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I’m back from the deaaaad argggh.

I saw @nipuni did an amazing Overwatch crossover. I wanted to draw everyone’s favorite death blossom.

Cole with wisps for @littleoddstar 

Symmetry ch 11 is up. Sorry for the wait! It’s a monster... 12k words/35 pages.

Okay but like-- I know Mismagius has the hat, but it’s all magic and pink. I think Absol’s a better pick for a Cole tribute. Hear me out--

Dark type, horribly misunderstood and feared by humans.

Attacks with slashing attacks that often crit and KO stuff in one hit.

Battlecry is the most unexpectedly gentle sound ever.

Shy. Afraid of people but still approaches to warn them of danger.

The current chapter: Nooo kill me

The chapter after the current chapter: Fairly likely

The chapter 100 pages and 3 plot arcs away from the current chapter: Incredibly likely

The ending: Hell yeah, let’s just re-edit that shit over-and-over

Cole uses the open window to teleport into Sera's room, a book in his hands. He appears rather awkwardly, facing the far wall, and manages to turn just in time to see her spill a bottle of ink on her pillows, swearing furiously.

"Nugshit! What'd I tell you about sneaking up on me, Creepy?!"

"Sorry, Sera," he says absently, tilting his head to read the word she was writing across her knuckles. It's difficult because the letters are upside-down. He sounds it out and then blushes, looking away. "I-I wanted to ask you for something..."

Sera glares steadily at him. "Go ahead and ask. Don't think for a second it means I'll do it."

Cole holds out the book hopefully. "Evie has to read this and it's very boring. I think she would be happier if you read it, too, and drew your pictures in it."

Sera squints at him but grabs the book. "Just to be clear, yeah? You're asking me to deface library property?"

"You could draw faces, o-or anything else you like. She laughed when you drew Blackwall as a sad bear."

Sera snickers to herself and starts flipping through the pages, considering. After a moment she snaps the book shut and looks back to him. "Yeah, all right. I'm not doing this for you, though, you got it?"

"No..." Cole says slowly, "it's for Evie." He frowns, confused.

"Yeah, I know-- argh, nevermind. Just go, I'll do it," she waves him off.

"Thank you, Sera," he says pleasantly.

"Stop talking," she replies, and throws a pillow at him as he disappears.

Worked on Symmetry ch11 a bunch this weekend, but it’s still got a ways to go. This chapter’ll be another long one-- 22 pages so far already.

Okay so this is something I’m still very unclear on:

Do all dreams take place in the Fade? Or only some?

They talk about the Fade as ‘the land of dreams,’ but Dorian says ‘the first time I went to the Fade...’ when he tells his story of the very polite demon he met, implying it was something that happened later when he was old enough to remember. The Wiki says all living beings except dwarves go to the Fade mentally when they dream, but only mages reliably remember it. 

So are all dreams in the Fade, and maybe a bunch are just forgotten? Or are some dreams only in minds? Or maybe all dreams are in the Fade, but in the DA verse people only sometimes dream? Maybe some nights they don’t dream at all?

And what, then, makes Harrowings so special? Do they push a mage into the Fade with a giant ‘kick me’ sign on their back? Or is that the first time the Apprentices have ever been to the Fade? And how would they not go to the Fade before that?