#adelaide hawke

[faejilly]

Lily- majesty, Sebastian ❤️

[flower prompts] Starkhaven is majestic! You will pry that fact from my cold dead hands, regardless of how it may or may not ever be portrayed by anyone else. (Also, this is a game epilogue, and takes place not long after oats.)

Hawke stopped as they crested what she had not realized was the final craggy hill before their track descended into the Minanter Valley to meet the main Trade Road.

She thought she'd been prepared for her first sight of Starkhaven, thought she'd heard enough stories from Sebastian, had watched the way Fenris spread his hands and widened his eyes whenever he came back from a trip across the Marches, had noticed when even Varric couldn't find a way to grumble about somewhere that wasn't his preferred shithole.

She was very wrong.

Isabela whistled and Merrill sighed and Adelaide blinked again, as if somehow that would change the view.

It was beautiful. Sebastian had talked about the granite they used for the roads, about new walls built whenever they'd overflowed the old ones for too long, but he'd never mentioned how it gleamed, reflecting the water and the sun, the light from above and below making it shine. Brother Genitivi had said as much in his Travels, of course, but she hadn't realized...

For the first time in her life, she thought she maybe understood why Orlesians complained about Ferelden's mud.

Even the parts of Denerim that weren't muddy tended towards brown, and this! Pale and clean, straight corners and curving walls somehow emphasizing the cliffs beyond it, the curve of the Minanter through it. It held shades of white and grey and silver, soft reds and pale tans from brick and stone and cobbles; there were even various greens just barely visible here and there, growing up taller than the walls, or visible in a gap between buildings that hinted at a garden or a court somewhere deep inside the city.

It really did look like a jewel. Strings of them; each of its walls was another necklace spilling out of the mountains and across the river until the final wall - paler and sharper than any of the others, too new to have worn down or faded into the rest of the city.

(Of course, then there was another road, and beyond that something half-city, half-market, all tents and caravans and shacks and wagons and horses and the weird furry not-horse things they rode in the desert further north, merchants and mercenaries and Maker-knew-who-else and so much dust she could see the cloud of it from here.)

"Well, shit." Merrill managed in a very clear echo of Varric's actually surprised enough to not know what to say voice.

Isabela snorted, and Adelaide felt her lips twitch in an attempted smile.

Merrill continued in her usual lighter tone. "That really makes Kirkwall look terrible, doesn't it?"

"Doesn't take much," Fenris answered.

Carver laughed, something almost a snort, an echo of their father so many years ago. Adelaide felt some of the ache in her shoulders ease at the sound, felt the earlier almost-smile return, wider and more relaxed and real this time.

"Well, shit," she agreed, though she sounded much less like Varric than Merrill had managed.

Her smile widened even further as Sebastian laughed that time, too.

He offered her his arm, and she took it, trying not to grip too tightly.

"Knock 'em dead," Isabela called after them, as they started to descend the path.

"Not literally," Fenris added.

"You just want them to save some of that for the rest of us," Carver said.

Merrill laughed that time, bright and hopeful, and Adelaide held the echoes of that sound in her heart even as she heard the shuffle of their footsteps returning to their camp back in the foothills proper.

She swallowed. Thought about where to put each foot and reminded herself to breathe as the tall pale walls drew ever closer. "Are we sure this is going to work?"

Her voice had barely had any breath behind it, but Sebastian clearly heard her.

"Not at all," he answered, his voice low but still warm, warmer than her own rough whisper had managed. "But I have hope."

"Ahh." It wasn't a sigh but it wasn't a sob or quite the break into hysterical laughter that she'd half expected to come out of her mouth. "Endless possibilities."**

"But after we lament, we can rebuild, my love." Sebastian reached a hand over to cover hers, to squeeze her fingers gently. "If not here, we'll just keep going."

Adelaide snorted. Yet it had worked; she definitely felt better. "I think we've both been uprooted more times than is plausible. Let's hope this is the last time."

She felt his shoulders shift in a shrug beside her. "As long as you're with me, I'm rooted enough."

Adelaide stopped. Sebastian didn't quite stumble as he came to a halt beside her. She closed her eyes. She lifted her head and waited.

Sebastian knew exactly what she needed, the soft press of his lips against hers so gentle her whole chest ached with it.

"I love you," she whispered. "And that is more than enough, you're right."

