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[quillfulwriter]

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[tigereyes45]

Pride Month MEP - Part 15 - Mari'lyn (Mariner x T’lyn) & Lackland (Lacklon x Roland)

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Here is some old fanart I did for Dragon Age: Absolution when that was just coming out. I loved Lacklon and Roland's dynamic, they were very funny and sweet.

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Quick sketches of the Absolution cast that i forgot to post oopsies -- Kofi | Patreon        

[himluv]

DA Review Series: Absolution

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This is the part of the list that gets a little... loosey goosey. Basically everything after Blue Wraith but before The Missing takes place in this weird, nebulous, in-between time. We know it's after Trespasser, after the Inquisition disbanded (per my and Bioware's canons) and before Veilguard, but we don't know when specifically. So, since we can't really say when these stories take place in relation to one another I'm just going to review them as I consume them :).

Title: Absolution Writers: Mairghread Scott, Mae Catt, and Tim Sheridan Release Year: 2022 In-World Year: ~9:45+ Verdict: Look. I love this fucking show. I'd watched it at least three times before I decided to do this big tie-in media marathon. And, I just rewatched it three times while convalescing with the flu this past week – turns out it's a very good comfort/sickie show. It does a wonderful job of orienting new viewers while not alienating old timers like myself, is fast-paced and fun, while also establishing a very interesting plot that could be vital to Veilguard. Basically, I highly recommend you commit to the three hours required to watch it.

Absolution introduces us to Miriam, a runaway slave from Tevinter, and her bff Roland (who may or may not be a chevalier?). The two are hired by Fairbanks to join his team for one last job for the Inquisition – steal a magic artifact from the Archon's Summer Palace. That's right, babes, Absolution is a heist story!

So, they team up with Fairbanks (Orlesian human rogue from Inquisition), Qwydion (lady Qunari mage!), Lacklon (dwarf warrior Lord of Fortune), and Hira (Tevinter human mage with whom Miriam has a romantic history), and head off for the city of Nessum. Of course, this is Dragon Age and nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

Miriam's former master, Magister Rezaren Ammosine, is in Nessum. In fact, he's the reason the artifact they're after (the Circulum Infinitus) is even in the city. He's studying it in the hopes of finding a non-blood magic means of activating it. Supposedly, the Circulum can restore life to the dead, resurrecting them to be the same as they were before. And he has a very certain someone he wants to bring back to life – Miriam's twin brother.

Without getting too deep in the details, Miriam and her brother were slaves raised alongside Rezaren, intended to become his bodyguards in adulthood. He claims to see them as his brother and sister, that they all were helpless in the face of his mother's abuse. And for a while the show does a good job of making us wonder if that's true. Certainly, Rezaren seems to believe it. At least until Miriam refuses to play along.

The heist does not go well. Fairbanks seemingly turns traitor, tries to kill Hira, and dies in the process. Hira is trapped in the vault, and Miriam is mortally wounded on the team's frantic way out. In a blood magic-fueled dream, Rezaren lays out his plans to Miriam, in the hopes it will convince her to rejoin him and the reanimated corpse of her brother. And, of course, it all boils down to the Magister's ambitions – he wants to become the next Divine of the Imperial Chantry, where he swears he will work to make Tevinter a better place. And yet, in his power fantasy, Miriam and her brother are still his bodyguards, just as they were trained to be. Even Rezaren doesn't seem to notice how deeply ingrained his view of them as "things" truly is.

So, obviously, Miriam and company aren't going to play nice with that guy. They hatch a plan to get Hira out of the palace, and things seem to be going their way for once. There's a lot of epic fight sequences, Qwydion is hilarious, and the romantic tension between Roland and Lacklon keeps ratcheting up. But when Hira makes a break for the safe house, the team follow her and start to get a whiff of the true betrayal.

The traitor was never Fairbanks (whose loyalty I never doubted!). He caught wind of Hira's true plan – to steal the Circulum from the Inquisition and deliver it to the Crimson Knight in Kirkwall – and was trying to put her down. I will never forgive this show for killing him, btw. I loved him so much! But Hira's real plan is even worse. All this time she'd struck a deal with Rezaren – return Miriam to him, and he'd let her have the Circulum once his ritual to restore her brother was complete.

Side note: Hira is stupid. There's no world where Rezaren actually lets her take the Circulum. None. So, she was willing to sell her (ex?)girlfriend into slavery for something that would never happen. And yeah, she makes a lot of promises about how she would have got Miriam back, how Miriam would have escaped, but we know Hira is a liar and a cheat and just as ambitious and driven as every other "Tevinter snake," as Miriam would say.

