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Josephine’s friendly way of asking Bull to put away his tiddies for once
Character Curiosity Tuesday! How did Avira handle the ‘personal’ quest for The Iron Bull? Did she save the chargers or the dreadnought, and why?
Ohhh boy. Sensitive subject. :)
This is one of those times in which her ideal self and actual self come into conflict.
The rational choice would have been to save the dreadnought. Not only was that objectively more lives saved, but it preserved a strategic alliance that they would otherwise never get back.
But she saw Bull’s face. When he asked her to make that choice so he didn’t have to.
If she’d have had more time she might have made a different decision. Convinced herself it was selfish to jeopardize the Inquisition and sacrifice the lives of those on the dreadnought just because she had ‘played favorites’ and saved those she knew and cared about. But in that moment, her heart won out. She could not sentence them to die.
As one might imagine, she blames herself for the Qunari incursion and the actions of the Viddasala at the Exalted Council. Of course we know it made little difference, but she imagines that none of it would be happening if she had just done the ‘right’ thing.
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Happy Mermay everyone!
Submission#1
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A/N @lavellanlove you asked so I delivered more Thelbull. Captain and Tiny are Varric’s nicknames for Thelrand and Bull, respectively.
Codex Entry: The Drunken Chronicles of Captain and Tiny
If you’re reading this and you’re not Varric Tethras, congrats! You successfully pick-locked your way into my private possessions and snooped your way to this little gem. Don’t put this down! Read it now since you already made it this far. Just don’t tell anyone you found this, even though the mischief between Tiny and Captain is on full display every other day at the Tavern, and every time they caught me writing, I told them that I wasn’t writing down their drunken conversations.
I’m not worried about Captain or Tiny getting mad at me. I’m worried about Lucky finding out. (The Inquisitor, by the way.) She has an awful soft spot for the guy and let’s just say I’d rather Seeker get pissed at me than her.
So, here’s what I’ve had to witness with my own two eyes – I was not drunk enough at all, mind you.
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Captain is just sitting there, skin wrinkled between his perfectly manicured eyebrows (and he tells me he never touched them a day in his life! As if!) with his dark slightly bulging eyes boring into Tiny’s eye-patch. Not a word is uttered between them and tensions are high. Captain’s knuckles are white as he grips the stein with frustration, jaw set as he grinds his teeth with a slight curl of his upper lip. Tiny is more relaxed, leaning casually into his chair, tapping his fingers on the table.
Did they fight? Did I miss something? Those two, who often filled the room with boisterous laughing or raunchy banter or public indecency, are silent like the night while the others party around them.
After a few painfully awkward moments of silence, Captain blinks hard and grunts. “Shit!” Tiny laughs a deep belly laugh that even I am envious of and practically downs his drink in one go and says, “I’ve been blinking this whole time. You were staring at my eye patch again.” I’ve never seen Captain look so betrayed. I expect him to cry, but he somehow finishes the rest of his stein in three mighty gulps and shouts, “Okay! Again!”
He really does cry when he falls for the same trick again.
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For Thelbull: 1) ‘take it easy. you hit your head.' 2) ‘sit still and let me take a look!', or 3) ‘you need stitches.'
Bull watched it unfold before his eye as if it were in slowmotion: Thelrand had charged towards one of the Venatori and was suddenlyknocked back with so much magical force, even he felt it from where he stoodseveral yards away. Thelrand had landed with a loud thud, armor clanking,rolled once from the momentum, then completely stilled, lying face down.
Whatever fatigue he felt at that moment was consumed by asudden rage, his whole body vibrating with the want, no, the need to dismember Thelrand’s attacker.Decapitating the unfortunate man would have to satisfy him for now.
Bull rolled Thelrand onto his back before cradling him inhis arm. He was unresponsive, and he couldn’t tell whose blood he was soakedin. He called out to him to wake up, pleading, encouraging him to open hiseyes. They had faced much worse enemies together: dragons, giants, demons. Howcould a single mage take him down?
There it was, a single shallow gash across his hairlineabove his temple. Thelrand must have hit his head on a rock when he landed. Bloodseeped out with each pulse over his eye and down his cheek. Bull wiped theblood away as best he could with his hand though only smeared it further intohis hair.
