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the-rogue-mockingjay · 1 year

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13, 26, and 34 for brynja/jaal!!

HMGHMGHM OKAY SO I OVERTHOUGHT THIS BY A MILE but it was fun, I hope reading it is fun 😂😂😂

13. Which one steals the other's clothing?

Since they're Major Height Difference (Jaal is like 6 foot something iirc, maybe around 6'3" and Brynja is 5'2" on a good day) obviously there's not a whole lot that's feasible to steal. Not to mention wtf is angaran clothing like HOW does it work?? I can't figure out the structure at ALL 😤 But I have seen some people draw Jaal with a more casual Initiative-type uniform in addition to his default outfit, so in that case Brynja would steal the shirts (and look absolutely silly because she has maybe half his shoulder width and again, she is TINY). If he's going to steal anything from her it's probably going to be one of her bazillion necklaces just to have it in his pocket when they're separated for a while (they ain't codependent but they're rarely separated since they work so closely together; so when they are, they're gonna be really excited to see each other again and talk about what they were up to, and I just kinda think Jaal would like to have some piece of her with him in the meantime).

26. How do they comfort each other?

This one is pretty simple in comparison! Touch. And words. They keep each other grounded and focused or just offer moral support with small touches, often a hand on the shoulder or arm. Jaal in particular will stand very close to Brynja when things are tense, and with anyone else that'd stress her more, but his presence comforts her greatly. She'll do the same for him- angara are used to and prefer to kind of be in each other's space, and it takes a bit of adjustment on her part, but she'll stay close to him, too.

As far as words go, Jaal's an eloquent man. Brynja's words don't have half the elegance his do, but she's honest and genuine, and that's enough. And let me just say that "Right behind you" is one of the most reassuring lines in the game no matter which squadmate is saying it 🥹

34. Do they give each other nicknames?

Not really? They tend to just use their actual names or pet names. Jaal calls her "darling one" and she calls him "love" more often than not. If she's teasing, she'll use his last name, Darav. On missions and in the field, he sticks to using her last name with an occasional "Pathfinder" thrown in, but off the clock (or when things go seriously wrong) he uses her first name. Basically nobody else calls her Brynja as her family calls her Brin and literally everyone else prefers Ryder, so the whole first name is almost a nickname in and of itself.

#thank you azia it was nice to think about them again 🥰#brynja ryder #brynjaal

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 1 year

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Writer's end-of-year roundup, 2022! 🎉🎆

Despite the myriad hardships of the year for me - losing my old beagle, fighting doctors, a completely stupid amount of grief/loss, migraines and disability oh my! - it's actually been an amazingly productive and inspired year? I'm very proud! I completed the second draft of my first-ever longfic, which needs another round of editing or two before it's ready to be published, and I've discovered I LOVE editing. More than I love writing, actually????? Lots of people talk about the Dreaded Editing but for me, it was vastly easier than writing the first draft was LOL. I also did what I thought I would never do, which is create another Shepard, Morrigan Vesta, and I actually wrote mostly about her during NaNoWriMo this year. I'm finally getting the hang of how to give characters unique voices (or portray a canon character's voice accurately, which is something I used to be extremely hung up on). I can honestly say I've made a lot of progress both as a person and as a writer this year, and I'm finally starting to find my joy in writing again. Very exciting!

Taking a page out of @pikapeppa 's book in how to format this year's data- I love seeing your charts every year!! My own chart ended up being quite a bit messier, but that's probably because of how I tweaked it to fit my fics. I apologize deeply if the image quality gets butchered, I am not wise in the ways of battling Tumblr's nonsense

(HEY GUESS WHO FORGOT A FIC......the one I forgot is Marevera's Dream, which is a Wayfarer post-Ep 1 pre-Ep 2 WIP, and it clocks in at 1,174 words, making my actual total 60,486!!!!!)

*I forgot to note that In this darkness, on my own is a followup to A New and Dark Horizon.

