the screen.

“Okay, okay. Priya, look more into Walker, if she really wants to join us, than she needs to prove it.” Alma gets a look from So’lek.

“Why should we let this, Gray Hound; prove herself? If she is the same threat level as Aedmore, she should not be trusted.” So’lek spoke out on the danger it will be if they so much as trust this girl just even a little bit.

“She has access to all the newest tech, RDA plans that could damage pandora more. Information that could help us take down the RDA. If she really does want to be on our side, we’ll have a major spy on the inside.”

Arguments still arose after Alma’s reasoning. Especially after Priya mentioned Walker having an Avatar. It was outrageous, someone like (Name) Walker wanting to defect, after all the pain she caused. It just didn’t seem right.

Finally, Priya was able to let out the plan Walker had given to Priya. That’s when it went silent again.

“… she has a kid?”

“Mom?” Cora peeked from a corner, seeing (Name) on the metal chair, head in her hands and gun on the table in front of her. (Name) lifted her head up.

“Hey baby…”

Cora took note of her mother’s tired eyes, more tired than usual, her tone firm as always, but sounded weak at the same time.

Cora walked closer to (Name) concern in her eyes. It seemed ever since they got her to Pandora, (Name) seems restless. Far more sad than usual.

She doesn’t cry, Cora has never seen (Name) cry. Even after so many people they knew who were kind to them before died, she never cried.

But she was just so sad it seemed like she was crying, just not on the outside; she cried on the inside. But that was just Cora’s point of view on it.

“You wanna see my Avatar?” (Name) offered, slowly standing up, moving closer to the younger one.

Cora smiled, clear excitement radiating from her baby face.

“Really? I can see it?”

You let out a weak chuckle with a fond smile. Cupping your baby’s face.

“Yeah, Malcolm is outside, he’ll take you.” (Name) watched her daughter quickly grab her camera and sketch book.

“Hey, be good to Malcom okay?”

“Okay, love you!”

The moment the door shuts. You sighed, slowly looking back at your gun. Your dog tag wrapped around it.

‘Gray Hound’

A name that is well known. Some know to fear the name. But others. Others who know the truth, know that you’re just a dog. A pet for Ardmore.

She says fetch, you fetch.

She says roll over, you roll over.

She says play dead. You play dead.

You’re nothing but a dog who does as they’re told. And you wouldn’t have mind if you didn’t find out you were killing your own men.

The ones who wanted to defect, you would report them. Thinking they would get hard punishment and then stationed somewhere else. The ones who would run, you’d hunt them down. Beat them a little if they made things too hard.

You admit you might have gone a little overboard on some, but Pandora is harsher. Worse than the trenches.

It was okay, you thought it was okay.

Till you stumbled upon Harding, putting four of the men you caught trying defect, in front of a damn fire squad.

You’re mean, harsh and just a straight up bitch sometimes, you’ll admit that. But never in your damn life would you purposely set your men up to die. It’s inhumane.

You could try and leave to the resistance with your squad and daughter, but that would just put a larger target on the small group.

So you made a plan.

You can’t leave, that’s a no-brainer. You can’t just let your whole squad defect, that would get you put under suspension and possibly killed.

So, the next patrol you and your squad goes on. You’ll stage an ambush. And you’ll ‘lose’ one of your men, that being your right hand man, Malcom Delgado.

He’s strong, smart and had kids of his own before. He understands that your daughter is first priority, no matter what.

[whoisnotmyname]

I love this line lmao

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Ranking the Veilguard companions Hookup Potential based on the kind of bed situation they have going on in the Lighthouse

(im in early act 2 so have no idea what further romance scenes are actually like, this is just jokin time without any romance spoilers. just pics of how their respective rooms in the lighthouse look and some basic characterization we know about them)

Taash: 8/10

In another game or the real world I would only rate this a 5 because they have no pillows or addition blankets. however they do have a real bedframe AND it's big enough for 2 which means the they are doing better than 90% of the rest of the Veilguard so this score gets boosted. And while there's not many blankets, there are plenty of braziers around the room to keep you warm, and Taash is probably their own miniature furnace to cuddle up to. Crucially, they also have a whole wheel of cheese next to the bed, which means you don't even have to leave the covers to get a snack after.

