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[bogunicorn]

I have a Trevelyan OC who doesn't get a ton of "screen time" even in my PSLs. (I do a lot of writing, just most of it is in RP with my wife and will never see the public light of day.) It's because Ramsay is my main Trevelyan's younger brother, and his job in the narrative is to be unjustly killed during the fall of Ostwick Circle so his sister has a Tragic Backstory. But almost all of my Trevelyan siblings have a continuity where they're Inquisitor, and I wrote one up for Ramsay last year just for fun, and he ended up as this kind of cool, anti-authoritarian mage who specializes in fire and rift magic. I imagine him having, like... will anyone know what I mean if I say Wolverine Energy? Gruff, emotionally guarded, has done and is capable of doing very violent things, but also prone to ending up in leadership roles despite being like "ugh, no, I'm not a role model", would function well with a young girl as a morality pet.

Anyway what I've got stuck in my craw right now is the idea of a Trevelyan/Hawke fic with Ramsay and my red/purple blood mage f!Hawke (a classic Spiky Lady Character named Marsali), probably starting around Hawke's introduction in Inquisition and through the end of Here Lies the Abyss. The Warden companion is Carver, and it's this big heartwrenching thing when they're in the Fade and someone has to stay behind.

(Stuck this behind a read more because I just rambled about mirrored narratives wheee)

Marsali and Ramsay are both naturally wary of each other, they're both these guarded sorts of people, slow to trust. But they're such good mirrors of each other, and if you know me, you know I'm a big sucker for mirrored narratives. Marsali is the daughter of an apostate father and a noble mother; Ramsay is the son of a noble father and a common-born mother. They're both very much like their fathers, much to their own dysfunctions, Marsali because they're alike in personality and intensely close to hers, Ramsay because he's the only one of his siblings with a strong physical resemblance to a man who refuses to acknowledge him.

Marsali tries to suppress a natural talent and inclination for blood magic, but actively chose to learn arcane and force magic - schools of magic that focus on buffs, shields, areas of effect that push people away or slow them down - and only employs her more truly violent and aggressive blood magic abilities when she's backed into a corner or loses control. Her father shares her talent for blood magic and kept her from learning to harness it until she was an adult (long, long after she'd developed bad habits and a complete distaste for it, too late to cultivate true control). Ramsay has a natural talent for destructive magic and instead pursued control of it, turning his gift for violent magic into a useful weapon under the mentorship of a similarly inclined father figure in the form of Ostwick's First Enchanter.

Marsali is a mage protective older sister to a non-mage younger brother (who only didn't join the Templars because fate forced him into the Wardens). Ramsay is a mage younger brother to a protective older sister who joined the Templars to look after him in the Circle. Marsali and Carver's relationship is loving, but it has walls up as she's been parentified, and is often quite contentious and full of bickering; despite effectively being his mother figure, Thayet is much more open with Ramsay, especially after escaping the Circle. They rarely fight. For both Marsali and Ramsay, their sibling is the only family they really have, Marsali because hers is all dead, Ramsay because Thayet is the only one who wants to acknowledge he exists.

Marsali consistently shirks and runs from responsibility to anything bigger than herself, only grudgingly taking up the fight against Corypheus because she feels personally responsible for it beginning - and because of the danger to Carver with the false calling. Ramsay grows into authority and takes well to the kind of big picture responsibilities that the Inquisition demands, and he chooses the life and actions of a hero because it instinctively feels like the right thing to do.

And yet, because of their other-side-of-the-coin sorts of differences, I think they would really understand each other. Like they're just the correct amount of distance from one another to have the best view. Marsali sees Ramsay and understands exactly what it takes to be that sort of person, because she tried to be that kind of person and buckled; Ramsay sees Marsali and knows exactly how much love she has for the people around her, because he knows how difficult it is to care for other people in a world that's constantly trying to tear you away from them, up to and including by killing them.

And, of course, because of how similar Marsali and Carver are to Ramsay and his sister... holy shit choosing between them would be torture. Does he let Marsali die protecting her little brother and force Carver to live with a survivor's guilt that Ramsay couldn't stomach himself? Or does he let Carver do what he would do, stay behind and be the protector for once, knowing exactly what that kind of loss would do to Marsali?

I have an idea of what I'd do, but it's still percolating. I think for this fic I'd do an even split in POV specifically to show the depth of their sibling relationships so that bit in the Fade with the Nightmare feels incredibly fraught and tense.

[solavelyan]

i'm brainworming myself, i've got m!trevelyan/f!hawke brainworms. i'm wormin'

mage trevelyan being separated from their family and living through all hawke's worst fears for herself and bethany.

mage hawke's life as living proof of how wrong things can go if the inquisitor fails.

both the children of noble families, barred from the privilege of their parents by circumstance.

trevelyan free of the circle as a result of the war anders started, putting a face to it, telling her as someone living through the collateral damage that it was worth having tried at all. that some good came from it all.

hawke desperately needing to be around someone she doesn't feel compelled to protect or abandon for their own good. someone who won't die if she fucks up. trevelyan needing someone who understands how isolating it is to be put on a pedestal.

[heylavellan]

prompt me!!

This Week's Interests

No Veilguard yet!

I played DA2, so let me in!!! Handers, Fenhawke, Merribela, Carver x Cullen, Carver x Nathaniel Howe, Bethany x Nathaniel Howe, Zevhawke, Merrill x Hawke, Hawke + Companions polycule.

