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I feel like Da:I was almost aiming for the authority/danger walk from Assassins Creed but just left me wondering if my Inquisitor suffered a cerebrospinal injury in the conclave and just tried to shrug it off.

All I want in da:d is for the protagonist to not walk stupid.

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I had a lot of luck when I…started playing something else, tbh, that game ended up with me lodging a controller in my wall and learning how to repair drywall.

I think Fallout 4 maybe be the worst I have ever been at a video game

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What do you think each origins’ nightmare should have been in the Mage Tower? Because I always thought it was a missed opportunity to have it be the same warden dream instead of using the trauma of their origin.

Also what do you think the DAO companions would have reacted to breaking out first and having to break the Warden out of their nightmare?

Here you go!

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Soooo I’ve been play DA for the first time and am finally on DAI. Now I love-hate Vivienne cause she’s a hypocrite, but I noticed something. She met her love about 21 years ago in game, and we never see any nobles related to us but we’re connected to the Chantry. How do you think the circle would react (including the Inquisitor?) to finding out the Inquisitor was adopted and was secretly Viviennes child?? Especially if they’re nothing like her think like the movie Matilda how she was different

Canonically your human inquisitor comes from the Trevelyan family, who are nobility in the Free Marches. There are several war table missions relating to the Trevelyans, and the assumption is that unfortunately a large part of your family died at the Conclave.

-Mod Fereldone

#again not a reaction

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I'm tired of being left on the battlements in cutscenes. Can we get reactions to inky having a reaction to heights? 😤🫠

Good reaction? Bad reaction? Which one would heighten your enjoyment?

(See what I did there? Still got it.)

-Mod Ferelpun

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Just wanted to say, I used to read these asks back when I only ever played DAI, but I very recently just finished DAO and DA2 for the first time and just went on an absolute binge through your masterlist, spent a good few hours scrolling through your stuff and others

Just wanted to say you're really really good and reading all those requests was super fun, I'll probably read some of them again to be honest

Anyway, you're super cool, have a good day

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Reblogging this one because it always make me smile and today kind of sucks already.

Origin companions react to a dwarf warden seeing a bird and screaming

Alistair: It takes him a moment to realize where their fear is stemming from, but once it registers with him he is a little confused. It is only when another companion points out that they’ve likely seen few if any surface dwelling creatures that he apologizes sheepishly and promises to keep them safe.

“After all, we wardens have to flock together. Get it, because birds of a feather? I’ll…just go away now.”

Morrigan: Her disinterest is clear, but unlike Alistair she at least has a quick grasp of the cause of their reaction. 

“Tis merely a creature of the air, warden, and of which you will see many in your time here on the surface. Now come– we have more important matters.”

Leliana: Immediately she is alert, looking around for enemies, but once the source of their fear is uncovered she cannot help but laugh. Leliana feel’s terrible about it afterwards, of course -she was amused, not cruel- and promises to keep them safe from avian threats in the future.

“If we require a songbird I am here, What sparrow can outsing a nightengale?”

Sten: He is not impressed. Even a dwarf is many times bigger than one small songbird, and they have bigger issues to face. They are above Orzammar now– it is time to face those threats.

“Vashedan, there is no time for such foolishness. Control yourself.”

Wynne: For someone who has also lived in a controlled society for most of her life the mage understands how new sights can be frightening. Of all the companions she is the most sympatheitc, and moves to comfort without chiding.

“There now, no harm done. Just a song bird on her way to her nest. She won’t hurt you, any more than you might fall into the sky. It’s all right.”

Zevran: He finds the situation amusing, most of all because this is the Warden he could not assassinate. If any of this ever gets out he will never find work again.

“Truly, my dear warden, you continue to astonish. Darkspawn and bandits do not phase you, but a robin is fear itself. Only a shame you are not so frightened of Crows.”

Ohgren: He’s screamed right along with them, the haze of alcohol making the bird seem as frightening as the arch demon, and so is of little help.

“Damn surface vermin! By the Stone why can’t things stay rooted where they belong?!”

Loghain: He has very little comment to make, but a part of his mind is both amused and infuriated that this is what brought him down.

Dog:

Shale:

Time freezes, the sun ceases it’s journey, and for the first time in so many, many years, Shale finds someone who understands them. A connection is forged then, one that shall never be sundered, and with surprising gentleness the golem places their hand on the Warden’s head.

“Do not fear, warden. Someday all the birds shall die.”

–Mod Fereldone

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Widow Anon, I see you and I love you and I am going to write the shit out of your asks but…

You good? You need a hug or something? Because damn, friend, you spend a lot of time at the angst bar drinking the hurt juice.

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#dragon age 2 #been wondering

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ASOIAF inquisitor and how the companions react to Daenerys going made and burning kings landing.

