#Dria Cousland

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Dria Cousland

Got a beautiful surprise today from the incredibly sweet @schoute of my latest Warden, Dria Cousland. I squealed. I LOVE her and I love Schoute who is honestly one of the sweetest people around.

Read about Dria here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16796905

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27329650

#Schoute draws #da fanart #Dria Cousland #f!cousland #LOVE THIS SO FREAKING MUCH

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Cullen and Dria for @wardenari

3500 followers art giveaway.

#cullen rutherford #cullen x cousland #cullen x dria #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #da:i fan art #fan art

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Chapters: 29/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Female Cousland/Cullen Rutherford

Dria deals with her broken heart and Anders makes an unforgettable appearance at Skyhold

Artwork by the very talented and sweet @schoute​ 

#cullen #Dria cousland #Anders #Imperfect Timing

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So doing this for @the-smut-coven​‘s request to see some OCs.  Used  This picrew. Just wish there was some Chanukah things in it since I HC that modern Ari is Jewish:

Anyway here’s Dria (she’s having a bad day hence the swearing and drinking) and Ari who just freaking loves everyone

#12daysofSatinalia #Ari Cousland #Dria Cousland

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Chapters: 31/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cullen Rutherford/Female Warden, Cullen Rutherford & Female Warden, Female Cousland/Cullen Rutherford

NATHANIEL HAS ARRIVED!!!  I hope you enjoy this. A lot happens, and the ending for this chapter may make you yell at your computer screen!!

#Nathaniel Howe #Cullen #F!Cousland #Dria Cousland #Cullen X F!Cousland #Imperfect Timing #da fanfic #dragon age

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Zevran & Dria Cousland

OMG more amazingly beautiful art from @schoute​.  Seriously, commission her because she is so so sweet and wonderful to work with.

This will be MUCH later in my fic Imperfect Timing. Zev has finally arrived at Skyhold to see his best friend, Dria Cousland, the Hero of Ferelden. She is so excited to see him after so many years and they are laughing and celebrating their reunion at The Herald’s Rest.

#Imperfect Timing #dragon age fan art #zevran arainai #dria cousland #best friends for life

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Dria and Anders

OMG OMG all, look how beautiful this is!!!  I commissioned @schoute​ to do this  for a yet to be published chapter of “Imperfect Timing”. Dria going toe to toe with Anders/Justice when they arrive at Skyhold.

I cannot stop squealing with joy at how amazing this looks

#Imperfect Timing #Dria Cousland #Anders #dragon age fan art #commission

[wardenari]

Random OC ask: Two hours in to a lively house party, where is Dria most likely to be?

It depends on who is at the party. If it’s nobility where she’s acting as an ambassador, then she’s circulating, talking to everyone she can.

If it’s something cozy with friends, she’s either on the couch letting people come to her, but completely focused on whoever she talks to, or she’s by the food spread pretending she isn’t stuffing her face with tiny Orlesian cakes while talking to friends.

Ask or tell

#Dria Cousland #charlatron

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If you could write Dria and Cullen in an AU, what would it be (other than the generic Modern AU)?

I have one I’ve been kicking around that would take place during DAO. Dria wouldn’t become the Warden and Cullen isn’t a Templar but instead stays home to work on his parent’s farm. They’d met before the Blight and he found her rude, snobbish and insufferable. When Highever Castle is attacked by Howe’s men, Dria runs. Cullen finds her hiding in his family’s barn and begin a journey together to get her to Denerim where she thinks she’ll be safe. Along the way they go from “can’t stand each other” to “tolerate” and so on. Maybe even some run ins or near run ins with the Warden and their crew. Then some other stuff I won’t share for spoilers and then yay happy!!

Ask or Tell

#Dria Cousland #kagetsukai

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Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’t they take advice from, no matter what it is? Stability or novelty?Honesty or charity?Safety or possibility? For any OC you want, please!

I’m going to do these for Dria <3��

Who they would take advice from no matter what it is would be the two people she is closest to, Zevran and Nathaniel (which is mainly why she’s been so broken up about not knowing where either is). She’s feeling a bit adrift without them. Dorian is becoming a confidant, but he’s not at the same level Zevran and Nathaniel are to her.

For Dria, so so much of her adult life has been about loss and abandonment. For that reason, her choices are Stability, honesty and safety. She’s much rather have a relationship that feels secure than anything else.

#Dria Cousland #Character Asks #noire-pandora

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11, 14 & 18 for Dria

Thanks for the questions!! From this OC ask.

