#paragon fitness

[dimxndsareforever]

[tears-of-taelia]

How many times have we done this, Interceptor? You betrayed me at one point.

composition

[a-sketchy]

if the events of persona 4 didn’t happen, if you gave him ten years i think yosuke could’ve become the kind of guy to do fight club. yu is literally his tyler. the degree to which it maps is insane.

[partofitall]

robin hobb really looked at ships and said ‘huh, these are pretty neat, but what if they could experience The Horrors’ and then wrote a book about it

[cursezoroark]

mona stuff i cleaned up from a few weeks ago!

[daisywords]

as someone who was raised with a comparatively healthy mindset around food, I keep being baffled/concerned by other people’s eating practices that they’ll just drop like it’s no big deal. “I’m doing this intermittent fasting thing where I only eat one meal a day” girl if your one meal is the salad you eat every day for lunch I’m. that’s eating disorder behavior. and they talk about this stuff like it’s normal! “I’m trying out this new meal plan where—“ oh a starvation diet? You’re starving yourself?

[sevenangrybees]

When mithrun finally hits the anime I'm gonna have to write up that essay I've been brewing about elf gender and the intersections of ableism and misogyny, aren't I

[turian]

i love achievements as a feature on steam because it's so fun to be able to see what percentage of players of (for example) new vegas, did a thing. and then speculate on why. and compare to the percentage of players who did another ideologically dissimilar thing. and it also lets me know that not many people bothered with busking in bg3.

[starwonderz]

✨ WUV U MEECHI!!! ur writing is sm fun AND I HOPE U KNOW THIS!!!

meechi. CRYING.....YOURS IS REALLY FUN TOO AND I ENJOY WRITING WITH YOU WHEN I GET THE CHANCE! i've always known my writing was good, but i would've never described it as 'fun' vkbjdsksjvbd I'M REALLY HAPPY YOU THINK SO THO! for this blog esp since i feel i can be so much silly & free than some of my old blogs w/o it seeming out of place. i hope we have more fun content in the future!

rp positivity / @dnangelic

[brabe]

Probably niche, but Parse = Hangman (+ Pimms = Hangster) suddenly clicked inside my brain, and now I can't unthink it.

Dramatic entrance for The Ex that scorned them ✅

They're both the top aces of their craft ✅

They both burn with frustration because the only one they consider their equal, the only one they want as their equal, won't stop sabotaging himself and rise to his full-fledged potential ✅

When it calls for desperate measures, they both pinpoint-know where to hit to make the other snap out of it in a more or less misguided attempt to help them (uncannily, for both Jack and Rooster, it revolves around self-worth!! And here I could open a tangent about the parallels between them too... like the stonewalling, the anger issues!!) ✅

When they both believed they had lost The One That Got Away for good, at last. (They have the same expression??? I feel insane actually) ✅

Also they look similar✨✨

[amatres]

anyway my personal ranks of origins backstories just in the game by themselves is brosca and tabris at the top, aeducan at the bottom. cousland i will admit is pretty impactful but i still feel like, as wild as an option it would have been, that a cousland warden should had the option to solo rule. they are from the only other teryn in ferelden and it's even said that it was considered for bryce to rule so like! come on!

aeducan is at the bottom because it so tightly locks you into siding against bhelen, which i suppose is fair for brosca being so skewed in behlens favor bc of rica, but brosca is just Good so i forgive that, while aeducan is just suffering.

i still stand by my idea that the 'noble' dwarven origin shouldn't have been the second aeducan child, they should have been the second aeducan's second in place of gorim. that way there would have been more room for roleplay. also the second aeducan child would have been a secret third option for ruler of orzammar that you would encounter with the legion of the dead that they joined after being kicked out.

you would have to both do the legion of dead quest to give them a noble caste, and also have high as hell coercion for it to work but it would really cool and also so funny to do. that said the origin just by itself is pretty fun, love being backstabbed by my second favorite baby brother from the dragon age franchise

mahariel and the magi warden are in the 'i like them but they don't feel as impactful' as much as it hurts me. they're both just kinda there, however that said if the game let you recruit jowan into your party that would bring the magi warden up much higher. alas.

