#dragonologist-phd

[chasindbae]

I had a lot of ideas of how i wanted to do this one, but one meme on @dragonologist-phd 's page, fate made it clear. Mercury is well stocked! I bet the OG Circus Perfume would heal your magic and healing but only Hidden Fantasy would do actual healing.

[milk-crafting]

Finished commission of their KC Lilith for @dragonologist-phd ! I had a lot of fun with this one heheh

[cassiaorsellio]

🖊

and for you, magni and morrigan pain.

— magni knows they're on borrowed time. morrigan knows it too. if it wasn't the calling, then it was the berserking. the reaving. those last few years were difficult for them both, morrigan desperately trying to find a way to stave off the dragon madness that'd take her love when she wasn't trying to shift through the knowledge the well gave her, or the fragment of mythal's memories. but magni had made their peace with it a long time ago and by the time veilguard's begun, magni's been separated from their family for over three years. they don't want to hurt morrigan or kieran in a blind rage caused by the berserking or reaving. morrigan knows they're alive, of course, because of the paired rings — until she feels it go silent during veilguard, and a missive from orzammar finds its way to her, announcing that paragon aeducan died defending orzammar from the darkspawn laying siege to the city.

🖊+an OC = yapping time

[dellamortethelesser]

oh I would LOVE to read some of/hear about The Bitter Cup. The name intrigues me already 👀

i know also @dragonologist-phd asked but i accidentally deleted it </3

your wish is truly my command except i have no excerpts for you as this is still in the very rough planning stage </3 it is about Nadasa's joining as he was conscripted by Mahanon; this is the really loose plot I threw into the file earlier today, even.

Nadasa was 16 when he was conscripted

it came about by a portion of the younguns in his clan eating unawares from a blighted food source.

his father hunted the animal i think so the blame could've gone there but doesn't

Mahanon literally stumbled across them by chance but only offered Nadasa the joining because he was the only one who Mahanon thought would survive.

And then Nadasa literally thought about it for a few hours while dying because he was THE ONLY ONE

his mother cried and threatened him and said if he chose to live and take this offer while his little sibling would die blighted to never think of them again.

And he chose to take the joining. and so he’s never really thought about them again bc his mother kept to her word and never reached out.

then there sits the like. fatherly relationship with Mahanon except its very complicated and messy because it's mahanon. oohh the aspects of the self

[dujour13]

13 and 14 for Sia?

Thank you! 💕💕 These are fun

pwotr mechanics and story ask game

13. Which mythic abilities/spells would be iconic to them, and was it their preference or did they prefer something less iconic?

Siavash’s Optimistic Smile and Friendly Hug are his trademarks. Legendary. Only Derenges seem to be immune. In my recent run he has the Best Jokes feat that boosts Hideous Laughter, and it’s SO much fun. He has em rolling in the aisles. Absolutely killing it. (I have a screenshot but it’s on my PC which is STILL out for repairs so you’ll have to trust me on it, but at one point he had a tough crowd of a dozen high-level corrupted mongrels peeing their pants.)

14. What about another mythic path that they did not take? Is there one that would fit them, build or personality wise, and what might that have looked like?

The azata path is what breathed life into Siavash in the first place and I really can’t imagine him in any other mythic path, or even game setting for that matter. He would be so depressed as an Angel. Gold Dragon… hm…. but no, he’s too much of a little songbird to have a draconic form. He may be chaotic but he's way too chill for demon and I won’t even bother with the other evil paths except one.

There was a very hard contest of wills with a certain Archdevil, in which Sia was tempted to just give up and stop struggling. Putting all the responsibility on the Law instead of his own shoulders would have been a relief. It would have killed his soul to go Devil. So much that I think he wouldn’t survive it. Luckily Aivu and Woljif had his back. Short answer - no, it's azata or bust for him 🦋

[mikuchan]

2, 11, 17 for the fic asks?

2 - Which of your fics is your pride and joy?

I really like Something to Play For! It's not long by ao3 standards but it's the longest fanfiction I've written, and I spent a lot of time and care diving into the characters. It has some flaws and cheesy parts but I'm still proud of it.

I also really like my modern divorce au A House Divided. The one and only fic I've asked anyone besides my husband to beta read for (my heart was in my throat LOL). I tried really hard with that one to stay on target, to make every detail mean something, no meandering or padding.

11 - What makes a fic 'successful' in your opinion? oh man I keep rewriting this… I am a yapper with a lot of opinions, and bc of my tag-info project I look at a LOT of semi-random fics. In the interest of brevity, here are things that make my own fics feel like a success. -> I pushed myself in some way, whether to just write better or to try a new technique -> I stayed loyal to the characters; if I can hear the dialogue like a VA in my head I know I did good lol -> there's some originality; I'm referencing my source, not copying it -> I had fun and people liked it :)

17 - What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing? I've had really bad writer's block lately, so actually this Isobel/Aylin challenge has me feeling very proud of finally shaking that! I'm still working on it to the wire lol but I had today's done and written, Day 5 finished-pending-minor-edits, and the rest fully plotted WIPs. It's more than I've written in months and it feels really good.

sneak peek

[ammoniteflesh]

2 and 23 for the OC questions?

