Okay but while nothing excuses what he allowed to happen in Kirkwall, the fact he says “there are templars who have been through worse” is just holy shit. He was what, 19 at Broken Circle? Then Meredith preying on his fears, then all the chaos of Kirkwall itself, and there are other templars who had it WORSE? Maybe he’s referring to Samson, because that’s the only named character who might have come close. Not the direct torture bit, but because Samson was trying to help at first, and his life was torn from him because of it. I really don’t want to imagine what other characters named or unnamed he might be referring to, because if what they went through is worse than what Cullen and/or Samson went through I don’t want to know about it. :/

Cloud-Dark Cosplay as Trip (Enslaved: Odyssey of the West)

Dragon Age: Inquisition - Reunion

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Medium: Galaxy Note 3, CloverPaint, Sketchbook for Galaxy, Pixlr Express, Photoshop

"Guess I’m the leading man now, Chuckles."

Sketch of a hypothetical reunion scene between Varric Tethras and Champion Mage Hawke, done during a thunderstorm/power outage.

"Guess I’m the leading man now, Chuckles."

Carver leaves for Ostagar

augh but i just

leandra weeping—he gives her a reason to weep, and it isn’t about father;

bethany tight-lipped and silent, the only one who knows him and his pain, who heard him cry like a little boy in the dark of night;

hawke, pretending. always a pretender. but leaning, casually, against the wall, to hide knees that threaten to buckle—so no one ever knows the truth;

and malcolm, who said nothing. malcolm, who was a man; carver, who’s looking to become a man in the absence left in a father’s empty place. not even the ground holds any trace of their footsteps. the mud doesn’t know their names, or care. 

Year of Princess Mare-dea

hey hey

did you wanna read a slash of blue but happen to hate tumblr’s system of organization or the layout or whatever

well it’s on ao3 too

shoo go read

yes i think i will do this thing

a cure for the itchy throated fridays

anders with a cold. no one heals the healer. except varric stops by and starts in on stories and eventually, late into the night, anders is asleep and snoring through a stuffed nose while varric tucks a blanket up under his chin.

aveline with a cold. ‘faze be! i stad for all ob us!’ and isabela can’t stop laughing; neither can merrill; neither can hawke. they’re almost killed by a pack of shrieks and it’s completely worth it.

varric with a cold. his nose gets big and red and his eyes get runny and hawke asks him who it is he’s about to kill in hard in hightown that has him so upset and he shakes hawke off, not expecting anders with a bowl of elfroot soup, cool hands against his forehead. 

sebastian with a cold. ‘say duty one more time, sebastian,’ hawke pleads. because, of course, it comes out as doody.

merrill with a cold, asking the important questions. ‘don’t you think it’s strange magic can form a crushing prison and rain fireballs on our enemies and raise a fallen comrade, but there’s still no cure yet for the sniffles?’

isabela with a cold. happens during the winter. ‘might not,’ aveline points out, ‘if you wore a pair of pants now and then, wouldn’t it?’ ‘i like to live dangerously, big girl,’ isabela replies, and rubs their noses together until aveline’s is just as pink as hers is.

bethany with a cold. suddenly, she becomes more insufferable than carver.

carver with a cold. all he wants is his mother.

fenris with a cold. when he sneezes, it is deep, sonorous, mournful—just like his voice. and hawke can’t help but ask, ‘what has mucus touched that it has not spoiled?’ 

hawke with a cold. ‘ah, another page of anders’ manifesto… perfect for blowing my nose. maker bless mage rights.’ 

but hawke remembers a father’s big hands showing off tricks whenever his firstborn couldn’t sleep, feverish eyes watching a gold sovereign appear and disappear in the dwindling firelight. malcolm with a cold he caught from his precious child, staying up all night until the fever broke.

The eldest Hawke brought some respect back to the Amell line with the success of a risky expedition, but it is Bethany who maintains the nouveau-riche family’s tenuous social connections.

The neighborhood gossips all about the notice that the (newly-made, by an unfortunate circumstance) Crown Prince of Starkhaven lavishes on Miss Bethany. She certainly makes little effort to hide her delight at having him in attendance of any and all social events at the Amell Estate.

tries to draw like a Jane Austen illustration

help hat kilt stairwell dress socks wine military coat help help HELP

May I say that you look especially enchanting this evening, Miss Hawke?

Bethany/Sebastian is one of those pairings I love irrationally and instinctively, but alas, there's so little of it in the base game. Given how the timing works out, the only flirtation we ever get between them is in the DLCs. But the chemistry between them leaves me so hungry for more.

So basically what I'm saying is that I would read 157,000+ words of Bethany/Sebastian regency AU and mabari-slobber over all the Bethany/Sebastian regency AU artwork yes please make it so

The sound I made wasn’t human.

It scared my dog

alistair…..

that quest list is killing me with feels

Best episode of the season by a million kabillion miles come at me bro

One Thing I Absolutely Adore About Dragon Age 2

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Honestly though, that bit about Malcolm got me a little misty-eyed.