#i love to hate dragon age

[shay-does-art-things]

anyone else battling demons about the latest scraps bioware has given us?

#i love to hate dragon age #insert meme: i miss.....the idea of it #anyway #dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #da #dadw #da4 #dragon age 4 #not art

[hollytree33]

Whole bunch of Solas studies

#dragon age inquisition #dragon age #dai #dragon age fanart #solas #love you but I hate drawing you sometimes #I’ve finally gotten to where I’m satisfied #his face is just so hard to drawwww #dragon age dreadwolf #I like these tho #and it helps that I’ve found a brush I like to use for sketching #my art

[gvalesdraws]

CW blood and rendon howes head

Roses have Thorns

#i love my babygirl cousland so much #as much as i hate rendon howe #she is The Rose of Ferelden symbolism slay #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age fanart #dao #hero of ferelden #cousland #university is eating me but my love for dragonage is stronger #oc: aisha cousland

[kaltacore]

I'm sorry but no videogame party does it like hawke squad. they're one of the most exceptional people in their city one way or another. they are remarkably pathetic and helpless when their personal shit hits the fan. their character arcs are a slight growth at best and a total regression and slow descent into a very bad place mentally at worst. no matter how you play hawke they can't completely change these fuckers' pivotal beliefs. they're obsessed with hawke anyway. half of them lives in literal shitholes. the other half willingly comes to aforementioned shitholes to hang out. their disgust and displeasure with each other is rarely a joke. they still care for each other's well-being to an extent. these bitches are very serious about wanting to cut each other's throats sometimes but they will behave for hawke's sake. they're also very serious about exploring each other's bodies and inventing nsfw fanfiction in thedas just to fuck with their friend group. the most unhinged dynamics of all time. there's no way it could be that good considering shitty writing and production hell but somehow it is. a mess of a game but also a miracle

#every time i pop up on this site it is because of them. the little freaks #i love you the most hated people in kirkwall <3 thank you for being this fucked up #dragon age

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Honestly there's no one I'd rather be on a forced saving-the-world road trip with than the origins gang. Sorry kotor companions sorry bg3 companions but no one does it like the origins gang. They are a family they are insane they are not to be fucked with they never would have been friends if they were given a choice in the matter. The perfect road trip squad.

They consist of the best dog in thedas, the worlds most royal himbo, a demi-god shapeshifting witch, a bisexual assassin nun, a bisexual assassin orphan, a powerful spell-slinging grandma living on borrowed time (who is bffs with a spirit), a giant spy man who doesn't know how to function by himself, the worlds grossest dwarf, and a giant statue that has a life goal to kill all birds.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #barkspawn #alistair theirin #morrigan #leliana #zevran arainai #wynne dragon age #sten #oghren #shale #i just want to travel with them ok #i realize none of what I said about their dynamic is something kotor/bg3 companions lack #there's just something about the origins group that makes them especially compelling to me #maybe it's the setting idk #the fact everything around them is dreary and grey #they're like all just trying to hard to simply eek by #and if none of them ever met each other they'd all still be nobodies #and they hate each other and they need each other and they love each other

[qursidae]

Quick Josie for funsies <3

[Carrd 🃏]

#josephine montilyet #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dai #my collection of sketches of fav love interest in da is now complete.... #best part of doing sketching without ref is that my anatomy is always just enough off that I hate it

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I said I wasn't going to get started on the topic of Aveline ruining Carver's chances with the guard but I lied okay, it's Carver Hawke defense hours.

Here's the thing; it doesn't matter if you believe Carver was or wasn't fit for the guard. That's a different debate that I'll get to. What matters is Aveline's in no position to tell the guard not to accept his application. Why does she think that's her right to judge whether or not he's fit?

Carver should've had the chance to prove himself one way or another. If it turns out he's not a good fit, then let him fail. Let him learn from it.

"Oh but failure could mean lost lives-"

Aveline doesn't get to talk shit about failure and the people. Plenty have died on her watch yet she still believes she's a good guard and Guard-Captain.

"maybe Aveline's protecting him, Carver could die while on patrol-"

Carver could die working in the Bone Pit, or serving as a templar, or when he's running around with Hawke. Carver could trip and fall down a set of stairs and die. In fact, he can die in the Deep Roads, somewhere he wouldn't have to go if the Hawke's weren't desperate.

Either Carver fails as a guard, or more likely, he succeeds and proves himself worthy of it.

But let's be real, Carver probably kept getting rejected due to being a Fereldan with a past of smuggling/mercenary work and Aveline only reaffirmed the decision, either because they asked her what she thought or she stuck her nose in unprompted.

But what irritates me is that she admits to telling them not to accept his application, and then has the balls to call Carver too proud to take up a trade or find another line of work.

Carver tells her, "And who would take on a Fereldan apprentice? Maybe in another year I could work my way up to pissboy." He has a good point here. Aside from the guard, the only other place Carver could work and use his skillset is with the Templars. Or go back to mercenary/smuggling work.

And Aveline doesn't even have a real answer for him. No suggestions, no encouragement, nothing. Just "Fine, let's crawl down some holes. Good bloody luck for your sake."

Also, if you do the Mark of the Assassin DLC in Act 1-

Aveline: You should see if any of the noblemen are looking for new men-at-arms. Carver: Are you trying to get rid of me? Aveline: It's a role with some autonomy. A good fit with your training and... tendencies. Carver: After serving King Cailan? You want me to suffer some poncy git who needs two servants to wipe his own ass? I'll find my own way, thanks. Aveline: I wish you would.

You wish he would?? Aveline, he was trying to find his way into the guard, a position he'd make a good fit for, and you helped deny him of it because YOU didn't think he would be good enough, I just-

If I haven't made it clear yet, I firmly believe that Carver would've made a great guard. He wants to help people, to be a protector. He's loyal, and despite what Aveline claims, he can follow orders and take his duty seriously. We see him do incredibly well with the Grey Wardens, after all. If he were a guard, he wouldn't have to go down into the Deep Roads with Hawke, and I think he would've been okay with that! He's so hurt and bitter when you leave him behind because that effectively tells him, "I don't need you." Carver's spent the whole first act telling you he wants to go on the expedition aka that he wants to be needed.

But if he were a guard, he would be needed elsewhere. He'd be in training as a recruit. He'd look after Leandra while you go. He wouldn't be backed into a corner with no income and only the templars left as his chance at forging his own path and providing for his family.

He doesn't get that opportunity, though.

By the way, if he becomes a warden, you can get this banter:

Aveline: I'm glad you found a place with the Wardens. Carver: Well, it's not the city guard, but it'll do. Aveline: Carver... it wasn't the place for you. Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I? Aveline: Well...

This banter makes me want to scream.

Aveline's just... she's so insistent that she's right. She's someone who will double down rather than entertain the idea that she's wrong and it's not just with Carver and the guard, it's with everything. The "my beef with Aveline" list gets longer and longer every time I replay da2, I swear.

Say what you will about Carver, whether you think he would've been a good fit or if Aveline's right and it wasn't for him, he was denied a chance and it cost him so much in the end. He either dies, or he joins the templars where he deals with Chantry's bullshit trying to brainwash him with "mages aren't people" and "magic is a cancer in this world", or he's infected with the blight and becomes a Grey Warden, forced to serve the rest of his life fighting darkspawn, tormented by voices and nightmares.

I will never not be bitter about this.

#dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age #carver hawke #aveline vallen #aveline critical #oh and also forever bitter that hawke doesn't have the option to talk to aveline about this #because listen my hawke would be on this #carver would be annoyed and all 'i don't need your help >:[' but that's not gonna stop ed from turning on Big Brother Mode #this is just one of many reasons i can't do the friendship path with aveline #i hate the thought of doing rivalries for all my other companions but i feel like aveline's rivalry route is the only chance to shake her #of her unwarranted over confidence and make her realize that she's not this lawful good 'i stand for all of us' guard captain #she still stands with me in the end but at that point i wouldn't be surprised if she was just doing to because she still feels she owes ed #for getting her outta fereldan and into kirkwall rather than because we're loyal best friends y'know? #she's certainly not doing it for the mage rights #but anyway i never miss an opportunity to defend carver #that's my baby brother and i love him

[biancadavri]

need cousland and aeducan locked in a room together need to observe them like bugs NEED to watch the one who lost most of their family to howe and the one whose inability to, no matter how knowledgeable of orzammar's politics you play them, truly be like howe directly led to their family falling apart right before their eyes and see who rips into whose throat with their bare teeth first

#all cousland needs to do is say at least MY brother loves me to tear aeducan apart thu'um style #it's been 0 days since the last time i had to google how to spell together. hate it here #dragon age #dragon age origins #aeducan #dwarf noble origin #cousland #my posts

[00wormwood]

ouppy and ouppylord

#da2 #dragon age #dragon age 2 #male hawke #m!hawke #garrett hawke #mabari #bioware #i love jewelry i hate drawing it #im never sure how detailed to go with it so it sticks out really weirdly #thanks for the nice tags on my last two posts! #art #ignore rhe weird perspective I Know.

