#worldstate : three

[queen-scribbles]

lol google doc for the Dragon Age kids is 20 pages and I haven't even filled out Trinne yet xD

[kirkwallguy]

when i was doing my bad / all mage romances worldstate with anders rivalmance i had this older gay married orlesian warden who just completely shakes up the protag vibes by being overwhelmingly normal and nice. because it was funny

[veatomis]

It’s so refreshing to see someone also sharing the same sentiment that Veilguard really just felt like smth for solavellan’s or even ppl who are huge fans of solas and not for other ppl (especially ppl who romanced Dorian)

Yeah... they gassed up the solas arc so much for this game and then it was. so nothing if again you didn't make the choices the devs obviously wanted you to make. And the game isn't even for huge fans of solas really, i'm personally a big solas fan, I think he was an incredible character and i loved his friendship with my inquisitor but because i wanted to explore choices that it seems trick weekes was just not interested in writing i got fucked over. Like i'm still reeling from the fact that if ROOK. NOT EVEN THE INQUISITOR. decides to not redeem solas the inquistor/solas relationship (whether antagonistic or friendly) just never gets resolved. I wanted a 20 min argument where my inquisitor after 7 long years of turning around that last interaction he had with solas in his mind got to ask him VERY important questions like "did our friendship ever really matter?", "did you ever really stop seeing me as subhuman?" and what i DESPERATELY needed "if the qunari hadn't forced you out of hiding, would you have come to save me from the anchor?" but they stuck varric into the role that should've been the inquisitor's so i got nothing 😐

+ What they did to us dorianmancers was so insulting my blood boils every time i think about it again. The inquisitor is in minrathous. Dorian is in minrathous. We never get a proper reunion with those two and they also have the audacity to dangle that shit in front of our faces with the "yes i know u will be in minrathous" line in dorian's letter. The inquisitor doesn't even MENTION dorian to rook when he's in the city, the city can be overrun with venatori, half of it can be destroyed and we don't even get a voiced concern over the man he loves???????? sick and fucking twisted the way this game actually had me missing dav*d gaid*r's writing but it did.

[zhmyhnyto]

Well, now I'm surprised that they even allow us to pick other non-S*lavellan romances. They should have just made it "Did you romance Solas?" and stopped at that. Why give us a chance to select Cassandra as romance if we can't even choose who was the Divine. Or how does it matter that someone romanced Bull if game doesn't allow us to select if he's alive.

[xiiiwayfinders]

Send help I want to replay ff7 remake again

[crossdressingdeath]

If people could stop making massive, largely baseless assumptions about DAV based on a playtest build that only contains six hours of the game and that we haven't even seen all of that'd be great.

[shadovvheart]

I think I've finally decided whom to romance with my rooks. neve and lucanis are so my type it'd be a crime not to kiss them. and I won't forgive myself if I don't romance harding after ten years of asking for her to be romanceable

[hahren-tabris]

okay i KNOW i said I was retiring my lavellan. and i KNOW i said that i prefer other romances to s*lav*llan. but hear me out.

what if i started a new playthrough with a new lavellan.

[tortoise-teapot]

hit in the face by the realization that i've been writing avery as basically fiona's felassan and im having brainworms rn

[paniartistmauser]

Some more Rooks for Veilguard

[crows-of-buckets]

I think it's kinda funny that, out of all of Ena's relationship dynamics, I post about him and Lucanis least. It's funny bc I literally think about them all the time it's just nothing that I can actually put into post format and have it make sense 😭

[queen-scribbles]

Every so often the urge strikes to reread my Jowan/Leliana fic and I pretty much never say no. (aka, guess what I'm doing rn)

[leliwardens]

i think one thing that's missing from much veilguard discussion/analyzing/criticism/etc. is trying to use the dev's intentions to take it into account. like ik it's pretty speculatory and difficult to take anything at the dev's words bc they've been under the coorpo boot.

but like. "i can't imagine the team ever truly willingly removing worldstates unless it was forced by crunch or other awful practices" or "only going to dock town is a significant intentional storytelling beat when there is evidence this was the never planned end result" are pretty reasonable examples and something to think about.

[avvidstarion]

Does BioWare not understand that the reason I am so drawn to dragon age over, say, the elder scrolls is BECAUSE of the worldstates?? I love that each game is a single part of an ongoing story, I love that decisions made in previous matter. What sets dragon age apart from the rest of the fantasy rpg genre if not that?

[danceswithdarkspawn]

thwip thursday

yesterday was a lazy day after a busy week, this is from something verrrry different from my usual flavor of things

She dragged the lockbox that sat on the far end of the chaos closer, opening its lid a little more forcefully than she intended, and began to put the night’s lost work away. Her hands shook as she snatched a scrap of parchment. She dipped a quill pen a little too carelessly; ink splattered on the edges of the paper. The hurried instructions she wrote for Charter seemed barely legible to her eye, but it would have to do.

Leliana glanced up as she placed the note inside the box. Morrigan waited at the opposite side of the desk, arms crossed, waiting for her to finish. There was no winning this. “There has been so much chaos in the world,” Leliana softly said as she placed the last of the things in the box. It quietly clicked shut. “My burdens seem small in comparison.”

“You nearly died.”

Leliana froze in place, hands still primed at the box’s lid. She looked up slowly at Morrigan, and unsurprisingly found an edge of ire in her features. But it was the type of anger that came with worry, Leliana knew, more frustration than true vitriol. Perhaps she earned it.

“Do you not remember how ill, how feeble you were?” Morrigan accused. “‘Tis astonishing that you survived after what you tried to do. You were driven to put yourself, both of you, on a pyre.”

Leliana ran a hand over her eyes and sighed. “Morrigan, it is just busywork.”

“Were you so abused under Justinia's thumb that you forgot what it was like to be shown a modicum of decency?”

“No, I-”

“You nearly died.”

[sha-lyuzar]

"You're just mad it's not like origins"

Yeah, how dare i be disappointed in a game series that has followed a certain tone and theme for three games, and has always been narratively complex, and about navigating hard decisions and moral dilemmas, structual injustices, deep characterisations, beauty and tragedy in tandem, rich worldstates and character arcs and thin lines between heros and villains... it's almost as if my disappointment stems from care and passion for dragon age, and not from an unwillingness to accept change, or a misplaced sense of nostalgia. It's almost as if people are allowed to criticise a thing and discuss its flaws, while also enjoying other aspects of it, and voicing their opinions on the world's most unprofitable social network to a handfull of followers and mutuals, isn't going to make any meaningful dent in the game's success