Formerly Lordgoretash. Tumblr veteran, old enough to have been told to never give my age on the internet but also old enough to vote drink and run for congress, here for Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate. 18+
I'm really in an Origins mood, especially for my new Edmina Cousland or Olivia Amell. Or whump prompts to put especially Illario or the mages in the torment nexus. I've got #writing prompts or prompt a quest and I'll write about how the character handled it or feel free to come up with your own.
I'm also always happy to write family and platonic relationships (most comfortable writing everyone from DA2, and the Dellamortes, but open to branching out)
OC details below the cut:
OCs:
Kalira Tabris: Rogue who is very bad at the Warden's official neutrality. Eventually technically goes awol from the Wardens, not because she really wants to, but because she feels she is being used as a puppet for bad First Warden decisions. She still considers herself a Warden and keeps in touch with Warden friends, but she refuses to become a political figurehead for decisions she believes are wrong. She is in the world's slowest burn enemies to friends to lovers with Loghain.
Zuzu Hawke: Rogue Hawke, intensely dedicated to her sister's safety and freedom, and eventually to the same for all mages. Marries and fights a war along side Anders. (She is also my main worldstate's Herald of Andraste, which causes massive changes in Inquisition.)
Hawke, Just Hawke: Mage Hawke, Fenrismancer, on and off blood mage, Malcolm was an elf and this significantly shapes their sense of identity (she/they, agender and goes exclusively by their surname.)
Hector: Chantry orphan raised to believe that being a templar was the most important thing he could possibly do, up until his magic emerged during templar training and he was shipped off to Kinloch Hold. A depressed kid who was still too dedicated to the templars and kept to himself, most of his friends in the Circle were the Tranquil who were kind to him. He still has weapons training from his templar days and steps up to protect people during The Broken Circle. He spends most of Inquisition trying to find and protect the surviving Tranquil, and later takes the lead on disseminating the cure for Tranquility.
Maëlys: (Renamed, formerly Saoirse) Former slave turned Shadow Dragon. She is definitely not a blood mage; that is definitely necromancy (she's a blood mage. She was almost killed in a ritual and lashed out, taking control of her own blood back form the magister trying to use it. This gives her a fear of blood magic, but also experience with it. She is deeply in denial.) Despite being a Shadow Dragon, there is increasing tension between her and the Shadow Dragons because of the high number of magisters and other Altus mages and shortage of ex slaves in leadership.
Demelza: Tranquil mage who refused the cure, but found a balance of emotions she could experience but still retreat from while working closely with spirits in the tombs of Nevarra. When she was no long welcome there, she reluctantly followed Varric away from the safety and balance she had found working among the spirits. Living in the Lighthouse is intensely stressful for her because living in the Fade means no longer being able to retreat from her emotions the way she was accustomed to.
Merran Hawke: The youngest of the Gallows survivors, taken in by Bethany Hawke post DA2. He's kind of a mess because the Gallows is not conducive to children growing up into healthy, well-adjusted adults, but he's trying. He joins du Shardan's mostly elven heist crew and ends up as Rook over the course of trying to find some direction in his life and ends up in a messy situationship with Illario.
Hattie Brosca: Mob enforcer, Grey Warden. Not usually a noble hunter but if a future king practically falls into her lap, who is she to turn down an opportunity? She is torn between her usual self-preservation instincts and how much responsibility is suddenly on her shoulders. May end up falling for her mark and romancing Alistair or may end up messing up her own plans by falling for Zevran.
Nell Surana: Politically minded mage who could have risen in the ranks to become a senior enchanter or even First Enchanter some day if she didn't have more interesting friends who get her in serious trouble. Cullen may have a crush on her, but she considers him her nemesis. She was in love with Jowan for a long time, then falls hard and fast for Alistair, then loses him to defeating the archdemon. Eventually she reconnects with an old friend, and she and Anders get together some time after DA2.
Velyn "du Shardan": Half elf conman who lost his family in the purge of the Halamshiral slums a few years before DAI and set out for revenge on the Empress for it. After killing Celene, he becomes something like a Robin Hood figure for the elves of Orlais, and starts a heist crew to steal elven artifacts back from Orlesian museums. Friend of Red Jenny, unexpected friends with Loghain, very reluctant mentor to Merran, and surprisingly effective player of the Game.
Viola Trevelyan: Mage from Ostwick who played by the rules for her entire life until her Circle voted against rebellion, at which point she snapped and killed a templar to force their hand. After the explosion at the Conclave she agrees to help the Inquisition under the condition that they help her find the child who was taken from her at birth as is standard in Circles.
Varania "Rook": Not technically an OC, but I write her as a Rook. After her intense falling out with Fenris, Varania falls in with the Shadow Dragons because they are the only steady work for an ex-slave elf in Tevinter.
A flaw of games with romance options that are not full dating sims is that all the flirting options are always correct. They should let you flirt badly and the LI to lose interest in you if you fuck up too many times.
"he has time magic. if he loses the first version of the fight he will simply make there be a second version of the fight"
"Strong warrior? Delay them. Fast rogue? Ruin their timing. Mage? Force them to react to rifts and repositioning while he keeps casting. He doesn’t need to be physically tough if he can keep making the other person arrive too late, swing too early, or waste their opening"
"He is still a magister. Even without the time magic, that means serious formal magical education, probably years of duelling, politics, and surviving around other Tevinter mages who would absolutely eat a weak rival alive. Add the time spell nonsense on top and he’s not someone I’d write off just because the Inquisition beats him."
vs. Isabela
"Isabela knows how to fight one person directly, how to stay just out of reach, how to bait someone into moving wrong, and how to punish them when they overcommit. She’s very casual about danger, but casual doesn’t mean careless. It usually means she’s been in worse situations and got out of them."
Once again @catebees has created a banger commission of Mahalla! Look at the flowy Fade smoke on her spirit blade!! Look at her hair!! Look at the details on her gauntlets, and the green lighting, and the fierce expression on her face!! 10/10 as always, I LOVE IT!! :D
Drawing almost every Dragon Age character — Part 15, Merrill Sabrae
Merrill, my love, you deserve the world😭 She is the sweetest, most wonderful person out there. All she ever wanted to do is to help her people and find Tamlen. Every Keeper and their First bear an immense weight of their people's legacy and future on their shoulders. And Merrill felt like giving in to blood magic was worth it for her people, fr Tamlen.
After all the horrors: almost loosing hope for her and her people's future, a sense of self at some point, loosing Tamlen and Marethari, getting treated like a child or a demon, despite that she's still the same sunshine, ball of hope for better days. Still compassionate, willing to help and believes in second chances for people like Anders, because she knows what it's like to feel powerless in the face of cruel injustices, to try your best to help instead ending up making things worse one way or another.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14
