#trutherford

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

this chapter contains lemonade (smut) <3

Chapters: 56/? Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Female Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford, Female Mage Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford, Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan, Female Mage Trevelyan/Cullen Rutherford Characters: Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age), Female Trevelyan, Female Mage Trevelyan, Cullen Rutherford, Cullen (Dragon Age), Original Male Character(s), Varric Tethras, Cassandra Pentaghast, Leliana (Dragon Age), Josephine Montilyet, Iron Bull, Sera (Dragon Age), Vivienne (Dragon Age), Cole (Dragon Age), Dorian Pavus, Blackwall, Female Hawke, Rylen (Dragon Age), Original minor female characters, Solas (Dragon Age), Female Warden (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age), Original Female Character(s), Female Cousland (Dragon Age), Dagna (Dragon Age), Mia Rutherford, Branson Rutherford, Rosalie Rutherford Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Eventual Romance, Drama & Romance, Eventual Smut, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Lyrium Withdrawal, Lost Love, Character Development, Character Study, Past Relationship(s), Background Relationships, Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love, Mages and Templars, Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining, Body Worship, Sensuality, Sexual Content, Canon-Typical Violence, Romance, Romantic Drama, happy couple, After the initial Angst, Found Family, Touch-Starved, Strangers to Lovers, Family Reunions, Angst and Romance, Dorks in Love Series: Part 1 of Dreams Summary:

Though haunted by their past and present times, Lydia and Cullen slowly fall in love. During the war at the height of the Inquisition, the former Circle mage and former templar discover during their romantic and eventual sexual exploration that they love one another as more than the Commander and Inquisitor, more than the rose that survived and endured the winter, and more than a forgotten goddess of old. Learning to overcome, they turn to the stars and constellations.

Then war, like everything, ends. They dream of a dawn after the stars. *** The love story between Inquisitor Lydia Trevelyan and her Commander. As the events of the Inquisition unfold, so do their own personal struggles, issues, torrid pasts, and feelings for one another. Sprinklings of other characters here and there. Slightly diverges from canon. Rated E for later chapters.

[gaymingbinosaur]

M, U, Y - for your most amusing muse and their other half.

Alright I will do Nichole.  With stuff like this her awkwardness makes it amusing

Motivation or turn ons- Nichole is always weak for Cullen’s teasing.  So I guess that will be a good start.  Cullen found that the best way to drive her mad is to go up to her and whisper absolute filth in her ears.  He loves doing it at moments when she can’t do anything about it, like when she’s about to meet with a noble.  Firstly because she’s adorable flustered, secondly she’s not the most dominant lover, but if he teases her enough she does end up becoming a lot more dominant later that night.  She is also weak for subtle touches, so him giving her pointers in combat is always a lot of fun for Cullen.  I think Nichole’s passion for things is a turn on for him.  She tends to light up and can talk for hours about things she loves.  She tends to be very exuberant.  It doesn’t help that during these passionate rants she sometimes stops and thinks, and then bite her lip.  It got a lot worse when he became one of the things she gets passionate about and all that passion gets turned on to the reasons she loves him.  Also since that isn’t as dirty as the ask game wants.  Her dresses sometimes droop when she bends down and you can see her breasts very easily.  So dresses.  

Unfair or teasing-   I feel like Cullen’s teasing got worse as the relationship goes on longer.  Nichole gets flustered easily.  So in the beginning he just teased her the normal amount a boyfriend would tease, but when he realized how easy she can be to fluster he’s on it.  About to go see her sister, time to get her flustered.  Dorian still won’t stop teasing her about the time Cullen came into the library and whispered something in her ear and that had her so flustered that she accidentally knocked over a bookshelf.  Nichole tries her best to fluster Cullen.  Her family is very repressed sexually so she always struggled to say something incredibly dirty, but she does her best to improve, definitely after the library incident.  9 times out of ten though her attempts to tease him just melts Cullen’s heart.  She just tries so hard.  Though ironically when Nichole does make  Cullen feel sexual frustration it’s usually by accident.  Does something she’s proud of and becomes more confident, her confidence becomes incredibly attractive.  Bites her lips, cuddles on his lap, stuff like that. 

Yearning or sex drive -  At the beginning of their relationship I think relatively low. While both she and her sister grew up in very sex critical environments.  Evie ended up kind of viewing sex as an act of rebellion and Nichole ended up seeing sex as a thing that can destroy her.   So she needs time to unlearn that and Cullen with his tramau needs time to heal  a bit more.  I always kind of viewed him as hyposexual like I was.  But as time goes on they both kind of healed/moved on.  Which made them a lot more horny.   So they ironically became a lot more sexually active after they got married compared to when they first started having sex.  After they got married though, they sometimes spent entire days in bed. 

