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Thinking about Blackwall turning himself in and Cycii is like “Oh ok. Say less.” And ALSO turns himself in for fraud and forgery against Orlais and they spend a few days in the same jail cell. And Blackwall is like “No! You weren’t supposed to do this. If this is some plot to bail me out, it won’t work” and Cycii is like “My crimes are real, Thom. You said you took a page out of my book, I decided to read it.”

And while they have a gay (read as both happy and queer) time in the cell, every other inner circle member is holding an emergency meeting. Some think Cycii will just break out. Others want to make a statement and break them out. Leliana is BEGGING to sent scouts. It takes them three days

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spare any thoughts about josie and cycii 👀😭♥️????????????

AAHDIBFI OFC ANYTHING FOR MY BESTIE... SO. OK. Their beginnings are kinda lack-lustre? There’s no sudden clicking together or sudden rivalry. Cycii respects Josephine but doesn’t feel one way or the other about her. He respects her careful wording regarding how people talk about him, an elf, and that she doesn't want to repeat things shes heard. She respects him as a good person doing good things, but doesn’t try to seek him out actively. They leave each other be for the most part while in haven, only talking when Cycii comes to make a delivery for Minaeve. They’re just workers for the inquisition at the start, and they’re fine as acquaintances. I think it shifts when Josephine starts backing his choice to go to the mages and confront Alexis. She pushes for him to do what he wants, and tries to argue back even though shes out of her element talking about how to engage an enemy. Cycii can tell, but he feels very thankful she’s in his corner. She wants this as much as he wants it too. This is where their friendship begins. Josephine’s mindset changes from “Ah, Cycii, he’s here to fix things. I’m here to keep the Chantry from burying us underneath lies.” to “We’re both here to change things, for good.” Jumping ahead a bit to the more relevant lore regarding the Silly Josie Trials. When she first comes to him about her family and their falling fortune, Cycii has a bit of a hard time understanding why Josephine is so... panicked. He hasn’t owned money or had debt at all. He only recently had gold via being the inquisitor. Growing up in a dalish clan THEN being put into a circle, it is not like he ever had the option to build a medieval credit score. So he does question her about why she is trying to get her family back to its former glory. There’s nothing wrong with being like him, so he wants her to understand there’s no shame in not being upper class. But then, she talks about her family, and how she want’s them to stop worrying too. And the unfair circumstances surrounding how this started, Cycii’s opinion shifts. She’s not scared of her own fate regarding this. She’d be fine living on little to no gold. She isn’t trying to figure this out to save face. She’s doing this for everyone else in her family. And Cycii wants to help her. He always, always gets heavily involved when someone has an issue with family. He wants them to gain closure and comfort so deeply, he drops everything once someone opens up about it. He never really gained closure about his own clan, his family, and he knows how that eats at people.  He very quickly learns his dislike (read, powerful hate) for nobles and the higher class is well founded once he meets with the assassin following an order from a long dead family. Josephine needs to be allowed to trade for her family to start to gain again, and a dead man’s complaint is still accepted and is still keeping her family from recovering? It makes his head hurt, all of it gets on his nerves. But Josephine needs this, she needs to jump through loopholes and play The Game as good as she does. And Cycii wants to be that person. He wants to help her figure this out so she can sleep easy for one night. Even if letting Leliana dispatch her agents to steal the contract and kill whoever stops them would be so, soo much more easy, he doesn’t. Josephine said no, and even if he would love to stick it to nobility, he’ll respect her wishes. This is her family, she gets the final say  EEP EEP... LITTOL LORE DROP COMPLETE 

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Having MANY. NEVER-ENDING thoughts about Cycii at the Winter Palace. By JOVE. Finished the mission and I felt like the autism creature staring at the floor. Chewing on my brain rn. Screaming and crying and biting drywall. There’s so much cool new free lore wrapped up in that little mission I am full yet I gather more

Also a free image of The Cycii in his fun outfit (i swear the stains are just jam)

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A Meeting in Val Royeaux…