Inquisitor OCs

….i have a lot of baby/toddler pictures. and for someone who doesn’t even headcanon that varaad and dorian adopt or anything…i sure am attached to dad!varaad now lmao. both those kids look just like him i don’t know where dorian’s virtual gentics went but certainly not to them. 

i feel like the merc group he grew up in would’ve given him the heracross when he was around 10. they were often camped outside of towns and in forests and such and bug pokemon were the one constant, so it was pretty likely that was what his first pokemon always was going to be. the company had a lot of fighting type pokemon like manky and machoke, but he got his little fighting bug. who loved playing jokes on varaad, but he didn’t mind much.

WOW i answered these late, but whooo thanks @wunari! :D i love the questions from this meme but aaaha they’re way more in depth than my brain has been able to handle lately. i’m not even gonna bother with keeping the tenses consistent so this is gonna be a rambley mess haha.

noooo, it’s never too many :DD

Since I’ve done some for Adaashi and Edric, I’m gonna do these for the other half of my main four: Varaad and Malia. 

4. how did they feel about being called “the herald of andraste”? 

Varaad – he’s flattered mostly. He doesn’t believe in andraste, nor plans to, but he likes the idea of being a part of something, and being considered important enough to be a servant of the human’s religious figure? it feels good. it makes him feel like he can really do good as well, and it’s probably the closest to royalty he’ll ever get. 

Malia – it makes her feel like she’s found her reason for living so long. it lets her make sense of the world, and her place in it, and she so badly needs for it to be true. if andraste sees something good in her, then she feels like there must be something of worth in there, and something that can change for the better. 

6. what is their opinion on the mage/templar war?

Varaad – he doesn’t have many opinions on it. It’s supported him and the valo-kas a lot since they’re mercenaries, but the mindless killing on both sides scares him. With the qunari north of him and the humans south, he doesn’t feel like he has much of a place. Since falling in love with Dorian he’s looked at it a lot more carefully, but Dorian grew up in a much luckier place for mages in the circle. Cassandra is also one of his good friends, and vivienne’s ideals make a lot of sense to him, so he’s not really sure where he should stand on the issue at all. 

Malia – it’s a great way to make a killing in the carta, haha. both figuratively and literally. she thinks it’s a bit funny honestly – the humans killing themselves and wreaking havoc over something so silly to her, but she’s a dwarf who only really concerned herself with life’s simple pleasures before andraste made her her servant.

13. how do they feel about the chantry? 

Varaad – oh I answered this earlier haha. He doesn’t believe and probably won’t ever, but he likes the idea of it, and he loves being a part of something so big like joined spirituality. 

Malia – it’s important to her. she’s a surface dwarf who never felt like anything of her was of import and outlived everyone she knew, but something drew her to the chantry. and she believed. 

24. what is their opinion on blood magic? would they ever use it, if given the chance?

Varaad – no chance in hell. he’s pretty reasonably afraid of magic, though dorian’s eased some of his fears, but he’s heard the rumors and he knows how dorian feels about blood magic. blood magic is for mages who have lost themselves and given themselves over to demons, either their own or the ones in the fade. he’s an archer with no magic ability to speak of except for what the rift give him, but he’d still probably never use blood magic. 

Malia – she knows how easily blood mages fall to demons, but she also knows how desperate blood mages tend to be, and the carta can capitalize on desperation. she doesn’t fear them, but she and the legion never really feared much. dwarves and magic don’t go together as far as she’s concerned, so she’d never consider using it. if she falls she falls, but she dies as a dwarf.

36. are they especially protective of certain inquisition members, even those capable of defending themselves? 

Varaad – Cole for sure. Varaad sees parts of himself in Cole, and he wants to be around that quiet acceptance and incredible compassion for as long as possible. People fear Cole and that definitely doesn’t help Varaad’s want to protect. 

Thank you!

For Adaashi:

13. How do they feel about the chantry?

She doesn’t care one way or another about it. She doesn’t value it highly – it’s a thing she considers weak humans to believe in when they aren’t strong, always waiting for some woman with flaming underwear to save the day instead of taking things into their own hands. She doesn’t feel it’s worth her time to destroy either, though. 

14. Which demon is most frightening to them?

Outside of the rift? None. She will beat them, and doesn’t accept any other possibility, even if she’s just deluding herself. But inside the fade? She’s a mage and has visited the fade since her magic became known, and has ignored their presence for as long. She’s terrified of being forced to compromise her rules, and being exposed to them in their full glory. She’s most likely to be taken in by a pride demon.

24. What is their opinion on blood magic? would they ever use it, if given the chance?

She mostly considers it for the weak – for the mages who can’t stand on their own and face their enemies with pride. Adaashi’s confident in her magic and very prideful about her abilities, but if she was desperate she would absolutely use blood magic. Adaashi and desperate don’t go hand in hand together, but at that point she’d do anything because she doesn’t feel like herself when she’s desperate. And well, once it’s all done she’ll shake the tension out of her shoulders and move any hairs that had fallen out of her braid back into place, and then justify it by saying that she wasn’t weak willed enough to fall into a demon’s trap. I think she shares the same fear vivienne does – scared of herself if she ever did lose and get lost behind the rules she’s set for herself. 

