#the kids/unharrowed in the circle and maric sulks bc its keeping him from hanging out with his spirit buddies.
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upgrading my spirit warrior maric timeline to spirit warrior slash borderline hedge mage maric timeline, for the joy of it.
#now wilhelm has even more reason to be grouchy and treat him like “a recalcitrant student sorely in need of discipline” (direct quote#from the novel) and be even more frequent and intense about checking him for demons. he keeps trying to set up those dream wards used for#the kids/unharrowed in the circle and maric sulks bc its keeping him from hanging out with his spirit buddies.#also maric gets his ears pierced a certain way bc Freedom has them like that and he is oblivious to his crush on him so he thinks the reaso#he keeps staring at his ears like that is just bc the piercings are cool and not bc he kinda wants to put his mouth on them. problem is in#thedas (where realistically ear shape would be nastily obsessed over the way people do about nose shapes etc and fashions involving them#would be a much bigger more complex thing than here) things are so much more complicated than just 'is it the gay ear' (it is but its also#(depending on the species/country/social strata etc) the sub earring (a la hanky code) and the 'trans in a direction that lowers my caste'#piercing placement (for orzammar) and the 'this is either him flaunting the rumours of his bastardry or declaring hes into elves' combo#(since that post about how theres basically zero mention of marics father ive decided it adds a certain something)) and anyway. he has#little to no awareness of any of these layers of meaning bc he grew up on the move in rebel camps he was lucky to have tutors at all and#this kind of stuff just wasnt even something on his radar. he just thought it looked neat :) but the thing is also mostly unbeknownst to hi#is that each of these things is at least in the neighborhood of correct
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