#everything goes wrong

“I don't know, Val... I think about taking it easy this week and simply being lazy at home.”

She tried to persuade him, gently declining his offer. 

But Valko shook his head, still confident that a day spent camping would help her way more than staying home. The fresh air, the nature, the barbecue, the starry night... he had already planned everything just to allow her to relax and enjoy a night spent in the wilderness. 

“Trust me with this. I already covered everything... we'll have fun.”

He promised her, and his enthusiasm made her give in.

Once they were in the woods the next day?

Everything went wrong.

One accident after another ruined every plan Valko had made for them.

One of the tent’s poles was broken and they had to replace it with a tree branch. But the piece of wood ended up tearing the fabric apart and also offering its little guests a new place to build a colony -so many ants stole their sleeping spot right under their nose.

“It doesn’t matter… we can sleep in the car,” she reassured him as they focused on preparing something to eat instead.

“It’s not going to be the same thing, though…” Valko complained, still annoyed by the ordeal. But as she stood by his side, offering a big smile, the corner of his lips tugged up too.

After all, he had other activities in store, so everything wasn’t lost… yet.

The barbecue transformed into a mini-hell just for them.

He spent almost twenty minutes trying to start the fire with bare hands and rocks, only for her to find the lighter in the car.

“Where the hell was it?” He groaned as dusted his hands while he squinted at the small fire burning the branches and becoming stronger with each passing second.

“It probably slipped out of the outer pockets of the bag,” she offered as she unpacked the food and brought it to him.

“It was under the car seats.”

He let out a heavy huff and decided to let this slide too.

Food was the priority now.

He could still make up with her by preparing something good to eat.

And Valko thought that he was finally doing something right -the fire crackling and the smell of roasting meat wafting through the air made both of their stomachs growl.

But they weren’t the only hungry creatures in the woods.

“Valko!”

She gasped when she saw something brown launching onto the table all of a sudden.

His shoulders tensed up instinctively and he let go of the meat he was cooking to assist her.

“It’s a squirrel-”

“You little thief! Let the sausages go-” 

With a couple of big steps, he reached the table and attempted to grab the little animal. But the squirrel didn’t get scared by his move and instead took its escape with the meaty trophy secured in its mouth.

Valko ran after it and kicked the thick trunk the little thief quickly climbed, low curses escaping from his mouth.

He was beginning to lose his patience.

All his efforts were going to the drain and-

“Oh, no no no!”

She lamented out loud as she rushed towards the fire and took off the burnt meat, trying to save whatever she could. 

“Oh, c’mon…” he whined, going to give her a hand. “This is food robbery!”

They could only manage to fill two plates of black, charred steaks.

She was just as upset as him and hungry. 

“Well… we can toast some bread? Wait… better not, we can just eat it as it is-”

“Nope. Definitely not.” 

She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at his declination. Curiously, she watched Valko head into the car and rummage into the storage compartment.

“What are you doing…?”

“Bring the seats to the bonfire so we can be comfortable and warm!” He instructed her, his voice coming out muffled as he was crouched down, the upper half of his body inside the car.

She hesitated a moment before doing as she was told. She put the seats one beside the other and sat down in front of the fire, the smell of burnt meat mixed with wood still lingering in the air.

“Ta-da!”

She blinked in surprise when Valko returned to her with a victorious smile and a pack of marshmallows in hand.

She hadn’t expected that.

“Why do you have marshmallows in the car?” She chuckled, a mix of disbelief and amusement in her expression.

“It doesn’t matter. It wouldn’t let us starve at least,” he brushed the question off, the tip of his ears turning bright red as if admitting his sweet-tooth embarrassed him.

“But first… let’s get this charcoal away.”

She hummed in agreement and accepted the pack of marshmallows from his hand while he lifted the table and put it aside, removing the burnt meat from their sight.

“Hey, don’t eat them all! Roasted tastes better-”

He playfully scolded her when he caught her pop a soft, white marshmallow in her mouth behind his back.

As the sky began turning blue above their heads, they seemed to have found a moment of peace -sitting side by side and watching the marshmallows turn gold before daring to bite the hot sugary treat and have a taste.

Laughter filled the quietness surrounding them… though, they didn’t scare a brave mama fox from approaching their table. The animal didn’t care if the meat was burnt, there were three hungry cubs waiting for her to teach them how to hunt.

A thud made her and Valko still mid-banter, their gazes snapped toward the sound and widened when they realised that they had company.

