Too many obsessions

“Guess we’re old soldiers, eh Shepard?”

PSYLOCKE X-MEN' 97 2.02 | A Force to Be Reckoned With

the plight of the siren.

‘Your duty is with your people,’ he answered. ‘Too often have I heard of duty,’ she cried. ‘But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse? I have waited on faltering feet long enough. Since they falter no longer, it seems, may I not now spend my life as I will?’ ‘Few may do that with honour,’ he answered. ‘But as for you, lady: did you not accept the charge to govern the people until their lord’s return? [..].’ ‘Shall I always be chosen?’ she said bitterly. ‘Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?’ ‘A time may come soon,’ said he, ‘when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.’ And she answered: ‘All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more.”

Dragon Age. Marian Hawke x Merrill [ bsky ] After just surviving the Fade in DAI Marian finally gathers the courage to reunite with the woman she's loved for years :')

Thank you to Miranda for lending me the screenshot of their OC Garrett Hawke and Fenris for this post 🥹

[-> prints]

Made a new poster! :)

is this gonna get me fired you think

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