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To be fair, his latest addition was a lion king tattoo. He's a softie.

Oh my gosh :( I'm really glad you're being kept on though!

I’m glad but I also feel really guilty, because not everyone got offered this chance. And it’s not happening for a few months, so things are just going to kind of hang in the air until then I guess? It’s really odd.

iiinteresting! especially given that components include things like diamonds (for a 1st lvl spell!) which are scroungeable for your player-character types, but like, caleb's absurd incense-and-paper budget is more gp than the average peasant must see in a lifetime. idk enough abt dnd lore to know whether that's an inherent limitation to arcane magic or an intentional class barrier, but now i'm super curious!

On Talks Machina just now they said Caleb has spent ~650 gold on paper and ink so far in the campaign! That’s not even to get new spells, it’s just to transcribe them so he can use them, which is so wild. And he started out flipping his shit in happiness that Nott had 13 gold for him to buy books. It adds so much to why his world would absolutely be upended by the chance to go to the Soltryce Academy, which by everything we’ve learned so far seems like a free ride/all expenses paid kind of education, and why young Caleb would be feel so much loyalty to his teachers (on top of the fact that he clearly had a very patriotic upbringing).

This got fucking long. And it helped me think about some aspects of my characters that weren’t particularly well fleshed out, which I really enjoyed!

2. What would your Hawke generallythink of your warden and your Inquisitor?  

Cait respects Milon, both because ofwhat she accomplished in ending the Blight and because she’s primarily heardabout Milon through Anders. Milon protected Anders when she didn’t have to, andtrusted him enough to give him actual responsibility within Vigil’s Keep, whichmeant almost as much to him. Back in the Circle, his obvious talent neveroutweighed the fact that he was junior to plenty of other healers andconsidered both flighty and a flight risk beyond that. At Vigil’s Keep, though,he ran their (admittedly small) clinic, & people in need of serioushealthcare from all around Amaranthine came to him for help. Milon didn’t thinkthat was a big deal—he was a healer, trained by one of her own companions, andthere was healing to be done—but it was a big deal for him, and the way hetalks about her to Cait reflects that.

Omg YOU’RE ACTUALLY GONNA CONTINUE MORE FIRE THAN THE SUN I am so hyped!!!

wait - he’s supposed to look like cullen??? also: i wish it was just a broshep/femshep situation… it bothers me that on my canon playthroughs i will have to acknowledge his existence as her brother (and that she has a bit of a Man Family between him and her dad being the focus of her family)

I’m bothered by the very, very stale trope of the protagonist without a mother, especially with a military dad. That’s covered pretty extensively in, like, every 90s sitcom. Once again Bioware, The Progressive Video Game Company ™, doesn’t even go for the easy brownie points of having the remaining parent be a mother rather than a father. And that whole setup does really chafe in terms of making Ryder feel like your own character--being able to choose a few different major past life events for Shep helped avoid that feeling, but I’ve seen nothing in the promo stuff for Andromeda indicating anything similar in this game.

i like those tasty tags, they have the right edge to them, I could actually be interested in that story

Ahh, thank you, I’m glad you liked the idea! 

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Daud’s non-lethal should have been removing his Mark.

Non-lethals are about suffering, and letting Daud wander off alone has no actual aspect of suffering involved at all. He just gets to leave, to apparently retire to a small beachside cabin where he can drink cocktails all day and write his memoirs (according to the majority of fan art, anyway). All you have is his word that he won’t continue doing what he’s done for his whole adult life: use his Void powers to kill people for money. Even if Daud is sincere, and there’s no reason for Corvo to think that he is, in ten years’ time, when his current cache of blood money runs out, what’s to stop him from going back to his old trade? What if someone offers him even more money to kill Emily this time? There are too many unknowns, and too little reason to trust a man who just gloated about knowing what it felt like to shove a sword through Jessamine’s heart.

Cutting off his left hand first, though...that will leave him alive to suffer, remembering what he once could do and how he lost it. Spending the next decades of his life as an average person, even his non-supernatural fighting abilities reduced. Daud might still be something of a threat in this state, if he fought very hard to be, but not at all one that Corvo couldn’t dispatch easily if needed. That would be a true non-lethal neutralization.

Daud will grow old, and die, as no one special, just as he was born. The Mark convinced him otherwise for awhile; perhaps there was something unique to him in his youth, during his single-minded quest to contact the Outsider. But what I think the DLCs make clear is that Daud has wasted his gift. He has the power to change the world, and he uses it to kill for money. And perhaps most notably, he kills for money at the direction of others. He’s a weapon that others use--he gets a contract, he fulfills it. He has no vision or goal of his own beyond doing a dirty job and getting paid for it. The more I think about it, the more it disappoints me, and the more I understand why the Outsider became so bored with Daud.

DO IT!!! REWRITE THE BAD BOOK!!!! SPITE FIX-IT FICS ARE ALWAYS MY FAVES. GOOD JOB W/ THIS