#thoughts are brosca/leliana

[vanmarkham]

see I’ve been thinking about doing an “oops all lesbians” da playthrough for like a year now……. And I wanna achievement hunt the games LMAO so I should just goooo for it bc the leliana romance is one of the origins achievements I need lolll

[merrils]

having thoughts for my 2nd worldstate for da ...... warrior reaver tabris, red blood mage hawke and dual wielding cadash... Thinking Thoughts

[dragon-age-fame]

Edit: I want to thank you guys for the interest. She is 14 pages in now. Low key might skip work today to write. Keep up the good work. I answer some of your questions and replies uwusl

Hwy guys.

I'm hoping to generate some interest for my current project with my bestie. We are writing a dragon age fanfic. Instead of one origin surviving, Duncan recruited all of them.

It will have romance, adventure, friendship, politics, betrayal and hope.

Our goal is to keep it true to the story to lore as possible.. hope to eventually write through all 3 games. (Possibly dreadwolf too depending on how that turns out)

The romance list is F. Maharel x Zevran, F. Tabris x Leliana, M. Adecan x Morrigan, F. Cousland x Alistair.

Surana and Brosca will be announced later.

How it will work is we are splitting the chapters. She writes one half. I write the other. We have different writing styles so I hope this will be a fun and relatively unique project.

Bestie says she will be more.motivated to write if people are interested. So I am hoping to show her to get her on the ball.

Please feel free to comment with any thoughts, comments, questions or ideas.

[dragonologist-phd]

For the character meme - I would love to hear your thoughts on my girl Morrigan!

aaah thank you! love talking about morrigan <3

How I feel about this character

ha in case it isn't obvious i love her! there's so much going on with her character, and her base arc is one i love: a young woman leaving a harsh, abusive environment who's intent on focusing only on herself, who finds friendship and acceptance and something worth fighting for beyond mere survival. it's a really good journey!

she's also smart and snappish and mean and awkward, and is just such an endearingly messy character. she's also a woman written in the 2000's, which means there's a lot of unintentional mess in her character that i can repurpose for my own ends (autistic wlw morrigan forever)

All the people I ship romantically with this character

obviously there's my Brosca, Darvis- i love Morrigan with a Brosca, there's so many parallels that stir up my feelings for them. their background are vastly different in terms of setting, yet there's so much they have in common. with Darvis in particular, i love the way they both approach their relationship determined to not have any feelings or get attached at all...and then that plan fails spectacularly

for canon characters, i really like Zevran/Morrigan- again, i love the trope of people determined to have a no-strings attached affair and then falling hard for each other, and they would pull that off so well

i'm also fond of Leliana/Morrigan, but specifically in DAI. in DAO they don't quite mesh...but meeting up years later, when the world is about to end again? when Leliana's idealism has been hardened by all that she's lost, and Morrigan's survival-at-all-costs attitude has been softened by her love for Keiran? there's a lot of good potential there

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Zevran again- i just feel like there's a lot they get about each other. they've both been brought up with a very cynical, transactional worldview; their banters when asking each other about a romanced warden are basically paralleled. i like the idea of them growing beyond that worldview together through their friendship!

her friendship with a non-romanced warden is also very sweet- it's very tender and vulnerable in a way you don't often get to see with platonic companions in these games, especially in those moments at the end of the game

My unpopular opinion about this character

she's so awkward and trying so hard to hide it. i think she scripts every conversation before it happens so that she can appear as cool and aloof as possible. i think she practiced that entrance in the korcari wilds like 5 times before the wardens showed up. i think her grimoire contains cheat notes on how to navigate conversations and reminders of one-liners that she comes up with in the middle of the night.

i don't know if any of this is unpopular, but it's an aspect of her character i wholeheartedly believe in that i don't see talked about much

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

this is kinda vague but i wish her canon romance were written...better. it's amazing in my head, but then i play the game and there are certain lines the warden can say that should be erased from existence. she deserves better!

give me a character

[illusivesoul]

A Letter of the Divine

Summary: A letter found in the office of Divine Victoria shortly after her disappearance. Relationship: Leliana/Female Brosca Words: 671 Read on AO3 Lots of angst ahead lol

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The following letter was found amongst the few possessions left behind by Divine Victoria following her sudden disappearance. Due to the nature of the letter, its existence shall not be revealed to the general public for the foreseeable future. In the unlikely event of a movement developing to support the Divine or if the Inquisition tries to make a political move, the contents of this letter, after being made even more unpalatable to the common people, shall be revealed and distributed as far and wide as we are able.

Serena Brosca

My Queen of Stone

You warned me about how going down this route would only bring me pain, and I ignored you, for even as much as you made my heart beam with joy from every smile you gave me, I couldn't let you dictate what my faith commanded me to do, just as I couldn't dictate what you did with yours.

I wish I had stayed at your side to help you handle the treacherous waters of Orzammar's politics, politics that you shook to the core by becoming a Paragon and allowing the casteless into your House. House Brosca. How proud I was for you when it happened. How blind I was to not see the dread and pain you felt when hearing those words. "I got my house by standing on top the corpses of my people, Leliana. A House for the Casteless earned by drenching my hands in their blood". But how could you not enjoy the power? How could you not see you had the world at your feet? How very naïve of me.

