#thom ranier

[danceswithdarkspawn]

if i had a nickle for every time a Video Game Man wooed my character, hid his past, almost spilled the beans about said past but chickened out at the last minute, and then ran away because "you deserve better/this is something i have to do", i'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

[youryesman]

Why Backstory Is Becoming the Real Feature

For years the pitch around AI companions was about appearance. Make her look how you want, and that was the headline. Talk to anyone serious about it now, though, and the conversation has shifted toward something less obvious: who she actually is. On sweetdream.ai that shift is built into the workflow, where personality and a detailed life story sit right alongside the visual design.

The reason becomes clear in use. A backstory gives an AI girlfriend something to react from. Give her a stubborn streak or an old ambition she never finished, and SweetDream's chat, which is unusually natural and keeps track of what you have told it, will let those traits surface across days of conversation. She remembers, she circles back, she has opinions that fit the person you designed.

The polish extends outward too. The generated photos and videos look like they belong to one consistent character, and the voice messages and live phone calls carry a tone that matches her written personality. It is a quietly coherent system, and it stays discreet, which is part of why it reads as the standout choice.

[youryesman]

Rest in piece Blackwall you would have loved romancing a redeemed Dark Urge.

[salroka]

After you pick up the codex about Blackwall being in Val Chevin during the blight, I wish there was an option to be like "hey bud why'd you lie to me?"

[conversationswiththemoon]

Arcane Screenshots: Companions

Cassandra

Blackwall

The Iron Bull

Cassandra

Dorian

Vivienne

Solas

Dorian

Vivienne

Solas

Sera

Varric

Cole

– ARCANE FILTER SCREENSHOTS –

Inquisitor Ellena Lavellan

Inquisitior Ellena Lavellan, Part II

Inquisitor Asha Lavellan

My Other Inquisitors

Companions Part I

Companions Part II

Companions Part III

Advisors And Leaders Part I

Advisors And Leaders Part II

Advisors And Leaders Part III

Various Inquisition Characters Part I

Various Inquisition Characters Part II

Various Inquisition Characters Part III

[meegleteedle]

Nonbinary DAI Companion Icons

You can pry enby Cole and enby Solas from my cold dead hands. It's my favorite head canon, dammit.

[wanderingaldecaldo]

For the WIP Game - You got my interest with Reparations/Restitution/Recompense (?)

Thanks for the ask, @ghostoffuturespast! From the WIP Game Ask

Reparations/Restitution/Recompense (?)

Heyyyy you found the non-Cyberpunk fic! This is technically named "Blackwall" in Drive but one of the ones above will be the actual title. It's a Dragon Age: Inquisition fic that centers around, well, Blackwall. Tall, dark, handsome, brooding, beard... how could I not fall for him? I loved his story and wanted to let him redeem himself for Trevalyn in Trespasser. I really adore this fic, and really, really need to finish it. It's at maybe 97% completion, I just need to finish the thing. It's also in first person, something I rarely do, but I really like it for him.

It is strange, resuming this name I abandoned years ago. Like an old suit of armor that doesn’t fit as it used to. It creaks and strains and I struggle against its constraints, yet there is comfort to be found in it.

I travel the Orlesian countryside alone, much as I did in Ferelden under the name Blackwall, helping where I can but mostly tracking down my former command who believed—wished, in cases—me dead. Some forgive, others do not. I cannot help that, but still I must try to make amends.

After some time away from Skyhold, a woman in a tavern makes it clear she fancies me and I allow her to take me into her bed. She is beautiful, though that is her only similarity to the Inquisitor. She is a welcome distraction, and I stay in town a day longer than intended before resuming my journey.

I write to the Inquisitor constantly, unsent letters piling up in a single journal filled with scratchy penmanship, covered with shaky lines from writing without light or while drunk, or both. She is my constant companion. 

Thom Rainier lacked a conscience and thus she has become mine, though I suspect she would bristle at the thought. My unswerving lady of truth and justice who refuses to see herself as the paragon she is, who fails to recognize how she helps her friends and companions become something better than they were. Thom Rainier included.

[dilfenthusiast]

Shoutout to the Nexus mod screenshot for that second image, I was too lazy to put real time into this

[walk-the-fade]

Blackwall and Inky Adaar are such a good match 😚 "The praise keeps coming" he just needs a strong horned lady to support him and shower him with affection. Ive made a Qunari inky before but never committed to the playthrough...this should be fun