60K........DUDE!!! I haven't written that much since junior high/I got my depression diagnosis in like 2016, so this is. Big!

New things I tried: For starters, I paced myself during NaNo instead of forcing myself to write every day like I did during NaNo 2020. And WOW was that a night-and-day difference! In 2020, I wrote about 20k and burned myself out so bad I couldn't write for another 6-8 months. This year, I wrote about 30k, and only sat down to write about half the days, successfully dodging burnout. I think that's a valuable lesson for me in what works for me, how to balance my desire to write with what I'm actually capable of that day, and how to work with my disability without letting it limit me.

I also wrote in first person for the first time in maaaaaany years, and while it's not as comfy as third person, it wasn't bad, and it was a good way to explore the different strengths of POVs.

And since my laptop had a fatal encounter with a cup of coffee last spring (RIP little buddy), I've gotten very comfy writing on my phone, which I had previously only done for Across the Sea and Part 1 & Part 3 of broken body built anew because I was bored/inspired during a long car ride LOL.

Fic I spent the most time on: Going Over Jordan, easy. I originally wrote it during NaNo 2020, then re-wrote it at some point during 2021 (time is a weird soup so I don't remember). And then I rewrote it AGAIN this year, edited the crap out of it, printed it, and will edit it again sometime in 2023. It's a fic that exists purely because I am at times a spiteful little goblin, and I had Opinions about the MEA main mission Hunting the Archon, i.e. I didn't agree with how Bioware wrote the companions' responses to Ryder's temporary death, and my Ryder is also an anxious neurodivergent wreck like myself, so I wanted to write how that mission would have actually gone with Brynja as Pathfinder. I wanted to highlight the relationships Brynja has with her friends (particularly Jaal), and I also just wanted her take on the mission in general, because it's not the same as what's in-game. I mean....a lot of people die gruesome deaths in that mission and you see the aftermath, you see the gutted and maimed corpses. There's a lot of horror inherent to what Bioware wrote for that mission, but they glossed over it big time. I wanted to fix that.

I'd like to have someone beta read it, but Andromeda is a niche market as it were, and I've never had anyone beta my work before, so that's honestly the biggest reason it's not published yet. It would benefit greatly from beta reading I think, but uh. I don't know how to make that happen. I'm gonna publish the dang thing in 2023 or 2024 at the latest, though, even if it kills me DGKLJDHLG.

Fic I spent the least time on: I can't say for certain, but it's probably the microfics. Those took only a couple hours. Aside from those, not counting WIPs, it'd most likely be Across the Sea, which I wrote on my phone while sitting on the kitchen floor.

Favorite thing I wrote: ALMOST ALL OF THEM. In all seriousness though, there are a few that have a special place in my heart, and the most important one is Across the Sea. I'd been wanting to explore how Marian processes/copes with Thane's death pretty much since the day I created her, but I never got around to putting any of it on paper until the time came for me to say goodbye to my dog, a 17yo beagle named Maggie we adopted in 2019, last February.

It was an absolutely hellish series of events just in those few days alone: I had a sleep study done which gave me the worst migraine of my life, I threw up in a random parking lot, went home and tried to sleep the migraine off, and was woken up a few hours later to my mom sitting on my bed and saying, quietly, "Maggie's dying". My migraine quit mattering at that point. I sat with her on the couch for hours, held her paw, petted her softly. My parents took turns sitting with her in the living room overnight.

Ultimately, she was just suffering so much for so long we had to take her to the vet. It was a weekend, so it was going to be hours before they opened. Maggie got up and stumbled to the kitchen, and she laid down in front of the door to the garage, and I just...sat with her. There was nothing I could do to help or save her, so I kept her company in her last hours. In the midst of moving and the uncertainty surrounding my health, my new disabilities, traumatizing doctor appointment after traumatizing doctor appointment, I was having to say goodbye to the greatest light and joy of my life a mere 6 months after we lost the dog we've had since I was 3 years old (a shih tzu named Reggie, who wore the pride of his breed like a royal mantle and never stopped carrying himself like a king, even when he didn't recognize us anymore).

