#Fliss is me tho

[ryniadora]

wip Wednesday things

Is v long despite being a wip so under a cut. Post Chantry-explosion drabble about my two Hawke/Amell cousins and their relationships with Anders and Fenris. Very unpolished and weirdly structured.

"I didn't ask for this".

“What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck.” Becca was shaking with rage as she approached the sullen mage, sitting on his little crate and staring at the floor. He didn’t even look at her, nor did he look at Felicity, who had fallen to her knees beside him and was staring up with wide eyes - the healer looked as stunned as Becca felt.

“Anders.”

His head lifted a fraction, his face hidden by a curtain of hair. “What do you want me to say, Becca? Just … just get it over with. I did what I had to do. If I need to die for it then so be it. I am sorry, if that means anything at this point.” “You're sorry? Is that all you have to say for yourself? You blew up the fucking Chantry, you tricked me into helping you do it and you had the absolute nerve to tell me it was to try and separate you from Justice?” Her rage was overwhelming, filling every part of her body with fire. Fenris hovered a few steps behind, hand on his sword hilt, eyes similarly burning with barely-contained fury. “It’s only me who is to blame here. You are blameless, as you always are.” a note of bitterness tinged Anders’ voice. “This had to be done, you know that.” “You didn’t have to hide it from me, Anders!” Becca snapped, reaching out a hand to touch his shoulder but pulling herself back. “We could have thought of a better way if you’d been honest with me, let me help!”

“But you wouldn’t, would you?” Anders snarled, leaping to his feet and finally looking Becca in the eye. His expression was harsh, fury and sadness mingled so tightly you couldn’t possibly separate them. Like him and Justice, came the unbidden thought. “If it came right down to it you would let him influence you, tell you all mages are just abominations waiting to happen. You’d have tried to stop me, I know you would, and I couldn’t risk it. You always choose him.” Becca recoiled from his venom, her eyebrows pulling together in confusion. Anders was shaking, his fists clenched at his sides, his breath ragged. Felicity scrambled to her feet and stood, hands trembling, slightly in front of the enraged man as if to try and shelter him from the angry faces ranged before them. Becca almost felt sorry for Felicity - everyone knew she was head over heels obsessed with Anders apart from Anders himself. She was the only person present who would defend him for what he had just done.

The agony in Felicity’s dark eyes echoed her own, like a ribbon of pain winding around the two women as they both stood in front of the man they loved, a twisted standoff.  Becca felt Fenris take a step closer to her, and could hear him murmuring a mantra under his breath to keep calm. “That isn’t-” she began, but Anders cut her off. “It is. It’s all it’s ever been, Becca. I love you.” Felicity’s eyes screwed shut just as Becca’s did for a moment, the ribbon drawing taut around her heart. Those three simple words felt like heavy blows. “It’s been so hard to watch you, knowing that he has you and I never will. Knowing that you could never commit fully to helping the mages because of his poison in your ear. So long as he stands behind, you would never have agreed to help free us from Meredith's tyranny and you know it.”

“She wouldn’t, because blowing up a building to incite a war is literal insanity!” Fenris growled, putting a hand protectively on Becca’s shoulder. She felt frozen now, the fire in her veins replaced with ice as she stared wordlessly back into Anders’ eyes. It was all true. Everything Fenris had ever warned her about had come to pass and the pain of it stabbed into her as keenly as a blade. The hated tears welled to the surface as she searched the mage’s face for any hint that this was a lie, that in a moment she would wake up and be back in the manor, Chantry un-exploded. She found no consolation. “There it is. I told you I’d break your heart, Becca.” Anders said simply, his voice shaking. “I may host Justice, but I am just a man at the end of it all. A lonely, jealous man, in love with a beautiful woman he can never have. One he lost to a beast, one who could never understand why drastic action is needed."

It was Becca’s turn to stare at the floor. She heard Merrill’s shocked gasp behind her, and could imagine the looks on each of her companions’ faces as clear as day. Isabela, smugly knowing. Varric, concerned. Aveline, stern. Sebastian in a blinding fury. She could hear Felicity sobbing, a desperate wail made worse by the fact that she was clearly trying to hold it back. It was a bad day to be a member of their family. Becca wavered for a brief moment at the haunting sound, love for her one remaining family member threatening to overturn her resolve. But only for a second.

