arvel mahariel - he/they

The Haircut

DAI Isabela Josephine Hair Mashup for HF

Something I threw together for a Hawke. Sharing for anyone else who wants to use. Replaces the pulled back half-up hairstyle.

Cats/Love/Safety

Process and thoughts under the cut

"You could have waited inside, my dear Warden." "And where's the fun in that, huh? I thought I'd meet you halfway, save some time." "Oh, a perfect moment to waste that time now, then."

Hawke being baffled because the fucking stick up his ass knight captain from Kirkwall is with a woman who says "I think he should do it again" in regards to Anders blowing up the Chantry.

Having a romance based redemption arc like this can be tricky. It's the one time I think bioware actually succeeded in not dipping their story into misogyny. It's why I'm not a huge fan of Solas, honestly. Cullen's arc isn't "I can fix him", he's doing the work himself. He's already had some major shifts in belief at the start of the game! If you don't romance him, he seems to come to the same conclusions. Hell, he's friendlier to Dorian than half the other characters are, when you'd expect the opposite. Blackwall also has a very good romance arc! He's already on the path towards actively being a better person. A well written romance should progress alongside character development that already had roots. Solas is an asshole and he kinda just stays an asshole until his ex shames him into doing the right thing. That's an 'i can fix him' plot. If the only thing making a man not a jackass is his girlfriend, then chances are there's some misogyny steeped into that writing.

I know his VA was....Like That (and in jail, I think?)...but they really should continue Cullen's arc at least in a book. There's gotta be like a hundred dudes that sound just like him. Hell, Alistair's VA could do it.

updated refs for my canon Warden! 🧡

I’ll be forever bitter that we were ROBBED of a fancy ball at the necropolis, so here’s what Maude Ingellvar would’ve worn to the occasion (with Emmrich by her side, of course)

Like I’m talking everyone just know that once a year Lich Lord Volkarin has a three week leave where he goes and lies perfectly still in next to Rook’s skeleton in their sarcophagus just like he would have if the two of them had been buried together. He’s fine and very obviously not dead but if you try to talk to him he will not answer because that goes against the spirit of the thing.

Elgar'nan?