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I think Spite is jealous? Demons need attention, too (U\ \-\ \U\)\

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Continuing my tradition of putting glasses on my favorite fictional characters 🤓 Emmrich is looking extra professorial!

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don't you wish to see her again? your hawke?

— (solas, hawke & varric)

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everyone thinks varric is going to die (me included unfortunately) and he's my favourite character so this is extremely upsetting. to cope i drew some awful varrichawke angst meoww (my soul is in the depths of agony)

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no cause we left him here so wtf happened

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it's you!

despite everything, it's still you.

— (varric & hawke)

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loving a character so much will unlock such vulnerable and cringe parts of you that you try to suppress so bad but you can't like it's so humbling

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you would fuck that old man. i would fuck that old man. we are the same. hold my hand

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Mass Effect 1 | Saren Arterius

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hey here's manfred hissing for 15 seconds in case you need it

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Imagine tho that whole “You’re breathtaking!” incident but instead of Keanu Reeves at E3 it’s King Alistair Theirin addressing his people with a big smile on his face

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I've been saying it for a long ass time, but I just think they should've come full circle and had Adam Howden voice Cullen in Veilguard JUST as a fuck you to his previous VA

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honestly, i think that it’s incredibly wise of DA4 to pit this as a clash between Solas and Varric because they are perhaps the most opposite characters in terms of motivations, values and desires.

Solas is stuck in the past. He wants a return to order, a recognition of the way things were. He believes in absolute truth and scorns change, prefers to live in a dream that offers the comforts of the past than to recognise how the world around him is shifting. The Lavellan romance I feel highlights this most of all – he tells her that the markings on her face aren’t testaments to the gods, but brands of slavery that had been reclaimed by elven people. To him, it does not matter that culture has shifted or changed, because he’s single-mindedly obsessed with what was. Stifling himself to any growth.

Varric is focused on the future. He sees the way that things shift and hates being constricted or chained down to the past (which is ironic because he is haunted by it, and lets himself be haunted by it). Dwarven pride, Orzimar, legacy, these things mean nothing to him because looking back prevents him from seeing what could be, what can be. The past? What is that but a story to be rewritten, or a setting for something greater? He pushes those around him not to think about what was, but what can be ahead of them.

To Solas, fighting back against the encroaching dark is remembering your roots and retreating to them. To Varric, fighting back is pushing forward and finding a way to keep growing.

I feel like this schism between their worldviews is best shown in Cole’s storyline, the fight between the two halves of himself. Solas is at home among the fade, with the spirits, yes. But that’s not why he insists that Cole release his humanity – it’s because to him, a spirit is what Cole is and all that he should be. Humanity is not his point of origin, and to strive towards it is to give up. Whereas Varric encourages Cole to embrace his humanity, because he sees the joy it brings to him. The growth and change, the potential for creating his own path outside of what is expected of him or what he’s considered capable of.

In a way, Varric really is Solas’ greatest enemy, as storytellers have always been the Dread Wolf’s greatest enemy. Solas sees himself as the hero of his own story, the one who will bring peace and order to the world by restoring it to the state he remembers. But Varric has the power to paint him as a villain and turn the world against him.

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This game keeps breaking my heart, and I'm so fucking pissed right now at America, but at least my Rook is pretty, I guess.

Her name is Jinaal de Riva and she's a mage who belongs to the Antivan Crows. I was real worried about the Qunari design, and I still think most of the NPC Qunari look jank as fuck, but I'm glad I was able to customize so much of my Rook's horns/head/forehead. I think she's going to romance Emmrich...if I can stop flirting with Harding.

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Happy Veilguard release/Halloween, everyone!

Enjoy some thematically-appropriate Alistair cosplay.

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Happy holidays to all who celebrate etc etc

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i apologize in advance for this