11) They’ve won the lottery. Spend, or save?

Dria would spend some of it on helping Cullen set up his infirmary for Lyrium addiction. She’d save a little bit for their future, and the rest she’d use to help others. She’d been taught by her father that it was their duty as Couslands to help the people, not the other way around.

14) Would they agree with the term ‘guilty pleasure’? Do they have any?

Zevran is Dria’s closest friend (even though in fic it looks like it’s Dorian). One of the things she’s learned from him (and from the losses she’s suffered) is to take pleasure where one can find it, so she does.

And she absolutely disavows any claims made by others that she likes Orlesian petit fours. 18) Kissing: tongue or no tongue?

Much to what she is sure is the horror of her long dead mother, she most definitely uses tongue while kissing Cullen.

#Dria Cousland #Character asks #charlatron

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Prompt! Your favorite character finds a little lost kitten 🐱

So this hasn’t been beta’d yet. But I wrote this which will be used in “Imperfect Timing” - spoiler for a certain mage making an appearance!! So just to fill in some blanks, Dria and Anders had a huge blow up and he stormed off, this is after that:

Dria wandered around the upper courtyard. The pain in her heart felt too close to how it had after her last fight with Hawke. It seemed like her life was just an endless repeat of unintentionally pushing away everyone that meant something to her. Time and again they’d tire of it and leave for good. She felt utterly broken and it was that reason that she sought out the quite solitude of the training yard that Cassandra often used. She knew that with Cass being in a War Room meeting, Dria had at least an hour to herself to wallow in her pain. Here she could safely nurse her broken heart from her fight with Anders. Here she didn’t need to be the ‘strong Hero of Ferelden’. She’d thought about getting drunk, but she worried that would also be a repeat of last time this scenario played out. She had a feeling Cullen would be less understanding about her throwing a drink at him this time.

Maybe she should just return to that cabin. Or look again to She wouldn’t be missed if she just disappeared, stayed in the cabin until the calling came. All she’d done since she came here was just make a mess of everything. And now she’d managed to ruin the two relationships she’d still had - Hawke was dead and Anders seemed ready to leave her behind again, for good this time.

She was distracted from her tears by a tugging on her skirt. Dria looked up to see who it was but found no one there. Hadn’t Dorian mentioned a spirit of Compassion? But why would he tug at her but then not appear?

With a sigh she put her head back on her knees and tried to breathe deeply. It was then that she felt the tugging again but this time accompanied by a tiny ‘mew’.

Dria looked down this time and found a tiny white kitten.

“She saw you crying and wanted to make you smile.” 

Dria looked up at the voice and saw a boy in an oversized hat sitting on the ground a safe distance away. At the same time she picked up the kitten who immediately started to nuzzle Dria’s chin and neck.

“Cole?” she guessed.

He nodded. “She needs a home. He needs a reason to smile. Justice is worried for your friend.”

“Anders?” she frowned. “I don’t think he’d want to talk to me anymore.”

“That’s why she wants to help. It can help you both not hurt,” Cole tilted his head up enough that Dria could now see his eyes. Something in it made her think he also had a need to help her.

“Is that so?” she asked looking down at the kitten. Another ‘mew’ was the answer.

“Thank you, Cole,” Dria nodded.

“I helped?” he asked, the need in his voice confirming her thoughts about him.

Dria nodded, “You did.”

Cole beamed. Dria looked down at the kitten for a moment and when she looked back up, Cole was gone again.

Dria snuggled the kitten for another minute. She didn’t know if the ball of fluff would help Anders but it was certainly helping her mood.

She stood up and gently placed the kitten in her satchel. “Let’s go see what we can find,” she kept her hand in the bag to give scritches to it’s head and help keep it calm while they walked.

She stood at the edge of the upper courtyard over looking the huge lower courtyard. It was immense. She’d thought Highever Castle had been big but this place, it overshadowed it by twentyfold at least. It was a good thing too, since the Inquisition needed such a large amount of resources to fight Corypheus. As her eyes scanned she tried to figure out where Anders would have gone. She was sure he was still at Skyhold as she could feel his presence. She couldn’t always tell one Warden from another, but she’d lived with Anders for several years in that cabin with Hawke. The feel of him was warm, felt like family. She’d know it anywhere, was certain she could pick it out of a large group of Wardens. But in a place this large it was hard to pinpoint exactly where he was, just that he was down there somewhere. 

With a frown she headed down to the lower courtyard.

