this blog is too sad
so here is more me and em chat this is a bunch about laurelin and also a lot about Fucking Orlais I Hate Orlais but i love bringing sera to orlais. and also. Don't bring cole to orlais. also some stuff about dorian and krem and then the disaster kids in there too??? it's mostly abt laurelin and vint stuff tho
[12/29/14, 12:06:40 AM] casimir reed-stark: any time [12/29/14, 12:07:02 AM] casimir reed-stark: i mean. not any time obviously. i think i went to bed shortly after that bc i got too drunk and could no longer handle orlais [12/29/14, 12:07:14 AM] casimir reed-stark: i started drinking to get through orlais but i overestimated how much wine was the right amount [12/29/14, 12:07:21 AM] winters: that was. really good i was so thrown and shaky about it and seeing ur snaps helped me not think about it [12/29/14, 12:07:38 AM] winters: and y EAH i saw that. you didnt send any more snaps so i assumed you had gone to sleep [12/29/14, 12:08:58 AM] winters: orlais was like. so boring honestly i was not enthralled. the only cool thing was seeing what i could get away with to get court approval really. i truly gave up and sped through it in the end i was so annoyed [12/29/14, 12:09:37 AM] winters: also it would have been cool to dance w my li but that's abt it........ seeing ur companions react was nice but the actual mission was not [12/29/14, 12:09:51 AM] winters: stick me in the hinterlands any day [12/29/14, 12:10:27 AM] casimir reed-stark: i absolutely hate orlais not bc itās boring but bc itās just like [12/29/14, 12:10:33 AM] casimir reed-stark: i hate orlesians [12/29/14, 12:10:57 AM] casimir reed-stark: i fucked up really badly my first attempt bc i have a specific outcome i really would like to have happen bc i looked up epilogue stuff [12/29/14, 12:11:05 AM] casimir reed-stark: but it requires a lot of fuckin halla statues [12/29/14, 12:11:16 AM] casimir reed-stark: so i have to be meticulous about getting as many as i can [12/29/14, 12:11:26 AM] winters: those halla statues are the worst i got so mad and gave up. you have far more patience than i [12/29/14, 12:11:30 AM] casimir reed-stark: so anyway i reloaded bc i meessed up hardcore the first time [12/29/14, 12:11:48 AM] casimir reed-stark: and in my second attempt decided to bring the companions i knew would make the court the most uncomfortable [12/29/14, 12:11:52 AM] casimir reed-stark: so i brought sera, dorian, and bull [12/29/14, 12:12:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: AND SERA TURNS OUT TO BE THE BEST COMPANION TO BRING??? [12/29/14, 12:12:13 AM] winters: what?????? [12/29/14, 12:12:15 AM] casimir reed-stark: you can gain SO MUCH approval from sera if you take her to orlais with you itās hilarious [12/29/14, 12:12:22 AM] casimir reed-stark: and also extra loot [12/29/14, 12:12:27 AM] winters: that's SO GOOD i'll ahve to rmr that [12/29/14, 12:12:47 AM] casimir reed-stark: she spends her entire time trashing the nobles and laughing at everything and then she also gives you tips to where thereās red jenny loot caches all over the castle [12/29/14, 12:13:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: also u know how they have a herald announce who u bring [12/29/14, 12:13:12 AM] winters: o yeah [12/29/14, 12:13:31 AM] casimir reed-stark: sera gets herself announced as āher ladyshipā¦ āmy balls itchāā¦ of course" [12/29/14, 12:13:46 AM] casimir reed-stark: and then she snickers loudly and i think cullen audibly groans [12/29/14, 12:13:55 AM] winters: w ow. im so proud :' ) [12/29/14, 12:14:04 AM] winters: my lady cadash is gonna love her [12/29/14, 12:14:17 AM] casimir reed-stark: i brought cass and varric and dorian the first time and tbh they were way too accepting of the first two [12/29/14, 12:14:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: like thatās my typical party build but [12/29/14, 12:14:29 AM] casimir reed-stark: nah [12/29/14, 12:14:30 AM] winters: yeah i varric, dorian, bull so [12/29/14, 12:14:47 AM] winters: bull @ the food is so funny [12/29/14, 12:14:50 AM] casimir reed-stark: cass got announced by her full name and she goes āugh get on with itā [12/29/14, 12:14:54 AM] winters: oh my GOd [12/29/14, 12:14:57 AM] winters: poor thing [12/29/14, 12:15:02 AM] winters: what a mouthful [12/29/14, 12:15:18 AM] casimir reed-stark: so i mean i think ultimately from my observation literally the best companion to bring is sera and the worst is cole [12/29/14, 12:15:25 AM] casimir reed-stark: i know someone who brought cole and. never bring cole. [12/29/14, 12:15:31 AM] casimir reed-stark: he doesnāt get announced at all [12/29/14, 12:15:45 AM] winters: oh...... is it just. very sad [12/29/14, 12:15:46 AM] casimir reed-stark: and iām pretty