The Fool

lampshroomomg asked for Räven by Hedningarna + Zevran for the music meme

Like, just imagine. You live your entire life underground. And you know there are these giants who live on the surface, because they buy lyrium and sometimes they send people to negotiate, and some of them fight darkspawn. Some of them can reputedly do ‘magic’, which is what they buy all that lyrium for, and all of them apparently ‘dream’, which is this weird thing where they go to sleep but then they actually visit somewhere else? And they worship a woman who died ages ago (normal) and a big invisible guy who they think created everything (weird) and the people who can’t do magic are terrified of the people who can and so they buy lyrium to make more people who can do magic but, like, a different kind of magic. Anti-magic magic.

And then all of a sudden, you’re there, and you have to save all of these crazy giant people because a Blight is coming and apparently they don’t have much experience in fighting darkspawn, like it’s a rare thing for them, but apparently they have roughly the same amount of political batshittery going on because there are usurpers and werewolves and the magic-wielding ones have all flown off the deep end, and basically everyone is doing the exact opposite of what they should if they don’t want to get eaten by darkspawn, and you’re still adjusting to the fact that instead of a rock ceiling, you’ve got a giant, colour-changing void with a giant flaming ball in it sitting over your head.

Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine

Honestly, one of the bigger things I find myself stumbling over when reading survivor characters is the disconnect between mind and body. Someone will take something like hypervigilance and write it as a thought process- unaware or unsure how to write it as something that is body driven as well. Writing that treats trauma reactions as only happening in the mind is writing that lacks depth.

Pretty sure half of the missions in Mass Effect were just pulled out of the Alliance’s asses.

Original post by kandros

Commander Shepard voiced by totalspiffage

If you’re never played Skyrim with Interesting NPC’s Rumarin, you’re missing out, my guy.

Bonus:

i’m probably late but it was/is dragon age origins appreciation week??? so i finally drew my first warden Khaaris Aeducan! that warden armor was death to draw omg

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