#worrytoken

[extravagantliar]

hey, Elisa, does Varric /really/ throw away all those letters from the Merchant's Guild? I guess I'm just curious about his whole relationship and interactions with them. I can't recall if you've already discussed this

SEND ME A TOPIC TO WRITE A META ABOUT MY MUSE ON  // meme cache // always accepting

I had like half a reply written to this like twice or so, so now I’m just gonna list all the reasons why Varric skirted away from the Merchant’s Guild!

i. lazy writing

This has nothing to do with Varric, however, as a whole --- it does. The writers continuously forget that Varric has a reputation not only as a Tethras, but a reputation politically. The choice to have Varric converse ( or not ) with the Guild was due to time restraints and well laziness. Varric is a bigger powerhouse than people give him credit for and the Inquisition was all about allies, and there was a good chance that if people wanted a more corrupt ( aka smuggling, spy, trade heavy ) Inquisition there could have been a choice for Varric to converse with the Guild, even if it was a simple War Table mission. While we did get a taste of that, it really wasn’t the authentic flavour of espionage that gets the blood pumping!

ii. varric and the protection of the inquisitor

Let’s face it, the Guild and the Carta are two sides of the same coin, one is composed of surfacers and the other composed of Orzammar dwarves. Both don’t really fit it, both have an archaic hierarchy and sometimes seem opposed to change as a whole. They’re both smuggling rings, illicit crime rings, and hold tiers of influence. However, Varric understands the nuances of political machine that is the Inquisition, he saw it start out on rocky footing and was there for the messiest birth of gang of happy misfits SINCE the Kirkwall bunch, and as a seasoned hell-worn companion he has unique insight on what may or may not be needed in these cases, and a highly conservative dwarf smuggling ring is not one of them. Varric may have skirted the other kalnas mainly because instead of the Inquisition having some benefit from the alliance, it was more likely that the Guild would have made away with something much more beneficial. So he ignores letters to protect his Inquisitor, simple enough --- right?

iii. the makeup of the merchant’s guild

The composition of the merchant’s guild is another thing to consider! We don’t have much information on how many members are within the upper circle, but we do know that Varric inherited Bartrand’s seat upon his death and according to the wiki, he’s the only listed ascendant, which means he’s the only new-age thinker. This makeup means that the Guild is more likely to keep to themselves and work as if they were part of the Orzammar caste system, even abiding by old laws and treaties if the moment called for it. It’s evident at the Winter Palace that they do not really keep to themselves, but that can be chalked up to them simply playing on the insecurities and uncertainty of Orlais, which means that they were MAKING SO MUCH MONEY ( and essentially Varric lost out on this, so ---- the Guild may have some questions ). This make-up is unfavourable to any of Varric’s canonical stances and ignoring the letters may have been easier than dealing with the make-up of the guild that still remembers Varric’s brother who was also a Kalna, those who would rather run the guild by Orzammar rules ( but modify them ). 

iv. varric’s reasonable time constraints

The only book that Varric publishes between his interrogation and the closing of DA:I ( not Trespasser ) is one chapter of Swords & Shields and even then he hadn’t really touched that book since he had been on the road. His banters and other comments in conversations lead us to believe that he is working on paperwork for Kirkwall and Her Interests, which means he may have skirted his other duties and let them fall to the wayside. He had to pick a couple of things, so he picked the Inquisitor and Kirkwall. So for his health and lack of time, he most likely just ignored the letters or better yet burned them!

v. varric and his reasonable expectations of people

Varric expects people to burn him. Varric expects this of the Merchant’s Guild and wouldn’t allow them to do that to the Inquisitor ( leading back to his protection of the Inquisitor, mainly because Varric didn’t join the Inquisition, he stated he’ll follow the Inquisitor, which is a foil of Solas and I’ll get into how Varric and Solas foil each other later ). Also, he didn’t want the Merchant’s Guild to influence how he was thought of, he’s a bastard and a scoundrel and would prove that on his own rather than the Guild daring to spin some fictitious story about him that can’t even hold a flame. 

