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I’ve been wanting to put together some general info on my guys so that it will be easier to reference for ask memes and such so here’s my DA protags, their main game decisions, and some extra info for fun :0)

Ivan Amell art and ask meme tag and general tag

Tony Hawke art and ask meme tag and general tag

Alexandar Adaar art and ask meme tag and general tag

Ishavun Lavellan art and ask meme tag and general tag

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Was tagged for wip whenever a while back by @dreadfutures so I’m finally getting around to posting 😭

I’m trying to put together ref sheets and age timelines of my warden Amell and inquisitor Adaar and Lavellan, so here’s a bunch of messy sketches!

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🍋🍒🍷 for all of your boys! -diirth 💕

Thank you!

🍋: What is your OC's most painful memory?

🍒: Has Your OC had their first kiss yet? If so, with who?

🍷: What's one of your OC's pet peeves concerning food?

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🍋: What is your OC's most painful memory?

Ivan had a particularly traumatic experience with a templar when he was a young teenager. He was forced to strip down in front of a room of mages and other apprentices for some petty, fabricated reason to humiliate him for being mouthy. At that point he was already very radicalized by Uldred but that sent him over the edge.

Tony's got some real doozies but watching Bethany die, and the subsequent guilt and blame from his family members, was particularly bad.

Alexandar's fight with his Mom before he left home is very hard for him to think about. Alexandar had taught himself how to synthesize T for the last few months and when his Mom found out, she interpreted this as his latest effort to idolize the Qun. He's always dealt with feeling out of place both at home and in larger society but he's never felt so thoroughly rejected as that moment.

When Isha's best friend unexpectedly met a city elf, fell in love, and got married over the course of several months, Isha had a really hard time coming to terms with this. He felt like he was losing the closest person to him and didn't know what to do. He also struggled a lot with insecurity about not being born in clan Lavellan and not feeling "Dalish enough" and projected a lot of those feelings onto his friend's wife. Becoming a surrogate uncle and gaining a second best friend was one of the best experiences he's had but those months of feeling alienated from his clan and family because of his own pride were very painful.

🍒: Has Your OC had their first kiss yet? If so, with who?

Ivan kissed Jowan once when they were eleven underneath their bunk bed 😳 They both thought it was fuckign gross lol

Tony was macking on all sorts of other kids (especially girls Carver had a crush on) since he was pretty young and was a popular guy. He was also sexually abused from a young age but doesn't like to think of that as counting :(

Alexandar only had one kiss before Cassandra which was with a nice girl in his mercenary squad! He fell in love with her way too quickly and she wasn't ready for that although they remain good friends. They were good for each other and he's glad she was his first!

Isha's first kiss was with his best friend Ellas who asked him to help him,, practice,,, kissing in case,, other kids at the Arlathvhen wanted to hook up. Isha knew this was a dumb excuse but what else are bros for?

🍷: What's one of your OC's pet peeves concerning food?

Ivan gets weird about food when he's stressed. He’s always been a picky eater that refuses most food outside of bread and sweets but living in the tower where most of their meals are a week expired gruel at best has really done a number on him. Listing what doesn’t bug him and what he will eat would be much easier than writing out all of his pet peeves tbh 😂

Tony has and would eat almost anything. In fact, on a dare Tony WILL eat anything. That being said, he prefers rich, saucy food. Bland, “health” foods are particularly unappetizing, at least getting dared to eat a dead bug or a fuzzy, blue piece of cheese is exciting 🤷

Alexandar says he likes trying lots of new, exciting foods (which is true!) but doesn’t handle spice well AT ALL. He grew up with a very narrow diet living in poverty in the Free Marches and his stomach has never agreed with most intense flavors. He’s also too polite to ever turn down food though :’)

Isha hates sweets. He’s been force fed one too many honey candies when his blood sugar’s low and can’t stand syrupy, sweet tastes anymore. He also doesn’t particularly love traditional Dalish meals that use insects but makes a point to always enthusiastically eat them when he’s in front of humans!

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10. and 73. for all four of your boys 👀

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10. What does your OC keep in a special drawer?

