#ophelia cousland

[visenyatargaryn]

“Do not think that I have forgotten of your betrayal, Howe. Your hands are stained with the blood of my family, and I intend to uphold my promise.”

“And what promise is that?”

“That your demise will be met by my blade and mine alone.”

template by the lovely @jacobseed 

[primopinku]

do you have any other Wardens or just Ophelia? i'd love to hear more about them all :3c (plus your dragon age art hits in the best possible way and i'm pretty obsessed)

I do!

Ines Cousland (Noble/Warrior) and Rev Surana (City Elf/Mage)

Ines is queen consort to Alistair, her battle with the Archdemon has left her face disfigured. Though there is the possibility to restore her face, she chooses not to. To her it's a symbol of all she's sacrificed, it's also a very effective manipulation tactic when dealing with the king's court/royal council. Shrewd, loyal, and cunning is what comes to mind when I think about her.

Despite growing an living in the tower most of his life, Rev thinks of his time there fondly. Talented and an unabashed teacher's pet, he took pride in seducing many a templar. He's quite protective of his close friends (Jowen). He's in love with Alistair but it's unrequited, he's in a complicated relationship with Zevran. Outspoken, calculating, and passionate.

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

List of Sexualities for Current list of Dragon Age MCs:

For Freedom’s Design

Cian Mahariel: Bisexual. Does prefer men as a whole but is fairly equal in his interest. Romances Zevran, and has a threesome with Isabela.

Lorry Hawke: Bisexual. Goes for girls mostly due to her complicated feeling on motherhood and the scare of a child. Romances Isabela. Did have a minor crush on Fenris that went nowhere.

Mila Trevylan: Asexual but unaware. She’s interested in sex but only in a ‘this sounds interesting’ thing. Does enjoy it so she remains unaware. Romances Iron Bull after a brief flirtation with Blackwell she ends due to her uncomfortable with the idea of being with someone who sees her as the Herald of Andraste.

Good Men Need Rules

Folcher Aueducan: Bisexual but unaware. He’s always just looked at woman. Romances Leliana.

Archie Hawke: Demisexual. Struggled with ideas of attraction for most of his life. Romances Merrill who he loves dearly.

Lucas Cadash: Straight. Romances Cassandra.

Crashing Fantasies

Noamahn Tabris: Straight. He once tried with a guy but deemed it not for him. Romances Morrigan

Aine Hawke: Bisexual. Had a huge thing for Isabela but ends up with Anders. Is a himbo to the max.

Davhalla Lavellan: Pansexual. Had a thing for multiple members of the Inquisition, including Harding. Davhalla ends up with Solas in the end.

Those We Care For

Rosalind Amell: Gaaaaaaaaaay. She didn’t used to be but she developed into it. Romances Leliana.

Lilith Hawke: Bisexual. Has no preference. Gets with Anders.

Shok Adaar: Bisexual. Has a thing for Blackwall and Sera. I had two ways she went I’ve landed on her romancing Sera.

Mistakes Make us People

Thea Surana: Straight. Mostly. A pretty butch woman turns her head but it’s not common. Ends up with Alistair.

Teddy Hawke: Straight. Annoyed me since I wanted to romance Isabela but Teddy kept yelling straight. Romances Fenris then Anders.

Ophelia Trevylan: Straight. Never tried and never wanted to. Pretended to be to help a friend avoid and annoying admirer. Romances Blackwall.

With Bloody Hands

Muirin Cousland: No clue. Legit this girl is only into power. She does end up carings for Alistair in the end but she romances him for the power.

Willow Hawke: Straight. Romances Sebastian because she honestly liked him but it was a plus he’s a prince.

Gloria Trevylan: Straight. Was only into Iron Bull at first but romances Cullen for the power. Does actually come to love him.

Uneasy Rests the Laurels

Lochlan Hawke: Bisexual. Romances Zevran and married Anora. Ends up in an honest triad with them.

Simon Hawke: Gay. Very much. Romances Fenris.

Edmund Trevylan: Bisexual. Romances Dorian, and loves him very much.

Revolution is Never Kind

Runa Amell: Murder. And men. Very straight, romances Zevran.

Wyome Hawke: asexual but very into Anders and Justice. Has no positive or negative thoughts in sex.

Faith Sustains

Brynja Brosca: Gay. Has had sex with men for money but rates it a 0 each time. Romances Leliana.