#wow this is longer than it should be #worrytoken

[zehnsucht]

💝 for a platonic kiss @ Goldanna p l s

@worrytoken

kiss kiss fall in love

Vigil’s Keep was... well, a lot like the relationship that brought her here: MESSY. But it was definitely big, which was MORE than she could say about her old home. And the children loved having the room to run around. So perhaps she COULD at least thank Alistair for inviting them. Luckily, it wasn’t hard to find him, as everyone tended to need the WARDEN, so tabs were kept at almost ALL times.

❝ Alistair... ❞ Maker this is hard. Just... get it OVER with. ❝ It just... you know... it means A LOT for inviting me and the children here. Even if I WAS a bit of a stubborn ass about it. So... I guess thank you. ❞ There may have been some hesitance to her tone that MIGHT convey some insincerity, but it was the TRUTH. She really was grateful, she just... was really bad at telling him. So she could SHOW him ?

Goldanna grabs Alistair by the shoulder and pulls him down maybe a little too roughly, MESSY still applied to KISS him on the cheek. She lets go quickly and looks away, awkward. ❝ Yeah... thanks... ❞

#worrytoken #* interactions / goldanna ! #* codex / ask ! #i think you said this happens #during awakening and tbh i dig it

[exemplari]

@worrytoken​

          ‘ THERE WAS A SHIPMENT OF FINE CHEESES                                                                                          just arrived from orlais .              i picked some out for myself before the kitchen staff got their hands on them . 

            care to join me ? it’d be made better if you could bring some bread along , too .                 or some  wine  , perhaps .  ‘

#worrytoken #& - i thought instead of trusting tumblr again we're just gonna g balls to the wall instead #but hoestly are they gonna even need the bread #or are they going to eat the cheese straight from the carving knife like heathens #tag pending

[sylvansmercy]

       “Stop, stop, stop! You’re ruining them.” Mei sounds a bit like her mother as she reaches over to cover Alistair’s hands (at least from what she can remember of her mother’s voice). “Don’t pound, grind. They’re elfroot leaves, not rocks.” 

@worrytoken because????? we haven’t yet??????

#starters. #worrytoken #int: alistair. ( worrytoken ) #v; join us brothers and sisters. ( da / ua ) #arc; origins.

[hiraecies-a]

meta + Helena & change from lawful to chaotic good?

meta or die fuckers!!  /  accepting  /  @worrytoken

helena starts out the game lawful good because she believes that the law is good.  she’s enormously naive about the actual state of the actual world.  this isn’t to say she’s blind — she knows the poor suffer, and there are injustices, but by and large she expects that the law works.  that if the privileged hurt the oppressed, the law and authority will stop it and punish the perpetrator.  the thing is —— this is not at all how the world actually works, and it doesn’t take helena long to figure that out once she’s out in the world.  she’s horrified that the templars are willing to slaughter innocent mages when the templars should exist to protect mages.  she’s horrified at the state of the alienage and the treatment of the elves within.  she’s disgusted at the way she sees the nobility, the guards, all the authority she’d trusted in turn a blind eye.  helena is good more than she is lawful, and once she realizes that it’s not possible to be both in the current system, she naturally shifts to chaotic good.  it’s a huge part of why she becomes queen — she wants the law she believed in as a child to be a reality.  she wants authority to protect.  she wants those in power to lift up those without it.  despite the fact that she doesn’t want to be queen, she views it as a responsibility she now has —— she has to fix the system, or at least try, and being queen is the best way to make that a reality.

