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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

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I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

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this piece of shit country hates women so much

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“SoLAs mY bELoVeD” yeah yeah whatever, I loved Bianca more than I ever cared about that egg. I’m out for blood

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Lucanis having some relaxing moments, as a treat ☕

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four years later and i'm just as fucking sick of people saying "vote with your conscience uwu" to justify 3rd-party/write-in bullshit as I was last time we did this shit

because I am voting with my conscience.

I'm voting with my conscience that would never let me live with myself if I didn't vote for the candidate who has an actual fucking chance against the lunatic who wants to repeal the healthcare programs that are fucking crucial to the wellbeing of my family and their ability to have the fucking medicine they need.

I'm voting with my conscience that would haunt me for the rest of my fucking life if I threw a useless vote towards someone who has no fucking chance of winning and made it easier for a demented and bigoted wannabe dictator become the fucking president again and make the lives of my queer friends incredibly harder and fucking end them.

so don't fucking sit there and tell me to "vote with my conscience" because by using my vote for someone who actually has a chance at defeating that goddamn cuntrag and hopefully ensuring he never gets the chance to control this fucking country again, that is exactly what I am fucking doing.

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I love how in every Dragon Age game they've emphasized how dangerous the Blight is and how easy it is to become afflicted with it and how 100% fatal it is so if you're not a warden you need to BE CAREFUL and then there's Rook sitting in the library after carving a path through 700 juicy Blight Cysts like

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You got games on your phone?

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My people said the Inquisition would want him dead, so he’s dead!