#meravas

🔥🔥 ULTIMATE SPACETRASHPILE/TRIALOFTHETOWER CHARACTER SHOWDOWN 🔥🔥

this showdown will last for five rounds, beginning on my birthday, june 17th, and ending on june 21st. in this tournament, sixteen of my beloved ocs will be pitted against each other in a battle to the DEATH. which is to say i will ask you all to vote on who you like most. the tournament hosted on this blog will be exclusively dragon age ocs. at the same time, i'll be hosting an alternate tournament with 16 of my assorted original characters from ttrpgs, rpgs, roleplays, blaseball, and original stories. on my main blog, @spacetrashpile. when both polls have concluded, the winners of each will be pit against each other in a final showdown (on both blogs) to determine which of my characters is most well loved by people other than me.

Rhiannon Surana, she/her, bisexual (tag on main, tag here) (playlist) (art from @vashothmages)

Rhiannon Surana is my main worldstate's HOF. She was a city elf from Denerim who was taken to Kinloch Hold when she was very young. She was also non-speaking, instead communicating through sign language. Rhiannon jumped at a chance to leave the Circle with Jowan and then with Duncan when that plan failed. She simultaneously had the time of her life and a terrible time out of the Circle due to the whole Warden business. I would like to draw attention to the "complicated" with Alistair on her character sheet, which is to say that her and Alistair were very close at the start due to my gameplay fuck ups and also the fact that he was genuinely very nice to her in a way she was not used to it. And this accidentally spiraled into the game thinking they were dating for NEARLY THE ENTIRE GAME and her having to break up with him in the Denerim alienage after Leliana confronted her about the situation in the haunted orphanage. Love triangle of all time. Despite how happy being out of the Circle and experiencing freedom and love for the first time in her life made her, there was still something clawing at Rhiannon's insides that told her that she was fundamentally broken and wrong for being born a mage. So when Morrigan brought the idea of the dark ritual to her, she had a terrible crisis over cursing an innocent child with magic (or something close to it, via old god soul), something that had made her life so difficult and made her feel so terrible. She turned Morrigan down and told no one the option was even on the table and killed the archdemon herself rather than force such responsibility on Alistair. Everyday she makes me so upset.

Meravas, they/them, jury's still out but mostly aroace (tag) (art from @vashothmages)

Meravas (Qunlat for "so shall it be") is a member of the Double Blight Party (better name pending), my party running around the south during the Double Blight and exploring character concepts and story beats that I'm sad Bioware abandoned somewhere along the way. Meravas is the only character who ties the party into what's happening up north, as they were originally a saarebas who was taken with the Antaam when they broke from the Qun. They were specifically brought with the Butcher's troops to Treviso. Meravas hated all of this, as you might imagine, and when their Arvaarad was killed, they panicked and ran. They were briefly harbored in Treviso by civilians who turned to the Crows for help in getting them out of the city. The Crows in turn went to the Veilguard, but this is all happening circa Siege of Weisshaupt, so as you can imagine, they're a bit busy. Harding passes the message along to the Inquisition and the Double Blight Party are sent to help, but by the time they arrive, the people harboring Meravas have been discovered and killed. The party stops Meravas from being killed, but another member of the party, Linnie (also in this poll!), is grievously injured during the fight and their only standing mage does not have the mana to heal her. Instead, she turns to Meravas, who has really begun to regret this escape plan, and instructs them through their first attempts at healing magic to stop Linnie from bleeding out. This chance to use their magic to heal rather than hurt shocks them out of a very concerning spiral and they decide to follow along with the party through the rest of their adventures. On one such adventure I won't detail here, the party meets a familiar dwarven Warden on the beginning of her Calling and Meravas learns quite a bit about the Wardens and their goals for the world. This conversation sticks with them for quite a while and when the Double Blight ends, though the Wardens are different, Meravas still decides to join the Wardens as well in an attempt to channel themself and their magic towards something worthwhile and good.

Allright, tumblr killed my first draft for no reason, okay. Thanks. Anyway. I used @kispesan​‘s lovely mini portrait creator to create some characters from The Ridge of Thedas and here’s the first batch, the AMR:

1. Meravas

2. Hekka

3. Sapphia Offmills

In my Revolution!AU, I try to place heavy emphasis on how the marginalized groups of Thedas have been traumatized by the status quo and how in the wake of the destruction of the status quo, spaces slowly emerge in which a healing process might start. While the mage rebellion in canon… well, it exists. That’s as far as I can go without getting into a rant about centrism in DA’s writing. But for my AU, I wanted to give a different perspective on mage freedom. Meet the polyamorous triad that is leading an underground apostate mutual aid group, the Society of Glitter, that later forms the strategical command of the Army of the Mage Rebellion.

YELLS IM GLAD UR EXCITED BC HE’S SO DEAR2ME and !!! IM SO GLAD YOU LIKE HIM THAT MAKES ME HAPPY bc he is my child....he is my adult baby man boy.........qunari...........man....... i lov him.....