#ourinquisitorialness

[lorspolairepeluche]

3 and/or 4 from the OC codex prompts? For anybody you like (:

3) a report written by your OC’s teacher or mentor

4) a letter from your OC to their love interest

oc codex prompts (with help from @nadas-dirthalen's veilguard codex tutorial)

[sketchyelvenasss]

🌱💐 for Azlo?? I need to know moar

Thank you so much for the ask! 💜

🌱 Was Rook involved romantically with anyone before Veilguard? What was their partner like? How did the relationship end?

Maybe it is a little cliche, but technically he was involved with many people and they all ended the same way, with him killing his “partner”. Even from a young age he was naturally charismatic so the crows honed it to be used as a weapon. It’s why he flits without thinking about it. Meet them, be charming, get in close, do what had to be done to get their trust, then at the best moment strike.

Fortunately he had never needed to sleep with a target before, he would have without a second thought, but I believe he'd be more messed up if he did. And for once I guess I’m being benevolent to one of my children.

Still his overall experience with relationships has been shallow and completely physical. The level of joy he gets when he experiences a relationship with emotional attachment and non-sexual intimacy—🤯

💐 What is the relationship Rook has with their faction mentor? What was the moment they sent Rook away like?

Definitely complicated. They are only 4 years apart, but Azlo still sees Viago as somewhat of a parental figure. He looked to him for anything he needed, and he wanted to please him. To make him proud.

But as in game Vi is bad at expressing exactly when he is in fact happy or proud, particularly when it comes to Rook. So Azlo has constantly felt gaining his favor as an uphill battle. An achievable goal.

From Viago’s perspective Azlo reminds him of a more impulsive version of himself. That's the reason he may be a bit unfairly hard on him. Azlo is actually one of his favorite agents. He has to play the stern Talon, but he’s never been truly upset with Rook’s work.

[leothelionsaysgrrrr]

3, 11, 12, and 24 from the Rook questions!

3. What was Rook’s life before their faction?

Rook’s story is, of course, that he was adopted as a baby by an Imperial Legion commander who found him on a battlefield near Ventus, moved around a lot, trained to fight and bothered everyone while doing it, worked as a bodyguard for Minrathous’s most elite courtesans in a high end pleasure house, then for a magister when one of the courtesans he protected inherited a Senate seat from an estranged uncle, and later joined the Shadow Dragons to make a difference. 

Which is, of course, complete and utter bullshit. Except for the bothering people, there's no version of this story where he isn't bothering people.

Now, Falx Verus Mercar was a guard at the Ivory Oasis for several years, and their most prominent courtesan, Silver, did through some inheritance fuckery from his maternal uncle become a magister around the time of the Exalted Council, and he did bring his dear and trusted friend Mercar with him as his personal bodyguard. But Falx Verus Mercar himself is a fiction, and didn’t exist at all until about a decade ago, when he needed a new name and cover story for what this snarky long-haired beardy guy was doing in Minrathous when noted scoundrel and infamous frumentarius - a spy, saboteur, fixer, thug, slave hunter, general doer of dirty work for the magister who employed him, basically his job was to make his boss's problems disappear and be a problem to everyone else - Rexus Leventis had long since been presumed dead. Coming back gave him a chance to start over, and the new name and new story let him do the real work he came back to do - use the skills and knowledge gained in his youth to help Silver help people escape slavery, and grow into a better person himself - unbothered. Mostly.

11. Does Rook keep up with current events? (How aware of the situation are they at the start of the game?)

He has a local ear to the ground, as one might expect, and is quite familiar with the Antaam invasions in the east since Silver's - sorry, Magister Sisenna's - holdings are near Carastes and he actually bothers taking care of the people he represents. Traveling with Varric got him up to speed on a lot of things going on outside Tevinter, but he usually has a pretty good idea of what's going on at any given time. He just likes to seem like he's completely oblivious because it annoys people.

