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OC Archetypes - Helia

Rules: color all that applies to your OC and their vibes! Whichever section you get the most in is your OC’s archetype, although you can also add in whichever section you get second in to create a subclass of sorts! (Ex: the heroic maiden, the sagely monster, the outcast hero, etc!) Feel free to name it as you see fit, discuss your results, and add some vibe inspiration if you’d like! ✨ blank template

The Heroic Sage

The Hero [12]

Impulsive action | Bravery in the face of fear | unwavering self-sacrifice | resilience | fighting for those who cannot | action before contemplation | revenge over absolution | my strength serves the virtuous | an oaken shield | the thrill of battle | glowing smile and freckled cheeks | glory and remembrance | arrogance | red blooded anger | a journey begins with one step | excitement over safety | rising after every fall | shooting from the hip | a knight in shining armor | a sapling which thrives despite the fierce wind | I will succeed or die trying. 

The Juvelescent [5]

Blooming flowers | gentle sighs upon a lover’s chest | freshly gathered wildflowers | assumptions assumptions assumptions | twice bitten | bright eyes which so lovingly cut through you | isolation in a sea of admirers | long hair pulled back with a ribbon | soundless footsteps in the grass | naivety shifting towards corruption | my image is not my own and the distinction it lends is not mine either | the gold that stays | sneers and smiles | white cotton dresses in the rain | negations of culpability | a bird in a jeweled cage | a smile as a sword | flushed cheeks amid longing glances | a feast you must not partake in. 

The Guardian [8]

Solid rock withstanding ocean waves | sentinel | a vibrant sun through rain clouds | protecting the threshold of glory | boastful smiles and gentle laughs | reluctantly passing the torch | leading through example | past splendor: never again felt but often remembered | the darkest memory is what could have been, the shine of glory never fades | goodness is worth protecting at any cost | sacrifice begets greatness | stories to legends to myth | delivering the final blow | practice makes perfect | the tallest and oldest tree in the forest. 

The Creator [6]

Giving until threadbare | abundance and growth | I made the stars for you | gifts upon meeting | feasting but never satiated | an artist’s eyes lend tender brushstrokes | I will mold you how I see fit | freshly sprouted herbs | idealism and perfectionism | big bright smiles | making for the sake of making | self immolation | never forgive and never forget | a bountiful garden | birds which scatter seeds | these hands heal and hurt in equal measure | ask and you shall receive | necessity is the mother of invention. 

The Monster [9]

You must not gaze upon me | bizarre and unexpected | hidden for your own good | driven on by an unstoppable force | rage and fear | earthquakes | carcass under the hot sun | the weathered oak withstands | overworked muscles | fierceness of spirit | the blight that poisons | my inhibitions died with my innocence | screaming into the wind | otherness | a fall from great heights | I don’t even understand myself | power reveals all | the void stared back | existence is a perverse experience | blood runs hot | primal and feral joy.  

The Outcast [9]

Always running | life is a series of fleeting joys | I wouldn’t recognize myself | a rushing river obscured by mist | a whispered name | mercurial and capricious | your shadow your sole companion | last bloom of the season | individuality above acceptance | a pallid complexion | isolation and silence | wanting looks | one cannot be lost when they belong nowhere | here and there | hiding between shadows | nonconformity lends insight and perspective | my heart is mine alone | running against the wind | to be irreplaceable one must be different | a gaze which stirs indescribable feelings. 

The Sage [10]

Tall green grass, parchment and ink, listen closely for I rarely repeat myself, freshly lit candles, an idol placed on a faraway shelf, knowledge is power, sparkling grey hair, owls, strength of spirit, to receive you must first give, a lonely mountain overlooking the valley, appraising glances, unnoticed subtlety, seldom found and often forgotten, aquiline noses, scrawled notes haphazardly stored away, knowing glances, piles upon piles of books, I am as profound as I am clever, curiosity killed the cat; satisfaction brought it back, furrowed brows. 

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going to do some tag games i was NOT tagged in but they seemed really fun so whatever. thats freedom

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the last straw

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new hawke just dropped.

judith hawke (tentatively. up for change.) she has so many problems. ❤️

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soome doodles of my pals dragon age charas <3

@paragondreams @thewardenisonthecase @morally-gayer @sha-brytols

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quick fenris cause i started to replay dragon age series

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I feel so validated seeing other people acknowledge Weekes' smarminess in a lot of their writing. Like. God, Here Lies the Abyss was so terrible. The constant "You did this to yourselves! The wardens are doing this because they're scared! Blood magic is Bad!". Or that extremely preachy Judgment scene with Ser Ruth, "I can't use the ends to justify the means, as though that could produce a future that I could be a part of!" (Ruth, your "end" is "stopping the world from a literal apocalpyse", why did you join the order if you expected to be a part of it). I don't think Weekes ever understood what the point of the Grey Wardens was, because they seem to think that "what if the wardens...did bad things to stop the Blight??? What if they weren't really these fairytale knights in shining armor???" is a powerful question and not just like. a major recurring theme throughout Origins.

