I still cannot believe we live in a world where people think Cassandra and Sebastian Vael, and now fucking Krem, are not white. Like, when is DA fandom going to grow up.

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donc-desole:

Alistair hi-res x x

Still unfinished, but I felt that I needed to post it and move on to other artwork :)

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Lead Them or Fall

im so tired of DA fandom just insisting that all their faves, from cass to alistair to sebastian aren’t white. not trying to actually address the shitty narratives forced on the non-white chars or to try to get MORE ACTUAL POC IN THE GAME, instead just going “my white fave is tan, so they’re brown now”

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almightyp:

A very experimental Morrigan…redesign-ish thing?

Sometimes I cannot believe Dragon Age fandom is real. 

No problems with the fact that every single brown companion in a released game so far is sexualized to hell and back waaaaaay more than the white companions, or that every single one of them comes with a back story of even more sexualized abuse and poverty. No problems with we’re on the third game in the series and are just now getting a black companion. No problems with how they made elves a metaphor for real world racial issues and then made 90 percent of them white in game. 

No, the real pressing issue of Race in Dragon Age is whether Sebastian Vael is white or not!!!!!!!!!!

My only real criteria for whether I like a magic system or not is basically “how similar is it to Wheel of Time’s system.”

This is why my interest in Dragon Age mages skyrocketed after the description of the mechanics in Last Flight.

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theladylavellan:

Dragon Age Inquisition - Companions

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Tv Tropes + Morrigan [x]

On that note, however, I am seized by the all-consuming urge to write a post-game fic where my Hawke, who romanced Fenris, is made Tranquil and Fenris has to team up with Anders to find a way to cure him. 

And they spend 30k words hating each other and learning a lot about friendship!

My biggest problem with the Anders vs everyone (and Fenris vs Anders in particular) is that yes, most of the companions in DA2 hold shitty bigoted views, but Anders is the only one of them who seems to relish being an asshole.

Almost all of them will bring up their shitty views if you thrust them into a situation where those values are being directly addressed. Anders is the only one who is constantly prodding and harassing others outside of those situations, mocking completely uninvolved people (Aveline), dredging up sensitive subjects with people he knows hate him, etc etc. 

This is also probably why he’s always felt like the afterthought of the group to me, asides from Sebastian. Sebastian has the obvious handicap of being DLC, which alienates him a bit. Anders just seems out of it because no one actually seems to like him. Isabela tells him to his face maybe he’s the problem she has with mages. Fenris’s stance on Anders is pretty clear. Merrill is nice to him (Merrill is nice to everyone) but they’re hardly friends. Aveline and Anders have never given the impression of being close.

We don’t get a sense of the interconnected near-decade spanning friendship the other companions share from Anders; the closest we get is his relationship with Varric, but even that falls flat for me because we get no reason for Varric to favor him other than a throwaway line about Anders swapping stories from his time in the Wardens with him.

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everythingdragonage:

#ridethebull

for alexredgrave ❧

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Favorite female video game characters » Morrigan

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I’m not calling you a ghost, just stop haunting me.

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