#isabela DA2

[dilapidatedanchor]

[albaharu]

did you know if you support merrill in her act 2 mission you get rivalry points with everyone except isabela and varric. anyway merrill support team no one is gonna be mean to her on my watch

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[azarya-s]

quick doodle of Isabela - fingers crossed we might see her again in the new game, hopefully!

[pkaykim]

redraw of this drawing from 2018!! i will never tire of them..

[gabrielcrossleyart]

An Isabela! I've been missing the DA2 crew a whole bunch lately.

[kittyoperas]

the plight of the siren.

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

The reasons I love the bug where Zevran can rock up in DA2 and DAI's war table mission despite the player having chosen to kill him in DAO is because I remember the unbridled glee gamers had at killing him for flirting with their male Warden.

The reason I dream of Fenris, Anders, and Isabela receiving equitable consideration and dignity in discourse is because I remember the response to their characters outside progressive bubbles.

Anders had a whole homophobic manifesto written about him and sent to DA2's head writer (who's gay btw). Gamers would be proud of handing Fenris back to his slave owner because Fenris was 'difficult'. (Of course the recently escaped slave is prickly and angry). Certain fans still enjoy telling you how they kill 'the terrorist' on every Anders post, evidently because of his actions, transparently because he's a mentally unwell queer "SJW" they feel vindicated in killing. Any mention of Isabela must also apparently include slut-shaming when promiscuity is a fine response to being a former child bride who's free of their cruel and possessive husband. Isabela fearing commitment and being sexually open is not an invitation for dehumanization. I play DA2 with the polyam mod, so I could be wrong, but I always felt Isabela and PurpleHawke were well matched there anyway.

We've come far in terms of accepting diversity in videogame storytelling, but cycles of controversy around queer romance, diversity, and sex in videogames is an old one. The difference being that the industry has mostly stopped catering to conservative and contemptuous discourse now and for that I'm glad.

[jove999]

[fenrisdefender]

When they think of her….

World state where you leave Hawke in the Fade…

(Repost, but black and white versions)

[lonelyoleander]

some guys i adore ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

[sadmages]

Replaying DA2 again. Missed these freaks

[dilapidatedanchor]

“If we kill them, we get their stuff!”

[albaharu]

the kirkwall gang

[sirguyofdykesborn]

old merribela doodle found in the files

[valtianan]

a watery grave

[kittyoperas]

come and find me, lying in the bed i made.