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i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like

#and then the 'feminine' style can't grow a beard for some reason #Saints Row 2 and the new installment did it right #my favorite character creator ever

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Obsessed with these moon lesbians.

#asfxuxuxxfh

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wonder why you might think wyll is more responsible for the terrible things that happened to him than astarion is. hmm. wonder why.

#do not look in the fucking replies oh my god

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still can't believe they facking removed wyllzel flirt banter.

#THE FUCK YOU MEAN THEY REMOVED IT?????? #larian you're so fucking stupid oh my god

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doing meta roleplay via inventory management

karlach carries the food i find, especially herbs and giant hunks of roasted meat, because she is absolutely a girl who would have random mushrooms and half a rotisserie chicken just hanging out in her cargo shorts pocket

laezel holds weapons so she can judgementally grab a weak-ass dagger out of someone's hands and replace it with a cool sword (with which they have no proficiency)

astarion gets all the wine and jewelry because he's my fancy little pet and pawns it all at the first opportunity

gale gets all the books he can carry, which is like, ten, but this way i can imagine the tomes he's always consulting at camp are limericks about mermaid sex

shadowheart gets religious relics and gear because i think it's equally funny to put her in necklaces idolizing her version of satan and/or in holy vestments she pried off of her dead brothers in christ

#doing this next time I decide to play. #like with full roleplay. if you get a new sword it's because Lae'zel said so. #also I already had Karlach carry the food (because Vice's stealing ass got overencumbered with food alone) #and Gale books because of course #so this is the next step. #what does Minthara carry? ooooh poisons!!!

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[context: from my last post some ppl were talking about Gilflach being the Jaheira of BG4]

Karlach let you stay at her inn for free and she's always down for the occaisonal tavern brawl but other than that, this gal is RETIRED.

#!!!

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Y'all've heard of Mama K, now get ready for Grandma K

#WHAT IF I LOSE IT #WHAT THEN. #old Karlach... old Karlach who got to grow old... and get gray hairs and wrinkles... #I AM FINE. #girl you blink and YOU will be the old hero kids look up to just like you did with Jaheira.

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ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!

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karlach x durge comic 💜❤️

#EEEEEEEEEE!!! #I love everything about this

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I did say there's actual plot to this AU beside shadowzel bickering didn't I

#awww lightweight Aylin... #I love this headcanon #also: bet Isobel always knows. she just lets her think she doesn't

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Happy lesbian visibility week Averyone here'my girl sera

#seraaa 🥰

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the goal is for the end results to be the Ideal Height Order, with whoever has the least votes being the shortest, and whoever has the most being the tallest! so vote to add height. you may attempt to communicate who you believe needs more votes. you may attempt sabotage

#people don't like voting Sera so much they just made her smol #but you know what - you only made her stonger #you think she was a sneaky thief before try catching her now #she's also coming for your shins #((...is that. how they're spelled...))

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chk!

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I have a lot of feelings about how Ashley is so loyal to the Alliance even though they treat her and her family like a curse. How she needs to prove that she's not her grandfather's legacy.

I think about how the series sets up the Alliance in general as the good guy broadly, but Ashley is a perfect example of one of the many, many ways it is not. The Williams name is a black mark, they're not willing to promote this family when they give all of themselves to the Alliance, but they are more than happy to accept them into their service. They are more than happy to use this loyalty and drive to prove themselves. To use them up until there's nothing left but a body and some dog tags, right?

Sometimes, I also think about the way it must have felt when finally, finally!, Ashley is promoted. She earned it but did it feel tainted somehow? Did she wonder if the only reason was because they kind of had to? Her name was part of the crew that saved the Citadel. If the geth and Reapers had never happened, would she ever have risen that high through the ranks without that association?

And what about during the Citadel coup? She's made a Spectre. She's getting recognition outside of the Alliance. And there's Shepard, standing there with a gun pointed at her, telling her that the man who made her a Spectre has turned traitor. I wonder, did it feel, for just a minute, that Shepard was just trying to make her success mean nothing, stand in the way of her getting anywhere with her career just like the Alliance always had before?

Did she have a punch in the gut moment where she realized that the Alliance, the Council, just saw her as tool. Someone they could use and her loyalty didn't really matter at all? But she's just going to suck it up and do what she has to do what a good soldier does. There's a galaxy to save, and she's going to do whatever is in her power to do to save it.

#aaash ;^;

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aebdghjdtbgnryh??? 🥺

So I picked up the dog while playing DA:O today and one of the dialogue options kinda struck me. I didn't manage to screenshot it but it basically said "I've always wanted a dog like this" which might be an option for every origin but I think it's particularly interesting coming from a city elf warden. Because I can just imagine a child Tabris sitting on a roof and looking out over the city and seeing the life that they are not allowed to live. And a huge part of that life is the mabari. So, in a way, getting a mabari is kinda of like getting a piece of the life that was denied to them. And that struck me as very sad and made me realize how much a Tabris warden's life changes when they leave the alienage. Like, they almost at a dwarven warden's level of not knowing things about the world.

#in Rine's case she probably agreed to it which doesn't make the point made here any less tbh #but also now I'm thinking about the #'sure the sad new cousin can have my toy' #to #'like dogs Shianni' #pipeline. #with the alienage part of the Denerim battle on top. #no shit Shianni's reaction to Tabris is always the way it is #(well apart from certain choices ofc)

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why did the fucking fade suck so much in inquisition there's not even a bit of psychological torture in there for ANYONE whats even the point

#sera is the only one who got the proper fade experience 'cause fade itself was torture enough #for real tho I haven't even thought of it before I read your tags. #it's like. we got a written speedrun of everyone's fears on those tombstones #and were verbally told that allegedly everyone saw something scary instead of spiders #while simultaneously assigning arachnophobia to both Hawke and Inquisitor for? some reason #and yeah the diss from the fear demon #like. yah that's weak compared to previous games #could've given us some proper cutscenes instead of that one collecting side quest...

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[ opens my wallet to show you my gith warlock ]

Her name is Peh'tra, she renounced her devotion to Vlaakith when an entity lurking at the edge of the universe granted her spooky powers. An established underground criminal and resident witch, terrorising small villages with her ragtag coven and small following of red kobolds.

Who knows what she will do for the power she seeks >:3c

#holy shit she's so cool