#ashby lavellan

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OC then v OC now

Darva Lavellan--2016 v 2019

Ashby Lavellan--2017 v 2019

Fisk Lavellan--2016 v 2019

Livonah Lavellan--2016 v. 2019

Dimitri Enallasani--2017 v. 2019

@idrelle-miocovani tagged anyone in this and I’ve been wanting to hop on the bandwagon. Here’s to three years of some of these kiddos and how they have changed since I created them!

I’m gonna tag: @dirthara-mama, @apostatetabris, @vvakarians, @sulevinblade, and anyone else who wants to do this! :D

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–> Agent Athwen “Ashby” Lavellan | Dagger + Bow Dalish Assassin | (+) Level Headed, Peaceful, Knowledgeable | (-) Worrywart, Timid, Decisive

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“Agent Lavellan has pulled no less than a dozen new agents out of dangerous situations; it is not a reflection on the training the agents of the Inquisition, but to Athwen’s own training. Few know of her outside the Inquisition because she is so effective in getting into and out of situations with no one knowing. She is remiss to speak of herself, words far from her strong suit. Her sister, Captain Livonah Lavellan, has enough words for the both of them. But she has a firm understanding of the situation we are in and her own actions in the scheme of things; she understands the risks without a shadow of a doubt.”

–A note found on Leliana’s table within the rockery

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I was tagged by @heraldofwho and @ielmoe for this character meme!

I’m gonna tag: @myronmuse, @smolpocketmonstercoffee, @kadara-skies, @acepavus, and anyone else who hasn’t gotten tagged who wants to be tagged! Go for it! Also no obligation to do this!

I couldn't add everyone ever to it, but this is the main crew for Darva’s world state and Dimitri’s world state. (minus Miriam and Daniel since they’re both cheering mcdonalds).

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*throws self into fire*

Late to the gravy train of making LGBTQIA+ memes for my Lavellans (and one Enallasani). I’m also pretty sick with nothing to do, so I got time to burn.

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What do they like best about their best friend? For anyone and everyone you want to answer for?

Ooooh thanks for the ask! I’m gonna say who they’re closest to in the inner circle and then within their group of friends (like all my lavellans).

Find this meme here: X

Darva: 

It’s a tie between Cassandra and Dorian for best friend and he’s not ashamed of that. Darva loves how Cassandra is headstrong and knows what she wants and what lengths she’s willing to go to get what she wants. She’s seen wrong in the world and she wants to correct it and he admires her greatly for it. He also loves her taste in shitty romance novels and when she reads them to him if he can cajole her into reading them to him.

Him and Dorian were friends before they ended up together and Darva finds his impeccably funny humor to be fantastic. Darva is hellishly fond of snarky wit. On a more serious note, he deeply admires Dorian’s commitment to doing the right thing and having so much faith in the country he came from. It’d be an easy thing to cast aside Tevinter and think it’s a hopeless cause like everyone else, but he thinks his country is worth enough to change it. He loves it so much that he wants to see it change because he knows it can be better. It’s something he sees between Cassandra and Dorian and he’s drawn to that.

Outside of the Inner Circle, Livonah is his closest and most dear friend. He loves her blunt attitude for all it is and she’s got such a zeal and zest for life and what’s around the next corner. Like, her going out adventuring is like her constantly being like what’s around the corner? what’s around the corner? She’s always looking for more and he will get dragged along with her even though at times he’s still got that attitude of staying put from his years of being stuffed into the clan.

Livonah:

She’s quite close with both Blackwall and Sera both as individuals, but the havoc that can ensue when they’re both in a room together is what she lives for. She also lives for the nights when the tavern gets taken over by the Chargers. But, she loves Blackwall because he’s got this grounding sense to him. To her, he’s got this thrum of humor and liveliness underneath of that shell of seriousness and she wants to pry that open and see more of that part of him. Not like she can’t respect that he doesn’t want that sometimes, but she does try and tease and cajole that out of him. And she loves when he indulges her. But she also likes that calming when she gets herself too strung up; when she’s going so fast that she’s nearly panicking and everything is going tooooooo fast. He can be there and calm her down.

With Sera it’s like them being close in age and energy. Livonah likes how she can bounce her ideas off of her and Sera is always right then and there to provide suggestions or a joke or some crude remark. They both enjoy pranks far too much. But, they also get it in that they both don’t understand the whole Herald and Corphyeus business. Like, why does it have to be so complicated? Livonah would follow Darva to the ends of the earth, but she’s going to be wondering the whole time. Like she wonders and wonders and it doesn’t make sense and her and Sera share that frustration.

