#tama plays da2

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...... i really like fenris and isabela together

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PLEASE yell about tama bull, i have been thinking about qunari gender so much lately and i’d love to hear your Thots

yessss a single piece of encouragement

So, basically, my take on Qunari gender is that it gets a lot more interesting if you don’t apply real-world western gender structure (”human” in Thedas) to it at all. The implication is that in Qunari society, kids grow up without gender until they reach an age when they can start training for a role. It’s the roles themselves that are gendered, although not necessarily along the lines that match up with western irl gender roles. Basically, look at the “gender roles” section in the Qunari entry on the DA wiki and turn it all the fucking way inside out. Then throw it in the trash. Then light the trash on fire.

I’m torn between two scenarios: 1) that there are three primary “genders” of role: Military, Craftsmen, and Priesthood, to match the three members of the Triumvirate (Arishok, Arigena, and Ariqun, in order) and that the application of western gender structure (esp. he and she pronouns) is a necessary but slightly misleading effect of translating this structure into “Trade” (English or other player languages).

or 2) that the structure is more that each role essentially is its own gender, since it comes with expectations of behavior and responsibilities that are distinct from any others.

I’d think that Aqun-athlock individuals would be more common than straight-up irl transgender people, especially in the second scenario, since people change over the course of their lives, and even the most exact aptitude test given when you’re 11 or whatever will not hold true for your whole entire life. So I imagine that “gender” (role) fluidity or change over time is actually pretty common under the Qun.

So as for the Iron Bull himself, obviously he is cis-coded in the game. But is that an expression of the actual expectations of his role under the Qun? If roles are individual genders, I think he can do basically whatever he wants and still have it be “right”, however he also makes it clear that he is playing into stereotypes (mostly racial, but some gendered) in order to project the right front for his job.

His job, which is not actually warrior, but spy/informant. One question here is, would this role fit under the general heading of “military” and thus match the translation of “male” that he projects (and that we expect based on Sten and the DA2 Qunari) or would it fit more under “priesthood” and actually be “correctly” translated as “female”, and if so, why would he not use that translation? Well, probably for Spy Reasons. Either way, doesn’t he actually seem quite comfortable in the Southern/Human role of “man”? Perhaps he is coming to identify with it more strongly than his originally-assigned gender of “spy”? Perhaps he is just as much a trans man as Krem?

And then, Tama!Bull. There’s a few ways I like to play with this: one, an AU where instead of joining the Ben-Hassrath (or the Beresaad and then the Ben-Hassrath) he was trained as a Tamassran and stayed in that role (there’s an AMAZING fic out there on Ao3 with this premise. I’ll link it in a reblog when I track it down) or a semi-AU where he was trained as a Tamassran before going to Seheron. Basically, I headcanon that he’s great with kids, a good teacher, a good therapist, good at the things that Tamassrans are good at.

And then taking a step to the left of that, a related headcanon, which is really just that Bull is afab. The whole game/fic/headcanon/theory is exactly the same, but Bull is (what irl western/non-Qunari cultures would call) afab. I just think that’s neat.

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My Carver ended up looking like an anime character I’m crying LMAO

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Doing a boring work task so I drew out a relationship of my DA2 playthrough

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im doin great btw

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normal about them fr <3 <3 <3

bonus bc this one made me laugh

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OK RAPID FIRE AVIS HEADCANONS/DETAILS

looks astonishingly like malcolm, while the twins took after leandra. the ghost of her father is forever etched on her face

5'3, scrappy, wiry, lean muscle, but the past year in kirkwall she's become a bit skin and bones bc she makes sure her mom and carver eat first

she will deny that she does this

hair is dark dark brown, basically black, a shaggy long bob that she ties loosely back into a small ponytail. it is messy and sometimes sticks up on the ends if she's jsut used a electricity spell

predisposed to primal magic, but will also fireball a bitch

can hold her liquor like a man twice her size

not super strong, but can hold her own in a physical fight by sheer tenacity and willpower. also bites. hard.

will always fight for freedom/do the right thing, but she'll be snarky about it. will get her hands dirty if necessary.

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I’m still figuring her out but these two picrews capture the essence

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Not to be the worlds most predictable bitch to a blonde man w big brown eyes but I think Avis will smooch anders

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srry i just love her nose and also carver's stupid DBZ hair

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srry just wanted to put her face somewhere uwu

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Varrics nickname for Avis is Birdie send tweet

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sidebar this outfit fucks and now is her default in my mind

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The door slams open and she does not look great and anders stands up and rushes forward but before he says anything she just goes “hellloooooooooooo healer” and Isabela is like I’d apologize but this is too funny

Avis stumbling with a limp into the clinic late one night w Isabela supporting her and anders immediately being like who did this to you what happened but she just got too drunk and tripped down the stairs and twisted her ankle send tweet

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ok i watched it

I haven’t been able to watch the trailer ALL DAY I’ve been so strong

It’s also been 97 degrees and I am melting

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look at that HAIR LMASDKLj

My Carter ended up looking like an anime character I’m crying LMAO