Been sitting on my Dadquisition AU, which is a Cousland Inquisitor x Dorian with children from a previous marriage.

For AU fun, I've been rotating the coffee shop au in my brain. But, its spooky season so vampire and zombie aus are also go >:]

Things I Write

PC ships will use my OCs unless another name or OC is specified.

Fave Ships: Zevwarden, Dorian x Inquisitor, Cullen x Inquisitor, Alistair x Warden, Cullistair, Teagan x Warden, Dorian x Cullen, The Iron Bull x Inquisitor, Ser Gilmore x Cousland, Duncan x Cailan, Lanaya x Warden, Leliana x Warden, Sigrun x Warden, Maric x Loghain, Duncan x Warden, Krem x Cullen, Josephine x Inquisitor, Finn x Arianne, Dorian x Anders, Handers, Fenhawke, Merribela, Zevistair, Dorian x Krem, Carver x Cullen, Carver x Nathaniel Howe, Bethany x Nathaniel Howe, Rylen x Cullen, Rylen x Krem, Zevhawke, Merrill x Hawke

Fave platonic ships: Alistair & Zevran, Lavellan & Zevran, Shale & Wynne, Ferelden circle besties (Jowan, Anders, Finn, and mage!Warden), Cousland & Ser Gilmore, Vivienne & Dorian, Dorian & Solas, Sera & Cole, Fergus & Nathaniel Howe

Fave Characters/NPCs: Ser Gilmore, Zevran, Alistair, Sten, Oghren, Wynne, Arl Eamon, Anora, Loghain, Duncan, Jowan, Bann Teagan, Irving, Lanaya, Riordan, Lace Harding, Sera, Dorian, The Iron Bull, Cassandra, Varric, Cullen, Leliana, Krem, Nathaniel Howe

Meet my OCs:

(descriptions of them can be found here!)

Rhiannon Amell (they/she)

Ramsay Cousland (any)

Elwyn Lavellan (he/they)

Ariadne Trevelyan (she/her)

Inquisitor!Basileus Cousland (he/him)

Shokra Adaar (they/he)

Prompt Help

anything goes, but no idea what to send? try a fave song lyric, poem, or try one of my prompts!

What to Expect

A little bit fruity

As a big ol' fruit, I'm most likely to write my ships as gay or in some other way queer. So if you want something cishet (or want to explore a specific identity), you'll need to specify.

[rollingewok]

Actual Disney Prince Ramsay Trevelyan here to announce that I am a)not dead and b)actually, finally recording more of my first Dragon Age Inquisition playthrough. Because goodness knows someone’s been waiting for at with bated breath, right?

[castillon02]

007 Fest 2020 Masterpost

Fic:

After Action (00QPenny)

Mysterious as a Cat (Anon Prompt 2020 and 2019) 

Clothes Don’t Make a Man

The Literal Food of Love (James Bond/Q, James Bond/Jacques Torres, James Bond/Emeril Lagasse, James Bond/Rachael Ray, James Bond/Aaron Sanchez, James Bond/Gordon Ramsay)

Reversal of Fortune (James Bond/Madeleine Swann, Madeleine Swann/Bill Tanner)

Rental Cars (5k+) (Anon Prompt) 

Groundhog Day poem (7 chapters)

James Bond: Mall Cop (Bond/Vijay, Felix/Q) (Anon Prompt 2020) 

Building

Blofeld’s Spectre fic-it drabble 

Limericks (on AO3): 

Bond’s Post-Spectre Mission Report (scavenger hunt) 

Three competitors 

Three competitors sequel

Agender Bond

Troubleshooter Moneypenny 

Camille at the end of QoS (James & Camille) 

Pirate 00Q 

Bond’s Best Instrument 

Super Felix (James/Felix) 

Nerd Food 

Double-Oh Spirit 

We Expect You to Di(n)e. 

00Q00 (James Bond/Q/Alec Trevelyan) 

Prince Bond (James Bond/Raoul Silva) 

Knight/Dragon 

He Came in Outer Space 

Plumber Bond 

60s AU 

Ace Moneypenny 

Omnisexual (Jack Harkness/James Bond) 

Headcanons: 

Plumber Bond AU (James Bond/Bill Tanner) 

Mershark Felix, Merdolphin Bond, and Mercrab Le Chiffre 

Q used to live in Bond’s flat 

Forest God Bond 

Bond, Q, and Moneypenny as Dogs 

Smart Blood Mind Control (Dark Q) 

Bond recruits 002 after she tries to assassinate him 

Misc: 

Alluding to Canoodling poem 

Poetry Round Robin 

Bond Book Drinking Game 

Shirt edit collab with ato #1: Save a car 

Shirt edit collab with ato #2: Still living  

Recipe: Tart Tarts  

Recipe: Pistachio Caramel (scavenger hunt: Tanner sundae) 

Rec post: Felix Leiter OT3 fics 

Rec post: Retired Felix fics 

James Bond’s Yelp Reviews (Tracy/James) 

Attended six events (four readalongs, two movie watches) 

Two completed prompt tables: AU and Angst!

18 rare pairs 

600 comments! 