Anyway, there's a bunch more badass action involving blood magic, spirits, grenades, and a High Dragon (which again shows that dragon blood is extremely potent in magic rituals!). Roland and Lacklon finally kiss, and Miriam stabs Rezaren in the throat mid-meltdown. It's a beautiful end sequence. And even though the show is over, the team knows their work is just beginning.

Because Hira snuck off with the Circulum in all the chaos, and they know where she's headed. To Kirkwall. To the Crimson Knight... which appears to be a colony of sentient Red Lyrium, formerly known as Knight Commander Meredith Stannard. And she/they/it(?) is intent on seeing all of Tevinter burn. (insert my theories here about how the Blight causes feelings of intense hatred over time, as established in the book The Calling and further exemplified by the tainted Griffons in Last Flight.)

Obviously, I love this series and really wish we'd gotten a second season. There's just so much this show set up, surely we'll see more of team Absolution, whether in another season/show, in a comic or book, or... in Veilguard? Fingers crossed, y'all.

[dualwieldingdruid]

Lacklon holding onto the grenades because there might yet be a better opportunity to use them is peak Dragon Age behaviour. 

[asterroses]

honestly i hope we get another season of absolution . or just like any tidbits of information / appearances abt the cast . miriam i miss u . if any of them get an appearance in veilguard i will be so so happy

[saltpigsblog]

Da absolution au everything is the same. Except Roland and Miriam are famous (anonymous) authors. They did it at first to earn a bit of money, things started to spiral out of control. Now every where they go they see people praising their work.

+bonus points if both Lacklon and Qwydion have an obvious obsession with the books.

[tevinterdays]

i cannot emphasize enough how much roland and lacklon mean to me

ofc i expect queer characters in da, but in film and tv etc, i'm so used to queercoding or accidental tension. this applies across the board, but it's being fulfilled more often as time goes on. so infrequently with mlm relationships.

i wasn't surprised when miriam and hira kissed - it was a pleasant affirmation that the series wasn't chickening out or being pressured out of rep for purposes of the show. and we've had a handful of canon wlw relationships in da, of varying visibility and relevance. celene and briala (ech), vaea and charter, sera and dagna (conditionally/in the bw canon timeline), branka and hespith, maybe others, that's just what's been in the media i've consumed.

mlm-wise, with named characters, there's dorian and bull (conditionally), karl and anders, and zevran and taliesin (and rinna).

out of these, branka and hespith, karl and anders, zevran and taliesin are are completely off-screen, all being in the past, and the latter two are conditionally revealed to the player.

anyway i fully expected roland and lacklon to just be awkward teasing through the end, one-sided and miscommunicated, maybe lacklon was actually straight, whatever. and they actually fucking kissed and . sdkghsdkgsdhf. jesus christ. jesus CHRIST

meaningful. i can't do analysis or anything here i'm forgetting how to type. your honor i love them they are so important

[snuffink]

I love seeing people scope out all of my Dragon Age, Lackland posts and like them all in a row. I see you, I know what you are

[icharchivist]

"man the wisdom spirit really does look like Solas both in appearance and behavior that's so hot" to "MAN the transformation into a Pride demon is SO HOT" pipeline

started rewatching Absolution and god i forgot just how pretty the show was.

and now while knowing the twists and turns and caring about the characters i'm just so happy to rewatch it

tho... Fairbanks.............. sweetie.................. run.

[dalishious]

i was thinking about lesbian representation in da and obviously 99% of it has its issues, mostly in part due to male writers. and that got me thinking, does dragon age have the same problem with its gay men representation? the only confirmed gay character I know of is Dorian, but I’m also not familiar with the comics and books so I might be missing others.

The gay men in DA have all been well done IMO, although there aren't very many of them. The only ones I can think of aside from Dorian are Nicolas and Julien from The Calling, as well as Roland and Lacklon from Absolution. (All not explicitly confirmed to be specifically gay, but in a same-sex relationship without any indication of liking women, so...)

[tigereyes45]

Floating MEP - Part 17 - Lackland - Dragon Age Absolution

[animaletras]

Asérie de aventura e fantasia Dragon Age: Absolution, disponível na Netflix, está ganhando muito destaque entre os fãs de animação. O conteúdo dela é denso, palpável, desagradável e muito bem enredado, isso lhe rendeu uma classificação para maiores de dezesseis anos, portanto, já se compreende que não se trata de uma simples animação.

