Hissing Wastes

I write, game, and write about games. Not at all obsessed with Dragon Age. Blog contents include my writing, art I admire, Cassandra Pentaghast, and a smack of ham. Find me on AO3: whatsherface

[whatsherfacewrites]

Yours

Cassandra Pentaghast x Owain Trevelyan

Rating: Explicit (smut, with feelings) | Words: 4732

Summary: An evening among courtiers in Orlais leaves Cassandra a little jealous, but the Inquisitor is more than happy to help work out her frustrations. 

Shameless. Absolutely shameless.

They circle like beasts on the hunt, like carrion birds, hungry. They flirt and flatter, hiding their intentions behind masks and fans and simpering smiles, flaunting their jewels, gowns, and ever-lowering necklines.

The Inquisitor stands among them in the middle of the ballroom. He, too, has sharpened his claws for the occasion. His coat is new, a deep midnight blue and cut to the advantage of his height, breadth, and strong, solid lines. He is fresh-shaven, scrubbed and shined to his most dashing.

He is, in short, radiant.

And it works. Even on her. No, especially on her.

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[whatsherfacewrites]

Modern day Cassandra watches Bridgerton. She eats that shit like a starved woman. No idea if you have watched the show, but I have a few asks: 1) Which is her favorite season?

2) Favorite couple?

3) Would you write a story where Owain catches Cassandra watching Bridgerton (her guilty pleasure) and they try to envision themselves as Bridgerton characters? How would their romance go?

LOL YES YOU ALREADY KNOW. Cass has 100% read all the books multiple times and is out here geeking out over the differences between the book and show and theory crafting how they’re gonna adapt everything. She has Opinions.

I think Kate and Anthony would be her favorite for the angst and yearning. (“You are the bane of my existence” etc etc.) Plus I think the themes of their season would resonate with her. But I admit I haven’t finished season 4 yet so Sophie and Benedict might also be up there tbh.

Owain would definitely walk in on her during a sex scene (naturally) and be like WHAt IS THISSs. He’d start watching with her just to snark on it and then accidentally get emotionally invested lol.

So I think they’d be into the show but in terms of them actually in an AU like that, I can’t really see it, honestly. Cass is such a woman of action that I don’t know how she could engage in the world of the ton. Social scene, marriage mart—those are just not her stakes. It feels like what she was born into and has already walked away from by the time we meet her. Like what would she even be *doing* in that timeline? Probably off fighting a war, which would be a different show. (That I would watch, obviously.)

What do YOU think? What would Alexander x Cassandra look like?

[jejejijiju]

A commission of dragon age

[point-maitimo]

First Talon of the Crows. I think it's time to show you those Valentines without text. Feel free to use these images as desktop wallpaper ;)

[pastellarts]

To the edge of your sky - Chapter 4: Ripping time to shreds

Well, it took a while, just a little bit under 5 years. Here is a fresh chapter of a story I never stopped thinking about. Our favorite mage from Tevinter enters the story. I have also discovered how much I love writing Vivienne.

Chapter 4

“So many people dispossessed,“ Vivienne remarked. “Another generation that learns to live in fear of magic.”

“Not only magic,” Cassandra pointed out. “Templars have slaughtered innocent people, and we still don’t know if they were behind the explosion in the Conclave.”

“With the Templars acting like that, rebels will be most difficult to pacify.”

“The Templars made their beds, Vivienne,” Trevelyan snapped. “Mages are not wild creatures to be pacified.”

“These renegades we have fought sully the name of the Templars,” Vivienne replied calmly.

“Yet you still think it is a good idea to reinstate the Circles and have Templars guarding us like prisoners. Again!”

[whatsherfacewrites]

Posted a director’s cut of City of Magic because I finally figured out how to fix what has always bothered me in the back two (pandemic) chapters. Truly a case of “write for yourself” lol I don’t do anything else.

But the real reason? Part 3 👀👀👀

[whatsherfacewrites]

Is it just me or is rook kinda cringe

[whatsherfacewrites]

Not me spending hours tweaking my Rook only to be hit with character creation for my inquisitor too

[frelynart]

Sketch studies of Cassandra Pentaghast

[toastandvegemite]

do you ever wonder if your choice of blorbo is random baby chick imprinting, or in fact a deep physiological profile that reveals all the things you need therapy for

[veliseraptor]

have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate

[colinarcartperson]

The second in the series of Dragon Age commissions I had the pleasure of working on for the wonderful @ohmyarda it was fun to draw her Hawke again!

[hattedhedgehog]

Hand-embroidered Cassandra Pentaghast’s character card from Dragon Age Inquisition, 11.5x19.5 cm. 89 hours of work. I learned a lot of new techniques for it including (very basic) needle-lace making!

[atarial]

realised i’ve never actually uploaded my new version of my best art i’ve ever made with a nice bg and everything and everyone all together

so here we go :D

[humanveil]

the bravest thing a girl can do is read a shit analysis of their favourite character and simply keep scrolling

[whatsherfacewrites]

Is licking your lips supposed to be hot or something because I just 🤷🏻‍♀️

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All done uwu !