Briarfox13

like i am 100% absolutely certain that he is motivated by a deep, fundamental love for Humanity, as a whole. Love for their capacity for brilliance, love for their capacity for beauty and knowledge. a significant chunk of the Imperial Palace is a repository of Humanity's entire history, ranging from priceless works of art, to milestones of human achievement over the ages. The Palace ITSELF is a monument to what Humanity can offer, a vast mix to showcase architectural styles over the ages. The Emperor LOVES them, he HOARDS these things. He considers them precious and priceless.

he is also fundamentally Outside of humanity. he stands Apart, and, ultimately, Above them all. He may love them deeply, as a whole, but he has no trust in them whatsoever. No trust in their free will to be capable of forging a path in the Galaxy for themselves without tumbling into total annihilation.

And to him, tyranny is the only answer. He knows it best for them. He can guide them into a future worth living in. Stamping out the dissenters, the rebels, it matters not - he is doing this for the Greater Whole, after all.

Honestly what’s even worse isn’t even that he refuses to accept the negative it’s that he smothers the positive too. He’s got a dragon’s trove of historical treasures that he hoards like Trazyn but the imperium he built crushes the things in people that made the things he seemingly loves. How many Gentileschis, Da Vincis, Angelous, Mozarts, etc died impoverished and starving on a hive world never having seen the sky let alone a sunrise? What time is there for passion and art in the unfeeling machinery of the Imperium? What times is there for community and care and growth? Even back before the Heresy, countless trillions of people who could’ve known lives of passion and genius and utter astonishing LOVE were ground to dust and meat in the name of galactic conquest. Because one guy swore He knew better and crushed anything and everything that tried to stop Him. Because he deluded himself into thinking the ends justify the means, that every incalculable loss of human life would pay off in the end when He finally won.

If there’s one thing that’s true about this man in all his mystery and subterfuge and “plan within a plan within a plan” nonsense it’s that he’s a fucking hypocrite. “Oh the Eldar nearly destroyed themselves because their galaxy-spanning empire got so high on their own supply it birthed a chaos god?….. well you see MY galaxy-spanning super duper Cool Guy™ empire will be DIFFERENT.” Am I rolling my eyes loud enough for you to hear it through the screen? 😂 Oh what irony that the final boss of “Reddit Atheism” is so up his own ass he decided to reenact the Titanomachy but worse. Yes, guy who projects himself as a 15ft tall man with cheekbones that could cut glass and a flaming golden halo, I TOTALLY believe you don’t have a god complex and you’re not a ticking time bomb of karmic Armageddon. I’m so sure nothing about this Machiavellian shit you’ve got going on that you never told anybody else the whole of will go off without a hitch… because we all know that the best laid plans of mice and men- *red dot appears on my chest* HAHAHA ALWAYS GO 1000% CORRECTLY AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENS EVER!!

Fresh off destroying the Reapers, Commander Shepard falls into a strange, medieval world where people mistake her biotics for magic. No-one knows who she is anymore, and neither does she beyond the title.

Knight-Captain Cullen has been a good templar for too long; being a good man feels far beyond reach. But his latest charge won’t stop talking at him, and some of it is starting to take root.

A slow burn of friendship, redemption, and eventually love, spanning from Kirkwall to Skyhold.

(AKA a rewrite of The Two Commanders featuring more character exploration, more belligerent flirting, and more of our Commanders.)

Chapters one and two, in which Shepard finds herself in trouble, and Cullen finds Shepard. So he's also in trouble.

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So, thank you all for voting! Fenris it is!

I think it's been at least three years since I last drew him, and if you've been here for a while, you'll know that he's my canon DA2 romance (and one of my favs ever), so I'm really happy I'm drawing him again!

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