#not to say solas wont do fucked up shit

[thebookworm0001]

just gonna say there's a reason solas is described as an antagonist and not a villain in the new post

there's an important distinction there

and my dumbass is holding onto it

#i've held he'd be an antagonist not a villain this whole time #hoping for validation #the difference is a villain is in some way in the moral wrong #think the bad guys in scooby doo #an antagonist is just the force working against the protagonist (your main character) #the protagonist can be a villain the antagonist can be a hero #it's just describing relationships between characters #i think solas will be an antagonist without being the game's villain #not to say solas wont do fucked up shit #i just dont think he's the Villain of the game

[psalacanthea]

Are we going to talk about how scary being the Inquisitor is for a Lavellan or…?

I mean, the more and more I have played this game, the more the Chantry shit is terrifying. Over and over again, you see painful and irrefutable evidence about the shit humans did to elves in the name of the Maker. The Exalted Plains is an obvious example.  (I consistently call it Dirthavaren you don’t like it fight me bitch) 

Like I think the entire fandom can agree on fuck that bitch sister Amity. The Chantry crusades destroyed what was left of the elves, destroyed them. Culture, body and spirit. Like be honest, there aren’t many Dalish clans left and each time a new game/book comes around, another one bites the dust. It’s so easy to lose your clan in Inquisiton and even easier to accidentally kill off Marethari’s. Hell, you can choose to kill Zathrian’s. 

The Dalish are dying out, any way you slice it.

Then suddenly a hole rips open in the sky and everybody thinks Lavellan did it. It destroys the Conclave…don’t tell me for one second that the humans didn’t immediately start developing an ‘elves and vengeance and antiMaker’ conspiracy theory. The ‘remain silent’ dialogue option in that first interaction isn’t a stoic ‘I don’t give a fuck’ to me, it’s more of a ‘whatever I say doesn’t matter I’m already dead’ for a Dalish Inquisitor. 

The true horror is knowing that they wont just kill you, they’ll call for a bloodbath on elves across Thedas.

“For the elves were guilty of the greatest sin, of turning from the Maker.”

You’ve damned them all and you can’t even remember how or why. For a First, it must be terrifying to realize even if you try to diplomatically talk your way out of it, they’ll never believe you. As a hunter or warrior, you know it’s hopeless. All you can do is throw yourself forward as the villain, claim that whatever happens you acted alone and take as many of these shems out with you as you can.  As a mage you know if they take pity on you, you’re condemned to their mage-slavery prisons.

“Whatever you think I did, I’m innocent!”

But then they believe you (barely, like thank the Creators the Lavellan clan taught you how to talk to humans civilly and not panic) but it’s basically a hostage situation. There’s one other elf with you and even if he’s not Dalish thank Mythal because shit you were scared and you’re still scared but at least it’s something. His name is ‘Pride’. You take it as a sign from the Creators that it’s not time to give up yet. Suledin, you think.

There is an orb, a weapon that caused this. Solas tells you it’s elven and your heart sinks.

“Eventually, the humans will find a way to blame elves…”

You become Inquisitor and things are a little better but the humans call you Herald of Andraste. You don’t believe in their Maker but none of them care. You know your clan would feel betrayed, think you’ve given up your gods. You haven’t of course but the terror is there…what if the gods think you’ve given up them? You talk to Cassandra and Leliana, trying to understand the human chantry and maybe figure out a way for your two beliefs to coexist. 

 But no.

You realize it wont help. Cassandra talks about spreading the Maker’s word to all corners of Thedas…you remember the lonely howls of the wolves across Dirthavaren. You know what ‘spreading the Makers word’ means. Leliana at least acknowledges what the Chantry did, but she dismisses it with words. All those lives and hopes and dreams dismissed with the words ‘that hate won’t just go away if you dissolve the Chantry’. You understand what she really means, though. 

She’s saying that the hate will never go away, not until the elves are just like humans. The Chantry will never stop.  She says she wants elves to be part of the chantry so they survive and you try not to taste bile in the back of your throat when you think of what that means.

“My father says humans are like weeds that choke out the grass…”’

Slowly, slowly, slowly...they consume you.