Maybe it's silly to compare the loss of a dog to the loss of a lover, but...things just clicked in my brain. I wrote Across the Sea for and about Thane and Marian, yes, but it was for me and my beagle, too, in equal measure. Thane was terminally ill but even so he died quite unexpectedly (THANKS KAI LENG), and the same was true of Maggie. So it was....maybe it's a silly thought, but it was a vent piece. I understood my grief through the lens of Marian's, since hers was so much easier to tackle than my own in its huge overwhelming weight. I'm a very private person with big emotions, and my grief was - and is - a very personal thing. Something I needed to keep close to my chest, hidden, at the time. To write Marian's grief as I waited with Maggie for the inevitable, it was like I had a companion, a friend sitting with me in that grief. I understood Marian much better then.

So perhaps mechanically speaking, Across the Sea isn't my best piece (I'm honestly not certain where it ranks quality-wise), but it is....the writing equivalent of those pendants that carry your loved one's ashes, for me. And it's done quite well on AO3. Knowing that people have enjoyed this piece that is so precious to me and comes from a place of such deep sorrow...there is no greater honor I could ask for, I think. It's a fitting tribute to a character and franchise I love, that's gotten me through many hard times, and to the beagle that made the horrors of life worth living.

(Aside from that, my other favorites are broken body built anew (first trilogy piece), Going Over Jordan (first longfic), In this darkness on my own, Farewell to Arms, Des profondeurs dans la nuit, and the ME3 early game Morrilenko duology Never Enough/In the shadow of your heart.)

Favorite thing I read: Imma be real with you chief, I have.....not read much. Not as far as books go, anyway. But I've sure read some amazing fic and interactive fiction games!!

I reread a bunch of stuff, partly to examine the technical strengths of my fave writers and stories, and partly because hey, they're my favorite stories!! Off the top of my head, the pieces I reread were: Flotsam, Ain't Sentimental, and Loose Ends by @asaara-writes; Sorrow and Resistance by @/myrini; and while I didn't get the chance to reread/finish these like I'd hoped, A Lesson in Drowning by @theherocomplex, Where the Winds of Fortune Take Me and Lovers in a Dangerous Time by pikapeppa are bookmarked both on AO3 and in my brain for the same reasons as the shorter pieces

everything @coldshrugs has written in the past year or two. Both as a writer and as a reader, shorter form fiction is more accessible to my migraine-addled brain (I love reading long stuff but it's often migraine trigger T^T) and Azia's a MASTER of short fiction???? So much punch packed into such concise words!! Incredible clarity and emotional depth!!!! There are many writers on this site that I admire and respect greatly, and Azia is one of them

My favorite IF this year is 100% Wayfarer (@/idrellegames). I haven't been able to focus on it as much as I'd have liked, but the COMPLEXITY the DEPTH. I'm in awe of it and Idrelle. The scope of the project is so massive and the intrigue and depth of the story and characters is incredible to see, Idrelle is a one-person-army of a writer. It'd be easy to think that Wayfarer is made by a team, but nope! It's all the genius and dedication of Idrelle. Having followed Wayfarer from the beginning, the only words I can describe it is awe-inspiring

My writing goals are going in a separate post because this is about 19 times longer than I meant it to be DHFLJKDSLKJHG. If you've read this far, thank you so much!!!!!!! I know it probably got a little more personal and a little bit sadder than you were expecting, so thanks for sticking with me- and I don't blame you an ounce if you skim-read this or skipped some sections. It's a lot of words!

Happy New Year, everyone!! You guys make Tumblr great, and without the people I've met through this site, I would've missed out on not only tons of awesome media, but all y'all super cool folks and your blorbos!!! Keep on creating, everybody. Your stories, your art, your headcanons and metas and dumb jokes, you bring light into my life, and the lives of others. I want you to know that your works bring comfort and happiness to the life of one lost and drifting young woman...and I want to thank you for it, sincerely. I know for a fact I'm not the only person whose life is made better by your presence. The fact that we haven't met in-person doesn't lessen your impact by an ounce.

