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Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 7, Celebration Tarquin/Ashur | The Viper, Teen and Up Audiences He doesn’t have to go far. The hallway branching off from the large room they’ve been using as a base of operations is cast in deep shadow this late at night, but the broad figure braced wearily against the wall is impossible to miss even in the dark. Or perhaps Tarquin’s eyes are just that attuned, after all these years, to the sight of the Viper lurking in the gloom. “Ash,” he calls. His voice does something weird, goes all hoarse and wobbly, but Ashur hears him like he always does. In the aftermath of the Battle of Minrathous, Tarquin sets out to settle a disagreement. Read on AO3

Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 6, Reunion Shadow Dragon Rook & Tarquin, General Audiences “Almost makes you think there’s some hope left for this damned city, doesn’t it?” Too tired to be surprised, Rook only shuts his eyes in defeat. There’s nowhere to hide from the Shadows in Dock Town. And on the rooftops… Well, there was only ever two people who might come to find him up here. A new day dawns after the Battle of Minrathous. Read on AO3

Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 5, Battlefield Dorian Pavus/Male Inquisitor, Teen and Up Audiences Dorian has seen enough Fade rifts by now to know that whatever one sees in the amorphous tears in the sky, there’s no guarantee it actually is right on the other side of the Veil as it appears to be. The Fade is unpredictable and highly responsive to even the subtlest, innermost workings of the mind – and the Nightmare wants to be feared. No doubt it senses the many minds clustered close around the rift and hungers for their terror. Every passing second feeds it well. When Dorian escapes the Fade at Adamant Fortress, the Inquisitor was right behind him. Read on AO3

Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 4, Famous Landmark Dorian Pavus/Male Inquisitor, Teen and Up Audiences “You know, maybe he wanders off because he wants you to find him, get you two a moment alone together. We’re all packed pretty tightly when we’re out in the field.” Dorian knows for a fact that no, Casil really is just like that, but he still allows himself a moment to exist in a world where the Inquisitor’s boundless curiosity is just a flimsy front for bad flirting. Read on AO3

Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 3, Fade Lucanis/Rook/Spite, Teen and Up Audiences A broken-off section of a large pillar leisurely floats by overhead and briefly casts Lucanis in shadow. He watches it pass with an uncomfortable combination of disquiet and nostalgia. “Why would we meet here?” Spite straightens and slinks back to Lucanis, looking around with a frown. “Smells like sunlight and family. Many memories in the soil, good memories. Easy to remember. Easy to find.” Read on AO3

Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 - Day 2, Tavern Zevran Arainai/Alistair, Teen and Up Audiences After the Fifth Blight, many things change over the years. Alistair becomes king, for one. His fellow Warden tells him she can love two people at once, for another. Dragged out for a night of anonymity by Zevran to remind him there's more to life than the burden of a crown, Alistair discovers there are still more changes left in store for him. Read on AO3

First time posting any of my writing here, first time posting anything for the Dragon Age fandom, and first time posting on AO3 at all! I'm kicking off Dragon Age Kiss Week 2025 with a short and cozy work with my Inquisitor and Cole <3

Tagging anyone who's still very passionate about their Rooks 🫶