73. What is your OC’s favorite form of entertainment?

10. What does your OC keep in a special drawer?:

I think Ivan would like to think of himself as not being particularly sentimental. He had to give up all of his possessions when he came to the circle and had very little to himself once he was there. That being said I think he has a few things he’d hang onto, like old sketchbooks he’s especially proud of or his favorite pair of (old, nasty) warm socks.

Tony prides himself on being a rolling stone. His family moved and their financial situation yo-yo’d so often that he tried to never let losing stuff like that get him down! Either it’s on his person or it’s just not that important 🤷

Alexandar has tons and tons of things he’d hold on to. He’s got spaces for all his books, and art, and scraps of parchment with his own writing and notes and poetry and pressed leaves and old flowers and scraps of interesting looking fabric and cool rocks and nice shells and old buttons (and later, love letters from Cassandra). It drove his mom crazy when he was younger but it’s a habit I don’t think he ever breaks!

When he first joined clan Lavellan, Isha hoarded food for a while but that stopped as time went on. Besides that, he always traveled light and was good about gifting toys and blankets and such to younger kids as he grew older. During inquisition though, the trauma of being away from his family really messed with his head. When he travelled to the conclave he brought almost nothing to remind himself of his best friends or his mother and father figures or anyone and he deeply regrets it. I think he copes with this by hoarding tons of things he plans to gift to people in his clan once he can go home. He hates being cooped in his room at Skyhold or using his bed so the whole place just becomes a storage room for him to gather interesting scrolls and books for the keeper and expensive toys for his best friend’s children and rare spices for the hearthkeepers, etc. After a certain point, he starts to let go of the idea that he'll ever see home again or is even going to make it out alive but he keeps this habit up for a long time anyway.

73. What is your OC’s favorite form of entertainment?:

Ivan likes to draw! As a kid, he and Jowan amused themselves by making mean comics about other apprentices that bullied them or templars they particularly didn’t like and when they got older Ivan used his art skills for sexy pictures that all the sexually-repressed nerds passed around. He also likes learning about bugs and animals and kept a collection of of pinned bugs as a kid. 

Tony can find fun anywhere they go. And if they don’t find it, they make it ;0) This usually involves drinking, illegal magic, or wrestling but he’s up for just about anything.

Alexandar has a lot of hobbies! He likes to write, especially poetry. He also presses plants and flowers and he’s excellent at sewing and embroidery. I think he’s even tried his hand at tablet weaving once or twice when he was around someone with the materials. Alexandar loves to read too and collects lots of books. His favorites are poetry, histories, and adventure novels but he also loves books of art as well.

Isha likes to keep himself busy helping with chores. He also is an excellent forager and loves to hunt for mushrooms. Isha really likes to exercise for fun and will challenge himself to do wild things when he’s bored like seeing how high he can run up the side of a tree. More than any of my other characters he’s also the most content with just chilling out and people watching or looking at the clouds.

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69 >;3c

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69. What is your OC’s favorite kind of weather?

69. What is your OC’s favorite kind of weather?:

Ivan doesn't like "weather". Both his family's big property and the tower were dank and cold (the Ferelden circle, which I imagine is a particularly poor circle, especially so) but he never really had to endure much of any type of serious weather. Once he becomes a Warden he finds out basically any type of weather makes him sweaty or damp or sticky or itchy or break out in a rash

Tony's pretty chill with most types of weather but likes heat and sun the most. His least favorite is rain because I think Kirkwall gets particularly grimy. They also hang out in the sewer a lot and I don't think Kirkwall's got a very robust system to prevent flooding down there🤢

Alexandar likes lots of types of weather! As long as he doesn’t have to be out in it he thinks they’re all very cool. His favorite is getting to get all comfortable with a book or his writing while there’s a storm outside and he loves learning about lightning storms. If he has to be outside, he hopes it’s as mild as possible though.

Isha’s all terrain. He particularly likes fall when it’s brisk out which keeps him energized when he’s hunting or training. He also likes getting to run around in the rain without a shirt or mud wrestling with the boys (Ellas)

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 What is/are your OC’s nickname(s) and how did it come about?