Outside of the Inner Circle, she’s closest with Darva and Fisk. Darva has always been a constant in her life; she’s known him as long as he’s been alive. She loves his soft edges and quiet smiles for people he cares about. She loves how he’s got so much on his plate but he keeps going; like he takes a long good cry about it and then gets up and keeps moving. Livonah loves Fisk because of zir sense of self and swagger. Ze has a way about zem that pulls people in and is inviting and Livonah doesn’t know how ze manage it, but ze do and she–begrudgingly–finds it admirable. Plus Fisk always has fantastic jokes.

Fisk:

Fisk is closest with Josephine and Vivienne within the Inner Circle. Ze admires Josephine’s ability to always keep her head cool in intense political discussions and how she can spin things to the advantage of the Inquisition. Like Fisk is good at it, but ze only has the management of the elvhen affairs of the Inquisition. Josephine manages everyone and everything else. She’s a force to be reckoned with and ze loves that. Ze also loves how, despite the years in the game, she hasn’t lost that youth and spirit to her. It’s easy to become discouraged, but she always looks for brighter things. Like how she talks about The Game being discouraging and baneful, but she misses meeting people the most out of it all.

Fisk admires Vivienne’s presence and command. She walks into a room and everyone notices her; they want to know her, to be her. She got this power and grace that ze never really saw before. It’s not like ze is attracted to her, but her grace and beauty are things that ze greatly admires. Plus, her power in the game is nothing to sneeze at. But, past that ze sees her as just a person too. She’s all of these wonderful and fantastic things, but she’s human too. (Human as in relatable; not as a comment to her being human in regards to Fisk being an elf). 

Outside of the Inner Circle, Fisk is probably closest to all three of zir clanmates. Like ze couldn’t chose between them if ze had to. Ze likes them for all different reasons. Fisk loves Darva because Darva’s tenacity and dry humor. Like Fisk knows that he kinda learned from zem with the humor, but Darva took it to a whole new level. Livonah is the most wonderful spitfire girl and Fisk loves her boundless energy and how she’s always at a hundred, ready to go and kick ass. Ze likes Ashby because she’s got a calmness to her with a pinch of anxiety that makes everyone not lose their heads. Everyone in the group–including Fisk–needs that.

Ashby:

She is definitely closest to Varric and Bull within the Inner Circle. Ashby loves Varric’s stories, but more than that she finds his thoughts behind the stories to be even more interesting. He’s got this strange sort of optimism going on that she’s really drawn to; kinda like the optimism that Darva and her both share. She loves how he’s got this funny streak of always ending up in the worst situations despite how he doesn’t try.

Ashby and Bull are close at first by virtue of them having similar jobs. Ashby does spy work and Bull does spy work. So much of her early liking of him was based in that work. Like how he could take down a target, or turn a little bit of information in his favor. She was particularly drawn to the different fronts of how he goes about getting what he wants from people. Ashby sort of shares that want of trying to find out what’s below the surface like Livonah and she picks at him in her own little ways, trying to see which part of him is who he actually is. It’s almost like a puzzle, but one she won’t get bored with once she solves it; if she ever does solve it.

Outside of the Inner Circle, she’s closest with Darva and Fisk. Her and Darva had much more of a mentor and student relationship until Darva grew into his own hunter and there wasn’t so much of her teaching him as there was working with him. She likes the quietness of him which is a drastic contrast to her sister Livonah. Ashby likes Fisk in a way of looking up to zem. She got to see below the mask that Fisk keeps up and finds the bits of awkwardness and goofiness to be the best part of Fisk.

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Wowza that got long! But thanks for the ask!

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So I figured I would do a quick thing to, I guess, clarify my Lavellan kiddos so people know about them. A majority of this is going to be under the cut since it’s going to be long.