I've kept count of the time passed since we last wrote to each other. I've tracked every second since I last saw your face, since I last saw your lips curving into a smile when I sang for you. How much I have longed for the feeling of your hands of mine, your breasts on my back, your mouth on my skin, our bodies joined in perfect harmony as they sang promises to each other that my excess of pride and the pride you lacked never let us have. I held the world in my hands whenever I held you in them, and I let you go. To serve the faith, to serve the Maker. Well, Justinia is dead, the Maker laughs at me and all the grieving people in this broken word as always. Some god he turned out to be. At least your Paragons are there for you to feel and touch, the solid stone more real than my endless prayers to the dark. Thought that I had what it took to set things right. The blank slate. And in the end all I did was drown myself in a sea of blood and a world of lies, and Thedas quakes in chaos, the Chantry and the faith more broken by my actions than by anything Corypheus or Tevinter ever did. At long last I finally understand the meaning of your words. I also got my own House by drenching my hands in blood.

I've been drinking so much as of late, giving way to base desires to try to find something to make me feel alive, something to make me forget of all the damage I've done and keep doing... and every time I always end up thinking of you.

Perhaps my absent Maker or your Paragons will let us see each other again one day, and maybe then will you be able to forgive me for all I did and for how much I failed you, but life has taught me better than to hope for the impossible. I just hope that wherever you are, that you have found the peace, happiness and love you deserve and that I tried but failed to give you. I now dream of the cliff of my dreams, and I hear the rocks and waves of distant lands calling my name. One last song remains to be sung.

Forever yours, Your Leli

[bumblewarden]

brosca leaves zevran and her kinda-sorta girlfriend alone for not ten seconds before he starts flirting with her!

Zevran: How long were you in that cloister, my dear woman? Leliana: Just over two years. Why do you ask? Zevran: And... and all the brothers and sisters there, they had taken vows? Leliana: Most of them, yes. Zevran: For two years you had no contact with anyone but men and women who... who are promised to some uncaring god? Leliana: What are you getting at? Zevran: Didn't you... didn't you desire companionship, during those two years? Two years! The very thought makes me weak. Leliana: My time in the cloister was a time of contemplation. I occupied myself with thoughts of the Maker, and other... worthy pursuits. Leliana: But like I said, most of the brothers and sisters had taken vows. Not all of them. Some were just affirmed, like me. Zevran: A-ha! That is not so bad then. Leliana: Nothing happened, Zevran. It would not be right to engage in that behavior in a house devoted to the Maker. Zevran: Why? The Maker made us who we are. He made our urges; He gave us these parts. You think He made them for looks?

[winchesternova-k]

31 Days of Dragon Age - Day 1

introduce your hero of ferelden

this is havella brosca (she/her). she’s my first warden and part of my ‘canon’ worldstate.

[picrews by djarn. 1 + 2]

basics:

chaotic good

autistic

lesbian

duel-wielding warrior (axe & dagger). champion & templar training

andrastian convert, with traditional dwarven religious beliefs [i won’t get into this too much bc idk how to explain it in a way that doesn’t sound overly complicated but she believes equally in the stone and the maker]

the eldest brosca sibling

romanced leliana

key choices:

redcliffe saved, connor & isolde alive. ashes preserved.

circle mages protected.

bhelen rules orzammar, sided with caridin, anvil destroyed.

made peace with the elves and werewolves.

anora rules alone / alistair remained a warden.

morrigan’s ritual performed.

mainly she’s just trying to be the best person she can be. she really wants to make up for the things she did while she was working for the carta. she tries very hard to be kind, and leave every situation more positive for everyone involved. she’s spent most of her life looking out for rica, without anyone to trust except leske. the surface is a big adjustment, but it’s mostly good, and she has a lot more people to trust (and a dog!)

companions:

dog - that dog is her best friend and her baby. he competes for blanket space with schmooples.

alistair - alistair is the first friend she has who never has any ulterior motives for being friends. she enjoys joking with him, and ostagar makes them feel very close. after what happens with leske, she appreciates the easiness of their friendship all the more. alistair is the closest friend she’s ever had aside from leliana and leske, and more over he’s family. she never has to question whether he’s looking out for her, and vice versa.

morrigan - havella’s relationship with morrigan is complicated. they respect each other deeply, but they disagree a lot, and it takes a long time for them to become friends. morrigan thinks she’s too soft, and havella thinks she would understand why she cares about people so much if she spent more time with them. regardless, they’re surprisingly loyal to each other. despite having very little exposure to magic before coming to the surface (and then being battered over the head by the chantry’s teachings about it), havella doesn’t fear morrigan for being a mage or an apostate. she knows morrigan could harm her with her magic, but she also knows that she could harm morrigan with her blades. the fact that they don’t is what’s important. they eventually come to see each other as family. havella had never thought that she would ever feel the same type of bond she has with rica with anyone else, and she’s pleasantly surprised when she finds differently. the also bond over their shitty mothers.

wynne - wynne is the mother she never had. she is everything kalah never was to her. as morrigan speaks freely about being an apostate mage, wynne tells her about the circle and it’s hierarchy, and how the chantry’s teachings effect the mages there. havella finds the chantry and templars’ treatment of the mages to be too close to the way the casteless are treated in orzammar to really agree with wynne, but she enjoys listening to her regardless. they also discuss theology a fair amount. she enjoys having someone to give her advice, and to be truly well meaning about it. the closest she’d ever had before was beraht, and he was just telling her not to screw up a job. it doesn’t stop her from arguing when wynne encourages her to break up with leliana though.

