#also the solasmance tag is RIGHT there

[tortoise-teapot]

people stop tagging my trevelyan as lavellan just because he's kissin on solas challenge

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Ship-a-thon

 I was tagged by the lovely @princessdreadwolf , the wonderful @solverne-02 ,and the fantastic @roguelioness!

1. First ship you ever wrote fic for: 

Solavellan or Solasmance of some sort I believe. . . 

2. Ship you write the most now: 

I’ve written very little recently. . . .a bit of gen fic, a bit of Solavellan, some Josie x Cadash, and. . . might be writing some Merrill x OC. . . 

3. Ship you read the most now: 

. . . .probably still Solavellan? 

4. Newest ship:

 I’m shipping my friend’s OCs with other OCs. And my OCs with my friend’s OCs. Lots of OCs. Throw more OCs at me please. . . . . that star elf dude from the Dragon Prince. His voice and my ears. That’s my newest ship. 

5. Rare ship you wanna read more of: 

Tar Miriel x Uinen; Felassan x Anyone; Briala x Shianni X Lanaya. Jane Foster x Science. What. 

6. Your taboo ship: 

Solas and anyone not Lavellan? Rosie x Sam x Frodo? 

7. They never met in canon ship:  

 Briala x Shianni X Lanaya? Tar Miriel x Uinen? 

8. Your unexpected ship: 

Alistair x Josephine ( @wardsarefunctioning‘s fault); also I use to not be a fan of Gimli x Legolas and then I started this one fic that was so so good. 

9. The ship you always forget to give love to:

. . . . I’m a multishipper, so I have a tendency to forget some of my ships by the mere fact that there are too many. 

10. Ship your OC with a canon character (if applicable): 

. . . Isn’t that what all Dragon Age PC ships are about??? Svetlana Cadash x Josie, Sera x Innanis Adaar x Dagna, Revasulahn Lavellan x Solas or Taraslyah Lavellan x Solas. . . . Adhlea x Deshanna, Beatrix Tabris x Leliana, Nehnara Surana x Zevran. . . .Merrill x (SECRET) 

11. Ship you’re embarrassed to ship: 

ffff. . . . I mean, there’s a certain point where it just doesn’t matter any more, right? 

12. Your most romantic ship: 

FAYRA, which is now the ship name for my cleric, Kyra and her drow ranger girlfriend Faeryl. THEY ARE SWEETNESS AND I NEED THEIR HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE I CAN JUST FEEL THE ANGST COMING. T.T

13. Your sexiest ship: 

. . . hmmmm. I mean. . .I feel like this is super subjective? 

14. Your most tragic ship: 

. . . . I mean. I almost feel like it’s gotta be Solavellan/ any Solasmance by default? OR YA KNOW, maybe any ship with Felassan SINCE HE IS APPARENTLY OUT OF THE NARRATIVE. T.T

Also half the ships in the D&D games I’m in. . ..  y’all are all so sad T.T

15. A ship you want more content for:

If I’ve mentioned it here: I want more content for it.

tagging: @saphyremelodies , @adventuresinastrangeworld , @lycheejellytea , @rawrzimon , @eveninglottie , @dreadhobo , @deleriumofyou , @katalyna-rose

As always:  Feel free to ignore! Only do this if you have the time and/or inclination.♥ Love y’all!

[pikapeppa]

Dragon Age Question Meme

Tagged by @galadrieljones - thanks lethallan!  This is a long one - I’ll continue it under a cut. 

Tagging forward to @schoute @viktuuri-fluff-saved-my-life @thevikingwoman @buttsonthebeach @charlatron @mrscullensrutherford @oops-gingermoment @iarollane @aban-asaara @irlaimsaaralath @wardsarefunctioning and anyone else who wants to play!

01) Favourite game of the series?