#lavellan #Draon Age Inquisition

[tandoori-frost]

A quick little doodle for the kinda joke AU I made for @zarla-s handplates!Gaster. Poor guy gets pulled into the nonsense of Dragon Age Inquisition instead of leaving the Void back to his sons.

Will he get back, can he survive all these fucking humans as the inquisitor? Will he outright kill Dorian for implying he's a possessed corpse? Get back to me on that. I might have answers.

(Spoilers for DA:I below)

So the context here is that as he's trying to get out of the void he instead slips through the wrong way and lands right in front of Cor-piss-n-shit, and The Divine, out of sheer panic he *does* grab The Orb. (He lands here because of the way the ritual set up is affecting The Veil, and also because of Convient Plot Reasons, I'll blame Flemeth)

The Orb reacts weird to his Skeleton biology, and the fact that There's No Palm There, so you get that little lightshow.

He is not killed for being a walking skeleton for Convient Plot reasons, and the fact people saw The Divine/"Andraste" behind him, and the fact he is wearing well maintained clothes. Everyone feels kinda nuts until he wakes up and talks, and then they feel even more nuts but also justified.

My god is this man out of his depth, holy shit, someone help him.

....but also Gaster and Solas bonding over being the last of their kind, of doing horrible things for the betterment of their people, of being hated and feared (perhaps rightfully so), of trying to be *better*.

Cole being a sweet bby boy and also so so hurtful on accident, cause he just *keeps healing Gaster on accident*, his pure and kind intentions to help and to sooth keeps brushing against old pains and Cole doesn't mean to but its So Hard to interact with someone who exists as an extension of pure good intentions. Gaster is too traumatized for that kind of gentleness that early.

Dorian making the Worst Fucking Impression because he things Gaster is a summon, and holy shit that is the inquisitor walking away, fuck, god damn it, why cant he keep his mouth shut.

The Anchor eventually taking his arm and he literally just takes his arm off once it's not needed anymore and uses summoned hands to make up for the lack. (It wont fix the way the anchor is still connected to him, the way it still leaches from his SOUL, the way it already integrated itself, the fact that just taking a limb off doesn't mean it's truly GONE for a Skeleton, but no one else needs to know that. (After all, if it was going to take more than that one arm it would have taken all of him instantly, the connections so easy to make, and so little to block its progress)) (aka, Gaster gets a semi sentient magic leach that slowly wakes up and sassing him throughout the game, he starts speaking Elvhish @ Solas 8 months in because it got tired of not hearing it and everyone is spooked for *weeks*)

I could go on for so long cause I have so many ideas but like, gotta end the post somewhere, (Bull taking one look at Gaster and making the WORST dad jokes known to man, "Guess I know why the Chantry has a bone to pick with you" he says winking with his 1 good eye, and Gaster realizes that he has made a Mistake)

#handplates!gaster #handplates #undertale #dragon age inquisition #my art

[flechetta]

dragon age :D

buckle up!! i have been needing to talk about dragon age for MONTHS

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

Zevran. I didnt really care about him at first but i really grew to like him over time. He’s got depth. He’s got charm. He’s got style. He’s got traumaa (dramaa?). A+ wanna see more of him! hope he has a small cameo in the next game. I just wanna see him doing well in life☺️

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

vaea. love her! love her character (headcanon her as ace) just wanna give her a hug! She’s had to deal with so much and she deserves a break! Im a sucker for “heart of gold” characters. and she’s very much that. so capable. so cool. just want her to be happy 🥺 (maybe dating francesca?? pls?)

The comics have very much focused on her so im sure that she’ll be in the next game.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

Briala. She barely go any time in the game. They really assumed that you have read the book. Once I actually read the book i saw she actually was a very deep character. Never making her get back with celene fr. Fuck celene 😡

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

felassan. Best character hands down. I spoiled the story to myself by accident when looking up official art. still not over it haha

really wanna see him in some other stories if bioware ever made another anthology book 🥰 too bad i probably never will 😭

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Sigh. Michel De Chevin 🥲 sad little mad who tried so hard. Didnt care AT ALL about him when i played the game. He was just some dude who gave a quest like any other lol. Then I read masked empire. and HOT DAMN. he’s so pathetic. i want to help him.

small shout out to nathaniel howe for this. he’s not unpopular but he is pathetic. i say this respectfully.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

100% solas. narratively, he’s an awesome character and such a dramatic romance option. He’s also so fucken annoying. I say this respectfully. I want to throw a wrench in his plans and fix everything better than he ever could.