[myfantasyocs]

I Panicked

Cullen knows Nichole has been avoiding him. She was always a bit jumpy, especially around him, but she never flat out avoided him. No matter how intimidating she found him. She refused to even look at him during the council meeting. The moment Josephine said the meeting was over, Nichole shoved practically shoved the other advisers to get away from him. “Inquisitor Trevelyan a word.” Cullen sighed. He needs to know what he did to scare her so bad. The idea that he hurt her breaks his heart. He knows he deserves her fear and scorn but, she has enough things to be scared about the last thing she needs is to fear her war adviser.

Cullen organized his reports, as he waited for Lellianna and Josephine to leave the war room. When heard the thud of the door closing beside him, he faced his superior. “I apologize if I dis something wrong. And I would like to know what I did so I can rectify it.” Cullen said formally.

Nichole was silent for a moment, but it felt like hours to Cullen. “I’m sorry. I’m confused. You didn’t do anything.” Nichole said, looking at him for the first time in days, her eyes wide with shock.

“You have been avoiding me for days. People don’t do that for no reason.”

“I have? I have.” Nichole said her voice laced in guilt. “Cullen. You did nothing wrong. I just heard about the bets and I panicked.”

Cullen was relieved that she wasn’t scared of him and that he didn’t hurt her. But dread filled his every fiber of his being when he heard the word bet come out of her mouth. “What bet?”

“The bet Varric started with Dorian, it spread through the whole keep. I guess it’s more bets now.” Nichole giggled nervously.

“Bets?”

“Well, yeah. Apparently, it started with when we’ll start dating but it escalated.”

“Escalated?” Cullen tried to hide his shock. He wasn’t surprised that Dorian and Varric were doing stupid bets, that wasn’t shocking. The fact that Nichole said when not if, was. Did she misspeak or did Varric and Dorian really think they would date one day? If they did does that mean his feelings were requited. Cullen shut that thought down. It doesn’t matter if she did, she was the Inquisitor, The Herald of Andraste. The idea of her settling for him was ridiculous. Nichole started to fidget with her dress’s sleeve as she continued. “Um, yeah escalated. Like where are first kiss would happen, who would make the first move, when the wedding would happen”

“WAIT! WHAT! WEDDING!” Cullen shrieked.

“Yes. I mean I guess I understand your horror at the thought of marrying me. I wouldn’t marry me either.” Nichole giggled sadly.

“What! No that wasn’t it. I don’t mind the idea of marrying you! Wait no that came out wrong. I mean.”

Nichole held her hand out. “I understand I almost died, when I found out.”

“How did you find out?” Cullen highly doubted Varric or Dorian told her.

“One of your soldiers. I don’t know his name. He thought I was Evie. It didn’t take much to convince him to tell me everything when he found out who I was.”

“Wait. Your sister?! She isn't uncomfortable making these kinds of bets about you?"

“Cullen everybody is in on it. From Vivienne to Sera.”

Cullen let out a groan. Maker if both were in on it, that means it is a possibility the entire keep was in on it. All his friends were making bets about when his wedding would be. How obvious was his crush? “Any other bets?” Cullen asked, bracing himself for the worst.

Nichole glanced at the war table, her face turning scarlet. “ No that was all the bets he told me about.”

[circles-finest]

Cuvelyan? Trellen? Ruvelyan?

How come Lavellan is the only Inquisitor that has a ship name with Cullen (Cullavellan) when there are at least a trillion ways to mix Trevelyan and Cullen together? Or even their last names? We as a community need to decide on this it’s been 4 years, that’s enough time to think, we need to take decisive action. 

I’m partial to Trutherford but I could be swayed by cullvelyan or trecullen. I’m not picky. 

[myfantasyocs]

Questions

Nichole didn’t know how this happened.  She was planning on stealing Cullen away before he got too invested in his paperwork.  She wasn’t expecting to be pinned to the wall by her sister.

“So, today I went out for a walk and saw the strangest thing.” 

“Evie please I need to go do something.” Nichole pleaded.

“Oh, is that the templar’s name something.”

Fuck Nichole thought.

“Um, templar I don’t know any templars.”

“Cullen. I saw you guys on the battlements.” Evie explained.

“Oh. He’s an ex templar not a templar.” Nichole sighed, shit she’s going to get yelled at by Evie for dating a templar. 

“Nichole don’t look so scared. I just wanted to spend time with you and I figured we should celebrate, since mom and dad wrote about how no guy would date you.”

Of course Evie said she wanted to be closer to her.  She just wanted an excuse  some time with her.” Sorry of course. I thought you would be mad.”

“Nope just wanted some drinks to celebrate the fact you have a boyfriends.  So I’ll steal the wine and you meet me in your room.”

“Yeah of course. “ Nichole nodded.

“Good because I have some questions about you and your Cully Wully” 

Shit.

