#kirsa runadotten

[jennserr-writes]

OC Rival asks 6 and 9? :)

hey, thanks for the ask! 69 you say? lol sorry i had to

6. Most serious VS Silliest

Silliest

I’m tempted to say Adrianna Hawke, bc she’s a Purple Hawke that doesn’t really take things seriously, but honestly, Nesiathra Mahariel wins. Her band of misfits doesn’t learn it for a while, bc she’s extremely wary around shems (even Sarah), but at her heart, she loves nothing more than a good joke and to just have fun with shenanigans. Once she’s comfortable enough with them all, you bet your ass she starts pulling pranks on them. Alistair and Sarah only makes it worse by being someone Nesi can go back and forth with with turns of phrases, word puns, and the like. The three of them are positively incorrigible.

Most Serious

My problem boi Lucas Trevelyan takes this away. The words fun, joke, and pun aren’t even in his vocabulary when we meet him. He doesn’t know how to just relax and let go of things. 

(Ashawyn warns him that his face will freeze like that if he keeps up his near-constant frown)

9. Darkest backstory VS Lightest Backstory

Lightest

Kirsa Runadotten, definitely. She had a perfectly normal upbringing for an Avvar mage, loving family and community, and successfully separated the spirit that had been with her from herself around the time we meet her. Her struggles (if they can be called that) only begin after she leaves Stone-Bear Hold and joins Valentina and her crew. Honestly, she’s probably the most “normal” and well-adjusted character in that fic verse.

Darkest

I mean, it’s a tossup. Nesiathra because of the whole mess with Tamlen and the eluvian, Adrianna bc she loses her sister while fleeing the darkspawn, the Ryder siblings bc of their being orphaned, and Leah because of her displacement in time (it might as well be a competition at this point), but in actuality, the one with the darkest backstory is Valentina Ledoux.

My reason being, Val is the only one who loses absolutely everything when we first see her. She’s taken not only from her home and life, but her entire world, thrust into another one and made to start over from scratch. And once there, even when she’s established herself and has friends etc, there’s no one she can talk to that can understand the full scope of what she’s lost – aside from Solas, but that’s for another time. Idk about you, but that’s definitely the most tragic, even darkest, backstory of the bunch.

Send me asks and I’ll tell you which pair of OCs fits each number!

[jennserr]

i know val is your inquisitor, but i'd love to know more abt kirsa + 6, 7, 10 !!

Hmm, making me think about my less-developed OCs, I see... =p I am curious as to why Kirsa though

6. Write some of their party banter (in reaction to major events, scenery dialogue, or just shitting around. Askers can specify for which character/event, or leave it up to the writer).

Kirsa: “You seem to hold a low opinion of your kin, Solas.”

Solas: “My kin?”

K: “Elves, be they Dalish or not. Mages. Bald people, too.”

Inquisitor: [snickers]

S: [sharply] “The Dalish are not my kin, and nor are city elves.”

K: “Yet you yourself are an elf, so where does that leave you? A wolf without a pack?”

S: “You say this as though you don’t also think little of your humans.”

K: “They are of entirely different cultures than am I, it is only-- oh. I see.”

7. What would be on their tombstone in the fade (what is their greatest fear)?

Powerless

10. If Inquisition operated like DA:O, what would their gift items be? What would their approval and disapproval Feast Day items be?

Kirsa’s gift items would be anything relating to the Avvar (totems, charms, relics, etc) and animal-shaped carvings (catch her keeping a collection like shepard and their model ships lol). As for her Feast Day items...

Approval: a bestiary of all known creatures in Thedas. She’s very fond of animals, and sometimes needs to be stopped from trying to hug the bears.

Disapproval: an Orlesian fiction novel about the Savage Mountain Men and how the Empire conquered and civilized them. You can probably guess what it’s about.

ask me what my Inquisitor would look like as a companion!

[jennserr]

ask meme for kirsa: literacy, hobbies, something they're always saying, and something they would never say

✎ - literacy (can they read, write, what languages, etc.)

Kirsa can read and write in Trade, better than Lowlanders expect. Idk if the Avvar have a different written language, but if so, she’s fluent in reading and writing in that as well. She also knows a little Tevene, but not much.

(she absolutely refuses to learn Orlesian)

✓ - their hobbies (I initially forgot this one oops)

Proving everything Lucas knows about magic and spirits wrong. And just proving Lucas wrong in general. It’s oddly satisfying.

Other than that, she likes weaving. It’s calming.

❝ - something they’re always saying

“Gods preserve me.” (Lowlanders, amiright?)

❞ - something they’d never say

“Lucas is right.”

(i’m sorry those are the only two I could think of at the moment lmao)

Send me a Thedosian OC ask! (previous asks here)