#faendal are you lonely

[joznii]

Sorry I have to send my ask through my main blog, but it is soooo nice to see more Sven and Faendal shippers out there. I hadn't ever thought of it until a couple years ago when someone here posted their fic and it was only the 2nd? or 3rd fic for the two of them to ever go on ao3, BUT IT JUST MAKES SENSE!!!! They are the PERFECT enemies to lovers!! I can't see it any other way anymore tbh. Your art and ideas are great and I can't wait to see what you do and who you convert!

THEY REALLY ARE !! Their dynamic lends itself to SO MUCH i honestly thought i was going INSANE when i looked for content of them and there was so little like HOW!! Tailor made enemies to lovers like AHGGGHHHH

Im glad u enjoy my art, i hate to say they single handedly pulled me out of a YEARS long artblock its so embarrassing lmao

[artbyblastweave]

Still playing Skyrim. And I’m interested to report that the game is actually better than I remember, on balance. But I’m kind of fascinated by what’s going on with Lydia, mechanically and narratively.

Lydia is the first follower who gets shoved in your face just by virtue of following the main quest. There are others you can pick up earlier, but not without finishing errands (for Faendal and Sven), by forking up a pretty big chunk of change for the early game by hiring Janessa, or by going out of your way in some other manner. If you’re completely new to the game and you’re just powering through the main story as it’s presented, she’s the first option for a follower that the game highlights for you in giant blinking neon lights. And as a quest reward, she’s mechanically kind of a godsend at that point in the story; a doubling of carry capacity, an excellent meat shield and distraction, a way to extract utility from weapons and armor you don’t want to use yourself. More subjectively she provides the impression of a stalwart ally or companion in what can be a very lonely worldspace to exist in. There’s very little reason not to take her with you, and once you have her, the majority of companions being equal, there’s very little reason to get rid of her until she stops level scaling.

Despite the mechanical utility Lydia provides at a crucial point, and the resultant likelyhood that you’ll haul her along for the ride, she’s only a couple steps up from the companion cube. She has no specific, non-fungible impact on the narrative beyond demonstrating Jarl Balgruuf’s favor. Her deferral to you is automatic; if someone is actively paying her a salary to help you defile graves, cut deals with every deity on the continent and invade the afterlife, it sure as hell isn’t you. It isn’t clear what her gig under Balgruuf was before she was assigned to you. She has no personal narrative. She has no personal side quest. One of her biggest inklings of personality is when she expresses vague dissatisfaction with being treated as a pack mule, but then she does it anyway.  She’s party to world-shaking events and political upheavals, but she’s present purely in her capacity as your appendix, so reality simply treats her as your plus-one. 

She’ll block doors you’re trying to get through, and she’ll get mad at you if you push her out of the way. She’ll charge into battle or set off traps while you’re trying to sneak. She’ll microaggress you with stock Nord dialogue while pulverizing your enemies, a plurality of whom are also Nords. She’ll distract bosses long enough to buy you breathing room for a healing spell or a potion. You’ll kill her by accident with an ill-timed area-of-effect spell, roll your eyes, and, ultimately, probably reload your save. Because she might only be a couple steps up from a companion cube, but the whole gag with the companion cube is how ridiculously low the threshold is for the audience to get genuinely attached to something in a video game. A thin character invites apophenia. Behaviors that are purely downstream of dev thoughtlessness will still imply character traits if taken at Watsonian Face Value. In this case, inexplicable undying loyalty, reserved comments on impressive landmarks, and comical stoicism in the face of some of the weirdest events it’s conceptually possible to encounter.  So here’s to weird, underbaked companions in Bethesda Games, and everything we can project onto the void they provide. And Here’s to that related genus of character- units in squad-based tactics or management-sim games with permadeath mechanics who last long enough and accumulate enough equipment, skill points, etc. that they become your Special Little Guy despite otherwise lacking any deliberate character traits.

[lavampira]

some skyrim things from playing my paladin-ish save

viria spent at least two days in riverwood just chopping wood, tanning leather, and forging weapons and armor

hey google how can viria fist fight sven, faendal, and lucan then leave the shop to camilla because she deserves so much better

all these neat items sitting around labeled red as steal smh

trying to play a lawful good character in this game sure is a challenge huh

got lost on the way to bleak falls barrow but viria did get to meet an old lady in a cabin who seemed a little lonely

getting better at block mechanics

ngl the underground tunnels remind me of dragon age. so do the undead skeletons that pop out of their caskets to fight.

viria made it to whiterun and immediately brawled a bard for the honor of a vegetable merchant / single mom

“I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee” THE MEME WORDS HAVE BEEN SPOKEN

met the jarl and he’s just like “hi nice to meet you now can you go slay this dragon right now right this minute” wtf dude

oh so the dragonborn absorbs the souls of slain dragons to get their power? that’s metal as fuck

she YELL

viria liore, first of her name, the last dragonborn, thane of whiterun,

[obsidianshadow]

1, 2, 3, and 6 for either of the beloveds, please and thank you =]

Strangely enough, I don’t talk much about Faendal, despite the fact he’s basically my son-in-law oc-wise LMAO

1. How did you and your beloved meet?

Whenever I tell the story to my daughter, Eithne, I tend to embellish, a lot, heh. I say that a tall, handsome stranger rode into Riverwood on a horse, clearly injured and chilled from the awful snowstorm we had that year. We actually met through Ralof. They escaped from Helgen and came running to Riverwood, telling wild tales of a dragon attack.