I refuse to acknowledge this ending, alas, and will not be writing the reactions for it because it makes no maker damn sense—

Mod Fereldone

#still not a reaction

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What is a favorite fandom headcanon for you?

One of mine is that Dorian would actually like to do something messy like gardening or painting wildly but that he doesn't feel comfortable exposing that side of him until after he gets together with The Iron Bull (which I suppose is also a headcanon lol as long as I'm not trying to date one of them).

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer within a certain amount of time or at all.*

My favorite headcanon? Okay, I see your ‘Dorian isn’t afraid of dirt’ and raise you a ‘Kirkwall is where the original Magisters entered the Fade and started the Blight, because they had ready access to millions of slaves and killed a bunch to do it and even thousands of years later the emanations of that are why Kirkwall mages are so easily corrupted and a magnet for sorrow ever since’.

And for a more companion centric one? The Iron Bull doesn’t love pink just to be contrary. After he lost his eye his brain went a little haywire and he developed a neurological version of Deutan Color Blindness (which is a rare but real occurrence!), and now it’s not just his favorite color but the only one he sees somewhat normally.

Mod Fereldone

#dragon age inquisition #dragon age inqusition headcanons #the iron bull

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Thoughts on an Inquisitor's Mabari, that good good girl would smell the lies on Solas, wouldn't she? Also what IRL dog breeds could DAI companions have? Let's give Cassandra a Corgi! For all the non-threatening happiness they exude, they're hard working herders.

Cassandra has a Great Pyrenees, and Imma tell you why.

She loves fiercely, but war is not what Cassandra truly desires. She wants a warm meal with her friends, a warm bed with her beloved, peace and justice in the world. She wants the freedom to lay down with her flock and care for them.

But at the first sign of danger, at the first whisper of fear, Cassandra is up at arms. And a Great Pyrenees is the absolute embodiment of both of those sentiments.

(But yes, the Inquisitor’s mabari would tree Solas in about ten seconds.)

Mod Fereldone

#cassandra pentaghast #mabari #mod fereldone loves dogs #solas

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Sure he does. And he’ll damn Thedas to prevent it.

His world, a world imperfect and ruled by cruel masters, was still his. And it’s gone, and it’s his fault, and now the Dread Wolf is so utterly alone that sometimes it’s hard to breathe. Because the Dalish are children playing at a dead culture with the wrong rules and the city elves have left all dignity behind for the illusion of safety, and this is Not How It Should Be.

He is alone. And if he dies alone now, sundered forever in this lesser Thedas, then he will truly have failed. And that is not acceptable.

Solas’ grave in the fade during Here Lies The Abyss reading ‘dying alone’ as his biggest fear is soooooooo fucked up dude

Does he even know that about himself

#dragon age inquisition #dragon age: dreadwolf #solas

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How I am supposed to relearn these damn characters if AO3 is down?!

#archive of our own #dragon age inquisition #well…shit

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welcome back <3 make sure to take it easy, stay hydrated, and take your meds if needed!

Thank you! I’m plenty hydrated, but based on the amount of hurt juice angst y’all are requesting I’m suspecting some of you guys are thirsty for the tears.

Mod Fereldone

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DAI Companions reactions to repeatedly being mistaken for a young/teen Inquisitor's parent or older sibling.

Cassandra: At times it feels like she is, and yet it is never something the seeker begrudges. This young person has stepped into a role no one their age should have to fulfill, and with so many relying on them to save the world at least one person should be standing in the role of guardian and protector of their interests. She only wishes it could be her sole priority.

And if, in quiet moments, to have a sibling again is a balm then it a truth no one else need know.

Varric: He was a lousy brother, though is was not as if Bertrand was winning any awards either. But he never really understood the pressures his older brother was under until stepping into part of that role— and Varric never had the strain of ailing mother or the loss of Orzammar on his shoulders. No, he is not sibling material.

But no father could be prouder of a child than he is, watching their young leader stitch the world back together. Kid needs looking after, and Varric Tethras is honored in the burden.

Solas: If the Inquisitor is elven, no matter his plans for the future, the rift mage feels a sort of obligatory kinship to the da’len so far from clan or kin. Children have always been precious, especially to the Elvhen who did not conceive so easily as humans.

For any other inquisitor he does not correct those who make the mistake, and will turn it into a familiar joke later that the herald must be the most attractive of thei species to be mistaken for an elf. It hides how little he cares for the comparison.

Kin slaying is a terrible crime. Best not to build the relationship from the start.

Blackwall: In another life Thom Rainier had scorend the idea of children, and taken pains to ensure that his dalliances would not conceive a bastard he had no intention of claiming. Now his family name is hardly worth the claiming, and he is grateful his only sister took her husband’s name long ago and is free of his legacy.

