#so here it is lol this is my worldstate ramble

[queenofbaws]

🎀 [Bow] How many named characters are in this WIP? How many do get a POV?

aw man, see, the problem here...is that, while working on the (almost)s, i got a taste of the low-stakes oc creation euphoria that is putting 2-dimensional characters in the background of a story, so like wringing blood from a stone has....................QUITE A FEW NAMED CHARACTERS

i'll throw a handful of the ones we've already met (in one way or another ;P) under the cut for anyone who's just like. collecting fun facts about this fic 🤣 there may be some EXTREMELY MINOR spoilers about plot points that we haven't gotten to quite yet, but nothing earthshattering, i pwooomise

the only characters who get POVs are the family themselves, though - jed, constance, travis, chris, bobby, caleb, kaylee, and jack - the good people of north kill county will have to wait for some other project if they want a POV of their own, i'm afraid 😔 but lord knows they live in my head

random wip asks!

NORTH KILL'S FINEST (background characters)

the hacketteers

y'all already know these fools ;P

the neighborly sort

jim & pearl warren (80s), the ones who live on the other side of hackett woods

diane kelly (40s), the camp mom nurse and chris's good good good pal

silas vorez (teens/early 20s), :)

the day crew

carver graves (30s), the responsible one; nephew of the late sheriff hank

callie kildeere (30s), the one who probably shouldn't have a gun but does anyway

graham cutter (30s), the one who thinks he's funnier than he really is

abel gore (70s), the one whose sister absolutely saw bigfoot that one time

the dead

hank graves (~50s/60s), previous sheriff of north kill

amelia grant (30s), chris's wife; caleb & kaylee's mother; niece of sheriff hank

eliza vorez (70s/80s/???), silas's handler mother...and a problem

susanna hackett (???), one of jed's sisters

francis hackett (70s), jed's father

john fiddler (~50s), jack's grandfather; a monster hunter and occasional friend of jed's (but "occasional" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here)

hannah & beth washington (early 20s), the girls jack couldn't didn't save

charity (~30s/40s), constance's mother :)

"mama" (~50s/60s), constance's grandmother :)

amos grundy (~60s), constance's father; a good old fashioned preacher by trade :)

maybe a pattern has begun to develop, hmm? hehehe

while i can't promise every character on this list will be pivotal...they all very much have their roles to play, and if it doesn't seem like it just quite yet, well...

we've still got us a few more weeks of summer now, don't we? ;)c

[thelearnedsoldiertoo]

My Rook is gonna be the younger sister of my friend's Lavellan, who missed most of Inquisition mostly on account of uhhhhhhhhhhh

...let's just go with 'she had something on her forehead'

They didn't reunite until Before The Dawn, which Angharad, her sister, didn't do until after Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, and she just kind of haunted Skyhold and helped Dagna and Harritt until Promise of Destruction revealed she could even be cured at all--and Hara and Cassandra weren't close, so that came after What Pride Had Wrought. By the time Siwan was her own person again, the War was virtually over.

Now granted all of this is really unique origin that's being borne by the fact my friend and I have been writing this all out together and we have these two guys' stories from when they were children, pre-Origins at this point, but I'm super looking forward to playing her lol. All she needs is a mod to put a brand on her forehead; she slides neatly into Rook's role as it stands, and is kind of a natural fit for Shadow Dragon lol. Her surname and claimed origin in the game can even be a cover, since Lavellan is kind of a famous name by then lol

Her sister romanced Solas, which is kind of how she wound up so far north--she was finally active again in Trespasser and is here to help her sister deal with Solas's Solasing.

I'm legit so excited this was probably a little incoherent cause I just woke up from a nap but Siwan is like already my #2 Dragon Age Blorbo after only my HoF, who's our canon HoF in this shared worldstate, but I can ramble about Ciara another time ehehehehe

Ok I’ve been reading some of the tags on this poll from meg-does-art and it has made me wonder

[inquisimer]

Hey! I just read one of your DWC entries about Sari Mahariel and her timelines. I liked it! Can I ask for any facts/nuggets about the story(ies?) in this 'verse? 😍😍😍

hi!! yes!! i would LOVE to tell you about my beloved Sari<3

below the cut, because i have a tendency to ramble

for a more eloquently written explanation ((and a picture)), you can check out Sari’s page here or the post here for mobile users

the dalish origin was my first da:o playthrough and I loved it, but I had this story idea recently and decided that Sari was the right oc for it and reworked her canon (in my head lol) to suit it

hers is one of two long fics I’m actively working on, but it isn’t posted (yet). hopefully it will be soon, once i’ve got enough raw content and really felt out the world state and vibes

the core of Sari’s story is that she really hecked up in the Fifth Blight (read: I had no clue how the origins interface worked lmao). She was naive and standoffish and that meant she offended a lot of people and lost a lot of opportunities. She romanced Alistair, but he died killing the archdemon and she basically said ‘fuck you’ to the Wardens and the world and left to wallow in her grief. 

Hawke in Sari’s worldstate is Léan (page here or mobile here), who is a mage, and unabashedly vocal about mage rights, in a romance with Anders. The Inquisitor is Irosyl Lavellan, Dalish First and rift mage who romanced Solas to the bitter, bitter end. She doesn’t really have a page because she mainly exists in relation to Sari’s story, but there is a picture here, no mobile version, sorry!

basically, Sari’s story starts when she’s found a cure for her Calling and returned to Ferelden; Leliana and the Inquisitor call her to be part of their ‘stop Fen’harel’ effort and she goes. The fallback plan, when they obviously can’t stop Solas, is to send Irosyl back to the Breach as a re-do. Unfortunately, the ritual goes wrong wrong wrong and Sari ends up back in Ostagar. RIP her. 

Various tidbits about Sari and her first timeline: 

she was absolutely crushing on Tamlen and buddies with Merrill

Sari stops considering herself Dalish after Nature of the Beast

When she first comes to Skyhold, the only interaction she’s had for years is with Avernus

she went after a cure for the Calling less for herself and more for others’ benefit, but she also wants to sever all ties to the Wardens

she is a rogue who started out with a bow, but now prefers dual wielding bc it’s less tied to her Dalish heritage

in the events of da2, clan Sabrae is annihilated; after the events of dai, Merrill becomes an agent of Fen’harel 

her full name, Nada’sariel, is taken from the words nadas (inevitable) and sar (yours, possessive), and means ‘your inevitable one’

so that’s Sari’s verse as it stands now! like i said, i’m actively working on this one and it is undergoing some heavy development as i write out the first draft

thank you so much for the ask!!! i’m glad you liked Sari and the drabbles for DWC, i imagine she will feature in those often for me

i appreciate you<3