#modern girl in thedas

[curioushappenstance]

Cassandra made a face. “Aren’t you freezing?”

“I run hot.” Varric winked at her, then laughed loudly. Stray, unbrushed hairs fell in front of his face, which he didn’t swipe away.

She flushed red. “No. You’re just drunk.”

“Could a drunk person do this?”

He stood perfectly still. And then, he continued to stand perfectly still. It was ten seconds of full silence, with only music and laughter in the background to break it, before Cassandra finally frowned.

“Do… what?”

“Was that not a backflip?”

Cullen turned his face away. He held his hand over his mouth and coughed loudly, but not quick enough to hide his smile.

“You didn’t do anything,” Cassandra huffed, “you just stood there!”

“Prove it.”

“Prove—you didn’t even move!”

#dragon age #cullen rutherford #dragon age inquisition #modern character in thedas #varric tethras #cassandra pentaghast #modern boy in thedas #modern girl in thedas #inquisitor trevelyan

[dragonagitator]

As someone who came to Dragon Age fandom late and thus was spoiled by immediately having access to years' worth of fanfics from every imaginable trope to enjoy, the current complete lack of Gale Dekarios / Modern Girl in Faerun author self-insert fanfics is killing me.

We've already got the perfect entry point for the MGIF character: The opening cinematic of the nautiloid jumping between realms snatching people up. What if one of the random jumps was to our reality and someone who had played the game was kidnapped instead of Tav? After all, in an infinite multiverse, it's entirely possible that something that is fiction in one universe is reality in another universe. [Edit: Earth and Faerun existing in the same multiverse confirmed to be canon in Forgotten Realms lore.]

But so far there's barely any Modern Character in Faerun fanfics at all, and none of them are Gale/OFC. Come on, fanfic authors, I've already thoroughly exhausted all my own cringey self-insert fantasies in my daydreaming, please let me read yours. How much do you use your foreknowledge of events to steer for a specific ending or perhaps create a brand new one? How long are you able to bite your tongue about Mystra before going off on a rant that Gale's not ready to hear about how she was an abusive groomer? How many terrible jokes will your self-insert character make about pondering his orb? I NEED TO KNOW.

#bg3 #gale #gale bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #modern character in thedas #modern girl in thedas #modern girl in faerun #modern character in faerun #baldur's gate 3 #fanfic ideas #fanfic #fanfic request #fanfic prompt #it's a lovely morning in faerun and i am a horrible author self insert

[khadaj-ballad]

Modern girl/boy/non-binary pal in Faerun when👀

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #for my dragon age girlies that also enjoy bg3 #modern girl in thedas #modern girl in faerun

[jennguyen-draws]

Solas in a Costco. If you’re wondering what’s that about please go read The Corrupt and the Wicked <3 <3 <3

Ao3 Synopsis: Antonia "Tony" Artura Dorotea Gonzalez: teacher by day, bartender by night, Herald of Andraste by unlucky circumstance. After an attempted robbery outside of her apartment ends in a stray bullet hitting her in the chest, she falls unconscious and wakes up in Thedas, the world of Dragon Age. Unfortunately, she has never played the games, and has nothing but her own intuition to guide her. Her intuition says that there are a lot of assholes in Thedas. If you like Modern Day Girl in Thedas trope and FemaleInquisitor/Cullen Rutherford ship 🙈 than you should really check out this gem of a story.

Other DAI fanart for this fic: Non-platonic walk around the garden

#Jendraws #Dragon age inquisition #solas dragon age #fanfic rec #dai fanfic rec #dai #dragon age inquisition fanfic #fanart of fanfic #modern girl in thedas

[weird-obsessed-girl]

Modern Character in Thedas!! Fic Rec

I actually love that there’s a part of the Dragon Age Fandom where basically self-inserts have such good fics. I’ll admit that a lot of what I read in this tag is self-indulgent (but that’s really what fanfiction is for) and I thought I might catalog some of my fav fics so far.

I think also what’s great about this tag is that it actually exists! I try to occasionally find similar concepts in other fandoms but this kind of tag doesn’t seem to translate into many other fandoms, or at least the fics that do exist aren’t exactly to my taste. So hopefully this is helpful to everyone like me!

Mostly only Inquisition. IF ANYONE HAS ANY RECS PLEASE SHARE

Also can more authors pls write different ships other than Cullen and Solas?

I’m more partial to completed fics but unfortunately many of the fics in this tag are WIPs. I’ll be posting more lists like this in the future so be on the lookout.

With Horns - The_Ravenous

Not rated ı 97/? ı 362,357 words ı updated 2021

Modern Boy in Thedas who gets turned into a Vashoth, he basically replaces Adaar. Male Inquisitor/Cassandra, yay a ship that isn’t common within this tag!!

I’ve only read the first few chapters but the main character seems funny and I’m partial to the MC becoming a mage and learning the ins and outs of magic.

