Pairing: Charter & Agent(s) Of Fen’Harel (gen) Characters: Charter, Lace Harding, Agent(s) Of Fen’Harel,

you ever think about a tabris that does the ultimate sacrifice

how their family and fellow elves fighting so fiercely to defend their home (just as they did when they passed through only mere hours before) see the retreating darkspawn and cheer so loudly surely their elven savior could hear them all the way at the top of fort drakkon

how shianni soris and cyrion all break away from the celebrations and shouts go retrieve tabris because there's no possible way a shem party could even come close to the one they'll have in the alienage (they can bring their friends too if they want, they did help tabris after all)

how joy so quickly turns to despair when they see those doors slowly creak open at the bottom with an unmoving tabris held in the arms of another, perhaps a friend, or a lover, with unrestrained tears flowing down their face (maybe with one witch absent, long gone before this even took place)

how shianni and soris cannot begin to believe that the savior, their savior, their cousin, is no longer with them, they were so alive before, and now they are not (their hero is something they will make the shems remember, they are gone so they could live)

how this is now the last time their father has to hold a funeral for his child, and only this time does he have a body to weep over (it's not any better than the first one)

do you ever just think

I think ina is very family-oriented… being able to protect her family (and her community) is a really big thing for her…!!! she’s willing to stand up against a human lord and kill (prob her first kills tbh now that I think abt it ….) to save her cousin and she’s like what … 16…!!!! and she loves her family a lot and I think she feels bad that she had to leave them behind even though it wasn’t her choice. she’s doing her heroic stuff and getting recognition for it, and she’s experiencing things she would’ve never experienced if she still lived in the alienage (like being able to afford fancy clothes and proper food, etc.) and she feels bad that she can do all that stuff knowing that her family is still back in the alienage, living off of rats and whatever they could find. and even though she had that encounter with that spectral shianni in the temple of sacred ashes, she still hasn’t reconciled with the fact that she did leave them behind, and her life will continue without them. like I think throughout the origins plot she gets sooo homesick and she misses her family a lot..! like that was her whole life you know, and she’s still young despite everything that has happened. and I think tabris would’ve wanted children too — obvs not in her current age, but some day in the future she would’ve wanted her own kids and I think she would’ve grown to love nelaros too I mean I make her wear the wedding ring you can loot off of him until zev gives you his earring, but now she can’t have them bc she’s a grey warden, and she can’t even look out for her own family bc she’s a warden and she’s not supposed to have those ties anymore…. like it’s so bad for her! but she has to make her own peace with it … and I think she has enough sense of responsibility to take up that mantle of being a warden, and she’s willing to save these people (the very people who looks down on her bc she’s an elf) but it doesn’t mean she has to like it, or she’s happy about it, she just has to do it, u know…. but if such a choice was possible I think she would’ve wanted to go back home. but she can’t go home anymore so it is what it is … 😮‍💨

City Elf Appreciation Week

Day 7: Free Day

While the Battle of Denerim overwhelms the city, the families of her elven smugglers wait in the tunnels beneath their alienage for either death or salvation, and in their midst, Soris keeps a dangerous secret from the rest that may put his standing among them in jeopardy. 1513 words.

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City Elf Appreciation Week - Last Day!

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Happy Friday! For DADWC, how about "Sing for me?" from the Dragon Age Inspired Prompts for Warden/Leliana?

Thank you for this prompt! For @dadrunkwriting

My Warden in this one is Rose Tabris, who uses she/her pronouns.

The day has been exhausting and Rose is at the end of her rope. Her body’s sore and her head is full from the day’s events. All she wants is to curl up in a bed and go to sleep. 

But of course she can’t even be that lucky. She doesn’t have a bed, she has a bedroll on the floor of a tent. She can’t even have a nice fire to warm herself by because it decided to rain as soon as they started making camp. So she gets to be exhausted, sore, and drenched on top of everything else. 

She wants to scream. She wants to curse the Maker she doesn’t believe in for putting her through such an overwhelmingly shitty day. Instead, she sits in her tend and stews in her frustration, annoyance radiating off of her in waves. 

“Are you alright?” Leliana asks, her voice honey-sweet with concern. “I know today was tough for you.” 

Rose rolls her eyes. “No shit,” she mutters. “Did I do the right thing?” 

“With the werewolves?” Leliana cocks her head to the side. “Do you think you did the right thing?” 

Rose swallows. “I don’t know,” she admits. “When Zathrian told me what those monsters did to his children, I was so angry.” She still is, can still feel the way her heart thrums with her rage at the knowledge of what humans have always done to elves — to her people. She may not have been raised among the Dalish, but that gives her even more insight on the cruelty of humans. 

She doesn’t know what to do with her anger. It’s always been a part of her, living deep inside of her heart for so long that she doesn’t know who she would be without it. She’s always known herself to be an angry person because she’s had to be to survive. What purpose does that anger serve now when her decisions cost lives?

“But you did not kill the werewolves,” Leliana points out. “You let them be cured despite your rage.”

“I didn’t want to. I wanted to let them suffer forever.” Rose pulls her knees to her chest, her hair falling in front of her face. “But they weren’t the ones who actually did those things. They were just the children of those monsters and their children’s children. The descendants of horrible people who did horrible things.”

Leliana sits beside her, placing a hand on Rose’s knee. “I think you did well in recognizing that.” 

“But I still– I still wanted them to suffer!” Rose can’t keep it to herself anymore. “There was a moment when I still thought they should keep their curse, that they should suffer for all time. What their ancestors did was so unforgivable I thought– I thought what’s to stop their children from being the same as them? Humans have done so much harm and have hurt so many people that just the thought of it makes me so– so angry.” 

“You have the right to be angry.” Leliana says in the same patient tone. “But not all humans are the same as one another.” 

Rose wants to snap that most are. That most humans she’s known have been cruel and selfish monsters who deserve no less than the fate Zathrian gave those original humans who hurt his clan. But she doesn’t know how true that is anymore, if the bad humans still outnumber the good. 

Even the good humans have gaps in their knowledge of how things are for those like her. Even the good humans don’t understand their own privilege and they say things that to them sound perfectly acceptable while making Rose cringe away. Even Leliana — quite possibly the love of Rose’s life — doesn’t always comprehend that the things she says can be harmful.

Rose just sighs, the war in her mind making it difficult for her to think clearly. “I’m too tired for this,” she says. “Can you just… sing for me? Please?” 

Leliana smiles and nods. “Of course.” She wraps an arm around Rose and pulls her close. Her lips part and she begins singing in that soft, sweet voice. Rose relaxes in her arms in a way she’d never thought she’d be able to relax for anyone and she allows that voice to carry her into sleep. 

Original post here.

I did consider October, however as we don't know exactly when Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be released outside of "autumn", I thought it would be best to avoid those months just in case they coincide. I know September is an autumn month, but I think it's unlikely to come out then? But maybe not!

Please let me know your thoughts :)

Shared tarot for my Tabris and Surana because they’re cousins and in the same world state

YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK