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god. Vivienne really is just. that character. She is taken to the circle so young she does not remember what her parents even looked like and someone had to tell her. She wouldn’t even know if they were telling the truth. She is ruthless, the terror and nightmare of the Orlesian court. She almost weeps when you find the Tranquil skulls in Redcliffe. She hates drop waists. She is harrowed younger than any other mage in living memory. She teaches Bull the steps to the dance of the six candles. He likens her to a Qunari dreadnought that has half the enemies on the ground before he’s even reached the front line. Her accent’s not Orlesian. No Free Marcher can tell where she is from either. Is her original voice another part of herself she cut off? She enchanted a duke within one meeting and they scandalised even Orlesian society. She was good friends with his wife. They possibly fucked too. No can control her. She’s been owned since the moment she was first brought to the Circle. She belongs to no people. There are a dozen leashes around her neck claiming otherwise. She makes fun of an elven god for setting his coattails on fire. She is on the verge of banishing Cole back to the Fade all the time. She can’t help but grow to care for him at the end despite her best efforts to pretend otherwise. She hates herself for it. She thinks caring makes you weak. During the first conversation you have with her unmasked as a Trevelyan, she begs to know if you also cared about her childhood friend, Lydia. She tries to import illegal fur into Skyhold. Did she kill everything soft within her soul herself or did the Chantry sisters do it for her? She is impossible to prank. Some might say she’s even better than Sera at pranking. She was pulled into the game by the time she was nineteen. She’d faced worse things since she could first remember her dreams. Life has never been fair. One merely needs to be hard enough to survive. The blade at her neck when she lay on the floor of the harrowing chamber was no different from the hunger in her belly as child, a necessary pain that only drove her forward. Maker, was there ever any chance that she did not see cruelty as simply another word for life? Is there any version of her that does not end up surrounded by moral filth?
Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, published 1961.
this is wild
i love hawke and varric a normal amount
The Birmingham News, Alabama, June 24, 1922
House martins are the cutest because they have fuzzy lion paws that make them look like fierce little griffins.
I don't like it when the characters having sex is the thing that leads to them immediately getting together/ wrapping up the story. Let it be a slow burn 🔥 and after the sex they're still not sure. Up the miscommunication, maybe. Have them be insecure. Maybe they banged but they don't wanna face feelings. Maybe they're both trying to convince themselves the other person thinks it's casual.
Drag it out a bit, even after the sex!!!
Throwing right back at you for iona, arvid and petyr 🌎 and 📓
ooh, fun!!!
🌍 - What are this oc’s religious views?
Arvid is very much a cleric of Tempus- maybe his devotion cools slightly throughout the course of the game (his faith used to offer him far more solace before being confronted with the cruelty and pettiness of other gods and the apathy of his own), but I think ultimately victory winds up affirming him in his -shaken, but intact- Tempuran beliefs.
It’s difficult to articulate concisely, and now I’m really mad at myself for not putting color-coded sticky tabs on my first filled notebook, because it took me entirely too long to find a piece of text I was thinking of regarding some of his thoughts lol:
“It’s never really the Gods doing the helping, right?” Arvid’s voice is a quiet rumble in his chest now, as if sharing a secret. “It’s always those who follow them. It’s not Selûne who protected Last Light- it was Isobel. And it isn’t her, or Shar, or Tempus, or Silvanus who stitch our wounds- it’s us, and it’s our -for lack of a better word- humanity.”
“Gods, they have boundless power, divine judgment, and worship is… something I’m sure you don’t want to hear me prattle on about, but godhood, my love… Godhood, it demands indifference. It requires, in their infinite grace, as much cruelty as it does apathy. And you, bright, passionate, brilliant you… apathy does not become you.”
(I also kind of like to toy with the thought that, being a cleric to a different neutral deity, he has a bit of an inherent understanding of Gale and Mystra’s relationship as god and worshiper remaining part of their lives for good, but that’d be entirely too long to get into lol.)
đź““ - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?
(I’m gonna concentrate on lyrics for this, mostly because it’s like 1 am and my brain is kinda doing its best to not shut down lol.)
Following your example with this, this song, “creature” by half.alive, really informed the way I approached making Arvid, and I just can’t not immediately think of these lines when I think of him:
It’s just… his theme song, despite me not listening to much else Christian altogether, lol.
🌍 - What are this oc’s religious views?
Iona is a bit of a tougher case, because she has a background in a strict community of which she never really was a genuine believer, which was an offshoot of Ilmaterian belief, and that… kind of drove her to reject a lot of religious teachings.
Throughout the game, she’s kind of looking for herself and what she believes in in all respects, but I like to think that, through being free to explore her fey nature and go back to her roots, later in life she’ll kind of get back to a casual worship of the Seldarine, primarily Sehanine.
Since she’ll wind up spending most of her life traveling in the dark and with an undead elf by her side, I think it’d be quite sweet if she were to find some comfort in the Lunar Lady, who is the protector deity of travelers, the elven dead, and the Moon, lol. I think she’d feel a sort of kinship with her, far more than she ever did with any god of the Faerûnian pantheon. (Now that I look at it, it’s really sweet how the two of them are a Sun and a Moon elf, and Sehanine favors both Sunstone and Moonstone. That’s just cute, I like that.)
đź““ - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?
Not gonna lie, Iona’s playlist is like 40 songs now, but one of the songs I feel most attached to with her is “The Hand That Feeds” by the Crane Wives.
I mean, a lot of it is very Iona-core to me, but this sums up a lot of her kinda life-philosophy.
🌍 - What are this oc’s religious views?
Oh i remembered a post I made about this way back when, and took entirely too long tracking it down, but I honestly can’t phrase it any better than this lol: Petyr’s got very little experience with any organized religion. He grew up among druids (I feel like it’s rather natural a fit for a rather neutral/neutral good-aligned ranger), so he wouldn’t say that he’s a believer of any one specific faith, he’s more in the “well of course the ancient powers are in perfect balance as they should be. gods are real, yeah, but they too are just pieces in this game- larger pieces, but pieces nonetheless, just like you and me” school of thought. His “faith” is less one with tenets, and rules, and a deity, and more of a general, handwave-y type of… mystic spirituality, where it’s okay for him to just be as decent as he can be (which, the bar is at roughly his ankles there), do what he strikes him as right, and the rest will sort itself out. (If he had any magical aptitude, he would be a druid, but he doesn’t, so he isn’t, basically.)
đź““ - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?
This one is a little more difficult because the songs I associate with him are primarily instrumental, and/or in, like, Polish. Or Danish. There’s some Icelandic and Russian in there too I believe. And the ones in English aren’t the most…. shall we say, lyrically poignant pieces, lol.
It’s all very vibes-based, more than words-based.
But of course, Abney Park’s “The Traveler’s Curse” was one of the first songs I started to associate with him, specifically because of these lines:
can i get a transcript on this fucking video
shaggy: “hey scwoob what is yer favorite things to do on tha weekends?”
scooby doo: SNIFFSNIFFSNIFNFFNISNSRUHUHHUHHHUHHSNIFFSNIFFRUHHUHHRRUHRRUH
Where do you fucking find this shit
What the transcript fails to express here is that Shaggy sounds like he is dying and crying and that the Scotby doo response is a saturated, deeply disturbing audio that ses to come from directly behind your shoulder no matter how far the speaker is and is WAY longer than the written version.
