#armalis

probably involving Weaver

Whenever the TMNT fandom yells about me about the roof, I just want to point at Weaver and be like you know nothing, friends. 

#1 was already answered!

20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of

Snooping was by far the easiest way to find out what other people might like. (Gossips)

He’ll go ahead and count that last one as three, and he holds on to the memory of each one of them, fireflies in a jar that he thinks of whenever he’s not remembering that Shepard is still gone. (Wake)

She holds herself back, a little bit, because she knows soon they’ll be back to square one and singing this same song again. (Variations on a Theme)

The only way out of the cage that she could see was to take them all with her.  (Life, Letter by Letter)

out of curiosity, is the gold you get from that worth the perks used or is it more for the hilarity value of getting to say you opened Josephine’s secret treasure chamber?

I think the vault is actually purely aesthetic, or at least I didn’t notice getting any cash for it. It’s basically a room down in the Skyhold basement that appears once you’ve bought the perks; it has a bunch of gold (and a top hat) in it, but I think it’s just for novelty value.

The three perks themselves theoretically save you money--they’re merchant discounts, I think--but the general consensus is that they’re mostly useless (and completely useless for me, since I almost never buy things from merchants). I suppose the logic for the vault unlocking when you buy the three is that you are now a master of Theodosian commerce or something. (That’s also why I referred to it as Josephine’s--I mean, it’s not, it’s clearly the Inquisition treasure vault, but you get it by buying up three Connections perks and they’re associated with her.)

I would not have bothered to unlock it at all except that I have long since run out of actually useful things to spend perks on, so I figured why not. I wouldn’t bother probably if you still have things you want to buy with perks, or else if you’re curious you can do what the walkthrough suggests and save up three, buy the perks, check out the vault, and then revert to a save from before you spent the perks.

HAHAHAHAHA, WELL. Besides, you know, murder: 

Eylis Lavellan: She completely forgets to speak in the common tongue, and lapses into Elvish, then gets mad that no one but Solas understands her. This is in addition to her tendency to over-share when she gets tired (Dorian and Cassandra know far too much about her rear end after a hard day of riding). 

Rhyssa Hawke: No one can tell. Rhyssa is always happy and cheerful and daft and just this side of vulgar. 

Eliza Shepard: Her patience evaporates completely (not that she has much to begin with, unless it suits her), but she also decides she can just power through because she’s Commander Shepard and sleep is for lesser mortals and why would Miranda have given her so many cool cybernetics if they weren’t supposed to help her stay awake for a week straight? This is about as productive an arrangement as you can imagine. 

GaVG!Donnie: 

"Donnie, you can’t annex Mars or Mercury.”“But no one’s using them, April!” 

“That is no excuse.” 

“Alice said she wanted to be a princess for her birthday! She could be princess of a whole planet! Also I may have destroyed the Koch brothers.” 

“That’s it, I’m revoking coffee privileges.” 

Oh, GREAT one. Because neither of them is great with idleness.

For Cassandra, sword drills can always be practiced, blades can always be sharpened, armor can always be re-polished, you can always add another coat of oil to your saddle leather. But truth be told, once she’s made sure that all her tasks are complete, she turns to her books. She loves having a new book to read, but in a pinch she will reread the old ones until the page edges have gone velvety-soft and the spine is completely broken. Absolutely no one--not even Josephine--knows this, but if she is completely at loose ends, without even a book to read, she will daydream dramatic and/or romantic scenes for her favorite characters. Cassandra, standing solemnly at attention, has sent the Knight-Captain on more daring adventures--and into more perfumed bedrooms--in her mind than she would ever, ever, admit to.

(She carries her books with her into the field, because everyone knows that travel consists of brief periods of excitement followed by long stretches of boredom. And woe betide anyone who finds Her Wild Heart or Seas of Passion or Romance of Rivain in her saddlebags, because she is very protective of her secret obsessions.)

Josephine is a bit of a workaholic; between Inquisition business and the management of the Montilyet household, she rarely has nothing to do. There is always one more letter that could be written, one more précis to catch up on. However, in the rare occasion that she is at loose ends (as during the intermittent storms that isolate Skyhold from the rest of the world), or has deliberately put her work up for some period of time, she like poetry (she isn’t as much into prose as Cassandra), and needlepoint, and sketching, and calligraphy, and practicing languages (she is fluent in Orlesian and the King’s Tongue as well as her native Antivan, and is a student of Tevene, Rivaini, and--most recently--Nevarran). When she is truly bored she will adopt new filing schemes for her correspondence, organize the Inquisition wine cellars, and--although no one must know this--embroider new outfits for the dolls in her doll collection.

Together, Cassandra and Josephine tend to kill time in one of two ways. One is very wordy: Josephine practices her Nevarran on Cassandra, Cassandra practices her Antivan on Josephine. (There is considerable hilarity in the fact that Cassandra cannot keep straight the Antivan words for ‘embarrassed’ and ‘pregnant.’ More than once, Josephine has flattered her extravagantly in Antivan; Cassandra has attempted to say “You embarrass me!” and Josephine has burst into laughter and said, “I’m fairly sure that isn’t physically possible.”) 

Also, Cassandra loves loves loves it when Josephine reads to her. Josephine reads her poetry, reads her adventure stories... and, quietly, privately, before the fire, reads her the tenderest scenes from her romance novels, until Cassandra has turned many shades of red and her embarrassment can only be cured by many kisses.