#mage fights or mage rights

[vigilskeep]

if you took a bad enough hit while dao rock armour was active, could you have scars from blunt force trauma that spiderweb like cracks in stone

#i should be so fucking asleep right now but hear me out. minerva. landsmeet duel. loghain has shield bash. do you hear what im saying #i was thinking about magical scars for him actually #but that fucking armour. you have to cook him in it like a lobster in its shell #sometimes i think mages are overpowered for that fight realistically #and then i remember those close quarters and how fucking massive i think he is #he’s like a foot and a half taller than minerva. crikey #okay im saying fuck a lot but the crikey is a sign. need to sleep. need to sleep #but minerva literally cracked open during the landsmeet divorce #and only afterwards when nobody is watching letting her skin turn back from stone #holds it for so long that wynne can’t fix it clean #loghain SHOULD have a scar too for matchie matchies #its crushing prison she usually uses. crumpling that man like a tin can #that could fuck you up. less visible though. i’ll workshop #i dont think shed get enough of a grip to pull off something like #a handprint burn #maybe a slice across the cheek from a blade of ice #i’ll workshop. i’ll workshop. goodnight

[olillskio]

“Hawke, let me work. Mage rights are important.” More Handers fanart to get used to the new brush :3

#anders #Handers #dragon age anders #garett hawke #Hawke #m!Hawke #Custom Hawke #dragon age #dragon age 2 #art #Fanart #digital art #kinda nude art? #da2 #da2 anders #Mage rights or mage fights #anders manifesto is important okay

[mrsthunderkin]

He's not keeping it together, tho

#bart the bard #Bartemus Bagiery #Hare #Bright guard captain #sidhe fae #this scene probably wont happen but I AM GOIN FERAL FOR ARMOR RIGHT NOW #turns out that Bart's dad was flanking the original emperor who happens to be Hare's unknown uncle #and like while they were fighting in the original mage war the emperor died and that really messed up Mordren and Scarborough #And now Bart gets the chance to relive that scene with Hare and right the mistakes of the past #maybe uvu #tablet doodle #tales of Alor

[vigilentballofpassion]

Jowan is Attractive?

#dragon age: origins #dragon age #fanfiction #jowan dragon age #jowan #mage oc #warden surana #mage rights #mage rights or mage fights

[grandmoments]

Mages have no right to be this cool!

Castlevania 2x7

#Castlevania #fight #fight scene #epic fight #sypha belnades #castlevania sypha #trevor belmont #castlevania trevor #alucard tepes #castlevania alucard #fighter #mage #mages have no right to be this cool #fire #burning #tv show #tv shows #tv series #anime #animation #cartoon

[luffysbasement]

pls i need someone to scream with me i diD NOT EXPECT SUDDEN DAIN LORE // spoilers

#genshin #genshin impact #genshin spoilers #dainsleif #lumine #aether #IM TEARING UP WHAT IS THIS RINGGGGG #???????? #WHEN THEY FIRSTMENTIONED MASKED SWORDSMAN I WAS JKINGLY LIKE ahahah dain? nah jk ahahah BUT IT IS HIM #OMFG #THERES SO MUCH TO UNPACK #THE KHANERIAHNS HELPED FIGHT BACK THE MONSTERS AS THE SURGE OF THE CATACLYSM HAPPENED #AND DAIN AND AN UNKNOWN MAGE LED THE FIGHT #HES CLUTCHING A RING???? WHOS RING??? WHAT FOR??? DAIN?? MARRIED MAYBE??? #and omg where on the timeline is this my brain is imploding #also i hope ive tagged spoilers right

[snowfolly]

My first art of 2023 and ofc it’s of this man.

I just did my first play through of DA2 in like 8 or 9 years and remembered how much I love romancing this tragic magic and felt compelled to render his bad postured likeness- which is very difficult as I have a hard time drawing Anders for some reason.

I also like to think he smells like leather and woodsmoke but we all know he smells like feathers and antiseptic.

#anders #he’s so tired #fighting for mage rights and all #also possession will do that to a man #babygirl #da anders #dragon age 2 #Dragon age #dragon age fanart #fanart #dragon age anders #Da2 #snowyart

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So you know this party banter between Aveline and Carver?