What does your OC normally wear?

What would your OC wear on a special night?Who is the mother and/or father figure in your OC’s life?

What is your OC’s strongest childhood memory? Why and how as that impacted him/her?

For all the boys uwu

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1. What is/are your OC’s nickname(s) and how did it come about?

Ivan has no nicknames because he doesn't have enough friends 😔👊 Me and diirth refer to him and Jowan as “the boogerboys” though

“Tony” is a nickname for Tonias and they also have “Hawke” but I think he also tried to get “Tony Tony Pepperoni” started at one point. It didn't stick.

Alexandar almost always gets his name shortened to "Alex" or "Xan" or "that huge guy over there" but I like to think Cassandra always calls him by his full name and he's very fond of that 😊

"Isha” is a nickname for Ishavun and I don't think he has any other nicknames! He likes that Solas calls him “vhenan” though

5. What does your OC normally wear? What would your OC wear on a special night?

Ivan is an intellectual and thus doesn’t waste time on superficial nonsense like “fashion” and “appearances” and “hygiene”. Once he’s out of the circle he generally wears any plain musty old robe until it’s threadbare. The only exception to this is that he has to wear a lot of layers because he has poor circulation and his feet get cold

Tony will constantly steal their friends’ clothing, especially Isabela’s. Most of it is too small for him but anything that shows more skin than appropriate is a plus

Alexandar, especially early on in Inquisition, is very self conscious and puts a lot of care into his appearance and clothing. Being vashoth, he’s had to deal with others making assumptions about his hygiene and the way he takes care of himself most of his life and this has really impacted the way he carries himself. He learned to sew when he was young and makes a lot of his own clothes. A lot of what he wears is pretty understated because he doesn’t like attracting attention but for a special occasion, he would be extremely excited to wear something dramatic and dashing like the heroes in the histories and fairytales he likes to read because he’s a big nerd😳

Isha outright refuses to wear any shem clothing Josie tries to get him into unless forced. When he can’t get Dalish armor, he cuts the soles off of his boots. He resents being forced to conform to Andrastian culture and feels like its a betrayal of his family when he gives up ground. Amongst his clan and people he’s close to he tends to go without a lot of clothing and especially likes the feeling of being shirtless. He’s not self conscious about his body but knows how human culture might react to him being trans or being disabled and so covers up whenever he’s around strangers.

14. Who is the mother and/or father figure in your OC’s life?

Ivan’s father ran off when he was a baby which was big drama for his mom as minor nobility. She ended up marrying a man of good standing even with her bastard child and had several more kids but Ivan was always treated as the black sheep. He was never really liked or loved and he never tried to contact either of them or find his bio father once he left the circle. The closest thing to a parental figure he had was Uldred who manipulated and abused him throughout his teen years. I think at various points both Irving and Wynne tried to make a connection with him but by that point Uldred had already twisted him up so much he never let himself trust them. Bad times

For Tony, me and diirth have a bit of a depressing view of Malcolm and Leandra and what Hawke’s family looked like growing up. Without getting into it too deep, Tony has a thoroughly fucked relationship with both his mom and dad. Along with some even worse shit, he had to deal with a lot of parentification and consequently has never had a healthy idea of what an parent/child relationship should look like.

Alexandar’s mother was a mage who left the Qun when she became pregnant with him. The details of who his father was and what her life were like under the Qun were only sparsely shared with him, a big point of frustration between the two as he grew older. His mother deeply loves and cares for him but they struggle to understand each other. Iskandar is intensely curious, creative, and sensitive, all of which his mother fears puts him at risk from templars, neighboring human villagers, and the allure of the Qun. Alexandar left home when he was 16, shortly after coming out as male to his mom who misunderstands this as another attempt to rebel against her by embracing the teachings of the Qun (in as much as Iskandar has been able to piece together.) After joining a mercenary company as a teen, he was very close with Shokrakar who became an important mentor to him and helped connect him with other trans tal-vashoth. Both as a mercenary and during his time as Inquisitor, Iskandar continues to send money back home to his mother but they aren’t able to fully reconcile until some time after Coryphaeus's defeat.

