#pair: magni x anora

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ANORA'S CONCERN FOR HER WARDEN

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Good luck, my husband.

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EPILOGUE: QUEEN ANORA

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i maintain anora and aeducan should have been able to marry on the basis that bhelen is on the throne, as aeducan is restored to their place in the royal house as bhelen is shown to be a more progressive/open-minded king who welcomes the surfacers with open arms in the epilogue if you ask for your boon to be military aid to orzammar. in this essay i will —

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MORRIGAN ABOUT THE WARDEN'S ENGAGEMENT TO ANORA

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Once again thinking about the top tier height difference between Anora and Magni 😌

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Magni/Anora has been making me go lowkey insane for the past 24hrs ngl lads.

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Prompt: "Breathe through your nose." 😏

Magni/Anora | 780-ish words | Set after Golems of Amgarrak but before Witch Hunt.

When Magni returned to Denerim after what felt like a short eternity in the Deep Roads – first leading Fereldan soldiers and warrior caste alike to reclaim a lost thaig and push back the darkspawn further, then on a secretive expedition-turned-rescue mission with Jerrik Dace to Amgarrak – Anora’s greeting had been lukewarm at best. Perhaps any affection she might have harboured for him died the moment that he gave the order to let Amaranthine burn, and the months apart in an informal exile for the order made that estrangement go further; but then, when the eyes of the court were no longer upon them, the two of them safely behind the doors of her private set of rooms, Anora knelt down to kiss him, admit against his lips that she’d missed him terribly.

“I did not realise quite how much, husband,” she murmured, running her hands through strands of his hair – Aeducan gold, it was called in Orzammar, for how many of his relations bore that rich dark blonde colour – before touching a new scar across his cheek, marring the light brown tattoo there. “I trust you took no serious injuries?”

Magni elected not to tell her about the flesh abomination within Amgarrak that had grabbed him and thrown him across the thaig’s accursed forge like he’d weighed nothing, Vigilance clattering across the floor out of reach. It had broken three of his ribs.

“Nothing I can’t come back from,” they had settled for instead – resulting in Anora pursing her lips in disapproval after she had Erlina draw him a bath and saw the bruises on his ribcage. It had been an attempt to give her a small lie by omission instead.

Now night has fallen and he has traded the blood- and Blight-soaked Deep Roads for the royal bedchamber once more. It has been months by his reckoning since they were last intimate, and any concerns Anora might have had over a lack of fidelity faded quickly.

Breathe through your nose, he reminds himself; above him, his wife’s moans are muffled – her thighs are pressed up against each ear, the gold of his earrings cold against her warm skin – and the headboard creaks as her grip tightens on it, her hips eagerly rocking against his mouth. A thick hand runs up her thigh, stroking over the soft flesh until it comes to the dip at her hip, just hidden beneath a rucked-up nightshirt. They squeeze, eliciting another soft moan from Anora.

She is still quiet during their lovemaking, all sighs and whimpers caught in her throat; it was strange at first, to not hear a lover take their pleasure loudly, but he swiftly learns what pleases her and what doesn’t. She sits more firmly against his mouth, his nose buried against the hair between her legs; and her thighs quiver around their head.

They lap her up, savouring her orgasm while ignoring how painfully hard he has become. Her breath comes fast, high-pitched, and the headboard creaks again as her fingers loosen their grasp.

Even though there is a slight rush of cool air as she dismounts his face, Magni taking that moment to breathe through his mouth again, the room still feels uncomfortably warm. The mattress shifts as Anora lies down beside him, her nightshirt high around her waist and the laces pulled open to show a swell of small, pale breasts. 

She looks over at him with a heavy-lidded gaze and a small smile on her parted lips. Her fingers tremble as they touch his chest, over the expanse of well-defined muscle and chest hair, careful to avoid Magni’s still healing ribs, signalled by angry bruises in a pattern of black and blue. Their chest rises up and down, ignoring the sharp pain there, the tenderness of the flesh. 

“I did not exert you too much did I, husband?” she asks, concern apparent in each softly-spoken word. Her hand slips up to his pectorals again, tracing over the tattoo of dwarva knotwork that outline their chest, then over the sensitive nipples and the piercings there – gold to match the ones in his ears. “You are not in too much pain?” 

They reach out to take her hand and place a kiss upon her knuckles. Their beard bristles against her. “Just… need to take things a little slower,” he admits, taking several slow, steady breaths.

“I understand.” Full lips rest against their temple for a moment as her hand returns to its trail down his chest, over a scarred abdomen. Her fingers gently wrap around the base of his cock, swollen and resting against their belly. “You have taken good care of me tonight, so allow me to repay the favour.”

