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Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.
Okay, no, actually I am angry about the Tranquil, or rather their absence, in Veilguard.
We start here, in Origins, with the simple fact that these people are left behind in every crisis. Yes, all the mages have also been locked in the Circle by the templars (because seriously: fuck the templars), but as you climb the tower you find that many of the mages are proactively dealing with this situation. But even they have simply left the Tranquil where they found them.
Roll forward to Dragon Age 2, and you find that, while the proposed "Tranquil Solution" has been officially rejected by Divine Justinia, it also becomes apparent that Meredith is doling out Tranquility as a punishment for things like "passing notes". It's played out through a lot of environmental storytelling: you watch the mages in the Gallows Courtyard be replaced by more and more Tranquil as the Acts go on, and you hear those Tranquil report being beaten and abused, just as much as the other mages. This is really happening, and the fact that it's not an officially sanctioned atrocity is hardly comforting.
Then to Inquisition, where we find that the Tranquil have once again been forgotten and left behind – neither the mage rebellion nor the Inquisition collect all that many. Rather, we find that quite a lot of them have been kidnapped by the Venatori and ritually murdered to make magic seeing skulls. We also have a companion character, Cassandra, grappling with the discovery that she herself is a former Tranquil, and that her order has used this rite for millennia – and always known how to fix it. And on top of that, we have Tranquil characters grappling with the possibility of a cure, and whether or not they would take it.
If you include the supplementary material, you get the plot of Asunder, which spends a lot of time on Circle culture: the fact that it is normal for mages to simply disappear, and you may never know if they were killed, made Tranquil or just transferred. They view the Tranquil with horror because they symbolise the constant peril in which every mage lives. The templars can do anything to you, and no one will even ask about it. We have a whole story about the brutal lengths to which the Seekers are willing to go to stop the cure for Tranquility from getting out.
There's also Pharamond, a former Tranquil who provides the most detailed – and horrifying – description of the experience we have, and who would prefer to die than be returned to that state. And another Tranquil woman, who is unnamed and unknown, but who at multiple points in the narrative provides as much information as she can to the protagonist and his allies as they attempt to fight back.
Over and over this is depicted as a means for the powerful to control the powerless, as torture dressed up as mercy, as a deeply damaging and peculiar thing which is not well understood, but which has nevertheless been used liberally throughout history.
And then we get to Veilguard. And the big fucking reveal is that the ancient elven kings, the evanuris, used this on the titans, the shapers of the world ... and that this is one of the big reasons Thedas is kind of messed up. Which ... sounds important! But honestly, you barely need to even think about it. The consequences of this are confined largely to Harding's personal quest, and even that really only addresses ... whether she, personally, should be mad about it?
They don't even bother to use the word when they talk about it.
The artbook uses it: it specifically says that Solas rendered the titans tranquil, but the artbook apparently cares about a bunch of things Veilguard itself does not.
The takeaway from this discussion, unbelievably, is "the darkspawn aren't people" (yes they fucking are), and then we can hop right back to talking about "the gods" as like ... the ultimate Batman villain, or something.
We go all the way through this exploration of power and abuse, and the end result is "Actually, they aren't people. If they were, killing them might be bad! So they're not! Let's keep killing them!" And yes, they apply this logic to the blight, but the blight is part of a Tranquil titan. We literally just uncovered this.
Not one Tranquil, current or former, is present to object to any of this. Not one little bit do we care about what happened to any surviving Tranquil from the previous games. We do not care at all about the outcome of the mage rebellion in the south. We do not care if the Venatori still think Tranquil make great magic skulls. We do not care about them at all.
The more I look at the older material, the more upsetting I find Veilguard. It feels like ... oh, you know when someone has attempted to "restore" an ancient mosaic or a Renaissance painting, but they don't know what they're doing, so they've messed it all up? It feels like that.
Because we went through all that, and in the end Veilguard forcibly puts you on team "the Tranquil aren't people".
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canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana
a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.
an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.
fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.
these are all different words with different meanings.
Last song I listened to: Mary in The Morning by Glen Campbell
Currently (re) watching: Charles II the Power and the Passion
Currently reading: The Baby Sitters Club: Mary Anne Saves the Day
Obsessions: Norman England, 17th century England and Dutch Netherlands, 19th century British history, American Revolution, Archangels and mostly History
Currently working on: Erika Kirk and JD Vance fanfic for satire Purposes 😍 and The Bride of the Papist King
Currently wearing: Blue Jeans, Purple Shirt and a ponytail
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Favorite flower: Lily
🪐🚬 Hmm… I’m gonna tag…..
@rmelster @coquetteladyofthedeadmensworld
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Last song I listened to: Ombra mai fu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FbqUC5ziJM
Currently (re) watching: I haven't watched anything in the last two months, but I want to rewatch Hornblower
Currently reading: Jeanette by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter
Obsessions: My research focuses on german literature from the 18th and early 19th centuries. This includes everything related to it. However, my main focus is definitely on Duke August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, or rather the duchy in general. And, of course, Henri of Prussia. I must get back to transcribing his correspondence...
Currently working on: well :'D
Currently wearing: a pair of black compression tights, tartan skirt and white linen shirt
Last song I listened to : Ohedo Julia night - Hatsune Miku (Mitchie M)
Currently watching: Daredevil born again s2 and HOTD s3
Currently reading: La légende Arthurienne by Claudine Glot and Marc Nagels
Obsessions: still Fritz and his homies (but they're slowly driving me mad since I'm also working on them), Sherlock Holmes, Arthurian stuff, and totally addict to pokémon Pokopia
Currently working on: my thesis about Fritz' image taught by his crew, may the gods help me to finish it soon i'm suffering 😭
Currently wearing: a snorlax night shirt
My last search: "hatsune miku project voltage merch europe" (and no there isn't)
Favourite flower: hydrangea but I also really like the sunflower and eglantine/rosa canina
obsessions: hate to admit this.....but twilight of the dark master (i have very confusing feelings on the ova and manga, but ive been obsessed with it since watching it yesterday....)
currently working on: knitting a sweater
last search: nodding emoji
currently wearing: purple shorts and one of my dad's old tshirts
favorite flower: i lowkey cannot remember any of them right now TwT
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ok so it might not seem like it but this was a four hour rush job this morning lmao
Happy Birthday Dianxia!
I wanted to paint his portrait like Hua Cheng would! But like more of a current reflection. I pulled outfit inspo from the official New Years /5th Anniversary art and my fav detail is that it goes hand in hand with this quote from the book:
"The Red-Robed Ghost King will dispel all the misfortune enveloping the Scrap Immortal and allow him to reveal his true appearance. You will be shocked to discover that the Scrap Immortal's color isn't dusty white—rather, it is shimmering gold."
What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.
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weary: tired, worn-out, beaten down, exhausted, in need of rest. they were weary after their long journey. wearily, she sat down on the couch and kicked off her shoes. he had grown weary of this conversation.
wary: guarded, cautious, on-edge, careful. they were wary of the approaching stranger. warily, she poked at the dark shape in the corner of her room. he paused, wary, but nodded anyway.