the transformation isn’t complete until awakenings, for many reasons.  notice the words ‘responsibility’ and ‘authority’ and ‘system.’  even after becoming queen, she’s working as lawful, not chaotic; it’s just that her current goal is to fix the law.  and that remains, sure.  but after awakenings — after attempted regicide by a templar all in the name of capturing one single apostate! — her faith in the system as something that can be reformed lessens.  it doesn’t disappear entirely, but it suffers a lot.  that awakenings is essentially when lena goes through her hardening — which is good, i need to emphasize, it makes her better and much more herself — is certainly a factor, as well.  her queenliness becomes less her trying to fix the institution while still working within the law to a way to exploit the law to help others — i’ve talked about helena leveraging political power to free anders if he’s ever captured, or even to outright break him out, which is a big example, but there are others.  she makes ferelden as much a safe haven for mages as she can.  i do headcanon that while alistair is verbally dueling with meredith, lena is in the gallows, sneaking around and rendering aid / resources / directions to the mage railroad etc.  she actively works with the mage underground, if covertly.  she eventually outlaws the purging of alienages in ferelden.  she redirects coin to the poor as much as she can.

she never stops being a knight errant; she’s still noble, she’s still a heroic figure.  but if the law isn’t good, and it may be too broken to fix, than at the very least she can arrange the broken pieces into something that actually helps people.

#this got so fucking long im SORRY #worrytoken #✦│ i’ll say goodbye soon. — ❪ helena cousland / answered. ❫ #✦│ together we wait for silence. — ❪ helena cousland / headcanon. ❫

[contrariian-archive]

‘ i feel it in my blood, in the fire and the flood — the beast that can’t be killed. ’ @ Percy!

DEAR WORMWOOD  ( ACCEPTING )

        ‘    well  surely  there  has  to  be  SOMETHING  —   ’    the  girl  stops  short ,  cutting  herself  off  before  she  says  something  FOOLISH .   there  doesn’t  have  to  be  a  cure .   if  there  was ,  certainly  the  wardens  would  have  found  it  by  now .   what  does  she  know ,  anyway ?  she’s  just  a  silly  little  noblewoman  who  didn’t  die  when  she  should  have ,  a  girl  in  way  over  her  head .   she  was  raised  to  be  a  WIFE ,  not  to  fight  darkspawn .   ‘  i  mean .   i  hope  there  is ?  and  i  hope  you  find  it .  i’d  help ,  if  you  wanted  me  to .  i  know  i’m  probably  the  least  useful  of  us  in  a  fight ,  but  i’m  good  at  reading  and  researching  things ,  so  if  there’s  any  record  of  a  cure  i  could  probably  track  it  down  and  —    ’     cuts  herself  off  AGAIN .  you’re  rambling ,  persephone .   cheeks  flush ,  and  she  ducks  her  head .   ‘  ah .  sorry .  i’m  talking  too  much ,  aren’t  i ?   ’

#worrytoken #persephone potter. #her still nonexistent companion verse ??? who knows #so far her companion verse is ? still a cousland but managed to escape on her own #probably makes her way to lothering Just In Time to run into everyone & is like 'HEY i have literally NOTHING TO LOSE'

[solariic]

worrytoken replied to your post: willbeshot replied to your post: ...

Gina Carano? I don’t know if she’s been anything aside from Deadpool, but I do know she’s got Muscles™

OOH SHE’S CUTE

#worrytoken #* ｡✧ ━ ⦅ out of character. ⦆ #i would miss her Gorgeous Glowing Ginger Locks #but #we stan a massive ginger queen

[kroxn]

“Dragons are partial to maiden sacrifices, l hear.” @ Kro, perhaps? mistaking them for a dragon?

“Humans of any sort are too gamy to stomach, even for what you call: dragons.” Kro growled as they shook out their wings, padding over to the stranger with a displeased snarl on their snout.

#worrytoken #.: Ask the noodle :.

[vclnora-blog]

😄: Does your muse laugh over their mistakes? 😋: What's your muse's sense of humor like? 😒: What does your muse find disgusting? (assuming you don't mind people sending multiple of course)

Send an Symbol for a HC || Accepting

😄: Does your muse laugh over their mistakes?

      Aoife’s pretty good natured. As long as the mistake isn’t life-endangering or regarding her research she’ll probably make fun of it herself before anyone else. She’s not exactly the golden child of the family so she’s used to making mistakes.

😋: What's your muse's sense of humor like?

