#it's about roleplaying the drama

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Hawke/Anders/Carver/Merrill are one of my favorite party dynamics in DA because:

--a spirit healer, two blood mages, and an absolute tank of a warrior walk into a bar-

--my Hawke romances Anders so Carver's stuck listening to his brother hit on this dude every time they go out. When he isn't internally screaming, he's grumbling, "of all the men in Kirkwall, you just HAD to pick the most annoying apostate in the sewers, you just HAD TO-"

--but Carver's in no place to judge when he has a major crush on Merrill, a blood mage. She smiles at him and he's useless muddled mush on the floor.

--Edgar Hawke is the #1 Carver/Merrill shipper in Kirkwall and he's about to make it Carver's problem.

--Merrill is Edgar's best friend [don't tell Varric] and she's mostly just vibin' until it's either time to be so cute I can't handle it, attack enemies, sass Anders for being a shit, or ask Carver if he's talking dirty to her and then tell him he's the best sworder in Kirkwall, but then act oblivious when Carver tries asking her out.

--the Hawke brothers usually have to separate Anders and Merrill before they start pulling hair and kicking each other.

--every time the group finds a locked chest, they just stand around it like:

Edgar: Hmmm... *looks to party* Carver: I thought the eldest was the best at everything. Merrill: Um, no? Definitely not? Ever? Anders: I'm a Mage, not a miracle worker. Edgar: ...It's probably just another moth-eaten scarf anyway, it's fine, ONWARD!

--Anders and Carver: Blood magic bad. Edgar and Merrill, blood mages: *look at each other, then at the camera like they're on The Office.*

--the Legacy DLC is just Anders and Carver losing their minds, Edgar in a constant state of PaNIc over his brother and boyfriend but pretending everything is fine with jokes, wholesome brother bonding over the fact that Malcolm did some shit, and Merrill being like, "C'mon, let Corypheus out, what's the worst that could happen??"

--Anders: I'll show you why mages are feared! *heals Carver, who just chugged a stamina potion* RUN! WHILE YOU CAN!

--Edgar and Merrill actually showing enemies why mages are feared when they activate Blood Mage to run themselves through with their staves, Merrill gives them all nightmarish visions that leave them stunned while Edgar throws everyone around with force magic.

--honestly the shit these four scream in combat makes every battle just-

Edgar: One more for me! We're keeping score, right?! Merrill: Hello! I'm Merrill! And I'll be your distraction! You can't hit me! Carver: You! Me! And an audience! THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT! Anders: *intense, stressed, incoherent screaming*

--already by the end of Act 1, Anders is an OP healer, Edgar and Merrill are powerful blood mages, and Carver's practically unkillable.

--by Act 3, Anders just blew up the Chantry, but he can resurrect fallen party members so he gets to live. He and Edgar are broken up. Ed is Not Okay™ and ready to throw himself in the ocean and swim back to Fereldan. Carver's an absolute OP, indestructible Grey Warden two seconds away from smashing Anders into magey dust for hurting his brother. Merrill thinks it's a pretty evening to defeat Meredith "don't-call-me-a-tyrant-even-though-I'm-absolutely-a-tyrant" Stannard with the aid of blood magic.

In conclusion, they're chaotic and dramatic and it's a good bad time all around.

[mrtequilasunset]

Unprovoked

[svtskneecaps]

see everyone worried and fretted and panicked and yet quesadilla island looked at pepito and went

[lady-quen]

The roleplayer desire to write Mael a bit with someone's muse vs the cringefail main character syndrome fear because Commander OC, smh

I have a vision but this is me when I try to talk about it in a large(ish) fandom. Anyway. Hides my shame in tags

[mantisgodsdomain]

Finally, we get the opportunity to put our Spy Cards worldbuilding in a work. Though there are many questions about such things as "regulation" "how these cards are printed" "who approves a single spy card", and so on, we are here to present a bold new take: this game is based like 60% on obscure roach memory-reading tech that got turned into a card game with absolutely No card-game-related intentions included in the original tech and most of the card vetting is just from the fact that there aren't too many card printers out there and most of them make cards that need to be translated from Roach.

Strictly speaking, as a card game, it is not a terribly good or well-balanced one. It's popular primarily because of a mix of the difficulty involved in getting the data for high-level cards, the fun of seeing the variety of monsters that can be brought to the table, and the incredible amounts of ham and drama that goes into specifically the professional scene.

[eryanlainfa]

Wanted to draw something for this silly headcanon forever ago but since I still haven't you get this post instead.

About that DC au for Vat7k I have, where the team is the young justice league. Random fun fact : they all play DnD together, its a homebrew campaign where Varian is the DM, the campaign is called The 7 Kingdoms. And as you may have guessed, its actually just the vat7k story.

"But Varian is the DM how can he be the main character ?" Thats a good question audience I do not have! You could also ask who tf gets to play a fantasy campaign and just.. play as themself ? (Well. Probably some people cuz you can do what you want but our beloved characters wouldnt pass the opportunity to be literally anyone who isnt them.-)

Actually Varian doesnt play Varian. Hugo does. It started as a joke to bother him but the rest of the league thought it was the funniest thing ever and wanted to add to the joke. So Hugo is Varian, Aiden is Hugo, Nuru is Yong, Yong is Nuru and Varian wants to kick all of them out of his house rn.

They are all terrible caricature of each others. It actualy ends up helping them understand each others better- also free therapy I guess-

[bookache]

someone needs to brainwash me, probably.

...I'm gonna go take a nap.

