#dear fen harel

[blarfkey]

hey girl…it’s been like 2 years, but since dragon age is kinda maybe coming back, please tell me Dear Fen’ Harel will get a conclusion. ilysm but that cliffhanger is actually villainous 🙏

Hey there!

So actually I've been working on the last chapter off and on for like 2/3 years! I'm over halfway done with it!

I think the pressure of getting the perfect ending to it and trying to resolve everything without it feeling like a slog was killing me. And I had to take a break from the fandom, tbh, it can get so toxic and it was ruining my enjoyment of the source material itself. But I fully intend to publish the last chapter this summer break!

I know I've said that before . . .>.> Last summer I had the same plan but I lost a close family member and had major surgery and life just kind of hit me with a baseball bat, you know?

Despite my reservations, I am so stoked for the new game and I am extra motivated to finish DF before school starts again because of it so I really truly think in a few weeks time everyone will have their ending, for better or worse lol.

Thank you for checking in and I want to thank all my readers who see this and still follow me for still loving it. It will be done soon!

[musingmycelium]

last line meme

i was tagged by @dirthara-mama thanks dear <3

i’m finally back in the writing game for the first time in a few weeks so i’m a bit rusty but i’m picking up an old wip  👀

Takes a step back and allows her hand to fall from Blackwall. “Strip for me.” Wood smooth in her hand, eyelids half lowered as she watches Blackwall quickly strip in the firelight. The soft expanse of his skin bared for her, flickering orange and gold and Laika’s skin is tingling.

i’ll tag @veridium-bye @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul and @fen-harel <3 no obligations of course <3

[blarfkey]

For the OC ask: 🥀 💫 for Dear Fen’Harel, 🌹 🍂 for greasemonkey!Rey in Code Ren, or 🌾 🌸 for Thick as Thieves? (No pressure to do all of them, but I find that a selection of options is helpful when I get blocked)

I am answering all of them because I am blocked on all of them! *maniacal laughter* Also bless you for always giving me asks. I love you.

Anyway! More under the cut!

Dear Fen’Harel

🥀 How would your OC decorate a notebook or journal? What kind of things are written in there? Could you give an example of a nice entry? 

Ellana’s a nerd, right. So she doesn’t keep a journal or diary, but she definitely hand-writes all of her notes even with her fancy laptop because that’s how she’s always done it.  She’s not really an artist, even though she loves art, but she would definitely color code them by class or subject and label them. As a kid, she definitely would have been one those types who made the collages out of cut up magazine pictures.

💫What is your favourite fact about this character and why? 

Something I love about Ellana because it’s something I admire in real life is her practical knowledge. I believe that Dalish and my version of Modern Dalish know how to make anything out of anything. They would not be a consumerist culture. Even in the modern era, the Dalish make their own clothes, furniture, and now how to repurpose just about everything. Ellana is a sort of jack of all trades. She’s not specialized in anything, but she knows how to wood work, metal work, solder, sew, work on older cars, ect. She can take pieces of broken machinery or furniture and jerry rig it into something useful.

It’s endlessly fascinating to people like Josephine or Dorian, who grew up with such silver spoons that they would just go out and buy a brand new whole replacement unit. Meanwhile, Ellana would take it apart, find out what’s broken, and figure out a replacement.

Code Ren

🌹 Where in the world does your OC feel most at home? Is there any reason why? If it’s not the place they were born, where were they born? Is there a certain somebody that makes them feel at home where ever they may be? What does home mean to them?

I think the Falcon would be the place Rey feels the most at home, even in regular canon. For my fic, it’s a legendary classic and dependable, it’s old enough for the tech to look and feel familiar to her, and it’s small enough to fee protective and big enough not to be claustrophobic. I think growing up in the desert in that AT-AT, Rey would feel exposed and vulnerable in wide open spaces. I know that the Finalizer felt like an endless maze to her and she didn’t much care for it.

I don’t think people make Rey feel at home because she’s grown up alone. Even with Finn and Ben and Han, she would prefer to have a place to herself. That’s another thing she didn’t like about the Finalizer -- all the people around her all the damn time.

🍂 Does your OC enjoy hugs? What do they do as a show of affection for: their friends, their family, their significant other(s) or for strangers? Over all what are they like with recieving affection from others? 

Lol, you can tell in TFA that Rey is very unused to and uncomfortable with physical affection (stop holding my hand!). I think she is someone who prefers to initiate touch rather than have a hug sprung on her. But I think once she gets used to the idea of having another person to care about, she would crave physical affection like any other touch-starved person. I think Rey’s love language is acts of service and words of affection, but Finn’s is definitely affection and touch so she would get used to it, haha.

Thick as Thieves

🌾 Describe your OC through the eyes of someone absolutely head-over-heels in love with them 

Lol this is just Solas the entire damn fic! He is very much fixated on her smile and how it reaches her eyes and lights them up,  which is probably something he’s not used to seeing, dealing with the Evanuris and their dangerous court intrigue. He also is obsessed a little bit with her hair, which is wild and curly and barely under control and nothing like the aristocratic elf hair he grew up seeing.

Solas makes a lot of comparisons between Shay and the sun, which can be very apt. She’s warm and bright, but if you’ve lived in the dark for a long time, it’s a brightness that hurts to look at. And it’s dangerous to spend a lot of time exposed to it. Yet it feeds him a nourishment (which we all know is vitamin D!)  that he can’t get anywhere else. Once you’re used to the sun, it’s hard to go without it. Really the metaphor writes itself.

🌸 What are some of their favourite things and why? List as many as you can think of!

Shay loves --

1. Card games, especially the kind where you can cheat or lose clothing

2. Hot fresh bread

3. The color yellow

4. Dirty jokes

5. Jokes that sound like the punchline will be dirty but then it’s clean and you’re dirty for thinking that it would be dirty

6. Stories, especially tall tales

7. Shiny rocks

8. Art

9. Climbing up to very high places so she can feel tall

10. Singing, especially the bawdy song variety

11. The sky and fat fluffy clouds