Isha’s mother died when he was a toddler from type 1 diabetes which devastated his father and left them destitute. After this, his father was constantly away looking for any work possible in order to keep food on the table for Isha. When Isha was 8, he also developed diabetes and in desperation his father begged Dalish traders visiting their alienage to take him to their healers. Isha never saw his bio father again but has never grieved joining clan Lavellan. Amongst the clan, their lead healer Ladara quickly became a mother figure to him as she nursed him back to health. As a trans women, she immediately connected with him and understood him in a way no adult had ever before and helped him pick out his new name. As an apprentice, Isha also built a very close bond with the clan’s lead hunter, Eliovron. Eliovron is very intimidating to most kids because he’s very quiet, incredibly built, and has extensive scars. He’s also a very sensitive, thoughtful person that likes the quiet and the isolation of hunting. Isha and him connect very quickly and Eliovron is one of Isha’s most trusted adults when he needs to confide in someone.

16. What is your OC’s strongest childhood memory?

For Ivan, his most impactful memory is of when his magic was found out. He isn’t a particularly strong mage and his magic has always been very healing oriented so when he began manifesting it he was able to hide it for some time. Once when he was playing with his little siblings in a forest near their home he accidently made his younger brother fall off a tall rock. When they were found, he was trying to use his magic to heal his unconscious brother and was immediately pulled away and hauled off to the circle. He was never told if his brother recovered. 

In terms of a less dramatic memory, I think one of his greatest triumphs was when he was around 8 during a visit from some of the sisters from the local chantry to his mother’s estate. His mother and step father had decided that he was going to essentially be “tithed” to the chantry once he was of age and he was made to spend time with the sisters in order to learn more about the religious life. Ivan had overheard their plans beforehand though and decided to be as creepy as possible. The whole afternoon he led them around to see his collections of pinned bugs and animal bones and all the disturbing field sketches of rotting critters he got up to while left to his own devices on his family’s big property. The sisters were thoroughly disturbed and the whole ordeal humiliated his parents.

Tony’s childhood memories are almost always complicated but I think theirs would be one of the times they were left to babysit the twins for an extended period of time when they were about 10 and the twins were 5. Tony was always very enthusiastic about getting to be a big brother. I think times like these were rarely fond memories for Carver and Bethany (especially Carver) but Tony loved to hold ridiculous events like showing off how he can shoot an apple off Carver’s head using a fireball. 

Some of Alexandar’s fondest memories are things like reading particularly beloved books he was able to scrounge from the local market or stumbling on something cool in the brush around his house like a chrysalis or a spider egg sack. I think one of the most impactful though was one time he accidently wandered onto a neighboring farmer’s property and was run off by his dogs. In his panic he fell into a fast stream and almost drowned but was able to haul himself to the bank. When he got his bearings he realized that the farmer and his kids were on the opposite shore laughing at him and throwing pebbles. It was one of his first truly frightening experiences and it upended his view of the world. It was a hard memory to come to terms with for a long time.

Isha has tried his best to forget about his life before he joined the clan. As he grew older, it’s hard for him to think of his memories of that time as anything other than being hungry and being bored and, most of all, being alone waiting for his father to return to their horrible apartment. Amongst his clan, he’s always surrounded by people who care for him and are watching over him. I think he has many important memories once part of the clan but in particular, I think Ladara helping him pick his new name is one of the most impactful. The way she intuited what he needed in that moment of fear and confusion and hesitation after being asked his name, her certainty and confidence in discussing his gender with words he didn’t even understood existed before that point, the care she put into helping him choose a name that was meaningful and fulfilling to him. I think that that conversation was like nothing he had ever experienced and made him trust her in a way he had never trusted an adult before that point.

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Part two of my and @diirthara-ma​’s full Dragon Age OC lineup ft. our inquisitors

Here’s a link to the naked version on twitter, here’s link to part one and, here’s my post on Isha’s diabetic gear!