#rogue writes #writing roundup #tw animal death #yeah a lot of my titles are just random lyrics but hey i'm a very musical person lol

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 11 months

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Oddly enough my biggest struggle as a writer whether I'm operating in fanfic or original works is simply.....that I'm afraid people will judge my characters the same way they judge me in day-to-day life.

I'm not a person who feels emotions by halves. Everything I feel - happiness, anger, fear, hurt, despair, apathy, love - I feel deeply, intensely, and for a long time. I find value and meaning and joy in small simple things most people overlook or disregard (like a particularly pretty flower growing by a sidewalk, or the way a person smiled when I complimented their tattoo or shirt or whatever). And I've been told I'm overreacting to things my whole life- my brother is the worst about it and at least subconsciously looks down on me for being so delighted or so angered by things he (and society in general) deems inconsequential, but I've also been told this by friends, parents, councilors.... On the flip side, I am often unbothered by things that others lose their minds about such as traffic, someone driving slow, or some stranger/cashier/clerk/whatever being less than nice but not outright rude.

In other words, I have no frigging clue what's a "normal" emotional response to something. My ability to gauge it is absolutely busted, if I was ever able to accurately gauge such things to begin with.

When I make a character, more often than not they inherit my intense emotions (e.g., Marian Shepard, Brynja Ryder, and O'ravi Soltholia, among others). And there are some non-OC characters, such as Jaal, Nero from Devil May Cry, Haurchefant, and G'raha Tia, that canonically exhibit this trait as well.

And the nature of stories is that Bad Things Happen. More often than not in these stories the bad things are apocalyptic or otherwise deeply traumatizing, such as Ryder's heart stopping, finding the corpses of people who were vivisected, Shepard dying and waking up in a Cerberus base, the Warrior of Light watching their best friend (and possible lover) die to save them out of nowhere or having to fight an enemy that's possessed one of their dearest friends. More often than not, the fate of the whole damn world rests on the protagonists; if Shepard and WoL were to fail in their respective missions, all life in their galaxies would be wiped out, and if Ryder fails theirs, then that's (to their knowledge) all that remains of the Milky Way civilizations gone and exterminated along with the angara in one fell swoop.

As bad as these things are, as justifiable as it would be for someone to lose their minds about it....when I write about these things and the characters' responses to them, I am consumed by the fear of coming across as melodramatic. I am terrified that people will think my characters (or the characters I'm writing) are WAY overreacting, being overemotional, and for the life of me, I just can't shake this fear. Even if it's irrational, even if it's stupid. I just......good lord.

#it is 100% because of the autism #but this is such a niche problem to have as a writer there is 0 advice about it to be found #in fact i really don't think i've seen anyone else talking about this kind of problem. it's just so darn niche #and it's been years and i still don't have the slightest clue how to handle it. when i ask for help #or ask someone if my works are melodramatic nobody knows how to respond #my best friend just reads my works and tells me 'yeah i think this is a perfectly reasonable way to respond to this situation' and yet #i can never believe him for long.#i just....gosh i really wish i knew how to navigate this. i would share my writing so much more if i wasn't held back by this really odd #and likely unreasonable fear

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 2 months

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one day I will have money and I will spend it on a commission of all my Shepards and Ryders hanging out together

#one day. oooooone day......#for now i am broke lol #and by ryders i just mean brynja and her siblings bc i literally cannot make another ryder #brynja is THE pathfinder ryder to me forever and ever #but i have 3 main shepards and 2 or 3 shepards i haven't actually played yet #anyway. yeah #they should all get to hang out together the way my wols can #alas only ffxiv has gpose :c

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 2 years

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❌🎵✨ for brynja pls!!! <3<3

Ohoho yessss excellent and I just finished the second draft of my 20k word Andromeda fic yesterday so Brynja owns like 90% of my brain rn, naturally 😂

[ ❌ ] is there something your muse struggles with that they might never overcome? what is it? why do they have so much trouble with it?

