#hawke has to fight a dragon in the bone pit? that's on solas

[hoboblaidd]

I can't really play the hero/villain era game with this guy, but my villain era is this:

[vulptilla]

Pokémon companion meme

I was tagged by @red-wardens, thank you ever so much! <3 I used to love Pokémon, but fell off the wagon a few gens ago, I think. I’ll do this for my canon trio, so... Pokémon AU, here I come! (I don’t know who to tag since I have no idea who else likes Pokémon, but if you want to do this, you may as well consider being tagged by me! ^^)

The post itself is quite long and gif heavy, so I’ll put it under a cut.

Faenel Amell & Houndoom

Faenel has Houndoom as his Pokémon companion. He found a Houndour pup crying over his mother’s dead body somewhere in the wilderness during his travels, and he just couldn’t leave the pup be, knowing all too well that the little Houndour wouldn’t survive much longer without outside help. He nursed the pup back to health, planning to bring him to the nearest PokéCenter to be taken care of, but after some time he had to admit that he had grown to care for the pup, and he decided to keep it. Eventually Houndoom evolved into Houndour to help Faenel in an otherwise hopeless battle. 

Katla Hawke & Dragonite

Katla rescued a lone little Dratini during their escape from Lothering, believing that no innocent creature should be left at the mercy of darkspawn. She had to fight Gamlen, who suggested that they should eat that “drab little eel”, at least twice during her first year in Kirkwall. Her Dratini evolved into Dragonair after the Deep Roads expedition and ultimately into Dragonite to aid Katla in her fight against a high dragon in the Bone Pit. After the final battle against Meredith Katla and Anders flew away on Dragonite’s back. 

Iliana Trevelyan & Clefairy

Leliana’s scouts reported that they had found a Clefairy wandering nearby after discovering Iliana’s unconscious body after the explosion in the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Clefairy followed them back to Haven, and the advisors decided to let Minaeve study Clefairy to find out if she had anything to do with the explosion. Solas even suggested that maybe Clefairy was originally from the Fade. They noticed that every time they let Clefairy wander free in Haven, she seemed to be looking for Iliana, who decided to keep her around. She never took Clefairy to fights or even thought about it. Clefairy is her friend. 

[magicrobins]

Dragon Age Dual AU Worldstate

Long post, all under the cut.

Edits may be made as details are added or changed.

(I typed this the best I could remember us discussing the details a while ago.)

Shared with: @bxtgrl (Nat), @jellyfishlovesloki

Dragon Age Origins

Heroes of Ferelden: Namera Cousland (sword/shield warrior, Alistair romance), and Piras Surana (mage, Zevran romance).

Companion OCs: Sylvas Mahariel (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Tamlen Rendlin romance), Sarabeth Tabris (archery rogue, Leliana romance), Christian Amell (mage, Morrigan romance), Rendlin Amell (sword/shield warrior, Sylvas romance), Paige Brosca (dual-wielding rogue, no romance), Atlen Mahariel (dual-wielding rogue, Jowan romance), and Noah Talbot (two-handed warrior, Anora romance).

All companions except for Loghain are recruited.

Companion decisions: Returned Sten’s sword, defeated Flemeth for her grimoire, sent Marjolaine away, and helped Alistair find Goldanna.

Namera has a mabari, Konroy, and Piras got a mabari after Ostagar, Sammy.

Broken Circle: Sided with the mages, gained some Templar supporters, and managed to save First Enchanter Irving.

The Arl of Redcliffe: Helped Redcliffe prepare and fight, Piras used lyrium and the help of Circle mages to fight the demon in the Fade, Connor alive, not possessed, and Piras and some companions helped Jowan escape at night (Sylvas directed him to Atlen for protection).

The Urn of Sacred Ashes: Urn wasn’t poisoned, and word about its discovery eventually got out.

Nature of the Beast: Sylvas helped Namera and Piras broker peace.

Paragon of Her Kind: Rendlin had a son with Mardy, restored Mardy’s son’s birthright, Dagna left to study, defeated Branka and destroyed the Anvil of the Void, Namera supported Harrowmont, Piras supported Bhelen, and the choice was ultimately left up to Rendlin who surprised everyone by choosing Bhelen.