      Years of hanging out with grim people has led her to have a bit of a gallows sense of humour. The darker the joke, the more at home she’ll be.with someone. Living so close to a blight of all things and through the death of her best friend husband somewhat sapped her ability to ‘think on the bright side’. She’ll also make jokes at her own expense or about the ridiculousness of others if she thinks it’ll get her a laugh and a moments’ reprieve from whatever things she’s found herself in the middle of.

😒: What does your muse find disgusting?

      She can’t stand fish. The smell, the texture, the taste. As soon as she sees one she evacuates the area in order to avoid the whole unpleasantness of it all. To a much lesser degree she also doesn’t like bugs. The outdoors? Fine. She’s lived in a tent for a few years, she enjoys it enough. Bugs that try and get in your hair? Can’t stand them. It’s a trying world she lives in.

#( HC || answer ) #( hc. ) #;ooc #( of course i don't mind #ty so much for the ask!! ) #worrytoken

[sternenkrone-blog]

Have I told you recently I love your writing? And I love all the great characters you’re able to think of and bring to life? You’re like a beacon of creativity tbqh it’s awesome

  i’ve been staring at this ask for a while bc idk how to do words and i’m p sure u don’t want to see me flailing about for half an hour BUT  this made me so, so happy? i mostly write for myself but it’s always so nice to hear that what i do is appreciated by other people,,,,  also you know i absolutely adore everything you do with every character you touch, so. this just really means so much!!!!!  thank you.

#worrytoken #( holly.... clutches chest ) #saved.

[zehnsucht]

Can I just say that your muse list is CHOICE 👌

@worrytoken

holly u da best

YEET THANK. If I added Maric, I could be Alistair’s whole damn family.

#worrytoken #* codex / ask ! #aLSO I JUST SAW YOUR POST #ABOUT G.OLDANNA AND I HAD THE EXACT #AND I MEAN E X A C T SAME FCS IN MIND

[soutarasyl]

worrytoken replied to your post: @worrytoken you’ve caused chaos in the group chat:

HAHAHAHA EXCELLENT

you caused the topic of conversation to turn from me trying to explain dragon age lore to ,,, That

#worrytoken #my friend sarah Does Not Understand dragon age & i know too much

[servingliesarch]

starter call   ♡   @worrytoken​.

    ❝  I can’t say I’m completely versed in this place yet.  I haven’t been here very long and. . .   frankly, things are a bit different.  ❞   He shrugs, though a small smile is fixed on his face nonetheless, deliberate in the way it drags meaning away from his words with ease.  There is only so much he can say, but Merlin leaves these thoughts behind anyway, and instead looks curiously to his newfound companion as he hands him a bowl of stew.   ❝  Good thing is cooking works more or less the same, or else I’d get pretty miserable pretty soon.  Same for you. . .   whatever that thing was you tried to make could really have come from a back end of a cat for all I could tell, I hope you know.  ❞

#worrytoken #so apparently merlin came to thedas to just insult everyone's cooking i guess #well he's nice enough to just be helpful and do it for you for no reason #IDEK i hope it's okay let me know if it isn't i'm a sham #( ic. ) #( q. ) #( closed starter. )

[endtablefororphans]

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Tagged by: stolen from @kaaras-adaar​ Tagging: @renaudtrevelyan, @dryadalismagicae, @worrytoken

To be fair, most of these are wildly inaccurate.

#{{ Gin manadh }} #{{ Gin headcanon }} #{{ Lillith Lavellan }} #{{ Lillith headcanon }} #{{ Fenris }} #{{ Fenris headcanon }} #{{ Sannin Mahariel }} #{{ Sannin headcanon }} #{{ Vallen Andras }} #{{ Vallen headcanon }} #{{ Brand }} #{{ Brand headcanon }} #// nsfw-ish #kaaras adaar #renaudtrevelyan #dryadalismagicae #worrytoken

[hiraecies-a]

meta + Sybil & her parents?