She searched around, keeping her eye out best she could while protecting her pouch from being squished. Where would you go? she wondered. Then it hit her. He’d go where he could help those in need the most. Dria turned towards the healer’s tents and nudged her way through the crowd. When she eventually reached it she waited for her eyes to adjust to how dark it was in the tent compared to the outside. This tent was huge, enough for twenty cots, thankfully not all full at the moment. Dria’s eyes swept through the tent and landed on a familiar form. Even from behind he was easy to recognize.

She gently walked towards him, nodding in greeting to a few healers that passed her. As she neared she could hear that he was talking with the main healer about potions.

“Anders,” she said softly, and waited for him to turn. To her surprise, he didn’t seem angry when he looked at her but instead gave her a half smile.

“I’m just finishing here. I’ll see you tomorrow?” he asked the healer who replied in the affirmative. Anders indicated with his hand toward the exit for them to leave. Dria walked with him in silence, trying to slowly gather her thoughts.

She led him to a quiet spot near the stables where there were several benches.

“Anders, I’m sorry I snapped at you earlier,” she could feel the fear of rejection building already.

As if sensing her thoughts, he took her hands in his and shook his head. “You don’t need to apologize. I’m fairly certain my behavior this morning is what Michael had meant when he said I was ‘Impossible sometimes’. My point is you were trying to help me and I acted ungrateful.”

Dria squeezed his hands, “I spoke with a friend. If you would rather leave, he can get you to Tevinter where you’d be safe from the Chantry.”

“Dria, your bag is moving,” he raised an eyebrow.

Dria giggled, “Yeah, well, I wasn’t sure how this would go so I brought a peace offering.” She reached into her sack and pulled out the fluffy kitten.

Anders whole demeanor immediately softened as he took the kitten into his arms. “Oh look at you,” he nuzzled it with his head. The kitten mewed in return.

“She needs a home and I thought maybe you’d find room,” she nibbled her lip nervously.

“Did you bring me a cat to butter me up?” he teased.

Dria shook her head but smiled just the same. “If there’s two things I know about you with absolute certainty it’s that you hate templars and love cats.”

“True, on both counts,” he laughed as the kitten began to bat at his long fingers. Anders put the cat on the ground and beamed as it began to flop and play with Anders’ boot. “Speaking of which; Cullen. Seriously?”

“There’s nothing going on there, so just - there was something but it’s done so please can we just not going there?” she frowned.

Anders let out a long sigh and placed his arm around her, pulling her to his side. “Fine, for now at least. As for the rest, I think I’ll stay for now. Their healers are woefully under trained. And despite the money flowing around, they appear to not be helping the less fortunate that can’t afford to pay. It’s not the clinic, but I still feel like I can help those that are the most vulnerable. Assuming they’ll allow me.”

“I’ll see to it that you are given space to see patients,” Dria leaned her head on his shoulder. “I missed you.”

“And I you,” he leaned his cheek against the top of her head. “It’s good to see a friendly face again after so long.”

“Not just friendly; family. Don’t forget that again,” she tilted her head to look up into his eyes.

“I won’t,” he promised and then smiled again at the kitten chasing a bug on the ground.

#Anders #Dria Cousland #Imperfect Timing #uchidachi

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Oc ask game: 18 21 28 29 🥺

Thanks so much for these from this post. You didn’t specify which OC (which is ok, I take that to mean it’s my choice) so I’m going to answer for Dria for every question but #28. Since I already answered that for her, I’ll answer #28 for Ari.

18. How does your oc see themselves? How does this compare to the way other ocs see them?

She sees herself as “temporary”. Someone people welcome into their lives for a short period of time but eventually leave her behind. How people actually see her is as a warm, caring person that they remember their entire lives even if life takes them in separate directions.

21. What’s a fact you haven’t shared about this oc?

One of the more serious considerations for her to marry was Sebastial Vael’s oldest brother. But then the Blight happened and he was murdered not long after.

28. What’s your favorite thing about this oc?

For Ari -- I love how she refuses to be beaten down. No matter what life throws at her she gets back up and fights. She lost her family, so she creates a new one. It’s not until she lost Zevran that she couldn’t get back up and fight.

29. What’s your least favorite thing about this oc?

Dria again -- I don’t like how shitty things are for her. I feel like it just piles on. But soon enough she’ll have a partner that will be there to help be her soft place when the world is hard and cruel.

#Dria Cousland #Ari Cousland #character asks #Anonymous