12. Does Rook have any family? Do they keep in touch?

He's the firstborn son of a prominent Altus family, but his father disowned him when he failed to manifest magic. His mother hated his father, so she doted on him as best and as publicly as she could - it was at her suggestion that another magister (Rexus's father's best friend and his mother's longtime lover) agreed to employ Rexus as one of his frumentarii. He also has a golden child younger brother who everyone knows was born solely to replace him, and they've never liked each other. His father was among those assassinated when Rexus's last job went bad and ended with a lot of dead magisters, including his boss, and his mother went into hiding after that. He's not sure she's even still alive. His brother masterminded the whole thing to seize power in the Magisterium and remains there to this day. He's not Venatori, and does actively oppose them, but he's definitely not one of the good ones and would have Rexus killed on sight if he knew he'd survived.

So, yeah. They don't keep in touch.

24. Does Rook have any nightly rituals before bed?

He’s very much a "fall into bed face down, arms and legs out, stay there until morning" kind of guy. He’s at least let Silver prevail upon him to use a silk pillowcase for the sake of his hair. The one hygiene thing he's always been really fastidious about is taking care of his teeth, though, so he'll do that before bed if nothing else to have an excuse to see how long he can gargle something. And how long it will take before someone tells him to stop.

50 questions for Rook!

[goingtoweather]

10 from all three categories (past/present/future) for Lawrence and Ezra pretty please!

Thank yoooou!

What did they dream of doing when they grew up? How and why did it change, if it did?

Lawrence always had a hunger for academia and wanted to get a formal education. He was the only one in his family to go to university, and with the lure of Dartmouth College nearby(ish…) had decided that he wanted to become a physician as a young teen. He wanted to help people, sure, but he also admittedly had a hunger for prestige and that was the greater lure for his pursuing an education. His dream didn’t so much change as…he feels like his whole life recently burned down so now he has…no plan or dream. A whaleship was his substitute for pistol and ball.

Ezra always wanted to be a captain. He grew up in view of all the whale ships and would watch them in the harbor whilst sitting in his father’s woodshop. And his father would tell him stories about Black captains, men who started like them. That’s what Ezra wanted and still wants. He wants his own ship and the stability that comes with it. He joined a whaler at age 13 and grew up fast. He’s spent half his life trying to achieve that dream, and he feels so close to it there’s no other option but to reach for it.

What do they always carry with them and why?

Re: the above issue, Lawrence doesn’t carry anything with him from his shore life. He’s very unsentimental about it. But he’s a big diarist. So while the journal isn’t always physically on his person, he always brings it with him. And in his spare time he’s always writing in it. Observations. Feelings. Silly little plays and poems.

in contrast to Lawrence, Ezra keeps little pieces of home. Particularly his sister’s letters, now that she can write, and drawings she sends him. He asks her to draw the things she sees in her day to day, so it doubles as a memory of his family but also of New Bedford. He’s extremely sentimental but also extremely private and doesn’t share them with anyone. Those aren’t physically on his person, though. For things he physically carries with him, he has a scrimshaw’d tie pin that has a heart on it that he made. When his sister was younger, while he was home between voyages, he asked her to whisper a little good luck charm on it. So he wears it when he feels like he needs its protection. So there’s a lil detail to look out for in past chapters or future ones. (;

How do they want to be remembered after they die?

Lawrence would like to be remembered as a good man, that is all. In his present moment he doesn’t feel like much of one and doesn’t think such remembrances are in his cards. But later on in life he thinks he has the potential of living up to it.

Ezra wants someone to tell their kids stories about him like his father did with him. Not because he wants fame or status, but because he wants to be hope for other people that one can build the life they want for themselves, against all odds.

[focsle]

I saw that I could buy someone dashboard crabs and thought of you. You're welcome <3

Oh thank you for these little guys haha!

[gaysparkler]

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

WAAHHH thank you 🥺🖤🎃🧡

[sunshinemage]

OC Kiss Week incoming!

I'll be participating in this OC Kiss Week, following the prompts from this post (courtesy of @ockissweek) 💙

I'm going to do the same as last year, answer asks with little smoochy sketches, so don't hesitate to send your amazing OCs in my askbox with a prompt of your choice between the ones listed on the post (or if you have another idea in mind that doesn't fit any of the prompts, feel free to ask, of course)!

