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Name: Kogarashi, Amanda, "hey you"
Editor, (fandom) writer, freelance artist
Multifandom geek and generally crafty jack-of-all-trades (master of none)
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Quick links to my OCs:
Castelin Cousland | Aelinn Hawke | Tyria Lavellan | Saadrah Mercar
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
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Time for the third installment of my Shadow Dragon recruitment fic, and this time we're going with Hope as our chosen prompt.
Saadrah quotes something (in the AO3 version, not the preview here) that is from Taash's codex entry about remembering the fallen.
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 3: Hope
Rating: T
Words: 1,243
Snippet:
Four months.
Saadrah kept a running tally in the back of her sketchbook, tiny hash-marks to denote the days since she first set foot on Minrathous flagstones, and to keep from losing her sense of time in the press of days spent in menial labor and nights spent prowling the rooftops like an oversized cat in search of something much more interesting. More meaningful. A difference she could make. A semblance of who she should be, rather than the unidentifiable thing the city was trying to compress her into.
Four months of just scraping enough together for food and to save up a little for vitaar supplies and a shabby breastplate to wear over her long vest. Four months of cramped and precarious sleeping arrangements, swapped regularly to keep from overstaying her welcome in the darker corners of the low streets. Four months of learning how to fit in, learning how to pass herself as a âVint transplant.
Four months of hoping this was not how things would end.
A Shakarian AU about a disillusioned man, a mischievous cat, and the quietly guarded woman who becomes attached to them both.
When recently demoted detective Garrus Vakarian moves into his new apartment on the Citadel, the last thing he expects is an intruder.
A stray, to be exact.
Mysterious, aloof, and more than a little bedraggled, his neighbor Shepard keeps odd hours and the rest of the world at arm's length. Thanks to her troublemaking cat, however, avoiding Garrus proves harder than she'd like.
But earning the trust of a strayâhuman or otherwiseâhas never been easy. The closer he gets, the more he realizes thereâs more to her than she lets on, and that beneath her battle scars lies a grief she's spent years trying to bury. At this rate, she may disappear from his life before he ever gets a real chance. Can he reach her before she slinks away into the shadows?
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You are: Commander Shepard (in name).
You are: human (mostly).
You are: real (enough).
Commander Shepard storms back into the galaxy; Cerberus just keeps a closer eye on her than she thought. She finds herself a little more hyperaware of the moving pieces, the ones of her left to string back together. The ones that donât seem to exist in the exact way she remembers, if she remembers correctly. Good thing Garrus is patient and good with puzzles.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
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we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation
So after extensive interrogation I have an update:
my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.
the truth is actually weirder
sheâs aware dandelions look like this
she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions
she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?
she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.
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Let's do part of the Waterworks below the city for my next screenshot. I had to take this on my "make different choices" run, with my Thorne, because my Mercar saved Treviso and this area is only accessible during "The Soul of a City," which requires you to save Minrathous. The lighting here is gorgeous.
Yes, I'm definitely working these prompts into a connected story, which means picking which prompt out of each pair I think will work for the next plot beat. In this case, Freedom.
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 2: Freedom
Rating: T
Words: 881
Snippet:
The high summer sun left a pleasant warmth across Saadrahâs bared arms as she sat in the public garden of the Mazeâs small chantry and listened.
Birdsong. High, lilting, melodic. Possibly enhanced a little by magical experiments that got loose, if the tales sheâd heard while working as a day laborer at the warehouses were to be believed, just like mabari and white rooks and the occasional spiky menace.
Industry. Creaking wheels and groaning ropes, hammers and winches and clattering crates. The roar of some steam-fueled machinery chugging away, the musical clinking of glassware, the rumble of sledges pulled by hired muscles.
Voices. Children calling to each other as they played hide-and-seek. Gossips lingering over water barrels. Foremen shouting to their charges and work chanties to keep people in time as they earned their coin.
Saadrahâs lips moved as she listened.
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It's Shadow Dragon Week! And aside from quietly freaking out and hoping things go smoothly, I'm also participating. đ
I decided to spend this time writing, because I figured it would be easier than doing art. Plus I wanted to write a slightly younger Saadrah, fresh off her arrival in Minrathous in late 9:42 Dragon, or maybe early 9:43 Dragon, when she's about eighteen.
Enjoy!
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est
(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 1: Shadows
Rating: T
Words: 927
Summary: Far from her family and everything else she's known, Saadrah finds herself in the largest city in Thedas, in need of a new identity and new goals, with only her wits and her skills to her name.
Snippet:
There were, in Saadrahâs opinion, far too many shadows in Minrathous.
It was easy enough to assume why, at first glance, just by looking at the towering architecture of the city. Spires upon spires, towers thick as trees, bridges and balconies and buttresses weaving together in the angular threads of an architectural spiderâs web as the buildings seemed to climb on each otherâs shoulders to fight for dominance, winning by crushing older structures beneath stone and steel bootheels.
Very apt, she thought, eyeing a prominent statue of some gilded magister crowning a fountain. She didnât miss the raised relief along the basinâs lowest edge that depicted chained slaves in neat rows, nearly unseen beneath the magisterâs feet. Someone had recently chipped away at the chains holding a few figures down. The scrapes were bright and fresh against the old weather-worn stone.
But no, the corners where the sunlight failed to reach werenât the only place shadows pooled in Tevinterâs capital, just the most obvious.
Hey, weâre in line for some absurd temperatures here in the southwest this week. This is very important to know and keep in mind. Be safe, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun as much as you can.
Remember kids, DO NOT chug half a gallon of water all at once. Go ahead and chug just a bit, but then make yourself stop and take sips consistently over time.
If youâre still desperately thirsty after having some water, you probably need electrolytes. There are many options - eat a pickle, have a gatorade (or whatever brand you prefer), add an electrolyte packet to your water, sprinkle salt on some watermelon, make a fun drink with coconut water.
Foods count for hydration, too! Juicy fresh fruits and veg, cold soups, popsicles!
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