Tbf to him, he’s already gone through a lot of torment. i soecifically wanna torment him like sera pranks people. i wanna be the most inconvenient little shit that COULD be ignored but wont be.

i want to make him sigh and lose sleep over such minor annoyances caused by me lmao!

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

oghren 🙄😠. i just. really hate oghren. sure it was on purpose but i dont have to like it. go to superhell you pervy dwarf. I helped him through his shit in da awakening but i honestly mentally completely checked out for it.

Also celene🤬. again, her character makes sense, was well-written, and i understand her motivations. and thats exactly why i dont like her. superhell for you too celene!

#dragon age #da spoilers? #dao #dai #i didnt have too many thoughts about da2 tbh. #everyone know fenris is hot #everyone know anders has trauma #everyone knows carver annoys me #8/10 #da comic #da deception #text post #character asks

[werewolfhooligan]

hello i just got home if you dont tell me everything ever about your dragon age ocs right now im stealing ur cat xoxo

socks i love you but i can not for the life of me not throttle you for sending me such a vague question

url lavellan was first to his clans keeper and Hated it because it isolated him from the other cool kids and he didnt want the responsibility . he ran away from home like three times and came back with newer, worse injuries like every time like a sad baby. that thing where he meets sebastian da2 post-da2 isnt an au, that actually happened in his canon and they are in love. when he gets got by the fade rift he Hates it for not andrastian reasons and for genuinely i dont want to lead your inqusition reasons but hes also just gonna have fun with it because it gets him out of the house. just wants to Explore and Live His Best Life but keeps getting dragged down by That Motherfucker, Cory. mage-friendly because he is one. dating dorian for i am gay and rude and he is pretty and rude reasons. after losing his arm mr url forms a new one out of rock parts and electricity, so Watch Out!

i cant remember SHIT about my travelyan i think he was just like. Big. Kind. Gentle. Longbow. dating bull because again i am a home of sexual. templar route because i was curious, and honestly that route was kinda fun. there is 1 valid templar and i forgot his name but he was there and wonderful.

ALOW lavellan is a hunter for his clan cause i see a bow and i lose it. june vallaslin because i love crafts. v loyal to his clan and very HATING the inquisition. like he will not say a Word to Anyone in any official capacity , wont answer questions wont acknowledge awe or compliments, wont give the big speeches or try to gain favor. he tried to leave the day he woke up in haven but solas, the bastard, convinced him to stay by being kinda smart and most importantly, an elf. mage-friendly because i hate templars and he probably does too as yk. a dalish elf. gets along-ish with most of the companions after a while because hes angry and frustrated but he understands that however he feels this is something that only he can do, and these people are trying to help, even if they wont fucking stop talking about their religion like he cares. varric's disgusting son boy. bull's boyfriend, has heard him speak the most words and made him laugh at the most jokes. sera's friend because theyre both short and vicious. blackwall's friend because theyre both vaguely standoffish and dont like a crowd so they end up wallflowering in the same room a lot. writes josephine little notes about how xyz needs changing, thanks her later but not spilling all the ink in skyhold on cullens desk again. etc etc. sees a mission n goes this is a tiddies out kind of mission.

#not art #answers #yardeens #ocs #da

[glowyelfboyfriend]

Yay Sabrae! So- did his clan survive that one war table mission? How does he feel about the elven pantheon, or andraste? Does he believe he really is the herald? What is his greatest fear? One thing I hated about DAI is how like. No One cares about the dalish. My own lavellan is very proud of his heritage and has no one to share that enthusiasm with :[ How "elfy" is Sabrae?

YESSS SABRAE QUESTIONS!!

Sabrae is incredibly elfy. So elfy. I pretty much only play as Dalish elves in the DA games when possible so I have run the gambit from angry and calling every human a shem (Shira) to generally aloof and kinda neutral (Irime) and then there is Sabrae.