But as a warden, true or otherwise, Blackwall is honored by such a comparison. If his presence has had any small benefit to the young person upon whom such a task is laid then he is honored by the comparison. And while he would be the first to argue that no one is better off in his care or keeping, Blackwall would be the first to lay down his life to protect theirs, and will do everything he can to make sure they are well.

Vivienne: For the sake of his grown children- and the wife who had done her duty in the bearing- Bastian could not have given her a child. Even if he could have protected it from the clawing hands of the Circle, whose laws had forbidden such a gift. To be a mother was not in her future, and in her youth Vivienne had taken steps to ensure such an accidental fate could never befall her.

But she could have been. In the quiet moments through out the years she had imagined how such a child might grow, might flourish under the love and guidance of two parents who so deeply wanted it. And while the Inquisitor is neither replacement nor surrogate for that dream, in this young person Madame de Fer can see a reflection of what might have been.

If she takes care to guard their appearance, coach their behavior and prepare them as best she can for the great game, it is easily couched in the truth that it benefits the Inquisition to do so. The truth of her affection is hidden away, no further burden on shoulders already heavy with titles and too few years.

But she can dream.

Sera: When she does think about her childhood, the few times it has to be examined, Sera would not have minded another small person to have run about with. It might have made the lessons and the lies less lonely, to know someone else was there to ride through it with.

But there wasn’t. And she didn’t. And she likes the Inquisitor, is happy to have them as both friend and Friend. But family is a sore spot in the tapestry of her life, and adding patches to warped thread does not fix the faulty loom.

Dorian: It is the worst nightmare of most high born alti, that one’s parents might conceive a second child to rival them for the familiar seat in the magisterium. Never a risk for Halward and Aquinea, whose duties to each other and the marriage bed ended w it the birth of a living and magically inclined son.

And yet Dorian would not have minded a younger Pavus knocking about when he had been a boy, someone to share the duties and adventures of Minrathious in those few years before duty locked away simpler pleasures. But when he is first mistaken for the Inquisitor’s father, first mistakenly assigned that guardianship and all it brings?

It staggers him, how deeply the role could fit. For all that their creation is anathema to them, Dorian Pavus would never scorn a child of his blood. Of any blood, in truth. If their herald is young enough and without guardianship, without a future once Corypheus is defeated…

It is a thought for later.

The Iron Bull: Where is the lie? Was he any less worthy of the imereki than those who had left them behind? The feelings that well up when the mistaken role is given do not surprise him, and Bull is perhaps the easiest of any besides Cassandra with taking on that burden. The Chargers are his family, and if they survive the Storm Coast the little Herald is gathered up into that fold without question.

And even with one eye he can see the second Dorian accepts and even relishes the idea. The Iron Bull didn’t come South looking for a family, but one may well be within his grasp regardless.

Cole: “Shared name, shared memories, tied together by all the things that matter. Even when we don’t agree there is still love and trust, striving for something greater than we are. Yes! We are a family. That makes sense.”

Mod Fereldone

#cassandra pentaghast #solas #varric tethras #warden blackwall #vivienne de fer #sera #dorian pavus #the iron bull #cole #dragon age inquisition #reaction #found family

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DAI: Hello! I noticed you did the companions version of this one but could you do the advisors take, especially the romanced ones, upon realizing that they are going to lose the Inquisitor to the anchor?

Josephine: Of all that has been kept from her, in these past hours and days, this is perhaps the cruelest. She is under no delusion that her talents span so far and wide that anything under her banner might have saved her beloved— what has been done is done, and the Inquisition’s diplomat is good at playing a field even set badly.

No, Josephine has been robbed of time. She would never have spent so many hours preparing for this grand exercise in futility had she known these last few weeks would be their last. Instead they might have spent those precious moments together, reveling in life the way only Antivans truly can. But now she has not even those memories to console her in the dark days to come, and the Inquisition’s diplomat quits the field entirely with her beloved for…what they have left.

Orlais can hang. She has given enough.

Cullen: Perhaps he is not meant for a gentle epilogue.

A life dedicated to strife, to the art first of confinement and then of war, have primed the commander well for loss. And yet still the knowledge that this is the end of their story staggers him. How can the world continue to turn, the sun rise so blithely in the sky when the burden of the truth of his imminent loss weighs so heavily on every breathe.

He clings to his beloved, yes, and to the time they have, but even as his heart breaks with the beating Cullen is not blind to the world beyond his grief. Even when the Inquisitor is gone, the cause they have built together will remain. If his love must be martyred to this cause then he will be ever their follower, and ruin will fall on all those who connived to destroy what should always have been his.

The lion has awoken, and shall not be so easily tamed.

Mod Fereldone

#cullen rutherford #josephine montilyet #dragon age inquisition #trespasser #follow up reaction