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And to finish the trifecta, it's time for the Rogues (my default class so there's lots of them). I tend to play rogue first so I retcon a lot of the mistakes I've made or I make what turn out to be the "stereotype" characters. I love them all so if you tell me I'm boring for romancing Alistair with a Cousland I will block you.

Do what makes you happy friends.

Cringe is a lie

Links with my mages: https://tastyfishistasty.tumblr.com/post/707642197702492160/origins

And my warriors: https://tastyfishistasty.tumblr.com/post/707646415816540160/origins

Origins

Aoife Cousland

Aoife has a very modded background by now because she's honestly one of my favourite play throughs and I've played her 3 separate times.

She's a dual wielding rogue duelist and assassin (shadow in awakening). She said started sword and dagger but following game start, she goes dual sword with the Cousland sword (upgrade wand my fave mod). She uses poisons and the grenades but sneak is always her highest attribute. She can also tank because she's near impossible to hit and does so much damage (this was an accidental discovery when I forgot a warrior in the party and realised her threat level is pretty damn high when she's visible).

She's the stereotype sneaky, manipulative, spy master type, always planning to get the best outcome for anyone she cares about (which includes her country, she's very duty focused). A lot of her skills come from what she needs to do to take care of the world, rather than personal preference. Though the canon reason she can pick locks is because she's a nosy bitch.

Elwyn Mahariel

Elwyn is an archer elf (see above point about cringe being a lie). She's a ranger and all about damage. You won't know she's killed you because she's a "one-shot"er, but your friends will and they will follow along quickly. She's only sneaky if she has to be, which when hunting food.

Thorvalyn Aeducan

My first ever play through, Thorvalyn is a dual welding rogue who ends up with axes. She's not that sneaky and is a Duelist and Bard, which has the in game reason of she won't shut up and out of game reason as she romanced Leliana by accident whilst actually romancing Alistair and I liked the idea of it without reading the abilities.

She's more of an in front fighter (because I didn't know what I was doing) because she's raised in dwarf society with a focus on leading armies into the deep roads.

Gryffen Brosca

Gryffen was made for an achievement and then I got too attached... They're Brosca and as I was playing with gender (my own) at the time, they're neutral but everyone thinks their female. They're infertile and that led to all the mess with the Brosca game start being complicated. They're supposed to sacrifice themselves to kill the archdemon, but I've never actually done that bit...

They're dual wielding daggers and a ranger, they've always had an affinity to animals and so dog is always on the party. They also have assassin because they are sneaky and hidden. They're technically selectively mute because the game makes the warden speak in battle, but I like the idea that all the speech options were what they wrote down or signed.

DA2

Curtis Hawke

Curtis is a shadow dual daggers rogue and so much fun to play. He's part of my twins AU with Abigael and he's always been protecting his family from the shadows and from templars. He also takes assassin because it works really well with the shadow and the sneaky sneaky.

His main areas are subterfuge and scoundrel because he won't be pinned down and you'll never see him coming.

Cassady Hawke

I spent an hour trying to come up with a name for this lady in character creation and eventual thought "Cassandra! That's a great name!" Entered it and then Cassandra reappears and I'm like, oh yeah that's where the name came from... So she became Cassady.

She dual wielding because Varric goes everywhere with my Hawkes so why have an archer? She's a Duelist assassin with a focus on lingering damage with Sabotage and Specialist and lots and lots of grenades.

Lowell Hawke

I like to try everything so Lowell is an archer, but I don't like archery in DA2 so I've never made it very far with him. He's technically a Duelist and Specialist but not sure how far I've ever got him and if he branches out I've not decided. He's supposed to be a lot like my Mahariel with the whole hunter, sneaky but damaging thing, but who knows how he might change in the future.

Inquisition

Hanin Lavellan

Hanin is a dual daggers tempest because I love the tempest abilities. They're not sneaky and are sabotage focused with the daggers and the setting themselves on fire.

Canonically they're more of a defensive part of their clan that a hunter, but that's retcon because I love tempests.

Merryn Cadash

My first Inquisition play through, she's based on the meme of the hamster with a banana and romanced the iron bull. I am hilarious.

She's dual daggers, sneaky subterfuge and was originally an assassin but once I saw the skill tree I went back a couple saves and made her a tempest. Story wise, she was an assassin for the Carta and is leaving her old life behind, so she's more sneaky and then boom there's an on fire dwarf stabbing you in the back.

Somaazi Adaar

Somaazi is another tempest because they are the best. She's dual daggers because she romances Sera and I can't have two tempest archers in one party all the time.

She's not sneaky because she's a Qunari and she is a leader in her mercenary group. She tends towards sabotage, but is mostly focused on her dagger skills.

She's very much a diffuser/negotiation type so she didn't pick up warrior so that she not *as scary*. She's still kinda scary, but she's a people person and loves colours so people get over her being Vashoth pretty quickly and genuinely like her. She wants people to like her very badly.

Christopher Trevelyan

Chris was the designated rogue in the human category (see my warriors post about having one of each race of each specialisation), so he's a dual daggers (I have a type) assassin with heavy sneak subterfuge. My Trevelyans are all siblings so as the oldest he would be the one in the family to sneak off to get things for his siblings when his abusive mother was in the way. He's got a badly healed left wrist so whilst he's left handed he uses his right for everything, which is also why he's sneaky because he can't really defend himself well. He's a bit of a glass cannon in game.

He's got a lot more going on and I feel bad leaving it here, but it's not directly tied to him being a rogue so I'm leaving it there.

Amalia Trevelyan

Amalia is another achievement play, siding with the templars (I think it's a better quest, but I ain't choosing them over the mages). She's an archer and was supposed to be a templar warrior but I don't like the templar tree at all, so I decided she is a very attack and not sneaky rogue, but she's actually an archer. Origins had archer warriors which whilst never a focus was a cool idea and that's what Amalia technically would be, as I don't think in-world the distinction between rogue and warrior is as obvious as in the mechanics.

She's an artificer because she likes knowing how things work and when she was young, she was unwell and not allowed to leave home so she made do with what she had. She's all subterfuge and traps, but she doesn't really sneak, except in that she's quiet because she grew up having to be perfect and dainty.

Her backstory is a bit complicated but she ended up as a lay sister in the chantry after several abusive situations and so is very indoctrinated into the chantry, hence the templars. She gets better as time goes on, but the damage is done with the templars at the begining.

All of this adds up to her being a bit of a manipulator who doesn't always realise what she's doing, she's just trying to be safe and protect herself. Her perks are all knowledge and manipulation/power focused from the war table to give her every available option to take her enemies down.

Ta-dah! Done! I have so many ideas for fics from all my OCs but I am very busy and easily distracted so if anyone has actually read any of these and is at all interested, let me know, it will help me actually focus and do things!

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