#branka tag

[cidnangarlond]

would you let her serve you tea yes or no

[sexysecy69]

how hard goes branka with the line "i am your paragorn"

[dragonagepolls]

Okay somehow I managed to forget Celene and Briala so posting this again

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Who is the Worst Dude (Gender Neutral) in Thedas?

Well folks, I’m back on my Poll nonsense for a much requested Who Is The Worst Dude (Gender Neutral) in Thedas. There were 80 submissions given in, which me and my friend narrowed down to 64 of the most requested Worst Dudes.

There are two 32 bracket tournaments which will run simultaneously, and then the two winners will face off to get the Ultimate Worst Dude (just to make the charts a bit easier on the eyes).

The tag is ‘Worst dude in Thedas’ if you wanna block it/filter for it etc.

This is just for funsies guys! Please don’t get angry at people if they are voting for your favs or if they disagree with you about who is The Worst! I am running this poll on a good faith belief that y’all will give me fun reasons why you’re voting for people - but also that you won’t send hate to one another for voting a certain way. 

So, without further ado, please find the brackets and links under the cut!

ROUND ONE

Harrowmont vs. Bhlen

Hurbert vs. Mad Hermit

Aveline vs. Carver

Caladrius vs. Danarius

Corypheus vs. The Architect

Branka vs. Loghain

Lord Seeker Lucius vs. Meredith

Leandra vs. Keeper Merethari

ROUND TWO

Gaspard vs. Celene 

Anders vs. Grand Cleric Elthina

Hardened Leliana vs. Alistair

Erimond vs. Clarel

Hadriana vs. Cassandra

Quinitin vs. Rezeran

Sister Petrice vs. Alexius 

Solas vs. Zathrian 

ROUND THREE

Sten vs. The Iron Bull

Sandal vs. The Requisition Officer

Arl Eamon vs. Anora

Florianne de Chalons vs. Orsino 

Bartrand vs. The Arishok

Gregory Dedrick vs. Oghren 

Leske vs. Majorlene 

Cullen vs. Taliesin 

ROUND FOUR

Flemeth vs. Morrigan 

Gamlen vs. Propser de Montifort 

Greagoir vs. Irving 

Samson vs. Hira

Mother Gisele vs. Magister Halward Pavus 

Blackwall vs. Sebastian

Rendon vs. Vaughan Kendells

Ser Alric vs. Uldrid

ROUND FIVE

Harrowmont vs. Sten

Aveline vs. Arl Eamon

Corypheus vs. Bartend

Meredith vs. Marjolenne

ROUND SIX

Gaspard vs. Flemeth

Sister Petrice vs. Vaughan Kendells

Hadriana vs. Magister Halward Pavus

Hardened Leliana vs. Greagoir

ROUND SEVEN

Hubert vs. Requisition Officer

Danarius vs. Florerene de Chalons

Branka vs. Gregory Dedrick

Keeper Merethari vs. Cullen

ROUND EIGHT

Grand Cleric Elthina vs. Prosper de Montfort

Erimond vs. Hira

Rezeran vs. Sebastian

Solas vs. Ser Alric

[jazzmckay]

tagged by @broodsys in this fantastic tag game <3 i had waaaay too many so. this will be a two-parter, i'll reblog this post with the second half. vote on just one or both, w/e you want. they are in alphabetical order so it's random which characters are on which list.

✨ women ✨

make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most:

[vakarians-babe]

i was tagged for WIP wednesday by the ever talented @ghostwise and boy howdy do i ever have a bunch of wips (i wrote out a list and taped it over my desk so i can cross them out as i finish them............just so you know). but today i shall share TWO (2!!)

yes im still working through those pose askbox prompts and i am spending too much time on each of them. i am also still working on lions, more than halfway through the edits, and still occasionally adding to upcoming chapters....like this one:

            “We have to keep going,” Oghren nearly growls. “She’s got a two year head start on us, there’s no time to waste.” The dwarf takes a few more determined steps forward before anyone stops him, most of their group simply too full of disbelief for the fact that he actually intends to keep going.             “Surely you must be joking,” Morrigan begins. “It has been nearly two full days since last we camped.”             “Does this face sodding look like I’m joking?” Wheeling around to face them all, Oghren lets out a yell. All of the frustration and the anger Tali has seen in him is bottled up in the sheer volume of it, in the way it echoes across the large open square, the would-be city center of the abandoned thaig. Now, its emptiness simply reflects the man’s voice back at them all, reverberating with his desperation. “Two years. Two years I’ve sodding waited, trying to get anyone to listen to me. Trying to get anyone to let me go even on my own. And now we have less than no time to find her, thanks to the stone-addled brains of the Assembly. Well I’ll tell you this: I’m not fucking waiting, not anymore.”             “Oghren.” The stern tone of Savreen’s voice does not calm Oghren, but it does silence him. “If we drive ourselves to exhaustion now, we will never be able to reach Branka in time.”             “In time? In time for what? To use her? To present her as a bargaining chip to the Assembly? You don’t care about Branka—aye, you only care about what she can do for you. We keep moving.”

i am tagging (but no pressure!) @isayashai @creaking-skull @tamarsart @a-lonely-dunedain @tatert07s

[mabaris]

Ultimate Meow Meow Poll

However you define your poor little meow-meows, the Dragon Age series has plenty to choose from. But who is the saddest, wettest, cringefailiest, morally ambigu-est, crimes-against-godliest?

Preliminary voting will run for one week, and the top 2 from each poll will advance to the bracket. Once the tournament begins, each round will last for 24 hours.

Pick up your faves by the scruff of the neck and cast your votes!

Cole/Connor/Fenris/Keran/Jowan/Tamlen

Anders/Cullen/Carver/Maric/Nathaniel/Velanna

Alain/Bethany/Blackwall/Feynriel/Merrill/Mhairi

Ariane/Calpernia/Daveth/Fiona/Isabela/Zevran

Leandra/Leliana/Maferath/Sera/Tallis/Teagan

Bartrand/Florianne/Gamlen/Oghren/Threnn/Worthy

Bianca/Cauthrien/Leske/Shale/Taliesen/Zathrian

Evelina/Imshael/Javaris/Minaeve/Pol/Sandal

Fairbanks/Karl/Ketojan/Mouse/Soris/Saemus

Corypheus/Jarvia/the Mother/Petrice/Uldred/Viddasala

Andraste/Clarel/Orsino/Solas/Swiftrunner/Varania

The Architect/Branka/Maddox/Morrigan/Samson/Stroud

Dagna/Finn/Krem/Renn/Shianni/Varric

Alistair/Dorian/Duncan/Sebastian/Sigrun/Xenon

Alexius/Briala/Gaspard/Loghain/Meredith/Lady of the Forest

Anora/Genitivi/Iron Bull/Malcolm/Valta/Vivienne

The tournament will be under the tag #meow meow poll if you want to follow it!

[dyk3bait]

hair meme for branka blank template

credit to @enniewritesathing thnx to @whalesims for the tag, i am super embarrassed by tagging ppl, so if u see this, u r tagged. get to it NOW!

[eastern-lights]

Most tragic DA romance: Origins Edition

I am excluding romances that have an objectively (relatively) happy ending (like King Alistair and Queen Consort Cousland or Warden Alistair and a surviving Hero of Ferelden), but if I have erred in my judgement and you regard some of them as tragic, please, let me know in the tags.

I have also put all romances where the Warden makes the ultimate sacrifice into one option, because I regard all of them as equally tragic.

[ageofdragcns]

NAME:      Ilvanna Cousland HEIGHT:      5'5" CLASS:      Rogue ALIGNMENT / ATTITUDE:      True good; peace leaning FAMILY:      Havoc (Mabari dog), Fergus (elder brother), Bryce (father), Eleanor (mother), Oriana (sister-in-law), Oren (nephew) AGE:      20 TITLE:      Grey Warden & Heir to the Cousland Throne HAIR:      Falls just past her shoulders, has a slight natural curl to it. Brunette in color EYES:      Brown PRONOUNS:      She/Her SEXUALITY:      Pansexual SPECIES:      Human IDENTIFIERS:      Beauty on left cheek bone FACECLAIM:      Natalie Portman VERSES/AUs:      none atm GENERAL TAGS: FACE || HEADCANON || MUSINGS || GOOFY SHIT || THREADS || ANSWERED || SHIPS: none atm || *In verses where she is not in a ship, Ilvanna can be defaulted to being Alistair's Queen, if applicable

DRAGON AGE KEEP CHOICES BELOW THE CUT

“For generations, your family, the Couslands, has stewarded the lands of Highever, earning the loyalty of your people with justice and temperance. When your country was occupied by the Orlesian Empire, your father and grandfather served the embattled kings of your land. Today, your elder brother takes up House Cousland’s banner in service to the Crown—not against the men of Orlais, but against the bestial darkspawn rising in the south.”

COMPANIONS ➼ Romanced Alistair ➼ Recruited Dog (Havoc), Sten, Zevran, Wynne, Oghren ➼ Persuaded Revered Mother to free Sten ➼ Loghain was killed by Alistair in duel ➼ Alistair became King & Ilvanna is his Queen ➼ Morrigan had an old god baby with Alistair ➼ Acquired grimoire peacefully

PROLOGUE ➼ Bought food to feed the Ostagar prisoner ➼ Cured mabari hound

NATURE OF THE BEAST ➼ Brokered Peace ➼ Told Athras about his wife's fate ➼ Brought Cammen and Gheyna together ➼ Brought Varathorn ironbark ➼ Saved the halla ➼ Returned Deygan to Dalish Camp

PARAGON OF HER KIND ➼ Defeated Branka ➼ Bhelen rules Orzammar ➼ Dagna left to study ➼ Didn't encounter Mardy ➼ Killed Ruck, said he died heroically ➼ Proved Legion of Dead connected to noble house ➼ Returned tome to Shaperate ➼ Helped Burkel create Chantry ➼ Zerlinda left for the surface ➼ Completed Rogek's lyrium deal ➼ Helped Orta join Assembly

BROKEN CIRCLE ➼ Mages supported ➼ First Enchanter Irving survived battle ➼ Did not agree to Cullen's request

DENERIM ➼ Ser Landry alive ➼ Told Bann Sighard about Oswyn ➼ Brought scroll to Sister Justine ➼ Didn't complete Slim Couldry's crime wave ➼ Helped clear customers out of Pearl ➼ Handled the Crimson Oars ➼ Gave Alfstanna Irminric's ring ➼ Return amulet to the beggar ➼ Didn't complete Master Ignacio's assassinations ➼ Helped Alistair find Goldanna ➼ Did not encounter Marjolaine

THE LANDSMEET ➼ Alistair and Ilvanna rule

THE URN OF SACRED ASHES ➼ Urn not poisoned

THE ARL OF REDCLIFFE ➼ Helped Redcliffe fight ➼ Freed Bevin and paid for sword ➼ Helped Redcliffe prepare ➼ Helped Owen's daughter escape ➼ Connor alive, not possessed ➼ Isolde is alive ➼ Bella left to start a brewery

THE BATTLE OF DENERIM ➼ Ilvanna killed the Archdemon

AWAKENING EXPANSION ➼ Ilvanna allowed Architect to live ➼ Nathaniel died ➼ Keep & Amaranthine protected ➼ Oghren & Felsi reunited

WITCH HUNT DLC ➼ Ilvanna did not go through the eluvian

WARDEN'S KEEP DLC ➼ Gained Power of Blood ➼ Slayed Sophia and allowed Avernus ethical research

STONE PRISONER DLC ➼ Shale recruited ➼ Matthias and Amalia both alive, neither possessed

[carnalapples]

favorite line game

thank you @rowanisawriter for the tag!! this was a ton of fun.

directions: pick up to 10 characters and share one of your favorite lines of dialogue you have ever written for them!

cullen, a heart that laughter has made sweet (dragon age)

“I’m sorry,” he says quietly. “I’m not very used to compromising. Really just following orders and giving them.”

ashna (oc), safe house (dragon age)

“I’ll lead, if that’s what worries you.” She bites her tongue on the words and at the little duck of his head towards the paper. “When we dance.” He swallows, and she watches the bob of his throat.

shepard, those who are in favour with their stars (mass effect)

“You don’t think I’ll last a week.” She smiles sharply. She’s gotten very good at starting fights and very bad at finishing them.

josephine, hold tight to everyday life (dragon age)

“Well, you must get over it, then, and come visit me in Antiva. We can sail all the way to the edges of the map,” and she places both hands on his arm to rock him, “the boat slowly rolling with the waves, back and forth, back and forth—“ “Maker, save me,” he huffs, his face going pale as he shoves her off. She laughs, and for a moment, the assassins are completely forgotten.

cassandra, a heart that laughter has made sweet (dragon age)

“Forgive me,” Cassandra interrupts, her voice steely. “I am new to politics. I find the whole business unsavory. So forgive me if I have not mastered the art of speaking in half-truths."

branka, gold dust woman (dragon age)

“That’d be wonderful,” Branka says, screwing her face up in a smile. She traces her thumb across Hespith’s collarbone. “I know you love rhubarb,” she directs to her. Hespith coughs. Oghren’s heavy tread disappears down the hall.

