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I want to write something silly and fun. So I think it's time for a ✨❄️Hallmark/Holiday Movie AU❄️✨ one shot.

The question is who do I write it about, and what setting should I choose? I'm torn, so I'm gonna put it up for a vote. Round 1 is the characters, then once that is decided, we'll do some extra polls for the details. ^_^

Round 1:

Which Pairing Should I Use?

Matteo Lucia Alessandro De Riva/Neve Gallus

Nadarevas Thorne/Lucanis Dellamorte

Mary Brithari Surana/Taash

Gelen Lavellan/Dorian Pavus

How dare you leave out (insert pairing here)!?

Voting ended onNov 18, 2025

Gonna put my OC tags in this post so y'all can click on them if you want to know more about them. ^_~

#dragon age #rossie rambles #datv #tumblr polls #feel free to reblog as I want lots of votes pls #Matteo Lucia Alessandro De Riva #Nadarevas Thorne #Mary Brithari Surana #Gelen Lavellan #Alandria Mahariel #Vaelyn Surana #Mera Hawke #Persephone Trevelyan #Xandra Laidir #Nesithra Lavellan #Mariel Amell #(Nes and Mariel should be excluded as I don't think they would work for this AU)#rossie writes

Introducing

Xandra Laidir

Rogue Engineer, Monster Expert, and Lord of Fortune.

They/She, tough as nails, and giver of no fucks.

After learning Davrin speaks dwarvish, I decided it would be fun to romance him with a dwarf. 🤞It leads to learning more about Davrin, because his conversations with Stalgard were fascinating.

I'm playing with the idea of being brave and having Xandra save Minrathous instead of Treviso, because last time I tried to do that I ended up scrapping a whole playthrough because it was so fucking depressing dealing with a blighted Treviso. Xandra is the type of character that I could see having a grudge against the Crows, as well as the Venatori, so it could potentially make sense for them to choose Minrathous. I think...

Anyways, it's almost 4am and I need to get some sleep. My sleep schedule has been borked lately and I don't know why. It's super inconvenient.

#rossie rambles #dragon age #Xandra Laidir #DATV #rossie's OCs

Okay, time to pick Xandra Laidir's playthrough back up, so Davrin can get some smooches this time.

Xandra is an engineer and monster specialist for the Lords of Fortune. Technically Xandra is nonbinary, but that's mostly because gender is an annoyance and gets in the way of interesting shit. Pronouns are she/they but anything works generally, as long as the intent isn't to be rude or cruel.

#dragon age #datv #Xandra Laidir #rossie's OCs #first time I've played a dwarf since origins #hubby is almost always a dwarf in DA games so i tend to do everything else

Finished Xandra's playthrough last night.

Davrin's romance is honestly lovely, and just further solidified how much I love him as a character. I enjoyed it, and it was definitely better than I was expecting.

However it didn't rip my heart out of my chest...

My DATV romance rankings so far (this is my opinion for my personal taste and is in no way saying my preference should apply to everyone):

Lucanis (demisexual rep and he makes you food, I never stood a chance.)

Taash

Davrin

Neve

I have yet to romance the other companions (I tried to do Bel after Lucanis but that Mourn Watcher playthrough was not fun and I deleted it). I have a Mercar set up to romance Bel, and I might do an AU Vaelyn run where she could romance Emmrich. I love Harding but I dunno if I want to romance her, as I've already finished the damn game six times, and since I'm a console player I can't cheat or play with mods. (And I've seen clips of her romance.)

I really miss the little romance details that the previous games had, like being able to go smooch your romance whenever, or having NPCs/companions notice and comment on your relationship more consistently. This Davrin romance didn't seem to really have any relationship banter, and the conversation where Ghilan'nain dreams of how to rebuild your romance didn't even trigger (I just got the generic one for the group despite having locked in his romance). Maybe this playthrough was just glitchy, I dunno. Either way, I want more romance content, regardless.

#dragon age #datv #davrin romance #Xandra Laidir #rossie rambles

A Word with Friends 10/27

Thank you @woundedsoul12 for the tag, I appreciate it! Especially because it got my burned out brain to spark. <3

Not going to tag anyone specific since I'm late to this one, but if you see this consider yourself tagged!

Avoirdupois

A system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces or 7,000 grains, widely used in English-speaking countries Weight, heaviness

This one features Xandra Laidir and Davrin, and it ended up much longer than I was expecting, so I'm only posting a snippet here:

They'd been new to the Lords back then, still making a name for herself, still deciding how she wanted to be addressed, or be perceived. The concept of trying different pronouns had been introduced one night by a very attractive Lord from Orlais, who flirted shamelessly with Xandra until the dwarven engineer had politely made it clear they weren't interested in anything other than conversation. It had been for the best that Xandra had gotten a good night's sleep, as Bharv had shown up to drag them off on a caper just as the sun was starting to peek above the shoreline. "Come on, Xan, I need your brains for this one." He'd declared as he tossed their bag at them while they pulled on their boots. "Where to?" Xandra had asked, as they finished gearing up, preparing a mental checklist of what else they needed to grab. "Somewhere near the Anderfels, location is an old thaig or somethin' with lots of traps. It's a team-up deal with some locals that have pull with friends of the Lords. Get a move on, boat leaves in twenty."

The rest of the completed fic,

You call it Fate, I call it Superposition, can be found on Ao3.

(And yes, it loosely ties in with BTSTS canon. ^_~)