The social anxiety, for certain. She inherited that from me and we both need medication to help control it. There's times when it's not as severe, for her and for me, but that bitch never goes away.

And even though things work out so far with her being Pathfinder, she still feels so inadequate and so unworthy of the title and people's respect, and afaik it was a known fact that connecting someone who wasn't prepared to SAM could kill them, and her dad still gave her SAM anyway. She....has a LOT of things she'll be grappling with til her dying day about her father and her family as a whole. She loved him, he loved her, he literally died for her, but it doesn't change the fact that he was incredibly absent and pushed her into a career she didn't want (i.e., military) and then RUINED that career on top of it. She spent her whole life sacrificing her dreams and parts of herself to earn her dad's approval and attention and it never worked. Now he's dead and his choices put the fate of 100,000+ people in her hands. It's a knot of pain and regret that'll never go away. Also? She had no desire to go to Andromeda. She only went because of Alec and Scott. It was never a life she wanted and holy SHIT does she miss the Milky Way. Never being able to see Earth or her extended family again absolutely kILLS her.

[ 🎵 ] is there a specific song or songs you associate with your muse? why is that?

YESYESYES I SURE HECKIN DO!!

Wayfaring Stranger, any version really but specifically Rhiannon Giddens. A beautiful old hymn that may or may not be my most listened to song on Spotify 2 years in a row. Brynja not only battles her own disorders every damn day but she's also battling kett and Remnant and outlaws and Roekaar and hostile wildlife for the survival of her people and the angara. She lost her home, her family, she's alone in a desolate new galaxy she never even wanted to see, and she witnesses the slaughter of her people and angara over and over. People she trusts betray her and lie to her. Life is hell, and it's all she can do to get out of bed. This old hymn helps her carry the weight of the loss and trauma and anger she feels, as it promises better days ahead.

On a much brighter note, Waking Up Slow by Gabrielle Aplin. GJDKGHSJKL IT'S TOO CUTE and so accurate to how her relationship with Jaal develops. She's only been in one relationship ever before, her entire world is still upside down and her head's spinning and she's scared shitless of vulnerability, but some things are worth the mortifying ordeal of being known. Love, golden and true and steadfast, is one of those things.

[ ✨ ] what aesthetics or symbols do you reference when writing your muse? are these backed up by canon, if your muse comes from a canon? is there any specific relevance to these choices?

Hmmm I'm not sure how much it comes through in the writing, but I think of the Sierra Nevadas....Brynja lived in the tiny bit of the mountains that's in the state of Nevada, and that's where most of the Ryder family is- she and her siblings grew up there and so did Alec and his siblings. Galaxies and constellations and horses and heart-shaped glasses. The desert, but also the ocean and rainforest of the Pacific Northwest, as it's the last place she lived in the Milky Way. A bright electric purple. Violet flame- she's a biotic and while she's not Cora or Shepard, her powers are still nothing to sneeze at, and she relies most on them in combat so she's a blur of violet fire on the battlefield. And this is more of a theme thing but I can't help but mention it: she represents a lot of the best of humanity but in particular, the strength of our emotions. Love, fury, devotion, grief, hatred, bitterness, disgust, joy....the depth of her love, loyalty, and determination is why she succeeds as Pathfinder, despite the odds against her.