It felt like an eternity had passed before Thelrand’s eyesfluttered open. There was a vacant faraway look in his eye before it focusedonto Bull’s face. Bull’s heart jumped in his chest and he shushed him before hespoke. “Take it easy. You hit your head. Pretty hard.”
Thelrand frowned and reached up to touch his head, but Bull pushedhis hand away. “Don’t touch it and wait for Stitches to come over to look at it.”“I’m hurt?”His voice was so small, and Bull stroked his cheek; for his comfort or Thelrand’s,he didn’t know. “A cut, but you’ll be fine. Avira would kill me if you didn’tmake it back alive.”That made Thelrand smile, and he reached up to touch Bull on his cheek. “Ialready know I’m fine. I think the blast knocked me out before I hit theground. Got a bloody headache though.” His eyes started to close, and hedropped his hand.Bull gently tapped his cheek, sighing in relief when he opened his eyes again. “Don’tgo back to sleep now. Stay awake for me, okay? Promise.”“I promise.”
What's the toughest decision Avira had to make as Inquisitor (think main quests) and why was it tough?
Whether to save the Chargers or the dreadnaught. It pit her desire for rationality directly against every instinct in her body.
The rational choice would have been to save as many lives as possible and prevent a diplomatic crisis by saving the dreadnaught. But seeing the Chargers there and the desperation on Bull’s face, she just couldn’t do it. She was too emotionally invested to give an order that would cost their lives.
Especially after the events of the Exalted Council, she blames herself for the Qunari aggression, thinking it was a direct consequence of the diplomatic breakdown she caused. She is still not sure she did the right thing.
(re: Canon Actions)
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Iron Bull finishing the dragon. A little comission.
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Varric is “gives you a sip of his beer when you’re 14, includes too many embarrassing anecdotes in the ‘Birds and the Bees’ talk, helps you get into R-Rated movies” Dad.
Solas is, “Unwanted impromptu hikes and camping trips, lets you paint your own room but won’t help paint over it when you decide you hate it two weeks later, ’Let’s talk this out in the yurt’” Dad.
Dorian is “up at 3 AM passive aggressively reading in the living room with a glass of wine when you arrive four hours past your curfew, watches cheesy terrible tv shows with you, gets WAY INTO your science fair project” Dad.
Blackwall is “really bad at gift giving but you know he’s trying very hard, carved your baby cradle by hand himself, tried to teach you to fish but stopped when ‘cleaning’ the fish made you cry and throw up” Dad.
Iron Bull is “Yells REALLY LOUDLY at the TV during both football and cooking shows, scares the shit out of your date while being perfectly friendly, won’t let you out the door in the morning without breakfast ‘At least take this protein bar!’” Dad.
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just messin around on twitter
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Dorian finally says “fuck it.” and takes Bull to a party and gives the entire Magistrate heart attacks. It’s the best time he has in years.
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“Why do you call yourself Iron Bull?“
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Lindrel would murder that butt nugget fear demon.
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Shhut the fuk ur mouth, Bull.
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Varric is “gives you a sip of his beer when you’re 14, includes too many embarrassing anecdotes in the ‘Birds and the Bees’ talk, helps you get into R-Rated movies” Dad.
Solas is, “Unwanted impromptu hikes and camping trips, lets you paint your own room but won’t help paint over it when you decide you hate it two weeks later, ’Let’s talk this out in the yurt’” Dad.
Dorian is “up at 3 AM passive aggressively reading in the living room with a glass of wine when you arrive four hours past your curfew, watches cheesy terrible tv shows with you, gets WAY INTO your science fair project” Dad.
Blackwall is “really bad at gift giving but you know he’s trying very hard, carved your baby cradle by hand himself, tried to teach you to fish but stopped when ‘cleaning’ the fish made you cry and throw up” Dad.
Iron Bull is “Yells REALLY LOUDLY at the TV during both football and cooking shows, scares the shit out of your date while being perfectly friendly, won’t let you out the door in the morning without breakfast ‘At least take this protein bar!’” Dad.
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Today’s #inktober piece.
I messed up the vitaar tattoos but this is how inking without sketch ends up ;(