“So, Becca? What’s the verdict for the terrible mage rebel?” Anders spat. Fenris moved before Becca could stop him, and she let out a strangled denial that was echoed by Felicity’s shriek of “No!” as the elf easily swatted her aside and lifted Anders like he was a rag doll, a hand clasped firmly around his throat. The lyrium tattoos were glowing, visible even through the gloves he wore. “Fen, no!” Becca reached out a hand to the two men, fighting her way past the overwhelming swirl of emotions in her mind to reach that calm, cool exterior she was known for. The fury wouldn’t leave her, it was threatening to drown everything but she couldn’t bear to let Fenris do something drastic on her behalf. Her rage turned to shock as suddenly Felicity’s hand appeared beside Fenris’ face, burning with a flame that had to be hurting the woman.

“Put him down, Fenris.” Felicity growled, “I swear to the Maker, if you hurt him I’ll make you regret being gentle with me.” “You’re bluffing, Felix.” Fenris said simply, not moving. “And you were never any good at it. Stop grandstanding before you burn your own hand off.” “Fliss,” Anders gasped, clutching desperately at the hands around his throat. “Do you really want to bet I won’t? Last warning, Fenris. Put. Him. Down.” The elf slowly lowered Anders to the ground, holding him firmly by the neck as he turned to look at his beloved. Felicity did not move, tears streaming down her ravaged face as she bored holes in the back of Fenris’ head.

“You might want to put a better leash on your dog, Becca.” Anders was sarcastic even in defeat, even lost in vengeance. For some reason that made things worse - at the end of it all, he was still her best friend, the man who swapped jokes with her, who played all the same card games, who was always her partner for pub trivia night. That same man had betrayed her, betrayed them all for his twisted Justice. “One could say the same for you.” Fenris snapped, and he actually winced as the ball of fire next to his head flared in response to his words. "Is this what you choose, Felix?" Becca looked to her cousin, "You choose him?" "I don't have a choice, not after what I did." Felicity growled the words, but she was still openly weeping. "Not since you snatched away my one chance at happiness."

"This is your decision, Bex. You have but to say the word.” Fenris said simply, the glow subsiding but the furrow of his eyebrows betraying his real feelings at the pair of mages behind him. Becca heaved a sigh, and shook her head heavily. “Let them go, Fen. This won’t solve anything." Anders clutched at his throat as he staggered back into Felicity’s arms, watching with burning eyes as Fenris returned to Becca’s side. “See? You always choose him. You always will. It’s very sweet how loyal you are. But stupid, after everything he did to you.'' The words were like the needles Anders was intending them to be, sharp pin pricks on her mind.

"Mark my words, abomination. If you come near Becca again I will rip your heart out." Fenris snarled as Anders turned his back, Felicity’s hand on his arm as she whispered fervently in his ear. “Go.” Becca choked the word through a throat full of emotions. “Becca don’t, please, don’t send us away.” Felicity’s head shot up and she locked eyes with her cousin. Her words were desperate pleas. “Don’t. Please.” “Don’t try to change my mind, Felix. I cannot forgive this, and you know it.” The words were so heavy, so hard to say. But her mind was made up.

Felicity outstretched her hand, beseeching her cousin for mercy, and Becca could see the blisters from holding that fireball forming red and shiny on her delicate fingers. The pain on Felicity’s face made Becca’s heart ache, but the rage, the indignation would not allow her to give in. What had happened was wrong, beyond redemption or forgiveness, and that Felicity condoned it was proof that they had reached a point of no return. The ribbon connecting them was severed now, tattered ends billowing in the wind.

“Becca, I'm begging you. Please. You've already taken everything else from me, please. Let us stay. There will be so many people who need our help." “Don’t bother, you know how stubborn she is.” The words were quiet accusations. Anders was still turned away, but he had taken Felicity gently by the hand; she looked at him with an expression that defied simple definition. Shock, love, anger, sadness, guilt, all wrapped up together. “You should go with her, Fliss. Being on the run is no life for a talented woman like you.” “No, I decided to help you so if you're guilty then I am too. I won’t leave you to face this alone.”