#thank u azia these are such interesting questions im YELLING #brynja ryder #mass effect andromeda #brynja my darling i am so sorry you inherited such an incredible amount of my problems #but alec and the ryder kids remind me so much of me and my own dad....the intertwined mess of love and confusion and resentment at times...#never feeling good enough and never understanding why what you do isn't good enough....#there is so much love. and so much pain. my dad does his best and imo alec did too #families are.....complicated

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Oh, all my nights taste like gold

Yeah, when I'm with you it's like everything glows

And all my days we can lay low

Yeah, we're waking up, we're waking up slow (x)

#and she's like 5'3 #brynjaal #brynja ryder #jaal ama darav #mass effect andromeda #mea #rogue plays mass effect andromeda #i simply love them your honor #i've been writing for these 2 beautiful dorks since last august can ya believe it?#i am a very slow writer but i swear one day i will have some darn fic of them on this stupid site hqhskagskagdjsh #also lmao.....the height difference between them should be more drastic since he's supposed to be like 6'3 tops #but this is such a nice screenshot i have no complaints 😂😂#friends to lovers......tis what they are #brynja who has only been in 1 relationship before discovering she loves jaal romantically only after he gets shot in the face:#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Flower crown and heart-shaped glasses: a tried-and-true Brynja Ryder LookTM

#brynja ryder #picrew

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Started editing again and suddenly I hate absolutely everything I have written, even though the last time I looked at it I loved most of it. Have a drawing I did of Brynja back in October.

#yeeaaarrrgggghhhhhhh why does this SUCK ALL OF A SUDDEN #still p happy with the drawing tho i mean it's not perfect but i daresay it's the best drawing i've ever done #no i don't know jack about art and colors why do you ask?#trying to draw lately has just been: great! where tf do i start #but i've made more progress with that than i have writing #what's worse: drawing pupils or editing? HARD FRICKIN CHOICE #oh no i just noticed a mistake #oh well who cares it's tiny #drawing her freckles was so much fun #rogue are you rambling to procrastinate on your editing? why yes dear friend i am but shhhhhhh. that's a secret between you and me #rogue draws!!#brynja ryder #my ridiculous violet-eyed daughter whom i love

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Been playing MELE a lot but nonetheless I still have Brynja & Reyes brain rot

#brynja ryder #reyes vidal #brynja's almost-boyfriend lmaooooooo #it would have been so easy for brynja to love him and i did consider romancing him #ultimately i went with jaal for a few reasons including the fact that he's on the tempest and a squad member #but brynja became close to reyes real quick despite the fact he is yanno a criminal #he became a very close friend to her much to his surprise #when she learned that he was the charlatan....it burned #she felt so stupid and she's not stupid! she just likes to believe the best in people she can't stand to do otherwise #she was a little angry with him and VERY angry with herself. the trust that she had in him was shattered and neither she nor reyes know #if it can be restored #sloane is a whooooooole different matter entirely #reyes and brynja....a sweet friendship. but a short-lived one

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Got to doodle with some friends today! These little scribbles were my contribution :3

Featuring: Brynja Ryder, Rose Harper, a random Star Wars oc I’m still working out the design of, and @asaara-writes‘ Lizzy whom I love very much! Plus a random evil box of french fries! It’s probably a mimic!

#rogue draws!!#maybe not well but she does #i love doing these little doodles.....they don't exhaust my brain #they're silly but so much fun and i learned to draw circles doing them!!#no one said they were perfect circles tho #brynja ryder #rose harper #f r e n c h f r i e s #rose with the silver shroud hat.....i love that hat so much man i will die before i get rid of it #conveniently it is now trapped in my inventory for freakin EVER

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 3 years

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Multiples of 3, 1-18 for your Ryder and 47,48 and 49 for Hawke 🤗 (or switch them around if you want!)

This took me like 8 hours bc I'm typing it all on a phone and got interrupted ripriprip. Anyway I don't remember multiples for crap lmao I hope I got it right 😂

Brynja:

What does their safe space look like?

Jaal. LMAO but for real, her room on the Tempest. She keeps the lights low, and has different color settings depending on mood and light sensitivity. She also has tons of light and fluffy blankets and pillows piled all over, and she took her dad's coffee machine and keeps it by her desk along with a ton of snacks and hot chocolate. On her bad days she hides under 20 layers of blankets and at times dumps her work computer in the crew quarters. When she's having a panic attack SAM will talk her through some grounding techniques or Jaal will sit with her. Sometimes they talk and sometimes they don't, but he's always her anchor and solid ground, his presence steadies her.

