#samahl

[ghostiekins]

fanart of @merlinity's 3 OCs for a secret santa!! <:

[nevemancer]

What kind of love is your OC?

I was tagged by @serstolas ! Thank you for tagging me, this was fun :^). I'll tag @ghostwise @the-funkiest-penguin and @bonesaints if you want to do it!

The quiz: link.

Efraim Mercar (x Neve x Lucanis)

Love as a Force of Nature

Your love is like whiplash -- it comes in with the rain, it blows the doors wide open. When you fall in love, it is sudden and hard and immense. It is powerful. It is earth-shaking and world-ending. Nature is a force, and that force can be destructive if you're not careful. See how the world is doused in gasoline and set on fire -- your love consumes, your love takes, your love burns. You're hot and cold all at once, a hurricane and a wildfire bound together in skin, and when you're in love it can feel like it's eating you alive from the inside out. When you love, it's with everything you have because it is everything you have. Be careful, darling, because not everyone survives the storm.

I think this is accurate for Efraim as a character/in his life, but not entirelyy accurate for his romance with Lucanis and Neve. They help him accept/appreciate the quieter things, I think.

(Bonus that I took this for my Hawke (fenrismancer) and Vhelas Mahariel (tamlen and merrill) and they both got this too. But it felt less accurate for them.)

Samahl Lavellan (x Dorian) (and the ghost of solas is in here somewhere)

Love as a Threshold

Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver's heart and a giver's hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved to you is to always feel at home. Your love may not be well received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

I think this one is.. semi-accurate. Because Samahl often feels out of place and doesn't feel at home. But the last sentence got me ok.

Surana (x Zevran)

Love as Religion

Devotion, that is the name of your love. Your love is an act of worship. Your love is like witnessing the birth of Venus, like seeing the sun come alive, or the stars fall. When you love, it is because you have found God in a lover. You have found the meaning of life itself in the heart of the one you adore. They are everything to you; they are your Maker, you are their lamb, their flock, their first and holiest worshipper. When you fall in love, it is as a baptism. You are born anew, made a believer in the divinity of the one you love most. Being loved by you is an ascension; it is holy and golden. It is all-consuming, and all-faithful, loyal as the dog. You will never, ever bite back.

Again, I like this more as a general character statement on love rather than specifically Surana and Zevrans relationship. But on the other hand yeah 💖

[thecohort94]

Samahl Lavellan

[halfmoonheart]

no no im not Incredibly Emotional about this dumb dog

[bardspeak]

More preparatory sketches than I’ve ever done in my LIFE

[mintglowart]

Holigay Sammie!!

[lalomaly]

Kicking off this blog by drawing my Lavellan

[merlinityart]

OC-tober day 9: Mentor

Learning some gravity magic with Ms. Miraln, who is one of the few and highly sought-after telekinesis mages. Not the same kind of magic, but as close as it gets.

Mr. Sock is used to this. He knows he gets tuna afterwards.