flesh is the first literature

and then. suddenly. something changes. you’re not on the same page anymore… one of you the same as ever, subtle and cautious and slow to act, and the other (changed, infected) suddenly jumpy, paranoid, not in control. and you can’t talk about it privately as friends, or allies or partners, because you’re both public figures and your behaviour is visible and impactful and what you do is Not personal or private, actually, because everything you do and say is an Edict. and people Watch you. because your relationship has consequences

so when one of you oversteps, the other Yanks on the leash. and the unspoken subtext of your relationship (you are not the same) is suddenly text. and you don’t know what changed in each other or how to fix it or get on the same page again because now one of you is a dangerous dog and the other is the Master. right up until the end, when the death of one is the catalyst for the final irreversible decline of the other until she can’t be reasoned with or be anyone else’s friend or ally again, because Everyone Who’s Left is potentially hostile, potentially an existential threat to her…

Tokens for the upcoming sequel to Weddingquest: Patricidequest‼️ featuring @asharaks's spooky fey warlock Lathe, my annoying and obnoxious fighterboy Kin, @durgewyll's uptight and having-a-bad-time paladin Prudence, @arkadys's morose horsey cleric Mark, and @baronmpontmercy's musical automaton bard Carillon (we're going to kill his dad) (Kin is unreasonably excited about it)

And of course, the premarital divorcees of Weddingquest! @ikarons's Ophelia and Maxim! <3

ULMCSD Round 2, Match 1 - "Live by the Sword Forever and It's Awesome, That's the Whole Phrase" - Dak-wai vs. Ngayu Brosca

Dak-wai (bg3 dak-wai tag on main, da dak-wai tag over here) featured in: There Must Be Candles (aka wyllfic), autism be damned this qunari i found in the desert can blow up darkspawn, that comic i reblog every 4 month

my personal friend, and yours. dak-wai began life as my 10 charisma paladin durge, and then i became so fond of them i keep putting them in other games. morally conflicted agender lesbian with a flat affect who only really knows how to kill things, and is trying to work that into a justified, fulfilling purpose in life by pursuing vengeance or making themself into a shield for others. more successful at this in bg3, where they do save the world, than in datv, where they become an abomination and let the veil fall because they wanted to kill solas really bad. but they have cool wings

Ngayu Brosca (tag link) featured in: in elegy love me (well...), when it's busy at the blight and the grey wardens get mean (wip)

born doomed and angry. had resigned herself to that fate until duncan provided her with the only glimmer of hope she'd ever known, only to have that snatched away from her too, leaving her even more doomed and angry. 20 years old, reactive, self-sabotaging, continually reinforces her own belief that she ruins everything she touches. in love with leliana, intense friends with morrigan, but she's definitely not gay. made harrowmont king equally out of resentment towards/concern for rica. defiled the ashes because the guardian called leliana a faker. showed up to the battle of denerim with an army of werewolves. conscripted loghain and sent her worstie alistair into exile before sacrificing herself to kill the archdemon