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hope u dont mind me sending you some of the options for that fluff ask list :D for magni - A, F, N. for Valerius - J, Q, M. for leonelle - L, Y, U

Oh my god, thank you Shania. I apologise this took a while to reply to. This got...somewhat long.

MAGNI

Activities - What do they like to do with their s/o? How do they spend their free time with them?

I imagine they do not have a lot of spare time for one another. Anora is nothing if not a dedicated queen, and Magni – at least for the first few years of their marriage – is often away from court, either because of Warden or Orzammar business.

But once he remains at court for extended periods of time, Magni and Anora are often sighted walking the palace gardens together, either by themselves or with a handful of mabari sired by Magni’s warhound; or they play cards in their private rooms. Magni soon learns Anora is a deft hand at wicked grace and gets thoroughly trounced. 

Fight - Would they be easy to forgive their s/o? How are they fighting?

So if I think there is one thing Magni doesn’t do, it’s fight with Anora. They’re both stubborn, but the difference is one of them has a father who is not afraid to come back across the Frostbacks.  Magni respects both Loghain and Anora too much to really pick a fight with her over anything; they come to understand quite swiftly what it means to be married to Anora, and he understands his place within her court. Lead her armies, look pretty and warm her bed, and when she requires it, support her in whatever she asks. 

Their one major fight comes just after Awakening, when Anora learns of what happened to Amaranthine. She needed Magni to do anything but that, and to see a prominent trade hub in Ferelden burn to the ground when Vigil’s Keep could have survived on its own accord. It brought Magni’s intentions – and thus her – into question, and the argument resulted in Anora placing her husband in a temporary exile from court while she did damage control; everyone in court knew that was the reason, though the official reason for Magni’s absence in court was that they were helping Orzammar and the Fereldan forces stationed there take back more of the Deep Roads.

It took a while for Anora to forgive Magni for that formally, but I think personally it was a little easier. She understands that they had to make a hard decision.

Nicknames - What do they call their s/o?

Anora and Magni are not really a nickname sort of couple – terribly boring, I know; she might affectionately refer to them as ‘my consort’ or ‘husband’,  but other than that, she mostly keeps to ‘Magni.’ If there was more of the Dwarven language or even just more affectionate terms to work with, it might be a different story for Magni, but since there isn’t: again, he mostly sticks to more formal terms, ‘my Queen’ – and very occasionally a ‘my love’ might let slip. God forbid these two show sentimentality, I suppose.

VALERIUS

Jealousy - Do they get jealous easily? How do they deal with it?

Oh, he is loathe to admit it, but he gets easily jealous  to the point of murderous. He learns fairly early on with Camellia that he does not like the idea of keeping things non-exclusive between them. To quote the option he picked in act 3: “I don’t know how to bring our next meeting any closer, but I do know what will happen if you’ve been spending your time with another man when I should be in his place. He won’t be allowed to live after that.” It is a nasty streak of his that he is not proud of, even if Camellia responded positively to it (and perhaps the only woman who might find that genuinely a turn on (and a terribly amusing one at that) – to know that he is so inflamed by her he is willing to kill any potential admirers. She has certainly used it to her advantage before; a way for her to find a new person to kill with him – almost like a game. 

And similarly, she is prone to jealousy to a potentially murderous degree as well. She turns petty, colder and more verbally vicious than usual, and those who are not likely to back down are more likely to be at the mercy of her stiletto. Ultimately it depends on who it is – in the case of her jealousy towards Vellexia and Wenduag during the crusade, there was not a whole lot she could do about either situation, because she and Valerius were not in a relationship at the time and she was trying her best to hide her feelings; but if there’s someone less…valuable, then there might be a sudden disappearance.

(A lot of people come to understand that both are off-limits because of the potential consequences of stoking the other’s jealousy.)

Quirk - Some random ability they have that’s beneficial in a relationship.

That quirky side effect of being a dhampir known as having a taste for blood? Pretty fitting that it’s beneficial in his relationship with Camellia. It certainly makes him far more accepting of her proclivities than most men would be; and she enjoys it when he bites her, drinks from her. It is a huge turn on for her, a perfect mix of pleasure and pain, and it makes them both feel good. 

Also. It has to be said – his willingness to go down on her at any given time and his penchant for blood has made her monthly courses that much more bearable and what was once an… inconvenience is not so much the case anymore.  

Marriage - Do they want to get married? How do they propose? What would the marriage be like?