meta or die fuckers!!  /  accepting  /  @worrytoken

complicated.  mother she quietly resents and father she felt distant from.  sybil isn’t sensitive in the traditional sense, but much like her father, she has high expectations for herself and berates herself when she doesn’t achieve them — something her father unknowingly fed into every time she failed to meet his high expectations and he let her know.  “strict.  high expectations.  and if you didn’t meet them, you’d hear about it.”  he wasn’t a yeller, but she was very attuned to his disappointment or anger with her, and he could wield guilt like nothing else.  like carver, she resented him somewhat as a result, and it’s part of the reason she and carver are comparatively close as a result.  sybil never felt like she could live up to being the kind of mage he wanted.  or the kind of daughter he wanted.

this isn’t to say she doesn’t love him dearly and desperately, or that they never had good times.  he scooped her up and spun her around in the air, laughing bright.  held her when she dreamed of templars hurting carver for hiding her.  it’s just that hanging perpetually over her head with all those interactions was the fear of disappointing him.  she could never 100% be totally free or without walls or artifice with him; she felt as though she perpetually had to project an image of herself that didn’t always feel good, or that she wasn’t allowed to be furious or vengeful or bad with her magic, even when she desperately needed to at least vent those frustrations, so they were never able to get as close as she would have wanted.  i don’t know if malcolm ever knew how she felt.

with leandra, it’s complicated.  prior to malcolm’s death, it was better, and leandra was more willing to indulge sybil’s moods or frustrations and didn’t have the same high standards.  they were closer, and sybil went to her with any problem she had that wasn’t directly magic - related and some that were.  after malcolm’s death, though, sybil felt stifled by how leandra just assumed that sybil would become head of househould, and quietly resented her mother for doing that to her.  that being said, she also thrived being the leader of the family and, given her innate desire to protect and be good and be the hero, never voiced this frustration, leaving carver to bear the burden of her griping.  (  she never mentioned any of it to bethany; she knew her sister felt guilty enough for the trouble she caused without sybil outright adding to it.  )  this ended up pushing carver and sybil apart somewhat, something else that sybil can’t help but internally fault her mother for.

she’s horrified when leandra dies; i’ve talked about how she retreats and goes sick and sad and bad.  lets herself start to decay.  part of it’s because leandra is the last of her blood.  part of it is because leandra was her charge in some ways.  some of it is that she feels guilty as hell for resenting leandra right until the end instead of loving her unconditionally; how many conversations did sybil avoid that she’ll never get to have?  how many sharp words that she’ll never be able to apologize for?  and her mother — her mother would blame her, she’s certain, as her mother blamed her for both bethany and carver.

her father built her to have high standards for herself, and through no fault of her own, she failed to meet them — and in doing so failed the rest of her family.  she struggles to forgive herself, and struggles more trying to believe that she deserves to forgive herself.

#why cant i ever write anything SHORT #ALSO THANK U FOR AKSING THESE I LOVE U #long post / #worrytoken #✦│ all of the good that won't come out of me & all the lies i hide behind. — ❪ sybil hawke / headcanon. ❫

[ofdought-blog]

meta + Emmeline & healing? maybe even thoughts on the medical profession as it exists in Thedas?

𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧.  

being  a  healer  is  her  greatest  pride.  she’s  never  thought  of  being  a  mage  as  a  curse  or  as  a  gift.  simply  another  trait  that  she  possesses.  her  parents  never  treated  her  with  fear,  and  so  she  never  saw  much  reason  to  be  afraid  of  her  abilities.  of  course,  she  isn’t  naive,  she’s  been  tempted  by  demons  in  her  dreams,  and  has  seen  the  damage  that  frightened,  angry  rebel  mages  can  do.  being  able  to  fix  someone  broken  using  her  abilities  that  so  many  see  as  frightening  is  a  great  pleasure  to  her.  there  are  things  that  healing  magic  cannot  do,  and  there  are  things  that  healers  cannot  do  without  magic.  sadly,  not  everyone  shares  her  opinions.  some  she  seeks  to  help  refuse  her  aid  because  of  her  methods.  those  she  would  work  with  refuse  to  work  with  her  because  she  is  a  mage.  

#emmeline tag pending. #meta tag pending. #worrytoken