30. are they an optimist, a pessimist, or neutral? 

She’d call herself a realist for sure, but she operates on a set of rules that only she seems to understand. Things are attainable, or they are not, and she has no problems telling people their goals aren’t realistic which can make her seem very aloof and a bit of a debbie downer. Her goals, of course, are always attainable on the other hand, haha. 

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And now Edric! 

4. how did they feel about being called “the herald of andraste”? 

He doesn’t really care about being some religious symbol for the humans, but he loves the praise and glory he gets from it. All sorts of recognition with hardly any work. At least until he’s forced into action and has to face the actual consequences and reasons for being it. 

17. how do they feel about the mark/the anchor?

It absolutely terrified him. It was painful, got there under circumstances he couldn’t remember, and seemed to have to do with magic. Dwarves didn’t do magic, it was one of the fundamental rules he’d come to accept of the universe. It gave him more responsibility than he was ready to have – he joked around and drank with his friends after fooling around with a lyrium shipment, he didn’t lead armies and fight evil that threatened all of thedas. 

26. did they feel suspicious of dorian upon first meeting him, because of his tevinter heritage? 

Mostly he thought the guy was kind of poncy. The tevinter stuff just told him Dorian would probably be a nice target for moving some lyrium, but Edric had never had a good eye for that anyway. He liked him a lot more than the other mages though – vivienne scared him and solas seemed a bit off, and Edric had learned to trust his guts – and he liked the guy’s sense of humor. They both had similar tastes in men, anyway. 

34. what was their reaction to the destruction of haven?

I was tagged by @wunari to show off 6 of my OCs! I have 34325 OCs but I’ve been pretty drained lately so I’m mostly just gonna put these 4 up since I already  have blurbs (well not really a blurb for hawke since I mostly just rambled) and pictures for them. 

I like this better than regular TMI Tuesday. You can tell me whatever OR you can pick from one of these headcanon prompts I’ve collected:

Thank you!!! I’m on mobile so this could come out very badly haha.

Varaad Adaar

8. What they like to eat

He’ll eat pretty much anything (though I can’t see him liking dairy much) though he definitely likes sweet things best. Fruits and sweet berries primarily, since he only really gets desserts when he’s in a town, which he avoids a bit. Sweet pastries with berries are his fav. He also likes food that’s shared with the community, like roasts or soups. He’s not super big on very spicy foods, though hell politely eat it if it’s offered to him.

13. Their embarrassing memory from years ago

Aw man I struggled with this one. Most of his embarrassing moments are in regards to romance because he crushes hard and often, and he might not be shy per se, but he definitely still blushes and acts nervous and doesn’t think real hard about what’s coming out of his mouth. He’s not clumsy and his horns are too close to his head to have many of the “whoops my horns caught and now the entire tent is on fire” moments that a lot of his adolescent peers had before they ‘grew into their horns.’

I’ll think more on this and do a specific moment later.

24. What motivates them

He’s a huge goody-goody so he mostly tries to help everyone. Being as merciful as he can along the way. He’s very protective of those he cares about, and he has a very big heart so there are a lot of people that fall under his protection. He’s got a bit of anxiety over making the step to actually do something though, so he’ll waver on that line of 'I want to help so bad but I can’t make myself’ forever if he’s not thrown head first into the responsibility.

aaaand Malia Cadash

5. Their shortcomings

Malia is ruled pretty heavily by her gut, which wouldn’t be nearly as big a problem if her gut feelings weren’t cultivated and grown in carta crime. She wants to be a person worthy of andraste’s blessing, but she really struggles with taking the time to stop and think and listen when her first instincts are to kill the problem or twist a situation in her favor/the good of the carta. She’s brash ad blunt (with humor) and doesn’t see the good in lying, so if it’s honesty you want from her, you’ll get it. as long as it’s not about herself of course, because she deflects personal questions with humor so others don’t grow close to her and she won’t miss them when they die (she’s starting to see that others outside her cartel unit don’t die nearly as much though).

17. Their ambitions

She’s never really had any. “Serve the carta, live, eat a good meal, live it up. Repeat” suited her fine and she grew complacent. When she kept living, she started to doubt things, and more than that, did faith in andraste. She found a purpose there too, especially once she got the blessing aka anchor. She decided to be someone worthy of the mark and andraste, and that was her aim. Once the anchor was gone and her purpose as inquisitor removed, he floundered a lot. For so long she’d fought and it was all she knew, and suddenly she knew it no more and wasn’t capable of it. So then she struggled with an addiction to dragons blood bc it made her feel powerful. Later in life she was still battling it, but her purpose was “have a good life with thom.”

19. Their reaction to betrayal