#but she's TRYING

[littlelostmabari]

Chapter 22: Injustice (Part II)

In which Anders destroys the Chantry.

FUCKIN' FINALLY he blows up the Maker-damned Chantry. I have been itching to get here for so long and Saoirse keeps saying "no wait there's one more thing."

I'm updating a little more spottily in the upcoming weeks. End of the year business, and also Veilguard has absorbed me body and soul.

Next Chapter: Facing Cullen at the Gallows, and Polve finally gets whats coming to him (an owlbear to the face).

Fandom: Dragon Age 2 / Dragon Age Inquisition

Current Pairings: Cullen Rutherford x OC. Background F!Hawke x Anders

Rating: M (Canon-typical violence & behavior, check tags & CW on chapters)

Links: Whole Work | Chapter 22 | Saoirse Character Sheet

(Dividers by cafekitsune)

Slam.

"The time has come to act. There can be no half-measures."

Hawke was at his side now, her hands pressed against a ward that he had put up around his person. "Anders, what have you done?"

Slam.

Hawke tried to break his focus on Meredith and Orsino. She beat fists against arcane winds. Saoirse pulled her scimitar from it's sheath, calling an orb of flame to her palm. Varric muttered something under his breath that sounded an awful lot like "well, shit."

Slam.

Anders met Hawke's panicked gaze.

"There can be no turning back."

…

In the space where Saoirse expected another slam, there was nothing but quiet. Anders rested his staff on the ground, his chin raised, his eyes boring into Meredith and Orsino with a devastated patience.

Then, a rumbling.

Then, chaos.

[cringefailantagonist]

went to donate blood (didn't work out but oh well) and there's this one girl i was chatting with and i'm pretty sure i blew her mind when i explained to her i was aroace (it was in context with the conversation). she asked some questions which i personally think is very nice and it was overall very good for someone who knows nothing

[kaynai-sama]

So my dog (the black one) is trying to leave her emo life and now she's joining her cousin into

✨Coquette✨

[stabbysideblog]

GODD. I need to know everything about leashed au I love it so much

Ask me anything it's an open book! (Aside from one teeny tiny thing that's a secret saved for DMs ^.^)

Puffy is a teacher for all the kids on the server! She picks up Althea 4 times a week for classes!

[rhysintherain]

Okay, making a Githyanki BG3 character turned out to be lots of fun, actually.

Sarai was supposed to be kind of serious and neutral. That lasted like 10 minutes. Now she's a very friendly goofball who's getting on Lae'zel's last nerve.

"all's well that ends... Not as bad as it could have!" Is the most in-character line ever for her (wild magic is just like that)

I've decided she and Lae'zel came from the same creche. Lae'zel's reaction to meeting Sarai on the nautiloid was basically "ugh, it's you. Too much to hope it would be anyone else, I suppose."

And then they've just spent the rest of the game snarking at each other

Sarai is historically the Weird Girl who asks dumb questions and is just generally in trouble

(and nobody is ever going to let her forget that one time she polymorphed her whole squad into kitty cats on a training mission)

So she really enjoyed the first 15 minutes in Creche Y'llek, when everyone was relatively nice to her and assumed she was actually competent

Anyway, now everything's gone to hell and she'd probably just run away from home forever if the god-queen she's been told her whole life she's letting down wasn't yelling at her

She did bond with Varl in the training room over being bad at fighting and also huge mythology nerds, so that was nice

[the-forsakenlegionnaire]

@hexellent

Well, that was awkward. Eclipse's little intervention had the effect of deflating any anger she may have felt at the moment, leaving her kind of... empty.

"Let's say there was a misunderstanding. Let's say I was in the wrong." She can't continue. The guardian was right, of course, she didn't know him, the latent hate she felt toward guardianhood, while justified, was not his fault. He was just an old grumpy echidna, same as she was an old grumpy echidna having the equivalent of a midlife crisis.

"I'm a bit lost, right now, but i guess you're not a thief, so there's that." She remained perfectly still. This felt all very unnatural for her, but at least she apologized, something also unheard of for her.

[lcstkey]

@codebestowed​ said  " I can't remember what it's like to be truly wanted. "

more prompts for your feels

“Hey, don’t say that...” Artemis is unsure of what she could do or say to combat or challenge his words. While Data is currently confined to the Gummiphone, she suspects that maybe he’s feeling trapped or at least limited by the confinements of the mobile device.

“....Would you like to build a snowman?” She asks, attempting to cheer him up with the suggestion. 