Aisley Hawke: She is asexual and sex repulsed. Falls in love with Sebastian and they have a chaste marriage he supports and loves even when Prince because he is a good guy.

Charity Cadash: Bisexual. Also a trans woman who doesn’t talk about it much. Romances Josiephine.

To Be Kind

Caoimhe Tabris: Bisexual. Is into buff people though. Romances Alistair.

Ivy Hawke: Bisexual. Isn’t that focused on romance with everything. Romances Fenris.

Revas Lavellan: Pansexual. Has had casual relationships with all genders. Dabbled in gender non conforming and identity stuff. Not for her. Romances Solas.

Love Yourself

Riley Cousland: Straight. Has a lot of internal issues regarding beauty and self worth. Romances Zevran.

Ivy Hawke: Bisexual. In this world also has a lot of issues she’s working though. Romances Fenris still.

Harel Lavellan: Bisexual. I never really settled on a romance for her, she’s kind of always gravitated towards Josie though. So probably Josephine.

[lionslavellan]

ophelia cousland and morrigan, some of my favorite girls 🖤

[ma-sulevin]

Emma for the pro/con? And if she’s already been asked for, maybe Ophelia?

Emma’s answers here!

PROS

Will back you up in a fight no matter who it’s against

Will slap you around if that’s what you’re into

Otherworldly beauty will make your exes jealous

CONS

Sometimes wakes up and says “today I’ll cause problems on purpose”

Her dog is more important than you

Picks locks so none of your secrets are safe

[uhjupiter]

Trouble is a friend but trouble is a foe

[mrs-theirin]

i saw @trvelyans do this and i wanted to do it too!! this is my @bodycountgame​ oc, ophelia colhoun! she has her eyes on charlie :’)

from left to right: first day outfit, special night outfit, returning from the pool outfit, sleepwear (yes her hair volume doubles when she goes to bed LMAO)

(under the cut: ophelia cousland-theirin because i made her too)

[treatsformeeko]

another portrait of a young warden cousland!

[dunwcll]

@dankou tagged me to make my da ocs and their love interests in this picrew ♥

top row: warden cordelia amell & alistair theirin

second row: leliana & riona cousland 

third row: blackwall & ophelia trevelyan

bottom row: oscar trevelyan & dorian pavus

(pls pretend blackwall & dorian have the proper facial hair orz)

taggin uhhhhhhhhhh @denerims @lockescoles @ambassadorpavus n idk whoever else wants to do it lol

[aceofwonders]

I keep thinking about my dragon age ocs....I need to get back to playing the games so I can appropriately talk about Them!!

but yeah here’s my general idea for them right now...

Shannon Cousland [human man - rogue (assassin) - romancing; morrigan]

Ophelia Hawke [human woman - mage (probably spirit healer?) - romancing; fenris] 

Ingrid Trevelyan [human woman - warrior (templar) - romancing; blackwall] 

[visenyatargaryn]

freydis (tes) | mila kinsley (fc)

qi'ara dysar (sw) | ophelia cousland (da)

anaëlle (tw) | evangeline zotova (fo)

TAGGED BY @chuckhansen to do this pic crew 🩷

TAGGING anyone who wants to do this since I'm so late at finally making this... lol

[casijaz]

🗺⚡️☄️🗣 please! :)

🗺️ Does your OC like going on adventures? Have they ever discovered something really interesting and significant or are they just too busy getting lost? Where is their favourite place they’ve been? Least favourite?

Mzia: As someone who’s a self-proclaimed history nerd and a bard-in-training she loves going out on adventures and discovering anything she can get her grabby little hands on. She’s nosy and inquisitive. Getting lost is not a problem for her, just another way to find creative solutions. Her favourite place so in the span of DA:O was a toss up between the royal palace of Denerim and the old ruins in the Brecilian Forest. Her least favourite place was the alienage because it just ended up reminding her of Dust Town.

Panathlan: He likes going on adventures where he can be a little stealthy, something he’s never once doing in combat. He can find the mundane even interesting at times if it’s comfortable. The first place he found that really caught his interest was one of Denerim’s blacksmith shops outside of the alienage, and as a teen he’d just spend time watching them work. In the span of DA:O he is the one to rediscover the ways of the Arcane Warrior, and even if he wasn’t a mage to learn them, he learnt a lot from the other techniques.

