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I'm too lazy to digitally draw her, but this is my githyanki Tav, Pah'zul!! Love her and her awful haircut

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Aaaahh omg!! Look at how perfect they are! They are adorable and the armour details!! The colours, I love love love your use of colour ❤️ I am so onboard with how you draw Izi! I wanna squish them and run my fingers through that beautiful hair ❤️

Kazalii and Izi'kkas for @ardentkurashk  Izi'kkas looks so much like a dark fawn. And I will definitely draw him like that.

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i never posted these doodles of my first Tav did I

His name is Zek’adan, cleric of mystra, and on basically the same character arc as Lae’zel which is why they become immediate bff’s

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5 from the quirky Tav question game for Ka'zalii!

Hey! Thank you! Sorry it took so long to get round to asks, my god I am so unfocused at the moment sdggf 5. What is one character quirk that your Tav's companions would recognise and adore in them? Does your Tav know about this habit, and how do they feel about it? Ka'zalii definitely has a concentration frown, complete with little nose wrinkle when he's doing something like cooking or reading and it's kind of adorable. They all notice it very quickly and it becomes a sign of an impending idea or plan and they tease the hell out of him for it. He denies it exists and is adamant they are imagining it, especially when he's told it's cute.

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Could I get number one on the new ask list please? Since their githyanki I'm curious how they do on directions in the material plain

Hi! Thank you! I'm sorry this took me so long to answer, it's been a silly couple of weeks. 1. How reliable is your Tav's sense of direction? Do they rely on maps, ask for directions, or get hopelessly lost? I think each time he goes to the material, it takes him quite a while to get used to the gravity and directions again. He learned very quickly to prepare with a map or at least a list of landmarks to follow. Getting thrown onto a random beach on Toril, a planet he'd never visited prior to the game's events, was so frustrating for him. I always like the comment our characters make when approaching the water, about there being a settlement nearby. I think he would follow the river until vague civilization was found, if he hadn't come across Shadowheart. Otherwise he's likely getting turned around a few times. But aside from in game events, he still has an adjustment period after traveling to the material I think. Even with his age and collective time spent on it, he spends most of his time on the astral. Navigating via psionics on a spelljammer is so well ingrained in to him, putting that aside to use istik methods would annoy him so much for a while!

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Ooh, I'd quite happily ask for all 5 questions for the Tav Quirky Questions for Ka'zalii, but to narrow it down to one:

3. How quickly does your Tav learn names? Do they use nicknames to help remember (or cover up that they've forgotten)? Or is every person's name forever lodged in their memory after a single meeting?

~ @bardic-perdita 💜

Ka'zalii makes a point of learning everyone's names at first introduction. He'll repeat it to make sure it's right and that he's pronouncing it properly. He's got a ridiculous memory, so he remembers them forever. He doesn't use nicknames, but his name gets shortened to Zalii by a few of his friends. He has terms of deep affection for a few people, he can be quite intense about it. Lae'zel is his silver, something stronger than love, part of his scars, his blood, ir'zai. Dahlia feels like part of a symphony to him, like the other half of his soul he didn't realise was missing. Zeth is the balance that keeps him anchored, a voice of reason and loyalty he's known longer than not. Vanquish feeds into that wildness in him, fun and danger all in one, she's an intoxicating presence. (I need to try and hc some kind of translations at some point, probably going to bother @des-no9 for help for that one, sorry Des)

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May I request Lae'zel and Ka'zalii in 3C please, Una? If not, that's totally fine ❤️

"Ka'zalii, the drink! It prickles!"

aka alien woman trying a soda for the first time

C3, Sharing a drink. Full list of prompts -> HERE (new requests are on pause for now)

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Getting fobbed off for another week is infuriating ngl and I have so much to vent about when it comes to women's medical care. Getting a hysterectomy would solve many things, but I can't have one because I'm 'only' 32.

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Stress sketch I did earlier while waiting to leave for an appointment. Screenshot referencing hours because I am too ill to focus and feel the need to explain myself a million times bc imposter syndrome eeeyyyy

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no offense but i don’t care about the random npcs fighting mindflayers in the ending. instead i want a five minute cinematic of the emperor catching tav while they’re falling from the defeated netherbrain and then they stare lovingly at each other while they float down to the docks.

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I think we are all legally entitled to at least one (1) local mutual. As a treat.

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anyways thinking about how anders wanted to give varric the only memory he had left of his mother before what he thinks is a suicide mission and years later varric only has bad things to say about him

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i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

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"i miss when the dragon age companions were mean" y'all can't even handle vivienne

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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Those githyanki head flicks though