[a-smile-dat-spreads-like-buttah]

“Happy Day of not being around our Mother,” Alexei grumbled, taking a drink out of the vial in his hand and grimacing. They weren’t exactly welcome in Whitestone, or at least they assumed, and going to Percy and Vox Machina for help wasn’t happening. Even if they decided to stay in Emon for the time being. “Did you ever celebrate such things with the Briarwoods? It wasn’t as if Mother and I ever did, but… they were somewhat fond of you, whatever sense they were. You don’t have to answer, sister. I’m just curious, I suppose.” (allexandrianrejects)

Charlie gave a sardonic, neevous-sounding snort of laughter. "I feel like every day that we're not around mother deserves some celebration..." She looked up at her brother, flinching as he swallowed the vial's contents and then grimaced. She wanted to reach out to him, and help him somehow, but she didn't know how. She didn't even know if there was a way to help... but her hands still tensed to reach out all the same. At his question, though, she blushed, frowning almsot worriedly. "W-well..." She started, but choked on her words as she hesitated. "N-not Mother's Day, e-exactly... They were more aunt and uncle t-to me... I suppose." She gave a nervous little laugh. "I, I... It all confuses me, honestly... Because i-in someways they raised me, b-but in some ways I was just their little d-doll... I think..." She was continuing to struggle with wading through her modified memories. Her shoulders slumped, but she gave her brother a small, sad smile. "I don't mind, Alexei... It's a curious question... A-and when you ask, it helps me th-think about things..." After a moment of thought, she reached out to him and took his hand. "I'd r-rather celebrate Brother's D-Day..." Her smile brightened as she looked at him.

@allexandrianrejects

[faridahmalik]

Seiseiya’s fantasia was frankly such a good investment. I actually want to play her on the side more now

[octopus-reactivated]

Title me Miss: Hunger

Tw/cw: hunger, perceived punishment, pet whump,

“I thought this could be your room. The bathroom is vis a vis' ' Decima looked at the boy. He followed her everywhere and when she asked him to do anything he did it instantly, eager to show his obedience. “Do you like it?”

He instantly bowed and said in one breath “Yes, Miss Decima, thank you. I am very grateful”

It sounded like he learned that phrase.

She was going to propose him a bath, when the boy's stomach grumbled

“Oh right, you must be hungry. I’m gonna see what I have”

Boy followed her to the kitchen - all shaking and trembling.

“Well I don't have much prepared, but there is an old dinner, I think i can heat it...”

__________

Now he had messed up.

He was trying to show how good he can be and then his stomach just grumbled. Miss noticed it of course, and this couldn’t end well. He wished he could tell he didn’t want it, it wasn't on purpose, but Pet knew better than to defy the punishment.

Miss opened the fridge, took something out and put on the cooker.

“Yesterday's dinner: not the best thing, but making fresh one would take too long, so…”

She poured the soup into the bowl.

It was human food.

The punishment was obvious there: He whined about being hungry, he will get punished by getting food. Human food will make him sick, but he couldn’t refuse to eat that.

He took the bowl and a spoon. Miss even made him eat like a human. He ate it as quickly as he could trying not to feel any taste.

“You must have been really hungry. Do you want more?”

Pet shook his head.Pets don’t have wants, Pets don't complain or whine.

“Alright, but if you do feel hungry, you can tell me or take some food from the fridge”

He learned his lesson already. Be grateful for what you got. He won’t dare to steal the food.

__________

Soon, he started to feel nauseous. He tried to hide it, when Miss showed him the rest of the house, but it was getting harder and harder.

His stomach revolted, and for a moment he thought food would come up, but somehow he holded it. He tried not to show how bad he felt, punishments for complaining about punishment were so much worse.

Pet will not make another mistake. Another mistake and he will be returned or thrown out.

That can’t happen. He got only one chance left.

“Miss, I can… I can be good. Please forgive me, and, and… I will go without food as long as you will see fit”

________

Taglist: @kim-poce @cupcakes-and-pain @whatgoeswhumpinthenight

@kween-pinescales @wolfeyedwitch

[asunnydog]

💞

[italiantea]

pretender (not a very good one)

[lovenwar]

  sue making her own little chicken coop is the cutest shit i have thought about all day

[rayamash]

@shurima-demigod: Hands her a box of cookies.

She gently holds the box of cookies, but Neeko seems to be too busy staring at Nasus. It takes her a minute before she’s hugging his leg. “Neeko appreciates you desert-book-jackal-man.” 

[connor-draws-things]

When your mom lets you stay inside during the Fourth of July Party because she knows fireworks scare you and that you hate interacting with people but she refuses to accept that you have anxiety ahaha

[omishu]

Me: *locked in my room in my PJs still in bed in the afternoon, doing computer stuff as usual*

My mom, doing her best to care for her depressed as hell grown ass daughter: *knock knock* you okay in here?

Me: yeah, just updating my social media pages with more recent art work

Her: okay!

Me, internally: 🥺😊🤗🥰😌👌💖

Later ...

Mom: *mumbled yelling through closed door, over waterfalls and cars from outside open window, trying to shout at me from downstairs*

Me: WATT ???

Her, again, faintly: WoUlD yOu LiKe Me To HeAt YoU uP sOmE pIzZa FoR lUnCh??

Me: 🤩 YES PLEASE! 🤤