#Tabris x Leliana

[moghedien]

anyway anyway anyway fellow Leliana kissers, do we all have the headcanon that when she and the Warden went to visit Justinia/Dorothea after the Blight (before Justinia was Divine), they got married? because that's definitely what I'm been going with in my head since Inquisition but I don't remember anyone talking about it ever.

but like in my case with my Warden, Leliana showed up and was like "I need to get gay married to this elf right now" and like what was Dorothea gonna do? tell her no?

it would be kinda hush hush secret for that reason tho (why Leliana is very intentional with how she refers to the Warden in Inquisition), but I feel like Leliana would appreciate like the Chantry sanctioning their relationship in some way, even if its just one Revered Mother doing it secretly and also my Tabris--who wouldn't care what the Chantry has to say--would maybe heal a bit marrying someone who she actually knows and loves and wants to be with and doing so quietly in a more intimate ceremony.

but also like the fucking power play if Leliana becomes Divine and the Grand Clerics are like 'you have to stop seeing your lover now' and she's like "That's not my lover that's my wife *pulls out the marriage certificate signed by the previous Divine*"

[vikinggirl3]

(3/7)

This is Keilah Tabris, City Elf in Denerim. Duel-Wielding Rouge, Daggers. Romances Leliana. Duelist.

[calico-callista]

Happy pride month!

[rosella-writes]

Rooooooooo you keep opening your prompts and I keep handing you Rosalie/Leli fluff, that's the deal right? I'm making that the deal. So for Rosalie/Leliana, from the ways to say I love your prompts, "Through a song" 🥺

YES I think so!! seems fair enough. 💚 Also for @a-song-in-the-stillness who requested the same prompt for the same pairing. For @dadrunkwriting

Relationship: Leliana x Rosalie Tabris Rating: T Words: 322

Leliana always fell asleep under Rosalie’s watch. Rosalie didn’t mind. She watched over her, as she wished she could have watched over Shianni, as Shianni had watched over her the morning of her wedding day. It was almost a little gift the bard had given her, this chance to look at her face lit by the fire, unmarred by piety or artificial laughter. She almost looked… sad, as much as she looked peaceful in dreams. 