“You can’t have it both ways, Felix.” Isabela piped up, the first interruption from the rest of the group since the explosion.  “Then I won’t. Bex, if you send Anders away then you're beyond my help. I can’t watch you do this, not when you told me you cared about mages like me. You can’t claim to care and then stand by and watch as we are murdered!” The two women stared at each other for a few moments that stretched into eternity, two pillars of indignant rage, the proverbial rock and hard place.

“I won’t repeat myself. Get out, both of you, before I change my mind."

The betrayal was really sinking in now, festering inside Becca like an infected wound. She felt Fenris’ hand twine around hers, which helped a little bit as she watched Anders walk away without another word, almost dragging Felicity along with him as she wept like a child. Damn his eyes, he was right. Her heart was broken, split in half by the betrayal of someone she had trusted implicitly. She had denied his obsession with her for too long, and it was coming back to bite her just as Fenris had warned her.

He’d taken her last remaining family with him. She might not have seen eye to eye with Felicity most of the time, but they were still family and her choosing Anders over her own blood stung almost as keenly. “Come, vhenan, we must move. The fight will not wait for us. You can mourn later.” Fenris leant his forehead against hers briefly, a display of affection that normally they would not do in public but one that Becca sorely needed. She managed a tight smile, just for him, before her face returned to a mask of anger.

There was a city waiting for her to save it.

Again.

[108garys]

Mum & MoM

just finished playing Man of Medan with my mum, it is the first movie game/SMG title she's ever played and I am glad to report that she really enjoyed it

We saved all six, got the distributor cap and Olson died of a heartattack, she says she likes how all the characters have their own thing going on and it kept her on edge. She doesn't have a specific character ranking(Alex is at the bottom tho she is of course glad he survived) although over the three sittings we played it Conrad grew on her first after initially thinking he was a little annoying, the second time she was endeared to Brad and Fliss and this time it was Julia+ she likes junior/Danny/Olson

She really appreciated that the player characters are empathetic enough to save junior and I'm glad we managed that in her blind playthrough

Some funny things were:

*coffin shown on screen before literally anything else* mum immediately: do we know who's in the box?

"really? Over 50 cents!?"

*corpse falls out of cupboard* mum: womp womp

Mum: what an ugly child

Me: that's Joe's son

*mum shoots at zombie child and then freaks out that it didn't work*

*me explaining Conrad and Julia as they get on the Duke as mum was playing them*: Conrad has big clown energy and Julia is mega adhd

Mum: ah yes perfect for me ✨

"everyone on this boat has attention deficit issues"

*the utter disbelief when I tell her how long Alex and Julia have been together*

And much more

She's very much looking forward to starting little hope next

[delurkr]

That's actually a good point and I never thought of it before. I think Conrad/Fliss would have been the best candidates for the slow burn so far because they didn't even know each other before, but they're the exact opposite and I lowkey have a hard time seeing their romance as anything at all deep for that and other reasons. If Jamie and Erin had spent more time around each other throughout the game their romance could have unfolded slower, but even though it didn't I appreciate that they knew each other and worked together beforehand.

But the fact is I would prefer no romance in any story ever and I can't lie 😂 Each of the platonic pairings you mentioned were the relationships I first cared about in each game and I definitely still care about them more than the romances. Honestly romance is too common to be a deal breaker for me, but if it does exist I'm fine with it being already established because otherwise I'll be preoccupied thinking "but why tho" when two people aren't together and they want to be lol. Families and friends (and best of all, families who are friends) are definitely my preferred dynamics but my opinion isn't everyone's so a variety of romances and non-romances across the games is obviously the best way to go.

Something obvious, but also interesting I noticed: The DPA couples we got so far are either established ones (Alex/Julia, Daniel/Taylor, Rachel/Nick), ex-partners (Rachel/Eric, Mark/Kate) or couples that can get together very quickly (Conrad/Fliss, Jamie/Erin).