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?

Ghila, 5000% - I think that may fluctuate once I've written the others more extensively and had more of a chance to figure them out - but right now, Ghila is closest to my heart.

23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?

Tbh most of them have stayed pretty consistent, vibeswise? Threnody has probably gone through the most permutations - I still feel like I haven't finished fully pinning her down. She started out as 'purple mage Hawke who is very flamboyant and dramatic', and gradually became more and more neurotic. I do enjoy that the flamboyance never went away though lmao

[cassynite]

Ooh how about the Galfrey pov fic?

Aaaaaah thank you so much!!

Galfrey is a very special character to me, I love writing in her pov. This one is still in more nebulous stages, but it is basically her learning to acclimate to postwar life after the events of the Crusade. It follows WOTR events, so she's still queen, but she's leading a trouble country that feels like it's leaving her behind, and she needs to learn how to grow again. It also touches on her ttrpg canon ending, where she ends up Iomadae's herald!

I forgot to mention it in the meme but the tentative title for this will be "The Leaves Still Die"

Snippet below the cut!

The [sun orchid elixir] was as close to eternal youth without consequences as one could get without flirting with actual godhood. And yet, Galfrey could almost feel herself change, disconnected and unmoored from the people around her. Or, perhaps, that was simply the effect of age. Whenever she caught herself wandering down that path of thought, she would pull back, chide herself for dramatics. She wasn't that old, in the grand scheme of things. There were plenty who had lived longer than Iomadae had been the Inheritor, who remembered Old Cheliax and when the Age of Lost Omens was meant to be the Age of Glory; when there was no Worldwound, and no Crusades, and Galfrey's greatest concern was how she was meant to fill the crown her father left behind. She was not alone in her age, and only had to seek out the nearest adult elf to speak to someone who was her contemporary, or even older. And yet. When she was around others--speaking to advisors, rallying troops, leading ceremonies, presenting in parades, negotiating with diplomats from allies and enemies alike--she never could shake the ever-present sense that she didn't actually belong there. That while everyone around her was a thinking feeling being, a person of flesh and blood and passion, she was a frozen relic, trapped in amber, separated from them all by an impenetrable wall that kept her in perfect stasis, forever matching the minted coins that showed her profile from the moment of her coronation. Could that be an effect of the elixir? In some ways, she felt ancient, as implacable as the mountains. In other ways, on very bad days, she felt like the same scared paladin who had just had her god die, who had to become the figurehead of a new religion seemingly overnight, and then had to become the face of a war against an existential crisis that never, ever ended. But the bad days were the days that she focused the most on being Queen Galfrey, not just Galfrey--Queen Galfrey was the shining sun, the face of the Crusades, the leader of the fight who never backed down, never faltered. Who was never tired, who never cried or grieved or missed anyone who grew up and then grew old without her. Queen Galfrey didn't mind being frozen in amber. She didn't care about anything except making sure her country was safe, of being a good queen, and of closing the Worldwound.

[abyssal-ilk]

9 for Saar?

(from this post here!)

9. does your rook get along with their chosen faction?

not particularly, no! saar has made friends amongst the wardens (he adores evka and antoine, and he was originally an awakenings companion, so he had some of the others as friends too!), but as a whole? saar actually has a very poor view of the order. he was around for every moment the wardens turned away from a conflict for the sake of neutrality, and quickly grew to despise how they preyed upon the vulnerable and desperate to add to their ranks. every moment the first warden turned his back or allowed some horror to happen under his watch, his resentment for the wardens grew. he briefly joined the inquisition after the other wardens all fled and turned on each other in fear of their callings, and his general struggle to connect with others in his earlier years of being a warden (being a saarebas for the qun does very little for socialization, especially in a foreign land like fereldan) means he's largely isolated from the rest.

saar has a few friends among the wardens, but not many. he's somewhat idolized by the younger recruits but he's constantly butting heads with the senior wardens. it left him lacking community for decades before datv. but he has his friends now and that's enough for him!

[durgewyll]

3 and 4 for Tane?

Yay, thank you!! <3

Pathfinder KC ask game

3. Who is/are their best friend(s) among companions and why?

Aside from Lann (for obvious romance reasons), Tane's best friends are Seelah and Arue 🥺 Seelah is so supportive of her especially during her fledgling days as a Knight Commander -- Seelah's basically her rock and trusted advisor, though they don't always see eye to eye with how dogmatic Seelah can be with Iomedae and her doctrine.