Darva Lavellan

He began back when I first played on the xbox 360 and the only one of my quizzy’s I made on the xbox 360. I did start to play the game on my cruddy laptop, but then gave up and enlisted a friend. I already knew something about the game at the time--mainly Dorian--so I only went into the game knowing I wanted to romance Dorian. I was also neck deep in a dnd campaign at the time, so I made him a rogue. I do have like two surviving phone photos of how he first looked:

(gosh this is so strange to look at). Very first playthrough folks. I didn’t give him eyebrows because I thought they looked strange with his tattoos. I know that when I got to Skyhold that I decided he was going to be trans; I think I also decided he was going to bisexual too. I remember almost finishing up his playthrough when I bought myself a xbox one to play on. I imported him to my xbox one and I did a little editing on him to make him look like how he did before. Still no eyebrows. I finished the game and Trespasser and then moved onto my human warrior Millianna. I think at this time Dragon Age Origins came up on backwards compatibility, so I decided to play it. I ended up remaking Darva so I could play with a custom world state. I made him completely with scratch with only two photos to work off, so he came out a little different. From there, I’ve modified him a little with each playthrough to reflect his backstory and such; I changed his nose to reflect having a high nose bridge and his eyes have gotten a little bigger to align with the canon of how elves look in da2. He’s always had that haircut and green eyes however. I wanna say I remember making him another time since I had modified my world state again. But for the most part he’s stayed pretty babyfaced.

His personality was one that I built originally off of the sarcastic dialogue from the game and changed as I gathered more of who he was as I kept playing and building his backstory. He’s still partially built off of those dialogue choices, but he’s much more polarizing against the Chantry than when I first played him. I remember when I got to the final fight with Corphyeus, I had the dialgoue option to say that: “The Maker is with me.” I don’t get that option anymore.

Livonah Lavellan

I remember making Livonah in a sketch in my notes at the same time I made Millianna. I went with Millianna and then came back to Livonah. I’ve probably struggled the most with getting her how I want her to be. I always knew I wanted her to have dark skin, blonde hair and blue eyes; I also knew I wanted her to romance Blackwall. She was originally a mage since I hadn't played one yet. I hated it at the time since I was fresh off a playthrough of a warrior; so I made her as a warrior:

I didn’t get very far before I didn't like how her face had turned out from what I saw in my head. I ended up remaking her as a warrior with a different pre-set and a few differences:

I got much further in this one, all the way to Skyhold, before I didn't like playing as a warrior. I liked her face and this look, but the class bothered me to no end. I also think I was trying to make her look more like her sister Ashby since she had just been a character my friend and I had decided to play. I thought I could make her as just a rogue and I remade her in the same thread:

I returned to the darkest skin tone like she had originally been along with the short hair. I was settled on this for a long time and I got all the way to right before the Temple of Mythal before I went to playing other characters. I later decided to go back to her first origins and remade her as a mage which is on the top image. 

Personality wise I always wanted her to be a bit outgoing and more of a contrast to Darva’s more quiet and sarcastic nature. I always made her with the intention of her and Darva being very close to each other and that relationship evolved as I built more of a backstory for her, Darva and Fisk.

Ashby Lavellan

My friend was over with me and she wanted to make a Lavellan to romance Bull because he’s by far her favorite character. I think we also wanted her to have the Elgar’nan tattoos and darker skin. By the time we made her, I just had Fisk, Livonah and Fisk set as like my three kiddos. We ended up changing things up a little to include Ashby as Livonah’s sister with only a small modification to backstory stuff. My friend also challenged me to not make a single sarcastic choice since I had a very large sarcastic streak at the time. Her ending up as a rogue was push back against her wanting me to play with no sarcastic choices. I think she’s only ever had a haircut change and maybe a few nose tweeks. Beyond that, she’s been messed with the least since we got what we wanted when we first made her.

I ended up calling her a Disney princess because of how pretty she is and how she was like the nicest person ever. She oddly enough ended up a lot like my friend in regards to her being very cute, kind and bubbly.

Fisk Lavellan

I don’t remember much about making Fisk, but ze has gone through the least amount of physical changes in comparison to everyone else. Ze has always had the dark brown hair with the buzz cut, but zir eye color changed to reflect the similarities between zemself and zir sister Tistle. I also modified zir nose a little to reflect the look of the elves in da2. I also made zir tattoos the more complex ones since when I originally played zem, I had zem get more tattoos between the main game and Trespasser. I was still experimenting with different sorts of choices to make in the game and I think when originally played, I actually completed Champions of the Just.

Zir backstory and personality has changed the most. I knew I wanted to romance Cassandra and I went through the whole game thinking ze was cisgender. It wasn't until I picked up playing zem that I said fuck it and made zem genderfluid and picked the ze/zem/zir pronouns for zem. It was at this time I went with the red lipstick and heavier eye make up because I could.

I always did make zem much older than the other kiddos with the intention of making zem as like someone to watch over them. That part is still there, but ze is more lax than I think I originally played.