What kind of books comfort them? What books help them heal after a hard day?

She's a science nerd but: definitely fiction. Fantasy, historical, she's 100% a sucker for romance lol. Nothing steamy bc that's usually outside of her comfort zone, more like the tooth-rotting fluff variety lol. She needs soft hopeful stuff, she only reads angst if she knows it's got a happy ending.

What is your character’s trigger point? What makes them angry, sad or makes them go off?

Oh man. She has no tolerance for corruption and very little patience for bureaucracy. Cruelty will make her feral in a heartbeat: generally she's against murder, but the Cerberus scientists on Kadara trying to make a computer out of people's minds, well....I haven't decided how it goes exactly, but it may be the first time she actively chooses to kill someone instead of killing in self-defense. Any time someone says "You're not Alec" or "Alec would've made a different choice" or whatever, it hurts her deeply and pisses her off, she often gets snappy with whoever said it. When someone says they wish Alec was here instead, it doesn't piss her off, just.....aches, bc it tells her that she's not good enough, and it gives her the impression that people wish she was dead. Cora quits saying that stuff real fast.

Also, the day a human is exalted? That's the day she spirals into a deep deep depression. It'll be the big breaking point for her and honestly Cora will have to take over a lot of Pathfinder duties for a while. Witnessing the exaltation of angara, krogan and salarians is already chipping away at her and breaking her down, that'll be the last straw.

Are they an overall healthy person? Do they make for a good patient or a terror?

Ahahahaha she's mostly healthy? But her eating habits are GARBAGE. She snacks all the time, skips meals on accident, eats a lot or not at all and she can be picky. She never in her life drinks enough water.

When she's totally wiped out she's a good patient, once she's on the mend she gets really antsy and gets a little pushy about refusing help and getting back to work sooner than she should. Between the two of them Scott's the real terror, he doesn't bug for permission to do stuff like Brynja does,, he just goes for it, breaks out of the hospital and far too often reinjures himself in the process. They both can't leave bandages or scabs or the like alone, they always gotta pick at it.

What is the first thing people notice about them?

She's tiny (like 5'2" tops), and she lacks the gravitas and authority that her father and Nadja carry. She's pretty easy to miss in a crowd, but when you do notice her? Her eyes stand out. They're violet, almost pink in the right lighting and they're not contacts because BioWare made the terrible decision of giving me a color wheel for the eyes.

Describe your character through a Brooklyn 99 gif or line.

Joke's on me I haven't watched b99!!! But I did some digging around and the line I found that's most her is probably “I’d describe the workflow today as dismal, with a tiny dash of pathetic.”

Hawke:

What is your character’s reaction when someone does something nice for them?

She's absolutely delighted, thanks the person with an entire paragraph's worth of jabbering and depending on who they are, a hug. Sometimes a side hug, other times a full-on hug. She's not usually that touchy so it surprises people lol.

Is your character easy to make cry? Or angry? Or annoyed?

No, but I think I can rank them by difficulty: annoyed, cry, angry. She is almost never angry and has the longest fuse known to man, so when she is angry it is TERRIFYING. Hell hath no fury like a Hawke. She doesn't often get genuinely annoyed either, she'll get irked but it'll only last like 3 minutes, people who truly annoy her she gets really passive-aggressive with, and it's usually nobles and templars who get that 😂 And when she cries it's only in private, so when she does break down in front of her friends it catches them off-guard. When Leandra died they expected it of her (like for real who wouldn't cry when your mom was murdered and turned into a Frankenstein monster) but when Act 3 rolled around and she broke down seemingly randomly, that's extra off-guard and I think of the group Bela, Sebastian, and maybe Merrill are the most equipped to handle it, based on their respective friendships with her.