Total points: 1404 

[ilianchant]

BLOGROLL OF HYPOTHETICAL MUSES I’D EVENTUALLY LIKE TO WRITE.

rules:  name 3 - 10 muses you’ve considered or would like to write in the future!

unnamed void elf astromancer (warcraft) - oc

cassandra of troy (greek mythology)

justine florbelle (amnesia: justine)

sophie combray (historical / victorian )  - oc

unnamed historical / byzantine muse  - oc

unnamed historical / ancient greek or roman muse - oc

madeline usher (fall of the house of usher)  

amy brookheimer (veep)

your current muses  (  optional  )  :

anne byrne (kingsman)  - oc

eleanor ramsay (kingsman)  - oc

lucille waycrest (warcraft)

vanora brightfall (warcraft)  - oc

carys droverson (warcraft)  - oc

anne talbot (historical / age of sail)  - oc

isabel mendoza (historical / world war 2)  - oc

alys cousland (dragon age)  - pc

ashara trevelyan (dragon age)  - pc

sirin (tyranny)

tagged by: @chaotiicgoods thank you!!! tagging: @warwaged @sunrunnerrs @chokethelight @shxwmaster @middenwake & YOU.

[lesbiansassemble]

Tag Game

tagged by @reylynch- ily <3

1. coke or pepsi: coke, dear god not pepsi 2. disney or dreamworks: disney 3. coffee or tea: depends 4. books or movies: movies 5. windows or mac: mac, despite the fact that i have windows  6. dc or marvel: marvel ofc 7. x-box or playstation: x-box 8. dragon age or mass effect: neither 9. night owl or early riser: early riser 10. cards or chess: cards

11. chocolate or vanilla: vanilla 12. vans or converse: vans 13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: say what?? 14. fluff or angst: angst, give me all the angst 15. beach or forest: beach 16. dogs or cats: DOGS 17. clear skies or rain: clear skies 18. cooking or eating out: why not both 19. spicy food or mild food: spicy 20. halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas: christmas

21. would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: too hot 22. if you could have any superpower, what would it be? teleportation, fancy some sushi? alright just gonna pop to tokyo, see you in a bit. fancy skiing? alright pack your bags 'cause we’re going to canada 23. animation or live action: live action 24. paragon or renegade: say what now? 25. baths or showers: showers 26. team cap or team ironman: iron-man all the way baby 27: fantasy or sci-fi: both, you heathen 28. do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they:

i can’t think of any!! i know i do have loads, but i can’t think of them off the top of my head

29. netflix or youtube: netflix 30. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson: percy jackson for books, harry potter for films

31. when you feel accomplished: when i overcome my laziness and actually do something 32. star wars or star trek: star wars 33. paperback or hardback: hardback 34. horror or rom-com: rom-com 35. tv shows or movies: movies 36. spotify or pandora: spotify 37. zootopia or inside out: i don’t remember them very well tbh, but i remember liking them both 38. favourite book: the chaos walking trilogy, the picture of dorian gray  39. favourite flower: roses 40. what field of study are you in (or aspire to be in): psychology, i’d like to study drama in the future though

41. song lyric you really love?

Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song Killing me softly with his song Telling my whole life with his words Killing me softly with his song

42. what’s your MBTI type?: ENFP-T 43. fave movie: there are way too many to name 44. favourite tv show(s): game of thrones, modern family, b99, the good place, the office (us) and many more 45. what fictional world is your favourite? the marvel universe or the lord of the rings universe 46. favourite mythological figure? mermaids 47. who’s your all-time favourite fictional character? LOKI - my love, my life! 48.  confetti or glitter? confetti 49. five things you’re grateful for in your life: friends, family, food, my dogs, movies 50. last ficitonal character you fell in love with? adam from only lovers left alive

51. If you could have dinner with any 5 people (real or fictional, dead or alive), who would you pick? Tom Hiddleston, Sappho, Gordon Ramsay (he can do the cooking), Selena Gomez and Tom Holland

52. favourite villain: Loki <3

my question: if you could witness any event in history, which would it be?

I’m tagging: @flyingavenger @angstyparker @nomadssteverogers @dorkychris @madcnna @parkerrpeterr @lokirevenger @claracivry @buckeed @taikka @captainvkirk @spacefloozy @mooniesloki

[knightwayne]

I was tagged by @isakvaltorsen! c: 

rules: answer all of the questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions - it will be below the cut cause it’s so long

1. coke or pepsi?
- coke for life

2. disney or dreamworks?
- Disney

3. coffee or tea?
- Tea  

4. books or movies?
- Books!

5. windows or mac?
- Mac af 

6. dc or marvel?
- DC 

7. xbox or playstation?
- Playstation

8. dragon age or mass effect?
- Dragon Age

9. night owl or early bird?
- Night owl 

10. cards or chess?
- Chess

11. chocolate or vanilla?
- Chocolate

12. vans or converse?
- Vans

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar?
- Lavellan 

14. fluff or angst?
- Angst 

15. beach or forest?
- Beach

16. dogs or cats?
- Kitties!

17. clear skies or rain?
- Depends on my mood

18. cooking or eating out?
- Eating out when I can

19. spicy food or mild food?
- I’m a bad Mexican and have to say mild

20. halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas?
- Halloween!

21. would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot?
- A little too cold

22. if you could have a superpower what would it be?
- Telekinesis!

23. animation or live action?
- Animation 

24. paragon or renegade?
- Renegade

25. baths or showers?
- Showers

26. team cap or team ironman?
- Team Batman

27. fantasy or sci-fi?
- Sci-Fi

28. do you have three or four favorite quotes, if so what are they?
- "do not go gentle into that good night. rage, rage, against the dying of the light” - “endure and survive” - “we can rebuild. we can do better. we will. we have to”

29. youtube or netflix?
- Netflix

30. harry potter or percy jackson?
- Harry Potter

31. when do you feel accomplished?
- When my work has been validated and appreciated 

32. star wars or star trek?
- Star Wars

33. paperback books or hardback books?
- Paperback!