Tistle Lavellan

Tistle was made because I wanted a tiny elf with a big sword. There was no real motivation beyond that when I first created her. I later decided to connect her to Fisk and have her as zir younger half sister. (This is when I made a few changes to Fisk’s appearance). I think I was also experimenting with character creator in how I went with red hair and those tattoos in a skin tone color. I also decided to make her relatively young--18 years old--and for her to have no romance and be sex and touch repulsed. (aka me dumping my own traits into her).

Note: Speaking as a white person who is still unlearning a lot of gross shit, I never made Fisk, Livonah, Ashby, or Tistle with the intention of tokenism or having them as props for Darva’s story. I went into creating them as character’s in their own right who could stand on their own. Now I know as I create them I have to be mindful of harmful tropes and other general gross stuff that comes with white people making POC characters. I don’t have them developed as much as I would like to have them, but I’m working towards making them more complex than tropes or stereotypes. 

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Before the destruction of Haven, one could find several small shrines around Haven in hidden places. Near the gates, there were small wolf statues for Fen’Harel hidden to guard against harmful spirits. In some of the trees near the hunting grounds, there were sigils and symbols of Andruil carved into the bark. Some of the kitchen pots had small symbols of Sylaise drawn into the soot, disappearing when they were used next. On the wagons taking the dead gathered from the temple, simple owl designs were drawn in soot on the side of them. Once or twice, people would scratch or wipe away such symbols, knowing them to be heretical. Still, they would reappear around the camp.

Even with the move to Skyhold, the symbols reappeared across the hold. The cooking pots once again got the symbol drawn into them and the cooks would always leave it be; it was too much work to remove them. The small wolf statues reappeared and a few of them were hidden outside of the Inqusitor’s quarters. Their eyes glowed red when people would enter with ill intent, obviously enchanted by a Dalish Mage. Many of the trees in the garden were expertly carved with symbols of Andruil, not unlike the tattoos decorating Fisk’s face. Master Dennet found small symbols carved into the wood near the stall doors and the horse tack; he once asked Ashby before she left on a mission and she said they were for Ghilan’nain, the goddess of the Halla and navigation. Whenever someone who was Dalish in service of the Inqusition died, a small paper with a prayer for Falon’din written on it was found tucked next to their body. Cassandra looked closely at a dagger Fisk once gave her, seeing small symbols engraved in the blade. She asked Darva about them and he told her they were for Elgar’nan and Mythal so that they would always watch out for her. Dagna found little bobbles and fun toys with a drawing of a June’s knot carved into them. She knew the symbols well from the tattoos smattering across Darva’s face.

It doesn’t take long for people to realize it’s Darva, Fisk, Livonah and Ashby who make and do such things. Darva told them that in a world where their worship illegal, elves still find their ways to honor their Creators.

“Worship always finds a way.”

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Kiddo’s nicknames and why:

Darva: Bee. He’s Bee because his name translates to “like a honey bee”. It’s also because he’s quick on his feet, but can really hurt you. Also, he isn’t a Bumble Bee or honey bee. Just Bee.

Livonah: Swan. She’s Swan because she’s very pretty and graceful, but she can be a mean piece of shit when she wants to be. She hides the awfulness under the prettiness

Ashby: Princess. She’s Princess because she comes off as incredibly nice and kind. Like it’s some fairy tail level of niceness. Varric thinks she fell out a book and into their lives.

Fisk: Charms. Zir charms because ze could literally charm anyone out of anything. Ze is incredibly smooth and very, very good with words. (Tbh if Leliana had gotten zem, ze would be a bard for her rather than a diplomat for Josephine. Darva likes zem better as a diplomat to function as like a second Inquisitor when he is indisposed).

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What the kiddos do after the end of Inquisition and after Trespasser:

Fisk: After the defeat of Corphyeus, ze spends much of zir time dealing with the court for Darva, helping advocate for the reclaimation of the Dales and helping Cassandra with the Seekers. The work takes zem all over Orlais and many other places as well. Zir is kept very very busy, but ze deeply enjoys the work. Ze grows zir hair out more by the Council ze can pull it back into a long braid.

After the disbanding of the Inquisition, Fisk splits zir time between helping the Dales transition into elvhen hands again along with helping Cassandra rebuild the Seekers. Ze never officially becomes a Seeker, but ze do become an ambassador in a very loose sense since the Seekers keep very reclusive. Ze and Cassandra stay together and end up married in a small, private ceremony. They keep their wedding rings on necklaces.

