Forming my Reality

I started out brainstorming a couple more names for Verity’s backstory and ended up going way overboard. Enjoy.

“Where’s the pathetic element?” Exactly Tom Hardy. Exactly.

run the dishwasher even if it’s not full. brush your teeth even if you aren’t going to floss. put away a single piece of clutter to make your space more livable. change your shirt and keep wearing the same pair of pants. eat a snack if you can’t make a meal.

brushing your teeth once a week or once a month instead of every day is better than not brushing them at all. eating ‘healthy’ things like fruits & vegetables once in a while is better than not eating them at all. only stretching when you remember to is better than never stretching. yknow? it all counts.

i keep a daily to-do list, and most days i cant complete everything on it. of course it doesn’t feel great not to be able to finish everything every time, but the reminders are there. because of that, i remember to at least do those things sometimes. and that’s more than i would have done it otherwise!!

This is an organization that bought children, stored them in the attic of an abandoned factory stuffed with children, made those children fight eachother for scraps to earn their way into the organization that bought them, and then literally tortured them as young adults to teach them how not to reveal crow secrets if they were captured and tortured on the missions later.

Origins draws very strong comparisons to how the MO of both the templars and the crows is most often buying and indoctrinating small children as young as they can find them to become on demand killers for their own purposes. Zevran is hunted and almost killed were it not for a befriended warden when he shows the slightest signs of being something other than obedient crow property.

But here a teaser with an antivan crow saying that the crows “fight for everyone and we always will” and Lucanis is over here being like “Oh I’m a crow and I kill Venatori slavers as my fav target, hate them,” kinda thing, while being the closest thing the crows have to a prince being the favourite grandson of one of the talons.

I just have a feeling like they’re going to heavily sanitize the crows and try to make us go “they’re cool heroic freedom fighters” rather than. Not, they bought Zevran as a child, tortured him, kept him in cramped, crowded, dirty conditions, made him fight for scraps to stay alive, and taught him to murder targets given to him on pain of death and use his sexuality as a tool to do so to the degree that he has a trauma response in origins where he snaps about feeling like a sex object.

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"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."