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how dare you ask me to live with it?

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The Demon of Vyrantium 🐦‍⬛

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Star Wars Alien Species | from FFG’s Forces and Destiny series

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『👿』 -> "You cannot see him... I wondered."

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my heart is mostly hard and deadened to it at this point (I burned all her stuff out on the lawn took a louisville slagger to both headlights slashed a hole in all four tires etc.), but every so often I'll remember the rush that was early days overwatch fandom and get that '...I should call her' instinct again

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"average Thedosian political leader is assassinated at least once" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Thedosian political leader is assassinated zero times. King Markus, who lives and dies and lives and dies and lives in Nevarra and has been assassinated 20 times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Back so soon? It must have been worse than I had thought. [...] Ah, but perhaps I am mistaken. You may be here to correct me. To tell me my concerns were unfounded. I am, after all, remembered as the god of lies, treachery, and rebellion.

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toying with the idea of having merrill and hawke platonically co-parenting a child (perhaps children plural? to maximize the potential chaos you understand) together by the time of veilguard, and that is part of why varric triple underlined that 'NO you are NOT coming with me on this one do you think I'm into recreationally creating orphans hawke???? after all the years we've known each other is that what you think my hobby is???? stay here and keep the home fires burning or so help me I'll ask aveline to sit on you the whole time I swear it on my perfect disdain for the merchant's guild. ffs. (infinite affection so deep it lives like an ache in my soul you're my best friend in all the world and I need to know you'll be okay somewhere out there if I'm going to do this thing. I can close a lot of stories when their time has come but please not this one. let me keep this one)'

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lucanis 'put me in coach!!!' dellamorte in blood of arlathan. he wants to get to stab something soooo bad <3

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Davrin | Grey Warden

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when you think about it veilguard is just solas running a high-stakes experiment of 'cloth mentor, wire mentor' on rook

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the sheer number of funerals, memorials and general scenes to do with mourning rook comes along to does start to take on a faintly darkly comedic edge the second time around. the universe is trying to tell them something and oh my maker they've got air pods in they can't hear us

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still extremely sad about shathann and also about what her death means for taash, but getting to go out on a massive UM, ACTUALLY -- is at least one of the ways she would have found it most satisfying to go

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:')

+ bonus realization watching this scene again -- if you look closely I think rook actually has a near-flashback experience in the background there for a moment even through the blood magic when they see shathann's body. there's even a little headshake as if to clear their head before they get themselves together and move forward to sit next to taash. judge for yourself, but that was what I was getting. solas was pissing himself in the regret prison in that moment you just know it close call there wolf boy

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my headcanon is that rye says varric's name with a slight but perceptible nevarran accent (the american masc VA pronounces it with uh. hm. I don't know the linguistic terms to use here but with a flatter/further back in the mouth 'a'. is the closest way I can describe it haha, it's almost 'verric' at times), and it makes varric smile a bit every time b/c it's the same way of saying it that cassandra has and now that getting stabbed in the book is comfortably a decade and change behind him that has very fond associations for him even aside from the fondness he feels for rook naturally.

(renn was not nevarran originally -- he was also a marcher surface dwarf, actually -- and he was the biggest influence on rye's early language acquisition, so rye has mostly ended up with a hodgepodge of an unplaceable barely-there accent. cassandra was partially raised in the necropolis herself, right? so it makes sense if the same inflection sneaks into both their pronounciations, I think. aaah. thank u bioware for blissfully having a bunch of different accents for nevarrans that was a gift for me specifically to play around with. listen it's a big country, it makes more sense for it to vary wildly than for all of orlais to have exactly the same faux-french thing going on. presumably in the old-old days they spoke tevene for a while in parts of what would become nevarra?? they certainly do all their rituals and stuff in the common tongue tm now though, which is an element I really like, their death rites are so clearly (and pleasingly ironically) a living tradition. I think sylvia feketekuty said something about leaving the questions of language in nevarra deliberately vague and open for anyone working in that area later, which like. well I guess that's me now huh :') you ever think about how we are never getting a world of thedas volume 3 and start bleeding from the eyes in grief like all the wounds are ripped open all over again. yeah me neither)