I haven’t played Origins yet, but between DA2 and DA:I, Inquisition is my jam! I’ve played it 3 times already and I’m not yet tired of it! So many places to explore, and I still haven’t heard all the banter yet, and the lore is just so rich, so many codex entries, yes yes.

02) How did you discover Dragon Age?

Basically all my Horizon Zero Dawn friends insisted - INSISTED - that I play Inquisition. For some reason I thought I wouldn’t like it, like “ahh everyone says it’s so great, how great can it be.” WELP LOL. I have no regrets, but my HZD friends might, given how HORRIBLY OBSESSED I have become LOL. 

03) How many times you’ve played the games?

- Origins: 0 times, but looking to rectify that this year! - DA2: 1.5 times. Ughhh Act 2... - DA:I: 3.5 times and still loving it!

04) Favourite race to play as?

Elf. Hands down. I played a Trevelyan once and was like MEH BORING.

05) Favourite class?

MAGE. MAGE MAGE MAGE. Although I’ve been playing as Fenris a lot in DA2 and it’s surprisingly fun!! Good thing too since I’ll have to be a two-handed warrior during my Fenquisition playthrough

06) Do you play through the games differently or do you make the same decisions each time?

I’ll answer for Inquisition. There are some things I always do the same (e.g. Bull saving the Chargers, allying with Abelas, making Solas APPROVE OF ME LMAO), but other things I alternate. I’ve gone with the mages and the Templars twice, respectively; I prefer picking the mages, it just makes more sense and is more “ethical” to me, but I ADORE COLE and I think the whole envy demon storyline is very interesting, so I quite enjoy siding with the Templars too. I have done something different each time at the Winter Palace, and this time I plan to do something different yet again. I strongly prefer Cole as a spirit, but I’ve had him as a spirit and as human twice each. 

My Fenris-as-Inquisitor playthrough will be interesting. I’ll be playing in character as him, so it’s going to be quite different than what I canonically do, and I’m quite interested to see what happens. Solas is going to hate me oh god

07) Go-to adventuring group?

- DA2: FENRIS and Anders, and then I alternate my rogues. I love both Varric and Isabela, but depending on how far into my Fenris romance I am, I often have to leave Isabela behind because I HATE WATCHING HER FLIRT WITH MY MAN <sobbing> - Inquisition: SOLAS, Cole and Blackwall is my favourite group, but I also love bringing Cass instead of Blackwall - I love Cass and Cole’s banter. But Solas and Cole are my FAVOURITE PAIRING. I could listen to their incomprehensible chatter forever.

08) Which of your characters did you put the most thought into?

Damn. Umm... I put equal amounts of thought into Elia Lavellan (romanced with Solas), Athera Lavellan (romanced Abelas) and Rynne Hawke (romanced with Fenris). Before I started writing those ships, the question I had to answer was this: Why would Solas/Fenris/Abelas love her? I know why Elia loves Solas, and I know why Rynne loves Hawke and why Athera admires and eventually loves Abelas. But what is it about those OCs that those men fall in love with? I build my OCs around the men in their lives, not the other way around. 

09) Favourite romance?

URGH WHY MUST YOU ASK ME THIS. GOD FINE. Fenris rivalmance, ok?? But I also love the Solasmance and the Blackwall romance to the point of swooning so just FUCK RIGHT OFF WITH THIS QUESTION THXBAI~

10) have you read any of the comics/books?.

Yes! Masked Empire and Asunder.

11) if you read them, which was your favorite book?

Masked Empire. I really liked getting more background on Celene/Briala and Gaspard (i.e. WHY THE FUCK I SHOULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE WINTER PALACE MISSION AT ALL). I loved Felassan and Briala’s dalen/hahren relationship. And it was just better written than Asunder.

12) Favorite DLCs?

Must agree with Gala here; Trespasser is bae, and Jaws of Hakkon is just beautiful (and also AMERIDAN <sob>). But I also liked Mark of the Assassin quite a bit! So amusing!

13) Things that annoy you.

