quick Rapunzel!Ratio sketch before dinner
so basically Aventio Rapunzel AU actually follows Kavetham Beaty and the Beats AU and they’re heavily connected
/more useless lore under the cut it’s long lmao/
so in this entire fairytale AU Ratio is adopted son of Alhaitham (and later Kaveh’s). Alhaitham himself was living and supporting his grandmother and while he’s himself barely an adult he kinda adopted orphaned Ratio whose parents died of local variant of plague or incurable illness. Ratio was around 3 when Alhaitham took him under his wing because no one else wanted to take in a burden in form of an extra mouth to feed.
After events of Beauty and the Beast AU Ratio got officially adopted into royal family as Alhaitham and Kaveh’s child (6 years old by now), but then it’s revealed that Ratio’s parents died not of plague or illness that roamed around by that time, but by inherited defect in health. Small Ratio falls really ill and each day it becomes progressively worse and nothing helps. Then one day they acquire magical flower that miraculously cures Ratio but at the same night he gets kidnapped, since essence of a magical flower now flows through his blood.
Years go by and Ratio grows into a curious but easily annoyed young man whose hair impossibly long. He and people who confine him tried to cut them but each time it happens cut hair just turn into rotting poisonous mess and then grow up back again after some time (Ratio doesn’t know it, but all the poison and illness in his body go into his hair so it turns into a cycle of cleansing and getting sick again).
Come Aventurine who was simply trying to get away from pursuers because he is a gambler and is pretty much in big debt at the moment and he really needs some treasure to sell. He stumbles upon Ratio’s confinement and they strike a deal - Aventurine helps Ratio to finally escape from his kidnappers and reach nearby town while Aventurine gets a gemstone that Ratio has on him (which Aventurine recognizes as a sign of royal family since much similar but green one is in possession of King Alhaitham). Selling this one will give Aventurine enough fortune to pay off his debts and even live comfortably.
So they go on a chaotic adventure to reach a town (where Kaveh and Alhaitham reside) so they can go their separate ways. They arrive on time of missing prince’s birthday to see and partake in a festival (which Ratio was against at first because he’s not here for fun and he still fears he’s still followed by people who kept him confined). Aventurine insists, having suspicions Ratio may be a missing prince judging by gemstone he possesses but then again who knows what happened to prince and gemstone could’ve ended up anywhere.
After that deal is complete, Ratio gives Aventurine his gemstone as was promised and they go on separate ways. While walking his own way to sell gemstone, Aventurine stumbles upon Alhaitham who’s away from celebrations to be in quiet and reminiscence about a young boy he once adopted as his own. It’s near outskirts of city, Alhaitham’s old house and Ratio’s nearby, where they lived before Alhaitham got married to Kaveh. Alhaitham spots Aventurine who wanted to leave unnoticed, but in the end Aventurine understands whole picture because Alhaitham shares some past with him. Turns out Ratio is the missing prince - Veritas. No one knows Veritas’ last name so no one connected the dots between Prince Veritas and a man going by last name Ratio. Aventurine realizes how much royal family misses their son, realizes how he himself fell in love with this insufferable man and how he’s ready to risk it all for him in his last gambit gamble. Aventurine gives Alhaitham gemstone that Ratio gave him and promises to bring their son back while rushing to direction Ratio left.
Cut further and Ratio is found by his kidnappers again. Aventurine does arrive in time to help him escape once again, dragging him along to the palace so they can get help. They’re close enough when one of kidnappers manages to grab Ratio’s hair. Now he and Aventurine are separated, one of kidnappers managed to injure Aventurine when he tried to get to Ratio, and in his last effort he does reach Ratio and cuts off his hair, freeing him and telling him to run and not to look back. Ratio’s cut hair start to rot and poison to death everyone who was holding it in their grasp thus killing at least half of them. Ratio chaotically tries to cut his hand so his blood can be used to help Aventurine but it doesn’t work and his hair don’t grow out again like it usually does - meaning there’s no more essence of flower in his body, just as there’s no more illness in him, since everything was purged and purified in him. Alhaitham and Kaveh arrive on time with others to this scene and deal with remaining kidnappers while Ratio chaotically tries to do something because Aventurine’s life slips through his fingers and he refuses to accept such outcome. Ratio never really cried in his life no matter what, but this breaks his heart and final drop of flower’s essence in his single tear heals Aventurine.
Everything is good and sweet and nothing hurts anymore because I’m a sucker for happy endings (Kaveh be questioning Aventurine’s morals until Alhaitham smacks him on head. Eventually Kaveh remembers where he saw Aventurine - turns out Aventurine (which is not his real name) was Veritas’ childhood companion back after adoption into royal family. Aventurine was a son of a head maid and thus was always following Ratio around as well as studying with him and disappeared same night since he was taken away along by being a witness but then kidnappers just sold him away and with time he forgot who he was and what was his goal)
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I definitely didn’t forget to post the next three bound bracelets. They definitely haven’t sat in my drafts for a few weeks now (this is a lie)
Pietro (left), Virgil (middle), rune (right)
The only difference in pietro’s and Virgil’s is the fact that pietro’s has two strands of bracelet and Virgil’s only has one. I still think they look really pretty. These were definitely one of the most fun to make and I love the colour schemes. Also the fact that I was able to find those colours for pietros was insane. I did not think I would be able to find that close of a match to the Minecraft skin colours but I did and they’re so pretty
And then runes was the most time consuming because it’s two different patterns in one with four different colours. It’s supposed to look a little but messy because it’s made to resemble the workshop. It’s still neat-ish and has a sense of order/system to it, but it’s a little bit messy.
