#da absolution spoilers

[bluecadash]

Anyone wanna play "Who's Brave Enough to Poke Meredith?"

#dragon age #dragon age absolution #da absolution #da absolution spoilers #meredith #varric #varric tethras #anders #cullen #cullen rutherford #hawke #da meme #aging dragons #little meme cuz i finished rewatching absolution and the urge to replay da2 is sooo strong now #maybe next week :')

[baejax-the-great]

Tassia: No, Rezaren, don't do blood magic, you're so sexy aha

Rezaren, who has done blood magic every day since he failed his magic license exam: Aw, babe, don't even worry about it. Seriously. Don't.

#tevinter templars confirmed as incompetent as feared #dragon age absolution #dragon age absolution spoilers #absolution #absolution spoilers #da absolution #da absolution spoilers #tassia #rezaren ammosine

[darethshirl]

okay so people keep dunking on poor Tassia for not realising Neb is fucking dead and just chatting at him with like zero response BUT are we not gonna talk about freaking REZAREN talking to him??

like? are you expecting a response here?? from the corpse? the reanimated corpse that you made? what kind of mental gymnastics is this man doing in this head good GOD

also THIS part

like is this a joke. is he having a private joke with himself. is he chuckling inside.

and you know what actually this last scene is a really cool way the show tricks us, cause on first viewing Rezaren just seems like a calm and chill guy here, unruffled, doesn’t raise his voice, just an all-around mild dude

and then you rewatch and go oh. this man thinks this entire situation is acceptable. he thinks his life is a Normal Life to live. no wonder he doesn’t realise he’s the villain of the story lol

#dragon age absolution #da absolution #absolution spoilers #da absolution spoilers #rezaren ammosine #i want to dissect his brain #my posts

[queenbol-of-baldurs-gate]

Personal lil theory about the dragon in Absolution: since it was flapping around Thedas about 1000 years ago, it is highly likely that she has either a) never seen a qunari before or b) was around when the first qunari (as we know them) were born.

Which could mean the reason why she didn't bother Qwydion would either be because she had never seen a qunari before and went "Huh, well you're certainly not one of the bitches who did this to me. Aite." OR the far more interesting theory of she saw her and was like "Oh!! One of our dragon people babies!! It's been forever, okay kid dw I won't hurt you, eat your greens."

I for one would fucking love it if was b in this case because that has so many connotations. I want an ancient dragon to take a look at a qunari and recognise itself in them and treat them like one of theirs. Would also make sense that modern, young dragons without the Queen Dragon to guide them would just attack the qunari on-sight like any other small annoying two-legger.

#dragon age #dragon age absolution spoilers #dragon age absolution #da absolution spoilers #da absolution #WOULD BE SO COOL!!!!

[bifurious-rex]

#AND HES A GAY BEAR #da absolution #da #dragon age absolution spoilers #da absolution spoilers #lacklon

[waterdeep]

hawke like if I had a dollar for every time i thought i killed someone and then it turned out they weren’t actually dead and were up to no good i’d have two dollars. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

#dragon age #dragon age absolution #da absolution spoilers #dragon age absolution spoilers #y'all i'm 😭

[snuffink]

Friendship ended with Miriam x Hira

Now Lacklon x Roland is my bestfriend

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#has anyone done this already? #dragon age: absolution #lacklon #lackland #roland #da absolution #da absolution spoilers #miriam #hira #lacklon x roland

[winterhartarts]

Lest we forget the reference to Dorian’s family during the exposition about the Circulum Infinium…. Yeah, don’t think I at least forgot about that little aside they made 👀

Also the fact that the Tevinter flag has TWO serpents on it, and the Circulum ask is made up of two serpents.

Yeah, don’t think I missed this, and don’t think I ain’t thinking about it now still.

