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I am a Stick

Jacs or Jay (she/they), 18+ Art/Writing/OC blog. DnD, Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate, fantasy books and whatever strikes my fancy really.Expect shenanigans and tomfoolery. On Ao3 as CrabsWithSticks :)nsfw- minors dni please

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For The Oc Asks, How Abt Betrayal, Heartbreak And Nightmare For Any Oc You Want!

for the oc asks, how abt betrayal, heartbreak and nightmare for any oc you want! <3

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these are spicy! Answering for Slate Dekarios, Ghilara Lavellan, and Mara Tabris respectively....

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them? for Slate Dekarios

Gonna answer both parts of this question for Slate. For the first part, Slate was betrayed by her ex girlfriend/partner in crime (assassination and murder), Malus. Their relationship was already very toxic on both sides tbh, but as Slate was trying to move away from her darkness, Malus was digging in deeper. So Mal decided to sell Slate out for a position on the thieves guild leader, Nine Finger's personal guard, blackballing Slate from most of the guild.

Slate though has also betrayed a fair number of people though. TW for child death. For a while she and her childhood friend was in indentured servitude (read: slavery) as a teen. When trying to escape, Beth was captured. With few options available, Slate grabbed the 7 year old daughter of their captor, willing to exchange the daughter for her friend. The gambit didn't play out, and as Beth's throat was slit, Slate cut open the throat of the child.

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened? for Ghilara Lavellan

Now as a solasmance, there is an obvious answer. But I'm gonna go into Ghil's relationship to her parents instead.

Ghil had a really close relationship with her parents, especially with her father. Unlike the rest of the clan, they were not disappointed in her when she failed to live up to expectations as one blessed by Ghilian'ain, despite trying her best. They both died shortly before she came of age and recieved her vallaslin. This was the first time she had experienced real loss, and is the first time she feels alone (something she will start to feel much more in her future).

Because of their deaths, she abandoned the path of Ghilian'ain, and instead chose to follow the path of Falon'Din, guide to the dead. This forever created a rift between her and the rest of her clan, being seen as the chosen of the gods who failed to live up to her destiny. She misses her parents terribly, and struggles with how she still loves her clan, despite the rift between them (especially after the clan is all killed and she is even more alone).

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself? for Mara Tabris

Mara likes to pretend to be tough. However, she still has nightmares about being kidnapped by Vaughn. She replays the events of that day over and over in her sleep. She can see the blood splatter on the tiles as Nelaros dies. She ca feel the warm blood on her hands as she plunges the knife into Vaughn's neck, tasting iron on her throat. She deals with it by repressing her emotions!

She does eventually tell Zevran one night when he wakes her from her nightmare. At this point they're still in the stage of their relationship where they're fucking so they don't have to think about their trauma. However, her telling him about what happened and how it still affects her is probably the point where they progress to friends-with-benefits, rather than fuckbuddies, and start to properly trust each other.

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hadestown lyric prompts (act I)

someone's got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well

there ain't a thing that you can do when the weather takes a turn on you

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if you ain't six feet underground you're livin' up on top

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strange is the call of this strange man

I want a nice a soft place to land, I wanna lie down forever

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cast your eyes to heaven, you get a knife in the back

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don't give your name, you don't have one

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a lot can happen on the factory floor when the foreman turns his back

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