The fact that it takes a MILLION YEARS to get banter in DA:I, and also that you can’t just click on your companions in DA:I whenever you like if you just want to hear their voice. I KNOW I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CLICKED ON FENRIS CONSTANTLY TO HEAR HIM SAY “I enjoy following you”, OKAY? LIKE ALL I WANT IS FOR SOLAS  TO SAY “vhenan” TO ME WHILE WE’RE WANDERING THROUGH THE BLOODY WESTERN APPROACH

14) Orlais or Ferelden?

Ferelden? We seem to spend more time there. But I’m kind of neutral I guess.

15) Templars or mages?

Mages. Hands down. Sorry Templars.

16) if you have multiple characters, are they in different/parallel universes or in the same one?

All parallel universes. None of them coexist. Rynne Hawke doesn’t even coexist with any of my Lavellans because Fenris becomes the Inquisitor in my headcanon

17) What did you name your pets? (mabari, summoned animals, mounts, etc)

I have only one pet, Hawke’s mabari, and his name is Toby. 

18) have you installed any mods?

Console only <sob>

19) Did your Warden want to become a Grey Warden?

n/a - haven’t played Origins yet!

20) Hawke’s personality?

PURPLE HAWKE, with a healthy dash of Isabela-level flirtiness. But Rynne (over?)uses humour to deflect pain and agitation and anger.

21) did you make matching armour for your companions in Inquisition?

...Maybe. 

HAHAH so I made matching colour armour for Elia and Solas, yes. And I generally like to dress both Cole and myself in black and red!

22) if your character(s) could go back in time to change one thing, what would they change?  

Ohhhh.... fuck. This is tough. - Elia Lavellan (romanced Solas): ...surprisingly, nothing really. She’s got a pretty zen kind of ‘what will be, will be’ attitude. In her darkest moments she might regret falling for Solas, but overall, she doesn’t really regret anything. - Arya Lavellan (romanced Blackwall): nothing. She is very confident.  - Athera Lavellan (romanced Abelas): honestly, she questions half of her decisions half the time. After Trespasser, she regrets not dissolving the Inquisition. (I haven’t decided yet if she eventually does dissolve it after all; perhaps we’ll see what DA4 brings us).  - Rynne Hawke (romanced Fenris): a LOT of things. She regrets letting Bethany attack that ogre. She regrets not bringing Carver to the Deep Roads, because maybe then he wouldn’t have joined the Templars to spite her. She regrets not following up more closely on Emeric’s murder investigation because otherwise maybe her mother wouldn’t have died. She basically blames herself anytime anything bad happens with her family (including the Merry Band of Misfits). 

23) Do you have any headcanons about your character(s) that go against canon?

I actually quite enjoy sticking to canon for the most part, and expanding on facts that we already know. The one canon-ish(?) thing I don’t love is the idea of Dalish Inquisitors understanding or speaking a dialect of Elvhen that’s mutually intelligible with the dialect that Solas and Abelas speak. I let it slide in my Solavellan fics, but I mean, it’s been THOUSANDS OF YEARS between Arlathan and the Dragon Age. Dalish Elvhen (even if they have many many dialects, which is most certainly the case) is very unlikely to be mutually intelligible with ancient Elvhen. I’ve been meaning to write a full post about this for like a year oops

24) Are any of your character(s) based on someone?

They all contain some elements of self-insert, so... me, I guess? XD

25) Who did you leave in the Fade?

The first time I played Inquisition, I had not played DA2 yet, so I left Hawke in the Fade for LOGIC REASONS OK - Stroud was like the only senior Warden left, I thought they needed him! I’ve left Stroud there every time thereafter. 

26) Favourite mount?

Well, it WOULD be any and all the harts, except for that FUCKING HORRENDOUS SOUND THEY MAKE. I thus prefer to ride dracolisks for the Coolness Factor™. 