#da absolution spoilers #da absolution #dragon age absolution #dragon age absolution spoilers #dragon age spoilers #dragon age #dorian pavus #dorian dragon age #circulum infinium #da lore

[blighted-elf]

Just call Hawke a Necromancer, because everyone they kill comes back to life even more fucked up than before 😌

#Blighted posts #Dragon Age #DA2 #DAI #DA Absolution #Hawke #Corypheus #Meredith Stannard #DA Absolution spoilers #My Marian's about ready to retire in the Anderfels

[ziskandra]

listen, listen

I know this is gonna be a controversial take, but the more I think about it, the more obsessed I am with the idea of Varric voluntarily helping The Crimson Knight (especially in a worldstate where Hawke was left in the Fade).

I’ve talked before about how I view Meredith as the type of person who is motivated by her desire to protect her own at all costs, and how this leads her down the path of Well-Intentioned Extremism, and culminating in becoming the embodiment of the uh, Knight Templar trope.

And Varric is obviously motivated by his motivation to protect Hawke: he shielded them from the Inquisition, and when push came to shove and he was forced to expose Hawke to the Inquisition anyway, it can result in Hawke’s death. The Inquisition fails Hawke, who is basically Varric’s moral compass — without Hawke’s influence, he defaults to siding with the templars at the end of DA2.

Most of the Inquisitor’s inner circle scatters over Thedas and Varric returns to Kirkwall. Varric loves Kirkwall; he’s a Kirkwaller through and through: even though he’s never envisioned nor wanted a life of politics, he becomes the fucking viscount, because there’s nobody else left who wants one drop of the poisoned chalice of that role.

And Kirkwall is a city that has always been dependent on its templars for protection. They are the city’s military force, and the city is noticeably weaker once the templars abandon it — depending on world state, it can lose a significant portion of its territory to one of Varric’s former companions. If someone he knew and trusted can do that to Kirkwall, who else might take advantage of Kirkwall in its weakened state?

Varric is isolated and alone, away from anyone who might be able to help him see the situation in a different light: his main support network is Aveline and Seneschal Bran, neither of whom are known for their ardent support of mage rights. They’re doing their best to clear Kirkwall of the impacts of the war, of the red lyrium, and even though they’re doing their best to avoid exposure, being around that much red lyrium cannot be healthy. Slowly, the paranoia and increased penchant for violence settle in. It becomes impossible to resist spending more time around the substance — and sometimes, it talks! And it sounds like Meredith Stannard.

Varric is desperate and scared and has lost everyone he has ever loved. The Inquisition has been downsized or disbanded, and his only purpose is to serve his city: the same intention with which Meredith started, the same intention and fears that the red lyrium feeds upon in them both.

Varric fears becoming his parents: people who failed to protect him because they were too caught up in their past mistakes.

But sometimes, as people, in our attempts to avoid our fears, we end up barreling into them headfirst instead.

#do i actually think bioware is gonna give us a varric tethras corruption arc? no #but the narrative parallels are there and i just think they’re neat! #and like i never expected in my wildest dreams that meredith stannard would have actual plot relevance in 2022 so!! #and back when dragon age exodus the da2 expansion was still being considered #varric was meant to die at the end 🤔🤔🤔 #tbh i don’t expect this to crop up in da:d bc there is SO much to cover and doing the writing for a world state with alive pro-mage hawke #would be tricky #but that’s why we have fanfiction #bless transformative fiction for letting us explore endless possibilities outside of the limitations of commercial interests!! #also emo about how both varric and meredith carry so much GRIEF about their families #and grief can cause people to do dangerous things #and when that’s coupled with positions of power …! #this is also tangentially a meta about the intersection of trauma and how power corrupts #thedas is not an environment conducive to healing lol #anyway i will continue to spin these thoughts around like a plate in a microwave #da absolution spoilers #dragon age #meredith stannard #knight commander meredith #varric tethras #dragon age meta #asha meta #asha’s villain manifesto #also warning that the trope links lead to tv tropes lol #bc I’m tired of people acting like fictional characters (vehicles for a narrative) are real people (capable of causing real world harm)

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

Hawke deserves better than this SMH 😤😤😤😤😤

"Failings" my ass. It's not like Corypheus and Meredith came with handy-dandy instruction manuals on how to kill them for good!!!!!

