#Arishok gets to wear green and gets a halla pin bc he's been spending these last 10 years exiled with a Dalish clan | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tcfactory · 2 days ago

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WIP for an Dragon Age AU thing. I have no idea when I'm going to finish this, but I low key wrote a fic about it, so...

The only thing I got out of Veilguard is frustration and AU brainrot. If the writers are going to do stupid shit to the lore, then I'm allowed to go wild with it too and have Hawke, Sten and DA2's Arishok stand in for Rook, because they would bring some much needed drama and character to the role. We are all suck in this mess, but we do it in an entertaining manner.

#they bring their allies and friends and there's no reason to flatten and sanitize the world #bc they kinda suck so the world is allowed to kinda suck too. they will figure it out #so purple Hawke is the Knight #Sten is the Rook #and the Arishok is the Bishop #Arishok gets to wear green and gets a halla pin bc he's been spending these last 10 years exiled with a Dalish clan #he smokes a pipe and is low key pen pals with Merrill. if you consider writing essays at each other to argue philosophy and ethics that #functions as quartermaster/diplomat and won't get out of base for anything less exciting than a dragon. he has standards #he can also be coaxed out to deal with the First Warden bc he doesn't trust an unsupervised Hawke around figures of authority #Sten has been released from his role as Arishok after the Ariqun's scheming set the Antaam off so his worldview is still shaken #he went back to Ferelden to join the HoF but there are weird darkspawn movements there so HoF lent him to Hawke hoping he'd be safer there #a blight is no place for someone working through a crisis of faith #he wears traveling clothes but kept his weapon so it still has that arishok-red wrapping #he liked being beresaad so he can be something like that again. survey this mess and find all the enemy weak spots and supply lines #pets all the cats. argues the merits of having something sweet with every major meal with Lucanis #purple Hawke is the main stand in for the player character so he gets to be all... Hawke at Solas #he comes attached with Fenris. for good or ill #Solas won't even know what hit him #could I write an entire fic with the premise? sure. do I want to expend that kind of energy on Veilguard? hell no

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