sure he literally disappears [12/29/14, 12:15:50 AM] winters: nO [12/29/14, 12:16:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: you canāt find him to talk to until you show up with your full party to arm up and explore [12/29/14, 12:16:25 AM] winters: i dont like this at all [12/29/14, 12:16:31 AM] casimir reed-stark: huh i just realized. i wonder if the special dialogue option with dorian is because weāre 100% friends [12/29/14, 12:16:37 AM] casimir reed-stark: or if itās just there bc dorian [12/29/14, 12:16:57 AM] casimir reed-stark: bc you get a dialogue thing. or at least i did. to tell him thank you for coming bc you know itās not going to be easy on him [12/29/14, 12:17:19 AM] casimir reed-stark: and heās like āhaha yeah youād think i smelled of cabbages the way everyoneās looking at me. itās alright though. thank you for saying something" [12/29/14, 12:17:33 AM] winters: yeah. i think... i think i remember that. but then again i have a feeling i was very close to full friendship at that point too [12/29/14, 12:17:48 AM] winters: he's so important [12/29/14, 12:17:51 AM] casimir reed-stark: i have no idea what my friendship meters are with everyone i just know that i am definitely friends with dorian and cole [12/29/14, 12:18:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: coleās lunch date in val royeuxā¦.. the cutest thing i have ever seen....... [12/29/14, 12:22:10 AM] winters: i have not done that yet. actually both varric and cole are likely to glitch out and i haven't been able to talk to cole in ages bc he doesnt appear when i get close to him [12/29/14, 12:22:14 AM] winters: it's so frustrating [12/29/14, 12:22:18 AM] winters: i miss him [12/29/14, 12:22:40 AM] casimir reed-stark: woah weird [12/29/14, 12:23:18 AM] winters: ur tellin me. krem has found his way around a chari and understands how to use one, but cole just up and disappears [12/29/14, 12:23:22 AM] winters: thanks dragon age [12/29/14, 12:24:12 AM] winters: oh well i'll figure it out and get to him at some point [12/29/14, 12:24:23 AM] winters: if it's the last hting i do [12/29/14, 12:25:57 AM] casimir reed-stark: krem is like. fifty fifty. in mine [12/29/14, 12:26:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: he sometimes sits in the chair shoving the wine bottle into his cheek [12/29/14, 12:26:16 AM] casimir reed-stark: and sometimes stands on the chair [12/29/14, 12:26:24 AM] casimir reed-stark: he stopped descending from the rafters every time i walk in though [12/29/14, 12:26:32 AM] winters: he often talks while he has the bottle at his mouth too [12/29/14, 12:26:36 AM] winters: SHIT [12/29/14, 12:26:48 AM] winters: krem u light up my life with ur silly antics [12/29/14, 12:26:59 AM] winters: u light up my life anyway but stil [12/29/14, 12:27:13 AM] casimir reed-stark: ok totally unrelated but iām really fuckin tired of people simplifying dorianās views on slavery to ādorian supports slavery" [12/29/14, 12:27:19 AM] casimir reed-stark: did they??? listen????? to what he said about it??? [12/29/14, 12:27:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: it was slightly naive but at the same time like [12/29/14, 12:27:30 AM] casimir reed-stark: what krem says later totally validates it to me tbh [12/29/14, 12:28:24 AM] winters: i honestly havent come across people talking about dorian's views on it. i'm guessing i should count myself lucky [12/29/14, 12:28:50 AM] casimir reed-stark: literally when you talk to dorian (as an elf) about slavery in tevinter what he has to say is like [12/29/14, 12:30:07 AM] casimir reed-stark: āitās an ugly business and iām not saying itās good but at the same time people outright demonizing people who have slaves in tevinter as always being bad people really donāt understand how tevinter is. honestly itās not a good thing but if youāre poor and especially an elf in tevinter, you may actually be better off as a slave. no elf and no lower class person in tevinter is truly free." [12/29/14, 12:30:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: and then later krem literally tells you that he grew up poor as shit and lower class in tevinter [12/29/14, 12:30:30 AM] casimir reed-stark: and his dad SOLD HIMSELF INTO SLAVERY TO AVOID STARVING TO DEATH [12/29/14, 12:31:15 AM] winters: y eah. yeah [12/29/14, 12:31:42 AM] winters: it's a lot more complicated than just blanketing dorian's perspective w "supports slavery" [12/29/14, 12:32:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: yeah it doesnāt mean he doesnāt occassionally make unfortunate comments but heās really self aware about it [12/29/14, 12:32:41 AM] casimir reed-stark: he outright says āiām a fuckin rich tevinter mage kid my dad is a magister of course i donāt