witch of the wilds my heart

Fenris

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A little portrait of a smiling relaxed Fenris.

tbh i like torturing them by dragging vivienne and blackwall around together all the time because they’re actually pretty similar characters. both are lowborn marchers who managed to claw their way up the brutal orlesian social hierarchy. both are obsessed with the concepts of class and power. both grapple with the need to sacrifice personal (esp. romantic) relationships in order to abide by the obligations of their roles.

the divergence between them comes from the fact that while they’re familiar with the pitfalls of making yourself a tool of the nobility, blackwall’s fallen victim to them while vivienne’s bootstrapping has been comparably successful. he’s the “bad end” to her own story, which is why his criticisms of her are the most cogent of anyone’s. and vivienne, for her part, immediately recognizes what blackwall is because he’s so much like her.

it’s such a good detail that their animosity only kicks off when blackwall tries flattering her and she offends him by pointing out how obviously fake his chivalry is. blackwall uses this act frequently, and it works well on nobly-born characters like josephine, but vivienne isn’t a noble. she antagonizes him because she wants him to know that she’s used the same tactics herself, but against more difficult targets and to greater effect. she’s implying that she’s him but competent, and blackwall spends the rest of the game mounting the counter-argument that he’s her but with principles.

one blessedly quiet moment at vigil’s keep

old merribela doodle found in the files

yknow solas from dai right and forgive me bc im sure other ppl already knew this but i just found out about this just now and now i have to say it

so i was scrolling reddit and someone was asking how come they can't seem to write solas dialogue correctly for fanfiction and someone in the comments pointed out that he, not always, but very often, speaks in IAMBIC TETRAMETER? and that's why he SOUNDS LIKE THAT?

the thing about the cousland origin, to me, that sometimes turns me off it completely and sometimes intrigues me, is that it says something completely different about who duncan is, what he wanted, and what the grey wardens are

No no no because Sigrun DIED because she was a duster. She DIED because of it. Poverty killed Sigrun. She is a walking corpse killed by a society that didn't give a shit about her until she died for it. God I'm OBSESSED with her dialogue with Nathaniel about this!!!

Cremisius ‘Krem’ Aclassi and Kylie Lavellan, from Dragon Age: Inquisition (x)

Commissioned by the lovely @dearophelia! :)

Kylie doesn’t have the canon background of any of the Inquisitors - she’s a part of Bull’s Chargers prior to the Inquisition, along with her boyfriend and eventual husband Krem!

whenever u are playing a video game and u think “this sucks. why wouldn’t this npc trust my character completely? why would they criticise their decisions when my character made the best choice available to them? why would they withhold information from my character and act according to their own agenda instead of trusting them?” that’s because it’s YOUR job to make a character who kind of sucks. and it’s not the game’s fault you didn’t do that

I don’t foresee myself drawing too much DA2 stuff, but I gotta draw Hawke and Isabela AT LEAST once 

now kiss kiss fall in love! >:U

Every day I think of a new character who could be a fun option to eventually kill Maryam. Entire DA:I cast collaborating on this murder. Fuck knows most of them have reason to.

Every time I see your name, I think of the Looney Tunes ass doctor from Guilty Gear who got redesigned into a horror movie trope. This is a compliment, btw.

Yep, that's me!

because the cutscene where more darkspawn arrive is kind of awkward it makes more sense to me that the severe injuries alistair and the warden get are from the ogre fight. i think it adds more drama to seeing each other whole again. it really emphasises flemeth’s power for one thing

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"