Lucanis: 1/10

Oh no. I'm not even going to comment on the pantry angle because everyone else asks him about that to begin with, so this is just about the bed. Unfortunately the bed is a cot made of uneven wooden planks with some blankets on top of it, and is only wide enough for 1. This is because Lucanis hates sleeping and doesn't want to do it, so the less tempting his bed is, the better for him. Unfortunately this means sleepover potential is dreadful and you will have to find alternate solutions. He does at least have another blanket to go over him and one that's presumably being used as a pillow, so, he gets a 1 instead of a 0, but I am still planning on gifting him coupons for a back massage for Satinalia.

Bellara: 4/10

This setup is perfectly fine for sleeping. It's the lighthouse standard little bed couch thing, has a mattress/cushion, is elevated off the floor, has a pillow, and she's got her blankets folded below. Perfectly serviceable for getting a good night's rest which we know Bellara is not because she forgot to sleep again. However, it's very much a one person sized setup. You might be able to cuddle for a while but if one of you unconsciously tries to roll over you are going right to the floor. Ouch.

Lace Harding: 5/10

You might be wondring "why is sleeping on the floor rated higher than bellara's" and the answer is because this means you are not rolling off the bed onto the floor. it's not going to be comfy but we are not ranking comfort here we're ranking sleepover potential. Harding has managed to make this space look homey and the canopy gives the illusion of being in a tent or canopy bed to help with that illusion. There are rugs down on the floor plus the blankets and pillows--we know Harding is used to sleeping on the ground due to her career as a scout, and I'm sure she can scrounge up more blankets to make the cushioning big enough for the both of you. Your back WILL hurt in the morning but you'll get to have a fun night first.

Neve: 3/10

Girl I know you can do better than this. Which means you're not trying to on purpose, so, live your life I guess. I will say this cot IS bounds nicer than Lucanis's--you can see its a stretched canvas or hide on a frame rather than wooden planks, so it will have a little more give. However they are not THAT much comfier which I know having slept on this modern equivalent many times. Neve also apparently has 0 pillows or blankets so you're out of luck there, as well as the problem of it only being wide enough for 1 again. This woman has too many other things going on to think about romance so your Rook is going to be the one improvising on that matter I think.

Davrin: 10/10

Now here is a man who has his life together. Double or queen size mattress, rustic bed frame he probably lovingly carved and assembled himself by hand, and not only are there sheets AND blankets AND pillows, they are are full on matching set and this knight in shining armor dutifully makes the bed every morning. There's also enough pillows for two! While the remains of a giant corpse is hanging above you all night, the spacing of the ribs still gives you lots of room above to manouver, so just don't worry about that. As a bonus you'll probably even have a baby griffon come to cuddle in the night which is such a cute thought we're going to ignore how much worse getting stepped on by a griffon foot would be than even the biggest fattest housecat trying to stand on your stomach at 4:30am. My one criticism of the setup here is that due to the bed's positioning if the person on the inside needs to get up in the night they'll have to awkwardly crawl over the person on the outside, however everyone else's bed situation is so dismal I'm not even going to subtract a point for that. Great work Davrin.

Emmrich: ???/10

Where... does this man sleep. Peepaw I KNOW you can't be sitting in that armchair all night you need your beauty rest!!! There are 0 beds or cots or floor blankets in this man's room. HOW am I supposed to break his pelvis if he has nowhere for us to lie down??? We can't risk that old man's spine on the cobblestone.

Wait... unless. No, surly not. I mean--jk. Unless...? 😳😳😳

is daddy necromancer gonna fuck me on the sacrifice slab... 😳😳😳🥵🥵🥵

Bonus:

Solas 11/10

does not matter where he actually slept bc once my inquisitor Gets Him again they WILL be fucking on top of the piano in front of the mural in his Yearning Room

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Some Paella shenanigans. Rook was taking the picture

Based on this ancient Spanish meme: