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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to surrender myself to the mercurial whims of The Manuscripts

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Man, I fucking miss Blackwall. Nobody lied like that man. Solas was all half-truths and mysterious double meanings like a poetic fortune cookie. But Blackwall just straight-up pulled shit out of his ass with 0 fucks give.

Wings of Valor for valor type of shit

When the Inquisitor first finds him, this asshole’s out in some random field, bullshitting a bunch of wannabe Grey Wardens like it’s amateur hour at Liars’ Anonymous. Out here cosplaying with 0 shame

Varric gets suspicious, starts poking at him like, “Hey, buddy, what’s your deal?” and Blackwall just hits him with a “No.” Like, not even a good lie just “No.” Sus as hell, and somehow everyone’s like, “Seems legit, carry on”

Absolute icon. A lying sack of shit, but our lying sack of shit. Man deserves a medal for audacity alone

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wolf

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in her name

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Thinking about how Vivienne is essentially in mourning during Inquisition. We aren’t given a timeline for Bastien’s illness, but given his age and how he appears when we finally meet him in Vivienne’s personal quest, we can assume he’d been sick for quite some time. Long enough that Vivienne had to make a choice when the Conclave fell: stay with Bastien and live out his dying days together, or join the Inquisition.

This was a choice, by the way. Vivienne didn’t need the Inquisition to cure Bastien— even with the Civil War affecting the Exalted Plains, she could have acquired the White Wyvern’s heart herself or hired someone to do it. As I’ve mentioned before, Vivienne joined the Inquisition as a survival tactic, gambling on whether it would become the next rising star in the political arena or criminalize magic entirely.

She saw the writing on the wall for her career. If she didn’t join the Inquisition, she would be retiring from both the political and social world. And yes, the risk of losing her title was deadly—absolutely—but she could have retired with Bastien and focused her time on trying to heal him. At the very least, she could have stayed with him to see him die in comfort, surrounded by love.

I’m sure they discussed it. Bastien, from what we see in the codices, supported and believed in Vivienne’s skill. I doubt he would have been happy if she had made the decision to stay by his side because he knew her. He knew her heart, her ambitions. Her capacity to both love and change the world.

Vivienne would have fought him, insisting on staying, and he would have fought back, trying to convince her to go.

And Vivienne? She went.

She went knowing he was dying. Knowing that any day could be the last. Knowing that the potion she was working on might, at best, give him a peaceful death—but never save him.

We meet Vivienne as she is making that decision: to say goodbye to her greatest love. The Vivienne we know is processing that grief, moving through the stages as she saves the world—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. It’s a testament to her mastery of The Game that her mask never slips. Not once, until the very end—when, and if, she trusts the Inquisitor enough to reveal a fleeting second of vulnerability.

And then she smiles, places Bastien’s cold hand down, and gets back to work.

When she cries, we’ll never know. But God knows she does. She cries and saves the world. She cries and plans Bastien’s burial, all while carrying the weight of his loss with her.

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MEL

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Mel Medarda✨☀️

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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

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Just wanna say that I think Ekko and Mel slander makes sense when you understand that 85% of the Arcane fandom views both of them as characters less worthy of fandom attention.

In their eyes, they are afterthoughts to more interesting relationships, so when someone in the 15% dares to give them anything outside of dutiful lamentations ("Mel and Ekko deserved better!"), they can't help but feel those analysis would be better suited for a character they *actually* like and so they lash out.

Fans of both characters have to constantly argue that these characters have loved and have been loved. They want Mel "independent" because she doesn't "need love" and they want Ekko focused on The Tree and the unnamed Firelights because they want it to be easier to carve both of them out of the interpersonal narratives that attaches fandoms to characters in the first place.

They want Mel and Ekko to "save the day" because they don't want their roles in the story to interfere with other characters that they like. Better for them to beat the Bad Guys™ than to be given more material that would validate their personal connections with other characters in ways that the fandom would prefer to ignore.

And the fact that Ekko and Mel are completely different characters who have never once interacted with each other and yet somehow both of them are being treated the same way with how the fandom constantly diminishes their relationships with the rest of the main cast leads me to believe that it does have something to do with the One Trait they do share.

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Hyperfixation so bad people think of me when they see it

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You know if I was a full time weaver I would stand ominously over people

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For fellow curious minds

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the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

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make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

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When I think of my own death, or of the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters.

Gene Wolfe, the Book of the New Sun

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I finished theem!!

They are my take on meljays in the alternate timeline, and you can read more about them here

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There are two kinds of lesbian relationships