understand what itās like to be poor or not tevinterā [12/29/14, 12:33:07 AM] winters: he knows his background and why he thinks these things. yeah [12/29/14, 12:36:15 AM] winters: dorian only wants to be better really, that's what he's striving for [12/29/14, 12:36:38 AM] casimir reed-stark: i just [12/29/14, 12:36:51 AM] casimir reed-stark: i love how worked up he gets sometimes when youāre talkign to him and heās just like [12/29/14, 12:37:36 AM] casimir reed-stark: iām FUCKING TRYING iām trying to make everything better iām here bc i want to make myself better and i want to make my country better and i want to make the world better and i want to prove to the people back home that iām better but also that they can be better and also that we can all fucking work together and like [12/29/14, 12:37:45 AM] casimir reed-stark: i love my piece of shit country and it has so many problems and it doesnāt love me but i donāt care [12/29/14, 12:38:10 AM] casimir reed-stark: because i still love it and it still raised me and it can reject me all it wants and iāll leave so i donāt get hurt anymore but i wonāt back down [12/29/14, 12:38:21 AM] casimir reed-stark: wait what were we talkinga bout. right. tevinter. tevinter is what i was talkinga bout [12/29/14, 12:38:54 AM] casimir reed-stark: i was not talking about anything but tevinter and iām sorry i yelled you donāt deserve that. youāve only ever supported me and i donāt know how to deal with that bc no one ever has before [12/29/14, 12:39:01 AM] casimir reed-stark: āmy best and only friendā shut UP [12/29/14, 12:39:38 AM] winters: goODBYE [12/29/14, 12:40:33 AM] winters: going into this i expected to fall in love with dorian but. not quite in all the ways i have. he's surprised me in the best ways and i love this asshole so much it hurts [12/29/14, 12:41:36 AM] casimir reed-stark: yeah [12/29/14, 12:42:00 AM] casimir reed-stark: yeah no i seriously wasnāt sure going in to things who was going to be like?? like in dao and da2 theyāre all your friends and the difference in inquisition is that you [12/29/14, 12:42:13 AM] casimir reed-stark: you donāt have a ragtag band of misfits [12/29/14, 12:42:22 AM] casimir reed-stark: you donāt have a little group of friends u go gallavanting around with [12/29/14, 12:42:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: you have allies [12/29/14, 12:42:40 AM] casimir reed-stark: so i was really excited to find out who was going to wind up actually being my friends [12/29/14, 12:42:52 AM] casimir reed-stark: and i think it will vary a little for my other inquisitors [12/29/14, 12:42:58 AM] winters: yeah. like, i didnt really plan a best friend at all, but dorian slipped into the role so perfectly despite the character ianlen ended up being. [12/29/14, 12:43:01 AM] winters: yeah [12/29/14, 12:43:14 AM] casimir reed-stark: but i really. wasnāt expecting ru and dorian to wind up loving each other so much [12/29/14, 12:43:17 AM] casimir reed-stark: theyāre such an odd couple lmao [12/29/14, 12:43:42 AM] casimir reed-stark: sometimes i just think about tinuverse and tintalle bringing dorian home with him and thatās when ru meets dorian and they just [12/29/14, 12:43:50 AM] casimir reed-stark: like they didnāt go through the same stuff but [12/29/14, 12:44:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: tintalle never shuts up about ru and dorianās even seen letters from them and stuff [12/29/14, 12:44:32 AM] casimir reed-stark: and possibly met them once or twice bc while i donāt think tintalle comes to skyhold ever during the whole crisis bc heās got to stay and support the keeper [12/29/14, 12:44:46 AM] casimir reed-stark: i think ru definitely does bc i mean [12/29/14, 12:45:20 AM] casimir reed-stark: ru is a hunter they have more place in the clan than. say. laurelin. but theyāre still a disaster and the keeper is like āyou already left once without permission so i seriously donāt think we can stop you from doing it again" [12/29/14, 12:46:03 AM] winters: "it's an ADVENTURE" [12/29/14, 12:46:22 AM] casimir reed-stark: iām still laughing bc i had a hard time trying to decide exactly how and why ru has so many scars [12/29/14, 12:46:40 AM] casimir reed-stark: and why tintalle only has like. two. but why he has Any At All is still like. why would u have face scars u are a fragile nerd [12/29/14, 12:46:49 AM] winters: omg [12/29/14, 12:47:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: each of ruās scars have a story to them that ends with āand THATS why the keeper wont let me do ___ anymore!