She opened her eyes to see him, his beautiful face, the hint of a flush high on his cheeks as he smiled at her, that bright wonder in his eyes as if he still couldn't quite believe she meant it, that they both meant it, for as long as they could hold on to each other.

She quirked a smile, ignored the burn in her throat, behind her eyes. She loved him. That would keep her going. "I should probably not keep the Seneschal waiting, though?"

"Probably best," Sebastian agreed, and he tugged gently until they both started moving again. "Marta has wanted to meet you for several years."

"What an excellent reminder to make me less nervous, darling."

Sebastian shrugged again, somehow clearly apologetic this time. She managed a laugh, and they joined the traffic on the main road, turning towards the Main Gate of Starkhaven, wide and open, giant hinges gilded with gold, guards and clerks dressed in white and red and black, shockingly bright in comparison to the crowds of merchants and farmers and travelers in more staid browns and greys and greens.

She took a deep breath, letting the weight of the past few days, weeks, years, settle as smoothly across her shoulders as she could manage. Reminded herself she wasn't just any apostate, any refugee, but Lady and Champion and beloved. Sebastian lifted his chin, and she could practically see the legacy of Vael settle across his brow, almost hiding her beloved behind a noble mask.

Almost.

He lifted a brow, the glint in his eyes as warm as it always was when he met her eyes and she nodded. Time to see what Starkhaven thought of its erstwhile Prince, the Champion of Kirkwall, and their collection of misfits, refugees, and mages seeking shelter. Time to build something new.

Again.

And again, she thought, as many times as needed.

Endless possibilities. They'd find one that worked for them. She smiled, and leaned a little into Sebastian's warmth along her side, remembering Fenris and Isabela and Merrill and Carver, waiting for them to make this first move, ready and willing to help.

Together.

[wyvernscales]

Symbols I associate with ocs - Worldstate: Then Let it be Ruby

Lucia Cousland: roses, swords, ribcages, vintage photos of women, marble statues

Rita Caron: the color blue, lace, skulls, shadows, ravens, torn and weathered flags

Adelaide Hawke: birds, the ocean, pirate ships, sand, sunset, sea glass

Tessa Adaar: fields of wildflowers, moths, lambs, flower crowns, owls

Aria Trevelyan: sunbeams, fire, heart lockets, the blade of mercy

Marzia Mercar: blood, veils, snakes, Victorian ghost pictures, claws

[thedragonagelesbian]

ocs + dragon age demon pairings

yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee

(tagging folks who expressed interest tytytytyty ily all smmmmm @hexblooddruid @fllagellant @ghostwise andddddd if any of you want to share for your ocs... 👀👀👀)

Vidreu Aeducan ~ Desire Demon

Dru is tricky because they aren't strongly motivated by the kinds of emotions that demons feed on. They're largely guided by academic curiosity and dispassionate pragmatism, but she could be tempted by forbidden knowledge in a heartbeat. (Indeed, she defiled the Urn of Sacred Ashes for precisely that reason.) A desire demon could readily exploit that thirst-- for answers, for understanding, for secrets.

Luc Surana ~ Despair Demon

Everything that Luc has--his anger and his snark and his defiance--either grows out of or masks a profound sense of nihilism. Nothing matters, there's no point in trying, and caring is just setting yourself up for heartbreak down the road.

(In the AU where Alistair breaks up with him after the Landsmeet, Luc summons one by accident teehee)

Cyrus Hawke ~ Pride Demon

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh won't someone please tell him what a good boy he is and what a good job he's done bleeding out for others, won't someone please give him a good grade in self-sacrifice.

As a general rule, I'm a strong believer that the best demonic temptations are precisely those that characters wouldn't think they'd be affected by, because if you know something is a flaw of yours, you can guard against it. Cyrus' humility is very genuine, but below it is a profound craving for recognition that he won't let himself acknowledge, making it the perfect weak point.

Dahlian Lavellan ~ Sloth Demon

Dahlian has been tired since the moment she first woke up in Haven, weary under the mantle of Inquisitorial duty and constantly performing as its cold, professional leader. It would take some prying to pull her away from that duty, toward restfulness, but wouldn't it be so nice to share just a moment's repose with her daughter?

Yiseeril Trevelyan ~ Hunger Demon

Yiseeril's pride is dangerous, yes, but she's been haunted by her own personal hunger demon/Fade tongue situationship, Vanity, for years and knows how to resist her temptations. What could be fatal is pushing that pride to its extreme, past ambition and into apotheosis, starved for power and sated by nothing short of godhood.