Prompts:

desperate

first

stolen

reunion

worship

forbidden

caught

Now, for the fun part! The actual OC Kiss Week runs from February 10th to February 16th, but I will be answering asks and doing sketches until then! When the actual week starts, I will be picking a random ask each day among the ones in my askbox and do a fully rendered piece for it ^^

Who will be doing the kissing? Well, let me introduce you!

Lelei Haurasha (Dragon Age: the Veilguard)

37, nonbinary (they/them), pansexual Lelei is a Dalish elf from the desert at the west of Orlais. They love exploring new places, especially if it involves tinkering with magical artifacts or discovering new species of plants. They're not the most talkative type, but they love listening to others, especially if they're rambling about something they're passionate about.

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Nindarhmen Lavellan (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

28 (as of the events of Inquisition), male (he/him), bisexual Do I need to introduce him? Nin is a Dalish elf from the Free Marches. he's a well-spoken, kind and compassionate fire mage who probably has the biggest sweet tooth of all Thedas. He is working as Seneschal of Elvhen Affairs for his husband, Inquisitor Thalon Lavellan ( @ourinquisitorialness) and sometimes describes himself as a scholar.

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Oya Cenric (Wayfarer IF)

32, nonbinary (they/them or she/her), grey asexual (as she says sometimes: 'romance is complicated, affection isn't'.) Oya is half-Aeda, originated from the Coveran Republic. They like peace, the sea, the blue hour before sunrise. She acts somewhat aloof, unless she knows you well.

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Rinnariel Haurasha (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

28 (as of the events of Inquisition), female (she/her), bisexual Rinna is Nin's twin sister. She left clan Lavellan at 16 and became a Grey Warden under the orders of Warden Commander Telhara Surana ( @ourinquisitorialness). She is quiet, practical and straight to the point. She hides her playful side really well.

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Feel free to borrow any of them for OC Kiss Week, and don't hesitate to ask me about them 🥰

[doriansbutt]

Righteous?

inspired by @ourinquisitorialness ‘s blighted inquisitor thoughts bc wow that’s so juicy how did I not think of that I love it oops

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Dorian had already spent days in tears and fear and anguish. Now, all he felt was pure, righteous anger when he looked at his husband. The deep shadows under his amatus’s eyes only hidden by the sickly black ichor that covers his features…the red glow of his eyes… Dorian cannot do this again. Not again. The gods are going to pay for what they’ve done. If they are going to make him watch another loved one suffer like this, he is going to show them what it means to cross Dorian Pavus.

[cestpasfaux24601]

i was tagged by @oakenshieldbaggins for the "10 people I'd like to get to know better game", thanks !! ♥

last song: "Tu vas me quitter encore longtemps" by Hoshi

fave color: blue and purple

last book: the silmarillion

last movie: conclave

last tv show: arcane

sweet/savory/spicy: depends of the mood but mostly sweet

relationship status: it's Complicated(tm) tbh i feel like being ace, transmasc and autistic is just not a good combinaison for relationships, there's just too many ways i can fuck it up lmao

last thing I googled: Celebrimbor - so that i could read his wiki and finally learn more about him

looking forward to: bleach rebirth of souls coming out in march ♥♥ i

current obsession: the rings of of power (more like being obsessed with a few select characters while ignoring everything else :p )

i'm tagging - only if you want ~ @thelordsoftherings @hegodamask @greenleaf4stuff @mayuris-basement-dweller @orchiddingme @dwarveslikeshinythings @carpe-mamilia @subsequentibis @lookslikeaquentinblakedrawing @ourinquisitorialness

[goldthorn-archive]

thought this could be fun and might get me to finish some more wips since my list keeps growing.

Send me a word, any word, and if it’s in one of my WIPs I’ll answer your ask with the sentence or line it appears in.

edit: ty @alienoresimagines i saw @majorbuckyegan rp of @ourinquisitorialness's original post w the ask game

[lindira]

CHARACTER VOICE TAG!!

Thanks @thuviel for the tag!

Rules: Rewrite the line of dialogue from the person who tagged you into the voice of your OC! Pass on the tag with a new line of dialogue. ***

My line: "There's no way I'm doing that."

Aeric: "...No."

Paikea: *laughs* "You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding. I am never doing that!"