Baseado nos jogos da BioWare de mesmo nome, Dragon Age, a série se passa depois do último jogo, Dragon Age: Inquisition, e agora, sem um vilão que cause terror global, um grupo de heróis rebeldes da inquisição precisam impedir que novos horrores ameacem o mundo, para isso são enviados para resgatar um artefato mágico guardado dentro de um castelo fortemente protegido. (Importante dizer: não se precisa jogar o jogo para assistir a série, ela é autossuficiente para entendermos a história.)

Esse grupo de heróis não poderia ser formado com personagens com sintonizados, não. Eles são formados por um grupo tão diverso entre si que traz uma excelente dinâmica para a série. A personagem principal é Miriam, uma elfa ladina que fugiu da escravização para viver sua vida como caçadora de recompensas, ela esconde um passado de dores, humilhações e muitos traumas que terão de ser revividos; Qwydion é da raça qunari e tem dom para magia, com seus poderes mágicos, serve como o apoio para o grupo na hora da cura, além de ser um alívio cômico para série, pois sua personalidade alegre lhe coloca em situações atrapalhadas; Hira é a outra maga do grupo, uma humana, capaz de desfazer feitiços, ex membro da inquisição e ex namorada de Miriam, durante a série, vemos o relacionamento das duas se desenrolar até um ponto; Roland é um um humano guerreiro, melhor amigo e maior aliado de Miriam, do início ao fim da série ele se mostra leal a ela, e tem uma queda por Lacklon; E por fim, Lacklon, um guerreiro anão que se autodenomina Senhor da Fortuna, sonha em fazer o seu nome conhecido pelo mundo. Eles são acompanhados por Fairbanks, um personagem do jogo, lutador da liberdade. E para fazer oposição ao grupo temos dois vilões: o magistrado Rezaren Ammosine, um jovem, mas poderoso, mago humano que tenta fazer com que o artefato que o grupo procura funcione, para alcançar seu objetivos ele é capaz de tudo, porém, como sua régua moral, se é que funciona, temos a Tassia, humana guerreira e comandante da Ordem dos Templários, ela serve como amiga, conselheira e guardiã de Rezaren, seu amor por ele lhe cega das atitudes erráticas que ele tem.

A série em si, não tem defeitos, porém, nós do Animaletras, precisamos deixar claro e transparente uma questão: somos contra toda e qualquer forma de capacitismo, isso significa que nos incomoda personagens com nanismo serem chamados de anão, esse termo é pejorativo e carrega em si uma carga preconceituosa, não deveria mais ser usado como uma raça em mídias de RPG ou qualquer que seja. O leitor pode acreditar que estamos “lacrando” com certeza não conhece a proposta e as intenções do Animaletras, leiam nossas publicações sobre capacitismo em animações.

Tendo dito isso, esperamos que se tenha continuações e se corrija esse erro, até porque a série tem potencial para mais e o final (assistam!) nos intriga. A série exige mais investimentos e mais divulgação, pois ela tem um valor latente. Além disso, a série tem muita representatividade com personagens LGBTQIA+ e personagens negros, que merecem mais tempo de tela!

Para falar dos criadores, precisamos ir até o jogo de videogame, os criadores do jogo são David Gaider, escritor e designer canadense e a BioWare, empresa desenvolvedora de jogos também do Canadá, e a série foi escrita por Mairghread Scott, escritora que já participou de outras animações como Marvel Rising e Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. Além de ter a direção de Bae Ki-Yong que participou da direção de Steven Universe.

Dragon Age: Absolution é uma série que trata de temas complexos em diversas sociedades, mas o tema principal da série são as relações de poder, a crença de que um ser possa estar acima do outro pelo motivo que for, acredita-se que o fato de Miriam ser uma elfa de pele negra não seja mera coincidência, e que todos os personagens, com exceção dos vilões, Hira e Fairbanks, tenham a pele mais escura também. Deixemos aqui essa questão para vocês pensarem, mas nós indicamos muito a série e pensamos que ela vale 4,5/5 de pipoquinhas.

