#jaemi cousland

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in the notes of my other post @silvertonguedcharlatan said that the warden would absolutely be a tony hawk figure and i went RUNNING to make these

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my darling jaemi cousland! she romances alistair and goes on to become queen of ferelden

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unfortunately i am still on my doomed aliwarden bullshit

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i saw a post about how as cousland you can tell alistair your family were murdered and he says he forgot which implies duncan wrote ahead and couldn't help but think about how this is how the interaction went for me.

alistair how did you already forget i just told you a minute ago

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The Cousland family in my main world state! Close-ups and details under the cut because I'm a little obsessed with them

Eleanor and Bryce

My warden Jaemi has brown skin and I wasn't particularly vibing with her looking adopted so I mainly played around with Eleanor so recreate her how I personally picture her. She grew up on the seas! Raised on a warship! There's next to no information on her actual family (afaik anyway) so I like to think her mother was from Rivain.

Bryce I didn't change too much aside from giving him brown eyes instead of blue. Also, considering the game made them look ancient when they're in their late 40s/early 50s, I made them look younger than the game does.

Fergus, Oriana and Oren

Fergus I tried to keep similar to his in-game appearance while also keeping him consistent with the redesigns of his parents and the appearance of Jaemi. He looks more like Bryce, but he has Eleanor's eyes and complexion.

Oriana is from Antiva, so I based her appearance more similarly to Josephine's, and her appearance in the mod Oriana Cousland of Antiva. Oren then is a mix of both of his parents.

Fergus later adopts Amethyne, Iona's daughter in the Denerim Alienage, and I think maybe he'd end up in a relationship with Nathaniel Howe but I'm still figuring all that out right now so they are currently missing from the tree </3

Jaemi, Alistair and their children

Jaemi, in the tree, is starting to show the effects of the Blight, but its progress has slowed considerably thanks to Avernus' research. I'm choosing to retcon 'Grey Wardens are basically infertile' since it's stupid and we have both Alistair and Kieran with no real explanation as to how Fiona managed to have him (to my knowledge).

Jaemi would keep her surname as she and Fergus are the only ones left of her family, but I think as queen she'd let her name be Theirin-Cousland. I do think that all of their children are Theirin-Cousland too, but with the favouritism shown to Calenhad's line they'd be known more as Theirins.

Alistair I think has pointy ears but they're not super visible. I kinda love the headcanon that Eamon had Alistair's ears clipped when he was a baby to hide his elven parentage, but idk if I want to incorporate that or not yet, and the sims hates elven ears anyway, so.

Eleanora is their firstborn child. She was conceived during the Blight (specifically during the long venture through the Deep Roads which is a little hilarious to me) and she was born sometime after Jaemi returned from Amaranthine in 9:31 Dragon. She's older than Kieran by a couple of months (Kieran and Morrigan aren't on the tree solely because I haven't recreated Kieran yet) and therefore the heir to Ferelden's throne. She's very headstrong and adventurous, like Jaemi, and Fergus jokes that it's karma for all the trouble she caused their mother.

Duncan is their secondborn and their first son. His full name is Duncan Bryce Theirin-Cousland, because Alistair wanted to honor Duncan and Jaemi wanted to honor her father. He's the complete opposite of his older sister, being a quiet bookworm and socially awkward. He was born a year or two after Eleanora in 9:33 Dragon.

Isobel, Rose and Lillian are triplets (obviously not identical). They were intended to be the third and final child, and Alistair briefly fainted when the third baby was delivered. They were born 9:35 Dragon.

At this point, Jaemi started her search for a cure for the Calling, though mainly it was research and communications via letters etc. Rhys, their second son and sixth child overall, was an unplanned baby, born in 9:39 Dragon.

When he turned two years old, Jaemi embarked on a journey to find a cure. As much as she didn't want to leave her family, she couldn't risk them losing her and Alistair to the Blight. Honestly, I think there could be some fuckery here with Eluvians, but I need to look into it further/

Their last child, Ffion, is born in 9:45 Dragon, after Jaemi has returned from her search. She wasn't exactly planned, either, but this time it was more of a "if it happens, it won't be unwanted" rather than actively trying for a baby. Her name being similar to Fiona's is unintential on their part, though I like to think sometime after this Alistair finds out about Fiona being his mother.

Eleanora and Lucanis

Eleanora is my Rook for this world state. She romances Lucanis and she's 'technically' a Grey Warden, by which I think she has a sort of immunity to the Blight on account of both of her parents being Grey Wardens. Also because the surname Thorne 1000% sounds like she went to say Theirin and then panicked because she didn't want to reveal her identity.

Everyone in the Veilguard assumes that she's an only child because she avoids the topic of her family (not wanting to accidentally reveal her heritage or, yknow, status of Heir to Ferelden's Throne). Lucanis definitely assumes her family is small, like his, so he has quite a surprise when she finally confesses everything to their group.

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he has foot in mouth disease and it's chronic :(

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"the warden was the most competent of all the dragon age protags" "the warden is the Responsible Adult of the group"

idk about you guys but

my HoF's ass is always ending up in situations

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absolutely loved, absolutely free

He’s never thought of himself as the possessive type. He isn’t, not really, and maybe it’s because it was Morrigan, or the entire situation itself, or the fact that he can still feel Morrigan on his skin, can still see her touching Jaemi in the low light of the room, but—the thing inside of him rakes its claws down his insides, howling. “Tell me what you need,” Jaemi says, voice soft, pleading, and Alistair pauses, leaning into her touch. He has an inkling of what he needs. No, that’s not true. He knows damn well what he needs.

After the dark ritual, Alistair gets in his head about things. He wants to remind the Warden that she's his, and his alone.

Alistair/Female Cousland // Dragon Age // Rated E // 2.9k words

read on ao3

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okay wait I just worked out the heights of my protags + romances for my first world state. also just realised i've accidentally made all of my protags human women in this world

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nora def gets her height from alistair... poor jaemi is so small standing next to them.

looked it up and ppl are saying fenris is abt 5'10 but i'm making him slightly shorter bc in my heart the origins elf heights r canon for the entire world state. didn't see a height for lucanis but neve is 5'8-5'9 according to her writer and he's a little taller than her so i think 5'11 is accurate

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oh i love them so bad

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like mother like daughter

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my beautiful princess jaemi cousland... hero of ferelden... warden-commander and queen...

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mother and daughter...

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i can't believe their doomed yuri is canon oh my god............ falling to my knees

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the heroes of my two main dragon age world states... missing them bad rn (except nova since i'm playing as her currently)