Stone Prisoner DLC: Matthias and Amalia both alive, and neither are possessed.

Warden’s Keep DLC: Piras gained the Power of Blood, Sophia killed, and Avernus allowed to continue research under more ethical restraints.

Denerim: Helped Sarabeth figure out and stop the city elves from disappearing, rescued Anora, and Namera killed Howe in combat, avenging her family.

Landsmeet: Loghain killed by Alistair, Alistair became King of Ferelden, and later married Namera, making her Queen of Ferelden.

The Battle of Denerim: Alistair took part in the Dark Ritual with Morrigan, only Grey Warden to die was Riordan, and Namera and Piras killed the Archdemon together.

New Grey Wardens: Sylvas, Christian, Rendlin, Paige, Atlen, Noah, and Jowan joined the Grey Wardens after the Battle of Denerim. Sarabeth joined the Grey Wardens in the beginning of Awakening.

Namera and Sarabeth belong to @bxtgrl.

Piras, Sylvas, Christian, Rendlin, Paige, Atlen, and Noah belong to @magicrobins.

The Golems of Amgarrak DLC: Namera and Piras helped Jerrik, however they both vocally objected to the idea of bringing back the creation of golems.

Witch Hunt DLC: Christian follows Morrigan through the Eluvian.

Dragon Age Awakening DLC

New companion OCs: Halin Andras (mage, one-sided Nathaniel romance), Hannah Caron (two-handed warrior, Jaden romance), and Jaden Kader (archery rogue, Hannah romance). Companion OCs from Origins returned with Namera and Piras, as well as Jowan, a canon character.

Piras is named Arl of Amaranthine.

All companions recruited and joined the Grey Wardens.

Oghren and Felsi reunited.

Both the Keep and Amaranthine were successfully protected after hard battles.

The only casualty of the battles: Justice was “killed” when Kristoff’s head is chopped off while defending Vigil’s Keep.

Piras and Namera side with the Architect against the Broodmother and allow him to live.

Zevran eventually returns to Amaranthine, and he and Piras marry at Vigil’s Keep.

Majority of companions stay with the Grey Wardens, though Velanna eventually leaves after believing she saw her sister.

Halin Andras, Hannah Caron, and Jaden Kader belong to @magicrobins

Dragon Age II*

*The timeline of DA2 is being edited to better fit in with the timeline of Origins. We have it to where the Hawke family were younger when they fled Lothering, and the Hawke siblings were indentured for more than just a year in Kirkwall.

Champions of Kirkwall: Derek Hawke (mage, eldest sibling, Fenris romance), and Vera Hawke (mage, Anders romance).

Companion OCs: Kenrick Lolani (two-handed warrior, Merrill romance), Stella Montgomery (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Isabela romance), Talia Fredericks (dual-wielding rogue, Sebastian romance), and Jaxton Montgomery (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Tallis romance).

All companions recruited, and all relationships are friendship.

Companion decisions: Carver became a Grey Warden, Bethany became a Circle mage, Bartrand lived, convinced Varric not to keep the lyrium idol, Isabela returned with the Tome, didn’t turn Isabela over to the Qunari, didn’t convince Merrill to destroy the Eluvian, didn’t kill Merrill’s clan, and Aveline married Donnic.

Mages fully supported.

Prologue: Both Bethany and Carver live, Bethany is gravely injured from the ogre attack, Vera and Derek join the smugglers, and Stella and Jaxton join the mercenaries.

Act 1: Derek and Vera sometimes disagreed when it came to letting mages go or returning them to the Circle, Saemus saved and returned to the Viscount, Kelder killed, the slaver Danzig killed, Derek and Vera both own the Bone Pit, Feynriel sent to the Dalish, defended Ketojan, left Bethany in Kirkwall, and took Carver to the Deep Roads.

Act 2: Gascard killed, didn’t side with Varnell, didn’t side with Petrice, Javaris was alive and well, helped with the raiders on the cliffs, freed Feynriel and allowed him to leave for Tevinter, and Derek and Vera killed the Arishok together.