zevran - she was surprised how quickly she trusted zevran, and how quickly they became friends. one day she was watching her back, waiting for him to try and kill her in her sleep, and the next she just… wasn’t anymore. it doesn’t take long for her to think that he is a version of who she could have become if she hadn’t had rica to watch out for. it’s not a negative judgment about either of them, but a recognition of how deeply miserable their former lives were for both of them.

leliana - leliana is covered in day 2

sten - they don’t always understand each other, but havella deeply respects sten. she admires his moral code and his adherence to it, even if her own differs. i’m return, he respects her greatly, and offers her counsel about leadership and strategy. when he first tells her how he’d ended up in the cage, she’s horrified, but it doesn’t take long for her to realise that he wasn’t in his right mind. she feels a deep kinship in his repentance and quest for redemption. she never thinks of him as a monster, even when the people in lothering tell her she should. too many people have said the same of her. she accepts his offer to travel with him to par vollen after the blight and brings leliana and zevran with her.

oghren - havella can’t stand him. she tries very hard to get along when they first meet; she’s naturally a fairly compassionate person and she has a lot of sympathy for his feelings about branka. but the more time passes and the more misogynistic he is towards her (and the other women in the party), and the creepier he is about her relationship with leliana, the less she likes him. time apart did improve things though and the relationship is decidedly less negative by awakening.

shale - havella enjoys joking with shale. she enjoys hearing whatever it can remember about its past and dwarven history, and she feels a certain kinship in some of their experiences, even if it doesn’t consider itself a dwarf anymore. she also enjoys helping it recover its memories (she likes helping people who need it, and feeling useful as a result). (i don’t have a lot about shale because i didn’t have any dlc until almost the end of the playthrough)

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

List of Sexualities for Current list of Dragon Age MCs:

For Freedom’s Design

Cian Mahariel: Bisexual. Does prefer men as a whole but is fairly equal in his interest. Romances Zevran, and has a threesome with Isabela.

Lorry Hawke: Bisexual. Goes for girls mostly due to her complicated feeling on motherhood and the scare of a child. Romances Isabela. Did have a minor crush on Fenris that went nowhere.

Mila Trevylan: Asexual but unaware. She’s interested in sex but only in a ‘this sounds interesting’ thing. Does enjoy it so she remains unaware. Romances Iron Bull after a brief flirtation with Blackwell she ends due to her uncomfortable with the idea of being with someone who sees her as the Herald of Andraste.

Good Men Need Rules

Folcher Aueducan: Bisexual but unaware. He’s always just looked at woman. Romances Leliana.

Archie Hawke: Demisexual. Struggled with ideas of attraction for most of his life. Romances Merrill who he loves dearly.

Lucas Cadash: Straight. Romances Cassandra.

Crashing Fantasies

Noamahn Tabris: Straight. He once tried with a guy but deemed it not for him. Romances Morrigan

Aine Hawke: Bisexual. Had a huge thing for Isabela but ends up with Anders. Is a himbo to the max.

Davhalla Lavellan: Pansexual. Had a thing for multiple members of the Inquisition, including Harding. Davhalla ends up with Solas in the end.

Those We Care For

Rosalind Amell: Gaaaaaaaaaay. She didn’t used to be but she developed into it. Romances Leliana.

Lilith Hawke: Bisexual. Has no preference. Gets with Anders.

Shok Adaar: Bisexual. Has a thing for Blackwall and Sera. I had two ways she went I’ve landed on her romancing Sera.

Mistakes Make us People

Thea Surana: Straight. Mostly. A pretty butch woman turns her head but it’s not common. Ends up with Alistair.

Teddy Hawke: Straight. Annoyed me since I wanted to romance Isabela but Teddy kept yelling straight. Romances Fenris then Anders.

Ophelia Trevylan: Straight. Never tried and never wanted to. Pretended to be to help a friend avoid and annoying admirer. Romances Blackwall.

With Bloody Hands

Muirin Cousland: No clue. Legit this girl is only into power. She does end up carings for Alistair in the end but she romances him for the power.

Willow Hawke: Straight. Romances Sebastian because she honestly liked him but it was a plus he’s a prince.

Gloria Trevylan: Straight. Was only into Iron Bull at first but romances Cullen for the power. Does actually come to love him.

Uneasy Rests the Laurels

Lochlan Hawke: Bisexual. Romances Zevran and married Anora. Ends up in an honest triad with them.

Simon Hawke: Gay. Very much. Romances Fenris.

Edmund Trevylan: Bisexual. Romances Dorian, and loves him very much.

Revolution is Never Kind

Runa Amell: Murder. And men. Very straight, romances Zevran.

Wyome Hawke: asexual but very into Anders and Justice. Has no positive or negative thoughts in sex.

Faith Sustains

Brynja Brosca: Gay. Has had sex with men for money but rates it a 0 each time. Romances Leliana.

Aisley Hawke: She is asexual and sex repulsed. Falls in love with Sebastian and they have a chaste marriage he supports and loves even when Prince because he is a good guy.