But so far, we didn't get a single romance where the couple gets closer to each other throughout the whole game before ultimately getting together. Eric/Rachel and Mark/Kate are probably the closest example of this, but I'm not sure if I should count them because they're ex-partners. Basically, slow-burn fans like myself don't get anything besides their imagination.

That's why I really hope that DPA's Season 2 will include some (non-ex) couples that take some time and effort to get together, solely because of how satisfying it is to do so. At the same time, I think it would be nice to have at least one game without any romances. Supermassive wrote some very decent family and friends dynamics (Alex & Brad, Andrew & John, Jason & Nick, Charlie & Mark), so seeing more focus on platonic relationships would be nice as well :)

What do y'all think? What kind of romantic relationships do you like? Or do you prefer platonic ones?

[thefanficmonster]

HE IS - I actually wanted him to be more important to the story :(, it feels like Conrad and Fliss are pretty much the main focus all the time (dont get me wrong i love them too)

I knowww :( I loved Conrad and Fliss too they had some serious badass energy (less serious on Conrad’s part tho 😅😂)

[idk-just-call-me-max]

the rules: answer 15 questions and tag 15 people u want to know better

tagged by: @bakedstanleybarber thanks :)

nickname: fliss. please don’t call me felicity lol

zodiac sign: leo

height: 5’6 last time I checked

hogwarts house: ravenclaw

last thing I googled: “does primark have a website”

last song in my head: Always on My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys lmao I have no idea why

following & followers: uhh roughly I have between 100 and 200 followers and I follow like 30-40. It’s a small blog hehe.

amount of sleep I get: it’s hard to tell honestly. I seem to simultaneously sleep all the time and never.

lucky #s: 17. It’s very satisfying to me.

dream job: dude I wish I fucking knew

wearing: mum jeans with a t shirt that says ‘I’m lovin it’ w/ a cartoon of pennywise. the t shirt is very bad quality cos I bought it off some dodgy website for £7, it took 3 and a half months to arrive. also some fucking 60s vibes socks which my mother and all my friends hate, but I love. I asked my friend to get me the wackiest fucking socks she could find for my Christmas present and she pulled through.

favourite songs: bro how do you expect me to do this. idk what my favourite is but the song I’m listening to a lot atm is Say It Aint So by Calpurnia. fucking bop.

instruments: none. I used to play piano when I was a kid but I hated the fucking pressure honestly playing at concerts and shit was fucking terrifying. I can still pick up a song on the piano pretty quick tho if I want to.

aesthetic: dude I have literally no idea. I like vintage stuff? does that count as an aesthetic? lmao idk

random facts: uh this is hard, I’m pretty boring tbh. I guess I’m INCREDIBLY socially awkward and I hate it so fucking much. I’m trying to build up my social skills by making conversation with shop employees and shit but social interaction is tiring man. I cannot talk to anyone I don’t know. or do know. It sucks. BUT I acc love talking to people and expressing my love for them, I’m just so so bad at it. most people I know, including my friends, think I don’t like talking about my feelings but it’s just cos I’m scared ig. we’ve never rly talked about emotions in my family so. I’m also v girly, I live for pink and dresses and shit, but I’m usually too self conscious to wear them so people generally think I’m tomboyish. overall basically no one knows what I’m actually like cos I’m a pussy, except people on the internet. It’s easier to say ily to someone you don’t see in real life. wow sorry I fucking rambled a lot there.

okay I’m tagging: @unexciting-houseplant anddd @aesthetic--fangirl but if you see this and want to do you can just say I tagged you! :)

[delurkr]

Games You've Played: None, but I'm pretty sure the order I watched them was Little Hope, House of Ashes, Man of Medan, The Quarry, The Devil in Me, Until Dawn (Hidden Agenda, The Inpatient, and Switchback are sprinkled in there too)

Favorite Game: Little Hope changed my brain chemistry fr

Least Favorite Game: I can't believe I'm saying this but I think Until Dawn? I feel like it should be The Quarry but TQ actually has a few characters I'm more interested in than anyone from UD and that's what mainly holds my interest. Plus I already knew UD's twists going in, so the story had less impact than I assume it usually does