None of us believed Ralof at first. After talking with Gerdur, it was decided that Kelus speak to the jarl. He’s not a Skyrim native, so he needed a guide to Whiterun. Gerdur told me to accompany him, but I would have volunteered regardless. It’s not everyday we get a Dunmer with memory loss disturbing the peace of our wall-less and, um, flammable, village.

2. What’s your favorite thing about your beloved? 

I have to choose one thing? (laughs) He’s quiet, and while it looks like he doesn’t care about others as much as they care about him, it’s quite the opposite. Kel remembers things people say in passing, and makes note of it. When we were on the road a lot, I told him stories about my childhood, growing up on a farm. I mentioned that I missed the barn cats which took up residence in the stables. We’ve since settled down by the seaside, and just recently he surprised me with a box of kittens. They’ve since taken over the house, but we don’t have any problems with rats. He’s very soft-hearted, although most people don’t see past his, admittedly, grumpy Dragonborn persona. Kel’s currently asleep in a chair, and the orange tabby has claimed the lap, for now.

3. What’s your least favorite thing about your beloved?

He can get lost in thoughts and ignore the outside world, especially when he’s working on a new invention. I try to support him when he has these bursts of creativity. However, it’s...lonely. He doesn’t sleep when he has an idea, and he has to be reminded to take a break. Household chores usually fall to me, which can be somewhat overwhelming. Kel has a tendency to push me and Eithne away when he’s busy. I would never say this to him, but he acts a lot like his father in that regard.

6. What’s your fondest memory involving you and your beloved?

After we left Riverwood, never to return (for many reasons), we had also left behind the place we could truly relax, a hidden glade that Kelus discovered. When we moved to the seaside and settled in, our first mission was to find a getaway place. We found an abandoned lighthouse, but Arabella and Celeborn had claimed it as their spot.

Nothing could ever replace the glade, but we did find a meadow on the island. Things have changed, however, and Kel will visit the meadow with Eithne, too. She loves the wildflower. I wonder if we have a mage on our hands...Finding our place and settling down like we had always imagined has been a wonderful memory.

Aaa thank you, this was really fun to write! :3

[the-rxven-king]

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Name: maven (been thinking of trying out a different name?/? this one is starting to have slightly negative connotations for me idk i still like it but p;isbirugaskdbvkhfbg) raven, DM  Nickname(s): raven, DM  Gender: male! Star Sign: libra ( >:( ) Height: 5′7″ Sexual Orientation: i honestly dont fucking??? know?? for now im saying pan with a male preference Hogwarts House: Slytherin (if we’re hybrid housing, slytherdor!) Favorite Color: black  Favorite Animal: its a tie between horses and otters!! Average Hours of Sleep: like fuckin.... idk anywhere from 3 hours to like 10 or some shit i dont fucking know??? Cat or Dog person: both because fuck you both dogs and cats are wonderful there shouldnt even be discourse about this Favorite Fictional Characters: (i have many im sorry) nico diangelo, faendal , fenris, dorian pavus, zenvran arainai, josephine montilyet, alex fierro, hearthstone and blitzen, magus chase, will solace, alistair theirin  Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 Favorite Singer/Band: panic! at the disco Dream Trip: whatever trip allows me to meet all the wonderful people ive met from tumblr in person tbh id love to be able to nerd out with them  Dream Job: this is gonna sound SO stupid but a broadway actor When was this blog created: using the postlimit website it says it was made november 4th 2015 at 12:30 am so.... yea Current number of followers: 1,741 (how the fuck i love all of you thank you) When did your blog hit its peak?: tbh to answer this i only need four words: kid au and @earthprincewu What made you decide to make a tumblr?: like my first one or this one??? cause if were talking about this tumblr (which is like my 10th tumblr and the only one ive ever stuck with for this long so yay) i was getting really lonely and depressed and shit cause everyone who ever talked to me on tumblr started ditching me and at the time i really loved dragon age and was romancing fenris like crazy so i shipped them a lot and i had intended for this to be a strictly fenhawke blog and... we all see how THAT turned out lmfao. in general tho my first tumblr was because my older sister got me into homestuck (which i hate now dont even try to talk to me about it its on my blacklist too many bad memories) and she was roleplaying for it and i decided i wanted to do it too so i had a blog for that which has since been deleted so dont go looking for it or anything (not that i dont have more than one hs rp blog thats still up rn even if they arent active)

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