people are literally so boring a male character will kill 10000 people and steal candy from babies and theyll be like omg thats my king! but a female character is rude once and theyre like i hope she dies violently
reblog to support female characters violently killing people
Im just so frustrated bc it doesnt seem fair that your skills can degrade over time. i LEARNED IT😭
It’s okay, we’ve all been to the imperial city prison at one point or another.
Leliana
“SHE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE ORIGINS AND SHE IS STILL STANDING”
“i love that leliana is allowed to be soft without being naive. she believes in hope, in stories, in the idea that people can be better and she still does the hard morally gray shit at the same time”
vs. Morrigan
“she’ll hit you with the meanest take you’ve ever heard and then two hours later she’s like anyway. here is a deeply personal story i did NOT mean to tell you”
Thinking About Malcolm Hawke Again coincided with Thinking About the 2 Hawkes AU Again so. here we are <3
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um. i think it's interesting bc da2 is possibly the game that's most willing to be critical of the templars, that presents the most unpleasant view of them in the series, but it's also a game with Notably quite a few "good" templars, who are shown to go out of their way to try to be kinder to mages than their peers — thrask, emeric, and samson (who is no longer a templar when we meet him because he was fired for his transgression. of. passing love notes.) & of course carver's namesake.
& the thing that they all have in common is that they subvert their orders. the "kind" templars in da2, across the board, all defy orders and expectations— thrask comes to you behind his superiors' backs to plead for you to stop his own colleague from catching up to some runaway mages for fear of what he'll do to them, emeric begs you to help investigate a series of murders of young women after both the city guard and his own superiors have already expressly told him to drop it, and. samson passed love notes between mages. (and when you meet him he may also ask for money in exchange for information on feynriel, but iirc he expresses hope that you're successful). maurevar carver helps malcolm escape.
and pretty much all of them suffer immensely for it! thrask and emeric are both ultimately killed. samson spends the entirety of the game homeless and suffering lyrium withdrawal before ultimately breaking, turning on you and returning to meredith.
& i think these characters and their actions and the consequences they suffer for their, let's be real, Basic Decency... really highlight what it is to be a templar who is still comfortably employed. like. the existence of these "good" templars, and the specific things they do in order to be "good," highlights how the only Good, kind, compassionate actions in this position are to Refuse To Do what templars do, especially in kirkwall. because these acts — stopping mages from being slaughtered, even passing harmless notes between them — are fireable offences. so, like, the templars that remain employed, that are Not going behind their commander's back... what are They doing?
@bleedthebeat no exactly lmfao like none of these people succeed in changing anything. but it is telling that they tried. and from a writing/intent perspective i think it’s telling that they’re Brand New characters being written to try while a returning character is Not!
rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please
chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill
To encourage infighting among the Daedric Princes, we are going to release their popularity rankings, as chosen by you all choosing to view their articles.
In first place, we have Molag Bal, although Azura was directly below him. Unsurprisingly, third place ended up being Sheogorath. The rankings of every Daedric Prince known to us, from first to last would be:
re: AI tools it's very frustrating because it's like. you can just say "I don't think it's good at most of the things that people use it for and I'm worried about it reducing job opportunities for human beings." but no everyone has to say some bullshit about The Soul and Mental Degradation but not in a fascist eugenics way they promise
HELP?!;! i wasn’t expecting to turn around and see him doing that
sam standee is trapped inside an illithid pod in BG3
The Sam standee is trapped in an illithid pod from Baldur's Gate 3!
Xan will be very well trained
a gift for @beck-nightengale 💜 jade is simply the coolest