[chaos-footy]

idk if this says anything about how close this season has been, or whether this is something that happens often, but you can make a circle of parity out of the 2024 top 8!

[faejilly]

No judging! I found my links the same way! 😅

BUT I HAD NOT TRIED BAYDEWS'

so in gratitude, have an Adelaide Hawke, and the face she tries (and mostly fails) not to make every time she has to deal with Kirkwall's Nobles Being Stupid™️between Acts II & III

Dreamwidth Crosspost: The Search For Curly Bangs

Does anyone have recs for anime-ish dollmakers/picrews which allow you to set the fringe/bangs separately and have options for non-straight hair? Wavy, curly, natural, braided, dreadlocked etc, the more options the better. I'm working on a dollmaker of my own and having a little trouble figuring out a consistent style that works for all hair types. @faejilly happened to link this picrew a few days ago which does straight bangs nicely, but not any other sort. Meanwhile anime characters with curly bangs tend to have the rest of their hair curly in the same style, which is hard to extrapolate from. It doesn't have to be fully anime style as long as the art has dark lines filled with flat colours.

EDIT: Thanks to @bbgulrot for the link to Black Centered Picrew which also led me to the POC tag on picrew. (Read on Dreamwidth)

[foresthavens]

i've been seeing this picrew around and wanted to make a few of the babes in it~

john x fallon (far cry 5) // vulpes x aurelia (fallout new vegas) james x oliver (fallout 3) // wrench x jordan (watch dogs 2) solas x atheya (dragon age inquisition) // mason x kayleigh (the wayhaven chronicles) handsome jack x iris (borderlands) // charles x amelia (black sails) carver x adelaide (dragon age 2) // alistair x mirela (dragon age origins)

[jendoe]

tagged by @nightbloodraelle to make some ocs in this picrew! thank you MWAH...

🎀 elissavet cousland | 🎲 adelaide hawke 🏹 yawen liu | 🔍 harun liu 🥀 cressida trevelyan | ⚗ hildegard van markham 🐲 varian de rossi | 🗡 rosaline trevelyan

tagging @phillipsgraves, @risingsh0t, @indorilnerevarine, @chuckhansen, @queennymeria, @denerims, @girlbosselrond, @minaharkers, @gwynbleidd, @aelyosos, @calenhads, @telumendill, @shadowglens, @cptcassian, @corvosattano, @jackiesarch, @marivenah, @sstewyhosseini, @leviiackrman, @unholymilf, @florbelles, @shellibisshe, @loriane-elmuerto, and if you see this, YOU!!! no pressure ofc mwah mwah mwah

[amatres]

OCs as Siken Poems

rules: take this uquiz as your ocs would answer and post their results!

tagged by both @transprincecaspian and @demandthedoodles, thank you both for inflicting this on me! I highlighted lines I felt fit the ocs I used the most, so enjoy.

This time I won't tag anyone, but feel free to take this as a tag if you want to do this yourself!

Surana: I had a Dream About You

There’s nowhere to go, I thought. There’s nowhere to go. You were sitting in a bathtub at the hospital and you were crying. You said it hurt.

You said Will you love me even more when I'm dead? and I said No, and I threw the pills on the sand.

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

Gwynnever Calear: Straw House, Straw Dog

you wanted an adventure, so I said Have an adventure. The straw about to burn, the straw on fire. Here you are on the TV, saying Watch me, just watch me.

I don't really blame you for being dead but you can't have your sweater back.

You can sleep now, you said. You can sleep now. You said that. I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that. You weren't supposed to.

Allyn Hawke- Boot Theory

because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again,

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything’s okay and you tell them you’re just tired. And you’re trying to smile. And they’re trying to smile.

A man walks into a convenience store, still you, saying: I only wanted something simple, something generic...

Adelaide Oftedahl: Self Portrait against Red Wallpaper

Take it or leave it, and for the most part you take it. Not just the idea of it but the ramifications of it.

I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I'd rather quit. I'd rather be sad. It's too much work. Admirable? Not really. I hate my friends. And when I hate my friends I've failed myself, failed to share my compassion. I shine a light on them of my own making: septic, ugly, the wrong yellow. I mean, maybe it's better if my opponent wins.

[bubbles-026]

Men 🤝 women

[valentin10]

Adelaide 36ers vs. Illawarra Hawks - Game Highlights - Round 8, NBL25

[faejilly]

Bad Brain Day -> Picrew Spam!

Have some Adelaide Hawke

Links:

[wyvernscales]

I need to talk about Adelaide Hawke, but I dont know what to say about her yet. She’s not fully formed in my mind’s eye.

But that’s one of her primary qualities in the first place. Constantly becoming. She isn’t one thing. She is fun and rage and bar brawls and freedom and bleeding knuckles and magic. She doesn't get the chance to mourn her fading youth because she never stops going.

That’s why she needs an anchor that’s constantly in motion. Isabela refuses to stay still, and it's this quality that draws them both to each other.

Two ions in constant excite, refusing to let go of their energy.

[thedragonagelesbian]

Omg can I ask some of those OC relationship questions?? Maybe "For Good" for Adelaide and "Meet Strange" for Cyrus?? 👀🍿

oc asks: relationship edition

PLEASE DO oh thank you so much for asking about my disaster daughter......... she's become marginally less disastrous since the last arc of her campaign, which means i don't talk about her as often as i should sdfiopjadfsadf

For Good: Is there anyone in your OC's life who had an undeniable positive impact on who they are as a person? How did knowing this person improve your OC's life?

Natalie "Nat" Owens was the most positive presence in Adelaide's life growing up, as both her best friend and her unrealized crush. But they also didn't speak for most of the six years that Adelaide was stuck at home because (a) how tf do you begin to explain something like that and what if she didn't believe it and (b) what if Adelaide lost control of her magic like she lost control with Zak and hurt Nat in the process? The more the years the drag on, the more Adelaide is certain that her monstrosity is incompatible with Nat's goodness-- even as she continues to nurse some kind of fantasy deep deep down of Nat saving her and stealing her away.

Now that Nat is back in her life, and Adelaide can leave Harborview (but is also its divine prophet), things are. Weird. But like, mostly good weird. 'Adelaide is a disaster lesbian' kind of weird. She failed an investigate a mystery roll a couple of sessions ago and I narrated it as her being distracted by Nat's tits.

As a player, I hope Nat gets involved with the monster hunting eventually!! But Adelaide doesn't want to reveal that side of herself just yet.

Meet Strange: What's the most memorable way your OC has ever met a new person? Was it a good experience? Bad experience? Just plain weird? How's their relationship with that person now?

This is a fun one because 'meet strange' kind of describes... every circumstance for meeting companion characters in fantasy rpgs lololol, especially for BG3. The weirdest 'meet strange' of DA2 imo is Fenris' personal quest-- full honesty, I still do NOT understand 'Bait and Switch' at ALL and I've given up trying to get it. I'm just glad Fenris is here now.

Beyond in-game meetings... there's that time Cyrus committed naked and unapologetic political heresy in front of the entire Orelsian court at Halamshiral.

As for his relationship with Celene, it uh. It doesn't end well. He keeps Gwen from warning her about Florianne's assassination. In my head, the fight with Florianne happens in the ballroom rather than the garden for the Dramatics/Spectacle, and then Varric trips Gwen before she can land the killing blow on Florianne, allowing Cyrus to swoop in, finish her off, and position himself as Celene's avenger.

[hannahwatcheshorror]

THE PURGE (2013)

This probably would have been best as a short film, I really don’t think the concept is strong enough for a feature length movie (let alone several) but maybe that is just me. Yet another film about crazy rich people (see READY OR NOT). An intense night of survival for all involved.

⭐⭐⭐

Our boy Ethan Hawke has a brand new family (because we all know how well he did with his family in SINISTER) and it features a modern mom, a techy boy, and a so-over-it teen girl. They are very rich and feel untouchable during the annual purge where all crime is legal for 12 hours (jeez). Locked in their home they don’t notice a man crying out for help, but their son does, and he invites the man inside, triggering a series of unfortunate events. Suddenly this strange man is loose in their enormous home and all these freaky people are outside asking for him back so they can end him (yikes).

The family has no choice but to look for the interloper and present him to the strangers because otherwise the freaks will bust into the home and kill everyone inside. There is a moment when the “Polite Leader” calls Ethan Hawke to the door for a meeting, it would have taken everything in me not to snark back that him calling me to the door was taking time away from me trying to find the guy they want I SWEAR him and his little SHIT EATING GRIN got on my nerves SO much. I think you were supposed to be afraid of him but really I just wanted to yank his ear and put him in timeout.

While the parents look for the interloper the son keeps trying to help him but this just gets his sister hurt badly. Both parents are willing to use torture tactics on the man before the wife sits back, reevaluates things, and realizes that maybe they are doing too much (you think?). At this point we can clearly see that the man has dog tags on so I would go out on a limb and say that maybe he is a Veteran which makes what they are doing even more cruel (like war crimes, ya know?). The parents agree not to turn him out to the freaks but they don’t un-tape him (wack!). 

Next Ethan Hawke goes on a killing, I mean, purging spree but it ends with him getting a belly full of knife (sad!). Also, suddenly a bunch of well dressed folks swoop in and start gunning down the freaks? Okay? Daddy Hawke passes away but not before he sees his daughter kill our “Polite Leader.” We also find out that the well dressed people are only there for the opportunity to murder the family (really? That is what is happening?). They try (to murder the family) but the Veteran comes out gun blazing and protects the family (what is left of it). Mama bear tells everyone no more killing and beats up a lady to prove her point. The purge is over. Ugh, I want to take another star off because in the end she just lets the Veteran walk away after all he did for them, after all they did to him, (he did throw their kid at a wall, but hey, end times) but I won’t. The film is fine.

[fazcinatingblog]

ginni gandalf (left) with his rascal hobbits

[merrillshawke]

based on this poll by @star--nymph.

If Dragon Age: Dreadwolf takes place 8-10 years after Trespasser, would your Warden/Hawke/Inquisitor be a MILF/DILF/PILF?

I've got so many heroes of thedas that I just wanna make a post to answer that question for each of them. gonna put it under the cut so here we go.

Wardens

Belladonna Amell: Is both Aromantic and Asexual, and not interested in having kids. She'd be in her late 30's, and considers herself the hottest bitch in the room at all times, AILF (abomination i'd like to fuck)

Eden Amell: Is dead.

Tola Kader: Not interested in having kids, has warden shit to worry about. Would be in her mid 50's.

Oriel Mahariel: Had Kieran at 22 with Morrigan. Would be in his mid 40's, PILF.

Jelsi Brosca: Had Kieran with Morrigan when she was 25, but wasn't around to parent him. Would be in her late 40's. Technically a MILF but not in practice.

Adelaide Cousland: After she finds the cure for the blight, her and Alistair have 2 kids. Duncan Bryce Theirin, and 3 years later they have Eleanor Wynn Theirin. Would be in her early 40's, MILF.

Eloril Tabris: After finding a cure for the blight, retiring from the wardens, and marrying Leliana, they adopt an elven baby that they name Shartan. Eloril is fully focused on her role as Arl of Denerim, and Leliana is Divine, so he's one of the most protected babies in Thedas. Would be in her late 40's, MILF.

Champions

Easter Hawke: Her and Fenris have their 3 children by this point, none of them were planned. Their oldest is Bethany, and they have twins 4 years later, Malcolm and Maurevar. Would be in her mid 40's. MILF.

Fiona Hawke: Her and Anders don't have any children together. Would be in her mid 40's.

Holly: Her and Merril adopt a pair of elven twins, orphaned by the mage-templar conflict; Nesrin and Cessida Sabrae-Hawke, a boy and a girl. Would be in her mid 40's, MILF.

Malcolm Hawke JR: Him and Fenris have no children. Would be in his mid 40's.

Jeannie Hawke: Her and Isabela have no children together. Would be in her mid 40's.

Theodore: Him and Anders end up taking in a young vashoth boy named Amaar Hawke. Would be in his mid 40's, DILF.

Inquisitors

Niara Lavellan: Has no children, would be in her mid 40's.

Fane Lavellan: Her and Sera have 1 child, a boy named Llorin. Would be in her mid 30's, MILF.

Ezra Trevelyan: He and Dorian have no kids. Would be in his Early 40's.

Sumeyye Adaar: Her and Thom have no kids. Would be in her mid 50's.

Celene Trevelyan: Her and Josephine have no kids. Would be in her late 40's.

Von Cadash: Him and Bull have no kids, and have no desire to have kids. Would be in his late 40's.

Minerva Morgan: Her and Krem have 1 kid, a girl named Lucidia. Would be in her late 30's, MILF.