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PERI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@ofrevas​ said: leliana/josephine send me a ship and i’ll rate it! accepting!

NOTP | meh | it’s ok | i can live with it | BROTP | cute | i love this ship | adorable | OTP |

for a very long time, i actually didn’t ship this. it wasn’t that i actively disliked it, i had just never really put that much thought into it......and then i did. 

it literally hit me like a truck. josephine is one of the only people that leliana trusts and feels that she can truly be herself around. they’ve known each other in excess of 10 years by the time of inquisition. and they balance each other in the perfect way. they have the same basic set of morals, they share fundamentals, but they differ on the small things, and are able to quell the extremes in the other that could become problematic. 

josephine brings out the KINDNESS in leliana, brings out a warmth and passion in her that leliana herself finds very difficult to find at some points. leliana brings out a more playful side in josephine, a more carefree attitude when stress and responsibilities would seem to weigh her down.

and after trespasser, leliana and josie have the bougiest wedding and leliana becomes a montilyet 

[inquistior-a]

@ofrevas asked:   𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺 𝚃𝙾 𝙼𝙴 𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝙷𝙰𝙻'𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙵𝙾𝚁𝚃 𝙻𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙻 (𝙾𝚁 𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙺 𝙾𝙵) 𝚁𝙴𝙶𝙰𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙿𝚄𝙱𝙻𝙸𝙲 𝙰𝙵𝙵𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽

𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙰𝙽 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝙿𝙻𝙸𝚃 𝙸𝙽 𝙷𝙸𝙼—because hal is a hugely affectionate person, his warmth is rather large and can be heavy at times. he also /wants/ to give affection and make others feel cared for, has a gift for it, and a natural inclination towards it, to provide in that way, but he was also raised in an environment where it was not allowed. i’ve mentioned before how hal felt it was his responsibility in his childhood to shield his siblings from their parents emotional lack by providing affection to them, and this is where that natural intensity of warmth comes from. it is where he learned to deliver so much attention and affection with a single look or a small smile from across the room, where he learned to give the impression of touch without touching, to comfort with his eyes or a few quiet words. it’s why people often feel vulnerable around him in the same way that they feel safe around him—since feeling safe is usually an inherently vulnerable experience.

his gestures of public affection are often subtle, but i wouldn’t call them less than tactile, or any less impacting for that subtlety. he does have that intensity, and that intensity can deliver large impact from small actions. he has no hesitance at all in giving long and obvious attention through looks, words, and touches to the arm or the back or even the face. if you’re suffering and he thinks you need it, he won’t hesitate to take you in his arms, or rake your hand, or whatever measure of intimacy he thinks will comfort you without being invasive to you. it’s a desire that he has to give these things, and it pleases him to do it.

romantic affection is more difficult. in private, hal’s unlikely to ever keep his hands entirely off of the object of his affection, unless it’s a game of longing, and he almost always has that look of wanting to grab you up and kiss you—and in public that longing is fairly palpable. because of his sexuality, hal spent his later adolescent years repressing and controlling the obviousness of his adorations. it was after his first young love that he resolved not to live that way, not to shutter himself, and he’s spent fifteen years living rather freely with his sexuality. he hasn’t had a ridiculous number of lovers, but because of his remote and isolated lifestyle he has been free to live openly in these short affairs;  open, but in private all the same. returning to the public eye is a strange tension for him, because he feels more pressed to act with honest affection and has become accustomed to doing so, but is suddenly thrust back into the circumstances of his youth where he feels unsure, inconvenient, as though his affections are a risk and a burden, both to the object of those affections and, in some social and political ways, to the inquisition itself. he feels under scrutiny again, and is aware of the danger of that scrutiny for more than just himself.

homophobia is real in thedas, and the it isn’t a small thing for the inquisitor to be openly gay. it’s a risk. hal does not conceal his sexuality but he also doesn’t go out of his way to proclaim it—and i think it is deeply unsettling for him to regress that way, back into having to live like he did when he was a young man. he’s conflicted, reticent and uncomfortable in it, and that’s a large part of the reason that his relationship with dorian takes so long to develop. dorian knows that he’s gay, and hal is not subtle in what he wants, but he holds back—both because of dorian’s mirroring restraint and because of the discomfort and almost pain that he feels in being back in that place again where he feels he has to withhold himself from other people.

he gave up his siblings, who he has always protected, to be able to live the way that he wanted, to be able to live as himself, and suddenly the shame of what had felt like his abandonment of them tries to seep back in—the same sort of shame that comes with the implication that it is his responsibility to the political and social efficacy of the inquisition to just pretend that he isn’t gay, as though he owes it to the cause to be alone. i think there is a part of him that lies awake at night, staring at the ceiling in his chambers, and feels like that frightened boy again, the young man that feels two ways:  that he’ll always be alone because it would be too hard to be with him, and that he doesn’t deserve what he wants anyways because he isn’t brave or reckless or strong enough to risk everything to get it.

he’d risk himself, of course—but he had been trained to believe that his actions were always balancing his family’s future when he was a child, and now he is aware that his actions will define the forward momentum of the inquisition.

in short, there’s baggage. a lot of bad baggage. and the flirtatious, affectionate, adoring man that hal is is at odds with that sense of responsibility not to burden others with his desires, with his feelings. when he’s allowed, and when he allows himself, he’s about as embarrassingly affectionate as a person can be, in public or not, be it with only a pointed look or a lingering touch. but there’s something very powerful about how his hesitance begins to dissolve towards the last few plot points in the game. it’s impossible for him to be with dorian in actuality, together and established, and not be open in that. he doesn’t /want/ to conceal his affections, and he finally refuses to.

even josephine can’t argue when he kisses dorian in front of all the assembled soldiers, and the empress of orlais, and every other gathered person of importance at the war camp in the dales before going into battle at the temple of mythal. she doesn’t point out that he is always taking dorian’s hand, now, and kissing his fingers, making a show of what is likely to be very inappropriate murmuring. the way he kisses him in the hall in the morning, peels his apples at the table, pours his wine, the way they come out his chambers together before hal takes the inquisition throne to preform his duties. he’ll go as far as he’s allowed so long as his lover is receptive and enjoying his attentions.

he’s prepared to give his life for these people who are witnessing him, after all—and he’s resolved that they should see that life for what it is, and see the example of joy, and shake off whatever their own shame might be. hal was raised by the chantry and he was raised with shame, and stepping out into the metaphorical sun and refusing to allow that shame endure in his example as the head of an organization intrinsically tied to the chantry is genuinely just a flex, just an act of authentic leadership, of defiance that comes through the celebration of life, and it’s part of his legacy as inquisitor. it’s also in part what makes him such a good inquisitor, and part of the way that being inquisitor is good for him.

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@ofrevas said: “I can see the appeal of oblivion. At least everyone would shut up.” for Sera // meme.

“What, getting tired already of sitting in on all those fancy talks from Josie’s friends with the heavy pockets?” Truth is, she’s getting tired too. The fun and profitable side to her work stalls when the Inquisitor does. Her legs dangle over the parapets; heels tapping against the walls in an idiosyncratic rhythm all her own. “Ought to have more fun with it, Herald. I know you. Sneaky-smart, and all. What you ought to do is figure out a way to get them all puckered. Least then you’ll get some quiet, won’t you?”

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