[tinkerbelldetective]

A Paragon’s Guide to Ghosts and Mystery

Anubis House still has many things to teach Nina Martin about herself, the Paragon, and her abilities. Just as her first adventure, this one will begin at Anubis House, but who knows where else it will take her?

Chapter I

Nina still feels her nerves up in a tizzy as he looks down at her. There were only two instances in her years at Anubis House where they had sought out Victor for help, and the one that scared her the most was the one where he dismissed them, called them liars, left them on their own once more. She isn't 17 anymore. She is the Chosen One, builder of the Ankh, she had faced ancient powers and won. 

"Welcome back, Chosen One." it seems to whisper. Her eyes trail towards the eighth step, to the cellar door, and remembers all the mysteries they'd unearthed.

He stares at her, as if he's reading her like a book. She's grown, maybe even taller. Her green eyes look right back at him, uncertain but unafraid.

"Ms. Martin?" Slowly, he welcomes her into the house. As soon as she crosses the threshold, she senses it greet her, the light through the windows seem to glow. 

She does not miss the fact that she's grown but that he hasn't aged. He was 95 her first year here, he's easily pushing 100 now. Sarah's warnings echo in her ears again, she heeds them, she already has a plan of what to say, what to ask. Sarah spent her whole life running and hiding, her secrets still with Nina, still protected by Sibuna.

"You mentioned having questions, Ms. Martin. As I recall, you have no problem finding answers." He clasps his hands behind his back as he says this. Guilt nearly pools around his mind as he remembers his actions with the Society and during his hunt for the Elixir.

As Nina carefully picks her words and asks her question, his mind is turning, picking apart their meanings. Victor thinks, in all that he has read of the Paragon, it never mentioned all the abilities. He suspected she wasn't telling him everything.

"Did they identify themselves?" Nina answered with a name that she had no business pronouncing as well as she did.

"A common name," he pondered, ushering her up the stairs to continue the conversation.

"So were you," she wanted to reply, "So were Vera and Rufus, the teachers, a ghost. She herself was a powerful entity. She held her tongue.

Nina sits down in the chair she had once been interrogated in, noticing Corbierre's black eyes still staring right at her, yep, still unnerving.

"And you're absolutely certain that this is what you saw?" The book he held up had a picture that sent a familiar chill down her spine. "This is dangerous, Nina Martin."

"Will you help me?" The words tumbled out of her mouth.

Victor sat back in his chair, "I am the caretaker of Anubis House."

Right, a no.

"I will offer counsel, but even I do not know that you are asking."

Her locket felt like it was calling to her. A trip to the tunnels then.

"Do I still need to be in bed by ten?"

"I suggest you stay in your old room. We will look for answers tomorrow."

Nina glanced outside at the dark yellow-orange sky and felt the time zone change sink in. All the late-night shenanigans ran through her head. The memory of sneaking down the stairs, the memory of old phonographs and hidden compartments.

Victor's glare was all the answer she needed.

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This has been sitting in a notebook for weeks, so I finally decided to just type it up. This will be posted here and on FFN, most likely. :) SIBUNA

[husband-steve-cortez]

One of my early and what was once my "definitive" mass effect 3 only John Shepard was a paragon but I viewed him as being very fake and manipulative about it and just about every relationship he had with his crew mates was kind of feigned except for with Steve which he originally pursued just to make sure his shuttle pilot wasn't going to burn out on him but ended up being a special thing just for him. The only real thing.

[thathilomgirl]

They have a lot in common, and that's not necessarily a compliment

[heaartshaped]

PARAGON 😭😭😭😭😭😭 no

[swordmaid]

doing thane romance i just remembered how much I like his romance with my shep hrk