Charity Cadash: Bisexual. Also a trans woman who doesn’t talk about it much. Romances Josiephine.

To Be Kind

Caoimhe Tabris: Bisexual. Is into buff people though. Romances Alistair.

Ivy Hawke: Bisexual. Isn’t that focused on romance with everything. Romances Fenris.

Revas Lavellan: Pansexual. Has had casual relationships with all genders. Dabbled in gender non conforming and identity stuff. Not for her. Romances Solas.

Love Yourself

Riley Cousland: Straight. Has a lot of internal issues regarding beauty and self worth. Romances Zevran.

Ivy Hawke: Bisexual. In this world also has a lot of issues she’s working though. Romances Fenris still.

Harel Lavellan: Bisexual. I never really settled on a romance for her, she’s kind of always gravitated towards Josie though. So probably Josephine.

[kareenvorbarra]

started my third full DA:O playthrough fully intending to romance Leliana this time (my previous two wardens dated Alistair and Zevran), but THEN I thought about the parallels between Brosca and Zevran’s backstories and now I can’t stop thinking about their potential

[sulky-valkyrie]

Happy Friday! I gotta get an enemies to lovers prompt in here: "you snatch a knife from your enemy’s grip and throws it at the ground, then you grab your enemy by the collar, and crash your lips against theirs. they’re surprised, but responds immediately" - for whoever you think fits best!

Happy Friday, Niri! This all hit me in the shower about two hours ago and it doesn't fit the prompt exactly, but I think it fits the spirit? Anyway, happy DADWC and I hope you enjoy a really rarepair weirdness! 💜💜💜 for @dadrunkwriting

Blasted forest.  Blasted werewolves.  Blasted… talking bloody trees!  Carver stumped his way around the edge of the camp, wishing he hadn’t drawn the straw to take the middle watch.  Leave this shit to the elf, or one of the damned dwarves!  They can see in pitch black, and I’m just tripping over my c - feet.  Void take it, even Morrigan could do a better job if she turned into a bird or a cat or something.

He paused and looked back at the rest of the group sleeping around the fire.  The campsite they’d picked out was too small for tents, so everyone was in bedrolls tonight.  Brosca was in theirs. Leliana was in theirs too.  More power to them, he thought spitefully.  Zev was in his.  Carver’s was, of course, empty, and Oghren was snoring leaning against a tree.  But Alistair, Sten and Morrigan were missing.  Had they left before he got up?  If so, why hadn’t Wynne mentioned it?

And if they’d left after Carver was on watch, why didn’t they say let him know?  Also, how had he missed it?

Furthermore, why would the three of them go anywhere together?  Sten distrusted women and mages, Morrigan hated Alistair personally, and Alistair just wanted them to leave him and each other alone.

Without the jingle of his mail or the thud of his boots, the night was far more quiet than it had any right to be - further proof that something about the Brecilian Forest was unnatural.  As he frowned and tried to figure out what to do, a faint metallic noise drifted from beyond the trees.

Like a weapon sliding on a shield.  

Before he knew it, he was leaving the camp and following what could only be the sound of fighting.

Maker, they really decided to just all three try to kill each other, didn’t they?  What the void for?  Why here, why now?  As he crept through the forest, he tried to remember if anything had been off during the evening meal.  Morrigan had been asking Sten questions that left them both looking flustered and annoyed, but that wasn’t really new. One of them was always pissing off someone, either out of deliberate spite (Morrigan) or stubborn obstinance (Sten).  But what did that have to do with Alistair?

A river was somewhere to his left, wide enough that the tree cover let the moonlight through.  The reflection made everything look and feel like the Fade, and reminded him of the times Bethany had accidentally dragged him into her own dreams.  He’d asked Morrigan about that one night, and she’d rolled her eyes and scoffed that he’d heard too many sermons on the evils of apostasy.

A few nights later, when he was on first watch, she’d asked him why he wanted to know, and listened to him with an intensity in those captivating yellow eyes that bordered on feverish.  In a roundabout fashion, Carver found her company the easiest of everyone, except Brosca.  She was an apostate, and knew all about the dangers of Templars, even if her mother had been a bit more… direct in getting rid of them than theirs ever had been.

She was still a bitch after that, of course.  Never gave him the time of day, or treated him with anything but contempt, but it was comforting in its own odd way.  She didn’t like him on his own merits, not for anything Garrett or Bethany had done or not done, and Maker, that was refreshing.. 

Focus.  Maker knew what Morrigan was up to now, or what Sten and Alistair might be doing to her.  He sped up, still moving toward the sound of metal, until something large and furry hit his back.  There was no time or space to pull out his sword, but he got his belt knife out as he felt forward and stabbed up behind him.  

The bear bellowed - Andraste’s flaming asshole, I’m wrestling a bear, I’m going to die - and swatted him to the ground as it fell on top of him, knife still stuck in its shoulder.  What’s the thing?  Play dead and they’ll get bored?  Or is that wolves?  Or mountain cats?  I’m so dead.

Carver grabbed at the knife and slashed at its throat, determined to at least make it pay for its next meal, and the damn thing batted it away as he leaned over him with a low threatening growl before everything felt sideways and watery, then Morrigan was on top of him, bleeding from shoulder and throat, and hands covered in dirt and moss where they dug into his shirt.

