#cullen rutherford dai

[cullenssweatyballsakk]

I just had an epiphany.

There's a tiktok trend, where people post pictures of them and their father/mother/paternal figures. Typically the parental figure was emotionally absent, a deadbeat, or manipulative/abusive.

No hold on, I'm going somewhere with this.

Cullen and Meredith.

I want to dive deep into their relationship, and how we actually don't see much of it. This is where headcanons come in.

By the time Cullen came to Kirkwall, he was traumatized, mentally broken, and grieving not only his friends in the circle, but his parents that died during the blight. Now let me explain where I'm going.

I have a theory.

A game theory, if you will.

I believe that Cullen, in his broken state, began to idolize Meredith, and view her as a mentor at least, and a sort of maternal figure at most. I believe somewhere in-between.

Meredith was cruel to the mages, treating them unfairly and making many mages tranquil for small offenses. Cullen most likely saw this as justified, because of the trauma he went through in Kinloch Hold and how he viewed mages as 'non human'. Meredith saw how full of hatred he was, and how he idolized her heavy-handed punishments. She played into his fears, feeding him skewed beliefs. She wanted him to feel his hatred, and to let it consume him as it did her. As long as he was full of hate, angry, hurt and traumatized, he would be a perfect pawn to enact her bidding.

So she favored him, almost like a favorite 'son'. She promoted him quickly, and made him her right-hand man. In reality, she didn't give much of a fuck about him. She only cared about him because he was useful. Maybe in her own way, she cared about him, but probably not much.

Cullen thinking so highly of her is probably why her red Lyrium poisoning went unnoticed for so long. He didn't want to have any doubt in his mind about Meredith. To him, she was 100% right, and after all he's seen, he probably wouldn't have been able to handle her being wrong.

He most likely thought that the sheer numbers of blood mages was why Meredith became more and more strict, without realizing the reason as to why there were so many blood mages. The vice grip is that Meredith had on the Kirkwall circles balls was why the mages there began to resort to blood magic. They were tired of being harassed and beaten, which Meredith allowed under her supervision.

Okay thanks for coming to my ted talk

[stealingpotatoes]

inquisitor inq'isita part 5: @highladyofdusk and I discovering the magic of friendship and the emotion of rage

(commission info // tip jar!)

[crowwowo]

what if we both struggled with our faith and we got really toxic about it

[chanafehs]

The Milfs/Dilfs of Dragon Age (Veilguard edition)

I'm currently selling these as stickers and donating all earnings to Eman Abuhayya's gfm to help the remaining members of her family evacuate Gaza - or donate to her directly here!

[duckydrawsart]

commander loverboy 💓

[kathrenax]

All my Dragon Age characters and their respective romantic partners in one post and in correct chronological order.

DA Origins: Mira Surana (Elf, Mage) x Alistair Theirin, Morven Cousland (Human, Fighter) x Zevran Aranai;

DA2: Garrett Hawke (Human, Fighter) x Anders, Marian Hawke (Human, Mage) x Fenris;

DA Inquisition: Rovena Trevelyan (Human, Mage) x Cullen Rutherford, Elyra Lavellan (Elf, Rogue) x Solas;

DA Veilguard: Carith Mercar (Shadow Dragon, Elf, Rogue) x Emmrich Volkarin, Elric Thorne (Grey Warden, Human, Fighter) x Lucanis Dellamorte;

P.S. After gathering all doodles in one post, I gotta say that I'm quite impressed with myself. Not for the quality of drawings necessarily, but for the fact that I actually finished the series, hell yeah.

[zevrans]

Cullen: Gloat all you like. I have this one. Dorian: Are you sassing me, Commander? I didn't know you had it in you.

DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION (2014, dev. by Bioware)

[arisushanti]

attention all bg3 players who have also played any dragon age game!! (which is probably everyone, let’s be real)

im conducting an experiment, so if everyone could please reblog with their romance choices for both games

regards

[charmedcleric]

DAI + text posts 3/???

Part 2

[cullenssweatyballsakk]

They should make one that smells like my username

Hehehe my two candles came in today, AND THRY SMELL FUCKING AMAZING

They smell like heaven 😩.

My two favorite men

Now they can sit pretty next to my other fandom candles

[cullenssweatyballsakk]

Lavellan watching everyone sing a lil hymn to the Maker after Haven was destroyed

[telanadasvhenan]

small cover i made for my cullavellan fan fic :]

[stealingpotatoes]

inquisitor inq'isita part 9: @highladyofdusk and i learn teamwork makes the dreamwork

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[crowwowo]

Big fan of the concept of the mark causing the inquisitor intense physical pain !!

In the early days of the inquisition, Alexandra develops a habit of passing out in the Rotunda while doing paperwork, and many of these nights shes met with pains + nightmares. I think Cullen happens upon her one of these nights, shaking all over, and decides the herald of Andraste cant sleep out in the open and steals himself (and totally not because he’s racked with guilt at the sight of her)

Alternatively, Alexandra reliving her harrowing over and over in her nightmares, only to jolt awake to the face of that one Templar from Kirkwall she hated

[cullenssweatyballsakk]

Cullen at the clan:

Cullen being forced to dance at clan lavellan is the funniest thing I can imagine during the epilogue thank you

I’m crying it’s my favorite thing andI know Asma will force him to wear dalish clothes too so he shows up like:

[werewolfcarl]

Hot day in Skyhold