Tane's (closest) best friend is Arueshalae, who she really clicked with. Everybody else distrusted her and Tane was the only one in her corner, and Arue repaid the favour by always having her back too! Chaotic Desna girlies <3

4. What did they do before they became a crusader? Did they have a job, an occupation?

Tane was uhhh a self-proclaimed (unlicensed) monster hunter lol. It's a small-time job, not unlike Greybor's fancy dragon killing ones, and she usually only takes contracts in small villages in the middle of nowhere. Mostly to avoid people like Hulrun in the bigger cities. In the strict terms of monster hunting, she's pretty bad at it, considering she doesn't always kill said monsters -- stemming from her upbringing in Tian Xia where monsters aren't always the baddies. She makes just enough to provide for herself and her triceratops Maya, so it's not all bad, I suppose!

[bragganhyl]

2 and 19?

Thank you 💖💖💖

what is your watcher's disposition?

What isn't? 😂 (it's nothing bad just a screenshot from my last poe 1 pt)

Okay but really, I play with the conversation markers turned off and just... pick options based on her vibes and as such usually I end up with points in everything but cruelty. The top 4 is usually: benevolence, passion, rationality and either cleverness or honesty.

what is your watcher's weapon of choice?

In the early half of PoE 1, it's Unforgiven and the Hearth Harvest, in the late game, it's Steadfast and either the Unlabored Blade or Drawn-in-Spring.

In Deadfire, it's the Whispers of Yenwood and for a while Modwyr, until the end of her storyline (which Gaura ends with Xoti taking Modwyr's soul in her lantern and then she gives the empty sword away) then Sasha's Singing Scimitar and... the Whispers of Yenwood, still.

[chasindbae]

Passing through the alleyways of the grand city, you peer upon the wall to see a plethora of advertisements and propaganda. One catches your eye, depicting a beautiful woman with rose-like skin featuring fine earrings. "New Heartpiece Butterfly Earrings at Potema's Prizes". It looks like a new, independent shop which sells various, artisanal made dilldallery and whatnots. The font is tacky despite the exceptionally lovely tiefling depicted. A commission for @dragonologist-phd of pretty, pretty Piper, with sin like roses, eyes like silver stars, and a river of hair like a river of platinum. I had so much fun doing this and got to play with an idea I had for shamelessly making Heartpiece butterflies.

[cassiaorsellio]

31 from the kiss prompts for Hissera and Bellara?

ohh thank you. First time trying to write Bellara... | 31. a kiss to the palm

It begins with a waver in focus in the middle of cooking, a hand being knocked, and followed by a hissed Mythal'enaste , a pot clattering to the floor, boiling hot water spilling everywhere and dinner ruined.

"Shit, are you alright?" Hissera looks up from the heavy tome in front of her the moment she hears the elven leave Bellara's lips and the clatter of the pot, eyebrows shooting up in surprise. The chair scrapes against the floor of the dining hall and she's by Bellara in an instant.

"No! Yes, I'll be fine. Our dinner, not so much, that's ruined. I just lost focus while talking to you. Lost focus on dinner, I mean." Bellara looks down at the mess and frowns. The aromatic broth, laden with shredded beef, spring onions, mushrooms, bean sprouts and other vegetables, has scattered across the floor. If the dining room hadn't smelled like the meal she'd been in the middle of making already, it did now. Then her attention turns to her hand. "I'll be fine," she repeats, but her nose wrinkles up in pain.

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[dellamortethelesser]

for your DA OC's, are there any demons they'd be particularly vulnerable to?

i have invented a spirit that Andrea is bound to by virtue of being a spirit-healer whom they are in danger of corrupting (Endurance > Ruthlessness) but they are also very susceptible to desire demons!

Nadasa would be weak to... probably Despair; at first glance I wanted to say Rage, but I think he would give into grief and hopelessness more than anger.

Mahanon would be pride. for SURE.

[dujour13]

11 and 17 for Sia?

Thank you!! 💕💕

11. For martial KCs, favorite weapon? For spellcasters, favorite spell?

Bardic Performance – imagine a guy with a guitar gently wringing the loss and longing out of your soul and filling it back up with hope - as you charge into battle.

Instrument of Freedom is his most frequent offensive spell. Kill it with rainbows!

17. Which non-companion NPC do they really like?

Sia finds reasons to like a lot of people. Some of his faves: Ramien, Aranka, Ilkes, Thall, Kel Five Knives, Fye, Wilcer, Anevia, Irabeth, Bonvar (the Andoren Ambassador), Crinukh, the Storyteller, Ciar, Kyado (sorry man), and Telmer (the guy who ate Xanthir Vang’s notes – Sia gave him a chance to reconsider his life decisions).

[mordred9971]

Rules : put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for their favorite!

Sure this could be fun

@dragonologist-phd did tag me so