But, technically: I died.

What happened? 😭

"Whether or not he knows it, a man like that needs romance." 💫

Rook knowing that physical contact with Harding might be harmful to them, going for a kiss anyway, getting knocked the fuck out by her powers in about zero seconds, almost cracking their skull on the pavement and the first thing they do. The FIRST thing they do, before they even think of getting up, is to keep trying to reach for her while babbling like a lovestruck FOOL...

My lyrium pusher: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “The Descent” you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: babe I swear I just saw a dwarf made of red lyrium running through the deep roads

My buddy Lace pacing: I̴̳̘͎̼̬͇̦̋̑S̴̥̥͈̰̓́Ä̶̰̜͍̗͚́͂̓̊T̶͕̺̝̖͌̑͂Ų̸̙̙̟̦̰̻̺̔̎̈͌̌̉͝N̸͙̓͑͆̍̑̔Ô̶̡̗̮̰̤̤͖̗̪̒̎͋̈̐̔̒̈́͝ͅL̵̡̢̛̖̫̗̗̼͍̈̈́̓̊̓Ḷ̷̡̘̖͓̳̽̀̐̊̕

Weisshaupt mission was insane I still think about it ghghghhg

How pissed off do you think the chantry is that the Herald of ANDRASTE ran off with the DREAD WOLF

😏 😏 😏

The fact that I caused her to have a scar makes me think deeply.

hang on, hold on, now I'm really in my feelings about Harding for a moment

like ever since I heard that conversation where Lucanis (very insightful tbh, short king to short queen I guess) points out that having been a tiny dwarf girl raised among the big, intimidating, human Fereldan farmers probably impacted Lace's personality more than she realizes (beyond making her adaptable and capable, it also seems to have made her... kind of malleable, unwilling to rock the boat, people-pleasing, more limestone than granite), I already haven't been able to quite shake that thought. But her being so startlingly low on that recent "who's your favorite character" poll I reblogged... it really drove that point all the way home.

a core characteristic of Lace Harding seems to be that she always tries, and tries, and tries, to be liked- she tries to always be kind, and compassionate, and caring, and sweet to everyone, and it works! everyone likes her! people like being around her, both inside and out the narrative!

... but she's very few people's favorite.

it's a really interesting take on pleasantness being a shield (honestly kind of a very accurate, but subtle expansion on her character in Inquisition, when she was just... Nice and Capable Little Lace Harding and Little Else) and even her story, while it's about her own repressed feelings (literally fighting a physical manifestation of her rage, and sorrow, and pain, is. wow you don't get more clear a metaphor than that, the metaphor is literally punching you in the face on that one), it's still not about herself- or not only herself, but all of the dwarven people, all that was taken from them, all their rage, and sorrow, and pain, condensed into her tiny little body....

there is definitely more to expand on this, and I'll probably get more into it in subsequent playthroughs, but for now, I'm finding it really interesting how Lace Harding is almost an afterthought in her own life, purposefully made a footnote in her own narrative, and that in itself serves to color it in further. she lives in the silences between the titan's heartbeats.

truly the fucking textbook interpretation of an eldest daughter of all the dwarven people, and I'm fucking emotional as fuck about her right now

it was completely sick when rook said “what’s shaping?” to harding and harding laughed at them and was like “nobody says that” and i turned and said to my brother “they do in orzammar!!” and harding immediately added “maybe in orzammar twenty years ago” 😭

ANYONE NEED A HAND?

Dorian was about to risk it all to punch Magister Bataris

she's so real for that

I love how the game tries to convince you that the First Warden is so unreasonable and annoying and a pisser when Rook talks to everyone like a flat earther. Like going up to your county sheriff and saying "hold all your calls. We need to focus on the real problem: Zeus and Aphrodite from Greek Mythology are in the White House and they have the nuclear missile codes" it's a wonder he didn't just kill them on the spot

So many of you punched this guy and you're SO right this is objectively the funniest conclusion to all of this. Making mortal enemies with this guy before he biffs it. Rook is sexy stupid strong as fuck and CORRECT