Livonah: During the two years she split time between her squadron that continued to help Ashby and helping Blackwall peruse finding the men who used to be in his company. She also takes on more of a spy/informant role since her traveling with Blackwall takes her all over Thedas. She adopts her own raven who she names after her mother, Isaterial, who died with the chaos in Wycome.

After the Inquisition is disbanded, she fully joins Blackwall on his travels around Thedas. She keeps in contact via Isaterial, but nonetheless her letters are few and far between. Eventually, the two of them settle down in the reclaimed Dales outside of the Dirthavaren and it isn’t long before Livonah becomes pregnant and a healthy baby boy is born. They name him Sarris after her and Ashby’s father.

Ashby: She spends much of her time continuing her work as an agent of Leliana, albeit going out less. She continues to work with Livonah’s squad when she needs to along with the Chargers as well. She’s the one who moves around the least during the time and spends a lot of time with Darva. She’s the second one to find out about the Mark growing steadily worse in the months before the Council.

After the Council, she works closely with Leliana to take care of the secrets and influence the Inquisition amassed; none of the information truly disappears, but people are given the illusion that it’s disappeared. She also tackles tracking down any surviving members of clan Lavellan. She has some success in tracking down a few surviving members who settle down in the Dales, not far from Livonah and Blackwall. She later joins the Chargers as they take mercenary work again, always staying close to her lover Bull. They never marry or have children, but they were both happiest when they were near each other. She’s also an incredibly doting aunt to Sarris.

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Morrigan: Many Orlesian commanders consider such skirmishes good sport.

Ashby: I know well enough. Darva's father was killed by one such "sporting" outing.

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–> Captain Livonah Lavellan | Mage (Inferno + Storm) | Arcane Warrior + Spirit Healer | (+) Loyal, Considerate, Passionate | (-) Stubborn, Type A, Flighty

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“Captain Lavellan is young–only 26 when most of the soldiers she commands are much older than her–but she is far from inexperienced. She is equally strong in both constitution and magical prowess. She undoubtably has her own stubbornness and unwillingness to compromise–a spitfire she was called–but she is no beyond reason. She is far from unreasonable if one takes their time to examine her reasonings. Granted, one might have little time to ponder such matters since she bounces eagerly from topic to topic.”

“Ultimately, treat her with respect, consider her opinions, and trust in her and she will give you much the same. No doubt a trait the soldiers in her care will soon learn.”

–A note from Inquisitor Lavellan to Commander Cullen Rutherford considering his clanmate

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Quick and dirty Darva backstory:

Born 9:11 Dragon on the road outside of Ansburg after a long and difficult pregnacy.

Almost drowned at five years old. His mother becomes much more controlling and limits his excursions outside of the camps they make, paranoia for her only child getting the better of her.

His father and Livonah go on expeditions outside of the clan without her permission to explore and to learn more. They both beg the clan traders to bring them all sorts of books back, hoping to learn more of life outside the clan.

At age fourteen, Darva’s father dies in an attack on the clan. Darva witnesses his death by decapitation, wisked away before he too is killed.

His mother blames Darva for his death, blaming his lack of skills and how he ran, rather than that being rescued. Darva is forced to swallow down his grief to deal with his mother’s overwhelming grief.

He continues to be isolated within the clan unless on training matters. Ashby becomes his mentor, teaching him her skills with a dagger. His abilities grow, working him towards becoming a capable Dalish assassin.

At eighteen after receiving his vallaslin, he comes out to his mother and the rest of the clan. His mother takes this poorly, her reasons never justified beyond “looking too much like his father.”

This angers Darva who has suffered for years under her hand and their relationship crumbles and breaks down.

Darva leaves the clan at age twenty.

He spends the next several years bouncing from free marcher city to city, picking up pick pocketing and card games to make money. He occasionally does hired mercenary or assassination work, but he is content to stay in seedy bars and dives, cheating money.

He moves north to places like Rivan and later Llomerryn, getting his ear piercings as well as his septum and hip tattoos. He moves around many of the bars and taverns, keeping a low profile as a low grade pick pocket and sneak thief. He is content to remain inconspicuous, watching how the world outside of his clan works.

He spends much of his time with unsavory types like pirates and criminals, but he never joins a crew or an assassin’s league.

He eventually grows tired and worried for his clan, the news of the mage rebellion troubling. He makes his way back to the Free Marches and finds his way to clan Lavellan.

He refuses to join up with them fully, his mother still being alive, but he follows them nonetheless.

