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video game sideblog for feargender. sometimes i write things. most of the time i complain. 24, they/them or fae/fear.

[cosmicbrainfungus]

[64mpg]

i hate when things aren’t my business #whatisgoingon #dontleavemehanging #tellmesomethingplease

[ikarons]

by unpopular demand. from here. my official list of which dai characters should Not like cullen like that

varric's opinion should depend on whether hawke was pro-mage or pro-templar. pro-mage hawke's varric should also refuse to say anything negative about cullen until you have high approval, because he is also a prisoner here and what is he, an idiot?

cole should say, out loud, with his mouth, that he has compassion for cullen and understands his fears and etc. but any time theyre in a room together cole should immediately get, like, Spirit Freakout Weird, and then they need to be separated. because cole can't cope with the impressions hes getting of mages being kidnapped and harrowed and made tranquil and killed.

sera should hate him outright. are you kidding. her whole bit is she's anti-authoritarian and sets herself Against people who wield institutional power & who have the power and inclination to commit to actions with disproportionate effects on the marginalised and the vulnerable. and cullen's career trajectory has been templar -> knight captain in city where templars more or less run the show -> (acting) knight commander, same city -> commander of religious army. she should be Loud and Insensitive about it

vivienne should not be able to forget that he was knight captain in kirkwall during the escalation of violence against mages culminating in the chantry explosion and (botched?) annulment. she's a mage who created for herself through luck and skill and daring an incredibly precarious position of influence, she knows the templars probably resent her enormously; she's the leader of the loyalist mages; and how can she look at him without thinking of what he's been part of, and wondering what it will take for him to turn on her? and conversely, cullen might not be part of the templar order anymore, but he absolutely believes that the templars should, in some form, exist— he's spent two games as a Zealot. he should have feelings about basically the most politically prominent mage in the south making moves towards becoming divine. feelings about mages in "real" politics, not just circle politics. can anybody hear me. also vivienne should not ever say this out loud u should only be able to tell by comparing how she speaks to him with how she speaks to characters she feels actively warm to but in a vacuum it's not obvious and she should only be willing to tell You w/ high approval

dorian is a tevinter altus. he is a necromancer. per the orlesian chantry hes basically already a blood mage even though by his definition he is Not. cullen should hate him on principle — a product of a nation in which mages aren't just free but (supposedly universally) revered, in which mages keep slaves and practice blood magic, The Big Scary That The Orlesian Circles Rely On As Evidence Of What Happens When You Let Mages Be People. and conversely— dorian comes from tevinter! to him, a templar is the dog of the wealthy ruling class! and to be honest southern templars are not better, they just serve different masters... and he of all people should feel that a templar's ~power over mages~ is basically just a cultural construct. like. we have seen that when mages Genuinely fight back, templars start dropping immediately. nobody is more well-positioned to know this and disdain southern templars' skills and power than dorian, who did not grow up with the culturally ingrained fear and awe of them that southern circle mages did. THEY SHOULD GET INTO IT. and he should take many opportunities to say it also

i dont have a six. taking suggestions

[ikarons]

OH SOLAS WAS MY SIX. ok i feel like this one is obvious though right

[datura-tea]

we'll make it out alive, alright, alright

[stonesense]

anyway my new josephine fix is that if she was sent to orlais young for marriage then it would be more fitting to the tone and stakes of the world than “finishing school”. and it would be more logical for bards to approach an isolated and dissatisfied young bride than a well-connected student carrying all her family’s hopes. her refusal to turn to violence would now have meaning as a personal sacrifice, because this version of josie would have actually had a desperate need for control over the direction of her own life, and becoming a bard would have seemed to offer that. her development of her diplomatic skills and the respect she receives from her orlesian peers would feel genuinely hard-won if she started from the underdog position of a friendless foreign wife. she should have a reputation in orlais, but i don’t think she must be or even should be an experienced international ambassador, because she’s so young for that, and it’s logical and fun for the inner circle to be the unlikely few who are willing to take the massive risk of joining the early inquisition precisely because they would never get such an opportunity otherwise. all that has to have happened is for leliana to have taken note of her abilities. and finally her “innocence in love” as leliana puts it would make a lot more sense if in inquisition she’s a recent widow (or still married, look i still think her romance should’ve let you be a real homewrecker, sue me) who simply hasn’t had a chance to be courted and previously could shelter in her unavailability and easily dismiss all comers as not having serious intentions

[swordmaid]

act 2 with a high charisma tav

[bogcreacher]

spy

[queen-boudicca]

[inkthecryptid]

Being a fallout fan is first a test of media literacy and if you pass that it becomes a test of endurance.

[scarila]

"I followed your path. What good, this heart of stone, for it to be shattered?"

[bighornerherder]

“THIS LITTLE SCOUNDREL IS NUGGET. SHE’LL EAT THE SNACKS OUT OF YOUR BAG IF YOU AREN’T CAREFUL, NAUGHTY THING!”

baby bighorner bonding time with Courier and Lily

[bengustown-art]

ouhhh im new vegasing it

[sft-haze]

[undeadcourier]

Thoughts on Manny Vargas?

criticism of him is totally warranted esp. wrt to his reaction to carla's abduction but i do think his character is really interesting - i could absolutely see him as the protagonist of a comic or book. which is to say, he's not some generic wastelander who's only there to give the courier quests, his place in the in-game universe is fascinating.

he's born in vegas and joins the khans with his cousins at a young age. this is suprising since we meet him dressed in a 1st recon beret - right away you want to know how a former khan came to be an ncr sniper.

this is where the game kind of drops the intrigue and tells us that manny left the khans for some unspecified reason and joined the ncr.

if i were telling a story from manny's perspective, i'd dig into that: why did he leave the khans when he loved being a raider? when that was his family? what consequences arose between not just his blood relatives in the khans but the relationships he forged while one of them? what risks are there to leaving such a notorious and well-supplied raider gang? did none of the others try to prevent him from leaving? come after him to ensure he didn't do anything to jeopardize the gang after he left? how often do people leave the khans?

and *then* he joins the ncr. even before bitter springs this is a 180. what was he thinking? how does that decision tie in with the other questions i raised? the ncr had been his enemies since birth, what sort of internal conflicts did he face in joining? did he have to lie about his past in order to enlist, or does the ncr just recruit ""former"" raiders on the reg?

now, i understand the writers having manny sit out bitter springs. i think there'd be a lot of story/character development potential with him having been there, but since he's a side character and that would be a lot to get into narratively to do it well, it makes sense that the devs didn't go that way.

even so, that event influenced manny's decision to leave the ncr and he also cites wastelanders calling him a murderer for being ncr.

and we haven't even touched on his obvious one-sided crush on boone and their lives together, then the splinter with carla who not only competed for boone's affection but was of the wealthier class of new vegas residents that manny would no doubt have held enmity for since childhood.

i just would love to get into manny's head in a story about his life. so many of his decisions don't make a lot of sense from our perspective, but i think you could tell a really gripping story if you wrote something in-depth from his perspective.

[natalieironside]

Father Elijah: "I need you to do a casino heist for me. But all that casino-heisting equipment you brought with you? You don't need any of that shit. I threw all that shit in the garbage. Here's a onesie and a gun that shoots cubes."

[tannnnblogs]

FNV Comic opening

[hjinnnkuo]

intention