“Better not disturb mama…”

“Yeah…”

With slow steps, they left their place in front of the bonfire and found refuge in the car. 

The sky was covered by thick clouds that hid the stars, so Valko had to give up his plan of stargazing with her too.

Lying on the seats and staring at the tall, dark branches of trees through the car windshield, he sighed sadly.

“We should've stayed home… ”

Hearing the disappointment in his voice made her heart ache, and she turned to look at him in the driver seat. Reaching out, she took his hand in hers, their palms pressing against one another as their fingers intertwined together.

“It would've been less stressful…” she agreed but then chuckling, she couldn’t resist teasing him halfheartedly:

“Though, I would've missed the hilarious sight of a werewolf forgetting how to wolf in his natural habitat.”

He huffed in mock offence at that.

“I wolf perfectly.”

"...today wasn't representative."

She snorted in amusement and squeezed his hand gently when he glanced at her with a small smile.

“I wanted today to be perfect,” he confessed honestly, his voice echoing as quiet as a murmur in the car interior.

Her expression softened at that and her free hand left her lap to rest over their interlaced ones, her thumb stroking tenderly his knuckles.

“It was.”

She said, smiling at him fondly.

“...and you were right. We had fun.”

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The aftermath of the Plan.

These happened earlier that day (under the cut):

I'm a HUGE sucker for happy endings and also Angst. so, I have two worlds so I can have both. I have my canon world state

Hof (Adahla) survives, Hawke isn't in the fade, (Aelon) Inquisitor is happily with her true love in the fade, (Aria) Rook saves the world.

then the other one.

Hof Dies, Hawke is in the fade, Inquisitor dies (I'll explain), everyone Rook grew to care about is dead and now they are stuck with the one person they hate.

I think the reason Adahla wouldn't accept the ritual is because she never came to terms with Tamlens death. He died but she didn't, she is still breathing and is able to fight while he, who was her fighting spirit all throughout their childhood, is gone. Even after finding love once again, she just isn't able to accept the fate that she lives. While Hawke obviously is very self-sacrificing so no matter in both worlds, she offers to stay to fight the fear demon, so the decisions is more so Aelon's. Aelon would pick Hawke because she can see how tired she is, knowing that if they got out there is no certainty that another fight isn't waiting for the Champion one that she doesn't want any part of, she also believed that the Wardens need Stroud. without Stroud the wardens would fall once again.

NOW we get to Inquisitors death! Veilguard Spoilers!!!

I saw someone mention on Tik Tok about the idea if instead of Varric going after Solas and ultimately dying it was Lavellan and that got my evil wheels turning. Aelon being the one with Harding and recruiting Rook because she believes so heavily that she can stop him by talking to him, just as Varric did. The altercation would be different. Aelon reminding him of their moment at Crestwood and that she received his letter even if he didn't sign it. Solas is too prideful to listen as he states he is doing it for not just the world but her. when Rook disrupts Aelon goes in reaching over him to grab the dagger only for his fight or flight to kick in and he turns jabbing the dagger into her chest. For a brief moment Solas sees her face, and while it's in shock she smiles before falling back. He is Irredeemable now. The rest of the events is sorta the same only one major choice Aria has to make that completely shifts everything for her.

Aria instead of choosing her home chooses minrathous completely cutting off all ways for her to grow because after seeing the destruction she reverts back to 20-year-old her. she doesn't talk often to the others, she's blunt and struggles trusting them. She pulls more risky moves in hopes they'll kill her. by the time she fights Elgar'nan she is done. she doesn't care how it ends but it'll end, finally death will catch up to her as it should've years ago, she was never the right person to lead this team. At the end she ends up alone just as she always felt she was but this time it's true as she fights one of her gods. The Dread Wolf, the one who she has tattooed on her arm oh the irony. She ends up pulling him in the fade with her to save the world, to keep the veil in place. she is stuck with the god who took everything from her and lied to her every chance he got.

I WISH i had a pic of how the mall salon fucked my hair up but i was so in shock i had to go to one of our local salons immediately...

(im using "local" as in close, walkable close, to where I live. I live in the Philippines ifykyk)

I just wanted my hair back to a short wolfcut for my birthday :((, usually the mall salon does a good job (ive been there twice) but for some reason today they were rushing, i showed the pic of my old hair and they just went ham. Before i could say anything they already cut the back of my head super short. Anyway thanks to the local salon for somewhat fixing it TT, I like how it is rn but im def going back to my old style once it's grown out.