When his clan mates were charged with the task of heading to the Conclave, he intercepted them and took the message, sending the pair back home.

He traveled south into Ferelden, stealing a nobleman’s horse along the way, making it to Haven safe and sound.

Other notes:

He is still very committed to his faith and his people. He wishes Deshanna or anyone would have more to settle his mother, but he knows how it appeared that he was handling things well.

He did not handle things well, still dealing with the effects of grief and the complicated feelings of his mother’s part in that.

First started learning card tricks and games in the clan. He relies on a fast talking script and unfamiliarity with his brand of card games to cheat very drunk people out of money. He isn’t very proficient at such things outside the circumstances he sets up.

Likes oranges, baklava, sweet potato and turnip

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10 facts about Fisk? :D cause I love zem

Awww thank you! 

10 Facts about Fisk! 

1. Fisk has always had a fascination with make-up. Ze used to beg the traders in Clan Lavellan to bring zem back make-up and fun things of the like. Ze even went far enough to make things zemself to sell and trade for make-up.

2. Zir family was always accepting of zem and zir desires to present the way ze wanted to present. They weren't going to love zem any different from their other children or anyone else.

3. Ze has various other tattoos across zir body, most notably branches like Mythal’s tattoos across zir back, designs like June tattoos across zir chest and stomach, and ones like the tattoos on zir face across zir arms and hands. It’s an extension of zir vallaslin and also shows zir deep commitment towards zir clanmates and the Creators.

4. After Trespasser, Fisk continued to work as a Elvhen ambassador, eventually being employed by Divine Victoria to oversee her own relationships with the elves as the Chantry turned a new leaf. Ze travels quite a bit to give the Divine more reach and to visit Darva in Tevinter, Ashby and Livonah on the road and, of course, Josephine in Antiva. 

5. The two of them write gushy, super romantic letters and poetry to each other when they’re apart. It’s so sweet it’d rot your teeth. 

6. Fisk’s favorite colors are red and gold and ze uses them in zir makeup and clothing quite a bit. Ze also loves deep shades of blue and cream.

7. Ze is rarely seen in public without zir signature deep red lipstick and it became a trademark for zem in the Inquisition. Like if someone was looking for zem, it was pretty common for someone to say: “go look for the elf in the golden outfit with the deep red lipstick with Lady Montilyet.”

8. Ze loves archery and is a bit sour that ze doesn't get to practice as much as ze would like with zir job. But, ze often gets up at dawn to train a bit before getting the day started. It’s often when ze looks the messiest with zir hair simply pilled up on top of zir head, no make up, and just a simple shirt on. Most people don’t recognize zem when ze train.

9. Ze loves the tiny desserts that can be found in Orlais, but ze loves all the sweets made in Antiva more. Once when ze was visiting Josephine for the summer, the two of them spent all day lazily walking across Antiva City, trying all different foods and sweets the city had to offer. It’s one of Fisk’s dearest memories and even though ze had convinced zemself ze couldn't fall more in love with Josie, ze did.

10. Josephine and Fisk get married not long after Trespasser up in Antiva. It was a very large and extravagant affair that involved all of Josephine’s family along with Darva, Ashby, and Livonah with their own respective partners. It ranks as Fisk’s favorite memory of all time.

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from the latest ask meme, for Dimitri: 2, for Darva: 17, and for Fisk: 8 :D :D :D

Thank you for the ask Ryan! ;)

Dimitri Enallasani: 

2: One thing your character is proud of?

Dimitri is very proud of how far he’s made it in life. He had countless chances to give up--when the clan died, when he was stuck in the dungeon of the Gallows--but he didn’t give up. I mean, his scars a testament to that. He has really bad days where he wonders if its been worth it, if he’s been worthy of continuing to live, but he’s gotta remind himself that what he’s done has been enough. He sees the sunrise each morning and sometimes that has to be enough for him.

He’s also very, very proud of Daniel. He knows the boy has been through so much since he was rescued and he didn’t ask for any of it, but he flourished under Dimitri’s care. He spent a long time wondering if he would manage to fuck him up like Dimitri had done to himself, but he didn’t put any of that bad onto his son. He’s exceptionally proud of himself for that too.

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Darva Lavellan:

17: Something seemingly insignificant that makes them happy?