[cidnangarlond]

she is persisting despite the horrors

[green-ray-blog1]

The anvil of Yikes

Turns out Branka been squatting outside the place where the anvil of the void is for a few years, having a DIY broodmother pump out darkspawn to flood the traps leading there. There doesn’t seem to be anybody left of her house. Yeah, Darrian’s not having a great feeling about this one. We go and reach a big cliff where a bunch of golems welcome us. The bigger golem introduces himself as Caridin. Oh. I’m starting to see where this is going. Shale’s one of Caridin’s old buddies too, even though she remembers almost nothing about it. Okay, so Caridin (who’s being very forthcoming for a giant slab of steel) wants us to destroy the anvil because he can’t. Branka barges in because she hasn’t been turning all her friends into darkspawn meat for this thank you very much. And Darrian feels bad for Oghren, but there’s no need for Orzammar to get even more fucked up. Morrigan’s into the idea, though, because of course she would be, but we’re still not doing that.

Branka goes down. Caridin makes us a crown, we destroy the anvil and he jumps into lava. Well that was horrible. Time to leave and never come back. In Orzammar, we interrupt Bhelen and Harrowmont bickering. We have the crown and get to choose who becomes king. That’s great, Darrian totally wanted that responsibility. He tries not to cringe too much as he gestures at Bhelen, whose first action as king is obviously to have Harrowmont executed. Good for you man, can we get our damn army now ? Hopefully, he does some things so the casteless get a better deal and then gets assassinated.

Oghren decides to tag along as we leave. He’s a wreck. Not just the drinking, the whole warrior caste thing seems to have made him pretty much unfit for life anywhere there isn’t a war going on. He, Shale and Wynne are getting antsy, though. Oghren wants to go see an ex girlfriend, Shale, wants to go check out a thaig related to her previous life, and Wynne opened up about an old disciple who ran away. We take care of that because it’s going to be time for the Landsmeet. Long story short, Oghren finds someone who actually seems to care about him, Wynne finds her old pupil, who’s actually doing pretty good… and Shale finds an empty thaig that gives her some memories back.

[dragonagepolls]

EDIT: Forgetting Celene and Briala is a bad enough oversight that I’ve posted an updated poll (link here)

[notebooks-and-laptops]

The Worst Dude (gender neutral) in Thedas Round One results

You voted, here are our first eight worst dude winners. We have:

Keeper Merethari beat Leandra as the worst mother figure. 

Knight Commander Meredith beat Lord Seeker Lucius as the worst crazy Andrastian dude.

Branka beat Loghain in the worst dude to fall from grace. 

Corypheus beat the Architect as the worst thinking darkspawn with an outpouring of support for for the Architect who has been called a little meow meow and a babygirl in the tags. 

Danarius Beat Caladrius as the worst of the awful slavers. 

Aveline beat Carver in the worst problematic ferelden refugee warrior. 

Hubert beat the Mad Hermit in the annoying ‘H’s.

And finally Lord Harrowmont beat Bhelen as the worst Orzammar throne candidate. 

Looking forward to y’all voting in round 2!

[mxanigel]

WIP Whenever words for "An emotion I won't name" (Neri's Awakening fic) partly prompted by the poll

tagging a few folx who might be interested and/or might wish to share words of their own @mxkelsifer @spindleweedss @marythegizka @poetikat

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“He certainly flirts a lot for being married with a child,” Anders says between mouthfuls of bread.

“Eh, I’m not sure Oghren knows how not to flirt,” I respond. “He made more innuendos while we tracked down his previous wife during the Blight than he has here.”

Velanna arches one eyebrow. “That dwarf’s been married more than once?”

Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned Branka. “Uh, well, yes.”

“I didn’t believe him when he called himself the ladykiller of Orzammar.” She strokes her chin. “There could’ve been some truth to that, after all.”

“No, no, that’s definitely an exaggeration,” Sigrun interjects. “Not only was it an arranged marriage, but his previous wife preferred women.”

Velanna and Anders stare at her. She shrugs. “If the Legion of the Dead knew about it, then everyone knew about it.”