#dadquisition

The Herald of Andraste risked his life to help all the refugees of Haven escaped. Included among the refugees were his four children, who lost their mother in the Conclave.

Dorian needed to pull himself together, because they weren't his children. But by the Maker, did they make him sentimental.

Excerpt:

Tavish was crying. Dorian was unfamiliar with dealing with small children, so he was holding the little one to his chest and bouncing him, hoping that would calm him. He'd seen parents do that before. Maybe it would work. The other little Couslands were scattered throughout the camp. Sera was comforting Eleanor, Baz's eldest. She was still a child, but she was aware that her dad might not be coming back, just like her mother hadn't. Little Flick was enthusiastically talking with Bull, no doubt retelling his own escape from Haven. He was probably unaware of the mercenary's heavy wounds, but based on Bull's expression, the distraction was welcome. Leliana held Baz's toddler, Lucian, who was blessedly asleep. He wished Tavish slept so peacefully.

Words: 1130

Rating: G

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thank u @ruiningsalads for the tag!!

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so this was about where i started yesterday. been sick in the head about dorian and baz. theres me and this polish writer who write dorian x m!cousland so we ballin. but an important part of the fic is bullying dorian and baz.

"Apparently he's still waitin' for his testicles to grow in 'cause Leliana interrupted your dad tryna get his mack on," Sera informed him.

sera's ALWAYS fun to write. so yeah!!

basileus "baz", andrea, eleanor and flanagan "flick"!

theyre such a cute family!! i love andrea so much <3, i'll have to do an andrea lives au some time bc she deserves better. eleanor deserves a fuckass bob. she is a menace now that she's a young teenager. idk how i got flick so baby looking but he is like... 10.

Iron Bull:

Is usually off with the Chargers so isn’t home that much, but only because Tallie, being surrounded with ten million brothers, sisters and a small army of close-knit Tal-Vashoth, was totally 100% OK with it.

When he is home he’s big and loud and chucks his kids around to hear them squeal and is being climbed like a jungle gym, often by children who aren’t even related to him.

Tells his kids ten million stories and never tells the same one twice unless they ask for it

But he’s definitely not the “parenting only when it’s fun” kind of parent -- he will not hear a word against Tallie, ever, learns her parenting technique and routines and mostly sticks to it, and always insists on just about taking over parenting completely when he’s around to "make up” for when he’s gone and give Tallie a bit of a break.

(Which Tallie doesn’t really need because the Adaars are very much “it takes a village to raise a child” so she’s raising her kids as much as everyone else’s and vice versa, but if he totally wants to make the most of the time he has to bond with them she is not going to get in the way.)

Firm and even strict with his kids, but kindly so, making sure they grow up independent, good-hearted and self-sufficient if they have to. Mostly, he wants them to grow up to be badasses. In places where he’s not strict he’s probably more likely to give the kids more freedom than most -- he’ll let them stay up to whatever hour they want but still kick them out of bed at dawn and let them learn from their mistakes.

His kids totally know how to kill someone with their bare hands by the time they’re ten years old

A total natural with kids, much to his and everyone else’s shock.

also totally makes sure his kids know about consent and stuff and not being an asshole

When Tallie was pregnant the first time he asked her “so have you thought about names”

Tallie was like “I’m quitting while I’m ahead and calling it Ataashi so it’s out of your system now, before I have to spend gods know how many months’ worth of pregnancies trying to talk you out of calling our kid ‘Dragon’.”

and that was how Bull knew he knocked up the right woman

(that didn’t stop him from trying to talk her into naming the second kid Ataashi, too. She gave him a Look.)

Solas:

Totally angsted about getting attached to the kid because what about the Veil only to p much pick up the baby the day she was born and

never

ever

put her down

ever

finally gave up on carrying his kid around when she was about six and too big to be carried, when he was finally starting to do his back in.