ā [12/29/14, 12:47:24 AM] casimir reed-stark: ru is forbidden from doing any kind of crafting [12/29/14, 12:47:53 AM] casimir reed-stark: tintalle has two scars. he got them at the same time. because ru snapped him in the face with a tree branch and it knocked him out [12/29/14, 12:47:53 AM] winters: i SAW U TALKING ABOUT THAT i cant beleive this child [12/29/14, 12:48:10 AM] winters: ah yes, siblings [12/29/14, 12:48:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: i meanā¦. they were likeā¦. ru was probably about nine [12/29/14, 12:48:51 AM] winters: was it an accident or were they playing. this honestly sounds like something my brothers would get up to wow [12/29/14, 12:48:53 AM] casimir reed-stark: laurelinās scars are similar to ruās but significantly less triumphant [12/29/14, 12:49:01 AM] winters: nice [12/29/14, 12:49:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: they were playing but it was also an accident [12/29/14, 12:49:11 AM] casimir reed-stark: like [12/29/14, 12:49:19 AM] casimir reed-stark: ru did it on purpose but it wasnt meant to do any damage [12/29/14, 12:49:51 AM] casimir reed-stark: tintalle was just like āru donāt mess with that get down from that tree youre going to hurt yourselfā and ru was like ālet go? okā and tintalle was like ānO DONT LET Gā and then he was concussed [12/29/14, 12:50:41 AM] winters: creators preserve me [12/29/14, 12:52:02 AM] winters: honestly in the elvhen clique where they all know each other ianlen is definitely that longsuffering silent cousin figure that just. patiently waits for someone to hurt themselves and then patches them up [12/29/14, 12:52:35 AM] casimir reed-stark: i canāt make as many jokes about laurelin bc every time i think about laurelin too much i get kind of :/ because honestly his life until the inquisition was like not bad but not great [12/29/14, 12:52:55 AM] casimir reed-stark: itās rough living in a society where everyone has a role to play and you just. don't [12/29/14, 12:53:32 AM] winters: awh man [12/29/14, 12:54:35 AM] casimir reed-stark: heās a mage but heās not in line to be keeper, he canāt be a crafter (his āsightā only gets him so far), heās rubbish with halla, he canāt hunt because they canāt risk mages on the hunt and also because he just canāt. see fast enough. to be much help. [12/29/14, 12:54:49 AM] casimir reed-stark: heās good with kids and heās good with stories [12/29/14, 12:55:03 AM] casimir reed-stark: so he mostly just. spends his time helping his dad out [12/29/14, 12:55:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: and babysitting [12/29/14, 12:55:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: but thereās still plenty of the clan thatās sort of unnerved by him and definitely pitying of him bc like [12/29/14, 12:56:23 AM] casimir reed-stark: heās not old but. heās not young anymore either. by his age most of the people would have had a role in the clan and. probably have picked a partner and settled down too [12/29/14, 12:56:35 AM] casimir reed-stark: heās like. 33 or 34 [12/29/14, 12:57:04 AM] casimir reed-stark: and bc of the whole. like he can āseeā but people donāt know quite how to be around him still sometimes [12/29/14, 12:57:08 AM] casimir reed-stark: and heās kind of. weirdly quiet. [12/29/14, 12:57:30 AM] casimir reed-stark: except when heās telling stories and then he just gets lost in them and seems almost like a different person [12/29/14, 12:57:35 AM] winters: oh [12/29/14, 12:57:47 AM] casimir reed-stark: but like a hahren doesnāt have a first the way the keeper does so itās not like heās in line for anything there [12/29/14, 12:58:03 AM] casimir reed-stark: there isnāt a role to fill by just. helping out his dad [12/29/14, 12:58:19 AM] casimir reed-stark: the keeper sends him to the conclave literally because like [12/29/14, 12:58:27 AM] casimir reed-stark: she just hopes it will help him find a place in the world [12/29/14, 12:58:39 AM] casimir reed-stark: like that some part of the journey will give him meaning? [12/29/14, 12:58:49 AM] casimir reed-stark: and it. does. the inquisition is the best thing that ever happens to him [12/29/14, 12:59:27 AM] casimir reed-stark: itās so baffling when they ask him to be inquisitor bc here he is this blind mage kid in his mid thirties with no direction in life whatsoever [12/29/14, 12:59:45 AM] casimir reed-stark: and there are these incredible strong people and they want him to lead them??? [12/29/14, 1:00:03 AM] casimir reed-stark: and heās like āi am not even remotely cut out to do this but iāll try" [12/29/14, 1:00:16 AM] winters: what a darling. i'm so glad [12/29/14, 1:03:25 AM] casimir reed-stark: did u see the cap i edited of him [12/29/14, 1:04:32 AM] winters: yeah i did it was amazing he looks so good [12/29/14, 1:04:54 AM] winters: what a CUTIE [12/29/14, 1:05:18 AM] casimir reed-stark: i love my kids [12/29/14, 1:06:58 AM] winters: i love your kids too