[dullahandyke]

and like sidenote if i can make a post with a target audience of zero. i feel like fhsy was to d20 what aa3 was to ace attorney but aa3 pulled it off better for reasons i cannot explain

[sunshinenextdoor]

Letter Prompts! Give me the [ Mistake ] letter! :> That one sounds like it can be fun!

((Tried to make it open so that anyone can join in if they would want to:> ))

Someone woke up to find a mysterious letter in their mailbox. It's soft to the touch and ornated with green leave stickers, sealed with a beautiful light teal wax seal that has a wind chime flower stamped into it. They find it a bit strange at first, as they have never gotten any kind of mail like this before, but went on to opening it nonetheless. Since it could only be meant for them, right?

As their hands go on to open the neatly decorated case, they get slapped by an intense smell of lotus honey and probably some kind of hibiscus and lavender scented perfume, just oozing out of the slightly crampled paper inside. "Wow, okay, this is getting *really* weird" they probably think to themselves.

A few minutes later, after the intense aroma wears off, it may be possible to read it afterall! The letter reads as followed:

"Oh my Dearest, Only Love, my heart aches to be with you again. I miss every little breath, every warming glimpse you give to me. It's only been a day, but I already feel the urge to feel the touch of your fingers, the imprint they make on my skin as they burn, and how they get hotter as your blush grows on your body when I embrace you. I know I act coy, and I'm a jerk sometimes, but in reality, you are the only one who ever saw me this way, and the thought of it makes me drunk. No one can know of our relationship, for they don't understand, but I still want to pursue your love, for it is sweeter than honey, and truer than any word Nivara could say in a thousand years. (Please don't tell her I said that..) Ahem, I wish to meet up in secret again, unknown from the world. I'll be waiting for you by night. I need to feel your warmth again.

- Wesley"

Well. Seems like someone's in big trouble at the Nel'Vari post office! Maybe try to find the person who this could be addressed to?

[hellsbroadcaster]

the communities thing looks cool I won't lie.. but I am in agreement with a lot of folks who worry about it becoming super exclusive. And tumblr already has that huge ass problem as it is.

[avaeeart]

honestly since leaving the gw.2 fandom and any related community discords, everything feels so much quieter. media and such is truly best to be enjoyed with a small group of friends

[slumbering-shadows]

shoutout to the time one of my "friends" told me that having an oc or a story inspired by a song means you are unoriginal and can't come up with your own ideas and are therefore stupid and then I found a song that was, absolutely, beat for beat exactly about their current most precious OC like its not even funny. So I sent it to them. And they said it "doesn't count" because they'd never heard it before. but you guys will never guess who's yt playlist titled "writing" I found that fucking song on in the first place. bitch ass

[elftwink]

saw a video about 2 player ttrpgs and one of them was like "this one's about a pretend marriage" and i was like oh? and i looked it up on itch (eyes on the prize, fyi) and it's 50% as of right now and i was like OH? and i bought it immediately & ive read most of it and i am a big fan. and i KNOW that i have friends who would have fun playing it (it's a 2 player or 4 player game; the 4 player variant has 2 fake couples) but asking them is going to be so cringe. yeah we're gonna make up people and pretend to be them and then pretend to pretend to get married and the characters when they start their pretending they're gonna be like "oh we don't have any romantic feelings towards each other this is strictly plot" but then (get this) they will start to develop real feelings for each other. and we're gonna act it out together and pretend to be them but don't worry! we have no romantic feelings towards one another. this is strictly plot. when WE (irl) pretend to be in love it's actually platonic, unlike the people who we are pretending to be to each other. so do you have like 2-5 hours you wanna dedicate to that next week

and the worst part is that's 100% what i want. like i have roleplayed romance before with friends it is literally not a big deal because the whole point of roleplay is that the character ISN'T you. but with a fake relationship the crushing weight of dramatic irony hovers behind me

[neverendingparable]

In a less salty way of putting it: interacting with characters is the best way to get to know them and getting to know the chemistry your muses will have.

It's one of the reasons I'm against pre-established relationships, especially with new partners because I can't actually predict how close our muses could be.

Everyone puts a lot of thought (and love) behind their OCs and its rewarding for both parties to work for that lore.

[grim-has-issues]

Hey! Just wanted to ask since your into maybe audio dramas ( I am too), you know how much drama there was? Like here's some examples:

Yagami and her aging up characters with the edition of that Twitter thread someone posted

Musicalboy93 and his grooming allegations

( I literally was so surprised over this because I listened to him for the longest time)

Kingakira and his grooming allegations

( same thing with him because I used to listen to his levi audios and his spiderman audios)

Angelica and gwengwiz going down a republican pipline

And just so much more...like wow.

dude, you just made my day.

I am pretty educated in the drama that has partook in the community over the years, but usually just anime character asmr.

King Akira used to be my number one dude b/w 8-6 years ago, but that shit was mad weird. He had some good ideas and he ate with a couple videos (levi and the books), but he had his channel banned on youtube several times for a reason. (And bro had that sincerely me cover in soundcloud. i loved that shit)

Yagami Yato, though? what a shit show. As far as I’m aware, she had no original ideas or content. There was no reason for most of things she did other than boyfriend character asmr, which is fine.

Angelica, I have been watching her off and on for years. I stay off tiktok and I’m not a huge fan of hers. I didnt realize that she had gotten into some hot water. I only saw the channel change over the years and had some slight suspicions.

Those are the only three I am super aware of.

[eclipsecrowned]

stares at like five fuckin things erupting on the dash rn.

i left y'all alone for one day --