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Secret Panel HERE 🧙♂️ tapas.io/episode/3062926
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look! the moonlight shows us for what we really are. we are not among the living, and so we cannot die — but neither are we dead.
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the first log you read in an abandoned laboratory with blood stains on the floor and gouges in the walls:
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i cant stop thinking about this tweet
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quote directly from the Bioware devs
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Varric Tethras as a character is wild. He calls everyone by a nickname. He writes trashy romance novels. He’s a prolific liar. His family got them kicked out of the dwarf kingdom for rigging dwarven Wrestlemania matches. He has fingers in literally every crime ring in Kirkwall. He lives in a pub. He named his weapon after his absent girlfriend with whom he has a restraining order. He denies his involvement in keeping the wizard police away from his friend’s illegal magic Urgent Care. He’s the mom of the friend group. And he does this all while being four feet tall
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imo the reason dragon age 2 goes so hard is because it's like... not afraid of the sociopolitical conflicts in thedas and it puts you right up in the middle of them. you just. you can't ignore how FUCKED thedas is when you're playing da2. it's not just that you're told "oh yeah some people are part of violently oppressed minority groups", your party members are deeply and personally affected by being part of those groups!
contrast that with dai where like... solas and sera are TOTALLY disconnected and disdainful when it comes to elves, and solas, while a mage advocate, sorta, doesn't have a personal stake in it! vivienne (just saying now i am not a fan of vivienne hate she is a complex and interesting character who deserves respect) has carved out a situation where she can have power WITHIN the system that violently oppresses her and wants to protect that! dorian comes from a country where mages are a protected and privileged class! none of them provide any incentive to closely examine or strongly oppose the established institutions of thedas, except, perhaps, tevinter, which we're supposed to write off as evil anyway!
da2 incentivizes you to believe that the decisions you make matter, on a deep level, to the people that you love. they are in real danger from the templars! threats against the alienage or the inquest of tevinter or the qunari are genuinely destabilizing on a life-or-death level. meanwhile like... idk you can let the chargers die and that sucks or you can personally make blackwall's life bad for his admittedly pretty shitty crimes, but the urgency is missing, the intensity of loving people who are in a mundane sort of danger. you can close the breach, but what the fuck can you do about the chantry? but da2's the only game you really get that in. dao asks you to make some hard decisions, but the force you're fighting against is an outside evil. the breach, the archdemon, the blight, corypheus. okay that thing is bad and i should definitely get rid of it. in da2 sure there's the qunari and meredith or whatever but imo the primary conflict is with the atrocities the society you live in is built on and that goes FUCKING HARD.
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What do you mean this isn't what happened at the landsmeet?
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bioware was unhinged cuckoo bananas for not letting us romance nathaniel howe that’s all im saying. the DRAMA. the ANGST of a cousland falling in love with the son of their parents’ killer. the DRAMA the ANGST of them meeting in a jail cell after nathaniel got caught attempting to ASSASSINATE THEM. they invented enemies to lovers and they didn’t even carry through. i’m pissed
LICHERALLY
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Emissary.
Always wanted to fuse Saren's in-game look with some of the concept art where he's shown wearing robes.
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A gift for @warpedlegacy as a thank you for helping me do rewrites and edits for my fanfic <3 Blank version below the cut.
My golden retriever recovering addict boy has no voice actor <3
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I’m thinking about the Legacy DLC in dragon age 2, and how if you complete it after Leandra is already dead Hawke still has a conversation with her afterwards
And since this is being told from Varric’s writing it’s really him saying ‘I am giving them a moment with their mother. I’m trying to give them the closure they couldn’t find. I’m telling them the words they cannot hear’ and I think I’m about to cry