#dahlian lavellan

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

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im going to play through the full romance, obviously, but i'm not convinced that dahlian doesn't dump solas first.

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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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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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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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bwahahahhaahahah

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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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bonus dahlian with the softest most loving eyes everrrrrrrrrrr

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beautiful tired middle-aged woman...

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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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I'm engaged

To... me?

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lopsided smile-smirk dahlian for @yetanotherlesbianonthiswebsite