Is there any way tonight can get any weirder?  “What the -”

She kissed him.

Apparently so.

[autisticlaezel]

4, 7, and 17 for the hype asks!

Thanks :D

4) What does your worldstate look like going into DAV?

I have two that I'm considering using for my first playthrough. My primary one:

Warden: Narev Brosca (rogue). Zevran romancer who allied with the mages in broken circle. Let Jowan cure Connor with blood magic. Sided with the elves in Nature of the Beast. Put Bhelen on the throne of Orzammar. Put Alistair and Anora on the throne together and spared Loghain, who did the dark ritual

Champion: Aylin Hawke (mage). Primarily aggressive/blunt responses. Anders (alive and well) romancer. Didn't bring Carver into the deep roads with her. Befriended most of her party except for Carver (😭) and Aveline. Bartrand is alive. Varric didn't keep the idol. Sided with the mages in The Last Straw

Inquisitor: Emilia Trevelyan (mage). Romanced Josephine. Allied with the mages. Briala rules through Gaspard. Loghain left in the fade. Grey Wardens pardoned. Inquisitor drank from the Well of Sorrows. Disbanded the Inquisition. Leliana is Divine. Wants to redeem Solas

And my secondary one

Warden: Jocelyn Cousland (rogue). Romanced (and hardened) Leliana. Allied with the mages in Broken Circle for purely opportunistic reasons out of the kindness of her heart. Gets help from the circle to free Connor. Brokered peace in Nature of the Beast. Put Bhelen on the throne of Orzammar. Rules jointly with Alistair who did the dark ritual

Champion: Wren Hawke (rogue). Didn't romance anyone in game, but has a complicated Pining situation going on with Varric that takes them until Inquisition to unpack, and had a brief fling with Isabela. Primarily humorous/charming responses. Didn't bring Bethany to the Deep Roads. Befriended everyone. Bartrand is alive. Varric kept the idol. Sided with the mages in The Last Straw

Inquisitor: Oliver Trevelyan (rogue). Romanced Dorian. Allied with the mages. Celene continues to rule Orlais. Stroud left in the Fade. Grey Wardens exiled. Morrigan drank from the Well of Sorrows. Did not disband the Inquisition. Vivienne is Divine. Wants to stop Solas

7) Which character from previous games or other media are you most hoping will make an appearance in DAV?

Zevran, but only if he isn't whitewashed. Maevaris. Sten

17) Are you interesting in all the lore and speculation or do you focus more on the games and stories themselves?

A mix, I think? Lore and speculation is a lot of fun, but I don't always have the brainpower for it, so I simply focus on the games/stories/my own oc thoughts instead fondkdndmd

[enasallavellan]

Cast of Characters

Hey guys! So I saw a really cute picrew here, and I wanted to share some of the images of my favorite OCs from my fics. OC from my new fic is below the cut (so this post doesn't stretch on and on for mobile).

Enasal Lavellan:

Inquisitor in my first (still incomplete) longfic. ADHD out the wazoo and has some weird behaviors, but her sincerity and eagerness to do something good wins people over.

Shiral Lavellan:

Enasals older sister. After being forced into a parental role of her sister at age 12, Shiral both deeply loves her sister but also has some resentment toward her. She worries about her and wants to protect her from the world, but unfortunately, the worry comes across as controlling and mean - she tends to infantize Enasal and still thinks of her as a little girl. Can't stand Cullen and accuses him on multiple occasions of taking advantage of her sister. Many of the denizens of Skyhold have some degree of fear of her.

Annason Garette:

Originally hired to make a dress for Enasal for a meeting with nobility. The twittering and overexcited young Orleisan is a borderline worshiper of Enasal, pleading with Josephine to become her attendant after she and Enasal spend some time together. Eventually, the worship turns into a legitimate friendship.

Serafina Tabris:

My Warden for my newer fic. Serafina was born in a crows nest in Antiva, but when templars raided and burnt the building down, she and a few other survivors were sent to her aunt's nest for five years to work in the kitchens. After an order came down for her death, she was smuggled out of Antiva and sent to her maternal uncle in Denerim. Incredibly timid and with exactly zero self confidence.

Warden Robin:

BAMF with a heat of gold, Robin acts as Duncan's second in command during the search for recruits. She quickly takes to Serafina and does everything she can to boost her confidence and help her feel safe in the camp full of men. It quickly becomes evident that this is a pattern for her, as she helps some of the other recruits with the same gentleness and skill as she does with Serafina.

On the other hand, will rip out someone's throat with her teeth if she thinks it's come to it.

Henrietta Brosca:

My usual dwarven commoner when I play DA. This trouble-making do-gooder loves nothing more than to tease and cause a ruckus. Complains about her companions' complaining by muttering, "Bicker, bitch, and bellyache." Very high energy and can be a little much for some people, but is actually incredibly smart and has a talent for lockpick and trap making.

Hanin Mahariel:

Snarky and a little bit of a pot-stirrer, Hanin tends to have problems with knowing when to stop talking and can ask some pretty obnoxious questions without really thinking them through. An expert with a bow, he can almost keep up with Leliana (though he never actually beats her) and absolutely demolishes Zevran when he quips about knowing how to shoot as well.

