They Wanna Fuck Each Other So Badly

They wanna fuck each other so badly

It’ll pass…

Trespassers romance ending is so funny, starts with Solas turning around dramatically then delaying the marks magic. Then he softens because he's internally like "I appear terrifying I need to comfort them" then he says I suspect you have questions all soft then Lavellan can drop the bomb if you follow his little hunt that he's the Dread wolf and he CONGRATULATES YOU. Then if you choose to be mad at him for leading through a scavenger hunt he has NO response because he literally could have just TOLD YOU but of course pride. Then he leads you to a cliff to go on his 8 minute monologue about woe an empire fell because people were corrupt, finally Lavellan ask about the future and Solas goes into poetry. Saying he's destroying current Thedas. AND LAVELLAN CAN AGREE THAT, THATS THE BEST COURSE. THEN because the writers needed to cover their ass's Solas is like *anime eyes* "no Vhenan you cannot come with me because I'm afraid you'll see my fursona" KISSES HER AFTER THE MARK STARTS AGAIN THEN DIPS WITH HER ON HER KNEES NOT EVEN TRYING TO FOLLOW HIM.

I just think it's just *chefs kiss* hilarious. Not even moments before hand where your inquisitor can pick the romance dialogue and everyone disapproves excluding the closest thing the inquisitor has to son, a compassion spirit.

"Curse Our Names"

It's done and I can't believe it. I think this is the most time-consuming personal piece I ever did, which is saying a lot since my attention span is awful. This is a belated birthday gift to my self-indulgent ass who had this shitty idea for months now. Yeah, there's a few things that I'd like to tweak or redo but I can't stare at this any longer otherwise I'll go insane. A billion kudos to @hnnny for helping me getting this mess started!! I'm not joking. You are wonderful and this work wouldn't exist without you <3

Anyway, enjoy !! (process gif under the cut)

I never did an actual background before. It probably shows but I'll give myself a pass. Also what the hell is fur? If anyone use this as a wallpaper let me know bc I'd go feral and very very happy.

So these are only parts of two separate discussions I found on Twitter that Bioware’s Mary Kirby had [x] and [x] about Merrill and Keeper Marethari and their arc during Dragon Age 2, but I thought I’d screenshot and include the relevant bits here for meta/discussion here. I thought it was good food for thought, if nothing else. 

In short, what Mary Kirby said is: 

Merrill/Marethari’s arc is her favourite out of those she’s written, and shows how vicious and toxic the whole prideful “self-sacrificing for those you love” can be for female characters, rather than being the “good” outcome presented in a lot of media

Marethari was likely more influenced by Audacity (i.e. the pride demon on Sundermount) than explicitly said in-game…. did she really bind it to herself in Act 3 to protect Merrill from it, or was this something Audacity suggested that Marethari eventually fell for?

Marethari (out of her own pride?) doesn’t trust Merrill to make her own decisions/mistakes and tries to overrule them to “protect her” – something the playable character can also do to Merrill (especially if Hawke chooses to withhold the arulin’holm from her which Merrill gets VERY mad about)

Yes, Merrill uses blood magic and deals with demons in DA2, but so does Solas and Dorian in DA:I with very little judgement

this was my first time properly drawing him so ty for the opportunity @sealeneee !!!