He’s got several little trinkets and other little things from the clan that make him happy. Like the recipes of making honey candies from his mother, a small crystal charm from his father’s staff before he died, and a wooden hare figurine that Ashby made him; little things like that. The recipes really help keep him connected to the people he’s from. He’s never found anything quite like the candies his mother made and even though there’s a bittersweet connection for their relationship, they still keep him connected to his people. It’s sort of like that for all the little things he has. Most people would see trinkets or even worthless pieces of junk, but to Darva they keep him grounded and connected to who he is, especially as Inquisitor.

Also, just watching people like Fisk, Livonah and Ashby go about their days makes him happy. He loves watching Fisk talk with the nobility, Livonah discuss battle tactics for mages with recruits, and Ashby train agents for Leliana. He loves watching them flourish and have a life outside the clan. It was their choice to leave to be with him and he was immensely worried they wouldn’t find “places” to belong out in the world with shemlen. But they each found their places and it brings Darva a lot of joy to watch that play out everyday.

Fisk:

8: What does your character look for in someone else?

For rarely employing it, Fisk looks for honesty and self assuredness in other people. They're qualities ze admires quite a bit in others since ze oftentimes has difficulties being honest and being self assured. It’s not that ze wants to emulate those characteristics like ze has done in the past, but wants to be in a place where ze can be openly honest and self assured and maybe surrounding zemself with people who are like that, ze can grasp that for zemself.

Ze was initially attracted to Josephine because she had this air about her; she knew her skills and wasn't afraid to do her job and talk to people. Fisk isn’t afraid to do that, but Josephine had a certain grace and gravitas about how she did that. Granted, Fisk only had experience charming traders and occasionally raiders before joining the Inquisition, so ze didn’t have experience with the sort of air of dealing with nobility. She also had this enjoyment of how she dealt with people that Fisk shared that other’s in the clan didn’t really get. They didn't understand why Fisk enjoyed talking to the traders and townspeople as much as ze did. So to find that same joy of people in Josephine was something Fisk enjoyed talking to her about quite a bit. Much of their early relationship was spent sitting together with a bottle of wine and a puzzle game or card game and just talking to each other. Fisk would share with her countless stories of the exploits of the clan and she would share many stories of her youth and they would spend many, many long evenings like that. Even as they got older and their relationship continued, the two would still sit and enjoy a bottle of wine and tell stories or share in remembering stories.

Find this ask meme here! I am still taking these :)

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Soon I’m gonna do a map of Fisk’s tattoos since ze has the most out of my Lavellan squad, but also one of those head turn around ones.

But like a list of some of his tattoos:

—An arrow pointing up on the back of zir neck and going up into zir hairline. Ze got it not long after ze received zir Vallaslin.

—Two sets of lines at the tops of zir thighs. Ze also has a set of three arrows that start at zithip bones and trail down towards zir nethers and thighs. They make zem feel sexy. That’s the whole reason.

—A set of curling branch like tattoos across the tops of zir shoulders. They honor Mythal and Livonah.

—A design like June’s tattoos around zir left calve and foot. They honor June and Darva. Ze also has a curling pattern of tattoos on zir bicep like Darva’s tattoo.

—Ze’s right hand is covered in tattoos with curling vines in negative that curl up to zir wrist. They’re for Ashby.

—Ze’s left hand has arrow like designs from zir palm and down zir index and middle finger for Andruil. It is also mirrored onto zir palm. Each time ze fires zir bow, ze honor Andruil.

—Ze has little dots and rings around zir toes as simply adornments. They make zem feel pretty.

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#30dayDAchallenge

Day 23: Family

I’ve been waiting for a while for this day :D

Darva Lavellan:

He’s an only child to his parents Aghie and Mavel. Aghie came from a clan in Ferelden that has too many mages to go unnoticed by the templars. So, when he was twelve, he was sent to Clan Lavellan to be their First. Mavel was the same age when he came to the clan; she was daughter to the current hearth-mistress and would take over the role when her mother grew too old.

(This is a really old drawing and I need to draw an update lol) He got his mama’s hair and skin tone while he got his father’s eyes. The resemblance between them with their eyes in uncanny.

They grew to be close friends, albeit they were sort of opposites attract. Aghie was cheeky and easy going, much less into the idea of taking over as Keeper when Deshanna passed. Mavel was more uptight and strict, favoring routine and structure. He helped pull her out of her shell and adventure more and she found his antics endearing.

Aghie eventually fell to be the Second--which he didn’t mind--and became more of a caretaker and healer to the clan. Mavel grew into her role as hearth-mistress easily.

Not long after taking their vallaslin, Sylaise for Mavel and Mythal for Aghie, they were bonded. Not a year later, Mavel was pregnant with Darva.

