#champion obscurity

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DYKTC OBSCURE CHAMPION 2023

2023 is over, so it's time to find out which one of our top 12 most obscure characters is the people's champion. The list was put together by taking the last six characters from the "by percentage" section and the last six from the "by number of votes" section, skipping duplicates. This time, vote for whoever you want to win, regardless of whether you know them or not! Make sure you read all options carefully before voting because you can only do so once. Have fun and may the best obscure character win!

[etherfall]

[Repost bc I screwed up my own tags lol]

Ask from sugarqueen4693: I think it would be funny if once alder firsts takes in N, Darmanitan (who was like his parent) would very closly watch Alder and was very suspicious of him at first.

Yeah definitely! Darmanitan did pretty much raise N at the start. So when Alder brings N home, Darmanitan follows Alder around to keep a protective eye on N. Alder tries to be friendly, but Darmanitan is constantly on alert for the first few months haha. Little N can't quite understand why Darmanitan is so wary, but tries his best to make the two get along.

Then one day N stumbles upon this scene:

Turns out the two parents aren't so different after all.

[omppupiiras]

i'm already obsessed with the story this album is going to tell aaaaa give it to me!!! and with the album cover being what it is i'm so HYPED

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)

[redrobin-detective]

Everyone please watch the Granada Sherlock Holmes series. It's not only the most book accurate adaptions but they're so genuinely good! You don't need modern sensibilities or trope reversals to make the original Holmes stories shine.

[koskela-knights]

Jaakko, my beautifully beloved <3

[synthaphone]

i'm almost done... 3 more times...

[dorenarox]

Me when I have to defend the Amphietheater during the Ritual phases of "The Fangs that Gnash" ALL BY MYSELF :

[sleepieguy]

something that I noticed about my art years ago is that I have an incredibly hard time finishing (or really actually even starting) anything without an external motivator literally forcing me to get it done whether I like it or not (which i know isnt an uncommon problem to have). but a particularly frustrating side effect of this is that I have lots of wips that i am/once was passionate about that I can't share because they aren't finished (or often anything close to decipherable) and a bunch of completed pieces that I really don't care for and often don't particularly like (even if I think that the quality is fine) but theyre completed because i had to meet hard deadlines other people set.

I'm still deciding what to do with this information

[sereneslash]

i am so loyal to socmed usernames that it's a detriment to me sometimes. like i cant help that my personal tumblr handle sounds like some sort of obscure yaoi reference it was an ACCIDENT but i COMMITTED and i cant change it now

[dictatorkelly]

uwu

what’s your ‘thing’ as a friend. i don’t mean like ‘oh im the mom friend’ i mean like what’s the Thing where if one of your friends was looking for a specific interaction they’d message you first. personally i can always be relied upon to get hyped about bugs, literature, and cursed internet images.

[aromanticasterisms]

"this event is cute but it has nothing to do with natlan" TO YOU. i understand the themes and messages

[elgaberino-mcoc]

Gun-R, a relatively obscure character from the MCOC comic in 2015, was never well-received in Summoner voting on the MCOC Wishlist and has thus been delisted and will be added as an “Obscure Pairing” to the listing for White Fox.

[ghostofmanny13]

Eldritch Berdly: So then in Five Night's at Freddy's: Sister Location, we find out that the Purple Guy's real name is William Afton, and that his daughter Elizabeth ALSO gets killed by an animatronic and-

Kris: Wait I thought he just had two sons?

Eldritch Berdly: No, you see FNAF4 implied that he also had a daughter with the bedroom with the flower poster and- WAIT YOU'VE ACTUALLY BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO MY EXPLANATION OF VIDEO GAME LORE!?!?

Given that Berdly and Kris share some story together in the normal deltarune, i presume something similar would happen in eldritchrune, perhaps with time Kris would see Berdly's utter nonsense talk amusing or something. But now to an actually question, In the dark world, it is like a long path or an open world? Like, let's say the group defeated the King, they would immediately go to the Queen's domain or would stop in Castle town before continuing?

Kris is at least willing to listen to Berdly's weird nonsense more than a lot of other creatures, which Berdly appreciates. Kris doesn't really understand it either, but they will listen to it and sometimes even be a bit interested.

It's a bit more open world, but there is a path to follow from Ralsei's castle to the Dark Fountain. Ralsei's castle is less of a hub world like Castle Town in canon, and more of a starting point. Once they get far enough into the Dark World, going all the way back to his castle for something isn't practical.

[watcherintheweyr]

I can't believe I'm writing this

To open up with: IT IS ABSOLUTELY OKAY AND VALID TO BE DISAPPOINTED BY THE LACK OF WORLDSTATE CUSTOMIZATION IN DRAGON AGE THE VEILGUARD. I have my own disappointments about it!

Ok? We have that covered? We good?

Cool, moving on.

To people who are genuinely, hatefully angry, saying we will now be 'forced into Bioware's worldstate' (when this year alone they've stated there is no 'canon' worldstate more than once), or saying that none of our prior dragon age choices matter, I need you to take a step back and walk with me for a second, okay?

For starters: John Epler stated that one of the reasons they narrowed the choices is because they DO NOT want to invalidate the worldstates of their longtime players. However they also don't want to alienate newer players who don't have the history and lore of the past choices. It's a narrow line to walk.

Secondly, I want you to really look at the choices made by your Hero, Champion, and Inquisitor. Which of those choices genuinely affected NORTHERN Thedas, not Southern Thedas, to the point it would linger for years afterwards? Which of those choices weren't things that specifically affected or altered the sociopolitical Southern Thedas climate and landscape in lasting ways?

The Well? Kieran?

That only leaves that if your Inquisitor drank, they now have knowledge from ages long past... that Rook doesn't need. Rook has a direct line into Solas' history and a possible Veiljumper background, unlocking those very secrets on their own.

It's entirely likely and probable that the Well's fears and threats were a red herring. Think about it. We as a gandom have spent TEN YEARS worrying about the Well, about Solas, about Mythal.

Come June 2024, we're slapped in the face by the big bads of Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan.

Morrigan likely isn't going to be close and friendly with Rook- so there's likely not much reason for her to tell us about her child or husband if she has them.

The rulers of Southern Thedas aren't going to affect us. We aren't tackling the current world ending crisis from the position of a leader of armies like the Warden and Inquisitor, but as leader of a small task force. The Southern Divine doesn't much affect us either- nor do Southern mage politics or templar politics.

Because Rook is an entirely new perspective.

Because Rook is in an ENTIRELY different sociopolitical climate/landscape.

I DO think there should've been ways implemented to specify your Inquisitor's bonds and personality. I'm HOPING maybe there still are that we haven't seen. But otherwise?

My Warden is free. I can say she's cured her Calling and is wandering the world with Zevran.

My Champion can retire into total obscurity with his husband or be quietly helping said husband destroy the slave trade. Either way.

Your history and choices in Thedas still matter. Your heroes still matter.

They just aren't Rook's focus.

Take a breath please. And stop sending death threats to the devs bc what the **fuck.**

EDIT:

further context from the devs on Bluesky