Cosette Amell:

A soft-hearted mage who holds tight to romantic and divine ideals. She is a skilled fire mage and delights in using her magic to set darkspawn ablaze. She is very sensitive and would be a pescatarian if she could. If catastrophe strikes her first thought tends to be, "But what about the animals?!"

Bonus:

Lorenzo Araiani:

Lorenzo -who probably won't appear in the fic, is Serafina's cousin. He's grumpy, generally dislikes people, and would really be happy if everyone just left him alone. It might have something to do with being a mage with stupidly strong mind-reading abilities - to the point he can hear all the thoughts of all the people around him. Gets migraines a lot. Likes a total of two people (one of which he sometimes wonders why he continues to let them breathe) and occasionally loses his shit when the headaches get bad enough,

Feel free to ask questions about any of these guys - helps me get to know them better, too!

[perilegs]

i keep thinking about my first ever dragon age character, asphodel brosca. (it was my first rpg experience so i didn't understand a lot of stuff so i missed leliana and made an unhardened alistair king while romancing him 💀), i feel like i should replay her story now that i know more. she deserves it. also she would've romanced leliana had she not been literally the only person i didn't speak to in lothering. idk i never fleshed her out or anything but i feel sad about not giving her story any proper thought or anything even though it's been years

[andnatiabrosca]

hey! from the new ask game, 6, 14, 27 for Nat and Mal (and/or anyone else you'd like)! :3

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6. What would they think of each other's combat skills/techniques?

Not directly about skills, but about classes: Nat is a little jealous of Mal being a sword-and-shield warrior. They have similar backgrounds and worked in similar positions in the Carta, but Nat always needed to be able to hide or scrounge up new weapons, and it's a lot harder to steal sword and shield than little daggers and knives.

Malachite's never been very fast or light on her feet, so she's pretty impressed with all of the rogue skills, especially stealth and whirlwind - style techniques. She thinks Nat spends too much time tight with opponents, though.

Nat doesn't think as highly of Malachite's skills, and also would be absolutely FURIOUS with Malachite for taking the Templar specialization. Malachite can just wade into the fray, holler, and let people wail on her, and complete what she needs to in the battle. That's not skill, Nat thinks.

(Actually, fun timing on this because I'm just learning that Mal should just waltz into the middle of a fight and take over. I'm so used to running Nat, who can't body all the damage from a dragon for 4+ minutes of a fight. Also, just took the Templar spec for Malachite, not because it's the best for her - I think that would have been Champion - but because she is terrified of the Breach and of Cassandra/The Inquisition, and is hoping by playing into the Chantry she might gain favor & power over the rifts.)

27. What would their fears on the graves in the fade during Here Lies the Abyss be?

I'm not certain why right now - might get to think & expand later but _ (also I don't remember how the graves were specifically marked. been a minute)

Nat: Devotion

Malachite: Irrelevance

(And Freebies:)

Mar: Hunger

Miri: Power

14. If they'd been in each other's places, would they have made the same or different choices? And who would they have romanced, if anyone?

This one is Hard. It's going to be Long and lots of Rambly Thoughts, so it's last. With the implementation of 'shorten long posts' I no longer really use read-mores unless for fics. Sorry if that's a bother.

Let's look at Malachite Cadash, Grey Warden and Hero of Fereldan. I'm going to assume the timelines are still the same, they just get picked up at different times (and I'm using my adjusted timeline for years, because that's the one they live in).

She's 19, brand painted on her face to run some work down in Orzammar, when she gets caught up by the guards and rescued - conscripted - by Duncan. The specifics don't really matter here. She's from the surface; she understands surface politics well enough, and she didn't have her family pushing her to join the Wardens. Maybe her family doesn't even know.

That's an entirely different scenario.

Even in her 30s, Malachite is much more fear-driven than Nat, and much less driven to save everyone. She won't be making decisions based on compassion. She'll make her decisions based on what will take the least time and have the greatest effect. She's a surfacer, and that will change her decisions as well.

Best guesses? She'd kill Connor, likely kill Zathrian, and maybe recruit Loghain - depending on how scared she was and how much she trusted Alistair's abilities.

I'm not sure who she would romance - she romances Josie because Josie gives her something outside of her own fear to pin onto (if we're looking only at the characters thematically). Maybe Leliana, to be honest. At 19, she would probably take the dream at face value, and be able to be swayed to Andrastianism and thus not clash with Leli like she does in Inquisition, when she is resolute in the Stone.

And what about Nat Brosca, Herald of Andraste and Inquisitor?

She's 33. Something changed in her life that she lived this long. She would never have gone topside without Rica, and I don't think she could have hung on even until Endrin was born. So, let's say Rica's sponsor falls through. Their position in the Carta is tenuous at best at the start of the origin; it dissolves as soon as Bhelen backs out. They run.

Nat's still wrapped up in the Carta; she doesn't know another way to live. She can end up at the Conclave as Cadash normally does - or as part of another mercenary group. She has very little family to care for, compared to her own life. We can say Rica has a kid, a family. Nat's missing her Gwina - who is her driving force at this point in her own timeline. If she never leaves Rica and the Carta, Nat never gets to grow. Also, if she never carries children she never fulfills her cultural understanding as "woman" and would probably actually be a "man" (or another dwarven gender - lore theory is in the works). I'm still gonna use she/her here for Nat.