What is your character’s biggest fear? Most irrational?

This might be stereotypical but: being dragged to the Circle. This bluebird can't survive in a cage, and she's part of the mage underground with Anders. She knows the hell they suffer and she's damn sure Meredith would execute her at the drop of a hat if she could. She's terrified of tranquility too, but I think outright execution is a little scarier for her, since it's a little more akin to being butchered like an animal. Tranquility kills heart and magic, execution kills everything at once, so that's her reasoning.

For irrational fears, I'm not sure. Probably losing her most important belongings, such as her parents' rings.

[OC ask game]

#thank u brit 💜#brynja ryder #aisling hawke

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Agape for the MC you identify the LEAST with

Ludus for the MC you identify the MOST with

Storge for the MC that is currently plaguing your thoughts <3

AAAAAGGGHHHH I HAD THIS ALL TYPED UP ABOUT TO POST AND TUMBLR DELETED IT ON ME UGH. It didn't eat your ask tho and I'm so glad for that skakgsskakshgs.

Agape: What does your character love about the people around them? What common, positive trait does their friend group/family share?

For Marevera, it's the capacity for random kindness. There's not much of this in Rona, but every instance is precious to her and she keeps the memories of them tucked away in her heart. Any act of mercy, any act of kindness: putting worms where they won't get trampled, relocating a spider instead of killing it, sharing freshly made bread with your neighbors, when healers lower or waiver the costs of their services for people who need jt but can't afford it. Even just a smile, a compliment, a stranger holding the door for her, she lives for these things. Sometimes literally! As a Wayfarer often charging into danger, her life has been saved on many occasions by someone's kindness.

We haven't met her friend group yet lmao but between her siblings and Aeran, what they have in common is their staunch, unwavering loyalty, pulling together how they can to support those they love.

Ludus: Who does your character turn to when they want to have a good time? What would they do with this person to have fun?

For Brynja:

Peebee. They work on Zap and Poc together, as well as general Remnant research; they both absolutely LIVE for it. They also sometimes just drink, play poker, and shoot random dralls.

Drack. She can and sometimes does listen to his stories all day. They also discuss, test, and compare Milky Way weapons, the new Remnant weapons, and angaran weapons. Also drink, get into the occasional bar fight, and kill kett on some of Brynja's bad days.

Jaal. When these two get talking, they do NOT shut up. Ever. They often fall down rabbit holes and get so off-topic they don't remember the original topic, usually in the vein of angaran & human culture/history, Jaal's family stories (Brynja is hesitant to share her own), philosophy, and the weapons they tinker with.

Storge: Who does your character consider family? Which of their family do they love the most? Why?

Brynja has 3 families: her blood family, her second/chosen fam, and Jaal's family.

Her family is complicated. The Ryders and Harlows, her aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents she left behind in the Milky Way and they probably died in the Reaper War. Her immediate fam is hm. COMPLICATED. She loved her dad and he did his best but he still hurt her. Her mom was supposed to be dead but isn't, but they can't bring her out of cryo until they can cure her disease. Scott was in a coma all this time in Heleus and it's driving them apart, and Nadja.....is just as emotionally constipated as Alec was.

Jaal's family can get complicated too: it's a huge family with old and complex dynamics she's still learning, with many names and faces she needs SAM's help to track, and Baranjj in particular still has some Roekaar attitudes (tho she is able to forge a friendship with Teviint.). It's intimidating, but Sahuna has already claimed her as adopted daughter, and with her and Jaal's help she's adapting splendidly.

The family she loves most is probably her crew. They're her home, her strength, her hope and safe place. They've seen her at her weakest darkest places and at her brightest & strongest. They give each other hope and purpose, and she gives them direction. I'm very soft about them ;-;

[Greek words for love asks]

#THANK YOU BRIT I LOVE YOU ❤❤❤❤#brynja ryder #marevera elanorin

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