[whydoihavetoart]

egg

#imagine your all time favourite character is literally a bald man who lies to you and then betrays your ass and then rips your arm off #haha couldn't be me #(i would die for him) #stupid egg looking bish #i hate him #but i love him #anyways i'm five years late for dragon age day but that's how we roll here #dragon age day #art #my art #digital art #artist #digital painting #digital drawing #drawing #artists on tumblr #painting #fanart #solas #solas fanart #dragon age fanart #dai #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age 3 #dragon age dreadwolf #da4 #dragon age 4 #fen'harel #dreadwolf

[yunnd3]

#dragon age 2 #fenris #dragon age #dragon age fenris #fenris da2 #da2 #garrett hawke #fenhawke #yes i fucking did it #and? #they are so cute i love them #police hate them i swear #(kirkwall police lmao)

[amatres]

will say now that i am replaying dragon age 2 on impulse, the scene where you say you wont massacre a bunch of mages and if anders is in the party with you, theres a moment where he just looks at you and the scene lingers. it caught me off guard i completely forgot that happens, anders buddy have higher standards

#dragon age 2 #dragon age #ama mumbles #i was a bit out of it so i didnt see his expression but i think he smiles??? buddy.... #love anders saddest man alive in thedas half of the time #hawke 'is a decent person who wont leave people to die bc of how they were born' anders :) #then again he grew up in a place surrounded by people trained to kill him and was taught to hate himself by that place #someone just being like 'no wtf' when people are horrible about mages must be so novel to him #even like after being free of the circle for about a year? or 2 years? at that point

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

[ID: Two sets of dialogue options from Dragon Age: Origins:

"1. So you're the one who butchered my kin?

2. That's a lot of titles for one man to have.

3. Boot licking appears to be profitable these days. [this option is selected]

4. When does the Landsmeet begin?"

"1. Oh look, the regent owns a talking ass. [selected]

2. Come over here and say that, shem.

3. I'm really going to enjoy cutting your throat.

4. When does the Landsmeet begin?" END ID]

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reasons to love the warden

#love how the options are 'fuck you' 'fuck you' 'fuck you' and 'fuck you but i dont want to deal with your bullshit rn' #remember when dragon age protagonists were allowed to have opinions and verbally spit assholes in the face 💪😤 #inky could never #(i promise i dont hate dai hfsdljfsd. i am however. salty abt parts of it) #laya plays dragon age

[roguetrevelyan]

The Deep Roads.

tap on gifs if they’re showing up blurry

#i used to hate this dlc #now i love it #dragon age inquisition #dragon age #da:i #dai #dragon age gifs #inquisitor trevelyan #dai gifs #oc trevelyan #dragon age gif set #the deep roads #deep roads #the descent

[yshtal]

luv the idea of an elvhen inquisitor who gets worse as solas gets better - an inquisitor, initially, so optimistic about this world, a dalish herald who wants so badly to be a sign of peace and good and kindness in the world, broken down by the constant assault of andrastian idealism that they face, by the pitying looks on mother giselle’s face, as though they can’t possibly understand the religious implications, the poor little rabbit. an inquisitor who protests, at every turn, the idea of belonging to a human Maker, whose beliefs in the gods of their people are always belittled as lesser, as uninformed, as wild and feral and childish, by a chantry that expects its worship, that feels it owed. give me solas becoming more human and an elven herald becoming more unraveled, more angry, more desperate to shake the image of the human god whose shadow they walk in.

god, imagine solas, realizing, for the first time, that these people might be real enough to care about, at the same time that a dalish herald realizes that there isn’t enough left to save.

give me an angry inquisitor, righteous and whole, clutching at their own gods and goddesses, grinding their heels in against a world that would see it erased. give me a herald who hears the chant and seethes, who would, in the end, bring the whole world down if it meant, fundamentally, never being treated as lesser for their belief in the religion of their people, never being hailed as the horseman of an unfamiliar and irrelevant god, and never, gods willing, hearing that goddamn shemlen song about the dawn coming again

#dai #dragon age inquisition #herald of andraste #lavellan #this is a mother giselle hate account #GOD I just love an inquisitor that is furious about their circumstances #like can you IMAGINE waking up and suddenly you’re catholic #solas

[catebeesart]

Tweaked my Hawke timeline thingy I mentioned the other day!

Mainly I wanted a reference for her scars but I also solidified how she'd wear her hair at different stages of the game

#i love characters who cut their hair for mourning/when they're stressed #also hate having to track that #I've drawn inquisition mari with 1000 different hairstyles #but now i like this choice. they're not having a good time :) #beesart #oc: marian hawke #dragon age #da2