#honestly its probably pretty basic but theyre my blorbos

[destiny2paladin]

Alright, fine. I'm gonna be done with procrastination and actually write out my stupid destiny 2 guardian lore.

First off, the first rez. My warlock, who goes by Paladin. He's the oldest of the three, and has been around since D1. (I should finish that...)

Red war hit and he loses his damn mind over being lightless until he finds the shard and pulls a flaming sword out. Still prefers Nova Bomb. As of Forsaken, Paladin mourns the loss of a Vanguard, but presses on for justice, not vengeance. The barons are targets, Uldren is a criminal who needs to have justice served.

Shadowkeep rolls around and Paladin has several mental breakdowns over Crota being back because hey, this guy was a damn MENACE before, why are you back, go back to being dead please.

Beyond Light and Paladin embraces Stasis at first. The power is phenomenal and he continues to use it up until he freezes a guardian in the Crucible with his rift cast. It felt so unfair and wrong that Paladin just said fuck this. It's too much. I'm not using it. (This is actually the reason I don't use stasis in ANY content whatsoever on warlock!) Witch Queen rolls around and Paladin is pissed, how dare Savathun, etc. The light is OURS and then we learn the truth and Paladin feels remorse. He doesn't want to kill Savathun. But we can't talk her down.

Then we come to my Titan, Odin-4. His ghost Loki wakes him up on Nessus right after Red War, in the ruins of the Exodus Black... next to Gofannon Forge. Odin immediately defends it from a ragtag fallen raid and claims a Blast Furnace from the forge, and uses it for ages. He kinda dips off the radar until after Beyond Light and spends most of the time learning how to wield the Light and punch things harder. As of now, he bounces between Void and Solar, but definitely prefers the latter. If you're interested, I wrote a short story about Odin rezzing that I can post if people ask.

Now for the last of them. My hunter, Wolfe. Now going by Fenrir after reading about Norse mythology in the archives, he woke up in the bitter cold of Mars and was trapped there until Paladin showed up during the Warmind campaign, dying dozens of times to the environment and the frozen Hive. He's a real survivalist, putting his own survival above all else. He dislikes stasis due to it feeling cowardly and weak compared to the heat of Golden Gun, and acts as a scout more than anything. He is the most versatile of the three, having separate caches of gear for each Light subclass.

So. Yeah. There's the Lore. Long ass post that probably won't get read a lot, but hey if you like it enough I'll throw together a collage of everyone's current appearance.

#destiny 2 #d2 #destiny #lore post #oc lore #long post #honestly its probably pretty basic but theyre my blorbos

[gikairan]

I'm going to go ahead and dump some Warden thoughts

So, I play a male Elf Mage based on Ayzahd. Its not a very canon friendly name, but I still use it because THIS IS MY BLORBO, I DICTATE THE NAME The games pretty light on details of a pre-Circle elf? All you get when you start the game is "youve lived here as long as you can remember". Now, I believe we start really forming long term memories around 5-6? Not hugely up on the science, but we dont tend to have many strong memories from before that. So i kinda figure... hes probably been in the Circle since the age of 5. He doesnt remember where he came from at all (its the Denerim Alienage, but I can't remember if theres an actual Connection in game or i just decided that), and cant really imagine life outside of it. I also assume hes somewhere between 16 and 18, I just havent quite decided where abouts, or if the game actually gives you the exact age (Irving calls you a "child" so im leaning a taaad younger)

I cant remember exactly the lore we get for the Ferelden Circle and what its like to live there, but i do remember things like... theyre not allowed into the Outside yards because of Anders. Dude used Outside Time to try and escape, so everyone had Outside Time taken away from them. I just dont remember what year that would be. So I assume Zah just... hasnt been outside... for like... 11 years....

I've been spending most of my thoughts on just... thinking about some teenager whose lived indoors his entire life, never really seeing the outside... actually experiencing it for the very first time. Sure, he knows what rain IS. But hes never experienced it. He knows what nature is in theory, but hes never actually seen anything more than a huge lake. He steps off that boat and is just... awed by everything. Feel how fresh the air is! WOW WIND!! Look at that tree!! Oh? What is that small creature in the... grass?? That is grass, yes?? ITS ALL SO VERY EXCITING AND EVERYTHING DESERVES ATTENTION. ...... There are a lot of stops on the trip to Ostagar to stare at Things.

.... There are just as many stops because he is also very Precious. Hes lived his entire life with soft, slippered feet, in a not particularly large building. Physical exercise is likely not a large part of a circle mages life. Especially when theyre Banned from Outside Time. I sort of think of the Tower as much larger than they show you in game, where basically the apprentice dorms are directly next to the library which also doubles as the classrooms, but i still dont believe an apprentice mage will regularly be traversing the entire tower. They'll be doing 1-2 flights of stairs at most, imo. .... Walking to Ostagar is hard. And hes also never seen a horse before, let alone ridden one. Theres likely a lot of stops for some self healing of blisters, or nursing of tired legs. .... And also, sleeping. I doubt the apprentice beds are particularly Plush, but theyre also not a sleeping bag on the ground. So yeah, the journey to Ostagar might be filled with wonder (nature), but its also very painful (Blisters, tired muscles, tired self....)