[asoulonfire]

FanFic Recommendations

There are so so so many amazing fanfictions that I’m reading right now, I want to take a moment to share some of them with you. So i’m starting FanFic Recommendations Thursday! I’ll post some recommendations each Thursday of what I’m reading and loving. 

This weeks recommendations are all of the ever versatile Modern Character in Thedas variety. Also, most of these are Solasmances. Sorry?

Marked and Branded Series by ThroughtheMirrorDarkly

An amazing series about two friends who each end up in Thedas, though in different ways and with different outcomes. One was the Hero of Ferelden, one is the Inquisitor. The characters are compelling and flawed and real. I love following Echo’s story, admittedly because it’s a Solasmance, but Ashlinn’s story is amazing too.

Warnings: These deal with death, mental health issues, attempted suicide, PTSD and other things. It is all done very honestly and with great respect, but read the tags and warnings before you dive in just to be safe.

A Whole New World by @roguelioness

Samarra is a fantastic and engaging character and I continue to thoroughly enjoy watching her grow and change and learn. She ends up in Thedas and due to her knowledge of the game is name ‘Oracle’. Her friendship with the Inquisitor is wonderful. This story really digs into the idea of Solas as the Trickster and Wolf. He is VERY not a humble apostate. He’s down right predatory here, and I LOVE it!

Warnings: This is rated Mature. There are NSFW chapters (nicely noted and easily skipped if you need to). There is also swearing. Read the tags and warnings.

Diary of a Dislocated Knife-Ear Series by LonelyAgain

This story is long, and it’s awesome and it just keeps getting more awesome the longer on it goes. By now it’s at stratosphere awesome. The premise is AMAZING of how people from our world end up in Thedas. Yes, people, plural, this is not a one off event. Chrissy, the main character, does what really any logical person would do at first, stay low and try not to get killed or imprisoned or anything else. There are so many wonderful OC’s, both of people who have come over from our world to Thedas and of people from Thedas. This isn’t just a story, this is a WORLD. Sink your teeth into it and don’t forget to come up for air and food while it sucks you in.

Warnings: Some of the later parts are rated Mature, but any truly NSFW stuff is in a different story withing the series, so you can read it if you want, but not reading it doesn’t detract in anyway. There are some instances and mentions of assault, some swearing and a few other things. Read the warnings.

Unqualified by coldturkey

My love for this story is so deep. The idea is fantastic, the characters are amazing and it’s so darn hilarious to boot! Ellie is a girl who didn’t play Dragon Age, all she knows about it is from her friend Sandy’s fanfiction. So it’s a bit of a jolt when she ends up in Thedas and things aren’t quiet exactly like she thought. Ellie is such a real and slightly neurotic character who deals with all kinds of things with deadpan sarcasm, pretending to know what she’s doing and a huge amount of winging-it. Thedas should probably be thankful Ellie isn’t the Herald... though if they actually meet the Herald (a very angry and aggressive Dalish woman), they might change their mind.

Warnings: It’s rated Mature, but as of writing this there isn’t any smut as of yet. There is some dark emotions that are dealt with. So heads up.

How to Win Wars and Influence Nobles by @kaoruyogi

Look! A Cullen Romance! Hurray! 

This story is wonderful! Belle, the main character, is spunky, fiery and her interactions with the Inquisition members are delightful! Especially Cullen. It is a lovely Enemies to Friends to Lovers relationship. One of the things I love most about this story is how it deals with someone coming over who isn’t super fit, or healthy and who doesn’t immediately trust magic. It is great to see someone there who doesn’t have an easy time accepting some of the things about Thedas.

Also, kauroyogi is the queen of cliffhangers. Seriously. Prepare yourself.

Warnings: This is rated Explicit. There is swearing, issues with drug withdrawal and at least 2 or 3 near death experiences. And sass. If AO3 ever made a warning for sass, this story would need it.

Do you guys have some favourite fanfictions to recommend? Share them with me! I love to read new stuff!