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⚡ What are your OC’s phobias? Is there any reasoning behind these? How do they calm themselves down after getting scared? What are they like when they’re afraid? Is there any chance of them overcoming their fears?

Danae: Quite contrary to how they work, one of their phobias is complete silence. Their line of work generally requires stealth and quiet to do properly, but even in the silence of the forest you can still hear how it’s alive, with rustling leaves, streaming water, or animals calling. When it is completely quiet around something’s scared off all living creatures and spirits meaning something bad is about to happen. They most remember the silence before touching the mirror which led to Tamlen’s demise. They like to hum, talk to themselves, or just amicable chatter in the background the best. The clan always had plenty of this.

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☄️ Does your OC believe in fate and destiny or do they think it’s a load of garbage? Would they ever get this fortune told? What would a fortune-teller tell them about their future?

Lorelei: Andrastianism mentions little on destiny or fate except for that the Maker has created for you. As she’s got a tiny bit of a saviour complex mixed with complicated feelings regarding surviving the Highever massacre, she firmly believes it is her duty to die for her land and country to stop the Blight. She carries this fatalistic nature with her even after the Blight ends. She likes to believe in fate when it comes to the negative only, never the positive. Alistair’s outlook on their romance pokes holes in this at times, however.

Bezrin: Absolutely believes that the lineage of the ancestors hold something to them. Sure it’s mostly nepotistic nonsense what’s going on in Orzammar, but some things are sure to be set in (the) Stone. He does believe you need to steer the hands of destiny and that it requires input from yourself but he was destined to do great among the halls of those who came before him and so he did in the Blight. He doesn’t believe it was his fate to die in the Deep Roads or be disposed as prince, but he does believe that he ends up where he is supposed to, with the wardens.

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🗣️ What are the most painful words that can be said to your OC to utterly break them? What are the words that you could tell them to cheer them up? Maybe some advice to give them the boost they need!

Daylen: Mention anything to him about his past abuse in a positive manner and he will cut you off right there and then. No suffering made him stronger or better it made him suffer and still suffer till this day. If he is the wrong headspace one could totally steer him to a mental breakdown by gaslighting his past to him and claiming he deserved what happened to him. Take him away from that situation and let him find his space for a bit and he’ll be back again. He does appreciate talking about his past on his own terms though, he’s very open about that.

Ophelia: Make her feel small, invisible, and like she doesn’t matter. She sometimes already feels like she’s living in Daylen’s and others’ shadow so bump that up and make her feel worthless, that’ll do it. One of the ways she can completely shut down is by completely shutting up. She was mute for a while after joining the circle, and still suffers from anxiety attacks that can lead to temporary mutism. She knows common sign language because of this. Obviously encouraging words from friends will help a bit but considering it’s also a very internal issue she needs to find her own voice before she can voice herself, too.

[origamiblades]

Ship tag dump; & signals the ship is either platonic or familial.

If you don't see one for your character and want one we probably haven't interacted enough for me to create one. But feel free to hmu if you're interested.

i know i still owe @poewingsdameron one for urakan

[lionslavellan]

oh no i accidentally drew my favorite couple again (pre relationship)🫣 here’s alistair trying to show ophelia how to use a sword, oblivious to the fact that she can’t take her eyes off him

[ma-sulevin]

#28 for Ophelia and Alistair!

28. the one where some people can see the red string of fate and follow it to their soulmates.

Alistair was ten years old the first time he tried to follow the red string. He left Redcliffe Castle with some snacks, a waterskin, and a pilfered dagger, and he walked all afternoon until the guards caught him and carried him back to Eamon.

It wasn’t fair, he thought, that he could see the line but not follow it.

It was just another unfairness in his life, but it grated so keenly against everything else. No mother, no father, few real friends, no one who cared what he wanted to do or where he wanted to go; no one asked if he wanted to be sent to Templar training because no one cared.

He thought she might care, though.

He kept his eye on the string, always, waiting for his next opportunity to follow it, always hoping she might manage to escape whatever was keeping her far away and find him first.

It basically always led to the northeast, moving so slowly that he never saw much of a change in it, and it never seemed to get shorter. His soulmate isn’t a Templar, or at least she isn’t a Templar in his particular training.