Aveline: I don't like some of the people you've been associating with, Carver. Carver: Talk to my brother/sister. He/She's the one in charge.

If you're on the rivalry path with Aveline, she says:

Aveline: Who says I don't mean him/her too? This city's full of people who are dead set on ending badly. I don't want to see you end up the same way.

I just- Aveline, you- you're so- hhhhnnnngggggg

I always rival Aveline when I play a mage, and if you think Edgar Aristide Hawke, who practically raised Carver and Bethany after Malcolm died and Leandra became a distant mother in her grief, wouldn't stop dead in his tracks at Aveline heavily implying he's a bad influence on his brother and Carver shouldn't hang around him so much since apparently Ed's someone set on ending badly...? Absolutely not.

This is another case of me wishing Hawke had the option to jump in during party banter with different options, because Ed would've chewed Aveline out for that.

Oh, and then there's:

Carver: Would asking you to stop spying on me help in the least? Aveline: No.

Aveline...................stop it.

#da2 #dragon age 2 #carver hawke #aveline vallen #da2 hawke #edgar hawke #listen all of aveline and carver's party banter and their relationship and the fact that they're pretty much foils DRIVES ME CRAZY #in a good way but then i get party banter like this and i stop everything i'm doing just to scream #like ed and aveline are on fairly good terms in act 1 i mean the rivalry is there but it's not too bad it's more like they just butt heads #but after leandra's death the friendship just rots and deteriorates like by the end of act 3 ed is genuinely surprised aveline #didn't turn on him and side with the templars but i guess even aveline knows what's actually right #or maybe she just doesn't want to face ed in a fight sksksks hell ed AND carver in a fight so it's easier to side with him and the mages #but anyway aveline saying that when ed's in earshot is bold but also the fact that carver doesn't actually acknowledge it #like he doesn't agree or disagree he just changes the subject to be like 'can you stop spying on me PLEASE' #like he already has no privacy while living with gamlen and now he has no privacy when he's by himself because apparently aveline's spying #also i always max out carver's friendship so he and ed are on good terms they're the brothers hawke and carver loves him #even if he doesn't outright say it you know that's what he's really saying in the last straw #when he says that he's proud to call hawke brother/sister and that's gone unsaid for too long like............ screaming sobbing throwing u #like the carver and hawke dynamic on his friendship path is sooo good that i hear aveline say that and i'm immediately ready to throw hands #btw if you're on aveline's friendship path she says 'maybe but i know you get around' instead which...........gets around where aveline??? #aveline my list of beef with you grows with every playthrough i hate you but also i love you but also i want to throw you in the ocean #until you get your head out of your ass like this is a case of her being a FASCINATING character but as a person? while i'm playing ed? ugh #my lady warrior hawke adored aveline but ed is ready to fight her 24/7 sksksk

[paladincecil]

I did my first grandmaster quest in osrs tonight :)

#I decided to just play some runescape to chill out with after infinite wealth but this was not very chill :P #I had exactly zero doses of my healing and restore potions and was very close to using my emergancy teleport with the boss at 50 hp left #Glad I didn't cuz those potions cost way too much to restock frequently xD #Think one full inventory of 6 super restores and 20 sara brews costs around 350k #That's a good 2-3 hours of money making for me depending what I feel like doing #I also spent about 4.5million gold on getting the better trident and a mage necklace #So my cash stack is not looking very healthy right now xD #I got all the way up to the final 3 fights a few nights ago but didn't have the money to get enough supplies #I did die to the final boss 1 time tonight and nearly lost my stuff trying to get back and fell down a pit 5 times in a row xD

[ohmyfairies]

I love it in fics when it’s Justice who falls in love first and Anders and Fenris are in very firm denial about it all

#justice: he kills slavers ❤️❤️ #anders: HE HATES MAGES #justice: he has so much passion for human rights and freedom of oppression❤️❤️ #anders: NOT MAGE FREEDOM #justice: he’s pretty and fights good #anders: I’ll give you pretty but he also HATES US BOTH #justice: he’s perfect❤️❤️ #fenders #I don’t know the tag to include justice in that unfortunately #da2 #dragon age 2 #key plays dragon age #Fenris #da2 fenris #da2 anders #anders