He was born in the back of the hearth-mistress’s araval near Ansburg. (His name means “like a bee” because Mavel ate many homemade honey candies during her pregnancy.) It was difficult for her to have him, so they thought it best not to have other children. Plus, they could have mage children easily and they didn’t need more in their clan.

He grew up alongside Livonah, her sister Ashby and Fisk (along with his four younger siblings to a degree.) They got themselves into all sorts of trouble like most children would. Mavel worried obsessively over him since he was her one and only child, but Aghie reminded her that they had each other and that they never ventured too far away from camp.

He was particularly close to Livonah, Fisk and Ashby and by the time Inquisition comes around, the three of them join him at Haven/Skyhold.

As a child, he was only really close to the three of them or he preferred to be on his own. He was a bit of a quiet child who would cling to his mother or father until the three of them pulled him out of his shell.

One of his fondest memories was sitting by the campfire in the cold winter months near the coast; it was dark outside with only the campfires to light their camp. He could hear the waves of the ocean crashing against the cliffs, but they had found shelter from the winds behind a large rock formation. His mother was braiding his hair and he remembered chewing on a honey flavored candy. His father wasn’t far away, watching the fire and the other children playing nearby. He was whittling his cedar staff and many years later, the smell of cedar still reminds Darva of his father.

His worst childhood memory was from when his father was killed by Orlesian hunters. He was fourteen and the attack came suddenly in the early morning hours. A several groups of hunters had already left, leaving the camp vulnerable. He remembers the smell of the burning wood of the aravals and the belting cries of the spooked halla; the sound of hunting dogs used to send him into an awful panic along with loud Orlesian cursing.

It was pure panic as they all tried to escape. He remembers a group of the hunters returning in a flash and his father jumping into the fight as well; his mother grabbed his arm, yanking him along, saying that his father was going to be okay.

The last thing he really remembered was being picked up by some hunter and getting carried away, watching as the hunters descended on his father, easily killing him.

Eth Tabris:

Her mother was a Dalish elf who left her clan when she was in her twenties. She came to the Denerim alienage and settled there, eventually meeting her father. Eth doesn’t know much about her mother from when she was in her clan. Her mother rarely, if ever, discussed it with her father and especially her children. She was happy and saw no reason to talk about it when the alienage was her home.

Eth remembers her being soft and strong at the same time. The woman could scrub a floor on her hands and knees all day, prick her fingers on sewing needles for hours, but still be patient and kind to her children. Eth remembers her braiding her hair a lot and teaching her how to braid.

She was also a kick ass rogue who taught her daughter her skills. She always told her never to trust human men, for they caused the most harm.

(Her father is her father lol) He taught her how to mend things with her hands like shoes and clothes.

Her younger brother Witt was born when she was seven and she remembers not five days after his birth, she brought him with her to work. She couldn’t afford to take off more work, not with an extra mouth to feed.

When he was twelve, his magic surfaced and he was taken to the Circle. It was very upsetting for the two of them. Their mother had died just two years prior and it was like their family was being torn apart even more. She had a very difficult time with the adjustment. She sent many letters to the Circle, but rarely received any back. She thought it was him ignoring her and she didn’t learn until later it was because the mages had little contact outside the circle.

Sadly, she didn’t get to see him again until the day he died at the Circle. It’d been the first time she’d seen him since he was taken and she spent more time with his dead body.

As an actual child, she learned to be tough. She was very much that older sister sort of vibe to all the other children. Still, that didn't prevent her from using her fists a lot of the time to solve her issues. She was a trouble maker and a tough cookie. But around her father she was certainly a softer child who was eager to learn.

Her fondest childhood memory was one of the four of them sitting around the fireplace in the cold, wet winter of Ferelden. She remembered it was a holiday and they were celebrating with what little they had. It was the end of the night, so it was just the four of them in their small home. Nothing particularly outstanding happened that night, but whenever she thinks of family, that memory always comes to mind.

Her worst childhood memory was when her mother was killed. They were coming back from work and were running late so they wouldn’t be outside at night. Some bandits jumped them and her mother sent her ahead to find help. She couldn’t leave her alone and she hid nearby instead; she watched in horror as they cajoled and then killed her mother in cold blood purely for being an elf outside after dark.

Her father found them hours later, Eth covered in blood and still sobbing. She was fourteen and knew well the dangers of humans, but that was when it became real for her: the violence and oppression. It’s a memory that’s still incredibly vivid to her ten years later.