♥ Cullen x Dorian.♥

Just a quick pic from stash

My greetings to all shippers who are still into cullrian

I thought this fantastic Cullrian art deserved a ficlet to go along with it. Thanks to @dorian-rutherford for letting me put some fluff to go along with such a beautiful image. Pairing: Cullen x Dorian, Rated: teen, fluff ahoy!

It was maddening, really. Dorian was no blushing virgin. His entire adult life had been spent mastering the steps to a delicate dance, deciphering the coded phrases, the minutiae of eye contact and inflection, the briefest of movements of fingers and lips and eyebrows. He knew straight away when a man was attracted to him, and whether the man would be likely to act on it.

Which is what made Commander Cullen especially infuriating. Dorian knew from their first meeting in Haven that the man wanted him. Well, Dorian had been trying to make an impression, throwing open the door to the pathetic little Chantry like he owned the place. Cullen’s eyes had widened and his gaze had gone fixed, and Dorian felt the telltale flutter in his own stomach. Apparently there were some benefits to being a pariah, after all.

Except that it had been nearly a year, and the Commander had proved impossible to pin down. When Dorian had accepted the first overture for a game of chess, he thought that was it, surely. The ‘game’ would perhaps involve the pretext of a chess board but would quickly devolve to something more primal. But no, there was actually a game of chess – clearly at the behest of either Josephine or Leliana – why else meet in the garden, in the open, for all to see? Once Dorian understood a bit more about Cullen, the symbolism was clear, even cloying. If the former Knight-Captain, a man tortured by abominations, could sit down for a friendly game of chess with a Tevinter mage? Well, surely anything was possible.

💛 Sweet Tea 💛

In this AU, Cullen Rutherford is the Commander of the Red Templars and Dorian Pavus the head of the Venatori. In come Raleigh Samson and Calpernia as the Commander of the Inquisition’s forces and the “good Tevinter” mage to defeat Corypheus. 

Happy Valentine’s Day and happy Femslash February!