#bless and thank you for the opportunity to talk about Vanyla/Leliana? I love them

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For "Get to know Vanyla" questions nr 4, 6, 32, 46, 13, 49.

thanks, Karolina!! 💜

4. What are their favorite traits about their lover? (one psychological and one physical)

Aesthetically speaking, Vanyla loves everything about Leliana’s appearance but especially loves her eyes. Gorgeous shade of blue, and Van privately thought that they were captivating from the start. (See also: meeting Leliana was absolutely the moment Vanyla started to realize that maybe she isn’t straight.) But also worth mentioning; Leliana’s hands. The way they’ll always move to hold her own when they’re walking together, or wrap around her when the nightmares wake them both up. Very cheesy, but Vanyla associates them with comfort and feeling cherished in the midst of chaos.

As for psychological, that would be Leliana’s heart in general. The way she cares so much, advocates for doing the right thing, worries that maybe she’s not good after all and tries so hard to be. Vanyla loves how much Leliana wants and tries to be a good person.

6. Do they have any hobbies that their lover finds unusual, odd, or otherwise annoying?

Does letting her mabari Yeralt sleep in the tent with them count? I’m not sure she would, lol. Both are very much in-sync with hobbies that they enjoy (archery, stories, singing, shopping, etc), so I can’t imagine there’s much. Maybe the closest would be Vanyla’s habit of writing her journal entrances as though they’re letters addressed to her brothers, but I think Leliana would understand why she does that.

32. If your character’s lover offered to take them out on a dream date, what would they want to do?

Something incredibly romantic and dreamy. :D Vanyla wants to be swept off her feet in pure fairy tale fashion, so I imagine that a dream date for her would be similar to Cassandra’s date? Moonlit picnic with wine, flowers, poetry, some lute music. She wants to be thoroughly wooed.

46. What is some random affectionate thing that your character always does to their lover?

Spoiling her. She’s constantly on the lookout for things that Leliana would like, but especially on the lookout for Andraste’s Grace after finding out that it was her mother’s flower. She’s definitely stopped what she’s doing before just to reach some because she knows that Leliana would like it.

13. What are your character’s sleeping habits? Heavy or light sleeper? Blanket stealer? One that always rolls onto the floor? Pushes their lover onto the floor? Sleep talker or walker?

Prior to the Blight, she was a heavy sleeper who was prone to cocooning herself up in her blankets without a care in the world. She becomes a much lighter sleeper after becoming a Grey Warden, though she still likes wrapping herself up in her blankets. Ferelden gets cold.

49. What is something that your character has nightmares about? Are these frequent? Do they heavily affect your character’s mood?

She gets haunted by both the attack on her family and the darkspawn nightmares, unfortunately. :( They’re definitely frequent, and they’ve majorly affected her mood from the start. She puts more effort into hiding it as time goes on, but it never really went away.