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

[orchideae]

1) Opens up drafts with my head empty, ready to be flooded, not knowing where I'll go. 2) 30 seconds later: Okay but I will go feral any day of my life over Perilous Trail, and the fierce dichotomy of Xiao and Yelan. While they're far from being 'the same', they both view themselves as soldiers in one way or another (it's a very difficult word to use for Yelan, so I'm using it very liberally and very loosely), they have both suffered losses on the 'battlefield' and carry the burden thereof in their own ways. And yet they stand so firmly in opposition throughout the entirety of that questline up until the very end of the 'the end of the line' conclusion of the quest. Yes, I know that she offers him her gratitude in its aftermath and it is genuine, but she still never agrees with him and the decision that he made moments earlier. It simply 'worked out' because of Zhongli's interference, he's the only reason it worked out. And it's because of that, that she doesn't give him a hell of a hard time (obviously she can't go down there, but imagine the inner frustration of severe extents; when you condemn someone who you can't even see anymore). In the same way that she would do to anyone who would sacrifice themselves for others, but in this case, I think it's 'beautiful' that it's to Xiao; the one who seems most adamant to do so (which honestly, fits into the contract that the Yakshas chose to sign with Morax; 'the ultimate sacrifice' to protect for Liyue; 'for Liyue', and Liyue has always centered itself around its people), the one who everyone reveres (and so does she, as she notes in her voiceline, 'if I ever have the honor to fight alongside') and respects for good reason, she stands against him, because in that moment, regardless of his status, he makes a call that she considers wrong. And he doesn't even... fight her on it very fiercely, and that's what actually hurts me the most, it's as if the following line hit the nail directly on the head?

"Besides, if you were really so determined to end it all, you wouldn't have given us the opportunity to share our opinions."

#[ mini study. ] that which hides inside her… that constant calling; it is the blood of heroes which has been howling for 500 years. #[ and then shortly after 'the point is: it's not time for drastic measures yet.' ] #[ /shakes ven into another dimension. ] #[ i thought the ost at the end of perilous ruined me enough. but tale of the yakshas may actually ruin me more. ] #[ also i love how i typed up the bit of the contract and 'for liyue' and zhongli in my head isn't rattling at bars but-- ] #[ he's sipping his tea (the equivalent). one day ven. i /promise/ you. one day you'll get him from me. ] #[ he'll likely be the 2nd genshin blog to run alongside yelan if/when i get to being able to run two again. ] #[ but until then. can we talk about the dynamic of xiao and yelan until we're blue in the face? i'd like to do that too. ] #[ i type this as if i'm perfectly chill but i'm not. i'm really not. the concept of self sacrifice and sacrifice as a whole. ] #[ BETWEEN THESE TWO. drives me /insane/. and part of me sits here and goes-- ] #[ god. what happened with yelan and her team down there? we know that despite every plan she ever made and prepared-- ] #[ their enemies (WHAT WERE YOU FIGHTING??) were too powerful and more specifically-- too smart. too calculating. ] #[ ... and too strong (okay literally what on earth were you fighting? are we talking the khaenri'ah soldiers? like what? or abyss mages?) ] #[ (but abyss mages don't exactly entirely fit the description in her story. ugh. UGH). ] #[ any way-- it was her and her team. /they/ all died and she didn't. yanfei describes it as... ] #[ 'knowing that your life was saved when others weren't'. surely the millilith didn't intervene or happen to arrive. yelan must've... ] #[ gotten away? or something? but that doesn't feel quite right. but i'm just sitting here left with the idea of... when you lead a team. ] #[ you bear the responsibility of even their lives. and yet despite bearing that responsibility; she's exactly the one who lived. ] #[ the only one who did. that has to be a /stupid/ burden. it's like the captain who has to go down with the ship but is the only one... ] #[ who gets to live. only one who gets to survive. i just. ] #[ i didn't think i'd love a character as much as this one. where did she come from; jesus christ. ]

[woohooincoffin]

i he thinks they're a melee character

#the fun im having on hour 200 of this game...... #for all my talk about not wanting to be a warrior character i sure as hell put my mages right in the middle of the fighting to tank #like who do i think he is #he's not even a ke yet #ive gotta go to the fallow mire throws up #dai gp

[local-magpie]

the new oc is coming together. serial killer who became part demonic from eating demons, accidentally got magically bound to serve... another oc im still working on. other oc is very average and not prepared for dealing with. all this.