to be fair that's noooot really the vibe i got from here lies the abyss? the wardens being brutal pragmatists was a theme in origins but like it was a theme in the sense of "you're a warden and you choose how you go about being a warden." da2 and inquisition you're playing from the pov of someone outside the order who only knows them as the noble vanquishers of the blight prior to actually being wrapped up in their business firsthand. idk i liked that bit. when you would do Anything for your cause, literally Anything, then you're inherently vulnerable to manipulation and corruption and tunnel vision. the wardens aren't the only organization we see falling victim to that. and i think i don't think focusing on that is a bad thing when most fans' first exposure to the wardens was their own oc—which creates a bias in their favor just based on what you personally did and experienced as a warden.

and ruth's comment wasn't super egregious to me either because you know. 90% of the order is kept completely secret from recruits, and even if it wasn't i don't think it's unreasonable for a character to feel profound guilt when they find out they did a bunch of horrible things for a perceived good cause, only for it to turn out they were actually acting In Service to the thing they're meant to be fighting against.

i also. sorrryyy i dont mean to be contrarian if you disagree let me know but. is the point of the wardens on a narrative conflict level NOT "a group of knights with a righteous cause that can, have, and will do the most heinous things imaginable to serve said cause." we have 2 DLCs in origins, one in DA2, and like 2 full books completely dedicated to this as a major conflict. i might be misinterpreting so sorry if i am LOL

that being said no yeah i do agree here lies the abyss does have a lot of egregious weekesisms. for me though it was specifically the fade portion, not really the wardens. the fade as a story device has sooooo much good potential because it is literally a manifestation of psyche; so the whole thing with the nightmare could have been super powerful and terrifying if it was treated with literally any subtlety whatsoever but 😭 it's not. your companion's greatest fears are literally spelled right out for you. you have no actual opportunity to figure anything out on your own literally the second the spiders show up your companions are like "Ah Yes. Those Were Demons Constructed To Personally Unnerve You By Appearing As A Slightly Minor Fear You Have."

or when it's spelled out to you at LEAST 3 separate times that nope this isn't the normal fade this is the raw fade you're here physically not in a dream you're here because of the rift. or when the divine explains the entire origin of your mark immediately after you literally see it happen with your own eyes. like 😭 conceptually it could have been super creepy and serve as a terrifying reminder of the inquisitor's fragile mortality but it's like the game doesn't trust you enough to come to these conclusions on your own. how many damn times after that quest does a companion go "wow! this hasn't been done since the magisters! you know the ones that started the blight? the thing corypheus is? those ones?" it's INSANE

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see this scar right here? That's from when my own pet cigarette turned on me and bit me as a child. my father had to put it down in the shed with an ash tray

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for anyone who played cyberpunk please imagine that it's like if Johnny Silverhand exclusively spoke ancient latin and that's basically what I think petra will be doing through

Was thinking in the shower about how I want to deal with petra and the fact she drank from the well, which up until now has been a very strong "IDK." @sha-brytols has a really fun idea with elnora in that she gets a little possessed by mythal as a treat and while I really love that for her I was kind of on the fence on if that's what I wanted to do with petra. But then I remembered something really funny and important. Non-dalish inquisitors are canonically less useful with the well because they don't know shit about fuck and now I have the mental image of mythal desperately trying to take more control over petra but she doesn't speak ancient elven so she's just like "so true bestie" and shrugs it off. and that's funny enough to me I might just ignore the about 7 plot holes that come up from doing this

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Was thinking in the shower about how I want to deal with petra and the fact she drank from the well, which up until now has been a very strong "IDK." @sha-brytols has a really fun idea with elnora in that she gets a little possessed by mythal as a treat and while I really love that for her I was kind of on the fence on if that's what I wanted to do with petra. But then I remembered something really funny and important. Non-dalish inquisitors are canonically less useful with the well because they don't know shit about fuck and now I have the mental image of mythal desperately trying to take more control over petra but she doesn't speak ancient elven so she's just like "so true bestie" and shrugs it off. and that's funny enough to me I might just ignore the about 7 plot holes that come up from doing this

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So like a part of me kind of wants mota to be around act 2 while Leandra is still alive but something about that just kind of feels wrong for some reason? But legacy is the real tough one because Leandra for sure needs to be dead and my initial impulse is for it to be before act 3 but I have to be real. The reason for letting Bethany out of the circle is very stupid and just plainly makes more sense if it happens post game? But I don't WANT it to be postgame!!!! and I think anders will be there and aniera is pretending he doesn't exist in the postgame anyway so it can't be postgame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I have to come up with better reasons fuck my life!!!

okay fine i'll admit it. i dont know where mota and legacy take place in aniera's canon even a little bit.

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okay fine i'll admit it. i dont know where mota and legacy take place in aniera's canon even a little bit.

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gale straight up being literally suicidal did fuck me up my first run i will not lie to you

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ask me about my "teagan is fucking dead" worldstate

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I do think that even the simple and popular choices in dragon age can be made interesting too. like if I tell you that going to the circle mages over sacrificing Isolde and Connor is hard canon in my worldstate you're rolling your eyes a little I can tell. But what if I mentioned that it's because I like to imagine that my warden stole a horse and left her companions to protect redcliffe without even saying what she's going to do. she just leaves. Then you think it's at least kind of funny right. A little subversive maybe. That I might be onto something. You want to make out with me don't you. Right. Please say yes