#then came Dorian

[invinciblerodent]

For the record, I just saw a post about someone complaining how people will hate Lae'zel but love Gale, and I feel like I should say it preemptively- I don't hate Lae'zel, or any other character for that matter. They're all great. Gale just happens to be just embarrassingly my type of character.

It's my curse, in a world full of interesting and novel character concepts I'm doomed to fall for the emotionally tortured, smart-mouthed mage with facial hair over and over again.

[tiiracotta]

I participated in Dragon Age Big Bang 2024 as an artist for a lovely modern AU Adoribull fic 'time will change you' by @slothpoe!

[revvethasmythh]

tbh i love it when people talk about subsisting on dorym "crumbs" because the thing is, dorian's incredibly long pause followed by a curt "we'll talk about that later" was SO loaded it is not at all a crumb. that's at least a scone. stop calling our scones cumbs and enjoy this pleasant afternoon tea with me, will you

[lavendarr00]

DORIAN 🤍

[oddthesungod]

happy pride month to these two in specific <333

[cringefaecompilation]

"orym's vision is going to be him getting romantically rejected by dorian" no i think orym is going to see himself gutting imogen like a fish with no remorse. like there's mild anxiety (a hot guy not liking you) and then there's deepest darkest fears (harming your loved ones and failing your own morals).

[especiallyhaytham]

Some of the 1700s gang + twitter posts

[helimir]

the fact that orym was working up the courage to go to dorian’s room for 20 minutes… and then immediately admits that he’s been working up the courage for 20 minutes.

he has such a hard time opening up, but once he’s made the decision and the opportunity is there? it’s an instant shift as he can finally put down the weight of hiding anything he’s feeling from dorian.

[thou-babbling-brook]

“One death cannot stop the tide. Perhaps it will not be my hand that shepherds mankind back to its proper place—but it will be someone’s. Think on this when you remember her.” ⚔️💔

Wanted to draw Arno and Elise at the end of Unity based on a promotional thing of Les Misérables I got back in 2019

[lizzybeeee]

I will never emotionally recover from this

[teyrnacousland]

To the people complaining about how the word nonbinary, a word dating back to early 1940s, is "too modern" to be used in Dragon Age, here is a quick list of some other modern words in invented in the 1900s that I found in Dragon Age games! I expect you to be equally angry at these:

Surreal

Escalate

Empathy

Lifestyle

Snarky

Cool

Breakthrough

Dysfunction

There's also the fact that they use our english words for the days of the week, despite most of those being named after gods that don't exist in Thedas.

But we're all more than happy to either ignore all this or headcanon in different origins for all these words. So why don't people have the same attitude towards the word "nonbinary"?

[write-the-room]

the Picture of Dorian Gray modern au where Basil makes tiktok edits of Dorian

[screechingfromthevoid]

I think the same reason I love Dorym is why I love Loquatious and Laerryn. One, the devotion of it all. But secondly, and more importantly, "But there's one story of a fairy who stumbled into this world and fell in love"

Because Dorian is an air genasi prince who left home to find something real. His home floats on wind and he's never wanted for a thing. And he came down from his clouds only to find himself stumbling, tumbling, into love with just a man.

There is something so earnest about a man who is considered magical and wondrous in a world that already has magic, falling in love with someone who just is.

It's a thought that scratches the back of my mind a lot. It goes hand in hand with Liam saying "he has no idea if Dorian returns his feelings". Because from Orym's point of view why would Dorian have feelings for him? Dorian. The beautiful blue prince who is extremely talented in both music and magic. Dorian is everything Orym admires in other people. Everything he doesn't see in himself.

But Dorian does have feelings for Orym. Because Orym is everything he's not. He's firm and reliable. He knows who he is and is unapologetic about it. Orym was the only one in the (original) Crown Keepers that wasn't tempted by the spider queen. Because he was too principled. He was too good. Dorian's alignment changed. Dorian felt himself getting worse. Yet Orym stayed steadfast. In the face of everything he did not change.

Their pursuits were the same. They wanted to protect their friends. At any cost. But Orym somehow stayed unchanged. He always knew the right way of doing things.

So the handsome prince fell in love with a guard and planned to stay with him until he no longer wanted the company.

I literally said to a friend "I know he leaves. But he is so devoted to Orym I don't know how they're going to get him to."

And it was the one thing neither could argue against. Family. Orym knew about family. He knew about duty.

But even a continent away Dorian couldn't stop thinking about Orym. His little tactician before he was the savior blade. Even when his world came crashing down, Orym called and he went.

Idk. I think there's something beautiful in the way that Dorian loves Orym. I think it is very reminiscent of the fey who stumbled into this world and fell in love. I think it will be a love that will always be with them. That they will have to recover from. A love they might have to mourn before they ever have it.

Even if they never... If there is no love confession, if they have to mourn the loss of the people they thought they were, if there's no way for them to be together; Dorian will always love Orym. In the same way Orym loves Will. First love often lingers.

[revvethasmythh]

Matt bringing up the idea of Dorian having received the backlogged messages from Orym is insane to me because like. what an array of messages to receive all in a row. Like, let's game it out:

1. "Dorian? Can you hear me? What's the sky look like where you are? Tell me you're okay." All the retroactive fear and horror and sitting with the inability to respond. Awful. Can't feel great. Implication that wherever Orym was, there was a serious threat to both his life and people writ large considering he's asking Dorian if he's okay.

2, "Dorian. Still alive. By the skin of our teeth. Want to talk more. You know where Dariax is?" Easily the least concerning message, and yet it ALSO implies a near-death experience. Crazy pivot there. "yeah we nearly died, but, hey, do you know where Dariax is at?" Absolutely no info on why Orym would be asking after Dariax of all people.

3. "Dorian. We're alive. Been to the moon. Going back. Find the Tempest. If I don't get the chance again........I've really missed you." The repetition of "we're alive"? Not a good sign! "If I don't get a chance again"? Really not a good sign! He's been to the MOON? Re: Dorian's conversation with Keyleth, we know he thought this was a code word for something and not literally the moon in the fucking sky, but regardless, there is mounting desperation happening here, and the Damocles' sword of friends dying suddenly seems a lot like it's about to drop.

If I got those three messages all in a row when sending came back online, I too would have started booking my ass toward Keyleth immediately, because clearly something awful and massive is going on out there involving my friends.

[adoribullpavus]

astarion lovers were born to be dorian pavus stans, i said what i said

[oddthesungod]

some older married Dorym, happily retired from adventuring and living in Zephrah! I have this headcanon that instead of exhanging rings when they are wed, ppl in Zephrah exchange custom embroidered sashes they wear! I've always been curious about the one Orym wears and here he has his original (for Will) and one for Dorian loosely tied together <3