Duncan comes and then suddenly Alistair is a Grey Warden, and he’s so much happier now but he still doens’t know where that red line goes, and he still doesn’t have the freedom to just follow it like he wants to, because he hast to stay with Duncan, has to go through training, has to go to Ostagar to help with the darkspawn army, and isn’t that a cheery thought? Here he is, the red line from his heart pointing due north, and he’s in the same encampment of a half-brother he’s never met and he doesn’t know what to do with that either.

The Warden-Recruit Duncan brings with him from the Circle is beautiful, sunburned and freckling with the wildest yellow curls Alistar’s ever seen, and even though the line from him doesn’t match the line from her (although they both point north), it’s easy enough to let her curl up against his side sometimes, to let her kiss him sometimes, to let her make him forget Duncan’s death and Loghain’s betrayal and the archdemon bearing down on them all.

It’s a betrayal in its own right when she makes him the king and then leaves him to learn how to be a king on his own, barely twenty-two years old with the weight of Ferelden on his shoulders. He never wanted this, never wanted to have this much responsibility, and he chafes against it.

At least his line is still red. That’s the only good thing — he’s heard that the lines disappear if your soulmate dies, and his is still alive, somewhere. For a while, it pointed south west from Denerim, and then it started moving slowly, heading north again, maybe heading back to her home?

He spends his time sitting in terrible meetings wondering what she’s doing, what she did during the Blight, what happened that made her have to leave home. He tells Teagan he wants to go find her, and Teagan always says “soon,” but “soon” in Alistair’s experience usually means “never.”

He’ll never admit aloud how long it took him to realize he’s the king and he can follow his own red line if he wants to.

He informs Teagan instead of asking him, packs and prepares to go alone with just a horse and his recently-imprinted mabari girl for company, then relents and allows Teagan and no more than three guards to accompany them.

It doesn’t even take a week to get to where they’re going, though it takes longer to figure out exactly where in Highever they need to be. It’s complicated by the fact that he’s the King — and really, if they’d let him travel alone, he’d probably already know where he was going. He was a Grey Warden, he’s had Templar training, it’s not like he’s going to get assassinated if he’s alone for five minutes, right?

Teagan starts grumbling when Alistair finally announces he thinks they need to go up to Castle Cousland and inquire within. This isn’t how things are done, Teagan says, as though Alistair gives a fig, and Alistar’s so annoyed from spending so many days in a row traveling with him, that he walks right into the estate without stopping to let anyone introduce him.

His red line is the brightest he’s ever seen it, and he abandons his horse and starts jogging, wondering who he’s going to find. His mabari runs ahead, like she knows (she probably does), and skids to a stop at the feet of a young woman practicing archery in the courtyard.

The young woman doesn’t even notice Alistair, too distracted by the mabari. She drops to her knees and coos, petting the dog’s scruff, accepting a slobbery kiss to the chin with a laugh.

Alistair’s heart seizes in his chest, and for a moment he’s not sure he’ll ever be able to breathe again.

The red line is pointing right to her, and she’s gorgeous, the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, with pale skin and long dark hair all braided down her back so it wouldn’t get tangled in her arrows, and she’s wearing rogue’s leathers, and she’s smiling up at him with her eyes sparking.

“Is she your—oh.”

Oh, indeed.

Her eyes lose focus for a second, like she’s looking at the red line too, and then she stands up slowly. She’s tall, almost as tall as he is, and she’s grinning at him with a dusting of pink across her cheekbones.

She bows. “Your majesty.”

“You have me at a disadvantge, my lady,” Alistair says, his tongue mercifully doing what he requests of it for once. “You know me, but...”

Her eyes spark a bit as she straightens back up. “Ophelia Cousland, my lord. Welcome to my home.”

He bows this time. He can’t help it. “Lady Ophelia. I apologize for our sudden arrival, but... I believe you know why we’re here.”

She takes a full step forward, then hesitates, so he closes the distance for her. She reaches out and he takes her hands in his, the red line growing taught between their chests, glowing bright now that they’re finally, blessedly together.

“It’s about time you found me.”

She tilts her chin up and he starts to lean down. “You should probably know... I’m always late.”

She’s laughing when his lips touch hers, but he swallows the noise and cups her jaw with his hand. She falls into him, hand on his waist, tongue flicking across his, and suddenly... everything feels right.

He’s finally found her.

He’s finally... happy.

[uhjupiter]

i recently played dragon age origins for the first time & drew my warden