Legacy DLC: Sided with Larius, defeated Corypheus, and found Malcolm’s Will.

Mark of the Assassin DLC: didn’t make Tallis angry, and Jaxton kissed Tallis.

Act 3: Met and let Zevran go, later aided by Zevran in the battle against Meredith, rescued Nathaniel, reunited Charade and Gamlen, handed conspirators over to Orsino, Derek disapproved and Vera approved of Anders destroying the Chantry, Anders was spared, Sebastian and Talia left for Starkhaven, vowing revenge on Anders and the Hawkes, the Hawkes and companions had to flee Kirkwall and go into hiding; to protect Vera, Derek solely took on the Champion of Kirkwall title; and Derek and companions spread false information that there had only ever been one Champion.

Derek Hawke, Stella Montgomery, and Jaxton Montgomery belong to @magicrobins. Vera Hawke and Talia Fredericks belong to @bxtgrl. Kenrick Lolani belongs to @jellyfishlovesloki.

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Inquisitors: Aya Lavellan (dual-wielding rogue, Cullen romance), and Galen Lavellan (mage, Dorian romance).

Companion OCs: Elaith Lavellan (mage, Solas romance), Nova Adaar (two-handed warrior, Iron Bull romance), Lilya Avery (mage, Blackwall romance), Jacob Lombardi (archery rogue, Josephine romance), Ju-long “Striker” Trevelyan (archery rogue, Cassandra romance), Mordecai Bayley (dual-wielding rogue, Lace romance), Ricka Cadash (dual-wielding rogue, one-sided Varric romance), Ozera Herah (dual-wielding rogue, Sera romance), Rasha Andras (two-handed warrior, Arven romance), Arven Karaas (mage, Rasha romance), Ai Trevelyan (mage, Krem romance), Zhen Trevelyan (mage, Bailey romance), and Bailey Carrian (archery rogue, Zhen romance).

All companions are recruited.

Companion decisions: Dorian reconciled with his father, Blackwall left prison with his true identity revealed and eventually joined the Grey Wardens, Iron Bull saved the Chargers and became Tal-Vashoth, Cassandra discovered the Book of Secrets, Harmond was kept alive but forced to work for the Inquisition, Cole became more human, Solas freed his friend, Varric pursued the red lyrium source lead, Vivienne gained the snowy wyvern heart, Cullen was encouraged not to use lyrium, Aya and Galen did favors for the Du Paraquette family, and Leliana was inspired.

Exploring Thedas: Reached the inner sanctum of the Temple of Pride, helped the refugees, gained the allegiance of the cultists, closed the rift in the lake, claimed Griffon Wing Keep, investigated the dwarven ruins, rescued troops from the Avvar, kept Fairbanks’ nobility a secret and helped him defeat the Freemen, killed Imshael, and captured Suledin Keep.

Operations: Failed to save Clan Lavellan, Sutherland’s company was successful, Jecin and Celeste married for love, and both Johi and Charade were recruited.

The Wrath of Heaven: Aya and Galen claimed to not know whether they were chosen by Andraste or not.

Champions of the Just: Elaith sent to Therinfal Redoubt with a few companions under the disguise of an Inquisitor, offered the Templars a free alliance, and Ser Barris is alive and promoted to Knight-Commander.

In Hushed Whispers: Aya and Galen went to Redcliffe with a few companions, and offered the mages a free alliance.

Tension was high in Haven among the Templars and mages, many uneasy with the Inquisition allying with both groups.

In Your Heart Shall Burn: Cole arrived at Haven, and Aya and Galen both stayed behind to fight and distract Corypheus.

Here Lies the Abyss: Derek Hawke, Stella Montgomery, Kenrick Lolani, Jaxton Montgomery, and canon companions except for Sebastian and Anders arrived at Skyhold upon Varric’s request to aid in the trouble with the Grey Wardens; Derek, Stella, and Kenrick fell into the Fade with the Inquisitors, a few companions, and Stroud; Stroud chose to stay back in the Fade, telling Derek to find his cousin (Christian Amell) to lead the Grey Wardens because it’s common knowledge the Heroes of Ferelden and several of their companion Wardens have gone missing; Derek, Stella, and Kenrick had to pull Aya and Galen out of the Fade to get them to leave Stroud behind; the Grey Wardens are offered a free alliance to rebuild their strength and ranks; and Derek urges the Inquisitors and Leliana to find Christian Amell, who at that point was a high ranking Grey Warden.

Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts: Christian Amell was found attending the ball with Morrigan and joined her and Kieran at Skyhold, Empress Celene lived and Grand Duchess Florianne both lived, Celene continued to rule and reconciled with Briala.

What Pride had Wrought: Galen chose to respect the temple’s traditions, Aya chose to follow the quicker route through the temple’s underground, Galen managed to get the alliance and help of the guardians, Samson and Calpernia were the Inquisition’s nemesis, Aya destroyed Samson’s armor, Galen talked to Calpernia and convinced her that her loyalty was misdirected, and Aya and Galen decided to share the price and drank from the Well of Sorrows together.

Doom Upon the World: Aya and Galen made no formal support for either Cassandra, Leliana, or Vivienne for Divine, not wanting to choose between their friends; Aya and Galen defeated Corypheus together while their companions and Inquisition forces fought off the demon horde; and Leliana was chosen as Divine Victoria.

The Descent DLC: The earthquakes were stopped, and the secret origin of lyrium was discovered.

Jaws of Hakkon DLC: Discovered and met Ameridan, shared the truth about Ameridan, killed the dragon, and Aya and Galen both gained a legend-mark from the Avvar.

Trespasser DLC: Iron Bull remained loyal, the Inquisition was disbanded at Aya’s order, and Aya and Galen vowed to redeem Solas.

Aya Lavellan, Jacob Lombardi, and Lilya Avery belong to @bxtgrl. Nova Adaar, Mordecai Bayley, and Ricka Cadash belong to @jellyfishlovesloki. Galen Lavellan, Elaith Lavellan, Ju-long “Striker” Trevelyan, Ozera Herah, Rasha Andras, Arven Karaas, Ai Trevelyan, Zhen Treveylan, and Bailey Carrian belong to @magicrobins.

Anything post-Trespasser can be discovered through asks or fanfics! <3

[just-a-mod]

at least i got to have a semi dragon age pre dream

i had a littel thought that if Lyssia has shards of the elven gods, then he’d have access to like....bits of old magic. 

and as we’ve seen, shards can have ALOT of information, so i guess Lyssia has access to ALOT of old magic.

and one of those old magic that would be interesting is SHAPE SHIFTING, because honsetly i dont know what that’s ot more wide spread but you knwo, what ever

so Lyssia starts practicing it during his time with the Hawke family, turning into the family mabari and birds at first. i decided the first time he uses it in battle is during the undead fight in the bone pit. an undead is coming up behind Varric and Lyssia just acts and turns into a wolf to bite its fucking head off. so Garret, Varric, Anders and Fenris find out first

then later, Lyssia shows the rest of the gang and family and you know its neat as fuck just dont do it in town, obviously. also i’d like to note Lyssia’s go to form is a wolf *finger guns

so of course he’ll use this during the invasition of  kirkwall and then the rebellion, probably using it to get Anders out of town becAUSE WHOW ANTS T FUCK WITH A WOLF HAHAHHA

any way, so skip a few years during the whole conclave. makes sense they’d send their two members of the clan that can turn into inconspicuous animals and the conclave blows up, Lyssia and Lucius (as well as 3 others) survive,Lucius having not been in the conclave building directly when it exploded

i keep trying to figure out when Lyssia would turn into a wolf, and it’d be something she does if she or some one she cares about is in EXTREME danger. and so the only time i think that happens in the first part of the game is during the fallow mire bog thing. because the uh...high lander guy is just really fucking tough

so as the rain beats down and the party is bruised up, battered and tired from the hordes, i think Lyssia would just shift without thinking. taking form of a large wolf and just mauling the abSO LUTE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING THAT ISNT INQUISITION HAHAH

imagine Solas’s fucking face as he just sees a large dark furred wolf coming to his aid, i bet he’d be real fucking confused

i mean he’s already concerned/insulted because of her fen’harel vallislin and how the anchor is on two hands aND THE SHARDS IMBEDED IN HER SKIN, but this would just confuse the absolute shit out of him

i mean, varric already knows, so yea it’d probably be The iron bull, solas and varric who see it and its like WHAT