[sneakyneighboururchin]

Watched DA Absolution finally with some friends who don't know shit about the source material. It honestly wasn't that great, I was expecting better from how people talked about it. I liked the characters and a couple of the plot points had real potential but they were clearly trying to do way too much with not enough time and resources. It was really badly paced, it did that thing of having twists for twists sake rather than actually foreshadowing anything or making the twists make sense in the narrative or for the characters. Rezaren wasn't in any way interesting like people said he was, he was just gross and I cheered so loud when his death was so unceremonious and miriam got to just kill him. Hira's big reveal speech and the last like five minutes of the show were clearly just set up for shit we'll probably be seeing in the next game and that annoys the fuck out of me, people shouldn't have to engage with the other media to be properly informed about the games, I've said this time and again. Also that last minute twist/reveal has pissed me off monumentally because bioware need to learn how to write interesting villains again rather than just bringing back their old ones. The show hammered home that Tevinter templars are basically just cops and are just as worthless as cops so that was pretty funny. I liked the core four characters that are established by the end, their group dynamic was good. Qwiddyon was wonderful, although they did do that kind of annoying trope of 'super powerful girl is also a dorky clumsy mess.' Lacklon and Roland were the best old married couple after knowing each other like two days, I loved their relationship and dynamic. Miriam was great, I loved watching her get to confront her past and her abuser and give the little fuck what he deserved. But #justiceforfairbanks honestly, that man got fucking screwed by the narrative in so many ways, wasn't fair. (Although having famous VA Matt Mercer on the team only to kill off pretty much every character he voices was a pretty funny flex, we were tallying his deaths by the end) I hoped for better, but honestly this level of quality is about what I expect from a DA thing these days.

[thebonerpit]

I need to talk about Dragon Age Absolution because yeah I’m late to the party but I finally watched it...

First of all, I can’t get over the utter ridiculousness of Hawke failing to kill not one but TWO villains. Like. what the FUCK lmfao. This poor man/woman. And poor Varric too, holy shit. But I am a bit confused because Varric was viscount of Kirkwall at the end of DAI right? Was this already happening and he somehow just didn’t notice?? (There was also some weird timeline fuckery with Hira saying her family was killed by Venatori when she was a small child but now she’s at least 20 and the Venatori didn’t even exist until DAI. DA4 cannot be 15+ years later, that would be bananas.)

I was kind of spoiled for the Meredith reveal but I didn’t know she was fully aware and talking and controlling red lyrium templars?!?!?! I thought she was just gonna be the red crystal and that artifact was going to wake her up but I guess she’s already awake, so maybe it’s to give her a body again? IDK IDK.

Unfortunately I didn’t love Miriam. She’s just the type of character I don’t generally like... kinda 2edgy4u y’know? I mean she’s basically a female Fenris but the difference is we had a whole-ass game to get to know him and see his personality emerge and see him work through his trauma but this entire series was over SO fast that I never felt like I knew her at all. I knew Hira was going to betray them because there was absolutely no fucking way Fairbanks was the real traitor and if you played Inquisition you probably knew that too. It sucks he died but at least he wasn’t a bastard. Oh and speaking of Hira I just find it so funny that she was like “yeah I asked the Inquisition to go WAR with Tevinter and they said NO can you believe?!” and I’m like YES I can believe, what the fuck? Are you kidding me?? You think the Inquisition - who are already being scrutinized and accused of being power hungry and are dealing with mountains of other things - are going to start a war with one of the most powerful nations in Thedas? I have to laugh.

Rezaren had the personality of a piece of wet bread and I was zero percent interested in his whiny shenanigans. Although I do appreciate how he thought that keeping the reanimated corpse of his dead slave around to chat to every now and then was NORMAL. Horrific. I actually really liked Tassia though! Because for almost the entirety of DA we’ve sort of been told that Tevinter templars are weak as kittens and are basically pointless, but Tassia was a certified boss swinging that hammer around. It was weird that we never saw her use any templar abilities though (unless I missed it?) so maybe that is sort of frowned upon in Tevinter.

The real winners here are OBVIOUSLY Lacklon and Roland omg babessssss. Roland was by far my fave character. Optimistic and heroic with just the right amount of sass so he wasn’t boring. Qwydion was... ugh ok I am on the fence with her. There were a lot of parts where I really did like her but imho they just made her a BIT too silly. Like running away screaming from the demons... girl... you’re a badass mage, what the hell was that?!

Anyway overall I give it a solid 7/10. I think I was just so excited to see something new in the DA world again /sobs, so I can overlook some of the faults. I am both terrified and excited for DA4 because I thought we would be mostly dealing with Solas and his bullshit but now we have Meredith + red templars invading Tevinter which is already struggling to repel constant Qunari invasions?? Things are not looking good for Tevinter tbh and if that means something bad happens to Dorian I will RIOT.