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thousands of years apart, ships are burning

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Hi, hello, hi... ehm

1: love your style

2: love your griddlehark art

3: love the vibe of your blog

Uhm... bye! ✨️💕

Thank you so much!!! 🥰

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Beau only has two modes

#birb

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Ianthe woundfucking Kiriona's chussy with teeth please there's no time

I am very sorry this was initially supposed to be a serious fill and then it ended up way too silly lmao...

#oh my god???? #chussy #“almost” omfg. gideon you absolute reprobate. you perfect angel. #gideon nav #ianthe tridentarius #nsft

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These are OLD. But let these lesbians be visible, you know.

#baru cormorant

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⚠️🚨 IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE LOCKED TOMB? ⛔☠️

LMAO: lyctorize me at once

OF: one flesh (one end)

TBH: try being haunted

WTF: weak thanergy, friend

SMH: siphon me harder

#see my fenced heart 😭😭😭😭😭

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love a canon (?) coffee shop AU

#oh this!!! this is beautiful ❤️ #griddlehark

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Riding home. hurts me each time to read Camilla get hurt... and OH MY GOD it's such a well written scene, I loved it so much.

#ohh the perspective on this 😍 #camilla hect #just nona

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You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling..

#uwah... that second one.... ;_; #griddlehark #ianthe tridentarius #just nona

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its lesbian visibility week 🫡🌈❤️🧡🤍🩷💗

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they're babies. they have never done anything wrong in their life

#them ♥️ #griddlehark

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it's always Nova hours

#i just realized i forgot the skull paint but oh well!! #i've spent too long on this. enter the world now. be free. #griddlehark #harrow nova au #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #harrow nova #locked tomb series #sinshine draws

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Dragon Age AU where the characters are wearing (stylized) traditional Vietnamese clothes! This one is for Fenris 💙

I've decided to upgrade the art style for this design too. Given that I plan to revamp all the full body portraits when i'm done with the whole DA2 cast anyway, I figure I'd just draw in the style that I enjoy the most in the meantime 😔

A quick reference sheet is included above, but come join me under the cut for more (very long) thoughts and explanation!

Merrill | Fenris | Varric | Isabela | Hawke | Anders

Part of my DA Vietnamese clothes AU

I am aware that I don't do this for my other character designs of this series, but the Đông Sơn culture doesn't have a lot of surviving records and artifacts on its clothings & armors. I mixed and matched and made up a lot of stuffs as a results, so I wanted to write this just to clarify where the references come in, and where I took my artistic liberty.

For Fenris I wanted to explore how the Tevinter aesthetics might look like in việt phục, and I thought Tevinter would be the type of country that is very big on the nostalgia thing (from conversation with Dorian). So I decided to go with a mix of patterns, accessories & armor from the Iron Age Đông Sơn/Lạc Việt culture with the standard clothing that the Kinh people would be wearing later on.

As for how that would reflect on his social upbringing, (game) class & personality, I have a few bullet points:

He still keeps the armor he wore from when he was still a slave.

He is practical, reserved, on the run and probably broke, so I won't go with large sleeves or put patterns on the robes, etc.

Similarly, he wouldn't wear accessories that indicate nobility or high status. On the other hand, he lives in Danarius' abandoned mansion and has full access to the latter's wine cellar, so I imagine he can still wear some nice trinkets, but they would look a bit mismatched as a result.

Ok! With that said, let's look at the visual references.

For his first & second layer comprising of giao lĩnh and viên lĩnh, I recommend a quick look at this video by Vietnam Centre:

For the armor and accessories, all the photos shown here are from luocsutocviet.com, and they listed the sources for most of their images. If you see me showing images down here without sources, it'd be from there.

Arm and leg armors. Relatively close to the sources:

I really imagine that whenever he uses his ability, you'll hear little chimes of death and a dash of blue.

2. Lamellar. This part is tricky, because evidences that survive until this day are only these:

And as you can see, there are only two holes on each piece, which suggest that the methods of connecting the pieces can be very different from Chinese, Japanese or Korean lamellars, etc.

Lược Sử Tộc Việt cited references from the Điền culture (that shares similarities with Đông Sơn) on the use of lamellar back then. But other than that, we don't have much to go on. So, what you see is basically made up & stylized by yours truly. I did try to stay as close to the standard form of lamellar as possible, but the exact structure of the Đông Sơn lamellar is unknown.

A note on this: I decided to give the middle finger to the skin-revealing thing that Fenris was shown wearing in Heroes of Dragon Age. Considering his former master was Danarius, such type of outfits is not impossible, but it's not something I like to run with. So, I want him to be well-armed with a full lamellar suit, albeit a short one so that it's not too heavy.

3. "Hộ tâm phiến" (heart-shielding armor). We call them such because they share similarities with the 护心镜 (hùxīnjìng). It is arguable that these pieces were reserved for nobility or leaders considering how beautifully engraved they are, but I liked it so much that I still gave it to Fenris, using a simpler (and completely made-up) wolf-like pattern design. The real deals look like this:

4. Sword.

I know that in canon the Blade of Mercy looks HUGE, but I still want to respect the elegence of the Đông Sơn blades (and personally a long thin sword is much more to my taste than a long huge sword).

5. Textures and patterns:

Other than the wolf design on the chest piece that I completely made up, the rest is devised from these.

Aaaand I think that's about it! I hope I didn't miss anything, I and I hope you enjoyed it 😂

#UUPOGHHGGUHIHOAHSHJDBDJDNFND #MY INTERESTS!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAQQAAAAAAAAAAAA #screaming crying throwing up i love yhis so much #dragon age #da2

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griddlehark, in bed the kiss

#ooohhh this is gorgeous!! #griddlehark #in bed the kiss by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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pov you’re in your girljock bf’s unbelievably shitty college apartment and she’s the most beautiful girl in the universe

bonus no text box version so u can bask in the glow of messy nightstand, emotional support gatorade squeeze sport bottle glory:

#there she is!!!!! #gideon nav

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sara mrad

#fashion