Other major thoughts include: The first kinda fights he actually gets into do.... not quite go well. He knows how to use magic, of course. Hes very good at that. Everyone always told him he was a Good Mage, Irving was very complimentary of him to Duncan!! But actually in a high stakes life of death scenario? Its... quite a lot harder than it was in the library. Or even in the Fade, like in the Harrowing. its definitely not such a good feeling. Hes a good mage, right?? But suddenly hes not very good at doing fireballs when theres a darkspawn trying to murder him.... is he really cut out for this? This is all a mistake, he should just go back to the Circle.... (which, honestly, is kinda what he wants). He doesnt even really have any mage friends who can tell him that actually this is fairly normal- stress does make it more difficult to magic good. He just kinda has to struggle through and work it out (Until he has Wynne to talk to)

Aand one of the interesting things i noticed about the Origin is... theres no actual mention of him being an elf at any point in it. Now this is probably because Bioware didnt want to actually make 2 versions of the same Origin- it made sense just to ignore the elf stuff and make it applicable to both humans and elves. but that is a fun thing to think about! Despite the Circles many many faults, its actually probably the only place on Thedas where humans and elves are equal? With so many apprentices coming as children, humans grow up with elves their equals, and elves grow up on equal footing. .... and upon arriving at Ostagar, you can see elves being used as messengers, spoken to harshly, and the Quartermaster will literally think youre there to deliver a message- despite being dressed differently enough for the Quartermaster to remark upon your silly dress. He goes from an equal, to a second class citizen kinda very suddenly? he wasnt prepared for that! And likely it gets worse when he reaches the Denerim alienage. He suddenly gets a real sense of how all the other elves live. And its kinda a bit of a shock? Like, he gets the feeling that for all the faults of the Circle hes only just starting to realise..... hes actually pretty privileged. Ive tried not to think on that too much, because thats many many hours of game away. But overall my thoughts are like "I expected to be mistreated because I am a mage- I have grown up in a chantry controlled environment who Hates Us after all. But I was not expecting anyone to really have an issue with me being an elf?? And i'm horrified by the treatment i've received, and how everyone else like me is treated"

And to get ahead of myself to post-Awakenings timeline.... He sort of becomes someone who feels hes supposed to revive the Ferelden Wardens... but he cant invoke the right of conscription. Hes had so many choices taken away from him, that he cant take those choices away from anyone else? But i do also think he pretends to use it. ... On Circle mages. He "conscripts" them, brings them to the keep, and just... doesnt ever do the joining. His reasoning is to give mages some kind of freedom- from the circle, from the chantry, and to live a... semi-normal life. They just have to pretend theyre going to go to do the joining any day now. Hes also definitely giving more of the budget to the servants wages. He wants to be the BESTEST employer to the alienage elves. He might not know their struggle, but hes in a position to do something.

And that concludes my blorbo info dump (●ˇ∀ˇ●)

#dragon age //// #oc blogging

[hyperfixationspam]

ok im just gonna give a summary of my opinion on the situation re ofmd and historical stede bonnet. not bc i think my opinion matters but just so ppl know and if anybody wants to unfollow they can

basically i think it was a shitty ignorant decision but it was likely made in good faith. im pretty sure what happened was that david jenkins thought "haha wouldnt it be cool if i named some characters after real pirates like a cute little reference" and just... didnt analyze that any further. like this is the guy who said he doesnt care about pirates and refused to look up when pinocchio was written. the producer read one sentence on wikipedia and closed it forever. knowing the shows approach to historical accuracy as a whole, he probably just went with his standard "who cares im not doing research" approach which. sometimes works! and in this case it very much doesnt! like im all for 1700s leather jackets but like maybe when it comes to fucking SLAVERY just think about it a little more before you decide its not relevant to the story so it doesnt matter?

my main concern is HOW DID NO ONE POINT THIS OUT TO HIM. the writers room is like. half poc if im not mistaken. and within the show itself racial issues are handled decently. so why did no one say "hey can we change the characters names?" bc thats literally it thats all it wouldve taken. best case scenario no one else thought to look it up. worst case scenario someone did point it out and got shut down. if something comes out that thats the case, then thats a whole different situation. but for now im leaning towards thinking that this was a snowball of laziness

and listen im very hesitant to declare ANY media "irredeemable" so i find it impossible to put a show where the main issue that the characters have insensitive names due to creator idiocy in that category. and as warranted as the criticism is... some of yall have no idea how to process gray areas. the show can be both progressive and problematic at the same time. bad things can be done with innocent intentions. and that goes for you too "we stan david jenkins he did nothing wrong shut up" crowd!!

but like its not really a fixable mistake bc like. its the characters names. how the fuck do you retcon that. you dont. i mainly think the best course of action is this. to the fandom: STOP FUCKING EQUATING THE CHARACTERS WITH THE HISTORICAL FIGURES. thats it!!! its very easy!!! just fucking separate reality from fiction as much as possible. dont even bring up the historical figures unless its to point out how awful they were. your blorbo isnt a slaveowner? cool stop fucking comparing him to one then

and for the show going forward? really the main thing is that david jenkins needs to apologize. if youre pissed about this, @ him on twitter. preferably politely bc no matter how justified it is pointed insults make ppls brains shut down from criticism. he really needs to understand that he fucked up on this one. i dont think hes a bad dude i think hes just an idiot with good intentions. ofc if he defends his decision or makes some passive aggressive apology this is all out the window. i dont know the dude, i cant say for sure whats up with him. but im leaning towards hanlons razor on this

there are also some little steps for the show to make. mainly straying even more from biography (which considering the way hes talking about it im 100% sure is going to happen to some extent, but the more the better). honestly just dont introduce any more characters with historical names unless theyre completely ~unproblematic~ which. idk if an unproblematic famous pirate actually existed but they can try. idk what was up with anne bonny

so tldr love the show bully david jenkins

#discourse