So, we're looking at a person who is centered around duty, who believes she needs to try to save everyone, but has been shown over and over again that she is not capable of it. She's dangerous, angry, stubborn, and has just been handed the most powerful object and title in the world.

Where Malachite tempers her decisions, trusts people to make their own decisions, and is always trying to play both sides as Inquisitor, Nat goes full despot. That's really what it is. She wants to save everyone and now she can.

She certainly doesn't try to disband the Inquisition. She probably goes for Cass as Divine, because Cass seems the most controllable. I'd wager she banishes the Wardens, and destroys every other army she gets the chance to (in the middle of a DAI playthru right now and don't remember exactly what choices). Her choice between Mages and Templars would be decided by her reading of Cullen and Solas. I wouldn't expect her to have interacted with mages much, and she would lean towards the controlling aspect of the Templars, but would be swayable either way.

In romances, Nat looks for lifelines - reasons to stay alive - and connection. She won't broker any attempts or feelings of being converted. Once she starts to heal, she looks for people who challenge her and have her back.

What would Nat, burned and damaged and controlling look for? Fight.

She would never feel satisfied with someone who wouldn't fight back to her, even if she thought she wanted someone to submit to her will. She wouldn't be able to stand Solas because he doesn't understand the fight, as evidenced by banter with Varric. I think Blackwall would anger her, but she wouldn't know why. Sera wouldn't be able to fight the way Nat wants, but would get herself punched in the face with a badly-timed prank.

I hesitate to say Nat would romance anyone, actually. The only options I could really see (of companions + advisors) would be hardened!Leliana or Iron Bull. She and Bull wouldn't be romantic, but they'd have good fun. Nat and Leliana would be crossing paths at their most destructive, but most compatible. It would be explosive but somewhat successful.

[illusivesoul]

OTP Questions

Was tagged by @alyssalenko to answer these 3 otp questions. Thank you :) I'll tag @elellan @imakemywings @mxkelsifer @judithmactir @vulpixelates @slothssassin @breadedsinner and @morganaseren Only if you feel like doing this, of course. .

1. How did they first meet?:

2. Were they immediately interested / attracted, or did that come later?:

3. What did they think of each other at first?:

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Serena Brosca and Leliana

1. How did they first meet?: At the tavern in Lothering. They didnt had the best first impressions of each other, especially after Leliana asked Serena to show mercy to the defeated soldiers of Loghain but Serena killed them anyway.

2. Were they immediately interested / attracted, or did that come later?: Serena wasn't too fond of most humans at that time, and didnt find any of them, including Leliana, particularly special. Leli was intrigued by Serena's tattoos, scars and jewelry, but she wasn't attracted to her at that point. They both became interested in each other much later on.

3. What did they think of each other at first?: Serena had a very negative opinion on humans for much of her first months in the surface. She had never had any interest in coming to the surface, so being forced out of Orzammar and having to now interact and live among humans was something she didn't like at all. When she met Leliana, she thought she was as strange and weird as all the other humans she had met, and actually didn't let her join in the tavern. She already had enough having to endure Alistair and Morrigan, and didn't want more weird humans along. It was only after meeting Leliana again and her insisting she could be of use, that Serena finally gave in and let her join, but she didn't want to have much to do with her at first. Leliana was shocked and surprised that the warden, and by proxy, the person that represented the hope against the darkness she had seen in her dream, was a dwarf. After joining up, she found Serena to be rude and abrasive and closed off, but she suspected there was more to her under that rough exterior, and despite judging her at first, she decided not to push her. Over time, they both slowly started to open up to each other, and Leliana became a sort of "tour guide" for Serena, explaining her things about the surface, and that's how they started to get close.

[tastyfishistasty]

And to finish the trifecta, it's time for the Rogues (my default class so there's lots of them). I tend to play rogue first so I retcon a lot of the mistakes I've made or I make what turn out to be the "stereotype" characters. I love them all so if you tell me I'm boring for romancing Alistair with a Cousland I will block you.

Do what makes you happy friends.

Cringe is a lie

Links with my mages: https://tastyfishistasty.tumblr.com/post/707642197702492160/origins

And my warriors: https://tastyfishistasty.tumblr.com/post/707646415816540160/origins

Origins

Aoife Cousland

Aoife has a very modded background by now because she's honestly one of my favourite play throughs and I've played her 3 separate times.

She's a dual wielding rogue duelist and assassin (shadow in awakening). She said started sword and dagger but following game start, she goes dual sword with the Cousland sword (upgrade wand my fave mod). She uses poisons and the grenades but sneak is always her highest attribute. She can also tank because she's near impossible to hit and does so much damage (this was an accidental discovery when I forgot a warrior in the party and realised her threat level is pretty damn high when she's visible).

She's the stereotype sneaky, manipulative, spy master type, always planning to get the best outcome for anyone she cares about (which includes her country, she's very duty focused). A lot of her skills come from what she needs to do to take care of the world, rather than personal preference. Though the canon reason she can pick locks is because she's a nosy bitch.

Elwyn Mahariel

Elwyn is an archer elf (see above point about cringe being a lie). She's a ranger and all about damage. You won't know she's killed you because she's a "one-shot"er, but your friends will and they will follow along quickly. She's only sneaky if she has to be, which when hunting food.

