#character about

[awardenandacrow]

I’ve updated and expanded my previous “about” post for Naimeryn below. Also, have every sketch and drawing of made of my darling to this point.

ABOUT NAIMERYN

Naimeryn is an elf mage Grey Warden, and she is 30 years old.

She was born in Ferelden, in Denerim’s Alienage. Her mother was an apostate, and insisted Naimeryn keep her own magic hidden at all costs when it manifested. Her mother was only skilled with healing spells, which she tried to teach Naimeryn, but her daughter had little talent for that kind of magic. She spent most of her early childhood terrified she would be taken away, or become possessed by a demon. She and her mother were among the elves that were taken from their homes and sold to Tevinter slavers during the Fifth Blight, before the Hero of Ferelden, Saimaeria Mahariel, put a stop to it. Naimeryn and her mother arrived in Tevinter just before she turned 10, and became slaves to a powerful magister. Five years later, Saimaeria herself arrived to finish what she’d started, sweeping across Tevinter freeing those she hadn’t prevented being taken from Denerim. By then, Naimeryn’s mother had passed away, and so Saimaeria offered to bring the newly-discovered mage to Weisshaupt instead of back to Ferelden, where she had nothing and no one. At Weisshaupt, the young girl was entrusted to the care of Lucienne, a powerful mage who agreed to tutor her rather than sending her to a Tower. Lucienne was strict but fair, and Naimeryn learned to be tenacious and dilligent, seeking always to prove she deserved to be there. Naimeryn struggled to embrace her magic after being forced to hide it for so long in order to survive, and does not have a specialization; she focused on developing balanced, core abilities that allow her to be a competent, if not especially flashy, wielder of magic. She primarily uses a staff, though she does have some mageknife and orb training from working with other trainees. At 18, she officially became a warden recruit, and at 20, she completed the Joining with three other new Wardens — Greta, Hamish, and Amaya. For nine years, the First Warden, who even as a recruit himself and she a child had never liked her and had always given her a hard time, kept her mostly at Weisshaupt doing menial tasks and upkeep, allowing her to work in the kitchens and library, but nowhere he deemed “important.” When he finally sent her with a contingent of other young wardens on a mission against a sizeable horde of Darkspawn, he was rewarded by her defying orders to wait for reinforcements and charging in to save the threatened village — dropping its town hall on the horde to save its people. Naimeryn was gravely wounded by an ogre in that battle, losing sight in her left eye and most of her hearing in her left ear. When she woke in the infirmary several days later, she found out her plan had succeeded via an earful to her good ear from the First Warden. Luckily for him, a dwarf from Kirkwall named Varric Tethras arrived to take her off his hands, if even for a little while…

NAIMERYN’S RELATIONSHIPS

NAIMERYN FUN FACTS

[rommomance]

 🎨🖱️Parker! 🖱️ 🎨 ・❥・~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~・❥・ Image text: Name: Parker Pronouns: He/Him Birthday: October 10th Favorites: Snack: Takis and Hi-chews Drink: Horchata Class: Dual wield/Rogue Curently playing: THATS WHAT I WANT: Lil Nas X 🎵Parkers public spotify playlist!🎵

One of the romance options for Dating sim in progress “ro-MMO-mance”!

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[astral-herald]

jayce enduring a symbolic rendition of viktor's trauma is so painful and so, so clever.

being stricken down and immobilized through sheer accident or, in viktor's case, a cruelly random quirk that caused his disability.

then physically dragging himself from the lowest level of zaun to piltover, much like how viktor spent his youth reaching toward the promise piltover offered, but only if he could "pull himself up by the boot straps" and get there on his own. socioeconomic forces working against him be damned.

i appreciate arcane reminding us of viktor's origins - the reason he is so called to help people and, eventually, save himself - and putting jayce through the ringer - the contrast between he and viktor's lived experiences is front and center throughout season 1. the writers send jayce, and the audience, on a grueling journey to contemplate those experiences and how they've manifested in these intertwined characters.

[divorce-enjoyer]

put those big brown eyes away dude now is NOT the time

[some-pers0n]

I'm always entertained by people doing those "canon VS fanon" memes where both are misunderstanding characters to such a violent degree 'cause like

[mobydyke]

we need 15-20 episode seasons again these limited series have the worst pacing in the world and none of the character decisions hold any weight

[phantom-shell]

Fiddleford found one of his old shirts

[sleepygaymerdisease]

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[rommomance]

🌺🎵Melody! 🎵🌺 ・❥・~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~・❥・ Image text: Name: Melody Pronouns: she/Her Birthday: March 20th Favorites: Snack: Strawberry pocky and cheese puffs Drink: Iced green tea Class: two handed barbarian/tank Curently playing: Green Tea and Honey: East Daygo Popstar 🎵Public spotify playlist for Melody!🎵

One of the romance options for Dating sim in progress "ro-MMO-mance"!

[dearausten]

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

[bisexualsoup]

yesterday i was insane about that fictional man. today i am insane about that fictional man. tomorrow? take a wild guess brother

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again