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brooke • 29 • she/they

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brooke | 29 | she/they

I’ve been on this site for a hundred years, so this is and always will be a personal/multifandom blog, but right now I'm in my Dragon Age era! ✨ I spent a long time away from fandom and getting into DA reignited that spark I missed so much, so I’m glad to be here.

asks/dms are always open, and please feel free to tag me anytime! I’m always down for a good blorbo chat (seriously please tell me about your OCs)

My Dragon Age OCs:

Rowan Lavellan | Rogue | ❤️ Dorian

Varien Aldwir | Mage | 🧡 Harding

Arden Thorne | Warrior | 💙 Neve

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underrated friendship stage is the "testing the waters to see how much of a freak you are" stage. let me microdose being feral to see how you react. i have one large eye on you at all times waiting for you to give me Secret Permission to be a pervert or a weirdo. when will the shameless whore dam break. The Freak Rituals are sacred and time honoured and their importance cannot be overstated

What does your OC drive?

Tagged by @rooks-dagger @the-archons-moustache and @tevivinter <3 Thank you all!

Rules: What type of vehicle your OC would drive? Be as general or specific as you want. Feel free to include photos and yap about your choices, and then tag some peeps to play along!

ROWAN LAVELLAN

I once said in a Modern AU tag game many moons ago that Rowan rides an electric scooter to work (where he was apparently an exotic veterinarian??) because he's a huge nerd. This 100% still tracks because he's still a giant nerd and that will never change. He has a little helmet and everything to protect his noggin. He's very environmentally friendly, and also just likes the feeling of riding down the street without being cooped up inside a vehicle. I guess. Lol.

But for those times he does need four wheels and a roof, he has a Toyota Prius. A rather outdated one. Silver like his hair. Boring. Are there better EVs on the market? Yeah. Is he gonna buy one? No. Like his clothes, Rowan won't replace his car until it's on its last leg and has holes in it (that he can't otherwise repair with duct tape and by the way I'm saying that from personal experience).

Anyway, picturing Dorian rolling up in his Maserati or something next to Ro on his lame scooter like, "get in loser we're going shopping" lmao

VARIEN ALDWIR

Varien is probably a terrible driver, let's be real. BUT when he's not being a passenger princess, he has a Jeep Wrangler with no roof and no doors because he likes to feel ✨wild and free✨ . He probably gets pulled over for speeding and generally reckless driving, so more often than not Lace is the one behind the wheel if they're in any kind of civilized area. But when they're out on the country roads or taking a trip somewhere, he's definitely doing a whole lot of offroading.

And because I like motorcycles, he has a dirtbike too just for funsies. As much as I would love it, this boy cannot rock a Harley Davidson. So he gets one of those annoying little things that you can hear buzzing down the road from a mile away, if you can't already see it because it's an obnoxious shade of yellow.

Can we also pls take a moment to appreciate new character Strife?

  • A City Elf who grew up in an alienage in Starkhaven
  • punched a guard who was beating elvhen children and ended up having to run away and live in the woods
  • met the Dalish and joined them and learned their ways, including woodcraft, the way of three trees, the faith of the Creators, elvhen history, singing old elvhen songs and their way of looking at the world including how they conceive of spirits and the like
  • is described as toll and lean ropey muscle w/ callused hands and a straight back
  • this in combination with being an older dude, 50 or maybe 60 odd
  • has silver hair
  • is hilarious and witty, channeling some minor Felassan energy if I do say so myself
  • is a crackshot with a bow
  • brave
  • smart as fuck
  • his name is fucking STRIFE like a) that is badass as fuck and b) hmmm how very ancient elfy to be named after a quality/meaningful noun like that hmm hmmmm maybe he uses the Trade translation to Blend In
  • was working in tandem with his Dalish clanmates to steal Antaam plans about their invasion in order to warn the clans in or beyond Rivain before the dreadnoughts land
  • and hes badass and strong as shit and basically bodily hauls an initially-useless seeming mage he’s chained to through the haunted monster woods, up a fucking tree, up through a river, up a hill, all while being pursued by an entire squadron of Qunari soldiers and TWO Qunari MINIBOSSES, navigating and making the escape plans on the fly, learning to work together with the other as a team AND while doing a freakin superhuman Boromir with an arrow in his arm and a massive fucking Qunari spear-arrow thing punched clean through his torso, except WITHOUT the dying part and also while FIRING ARROWS back at their pursuit
  • he could probably beat up Solas single-handedly
  • at the age of SIXTY or sth!!!
  • did I mention he’s toll and has silver hair

BioWare can we have this dude as a companion pls in DA4

getting hyperfixated on a specific character is so embarrassing. here’s another picture of The Character on your dash… I know I just reblogged basically the same one but this one is moving

what they don’t tell you is that this will go on for a decade and every character that you like is just a different version of The Character

I wanna see some tags like “yes, naruto is the same as hannibal lecter both of them are gay sunshine characters with an evil side and a homoerotic cat and mouse relationship”

Your OC as a Texture

Thanks for the tags @rooks-dagger and @tevivinter! + @the-archons-moustache right now, thank you for reminding me that this was in my drafts and I never posted it lol

Link to the quiz here.

ROWAN LAVELLAN

Cracked Porcelain

The texture of fragile strength, but strength nonetheless. You have been chipped and cracked, marked by time, sure, but never truly shattered. Others may mistake you for fragile, but only you know how much it takes to chip away at you. There’s a quiet strength in the way you hold together despite the fractures. Your cracks carry the memories of all the things you’ve survived, even when you didn’t think you would. Yet you’re still here.

😭 Break my heart again why don’t you, uquiz. The idea of him being mistaken for fragile is interesting, and I do think it’s accurate to a degree. He’s not very outwardly threatening (as hard as he tries to be sometimes) but more than that, Rowan doesn’t see his own strength. For a while after Trespasser, it’s a surprise to him every time he makes it through another year. He thinks he’s a lot more fragile than he really is.

VARIEN ALDWIR

Static

Electric, untamed, and unpredictable. You are the spark before the lightning, the charged air when something is about to happen. People perhaps don’t quite know what to do with your energy. You are unpredictable, existing somewhere just out of reach. Not everyone can handle your energy, but the right people will know how to hold you. You do not have to dim yourself for others to feel comfortable, but even static needs grounding sometimes. Don’t burn yourself out.

I did the quiz twice for him because the first result (running water) didn’t really fit, but this sure does. First told by his clan’s Keeper that he needed to learn how to rein in his magic, then forced to do so when he got stuck in an alien age for nearly a decade, Varien was always looking and hoping for an opportunity to just be able to let loose. He finds that with the Veil Jumpers, and later the Veilguard. Also love ‘you don’t have to dim yourself for others to feel comfortable.’ That can mean two things: one, that his sunshine energy is A LOT to handle… but also that he doesn’t have to keep pushing down all of his inner rage for everyone else’s benefit.

Also very on the nose because his main element is lightning, lol.

I know this one made the rounds already, but just in case: @in-the-drowning-deep @lunastarhawk @handsignals @chaosherald @babydinosaur930 @master-of-the-elements @sandcastlekings if you want to play! (Or if you did already pls link it in the comments!)

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