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headcanoning war vet/night elf adaia with the line "[Adaia] wanted [Tabris] more than anything. It’s sad she never got to see you all grown up." and "Valendrian and [Duncan] have known each other for almost twenty years… since the time I tried to recruit your mother, in fact." [...] "I never made the offer. Valendrian convinced me that it was better for her to remain here with her family. As there was no Blight and thus no immediate need for recruits, I deferred to his wishes." really adds severe psychic damage of adaia simply wanting a peaceful life with her family after the war and im shattering like glass
#someone liveblogged tabris lines and im rly going thru it#she loved!! tabris so much!!! wanted tabris so much!!!!!!!#auuauUUUSDHDHDSF#dragon age#tabris#adaia#adaia tabris
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Adaia: alive
Tabris: dead via the ultimate sacrifice
Leliana: getting yelled at by Adaia for not protecting Tabris
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duncan x adaia is this a thing. is this lore compliant is this possible. it doesnt have to mean cyrion was cheated on. maybe tabris was already born and he adopted them. HMMM
#im very much intrigued by what was going on with adaia#why the fuck did duncan look for a random woman in an alienage#child bye i like this headcanon too much this is canon now#duncan dao#adaia#tabris
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FINALLY!!!!! I HAVE ALL 8 OF MY OCS WITH INDIVIDUAL DRAWING WITH THE SAME THEME!!!!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
#original character#oc#my original character#my oc#digital art#art#illustration#ocs#vessels#eliel#sherah#acham#jacob#simon#satanael#adaia#asderel#drawing series
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the description of adaia's boots has me in its grip..
some mothers knit booties for their unborn babes. adaia, who was much more practical, made leather boots adorned with patterns of vines.
#thinking about tabris walking in her mother's shoes. thinking about where their paths diverged#their relationship means so much to me#city elf origin#dragon age#dragon age origins#tabris#adaia tabris
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the fact that you start the Tabris origin by literally stepping into your mother's shoes. the fact that what you get is a wedding outfit and your mother's worn boots, kept carefully intact for years, tucked away for this exact moment. the fact that you then immediately take the path she never could, leaving behind the alienage and the wedding and following Duncan (who would have recruited Adaia first, if not for baby!Tabris) to what ought to have been death.
And Then!! instead of fighting and falling as she did, cheating death and becoming the fighter she always intended you to be instead??? Reliving and simultaneously subverting the story of her life??
#okay no i'm not done actually#the way it feels like destiny for you to die on the alienage's behalf (soris is still in the dungeons in other origins when you get there)#and not only is that fate averted by duncan's presence#but what feels like the fate laid out for you by adaia's death is shifted too#this makes the ultimate sacrifice ending so much more awful imo#because it almost feels like a final destination-esque reckoning#you thought you escaped? no. this city will eat your bones and spit out a golden savior#who tabris actually *is* was always irrelevant and i am!!!#eating this#excuse me i am just writing baby arianwen and adaia right now and i am Feeling Things#i just!!! her boots!! is anyone listening? is this thing on?? her *boots*!#*buries face in crossed arms and sobs*#dixeram#dao#tabris origin#warden tabris#arianwen tabris#adaia tabris#oh shit oh god i just realized also#you free adaia from the dungeon in leliana's song right#and then in turn escape from the same dungeon#and when imprisoned at drakon's rise you break free from that too?#now it's tastier if you free yourself from the dungeon but#the possibility of leliana freeing you from there as well?? not the same dungeon but the same danger??? ouch. ouch!
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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.
#I didn’t proof read this shit so suffer#Leliana#dragon age#warden tabris#Tabris#adaia tabris#Tabris x leliana#Leliana x Tabris
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since I swore to myself I would give the game a proper chance, starting over completely. I have decided to make Zevran's daughter <3
#thea talks#Adaia Tabris (jr)#zevran arainai#did I make her look more like Zev than her mom? yes#but in my defense I wanted to see how close I could get
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Young dad and mom Tabris. I like to think Adaia was taller than Cyrion and had Dalish ancestry.
(the hair jewelry is a gift they gave each other)
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i know bros had no money for a portrait but please let the tabris finally be happy,,,
#dragon age#dragon age origins#tabris#warden tabris#female warden#female tabris#city elf origin#adaia tabris#cyrion tabris#my art#oc: maya tabris
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insaneeee insaneeeeee that for leliana meeting adaia was essentially a footnote in what is her lowest point in her life, a blip on the radar, not really even going out of her way to save her or anything, just happened to be in the direction she was going only for this chance crossing paths to lead to someone else having one of the lowest points in their life
and she can meet them and fall in love
#the devs behind lelianas song: hohoho what a fun cameo for our plot set up dlc :)#me years later shaking with pure nd energy close to vomiting: what have you done to me#you think she even remembers...or just recalls an elf following her and calling her a light#banging my fists on the floor#leliana#tabris#adaia#adaia tabris#dragon age
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omg what if i solve the silly “how are outfits fitting on different companions” question by hcing that cyrion is a tailor and tabris knows her stuff...
#ive been putting cyrion in a few different occupations#i wanted to make him an apothecary for rowena’s poisoner skills but i think i’ll leave that to adaia#leliana could help make it pretty...
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been thinking so much about duncan and the city elf warden recently.
duncan being a mysterious family friend who knew the city elf's mother and wanted to recruit her, but has never been mentioned before.
duncan, who was conscripted by his warden-commander just as he was about to be executed for murder.
the city elf warden, conscripted by duncan; their warden-commander, just as they have been told they will be executed for murder.
it's so juicy
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'loghain found military success commanding a squad of specifically elven soldiers during the fereldan rebellion' is a fucking insane stolen throne lore drop like WHAT!!!!! HUH!!!!!!! and theres never any actual detail abt the soldiers themselves or what happened to any survivors afterwards but it is a crazy space for ME to play in
#HEAR ME OUT: what if adaia tabris#I should talk about sang . i will at some point. guys i have so much stupid fucking dense oc lore
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I've been wanting to draw Adaia holding sunflowers for a while now.
#original character#oc#my original character#my oc#digital art#illustration#ocs#adaia#vessels#sunflower
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i will be honest, my tabris, who's extremely eldest sister coded, really did have every plan to get married with nelaros. she was gonna get married, have kids, be the responsible adult who takes care of her father, shianni and soris with his new wife (in whatever they need) while honing these skills to do her best to keep her family safe. clearly it was never meant for her, as she would make the same choice in denerim whether she became a warden or not, but the intention was there. she may have been a young bride, but she really was, in her mind, ready to be married.
#OOC.#if she didn't become a warden she'd become a criminal for sure#as she'd have to run regardless#who knows. maybe she'd arrive at kirkwall? eyes emoji#but either way. ALWAYS meant for more. ALWAYS a revolutionary.#they wanted adaia to be that. adaia was i feel like more approachable.#instead they got her daughter. this asshole (affectionate)#REYNA: ABOUT.#like dogs shianni is a canon event.
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