34. to live in a world without literature or without music?
- Without music, I can’t imagine being w/out my books

35. pale faded colors or vibrant colors?
- Pale faded colors

36. good characterization with a bad plot or a good plot with bad characterization?
- Uhh, good characterization with a bad plot, I suppose

37. favourite disney movie?
- Mulan

38. tv show adaptations or movie adaptations?
- Depends on what the adaptation is based on

39. museum or library?
- Library

40. high school musical or camp rock?
- High School Musical

41. three songs that have a special meaning to you?
- Obstacles, Defying Gravity, and I’m So Sorry

42. what’s your 3 best / 3 worst traits?
- hard working, determined, creative // stubborn, unforgiving, vengeful 

43. favorite smells?
- freshly baked cake or cookies

44. if you could do your life over, would you and why?
- No, I’m happy where I am right now, and everything bad that’s happened in my life has been out of my control anyway

45. would you kill someone you love to save 20 strangers?- No

46. If you could have personally witnessed anything, what would you want it to be? That time Gordon Ramsay yelled at Giovanni in Hell’s Kitchen o m g

My question will be: New York or Los Angeles?

I’m gonna tag @hijacked-victor, @criminalbirb, @umdaryl, @ladyahsoka, and @gabrielreiyes!

[bogunicorn]

nnnnn fuck, i have like a half hour left of work and all i can think about is an AU that basically nobody will read and i have no idea where i'd go with it but

i wanna do it

like, it's either an AU or just a continuity where another trevelyan becomes inquisitor. but instead of taking vows, thayet leaves the chantry because she's told about ramsay's magic before he's taken to the circle, and she and her father decide to take ramsay to tevinter instead. they lie about his identity by saying he's a year older and was born to thayet's mother right around the time they had to go back to ostwick, all so that thayet's maternal family will take him in and educate him, making the assumption that he's the heir to the thalrassian family.

and thayet's there, right, she has no magic so her grandparents or whatnot are like "lmao we're not leaving our senate seat to a non-mage but we'll see what we can do here anyway". obviously she wants to stay and look after her brother, and you know, there are some nobles in tevinter without magic, it happens (rarely). so of course her grandparents are all, fuck, what do we do with this situation, how do we make this girl not a burden?

enter aeryk sevarius, a half-elf legitimized bastard from a prestigious family who's basically impossible to marry off, because 1) he's half-elf and his mother was a slave and everyone knows it, even if they don't say it out loud, and 2) he's his own father's personal assassin, and a lot of people are like "fuck no he's not marrying my daughter/niece/whatever, he's probably the reason two of my cousins died at the pavus's wintersend party last year". but his magic is insanely strong, and thayet's bloodline is full to the brim with the stuff, even if it managed to skip her, and her grandparents aren't in a place to be picky at all. magister sevarius just wants aeryk married in the hopes that he'll have powerful kids he can also exploit, and also some extra money certainly won't hurt.

so it's a little arranged marriage AU. i would have to make so many tevinter-based OCs, but i could have dorian and mae and flesh out some in-name-only characters from the games, ramsay gets to live so he's around.

i'd have to come up with a plot that's not just "sketchy age gap arranged marriage" lol

[tlnagoldsteln]

Tag Games : ... or ...

RULES: answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions. I was tagged by the lovely @accio-porpentina! Thank you so much for tagging me love <33

I tag : @ri-ddikulus, @rosevtyler, @ronweascly, @hermionesmenacinglook, @narcissxblack, @siriusisntdead, and finally @shrlockwatson! Also, sorry if you have been tagged before/don’t want to do it! (I also tag you reading this! :)

1. coke or pepsi: None, lol, I hate soda 2. disney or dreamworks: Can’t choose! 3. coffee or tea: Tea (all the way!!)  4. books or movies: Movies 5. windows or mac: Mac  6. dc or marvel: Marvel (definitely!!) 7. x-box or playstation: None? I play PC games usually, lol 8. dragon age or mass effect: ? 9. night owl or early riser: Night owl during weekends,and early riser during weekdays  10. cards or chess: cards 11. chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla 12. vans or converse: Both, but right now I’m liking Vans 13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: ?

14. fluff or angst: Depends on my mood really 15. beach or forest: Beach 16. dogs or cats: dogs <333 17. clear skies or rain: Depends on my mood, but right now I’m liking the rain

18. cooking or eating out: Depends on who’s cooking. If Gordon Ramsay is the one cooking, definitely cooking. But if it’s me, definitely not 19. spicy food or mild food: Mild food! (I love spicy, but I have the lowest tolerance for spice) 20. halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas: Christmas!! 21. would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: A little too cold 22. if you could have a superpower, what would it be: Speaking to animals!! 23. animation or live action: Animation! 24. paragon or renegade: ? 25. baths or showers: Showers 26. team cap or team ironman: Cap!!!!!!! (definitely <3) 27. fantasy or sci-fi: Fantasy  28. do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they: “Normality is a paved road, it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.” (It honestly is so beautiful) 29. youtube or netflix: Youtube! 30. harry potter or percy jackson: Harry Potter for sure!  31. when do you feel accomplished: I know it sounds cheesy, but when my parents are proud of me 32. star wars or star trek: Star Wars!!   33. paperback books or hardcover books: Paperback, because it’s cheaper lol 34. to live in a world without literature or without music?: Neither! (I don’t want to imagine a world like that) 35. who was the last person to make you laugh? My friend! 36: city or countryside? City! 37: favorite chips? A tie between doritos and pringles! 38: pants or dresses? Pants 39: libraries or museums? Museums! 40: character driven stories or plot driven stories? Plot, although I do like both! 41: fairy tales or mythology? Fairy tales! 42. pen or pencil? Pen 43. black or blue jeans? Black!

