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the issue with SWTOR is that the moment you make one character, you need to make seven more. I just made a new Sith Warrior and now i have a Bounty Hunter, a smuggler and Jedi Knight it's just so much fun making characters!

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? varric we're at the fucking beach

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me, tears in my eyes, my voice shaking: please just tell me how to get to where i need to go map of corellia: go fuck yourself :)

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I still love this

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"Light it up."

ANDOR (2022-2025) // ROGUE ONE (2016)

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i can hear "we are not responsible for missed departures" in my sleep

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I think a lot about DA2, because of course. My girlfriend is playing it for the first time, and we were discussing the tragedy that is Anders, and how you can’t save him.

It made me realize that you really can’t save ANYONE in DA2.

Except Fenris.

Anders goes without saying. Merrill faces grave consequences for her actions no matter what. Aveline doesn’t really NEED to be saved in the narrative sense so much as you sort of scratch each other’s backs. No matter what you do, your sibling either becomes a Grey Warden or goes to the Circle/Templars. Isabela changes, a bit, but never really stops being so self-interested; she just continues to attach herself to Hawke for personal reasons and Hawke happens to be affecting society, as far as she’s concerned. Sebastian also doesn’t need saving, not really, and if Anders lives he goes all villainous and invades a city where neither Hawke nor Anders actually is anymore.

But you get to save Fenris. Hawke gets to change the course of Fenris’s life with their friendship and their love and give him a brighter outlook, if that’s what you want to do. The Power of Love plays a huge part in his storyline if he’s romanced. Fenris’s personal arc is about healing after abuse and trauma, so it makes sense that he actually ends up the most changed and the happiest, relatively speaking, at the end of the game.

(It’s, like, SUPER relative though. Because reasons.)

Fenris’s romance is about as close to uplifting as DA2 was ever going to get, all things considered.

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I’m replaying the Jaws of Hakkon dlc and it really has me mulling over the sheer loneliness of our Inquisitor’s situation.

The Hero of Ferelden gained their title and status after they had already bonded with their companions and stopped the blight. Hawke is known for their dysfunctional polycule/found family. Rook is in the same boat.

But the Inquisitor became a symbol before they even had a chance to really get to know anyone. Every other protagonist leads a group of companions, meanwhile the Inquisitor leads a political and military force. Sure, they still become close with some of their companions and advisors, but everyone constantly reminds them of their status as a holy symbol and how intimidating and unapproachable it makes them.

You can literally tell Varric, Mr. Friends-With-Everyone, “I don’t need a disciple, I need a friend” and he’ll reply “If you knew how intimidating you are, you wouldn’t make it sound so simple”. Imagine how isolating it must be to keep hearing that.

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CLONE WARS GAMBIT: SIEGE | Karen Miller

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going insane over how hawke's tragedy is about losing everything inevitably. they lose their father. they lose their home and their little sibling. they find new friends and get a good chance to make things better and then lose their second little sibling — even if they don't die they will never come back home. they finally get money and some kind of stability and then lose their mother who wanted the life they got the most. they become a champion beloved by the city and then lose their home and the family they found once again and all the titles and fame have no weight anymore. they lose the battle against corypheus because he comes back. they lose the battle against meredith because she comes back too. no matter how much they gain it will be taken away. no matter how hard they believe they got things right this time they will be proven wrong

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commission for @freshmiraclecheesecake!

(commissions are open!)

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Looking back and going forward

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good morning to 40 year olds who act 80, bisexual terrorists, autistic empaths, insomniac assassins, and everyone else who’s got the spirit

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LEGO STAR WARS HAS ALL THE RIGHTS