WHAT

I think The iron bull would be impressed like HOLY SHIT YOU can turn intO A BEAST HOLY SHIT and Varric is like lol just wait until you see her turn into something bigger and Solas is like AHHHHHHHHHH!?!? but internally 

puts some things in perspective when the inquistor can turn into animals *finger guns

[potatowitch]

this has been sitting in my drafts for literal months but uh ... I'm still like. writing this into actual fic BUT hawke chronic pain headcanons, bc i am in chronic pain and i love to Project (this got long i'm sorry lmao)

hawke has some pretty gnarly scars going from her upper right arm, up her neck and just over her jaw from the fight with that big fuckoff dragon in the bone pit in act 3, and bc of the placement of the injury and the fact that anders was prolly too busy making sure everyone was at least breathing to worry about healing it neatly, there's a lot of thick scar tissue and muscle damage that restricts the movement of her staff arm. it hurts to twirl her staff around the way she does, but she still does it out of habit (and being a blood mage she's used to there always being an undercurrent of pain during battle anyway, so she largely ignores it when she's fighting)

she pays for it after a fight tho. it's not immediate - usually she'll go to bed that night and wake up at 3am in a lot of pain. her and merrill do what they can to deal with it in the moment, but they're both garbage at actual healing (in game merrill doesn't even have access to the creation tree iirc) so it's mainly just chugging a potion and using heat to ease some of the tension until hawke can get to anders' clinic in the morning

after they all go their separate ways following the run from kirkwall, hawke doesn't have her favourite healer readily available to help her with her arm, so she just deals with it the best she can. the sensible thing would be to try and limit the amount of fighting she does so as not to strain herself, but hawke has never been sensible, so she just deals with it

that is, until inquisiton, when they get to the western approach. they're fighting those possessed wardens at the ruined temple and of course, hawke is flinging and twirling her staff around dramatically like she always has, and afterwards she groans and squeezes her eyes shut and has to sit down, and varric puts a hand on her knee and goes "shoulder again?" and she just grunts and nods, fully prepared to chug a health potion, apply heat and get absolutely wasted at camp tonight to deal with it

...except solas notices. and i know there's no actual healing spells in inquisition, but i headcanon that solas is pretty damn good at healing. he's no spirit healer, but he knows what he's doing. and he goes "i could help with that, if you'd like" and hawke's first instinct is to make a joke and tell him not to worry about it - lavellan's got a bruise on her cheekbone, deal with that first - but varric gives her a look and she acquiesces. and it's the first time in two? three years? that her arm hasn't ached and stiffened after a battle

and when they return to skyhold, hawke drops into the rotunda to thank solas, and then while she's there, she looks up at his veilfire brazier and his frescoes and at the books of elven lore on his desk and she just. launches into questions. and he is so surprised, because from what he'd seen out in the field (and read in varric's books) he honestly didn't expect her to be so eager to learn. he's lowkey impressed. dorian overhears from the library and joins them

come nightfall lavellan walks in to see the three of them huddled together, books strewn over the desk, diagrams scribbled on parchment, and they're casting spells and jabbering to each other excitedly. for some reason hawke's shoes are off. they don't notice her, so she can slip out and find varric and go "hey, come see this" and when he walks in he gets this big rush of deja vu from all the times he'd walk into hawke's mansion and see her on the floor with merrill and anders as they pooled their different knowledge together to experiment (usually resulting in hawke setting something on fire) and varric feels all kinds of warm and fuzzy

anyway. hawke. under all her bluster and shitty jokes and feigned irreverence, she's in a shitload of pain all the time (emotional and physical) and she tries her best to ignore it and carry on (because to her there's never been another option. also vulnerability is scary and she will avoid it by making dick jokes). also she's a giant magic nerd (don't try and make her read books on it tho. she learns by doing). i love her to pieces