#dahlian lavellan

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well now im kind of missing her.... not enough to play inquisition, but still.

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every day the inquisition makes her do things... how dare they.............

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14 and 9 for the spots to kiss prompts?

kiss prompts!!!

doing 14 now.... may come back for 9 (kiss on the ear) later!

14. a kiss on the chin

"Do you miss them?"

"Always." It was always a marvel, how much softer Josephine's hands were than hers, scented with lingering hibiscus lotion and a stray smear of ink tucked into the nail bed of her pinky. Their evening herbal teas were cooling on the table in Dahlian's bedroom as they drew close to each other and the fire. Whatever they had been talking about before, the only thing Dahlian could focus on now was Josephine's fingers against her cheek... and Solas', almost a year and a half ago now, wiping everything away. A ghost she couldn't get rid of no matter how hard she huffed at the memory. "In all my years, I have never felt so foolish as I did that day."

As raw and bare as her face, every last defense that she had used to stave off vulnerability within the Inquisition stripped away.

Staring at her reflection in the water and wondering what all the wrinkles and grey hairs were worth if she was still so heartbreakingly naive.

"I am sorry," Josephine offered softly. "If you return to your clan, would you be able to perform the vallaslin ritual again?"

"I don't know." Honest and objective first, and then sighing, honest and scared: "I don't know if I want to know, though that is foolish too."

"Matters of home and belonging are never easy." Josephine touched some of those wrinkles, smoothing out Dahlian's forehead as her own brow furrowed to match it ever so slightly. "When I began to train as a bard, I tried ever so hard to disguise my Antivan accent. It feels silly in retrospect, but I was convinced that the more Orlesian I seemed, the better I would fare among the nobility as one of their spies. Perhaps it is not precisely the same thing, but--"

"No, I understand," Dahlian assured her. "Did your family ever know?"

Josephine gave a small laugh, soft and melodic. "No. When I returned to Antiva after everything, the moment that I stepped off the ship and smelled the peppers drying in the sun, I knew that I never wanted to turn away from that part of myself, even when my work took me away again."

Dahlian's mind flashed to strips of spiced jerky, bites of smoke and peppers and fat stolen during the long hours spent over her forge as Clan Lavellan's craftmaster. It suddenly hurt to swallow. "If only the Inquisition did not make it so difficult to turn back."

Josephine's forehead wrinkled again, as it so often did when Dahlian expressed her discontent with what the Inquisition had demanded of her, first as its Herald and then as its leader. No matter how many times Dahlian had assured her that she did not blame Josephine for that, that she had always been one of its brightest, most soothing lights. After a lifetime of caring for her family's fortune and future, Dahlian supposed, taking responsibility came far too easily to the eldest Montilyet.

"You're in the wrong place," she said suddenly. Josephine's fingers had drifted down to her jaw, graceful in the tracing of the bone but incorrect. "The vallaslin, it was higher up."

"Show me."

Dahlian took Josephine's hand in her own and lifted it again to her forehead, guiding her along the v shapes that had once marked her between the eyebrows. "First, the forge." She brought Josephine's fingers down her temple and along her cheek. "Then, the ironbark." Across her lips, held there for a moment, savoring the warmth of their skin together. "And then the roots, as a reminder that we never use more than what we need of the land for June's crafts." Finally, grazing the chin, the throat, skimming the top of her collarbone.

Josephine followed the movements with eyes ever sharp, as if staring hard enough could pour the ink back into her skin.

Solas had said that he saw Dahlian as she truly was. Had he ever understood what the blood of blood writing meant? The intermingling of her body--her essence--with the People.

And then Josephine's mouth replaced her fingers. Gentle in her kisses, retracing the path that Dahlian had drawn, that her Keeper had drawn decades before, where it had hurt the most. Even more than the dots underneath the eyes, the sheer softness of the throat, the fluttering pulse, the vulnerable jugular, every instinct screaming that pain there meant death, and how proud Dahlian had been to bear it as generations had before her.

There was no pain now, except in her memories, but this could be a memory too. Shared, embodied, saliva instead of blood and Josephine's lips on her chin.

It would be a good memory.

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maybe the most important mod i've ever downloaded.........

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now THIS is how inquisition is supposed to be played

invisible milf on her megafauna mount

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first line challenge

rules: post the first line of your wip, the first line you worked on today, or any other “first line!”

tyty @dragonologist-phd for the tag!! no-pressure tagging @the-eldritch-it-gay @isayashai @ghostwise @kaleido-scope-lady & anyone else who wants to share!

first (& second... for funsies) line from the current ask prompt i'm oh so slowly working on

"Lady Montilyet, would you care to stretch your legs for a moment?" From her place in the carriage, the most that Josephine could see of Dahlian Lavellan was her leg, leather-clad calf and thigh hugging the burnished flank of her hart.

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assorted dahlian lavellan screenshots

for everyone's enjoyment. but esp for @yetanotherlesbianonthiswebsite

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Idk if its a base game animation glitch or one of my mods but im terribly disappointed that the hugging on the balcony with solas isnt lining up 😭

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Also got sera's pranks with dahlian... i can be normal about this...............