(The kids are upset when they’re too big to be carried any more but Solas is utterly devastated each time)

Liriel had to chase him around, corner him, and then totally tackle him to the ground to pry the baby out of his arms just so she could feed her

(When he and Liriel become a polyamorous OT4 with Mahanon and Lahariel, Solas and Lahariel totally fight each other to hold Liriel’s latest baby)

(Lahariel likes to offer Solas babies a lot)

(Solas is really confused when clanmates also start offering him babies)

(why does everyone offer him babies?)

(He has no idea that it’s because he almost always has a baby in his arms and the only times he doesn’t, Lahariel comes over and gives him one. New clanmates start thinking it’s just being polite to offer Solas a baby whenever they cross paths, and accidentally start the most bizarre tradition ever)

(one day someone gives him a baby and when he tries to give it back it turns out nobody has any idea whose kid it is so Solas plays babysitter for a day before a very exhausted and scatterbrained father turns up to retrieve his offspring and that starts a tradition of everyone seeking out Solas first if their infant kid gets lost)

(”GDI I AM THE DREAD WOLF NOT THE DAD WOLF”)

(This goes on for decades before Liriel, who’s been pissing herself laughing all this time, finally takes pity on a very confused Solas and explains to him how the hell this happened)

Totally cuddles his kids even when they’re grown up

Goes on Fade Adventures with his children at night, even the non-magical ones, where he speaks to them in fluent Elven

Very affectionate father who can’t stop touching his kids’ hair or kissing their foreheads or snuggling them

(They’re not embarrassed about it because growing up in a touchy-feely family is totally normal to them)

Teaches his second kid, Eolas, how to play chess in his head to get him to shut up during long trips stuck in the aravel

they play chess in their heads to intimidate anyone who tries to sass them

mostly it makes people scared of Eolas because he’s still in single digits when he first learns

Solas is one of the first to call it when he met Eolas’s future wife, back when she and Eolas barely knew each other and were only just starting to work together

Dorian:

I don’t have any specific headcanons because I don’t think he and Sable had kids, but if they did it would’ve wound up like this:

An affectionately sarcastic father

Dorian makes fun of his kids, but he also makes fun of himself so that his kids don’t feel hurt by it.

The father most likely to lose his temper, compared to Sable’s infinite patience

The father also most likely to feel guilty about his parenting skills and be really awkward about reaching out to his teenaged children

and also most likely to take it super personally when his kids are being teenagers

(Sable has to tell him that teenagers are little shits and just because they’re upset doesn’t mean they hate him no you’re not a terrible father you are JUST FINE they love you they’re just teenagers)

because of this Sable’s the parent who doles out most of the discipline. Dorian feels 900% guilty if he so much as says “no”

(whenever he doesn’t want his kid to do something he has to tell them “ask your other father” because he’s really bad at saying no)

also most likely to freak out and carry on as if their child died if the kid skinned a knee

total helicopter/bubblewrap parent. Sable frequently has to stage interventions. everyone is used to this and even the kids don’t find it a big deal because they know Sabledad will handle it.

so any kids totally expect Dorian to be the dad who freaks the fuck out if they bring a date home, so they’re totally prepared to do damage control and minimise contact

only to find out he’s super chill and offering them wine and chatting happily to them about their life

(and it’s Sable, of all people, who winds up telling the date about that time he and the scariest Pentaghast brought down a dragon by themselves while fighting off its babies, so don’t you dare ever do anything to hurt my child or I will FUCK YOU UP)

parent most likely to burst into tears at any slightly happy event in his kid’s life’

I feel sorry for the kid who got married first their wedding digs are probably sopping wet from Dorian crying on them all day

Solas is, “Unwanted impromptu hikes and camping trips, lets you paint your own room but won’t help paint over it when you decide you hate it two weeks later, ’Let’s talk this out in the yurt’” Dad.

Dorian is “up at 3 AM passive aggressively reading in the living room with a glass of wine when you arrive four hours past your curfew, watches cheesy terrible tv shows with you, gets WAY INTO your science fair project” Dad. 

Blackwall is “really bad at gift giving but you know he’s trying very hard, carved your baby cradle by hand himself, tried to teach you to fish but stopped when ‘cleaning’ the fish made you cry and throw up” Dad.