Envy: "Not gonna happen, mate. No fuckin' way." *walks away a few steps, then comes back* "Although... Could be fun? Tell ya what, give me a minute. Lemme get drunk first."

Peppermint: *smiling patiently* "My friend, I say this with the utmost kindness: No. I will not be doing that. And if you continue to badger me about it, I will hit you upside the head with my staff."

Clarity: "Um... Can I say no? I'm gonna say no. I'm sorry, just... nope. Nope nope nope. Not for me."

BA-TR15 (Beatris): "Negative. That course of action is ill-advised. I cannot perform the function you have requested."

****

Your line: "You're making me nervous!"

Tags: @ourinquisitorialness @barbex @elvenbeard @invinciblerodent @kurosmind @thessalian and anyone else who wants to do this!

[lorspolairepeluche]

The Empress and The Emperor from those tarot asks, for Rio? 👀

The Empress: What does family mean for Rook?

Mum and Bae, but also Bae's clan, and also the hahren's crew, and also the Lords, and also now the Veilguard, they suppose! (To Rio, family is those who love, support, care for, and roast one another. They know, at least to some extent, how lucky they are to have found it in multiple places during their life, and they strive to show it to those who come to their family lonely.)

The Emperor: What does Rook's leadership style look like?

Uh, leadership? Not much of a leadership person, is Rio. But they'll make decisions, they'll carry them out, they'll think on their feet, and they'll take responsibility for their own actions. They'll check in on their friends, offer advice and help where they can and where it's wanted. Or just a drink or a joke. And if people look to them to do those things...well, that must be leadership, right? (unscientific aside: With six Rooks, leadership is shared between them, though Rio emerges as the "main" Rook due in part to their closer connection with Solas.)

tarot asks for rook

[sketchyelvenasss]

~A Crow receiving a contract on a Tevinter mage is nothing strange. The Crow realizing his target is actually a stellar person, and the contractor is the cultist and murders them instead~ That is previously unheard of.

And then they made out a lil. 🐦‍⬛💜

Happy oc kiss week @ourinquisitorialness !

[leothelionsaysgrrrr]

🍀🌼🪻 for Rexus??

🍀 Has Rook had any near-death experiences? What went through their mind during what they thought was going to be their final moments?

Rexus has a reputation for being impossible to kill precisely because he’s been in an unreasonable amount of situations that by any stretch of the imagination should have killed him. I’ll go into more detail on that in another answer because someone else asked this too, but the one that started it all was The Snake Bite. It happened in his bedroom when he was eleven and he is pretty sure it was arranged by his father to get rid of him. It bit his hand when he reached into a rucksack for something his father had told him to retrieve, and the venom quickly induced paralysis - he collapsed almost immediately, unable to move or cry out for help. All he could do was lay there, in unbearable pain but unable to scream, struggling to breathe, silently begging someone, anyone to find him, thinking to himself over and over again that he knew he was a disappointing and badly behaved son and a terrible brother, but whatever it was, whatever he’d done that was so bad he deserved this, he was sorry, he was so sorry, he was so sorry. His mother (his mother’s servant, but she wasn’t about to let him know that) found him just in time and he survived, but he’s been afraid of snakes ever since (not that he’ll ever admit it). The idea had been in the back of his head since it happened, but the look on his father’s face after he recovered reinforced the idea that he was disappointed he was still alive, and had meant for that snake to kill him. Rexus wasn’t sorry anymore after that, and never would be again.

🌼 If someone was to ask Spite what Rook smells like, what would he say?

Rexus was never really self-conscious about how he smelled until he lived with Silver, who’s quite the opposite and cares about how he smells a LOT, so he absolutely dreads the answer to this question because he’s pretty sure it’s going to be something like “Smells like. Ass. And mildew.” Really, it’s more like brine, and leather.

🪻 What is the most painful injury your Rook has received? How has it affected them once it healed/scarred?

That snake bite was pretty bad, but something I am planning for a later chapter in TSU is going to outdo it. Basically he’s going to get hit with a blood magic spell that will cause his bones to break and his muscles and tendons to tear from the inside, one at a time. And if that’s not bad enough, this is going to happen when he and Emma need to urgently escape somewhere and it would get to his heart and kill him if she just tried to carry him out and deal with it later, so she’ll have to heal him herself. Which is, due to the way she heals, even more painful. Like, months’ worth of repairing bone and tissue done in the space of a few minutes and every bit of pain that goes along with that all at once. A few minutes is a long, long time to hurt that much. He’s physically completely fine once it’s over, if not stronger than before, but it’s not something he remembers fondly. The conversation they have afterwards, yes, but not that.

