#headcanons for TNWM

[playinhooky]

some headcanons that made it into The Night We Met because I can't write them all in there, and I'm really only doing it from Glynda's POV:

Summer Rose is the epitome of Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss, who not only cheated on Glynda with her Beard Taiyang, but also cheats on him with Raven.

Ruby has ADHD and is transfemme nonbinary!

I might stick some Freezerburn in the fic later tbh. I like when Blake has a time to be her own person and she gets to have more time to rediscover herself and her social justice.

Beacon doesn't fall! the ripple effect of Summer being alive changes so many things, and that's been interesting to explore!

[divinesleft-a]

because jack is back and i’m feeling those morrigan and leliana vibes again, i just wanted to share feelings on a conversation we’ve been having regarding their relationship. i put it under the cut because this shit is LONG. (all of these headcanons are a mix of things @korcariapostate​ and i have discussed for our main verse!)

it’s mostly taken from listening to tnwm by l/ord h/uron and the fact we both watched b/rokeback m/ountain a few days ago. but at first, leliana and morrigan were absolutely not actively seeking to fall in love with one another. they are from completely different lives. leliana is a (at the time) devout lay sister of the chantry, completely wrapped up in dedication to her religion and to the maker, and morrigan is a witch from the korcari wilds, somewhat GIVEN to the origins crew against her will by flemeth. 

NOBODY would expect it to work out that way, least of all the two of them. but leliana becomes absolutely transfixed by the way that morrigan’s mind works. for somebody who spent a long time in orlais learning how to read other’s emotions and body language, she cannot figure out morrigan. part of that is probably because morrigan doesn’t WANT to be figured out, but also she hasn’t learned the subtle social cues that would give that kind of thing away. (plus, it gets to a point and the romanticized idea of morrigan as the one she cannot figure out becomes more attractive to her than boiling her down to her base emotions.)

the physical attraction is there, there’s no doubt. leliana makes several references to how attractive she finds morrigan - that whole thing with the red velvet dress is gay as hell, leliana, you said that out loud, in case you forgot. but for all intents and purposes, falling in love with morrigan is inconvenient. don’t get me wrong, she doesn’t regret falling in love with her, she absolutely does not regret the nights they spend hidden in morrigan’s tent while everybody else is asleep, but she’s all too aware of the fact that morrigan challenges her ideals. leliana grew up in an andrastian household, and then moved to the lothering chantry, she has NEVER had anybody question her ideals. morrigan takes her out of her comfort zone, it makes her uneasy, but at the same time, that kind of mental challenge is addictive. 

and then, morrigan leaves post-origins, and it opens up a whole new avenue of leliana not WANTING to be in love with morrigan anymore. again, she doesn’t regret anything, but she spends countless nights waiting to hear ANYTHING from morrigan, save for the ring that she’s been given (its a whole thing jack and i have plotted out, the enchanted ring is given to leliana before she leaves). and honestly, i’ve been thinking about that line from the movie “i wish i knew how to quit you” because that is EXACTLY leliana’s sentiment while working for justinia. she doesn’t WANT to be hung up on morrigan anymore, but she just doesn’t know how to let it go, because it is still the most thrilling and engaging relationship she’s had. 

and then of course, she FINALLY has something to take her mind off of it, the inquisition. she is finally starting to think about something else at night besides morrigan... and then she shows up at the winter palace wearing THAT dress that leliana described a decade ago and she falls all over again.