#uthabelas

use…”Dog”

referencing my latest drabble here too

“She looked at me like I was a burnt loaf of bread, or…or a rat in the kitchen.” They almost laugh, a noise that sticks in their throat only to bubble up against their will. 

I mean, honestly? A lotof this will depend very greatly on a few factors. Urian is, through andthrough, a politician. Very little of what he might say aloud is likely to begenuinely and 100% his actual thoughts or opinions. He can sway public opinionto one degree or another, and he has his constituents, whose positions he generallyhas to enforce or agree with, but overall, you’re not likely to get a lot ofgenuine emotional truth out of his public statements.

The main thing that willinfluence what he’s likely to say is… well, who the Herald of Andraste is.

For example, a QunariHerald is…. not going to be popular in Tevinter, given that theQunari and Tevinter have been engaged in a lengthy cold war which – isn’t eventhat cold, most of the time. To have a Qunari rise to prominence in the south,and in the southern Chantry, moreover… it would be seen as very threatening,even to the most liberal of Tevinters. (Even Dorian will talk about hismemories of fleeing from invading/attacking Qunari; it’s canon that they makefairly frequent incursions around Qarinus and other coastal cities. Beingforced to run from an invading force who’s killing and kidnapping/brainwashingyour friends, family, and other countrymen does not for cordial relations make.)

Urian is not the sort ofzealot who preaches about the “oxman threat,” though there are magisters whocanonically do. He’s also not about to get up there and suggest rolling overand showing the belly submissively. There’d more than likely be a lot ofsermons reminding the congregations that Tevinter is the true holy land, thatthe Imperial Chantry is the truest and original church of the Maker. Nationalistpropaganda, but without any of the virulent “back to the glory days” edge ofthe Venatori. Just something which would keep the Imperium strong and united inthe face of what would surely seem like two of their enemies combining.(Distinctions between Qunari and Tal-Vashoth are unlikely to be heeded; they’llsee the horns, nothing else.)

An elven Herald mightprovoke something similar but the sermons might have a slightly pitying edge.There’d be sermons which speak about the virtues of self-sacrifice, which havelong (always) been part of Tevinter’s national monomyth of identity, about dutyand how those who rule and those who serve are none of them fully free. Theremight be some veiled comments implying the elf is just a figurehead, set up tomimic our Lady Andraste’s status as a slave, almost profiting off of it, in away.

A dwarf – well, Tevinterlikes dwarves. That would be a much more positive situation, over all. So woulda mage inquisitor, if we’re speaking of humans. A human mage in power is thenatural order. There might be concerns then, however, that the Inquisition issetting itself up as a more one-to-one rival with the Imperial Chantry; theremight be discussion in his speeches and sermons about the benighted ignoranceof the south finally finding the light of the Maker. Casting the OrlesianChantry as backwards but learning, improving, coming to see things in theproper way at last. They were once one Chantry, before the Schism, after all.

And depending on choices – did the Herald ally with the Qunari or not? Did they ally with themages or the Templars? – some of these opinions or speeches would change, ofcourse.

In some specific verses –like @orxna’s Herald verse, or the one @archontem and I have where my owncanon-divergent mage Inquisitor ends up arranged-married to the Archon, there’d be specificopinions and statements made, in a much less general way. But overall, what hesays aloud, what he preaches or speaks on, will follow certain themes dependingon the Herald’s background and choices – and, more specifically, on howTevinter’s masses are likely to feel about those things.

babe how many more alcoholic disasters does my blog need

SEND A MOOD AND I’LL DESCRIBE HOW MY MUSE COPES

bliss is a much stronger emotion than islwyn generally commits to feeling. at his happiest and most peaceful, he is generally content more than anything else. bliss is - to him - an extreme that almost frightens him, threatening his grounding and his careful crafting of realistic expectations. bliss is simply unbearably too much and he would struggle in having to analyze or even admit this feeling.

generally, he does not have to worry about being overburdened by strong emotions. as noted, contentment comes to him far more easily (but contentment and fulfillment are not the same, I should note).

however, if he should become aware, and overwhelmed (mainly as a consequence of not…understanding how to manage strong emotions and subsequently panicked by it), he’s likely to withdraw from the source. even if it is a perfectly good and healthy thing, and so his fear and avoidance are actually extremely maladaptive.

january positivity meme | accepting

EÎS: Positivity for someone you remember from when you first started your blog.

i’ve had solas over 3 years now, so a lot of the people i remember from when i first started have moved on by now. which is a little sad, but also inevitable.

that being said, some ppl who have been following me for all three of those years and are still around:

@arielshepard – technically i’ve been w/ ariel since my mass effect rp days. if you enjoy canon divergent shepards, i’d highly recommend her! it’s a highly creative take on the control ending and just a+ writing.

@cadashsmash – joly was probably one of the first ppl who took interest in thora? even tho cadri was and is 1000 times better developed than thora.

I support tears on this dash

just not my own >:U