Out of main/playable characters for simplicity-

Favorite Character From Each Game: Chris or Jess (UD), Fliss or Brad (MoM), John (LH), Eric (HoA), Max (TQ), Charlie, Kate, or Jamie (TDiM), and I might as well mention Felicity in Hidden Agenda. I really can't decide for a lot of them tho 😂

Least Favorite Character From Each Game: Emily (UD), Alex (MoM), really no one in LH, Rachel or Nick (HoA), Emma (TQ), ...Erin? (TDiM)

Favorite Character Overall: John easily

Least Favorite Character Overall: Emma I think

Favorite Ships:

Tanya and Vince from LH

And I guess I kind of rooted for Eric and Rachel to work out only because I wanted Eric to be happy lol

Least Favorite Ships: None really, ships mostly just don't make enough of an impression on me either way so I can't say

Dr. Hill Or The Curator Or Eliza: Hm this is hard, I like the idea of Dr. Hill the most but I probably like the Curator more overall since his story is ongoing and mysterious✨

Wolfie Or Connie: Connie is goodest boy 🥰 I actually don't know why exactly lol and my day is ruined if either of them die in a playthrough 😂

And most importantly—

Favorite Version Of O'Death: Man of Medan's is the one I'm most likely to listen to by itself

Least Favorite Version Of O'Death: House of Ashes I think

This was fun, thanks 😁

Supermassive Questions Game!!!

Hi, guys! So I decided to make this game because I always really love hearing other people's thoughts and opinions on these games. If you want, be sure to tag your friends to keep this going! 😃

I'll go first, but I'll place a blank one under mine for the people who play after me. Have fun! 🖤 (Also, explanations to answers are optional.)

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Games You've Played (In Order): House Of Ashes, The Quarry, The Devil In Me, Until Dawn.

Favorite Game: Until Dawn (Great writing, amazing twists, loveable characters is what did it for me.)

Least Favorite Game: The Quarry (The fact that relationship decisions don't actually amount to anything, any little bearing we got was pointless and we got fuck all of an ending just makes me feel like the whole thing is pointless.)

Favorite Character From Each Game: Josh, Jason, Abi, Erin.

Least Favorite Character From Each Game: Emily, Rachel, Emma, Charlie.

Favorite Character Overall: Josh (Possibly just me being biased. 😂 But I do love his character and story a lot though — especially his humor. And I'm a sucker for a tragic story as well. 😂)

Least Favorite Character Overall: Charlie (Just an overall dick, in my opinion. And he annoyed the absolute hell out of me.)

Favorite Ships:

Chris and Ashley (Just fucking adorable! 💖)

Mike and Sam (They had great chemistry and I really enjoyed seeing them together in the last chapter.)

Matt and Jess (There is something about these two together that just... Works for me, y'know?)

Rachel and Clarice (Clarice just seemed to bring out the good in Rachel. That scene with just the two was the only time I actually liked Rachel in the game.)

Erin and Jamie (There was something about those two that was just so cute. And the part where they kiss for the first time melted my damn heart! The whole soft cinnamon roll/tough bitch dynamic gets me a lot too. 😂)

Least Favorite Ships:

Chris and Josh (Chris was head over heels for Ashley and Josh was CLEARLY very into girls so I don't really get it that much.)

Josh and Sam (Yeaaaaaaaah... They are just like water and oil, ok? I don't think they would actually mix well as a couple. 😂 And Sam belongs with Mike anyway. 💖)

Emily and Jess (Just not a fan. I don't know why.)

Jason and Salim (Another one I don't get that much. I used to ship them a long time ago because it was so popular, but then I realized that it just didn't make much sense to me so I stopped. I mean, one of the chapters about them is literally called "Brothers" so that just makes me think that that's the relationship the devs were aiming for with those two.)

Rachel and Eric/Rachel and Nick (If you played the game, you know my reasons. 😂)

Any characters with Du'met (Just not a really big fan of it at all. Doesn't make much sense to me neither.)