44. pokemon or digimon? Pokemon!                                                                     45. salty or sweet? depends on my mood, but right now it’s sweet!

[heylavellan]

The Library

(image via @hedgequisition)

Looking for something to read? Go ahead, browse the shelves. There should be something you will like to read. Read more beneath the cut! Links on AO3, though they are also in my blog!

DA Black Emporium 2024

Bad Idea, Right? - T, Krem/Cullen. Fake engagement AU, but Krem realises he's caught feelings. The best time to confess is at a ball, right?

Frocks, Frills, and Thrills - T, Josephine / f!Trevelyan. Ariadne Trevelyan spent a lot of time learning to be the perfect daughter and preparing to join the Chantry. Becoming Inquisitor made her question everything: the Chantry, her purpose, and even love.

Hands Off, Howe - E, Nathaniel Howe/Alistair/f!Cousland. Alistair gets tired of Nathaniel flirting with his wife in front of him and decides to have a bi awakening about it.

Honey, Have You Seen My Super Suit? - T, Jowan x f!Surana. Adaya's robes have suddenly gone missing, so she has to borrow her boyfriend Jowan's until she can get a new set.

Uncertainty with a Side of Vengeance - G, Zevran & f!Lavellan. Solas is gone. Her Clan is dead. When the assassin she hired returns with news of the job, she realises they may have more in common than she realised.

DADWC Prompts

Find all my DADWC works here!

I'll Place the Stars Within Your Eyes - T, Loghain/Maric. Post The Stolen Throne, where Maric asks Loghain to become a teyrn. He needs a bit of convincing.

At Your Side - T, Zevran/genderfluid!Cousland. If there's anyone Ramsay Cousland trusts to set traps and launch bombs, its Zevran. Fighting alongside each other is the way they feel safest, so those precious seconds he's away are the worst.

Pigeon Proofing - G, Shale & Wynne. The colourful decorations flesh creatures wear intrigue Shale. It must determine their use, and maybe see if they can help in eradicating pigeons.

Serving Highever - M, Ser Gilmore/genderfluid!Cousland. Ser Gilmore and Ramsay have been seeing each other for a while, but nobody had found out. Of course Fergus would be the one to find out.

the little things - T, Pavellan, Trying to pretend he isn't horrendously in love with Dorian is almost an impossible task for Elwyn. All he wants is to let the world know that he is in love with a Tevinter altus. But they're not out yet.

Mission Report - T, Krem x Rylen. It started out as reports between Rylen and Krem, but it slowly became something more. When a concerning report reaches Rylen's desk, the only real solution is for him to investigate it himself, right?

[rollingewok]

At last, we go to Valamar! We also do some other things. But mostly, we loot around Valamar and kill darkspawn.

[maudelebowski29]

@superscrat tagged me in this. @backpackfullofplums also tagged me in this earlier in the week but I was kind of drunk from being at a surprise party for my uncle’s 60th birthday and forgot all about it.

Coke or Pepsi: The diet versions of both. Seriously. I pretty much live on diet soda and cigarettes.  Disney or Dreamworks: Disney.  Coffee or tea: Only the iced versions of both. Hot drinks just don’t do it for me. Books or movies: I love to read, but there’s something about films that are magical.  Windows or Mac: Windows. I’ve always thought Mac was overrated, overpriced, and overhyped. Also, Bill Gates is a proponent of vaccines and GMOs to help starving people, Steve Jobs was a douche who thought quack “alternative medicine” remedies would cure his cancer.  DC or Marvel: Marvel. One of the few things I’m optimistic about this year are the three MCU movies we’re getting in 2017. Xbox or Playstation: I am not a gamer. At all. The last console I remember playing on was my brother’s Sega Genesis (really showing my age here). Dragon Age or Mass Effect: See above answer. Night owl or early riser: Night owl. I like sleeping in on the weekends. Cards or chess: Cards. I’m not a terrible poker player. Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate.  Vans or Converse: Converse. Love me some Chuck Taylors. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: Huh? Fluff or angst: Fluff, but some well written angst shouldn’t be sneezed at. Beach or forest: Forest. I like to swim, but wearing a bathing suit in front of other human beings fills me with anxiety. Dogs or cats: Both. But I can’t have pets in my apartment. Clear Skies or Rain: Clear skies.  Cooking or eating out: Eating out. As much as I love watching Gordon Ramsay yell at people for making shitty food, I can’t cook to save my life.  Spicy food or mild food: Mostly mild, but I do love Indian food.  Moon or stars: Moon, especially when it’s full. Whales or dolphins: Dolphins. Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff: Not in the Harry Potter fandom.

[kuehbiko]

Tagged by @in-the-key-of-f-major

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own, and tag as many people as there are questions.