[myfantasyocs]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragon Age, dragon age inquisiton Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cullen/Trevelyan, Female Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford, Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan, Cullen Rutherford/Original Female Character(s), Female Warrior Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford, Cullen Rutherford/Female Rogue Trevelyan Characters: Cullen Rutherford, Trevelyan (Dragon Age), Female Trevelyan (Dragon Age), nichole trevelyan Additional Tags: Bets, Awkward Conversations Summary:

Cullen wants to know why Nichole has been avoiding him.

[fiadhaisteach]

I stumbled into a DA:I fic... I think it was one of @laraslandlockedblues Lightning Struck stories... I vaguely remembered my spouse having played Origins but... whatever, right? No clue how I ended up there, but I fell in love with the characters and Thedas. I consumed *tons* of Trutherford fic and smatterings of others (but I tend to pick & stick when it comes to pairings in a fandom), read fan pages & wikis, and perused art blogs & sites.

Several *months* later, I received DA:I as a birthday present and discovered the Egg in sheep's clothing... been in Solavellan hell ever since. LOL (still have a soft spot for, and occasionally reread, some particular Trutherford favorites though).

I have since purchased the other games, when they went on sale... someday I may finish a playthrough of them... I have too many characters.

I like walking into a fandom where there are about eighteen different opinions on every major point and i can just go, “I haven’t consumed the canon, I’m not qualified to have an opinion, I’m just gonna read all your fic.”

[myfantasyocs]

Footage of Cullen asking Nichole Trevelyan if she needs sword training

[fiadhaisteach]

I'd been out of fandom for a few several years and only discovered AO3, in late 2017, while looking for help phrasing something or other... haven't left since. :)

☆1st bookmark was for a pairing I'd have never looked for, but the author sold it.

Scientific Discoveries, by Franniesgurrl (last update 2016-12-12). Scarecrow & Mrs. King fandom.The series is a WIP, but each work is complete and it doesn't leave you hanging.

☆As the World Falls Down, by @khirsahle (completed 2015-06-06), is one of the best Trutherford smut w/plot fics I've read (and there's an alternate PoV fic too!) and one of my first AO3 to Kindle downloads. Dragon Age: Inquisition fandom.

☆The Soul has Bandaged moments, by @insideofadoge (completed 2015-08-11), is so frickin' amazing I dont have words. I couldn't tell you how many times I've reread this Trutherford work, and its WIP sequel.

☆Is there a Solavellan fan out there who hasn't read The Dread Wolf's Heart, by @feynites (base work completed 2015-09-22)? 'Cause it's a not Trespasser compliant, time travel, fix-it, AU fic that will twist you up, but leave you happy squeeing... if you want. Alternate endings and AUs of AUs can satisfy other... emotional wants. :D

☆And... bookmarked almost exactly one year ago... I Come To You With Nothing by @commonevilmastermind (base work published 2016-08-28), another Solavellan fix-it that is simply beautiful and poignant and amazing and... words exist and stuff... yes.

Fic Back Friday

Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave.

Reblog art, edits, and gifsets from seasons past. Dig out those hold headcanon and meta posts and bring them back. What were the popular fan theories? What was everyone writing fic about 2 years ago? Five? Go comment on an old fanvid that got you right in the feels. Queue up that OTP playlist and break out the tissues.

[hananabee]

Trutherford

How come Lavellan is the only Inquisitor that has a ship name with Cullen (Cullavellan) when there are at least a trillion ways to mix Trevelyan and Cullen together? Or even their last names? We as a community need to decide on this it’s been 4 years, that’s enough time to think, we need to take decisive action. 

I’m partial to Trutherford but I could be swayed by cullvelyan or trecullen. I’m not picky. 

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

I think trutherford is amazing

How come Lavellan is the only Inquisitor that has a ship name with Cullen (Cullavellan) when there are at least a trillion ways to mix Trevelyan and Cullen together? Or even their last names? We as a community need to decide on this it’s been 4 years, that’s enough time to think, we need to take decisive action. 

I’m partial to Trutherford but I could be swayed by cullvelyan or trecullen. I’m not picky. 

[princessvicky01]

Agree definitely need one! Hmmm so many choices... My dyslexia has always made Cullavellan difficult, to many vowels- so Trutherford is good, or how about something like culltre?

How come Lavellan is the only Inquisitor that has a ship name with Cullen (Cullavellan) when there are at least a trillion ways to mix Trevelyan and Cullen together? Or even their last names? We as a community need to decide on this it’s been 4 years, that’s enough time to think, we need to take decisive action. 

I’m partial to Trutherford but I could be swayed by cullvelyan or trecullen. I’m not picky. 

[the-pale-elfs-love]

I’m putting my vote in for Trutherford

How come Lavellan is the only Inquisitor that has a ship name with Cullen (Cullavellan) when there are at least a trillion ways to mix Trevelyan and Cullen together? Or even their last names? We as a community need to decide on this it’s been 4 years, that’s enough time to think, we need to take decisive action. 

I’m partial to Trutherford but I could be swayed by cullvelyan or trecullen. I’m not picky.