(I've only played Until Dawn, House Of Ashes, The Quarry and The Devil In Me. So that's why the list is without other ships from other games. But I'm not adding any of The Quarry ships to this list because it seemed like nothing came out of the relationship decisions and I didn't enjoy the characters as much so I tend to ignore ships from that game.Also, no hate towards the people who ship the ones I listed as least favorite. To each their own.)

Dr. Hill Or The Curator Or Eliza: Hmmmmmm... Probably Dr. Hill. (He was more creatively written than the others, in my opinion.)

Wolfie Or Connie: Fuck, I should have thought this through before writing it down. 🤣 Although I LOVE Connie with all my heart, Wolfie did get more screentime which led me to have a bit more of an attachment to him. So I'll have to go with Wolfie.

And most importantly—

Favorite Version Of O'Death: The Dark Pictures Anthology theme for sure!

Least Favorite Version Of O'Death: Though I didn't play the games, I heard the ones for Man Of Medan and Little Hope and I just wasn't a fan.

So those are my answers! I hope you guys have as much fun as I did doing this. And also, no hate towards the people who like the games/characters/ships that I don't. To each their own. 💖

So anyway, the blank one is down below. ⬇️

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Games You've Played:

Favorite Game:

Least Favorite Game:

Favorite Character From Each Game:

Least Favorite Character From Each Game:

Favorite Character Overall:

Least Favorite Character Overall:

Favorite Ships:

Least Favorite Ships:

Dr. Hill Or The Curator Or Eliza:

Wolfie Or Connie:

And most importantly—

Favorite Version Of O'Death:

Least Favorite Version Of O'Death:

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[schmooplesboop]

The fact that I realized The Secret right away pretty much ruined Man of Medan for me, but I think that if I hadn’t I still wouldn’t have liked it that much. The game was pretty obviously built around co-op and single player was stitched together as an afterthought. It’s pretty damn messy.

Fliss is still cool tho.

[108garys]

Well today is your lucky day because I am work out the logistics to do that for as many of the models as possible, some of my family trees stretch 100+ years and in the case of the little hope models in particular 300+ years(all the way to the witch trials), I still have a lot of work to do and I tend to drop a little info here and there

Most of my early posts on this the "super massive family tree" has been in reblogs tho here's a solid look at what I've put out thus far

This is the earliest one and that tree has since been expanded past the initial concept(mostly art focused but it was the first)

As you can see the kolchek family tree is much more established but I've my takes and more to add

The Othman family tree is one of the smaller ones currently

What I have for this is currently over two posts

It can be assumed that Jamie and Fliss's family tree will end up looking similar to Mark and Vince's

This connection is wild but only the tip of the iceberg for this family because I have connected Joseph/james/john/Dar/Du'met and this specific piece is just what I've explained this far

There were other connections mentioned without much explanation(again in art posts) but I've already linked a bunch of stuff already, I'll keep working on this project and hope to eventually have clean easy to follow trees with explanations that make sense(and solid enough that future additions can be grafted without too much pain)

I love the concepts that people create that ties the Dark Pictures Anthology together. Like how people have Jason connected to the other characters his actor plays.

[dpislife]

I fully enjoyed and supported the way they finally did gay couple, but first of all I’m still suspiciously wait for how would they continue with this tendency in the future because Quarry made me like REALLY mad at them.

And second while I’m happy for people who feel represented by this girls I personally can’t really relate myself with most of the romantic plots out there. Like, seriously, only people I fully romantically ship in whole franchise including UD and Quarry was Fliss and Conrad (bc I found them funny). Other than that, I’m a bit confused every time I need to dive in into all of this relationships mess. So “third wheel” is also my fav out of all characters.

Still feel a little bit wrong about preferring the only whole guy in the whole main cast, tho. From time to time since the game was out.

bat at hornet's nest maybe but goddamn leave it to yall to be handed a game with a 3:2 playable character ratio of both non-white AND female protagonists, where we get an on-screen gay kiss that isn't ~just the alcohol~ or ~just part of a game~ , and where said group of protagonists are actually decently well-rounded people

and then throw all that out the window to hyperfocus on the middle-aged white British dude with a smoking habit