Tagging (not 52 people tho, that’s so many? I’ll tag 5.2 ppl): @queen-of-the-shadow-hearts, @goldfinchex, @greater-of-two-evils, @lostmyshoeagain, @mynameisriversong​ and whoever would like to do this

(52 answered questions under the cut)

1. Coke or Pepsi? Coke (dude, after that Pepsi ad tho?) 2. Disney or Dreamworks? Dreamworks 3. Coffee or tea? Tea 4. Books or movies? Books 5. Windows or Mac? Windows 6. DC or Marvel? Marvel? But only because I haven’t had the time to even scratch the surface of DC’s giant convoluted universe 7. Xbox or Playstation? Xbox 8. Dragon Age or Mass Effect? Dragon Age (bruh. dragons.) 9. Night owl or early riser? Both, which means I get no sleep (you might think I’m joking, but I’m always too distracted to sleep until well past midnight, and my biological clock always wakes me up before 8am. Somehow.) 10. Cards or chess? Chess, but only marginally 11. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla 12.Vans or Converse? Converse 13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar? Lavellan. Elves man, elves. (For the uninitiated, this is from Dragon Age) 14. Fluff or angst? As much as I hate to say it, angst. Fluff is nice too, but angst tho? 15. Beach or forest? Forest 16. Dogs or cats? Both 17. Clear skies or rain? Clear skies. Rain is troublesome and the noise gives me anxiety (not even kidding the dissonance is fucking grating) 18. Cooking or eating out? Cooking 19. Spicy food or mild food? Mild 20. Halloween/Samhain or Solstice/Yule/Christmas? Christmas (we aren’t that big on Halloween where I come from) 21. Would you forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? My country is literally always too hot, so I wouldn’t mind being a little too hot. 22. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Flight 23. Animation or live action? Animation  24. Paragon or Renegade? Renegade (also for the uninitiated or the people too lazy to google, this is from Mass Effect) 25. Baths or showers? Showers 26. Team Cap or Team Iron Man? Team Iron Man (willnotrantwillnotrantIfuckinghatedCapinCW) 27. Fantasy or sci-fi? Why choose when you can have both? (Aka please don’t make me choose) 28. Favourite quotes? The seventy-two different variations of ‘fuck’ by Gordon Ramsay 29. Youtube or Netflix? Youtube 30. Harry Potteror Percy Jackson? Harry Potter 31. When do you feel accomplished? Whenever I get something done (like the fifteen different story ideas that have been sitting in my hard drive for five months now goddammit) 32. Star Wars or Star Trek? Star Trek 33. Paperback or hardcover? A book is a book is a book (and hardcovers are more expensive) 34. Writing or typing? Typing 35. Velvet or Satin? Velvet 36. Video games or movies? Video games 37.Would you rather be the dragon or own the dragon? Own the fucking dragon 38. Sunrise or sunset? Sunset, because it exists at a reasonable time of the day. 39. What’s your favourite song? No. 40. Horror movies, yes or no? No. 41. Long hair or short hair? Short, preferably none. 42. Opera or theatre? Theatre 43. Assuming the multiverse theory is true and every story ever told has really happened somewhere, which on of the movie/book/tv/etc. worlds would you travel to first? According to this question, there would also exist a universe in which I have already visited all of these movie/book/etc worlds. Therefore, I would like to go to the aforementioned universe first. 44. If you had to eat only one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Salad. (don’t get me wrong, I hate veg, but you can literally put anything in a salad) 45. What instrument would you like to learn? The cello, and the guitar (I’ve just never had the drive) 46. Can you art? Can I draw? No. Can I sing? Sort of. Can I play music? Yes. 47. What’s a practical joke you wish you could pull but haven’t? Convince the world that I’m better than I really am 48. What’s one social norm you would do away with? That everyone needs romance/a soulmate/love? 49. Fluffy or flat pillows? Flat (because it’s difficult to use your phone when lying on a fluffy pillow?) 50. Favourite book? Don’t make me choose 51. What do you wish to get for your birthday? A life and some money 52. Do you like your name? I don’t mind it? But I’ve had so many different identities (read: video game characters) that I really can’t be bothered with names

Added question: 53. What’s your most treasured possession?

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Okay, Halloween with your Inquisitor then?

Ramsay Trevelyan would be a little bit confused as to why kids would want to dress up like him at first.

(“Surely, they’d prefer someone a little more interesting for their disguise, wouldn’t they? Leliana, Vivienne--oh--or maybe something scarier, even? I’d love it if a child came running up like a tiny Archdemon; wings made of leather scraps or paper...”)

That said, the holiday as a whole would grow on him. Sure, there’s scares involved, but Halloween is that time of year where we fully and honestly embrace what we fear. We let it consume our identities for a night, and it makes us powerful.

Also, he’d definitely have the best candy and treats to hand out. Ramsay Trevelyan ain’t no slouch there. (Little Inquisitors and Cassandras probably walk away with a little extra.)

[bogunicorn]

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Gimme a whole set of OCs

This took days to answer bc I wasn't sure which OCs to pick lol. So! Three OCssssss, we'll do Eva, Locke, and Aeryk. Most of my Dragon Age OCs are in a shared universe where they all exist in varying capacities all the time, and then I have notes and sometimes fic in continuities where they get to be the star of the show. Locke and Eva both have Inquisitor worldstates, and I've written two fics with Eva as Inquisitor.

For all three of these characters, their default state is one in which Thayet Trevelyan is Inquisitor.

