#i'm the worlds stupidest writer i'm afraid

[yappacadaver]

Emmrich is dressed so crazy Mara would need him to teach her how to undress him. but he'd be so into that

[irithylldancer]

datv end

well, the game is over and yeah, just mostly disappointing. i'm glad there is a good chunk of people who are thoroughly enjoying this game, but datv is definitely something that was clearly rushed, half assed, and strung together from the pieces of the dead multiplayer.

pros:

the linear questing is fine. dai was riddled with fluff fetch quests that got boring very quickly. very little of it in datv, but i did not enjoy the treasure quests or haunting missions.

very pretty environments. the team that put together each area did amazing. the lighting was so beautiful in this game. the necropolis especially was really cool to see.

gameplay options are super customizable. you can play with the settings to make it as easy or difficult as you please. it autosaves pretty much before any sizable decision so if you ever change your mind, you can always reload that save.

hair physics are wild, in a good way.

assan is cute.

cons:

the writing is a fucking tragedy. from the main story to little conversations you have with your companions, dialogue is awkward af and stilted. conversations will just abruptly end and you just move on to the next thing. exposition mainly comes from varric talking through slide shows instead of meaningful dialogue and gameplay so the narrative is so disjointed. i was thrown off when i got the prompt to begin the end missions bc i assumed we had 20 more bullshit quests to do. nothing from the previous games matter; unless you boned solas, i guess. the world state questions they ask you are pretty much pointless. making your inquisitor is pointless bc unless they romanced solas, they don't do anything. everyone also repeats themselves constantly. if you've watched angry joe's review of this game, he was not exaggerating with his opening skit. pretty much everyone speaks to you like you're an invalid. i won't go into what was basically retconned from the previous games bc this is already becoming way too long.

the combat is boring and janky. your inputs aren't read very well, the hitboxes for enemy attacks are fucked, the game wants to auto target constantly whether you're locked on or not. like many others who did not enjoy the gameplay, i turned the difficulty to easy to just get through it. even on standard, enemies have way too much health and it gets boring very quickly. class comp doesn't matter, you can face tank anything as whatever class, every class pretty much has magic now, and every companion has the ability to heal you. there is no strat, there is no positioning, no worthwhile combos bc every combo pretty much does the same shit.

too much glow effects. it's on everything. my eyes are so tired from all the flashing lights.

i romanced lucanis, and i didn't even get to kiss him until about 70hrs in.

hair is great, but you can't give yourself tits and ass.

minrathous as a location was fucking wasted. it was boring, dull, and beige. no opulence of the magisters, no signs of fantastical magic holding the city together, no cruelty of slavery and the war. doesn't matter if you play as an elf or qunari, you can just freely walk about and do whatever bc all race and religious tensions are gone.

blood of arlathan was the stupidest quest in the game. it's still insane to me how much bullshit fuckery went into it and none of the professional devs and writers had second thoughts before shipping this game. this quest alone could bring down all of it for me.

companions had potential, but no one has any memorable personalities. everyone was either boring or annoying, which is a huge shame. i could see all the possibilities for them, but i guess the writers were so afraid to put anything potentially interesting in to arouse any feelings???

rook as a protag feels so unnecessary? their role should have been filled by the inquisitor as so many story lines from dai were tied up.

varric twist was stupid. i'm not even mad he's dead bc how they framed it was just confusing. doesn't make sense, but whatever! this franchise is dead and i won't even look at anything mass effect related bc this team can't write for shit or come up with a compelling gameplay loop. :) thanks bioware. i will attempt to erase it from my mind and pretend it ended at dai.

[celesse]

I know this is probably the stupidest Ask in the entire world, and I really don't want to bother you, but... can I ask? Your name? I've never seen the name Celesse before, I thought I made it up (for a character, I'm a writer), and here you are! Is it a nickname? Is it really a name? I'd be so honored to have the answer~ ❤️

It's actually a name my mother considered giving me! When I first started out online it seemed like a neat alias to use and it kind of stuck.

She claimed she saw the name on a perfume ad, though she can't remember where or when, she just took note of it because she thought it was pretty. I was never able to find said perfume either.

I'm afraid that's all the info I have on it!

[taesthetes]

Wow, Solace is so damn relatable and so beautifully written and I'm just drowning in my feels because it is such a masterpiece for a short piece of writing. You were somehow able to make me go through so many of my fears and worries but make me comforted by the end through the form of Tae's character. Just simply wow.

goodness gracious, thank you so so so much for your kind words towards my writing :’) i’ve been staring at your ask for the longest time with the stupidest grin on my face alkjdhflasf i was really afraid that i had gotten rusty after being stuck in writer’s block for such a long while, and this wasn’t the usual fluff i tend to write, but it was much more therapeutic for me?

ahhh, i’m just really glad you were able to feel what i was hoping to convey with this fic!! i spent so many hours writing and rewriting the entire conversation between the oc and tae because i wanted to make it as realistic as possible. tae’s character is probably one of my most favorites i’ve written and one i hold very dear to my heart. but anyway again, thank you so very much, sweetpea! your compliments really mean the world to me ❤️