Thorvalyn Aeducan

My first ever play through, Thorvalyn is a dual welding rogue who ends up with axes. She's not that sneaky and is a Duelist and Bard, which has the in game reason of she won't shut up and out of game reason as she romanced Leliana by accident whilst actually romancing Alistair and I liked the idea of it without reading the abilities.

She's more of an in front fighter (because I didn't know what I was doing) because she's raised in dwarf society with a focus on leading armies into the deep roads.

Gryffen Brosca

Gryffen was made for an achievement and then I got too attached... They're Brosca and as I was playing with gender (my own) at the time, they're neutral but everyone thinks their female. They're infertile and that led to all the mess with the Brosca game start being complicated. They're supposed to sacrifice themselves to kill the archdemon, but I've never actually done that bit...

They're dual wielding daggers and a ranger, they've always had an affinity to animals and so dog is always on the party. They also have assassin because they are sneaky and hidden. They're technically selectively mute because the game makes the warden speak in battle, but I like the idea that all the speech options were what they wrote down or signed.

DA2

Curtis Hawke

Curtis is a shadow dual daggers rogue and so much fun to play. He's part of my twins AU with Abigael and he's always been protecting his family from the shadows and from templars. He also takes assassin because it works really well with the shadow and the sneaky sneaky.

His main areas are subterfuge and scoundrel because he won't be pinned down and you'll never see him coming.

Cassady Hawke

I spent an hour trying to come up with a name for this lady in character creation and eventual thought "Cassandra! That's a great name!" Entered it and then Cassandra reappears and I'm like, oh yeah that's where the name came from... So she became Cassady.

She dual wielding because Varric goes everywhere with my Hawkes so why have an archer? She's a Duelist assassin with a focus on lingering damage with Sabotage and Specialist and lots and lots of grenades.

Lowell Hawke

I like to try everything so Lowell is an archer, but I don't like archery in DA2 so I've never made it very far with him. He's technically a Duelist and Specialist but not sure how far I've ever got him and if he branches out I've not decided. He's supposed to be a lot like my Mahariel with the whole hunter, sneaky but damaging thing, but who knows how he might change in the future.

Inquisition

Hanin Lavellan

Hanin is a dual daggers tempest because I love the tempest abilities. They're not sneaky and are sabotage focused with the daggers and the setting themselves on fire.

Canonically they're more of a defensive part of their clan that a hunter, but that's retcon because I love tempests.

Merryn Cadash

My first Inquisition play through, she's based on the meme of the hamster with a banana and romanced the iron bull. I am hilarious.

She's dual daggers, sneaky subterfuge and was originally an assassin but once I saw the skill tree I went back a couple saves and made her a tempest. Story wise, she was an assassin for the Carta and is leaving her old life behind, so she's more sneaky and then boom there's an on fire dwarf stabbing you in the back.

Somaazi Adaar

Somaazi is another tempest because they are the best. She's dual daggers because she romances Sera and I can't have two tempest archers in one party all the time.

She's not sneaky because she's a Qunari and she is a leader in her mercenary group. She tends towards sabotage, but is mostly focused on her dagger skills.

She's very much a diffuser/negotiation type so she didn't pick up warrior so that she not *as scary*. She's still kinda scary, but she's a people person and loves colours so people get over her being Vashoth pretty quickly and genuinely like her. She wants people to like her very badly.

Christopher Trevelyan

Chris was the designated rogue in the human category (see my warriors post about having one of each race of each specialisation), so he's a dual daggers (I have a type) assassin with heavy sneak subterfuge. My Trevelyans are all siblings so as the oldest he would be the one in the family to sneak off to get things for his siblings when his abusive mother was in the way. He's got a badly healed left wrist so whilst he's left handed he uses his right for everything, which is also why he's sneaky because he can't really defend himself well. He's a bit of a glass cannon in game.

He's got a lot more going on and I feel bad leaving it here, but it's not directly tied to him being a rogue so I'm leaving it there.

Amalia Trevelyan

Amalia is another achievement play, siding with the templars (I think it's a better quest, but I ain't choosing them over the mages). She's an archer and was supposed to be a templar warrior but I don't like the templar tree at all, so I decided she is a very attack and not sneaky rogue, but she's actually an archer. Origins had archer warriors which whilst never a focus was a cool idea and that's what Amalia technically would be, as I don't think in-world the distinction between rogue and warrior is as obvious as in the mechanics.

She's an artificer because she likes knowing how things work and when she was young, she was unwell and not allowed to leave home so she made do with what she had. She's all subterfuge and traps, but she doesn't really sneak, except in that she's quiet because she grew up having to be perfect and dainty.

Her backstory is a bit complicated but she ended up as a lay sister in the chantry after several abusive situations and so is very indoctrinated into the chantry, hence the templars. She gets better as time goes on, but the damage is done with the templars at the begining.

All of this adds up to her being a bit of a manipulator who doesn't always realise what she's doing, she's just trying to be safe and protect herself. Her perks are all knowledge and manipulation/power focused from the war table to give her every available option to take her enemies down.

Ta-dah! Done! I have so many ideas for fics from all my OCs but I am very busy and easily distracted so if anyone has actually read any of these and is at all interested, let me know, it will help me actually focus and do things!