No gifs of faceclaims for this one because my chromebook doesn't want to cooperate. :(

Under the read more are relatively brief summaries, but if you want to read more detailed profiles, I got 'em!

Locke Trevelyan (as Inquisitor; summary of his place in Thayet's worldstate is at the bottom)

Eva Trevelyan (as Inquisitor; summary of her place in Thayet's worldstate is at the bottom)

Aeryk (Lavellan)

Locke Trevelyan

Lachlan Ciel Lorraine Trevelyan is the Inquisitor's half-brother, their father's third child, after Thayet (Bann Trevelyan's daughter with his first wife) and Ramsay (the Bann's bastard son), and their father's first child with his current wife, the Marquise Alodie de Lorraine. Most nobles call him Lachlan, his mama calls him Ciel, his father doesn't call him anything, and people he likes call him Locke.

Locke was basically just raised with the job of taking over the family shipping business and inheriting his father's title, and that's... pretty much it. Neither of his parents put a lot of thought into who he might be as a person, and if that makes you go "wow, I bet Locke has issues with lack of agency and thinks his only value to other people is in how useful he can be to them", you're very smart and correct. He's done all the things he's supposed to do - he did very well at the expensive university his parents sent him to in Orlais, he's well-mannered, attentive, and loyal, he rarely complains, and when he's told to jump, he asks how high - and yet, it hasn't really earned him the respect or basic parental affection it seems like it should have.

Mechanically, Locke is a rogue archer. Obviously he learned archery (and fencing) as part of his legitimate education. But the lockpicking and pickpocketing and the sneaky rogue stuff? All that he learned while he was at University and going out with people he wasn't supposed to be spending time with, like bards-in-training, thieves, and worst of all, poor people. (His mother would be mortified.) Locke's got a little rebellious streak, he just lacks reasons to bring it out. He even came very, very close to ditching out on his family responsibilities and becoming a bard, but chickened out before he could formally begin training.

As far as his siblings go, he has very little relationship with Thayet and has no idea that his bastard brother exists. He has three younger full siblings (Alodie, Eva, and Alexandre), and is very, very close to Eva. He's the only member of the family that tried to keep in touch with her when she was taken to the Circle when she was 15 and he was 17. (Thankfully, Eva went to Montsimmard and "earned" her right to communicate with family after a few years.)

During Thayet's Inquisition campaign, he attended the ball at the Winter Palace, along with his mother and his younger brother, Alexandre. His mother is a close-ish (ish) cousin of the Grand Duke Gaspard, his brother is a chevalier, and Locke was... basically obligated to go. After a series of hijinks involving a failed engagement with Yvette Montilyet, Locke and Josephine ended up falling in love, marrying sometime before Trespasser, and living together with her family in Antiva.

In a Locke-as-Inquisitor worldstate, Locke was at the Conclave acting as an ambassador for Ostwick. He's was good Inquisitor, if moderate; he supported Cassandra, conscripted the Templars, blackmailed Celene, Briala, and Gaspard into working together (mostly because he couldn't stomach killing Gaspard, as it would damage his mother's family's standing in Orlais). In the end, he turned the Inquisition over to the Chantry as the Divine's honor guard. He also fell totally in love with Josephine about 10 minutes after meeting her, and happily goes with her to Antiva in the end.

Eva Trevelyan

Evelyn Marine Lorraine Trevelyan is the Inquisitor's half-sister, their father's fifth child overall, and the third child with Bann Trevelyan's current wife, the Marquise Alodie de Lorraine.

Eva is a fundamentally gentle sort of person consistently put into ungentle circumstances. She wasn't expected to be anything or anyone remarkable as a child; the Bann and the Marquise just made an heir and a handful of spares as quickly as they could just to be safe, with Eva falling kind of in the middle of it all. She's not the smartest sibling, or the most talented, or either parents' favorite (and oof, do they play favorites), so she was mostly allowed to be anything she wanted as long as she didn't make trouble. Her absolute best friend growing up was her older brother, Locke.

Then, of course, she made trouble by being a mage. She was carted off to the Circle -- but not to Ostwick, as her half-sister was serving there as a Templar and that would be a conflict of interest. Instead, she was transferred to Montsimmard, where her Orlesian heritage and noble connections (like the fact that she's a close-ish cousin of Grand Duke Gaspard) would serve both her and the Circle itself. In a few short years, she became a favorite protege of First Enchanter Vivienne, as well.

Eva sides with the Loyalist mages and allies with the Inquisition as one of Vivienne's resources.

In an Eva-as-Inquisitor worldstate, Eva came up in the Ostwick Circle, her magic manifesting very soon after her Templar sister and bastard brother escaped with help from the then-First Enchanter, which for Eva meant that she was coming into the Circle in a time of upheaval that her own relatives were responsible for. As baseline awful as coming up in Montsimmard had been, they were way, way worse in Ostwick, especially with the a Knight-Commander looking for someone to punish.

She came out of it a healer/support-focused mage, actively trying to deny her natural talent for fire spells, and having fully internalized the Chantry's doctrine of shame and fear toward magic. She's a very gentle sort of person who hates conflict and combat, but over time with the Inquisition and as she starts healing from her life in the Circle, she does start learning to use Inferno spells and seeks training as a Knight-Enchanter.

She also uses her position as Inquisitor to reconnect with her family (to mixed results). She eventually gives the Inquisition to the Chantry and retires in whatever capacity she can. I never settled on a romance for her, but sometimes I toy with the thought of her ending up with Cullen because they could either make each other better or way, way worse.