He absolutely wanted to marry Camellia; I think he realises that after he rejected Lichdom for her, that for him to commit anathema, partially because the thought of sacrificing her is so unbearable, that he is thinking that far ahead. And perhaps that was foolish of him, given they were not even in a relationship yet. 

But the marriage proposal is not what he would have wanted it to be – and yet, it somehow feels right that it was the way it was. She returns in the dead of a midwinter’s night with every intention to kill him, to free herself from the torment and anguish of missing him (and with a contract on his life with her name on it), but cannot bring herself to do it. Camellia knows where to strike to take a life, and she failed to do it; and after they’ve had sex upon his war table, he proposes to her in the midst of a conversation about what comes next.  Romance. 

(I have been toying with the idea that he gives her a formal proposal before their wedding, complete with a ring, because he feels like he should do it "proper." It's just a matter of working out when.)

LEONELLE

Love Confession - How would they confess to their s/o?

She never did confess to Nyrissa; she couldn’t bring herself to do it. It would make the unspoken real and that would make things more complicated than they already were. In the end, it didn’t matter or not whether she loved Nyrissa – there was only one way that story was ending, whether she wanted to admit it or not. One of them needed to die for the Stolen Lands to have any modicum of stability and Leonelle chose her queendom over love.

With Jaethal, it is different yet somehow similar for her. Hesitant. Leonelle usually is forward in her intentions with the women she is attracted to, but after Nyrissa, her heart became more guarded and she is more reluctant to be open about her emotional connections to those women. Jaethal especially is a…complicated situation. They're liege and vassal, and confidantes first and foremost, lovers second. Leonelle is under no illusion that Jaethal wishes to limit herself to one person now she has a mortal body once more. At best, a declaration of love might seem naive to the much older woman. At worst, she would balk and break off their arrangement. 

She needn't have worried. With the help of liquid courage, Leonelle tipsily tells Jaethal on their way back from one of Octavia's parties that she's in love with her. Jaethal's response is a surprisingly calm and sober "an expected outcome" and while she does not say it back, she has shown a certain degree of affection to Leonelle in return that she did not show earlier. 

Yearning - How will they cope when they’re missing their partner?

Leonelle is pretty good at the whole yearning thing. Nyrissa made her good at it – she would often catch herself dreaming or thinking about her to the point of distraction in the later stages of the game. And while she is not quite bad with the whole yearning situation with Jaethal (because she knows she can be with Jaethal to an extent, have something tangible with her), when Jaethal is not at court, the yearning does bleed through in her words during their private correspondence. But for the most part, Leonelle is more likely to surround herself with people during those periods of time when she is missing Jaethal so she feels less lonely. 

I imagine Jaethal will have a certain level of detachment to any relationship she may have with any shorter lived partner and Leonelle isn’t an exception to that just because she is the Queen. She also states that she has no intention to limit herself in any way – and that likely includes monogamy to any extent – so the level of yearning that Jaethal would have wouldn’t be even remotely close to what Leonelle would experience as a still-mortal queen from a much shorter-lived ancestry. She copes just fine, I imagine.

Understanding - How good do they know their partner? Are they empathetic?

Answered this one here.

FLUFF ALPHABET (CLOSED)

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💦 for valerius, 💞 for leonelle, 💌 for magni and salutations and well wishes to lumi

Valerius was answered here.

LEONELLE

💞 Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?

Leonelle for the most part treated sex casually - that's what her relationship with Kanerah was for the most part, since Kanerah didn't really allow it to be anything else and that's what it mostly was for her in Cheliax - stolen moments behind closed doors - though in the case of her life back in Cheliax, it was probably somewhat liberating. I do think that she found casual sex a lot less fulfilling as time went by and she started falling in love with Nyrissa. With Jaethal, it occupies a bit of an odd space as a result - the casualness of it just makes her yearn for something more with her but she feels she can't necessarily push for more because Jaethal is her advisor and had no interest early on in 'limiting' herself now she has a mortal body again.

MAGNI

💌How would they plan a romantic evening for a significant other?

Ultimately, I think any romantic evening with Anora would end up being fairly lowkey. Being Queen must be exhausting, even if Anora takes to it like a duck to water, so doing something that requires a lot of energy is probably off the table. Magni would first and foremost want to make sure their wife is looking after herself - they take the role of her consort and her wellbeing very seriously - so a very intimate candlelit dinner of her favourites (I imagine between the end of the Blight and the wedding, Magni picked Loghain's brain to find out what Anora enjoys since they don't know much about topsider stuff) and a long soak in the bath are certainties. Whether there's any sex doesn't matter - they just want Anora to feel more relaxed at the end of the night.