Sabrae’s whole deal is that he was second in his clan, he had been raised since he was a child to eventually take the role of Keeper. He took this VERY seriously, studied a lot, learned as much as he could, meditated on what kind of leader he would want to be to be able to make a positive impact not only for his clan but for all the Dalish as he spent his childhood with constant threats of violence and enslavement breathing down his clans neck. 

Howeverrrr during the course of Inquisition he tends to hold back as much as he can because he doesnt want to make anyone uncomfortable or be too pushy or not fit in because he wants to be a perfect shining example of how Dalish elves can TOTALLY be chill and cool with others (considering the rumors about the Dalish and the reputation of them not being cooperative or being ‘weird’ etc) so its this weird toss up. He’s very diplomatic and acts like an ambassador BUT while he might ‘tone it down’ he will never take anyone shitting on the Dalish sitting down and will snap a bitch in half for racism towards them. 

Fun story when I was conceptualising him I was like “I know he wont LIKE Solas but I think he would try really hard..” and then that first convo where Solas is like ‘pfft the dalish are like children they dont know wtf they are doing lol’ Sabrae literally just turned around and walked away from the conversation.

Sabrae follows the elvhen pantheon super hard, with super reverence and faith and devotion. His eye twitches whenever someone -else- explains elvhen culture/history/religion to him. He does not believe in the Maker though hes sure Andraste was ‘a pretty ok person’ but he doesnt rag on it or on the Chantry (unfairly, he still has his concrit) because he respects that its important for others (good guy Sabrae). 

Sabrae does NOT believe he was choosen by Andraste but gets uncomfortable sometimes when he says that since he doesnt wanna offend anyone or dig himself into a hole. He is pretty sure the sequence of events was put in place by his own Gods but keeps that mostly to himself. Its tricky. In a political situation he will be like “nah Im not the herald of andraste” but if some old human woman smiles at him and call him that in a revered way he’s gonna be like “……y-yeah” cause hes not gonna take that away from anyone.

Sabrae’s clan survives but its the most bittersweet thing EVER cause Sabrae is like “I fucked it up” when they are forced to live in the city and basically give up their way of life for safety because like….. fuck. Sabrae was supposed to be there to help guide his clan and protect them and keep things safe and right and now his clan is making the best out of shit and hes halfway across Thedas banging a human commander, sleeping in a tower and scrapping up what dalish traditions he can keep while getting dragged to fancy human dinners.

Sabrae’s biggest fear is personal failure. He is an overachiever to the max, he has the highest expectations of himself from a lifetime of preparing to be the best Keeper possible and now is suddenly responsible for so much more. He knows his failure would lead to deaths, destruction, hatred on his people, and yanno maybe the world will explode. He can’t relax, he can’t take a day off, he can’t let his guard down, he has to smile for all the Orlesians who ‘affectionately’ use slurs to describe him and his people cause if he doesnt who the fuck knows what that would mean for everyone, and he barely sleeps at night cause of the constant anxiety-driven visions of that shit he saw when he was tossed through that time portal and saw the venatori future.

I havent gotten to play Trespasser with him yet and Im terrified honestly cause its going to kill him. Cullen is gonna have to peel him off the floor, wrap him in a blanket, tell everyone the inquisition is over as Sabrae snaps back to reality kicking and screaming and clawing at the war table before Cullen whisks him away to the fucking mountains or something.

#inquisitor sabrae #this got LONG #I just #love him

[waluigisgaybf]

Okay but I finally got to play Trespasser and hear all of Solas’s shit, and now Im upsetti because I totally get him now, like everything he said made sense to me, and I totally got why he felt this way and was dong what he was doing and wanted to support him....but honestly if you gotta commit genocide of everyone in existence to reach your goal then just use the excuse “I dont want to” and still do it you a fucking hoe. I’d LOVE to see elves up there with everyone else in terms of status, and get to flourish and be a great empire.....but not if to do so you need to fuck everything else up. Why not actually help the elves and lead some movement to free them find a better place in modern Thedas, and dont use that “they dont like what I have to say shit” theyre all gonna be a bit upset or stressed when you tell them the truth about their people, but if you try to be supportive and understanding instead of a hard ass dick who gets mad when they do it wont work.

sorry had to rant.

#solas #fuck that guy #dai #da #Dragon Age #Dragon Age Inquisition