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do i want to play inquisition? no. did i go back and find the save from which i'd have to hypothetically restart dahlian's playthrough with a poly mod to do both josephine & solas' romances? yes.

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lopsided smile-smirk dahlian for @yetanotherlesbianonthiswebsite

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ocs + dragon age demon pairings

yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee

(tagging folks who expressed interest tytytytyty ily all smmmmm @hexblooddruid @fllagellant @ghostwise andddddd if any of you want to share for your ocs... 👀👀👀)

Vidreu Aeducan ~ Desire Demon

Dru is tricky because they aren't strongly motivated by the kinds of emotions that demons feed on. They're largely guided by academic curiosity and dispassionate pragmatism, but she could be tempted by forbidden knowledge in a heartbeat. (Indeed, she defiled the Urn of Sacred Ashes for precisely that reason.) A desire demon could readily exploit that thirst-- for answers, for understanding, for secrets.

Luc Surana ~ Despair Demon

Everything that Luc has--his anger and his snark and his defiance--either grows out of or masks a profound sense of nihilism. Nothing matters, there's no point in trying, and caring is just setting yourself up for heartbreak down the road.

(In the AU where Alistair breaks up with him after the Landsmeet, Luc summons one by accident teehee)

Cyrus Hawke ~ Pride Demon

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh won't someone please tell him what a good boy he is and what a good job he's done bleeding out for others, won't someone please give him a good grade in self-sacrifice.

As a general rule, I'm a strong believer that the best demonic temptations are precisely those that characters wouldn't think they'd be affected by, because if you know something is a flaw of yours, you can guard against it. Cyrus' humility is very genuine, but below it is a profound craving for recognition that he won't let himself acknowledge, making it the perfect weak point.

Dahlian Lavellan ~ Sloth Demon

Dahlian has been tired since the moment she first woke up in Haven, weary under the mantle of Inquisitorial duty and constantly performing as its cold, professional leader. It would take some prying to pull her away from that duty, toward restfulness, but wouldn't it be so nice to share just a moment's repose with her daughter?

Yiseeril Trevelyan ~ Hunger Demon

Yiseeril's pride is dangerous, yes, but she's been haunted by her own personal hunger demon/Fade tongue situationship, Vanity, for years and knows how to resist her temptations. What could be fatal is pushing that pride to its extreme, past ambition and into apotheosis, starved for power and sated by nothing short of godhood.

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8, 10, and 12 for the canon da worldstate asks! :)

Canon DA Worldstate Asks

Yay thank you!! I actually did these for my canon worldstate already (here), so I'm going to answer for my secondary worldstate instead!

8. who do they hate the most, and do they have an arch-nemesis?

luc surana: he hates just about any authority figure he meets equally, but his arch-nemesis is arl eamon. luc's primary aspiration in life post-blight is to be the worst not-legally-but-spiritually-son-in-law of eamon's life.

belladonna 'do' hawke: there's no one do dislikes more than themself.

dahlian lavellan: dahlian can't allow hate or any other strong emotions into her heart or else it'll break her--even corypheus is just a job/responsibility to her, as are most of the secondary antags--but she never quite lets go of a low-simmer resentment toward cassandra as first and foremost her jailor. and she does execute alexius without a second thought because she saw her daughter die in the alt timeline.

theneneria 'thorne' lavellan: she hates the inquisition generally, the first warden specifically, and her arch-nemesis is solas. even before the dread wolf reveal, just for breaking her mom's heart a couple of times over.

10. are they good horse riders?

luc surana: no. absolutely not. he's never even seen a horse before leaving the tower and he thinks they're stinky and mean.

belladonna 'do' hawke: leandra insisted on teaching her bc Any Good (not) Noble (not) Girl should know how, but it's been a while since do had reason to do it, so she's p rusty

dahlian lavellan: yes! she prefers harts to horses, but she's a skilled rider nonetheless, and riding is one of the few times ever when she's with the inquisition when she feels like she can be in her own head/body instead of at a constant detachment

theneneria 'thorne' lavellan: she's passable but she prefers not to have to depend on anything else in combat, including a mount.

12. attitude towards Mabari?

luc surana: he pretends he doesn't like them. they're stinky & slobbery & gross & he has a rotating set of derogatory epithets by which he refers to the ostagar mabari... but when he tries to desert (long story), stinkface sticks with him, and he's not-so-secretly really quite fond of the creature

belladonna 'do' hawke: loveloveLOVES them. My Lady Pawlessa is do's precious beloved and the two are utterly inseparable

dahlian lavellan: indifferent.

theneneria 'thorne' lavellan: a mabari would fix her. unfortunately due to the aforementioned near-lethal aversion to dependency the furthest she can go is staring covetously and forlornly at warden norrie's mabari while dreaming of the warmth and comfort of a big slobbery dog tongue licking her cheek.

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vivienne saying 'the villagers will slow you down' but being one of only two companions to approve of saving everyone...... that genuine kindness & care flickering beneath the mask of ice....................

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Also its 'lady montilyet' and 'mistress lavellan' non fucking stop. First names are for women who are not engaged in an agonizing twenty month slow burn courtship

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Shipping josie with an older woman has unlocked a lot about her romance for me tbh