More nights than not, Rosalie found herself humming songs she had known since she was a small child. Her memories of the words were distant, filtered through many drowsy evenings and too many sleepless nights, but she could still hear them in her mother’s voice. She hummed them to Leliana as best she could — little tuneless mumbles, paired with the odd Elvhen word she could recall. Sometimes Leliana’s vivid blue eyes would blink back open, bleary with sleep, and she would smile as Rosalie hurriedly hushed herself and looked away. 

~~~

After a while, Rosalie began to hear that familiar hum, as pervasive and near as the darkspawn’s sickly music in her mind but much more sweet. It thrummed ever stronger as she received blows and dealt them — as she gored a hurlock with her dagger — as she cleaved its head from its shoulder with the longsword in her main hand — as she turned first to Leliana to be sure she was unharmed, then the others one by one. The song, whether she herself hummed it or it was a figment of her imagination, felt as if it strengthened her strikes along with her resolve.

It was only when Leliana smiled, slid her bow back onto her back, and said, “Quietly she goes, right?” that Rosalie realised the song had ended. As they pieced through the rubbage and burned the putrescence of the slain darkspawn away, the humming resumed — it was beautiful in the tones of Leliana’s voice.

[sketchyfletch]

My taciturn Tabris slowly realising she quite likes having this bard person around, actually

[lamon-art]

A crime was committed against her wife and bo will not let that stand

[nandivina]

Pose for the pic

(5 seconds later)

There's always that one couple, isn't there?

(separate drawings under cut)

[anaugust]

My art is not arting recently so I started experimenting with shading and coloring. Not sure how I feel about this one lol

The other version is on twitter

[sadmages]

Happy Dragon Age Day here's some of my old self-indulgent art <3

[athirstygoblin]

Gotta say that it's pretty cool of me to have a "human elf human elf" pattern when it comes to my romance choices in Dragon Age.

[moghedien]

the timeline of Leliana’s Song vs things said in the city elf origin leave wiggle room for interpretation of exactly when Adaia died and there’s no clear answer for that which I love because I go feral for the potential there

like I’m obsessed with the idea that maybe Adaia did escape the dungeons and maybe she did tell her teenage child that there was a good human that saved her. And that child got their mother back for a little while and was old enough to consider that maybe their mother wasn’t lying and there might be a few decent humans. And then more humans caused trouble and Adaia was killed and there was no “good” human around to save her this time.

And the idea of this random good human becomes like a bitter thing in her child’s mind because the child has seen no evidence of this. They’ve only seen the evil humans can commit in them. They took Adaia twice. But that doesn’t change the fact that a human DID save Adaia from being tortured and killed in a dungeon. They got Adaia back for a little while because of a good human and it becomes a sort of nagging bitter feeling they feel conflicted about.

And then that child grows up and has a wedding that humans use as an excuse to hurt them and their family. They’ve never met a good human. Maybe some (like the priests) will tolerate them enough to perform chantry rituals for them. Duncan may have only helped them because he wanted to conscript them into the Wardens and take them from their family when they’re needed the most.

So Adaia’s child is taken from their home because they’re useful to humans. They end up getting burdened with responsibilities because they’re useful and because of the skills Adaia taught them. They end up traveling with a number of humans. They get exposed to the world outside of the alienage for the first time. Things probably change slowly for them, as they’re getting closer to people and experiencing more. Some humans will like them because they’re needed to save the day. Some humans might just be nice to them for no reason. Then again, a lot won’t and will resent them regardless. Some will just pretend not to notice that a knife ears is leading the Wardens, but it’s clear they do. It’s both validating and complicating their worldview. Maybe their mother wasn’t lying about a human saving her because they were just good. Then again, maybe the human just saved a random elf by happenstance and not from goodness.

They probably get close to number of their human companions in a variety of ways. The fact that the humans are all different and get along to varying degrees is probably complicating their worldview. The fact that they might try to get closer to an elf for no obvious reason instead of sticking together probably complicates it more. Everything is probably very confusing for a very long time.

Maybe Adaia’s child recruits a strange Chantry sister from Lothering, another human. Maybe they find themselves getting closer to her in ways they never expected possible with a human (or with another woman even). And then they find Leliana more and more complicated the more they get closer to her. She’s Orlesian and Ferelden. She’s a spy and a killer, but a Chantry sister and the most earnestly devout person they’ve probably ever met. She’s says offensive things about elves to their face and then actually apologizes to them and thanks them for showing her it was offensive. She will talk big about her seduction skills and then stumble every step of the way as she’s trying to flirt with them. Information about her history and her life trickles in slowly as she gets closer to them and is willing to reveal more.

By the time they’ve learned much about Leliana, Adaia’s child probably realizes how complicated the world actually is for everyone. Maybe they’ve met the dalish and found themselves being looked down on and treated either as human would be or as a child. Maybe they’ve gone to Ozrzammar and realized that oppression can exist outside of human and elves and the Chantry. Maybe they’ve returned home. Maybe they’ve tried to return home and found they weren’t allowed in, to protect them from the rioting elves within. Maybe they’ve saved the queen. Maybe they’ve killed Logain. Maybe they’ve slayed the archdemon and saved the whole damned world by the time it comes. It could be never or after these or anywhere in between when it happens.

But imagine Adaia’s child who is not an adult with a very complicated and shifting worldview, who used to only have the concept of there being at least one good human to complicate their world. One good human that gave them their mother back for a little while at least. And now they’re close to a human. They’re in love with a human who is extremely complicated and who won’t tell them honest truths about her past until they’re very close and much time has passed. Time in which their worldview has probably shifted a great deal and got much more complicated.

Imagine how it would go for Adaia’s child in this circumstance when the details of Leliana’s past finally come out and she’s willing to talk about them. When they find out that the same estate where she was betrayed and tortured was the estate they rampaged through, slaughtering humans to save their family and themself.

And it isn’t even pride that makes her reveal it. She isn’t bragging. She didnt feel like she was a good person in the moment. She struggles to feel like she’s a person now, even when she knows her actions are for the greater good. So imagine Adaia’s child when Leliana almost offhandedly mentions saving other prisoners from the dungeon. Including an elven woman who said she’d tell her child about Leliana and the fact that there are good humans like her.

[leliwardens]

for my fellow lelimancers: what do you headcanon happens to YOUR warden in the bad timeline from in hushed whispers? mine gets captured & twisted into a red lyrium creature 🫶

[rosella-writes]

me making Rosalie Tabris: this’ll be great she’ll kiss Leliana and stab people

me realising this world state winds up with hardened Leliana as Divine and Rosalie would 100% divorce her over it: D:

[gabs-magical-abs]

Random Leliana x Warden headcanons:

The Warden realised just how much Leliana meant to her during the deep roads expedition, which was the first time they had really been apart since meeting. The whole "I enjoy our nights at camp" speech happened not long after the party left Orzammar.

Tabris doesn't know how to read. She manages to bluff her way through most things ("nah I haven't had a chance to read the treaties what do they say?") but Leliana notices and offers to teach her how to read.

Leliana also teaches Tabris how to use a bow, because she never had access to one in the Alienage

After the Blight, Leliana and Tabris travel around for a few months. Eventually the Grey Wardens request that she undergo proper training with the Orlesian Wardens. Leliana tries to go to Montsimmard with Tabris, but the Wardens wouldn't let her. She ended up in Val Royeaux instead. Tabris visited when she could during that time.

Tabris was coincidentally in Kirkwall around the same time as Leliana. They managed to meet up, and it was then that Leliana told Tabris that shit was likely to hit the fan and that Tabris should go on her quest for the cure instead of being roped in to saving the world again

[sakuyira]

[🐉] DRAGON AGE: The Warden-Commander Ahrien Tabris and her super dangerous, bloodthirsty and cool spy girlfriend.

this drawing took me a good few hours to complete, and I only decided to post it here now 🫠.

[just1gnome]

the nerith polycule has expanded

alistair isnt a rogue he wasnt invited