These ones were so fun to make and I’ve started making the next three. I’m just going in order of the character intros in the bound discord because it’s easier
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I am once again losing my mind.
This time: I went to look up references of Varric, and just typed "Varric Tethras" into the search bar. I was going to just tab over immediately to the images section, eyes barely glancing over the obvious top-result fandom wiki, then (more entertainingly, but still expected) Wikipedia link-
but. but the next one.
GOODREADS??
.... There's absolutely no tongue-in-cheek in the entry either.
(of course I immediately clicked on it who do you think I am)
There are 3 quotes from him relating to storytelling, both from 2 and Inquisition, as well as a book attribution:
The Dragon Age Novel Edition of Hard in Hightown.
ATTRIBUTED TO VARRIC TETHRAS.
with Mary Kirby*~
Absolutely unblinkingly written summary/bio.
I love this with my whole heart. Varric you beautiful bastard -- and DA writers/editors (Mary Kirby very much most importantly included) you even more beautiful, dorky, wonderful bastards.
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*if you're not in the know, Mary Kirby is a cornerstone of the DA writing team, including being the one who was in charge of Varric (and Merrill!). To say she's his "trusted human confidante" is certainly putting it one (delightful) way.
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I got tagged by @impossible-rat-babies tysm owen!! God you’re so good at poetic description. when will it be my time to be that good!!
So yeah, this one got away from me and I spent the entire day thinking about some of those even though I had a pretty clear idea on the answer already, but I always struggle a bit. She’s so not me I always have to stop and ask myself “would she say that or would I say that?” but I think I got it. anyway. please perceive my most special girl.
— B A S I C S
name: thesa
nicknames: estinien called her “thes” once, she almost killed him and he hasn’t stopped ever since.
age: 80~ (aragorn age coded)
nameday: 22 sun of the 5th astral moon (9/21)
race: viera / rava
gender: female
orientation: only had male partners but I don’t think she cares tbh
profession: adventurer!
— P H Y S I C A L A S P E C T
hair: grey-ish/white with pitch black ends. pretty thick and mostly unkept tbh.
eyes: darker grey, so shiny tho……..
skin: brown, with warm undertone and some darker patches/spots, especially on her face.
tattoos: going for parts here so first, the tattos. back in her forest days she didn’t like the whole “permanent” thing so she usually painted her marks everyday. as soon as she leaves, she decides to get a tattoo on her back, along her spine. white and with the clan/family marks. after shb she adds the azem symbol to it.
scars: multiple. getting my sketchbook to list you the relevant lol. a bunch of tinier ones from wood days and a claw one on her forearm from her chocobo (rael) when she first got him, burnt/lightining scar on her thigh from thanjit/fatebreaker, a bite from a tiny sineater she didn’t have the nerve to kill, a blasphemy one on her hip that mimics perfectly one azem had (not that she knows) and lastly another claw/grab one on her biceps from zenos (ew instance).
— F A M I L Y
parents: she was born back when her village still followed strictly male/female living apart, so she didn’t really meet her father. her mother is alive and well as far as she knows, but she didn’t visit them after leaving the forest so she wouldn’t know better tbh
siblings: her mother was much more of a leader than anything else, so strangely enough, she has just one brother and he’s half-hyur.
grandparents: only ever met her grandmother who died not much long after she was born (which is how the leadership passed to her mother)
in laws and other: blood related there are few around her village. not blood related, well, is it here where I gush abt her and the twins?
pets: technically, just her chocobo.
— S K I L L S
abilities: dragoon + gunbreaker mainly but really aces in any physical combat (bad with magic tho); has pretty great smitching skills, animal handling and survival instincts too. also, ofc, dominates the echo pretty well by now.
hobbies: exercise/sparing, camping/hiking/gathering (outdoor stuff), tinkering her weapons/armor, collecting stuff from travels (loves art, bad at it. could recite one or another poem but would never admit it willingly) and weirdly enough, journaling.
— T R A I T S
most positive traits: quiet, loyal, practical, independent, focused, perceptive, very loving with a couple of people and cares a lot.
most negative traits: also quiet, blunt, stubborn, prideful, judgmental, paranoid, reckless, private, competitive, bad guilty complex, very limited communication/emotional skills and also… cares a lot.
— L I K E S
colours: red and black.
smells: wood, rain/wet soil, herbal/flower aromas, anything forest adjacent.
textures: again, loves having dirt under her feet, rain on her skin, etc. also cold metal and worn/loose linen.
drinks: really doesn’t have any. she is very used to eating/drinking just to sustain herself, so she doesn’t have any cravings for that.
— O T H E R D E T A I L S
smokes: probably when she was younger once, but never was her thing. and ofc, she is paranoid.
drinks: only with friends, sometimes not even then. also, see above.
drugs: only medicinal ones, and again, sometimes not even then. she really should take more.
mount issuance: one of the first things that made her go “ugh. civilization.” when she first got to gridania but she got it lol prefers traveling than using aetherite tho, so it was for the best.
been arrested: never. technically she should’ve for a few things she has done right after she left the wood (stealing rael included, don’t worry about it, he was always hers anyway) but well. what can I tell you, she’s good at getting away with things like that.
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Saw a bunch of ppl doing it already but trying to tag ones I didn’t saw yet!! I may be wrong lol but also pls talk to me abt ur wols I need to know about them (being extra, no pressure in doing this):
@galadae @aethergazing @birues @alackofghosts
@thefreelanceangel @myreia @coldshrugs
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