Got any more?

[rhonuscorner]

Tropes Tier Maker

Tagged by @ell-vellan Thank yoooouuu T-T

Not much to say, it's pretty self explanatory methinks. I think if I gotta pick an all time favorite trope it's Enemies To Lovers, without a doubt 👀 That one never fails to tickle my fancies. I'll never grow bored of writing that one T-T

I'm actually picky about AUs but I do really enjoy the challenge of adapting a canon character to a completely different setting and still keep them in character as much as possible, and coming up with a backstory for them that still hints back to their canon story. Little easter eggs if you will. Not every AU works or is enjoyable to write with every character though.

I'm currently in the process of writing the same canon character in three different AUS - Medieval AU, Wild West AU and College AU and it's 👌! Haven't had this much fun writing in a long time. These three characters share a lot of similarities (obviously) but they're also completely different from each other, I love it.

Also, angst and slow burn fics, hell yeah.

Most of what's on D I don't actually hate, I'm just extremely picky and/or peculiar about how those are written (either by myself or when I read fic).

Tagging @eternallygraceful @thereluctantinquisitor @chaitea09 @ourinquisitorialness and whoever else wants to, no pressure

[focsle]

Poison, parachute, and shooting star for Neris please!!!

poison: vices/bad habits? what are they? how do they affect your OC? For all he tries to divorce himself from his upbringing of Knowledge at Whatever Cost and You Are Entitled To Everything, it’s still very much a part of him. He can be a bit of a brat, and can get uppity if he feels like someone is denying his access to something or is being demeaning to him. While it’s rarely triggered, he can have a vindictive streak and is a master of malicious noncompliance (which can be highly effective when used For Good, but he sometimes also uses it for petty sabotage). He also sometimes glosses over or downplays the harm someone else has done if the result is…something he finds incredibly impressive. He’s very conflicted about the Clockwork City for instance, being all like ‘Listen I know there’s a lot of horrible inequity and its citizens can’t ever leave and it’s all kind of fucked up—and it’s not something /I/ would ever make—but it’s also soooooooooooo……..cool and amazing….’ He can tap into (or fall into) a person he doesn’t actually want to be, if the circumstances prime him for it.

parachute: who does your OC(s) trust the most? who makes them feel safe? who would they do absolutely anything for?

Neris’s fatal flaw is he puts an incredible amount of trust in people in general, as a combination of his belief that most people are inherently decent and that if they aren’t, he’s Powerful and Untouchable anyway. It means he gets screwed over a lot. And it’s never a fool-me-once situation either. He’ll get screwed over multiple times because he always has this little thought of ‘well maybe they won’t do it again!’. It’s a wonder he’s survived himself. But he’s deeply loyal to his close friends and he would truly do anything for them. He’d compromise his morals, his security, even his life for them, if push came to shove. He’d do a lot for your Oorthak and Shadow!

shooting star: if your OC(s) could have one wish what would it be? God I feel like Neris would impulsively waste his wishes and waffle over having just one. Oh oh I wish I was a famous travelogue writer. OR I wish someone would write a song about me. Oh, no, I’d like to see an actual dwemer somehow. Wait, I wish for world peace where no one ever suffers anything ever again. Wait, I know, I wish my father would actually love me. Actually, I want to try a weird food from some plane of Oblivion and not have anything bad happen to my guts. I wish I could touch a dragon…like, an alive one. Nevermind, I want Divayth Fyr to see how smart and cool and talented I am and tell me so. I wish I had a pet chaurus that liked me and lived forever. I wish the Mages Guild would apologize for kicking me out and grovel at my feet for forgiveness just a little. I wish my brother was less of a prick. Oh oh oh I wish I’d never have to sleep again.

I think ultimately he’d just wish that the people he cared about were content. But it’d take a lot of scattered rambling desires to get to that point.