#SLANDER!!!! SLANDER I SAY!!!!!! #hawke did nothing wrong this is the hill i will kill everyone and then die on 😤😤 #i mean by all rights meredith SHOULD be dead. i have no idea how or why they brought her back #ten bucks says they're gonna completely ruin meredith's character and make her a joke like corypheus was #dragon age #hawke #meredith stannard #da2 #dai #da absolution spoilers #dragon age absolution

[bluecadash]

me 2 seconds after they were introduced

#dragon age #dragon age absolution #da absolution #da absolution spoilers #not really a spoiler but just in case #qwydion #lacklon #da meme #aging dragons

[baejax-the-great]

So is anyone going to talk about the blood magic artifact actually dragging a soul back from death/the beyond/the maker's bosom/whatever or are we just accepting that Absolution canonized there being some sort of afterlife where the souls of dead people hang out and for the price of one dead dragon you can have your grandma back

#dragon age #dragon age absolution #absolution spoilers #da absolution spoilers #dragon age absolution spoilers #like are we just... accepting that

[v-arbellanaris]

hawke after meredith's statue goes missing and red templars start hanging out at the hanged man:

#dragon age: absolution spoilers #dragon age: absolution #da absolution spoilers #da absolution #THEY'RE RETIRED. #MOSTLY TIRED. BUT THEY'RE RETIRED OK. #changed my mind not deleting this bc im fucking wheezing i love you hawke

[breadedsinner]

I take it back. I'll take a thousand jokes about Hawke not being able to kill things (and they don't stay dead) over the notion that Hawke just didn't matter.

The notion that their fear, that the Nightmare, was RIGHT.

#da absolution spoilers #Absolution Spoilers #Dragon Age Absolution Spoilers #No sir I don't like that!!! #'Isn't that the whole tragedy' The tragedy was that the higher they rose up the more they lost! #The idea that losing loved ones means nothing mattered is very strange to me #What does it even mean to 'matter' anyway? #Is it not enough to touch lives? #Is it not enough you have a group of people who will never be the same thanks to you? #Is it not enough to be hot and bisexual???

[bogunicorn]

Rambly thoughts about DA Absolution under the read more.

Imagine my relief when fucking Rezaren didn't get woobied as someone doing the wrong things for the right reasons. Like, fandom is fandom and he's a skinny white guy with magic so I'm sure there will be some fuckshit if fandom really takes to this show. But I'm weirdly grateful that we as the audience weren't expected to have sympathy for that specific devil.

Also, maybe I'm just jaded because of the sheer amount of movies and shows that are like "this antagonist would be 100% in the right, so we made them do some atrocities so you won't side with them", but it's also a strange relief that the character who does do shitty things for sympathetic reasons isn't the most oppressed character around, for once. It's Hira, whose anger and trauma are clearly justified and validated by the narrative, but also isn't entirely removed from her background as a Tevinter noble, even a disgraced one. Burning down an entire country - the bad and the good - is a position of pretty intense entitlement that she holds onto even after having what seem to be pretty genuine feelings for a formerly enslaved person. The difference between Miriam and the thousands of enslaved elves still living in Tevinter is chance, and Hira is clearly comfortable siccing Meredith on everyone regardless of status just for the association.

I love that Hira lived (no fridged lesbians!), I love that Roland and Lacklon kissed on screen instead of being implied (bc it's so common to have explicitly queer women but not men in the same work), I love that the villains weren't comically evil but instead rather mundanely so. I really like that "we're not family and you're actually the bad guy" was a genuine shock to Rezaren.

I think it was a good, if brief, glimpse into Tevinter. I'm fascinated by the idea of the Tevinter Circles using Harrowings; it definitely seems like a final exam or a prestige sort of thing? I wonder if they're a requirement for graduation or something optional? They seem private; maybe I have to look at the scene again but the only bodies at Rezaren's Harrowing looked to be his mom's and Neb's.

Also! Pavus namedrop! I was hoping we'd actually see Dorian in the show, but having that little bit of information about his ancestry is neat, too.

#bog post #dragon age #da absolution #da absolution spoilers