Aeryk (Lavellan)

Fun fact: Aeryk is kind of a joint custody OC with my wife. We met in an RP game aaaaaages ago where she played Magneto, at some point we started writing PSLs and tossed Thayet and Mags together for long-winded reasons I won't get into here. And you know that thing, where you write so many AUs that a character has become super abstracted and eventually you're like "oh this is just an OC now"? Yeah. That process kicked in when my DnD character died and I needed a fast replacement, so I retooled Thayet for that campaign and gave her a tiefling boyfriend in her backstory based on that AU-ified version of Magneto, changed the spelling of his name, and then adapted tiefling!Aeryk into Dragon Age to officially put him into original recipe Thayet's backstory. Wife still writes him in PSLs, and I have her blessing to noodle around and put him into fic.

It goes without saying, I think, that I have the most emotional attachment to Aeryk out of any of the OCs I've shared publicly, except for Thayet.

ANYWAY, moving on.

Aeryk is technically a non-Inquisitor Lavellan, but he doesn't really know that for sure. His grandmother was an elf named Ashara, and was the elder sister of Clan Lavellan's current Keeper, Deshanna. When Deshanna was very young, the clan was raided by Tevinter slavers, who kidnapped some members of the clan. Ashara was taken to the city of Neromenian, where she was sold to House Sevarius. She would eventually fall in love with and become pregnant by another enslaved elf and die giving birth to her daughter, Nessa. Nearly 20 years later when Nessa had Aeryk, she had only her own father's inaccurate recollections of her mother to go by. As a result, Aeryk grew up very strongly suspecting that her stories of their Dalish heritage were ultimately just escapist fantasies.

Aeryk was fathered by Magister Gaian Sevarius, who was content to leave him (and all his other illegitimate children) in bondage, and would have done the same to Aeryk. However, Aeryk's magic manifested when he was 10 years old and was exceptionally powerful. Tevinter doesn't take much issue with enslaving mages, but Sevarius saw that honing and using Aeryk's magic would be much easier if he had the social mobility of a free man, so Aeryk was legally freed and legitimized as a son of House Sevarius... which honestly just landed him in a whole different form of servitude. His father used him as an attendant and personal assassin, having him "properly" socialized, expensively educated, and secretly trained besides. Sevarius was a social climber, and it was an open secret among Tevinter nobility that many of those steps were built on Aeryk's efforts.

When he was 25, Aeryk successfully escaped Tevinter and fled south into the Free Marches. He had real, actual freedom for about a year until he was captured by southern Templars and taken to the Ostwick Circle. At 30, he was made First Enchanter, and at 33, he met a then-18-year-old Thayet Trevelyan when she was transferred to Ostwick.

Aeryk is, essentially, the "main character" of Thayet's time in the Ostwick Circle. It's Aeryk who has the intense rivalry with the Knight-Commander, it's Aeryk who mentors Thayet's bastard brother Ramsay and practically adopts him, and it's him who ropes Thayet herself into smuggling contraband in and out of the Circle, taking her desire to protect her brother and turning it into being an ally for all the mages there, as well. His refusal to escape on his own is complicated; not only was he just not trained to handle southern Templars, but having left behind the enslaved people he grew up with (including his mother) when he fled Tevinter, he stayed with the mages on principle, trying to find a way to free all of them and not just himself.

His partnership with Thayet had started mostly with using her as a runner for contraband, but expanded into a genuine friendship, especially as she rose in the ranks and turned his basic smuggling setup into a larger network of contacts. They also fell in love and never really acknowledged it; it was far too complicated and dangerous, especially once she was promoted to Knight-Captain. So much tragedy. So much pining.

In the end, Aeryk almost made it. Months before the Divine Conclave, the rebels finally had a concrete plan of escape; years of socking away money and building contacts made it feasible to survive outside the Circle and on the run; Thayet had hired a ship captain to take them to Ferelden, scheduled to dock in a month's time; the escape routes were planned, and Thayet herself had spent years training recruits, memorizing their habits and weaknesses. All that was left was to wait for the ship to dock before moving to rebel.

And then the Knight-Commander found some evidence of a conspiracy and punished Aeryk for it by making him Tranquil. Or, rather, he sentenced Aeryk to Tranqulity, and Aeryk asked Thayet to volunteer for the ritual so that his last real emotion would be in the care of someone who loved him. He refused to be rescued; rebelling early would mean fleeing into the mountains instead of by ship, where their people would be easier to hunt and more likely to die to the elements or starvation.

When the Ostwick Circle finally fell a month later, Aeryk was taken along with the rebels. They made it to Ferelden, where he was accidentally separated from the others in Highever. Thankfully, he was found by Rowan Lavellan, who at that point was traveling alone and already allied with Fen'Harel. Rowan cared for him for months before joining up with the Inquisition, where Aeryk was taken into their care instead. His foreseeable future is spent as an assistant to Harritt and Dagna.

There are other continuities where Aeryk is never made Tranquil, and even some where he and Thayet get to admit their feelings and be together. But in my main "canon" worldstate, Aeryk remains out of commission, with the best of him living in Thayet's memories. It's possible that he may be cured one day, but Thayet has personally committed to funding his care, and refuses to let him be used in any experiments for or testing of potential Tranquility cures. He also never learns the truth of his heritage in his main continuity, though that's mostly through bad luck and poor circumstance.