#pulling some inspo from fate where theres a whole mage society obsessed with power and magical studies but hidden from mundane society #instead of the whole summoning servants to fight in a one time grudge match to the death #its more like. common to bind existing powerful supernatural beings #for power/mage political struggles #mundane guy accidentally interrupted a binding ritual and this guy took his opportunity to get bonded to a weakling nobody pushover instead #thinking the original ritual was his ex girlfriend and he was like. absolutely not #(dont worry they would have kind of deserved each other. unhinged 4 unhinged) #but yeah the plan is to kill mundane guy. then its put off bc its so east he can do it any time right #and then eventually its like well ok its more convenient for me to already be bonded- #im a sucker for evil characters accidentally caring about someone more than they should #yelling at the void #hyperionskies draws #i dont remember my tag ill look later and fix it

[makerscockandballs]

justhanders means both accepting that a) theyre both madly in love with you and very much Not Normal About It but also b) your wizard boyfriend and especially his spirit (who is also your boyfriend and also your wizard boyfriends boyfriend) will never love you more than mage freedom

#the passion. okay #theyre passionate about loving hawke but also passionate about their fight #not a character flaw. honestly glad that justice and anders put mage rights above all else #even above their love for hawke #also lets be honest. justice is also not normal about hawke. just in a different way than anders #theyre very much all-or-nothing people and with hawke its ALL. #justhanders #da #txt #anders

[sailorblossoms]

I really can't get over Simon reframing the chimera incident romantically when he finally verbalizes his love for Baz because, first of all, that's very sexy and unhinged of him.

Also, it actually makes sense? Because during CO Baz tell us that Simon is basically unbeatable, and later he says that Simon is "beautiful in battle". And in a way, Simon truly comes alive when he has something to fight, someone to protect. So when a angsty unhinged Baz who can't decide if he wants to "kiss or push" Simon sends a monster after him to scare him, we can read it as practically flirting, even if that wasn't on anyone's confused disturbed little heads atm, cuz truly a monster send after Simon it's a dead monster. And the fact that Simon wasn't scared and instead fought and emerged victorious? It very likely just made Baz like him even more (and was also what deterred him from pulling that shit again, the crazy and dangerous of it all aside, but also cuz what if it just makes Simon hoter?!!). It's kinda on the same level as Simon going to see all of Baz football practices for them, because "surely he must be pLOTting" when in reality Simon was just very into hot and sweaty Baz destroying everyone else on the field.

By sending a monster after Simon, Baz got to see first hand how beautiful Simon is in battle, and while Simon used this as proof of "Evil Baz" atm we know that in retrospect, and in his own unhinged way, there was a part of him that saw himself fighting to keep Baz safe and unharmed as a confession of romantic love (and with Baz being the one getting them in that situation in the first place, he might have been like "you bitch!!" and "haha this didn't go as u planned!" when the chimera turned on Baz, but a part of him was still like "it's ok, i won't let anything actually harm him/put him in actual danger, no matter what he did" which is line with that part in awtwb where Baz is like "you hated me back then Simon, what are u talking about" and Simon goes "yeah sure but I still wouldn't have let anything hurt u")

And I can't definitely see goofy goth "emo shit" Baz frustrated and confused as hell, like he just wanted to scare a guy and is walking away stunned by his beauty in combat and his bravery and how dare he protected him so well??? Truly he wants him dead. Simon not dying can only be described as punishment for Baz's poor dramatic gay heart,

#theyre true monsterfuckers #they give us sexy #they give us unhinged #they give us kinky #good for them!!! #also fuck the mage but theres something very funny about him listening to baz be like #i wanted him dead and he isnt #thats punishment enough #and the mage going fair enough have a nice day #right in front of simon lmao #also baz can appreciate how hot simon is in a fight when simon isnt actually in danger #otherwise is just near heart attack after near heart attack for good ol baz lol