Identity - AMCanderly

T ı 6/6 ı 26,172

This is part of a series where a woman from earth get transported into Thedas in DA 2 but she gets made tranquil, this fic specifically is her struggle in having the mark which causes her to be cured and her struggle with regaining consciousness/autonomy.

Sugar and Spice - Cracking Lamb

E ı 15/15 ı 25,894

This is a fic that spans across all 3 games so therefore is not a very detailed fic however I love the stable relationship between Bull and the MGiT.

What a Wicked Game - Cracking Lamb

E ı 148/? ı 400,570

CrackingLamb yet again! I admit I have not even read this one half way through but from what I have read I really enjoy Imogen/Solas even if it’s slightly toxic, also good smut…

No Longer A Game - Here_To_Be

E ı 63/63 ı 347,357

I haven’t read this one but it seems to be promising, you might be noticing that I prefer to read about an MCiT that knows the events of the game so any summary mentioning that the character loves Inquisition is immediately put on my TBR.

MARKED - ThroughtheMirrorDarkly

M ı 10/10 ı 109,948

I read this a while ago so I don’t remember much but I remembered the name out of all the hundreds of fics I read in a year! The MC has spent a few years in Thedas but wasn’t involved in the story until Inquisition. Solas/OFC

Running On Empty - PickleDillo

T ı 27/27 ı 163,762

This is the first in a completed series, MC/Iron Bull so obviously it has to be included, I can’t wait until I finish this series. This includes an MC inquisitor who isn’t immediately skilled in combat or over powered.

Coalesce - Beckily

E ı 36/36 ı 83,437

This does have a r8pe warning so I’m not sure if this is explicitly in the story, but it has such an interesting concept of a Modern Girl who gets transported into Male Adaar’s body and they have to figure out how to live together.

Virtually Faded - AntlersandFangs, Celtic_Lass

M ı 101/101 ı 519,973

This is probably a fic that i am not going to read anytime soon as I’m intimidated by the word count. (Don’t make fun of me I’m not patient enough to read really long fics, i need to CONSUME as many fics as quickly as possible) This fic is centred around a pair of friends who get transported to Thedas so this is slightly different from the other fics in this list.

Ad Infinitum - Stormontheocean

E ı 78/78 ı 252,544

MC discovers that Thedas’ Common language is definitely not English so she pretends to be deaf and mute, slightly Mary-Sue but I’m not opposed to it in doses. MC/Cullen

Commiseration - cleighc

M ı 1/1 ı 12,867

A small one but with a focus on relationship between Cole and MC, def not a happy one but interesting nonetheless.

Swedish Firesteel - Escapist_Velocity

T ı 100/100 ı 142,503

I haven’t read this one but it could be interesting. MC/Cullen

{1. Defiance} Everything’s Just Fine - EmpressTod

T ı 73/73 ı 181,562

MC/SERA!!!!!!! Sera is never bloody apart of the main pairing so this is exciting for me.

honeyeater - foetend

E ı 21/21 ı 58,529

Reasonably short one that I haven’t read all the way through so hopefully this is worth it. The concept of Flemeth being involved and tasking MC to get close to Solas is heaps unique so it has to be mentioned. I feel like people really don’t utilise the Elvhen Gods/lore enough or perhaps tend to lean towards paragraphs of lore dumping.

Suddenly, Qunari - Jiwa

E ı 20/40 ı 168,203

Once again MBiT gets transported into Adaar’s body and becomes the Herald! Eventual polyamory with Bull and Dorian, I like how cute and funny MC is.

Ithelan - DyeingRoses

M ı 35/? ı 80,925

Inquisitor/OC which is not common, however I’m not sure how frequently this fic will be updated, this is def on top of my TBR list. MC becomes a tatted elf.

Sugar Honey Iced tea - AntlersandFangs, Beckily, Celtic_Lass

M ı 48/48 ı 412,762

Multiple modern characters dropped into Thedas, haven’t read this one but it seems interesting most especially because of the pairings. Varric/ OFC, Krem/ OFC, Solas/ OC, Inquisitor/ OC.

The Guardian - yayenchan

M ı 13/? ı 56,602

Female Trevelyan/ OMC, Mary Sue elements here but the first chapter seemed promising.

#modern character in Thedas #modern girl in thedas #modern boy in thedas #dragon age fanfiction #dragon age inquisition fanfiction #dragon age inquidition #dread wolf

[musetta3]

First Sentence Tag Game

Thank you for the tag, @nirikeehan! 

Rule: Post the first sentence of your last 10 fics.

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‘Of Trysts and Tarantellas,’ a Sereda Aeducan x Gorim Saelac gift fic

“Princess, where are we going?”

‘Evergreen,’ a Fenris x OC gift fic

Fenris wasn’t, by nature, a morning person.

‘Gray Magic,’ Anders x Hawke

“You were supposed to talk me out of this, remember?”

‘Of Cocoa and Cooking Lessons,’ Fenris x my modern girl in Thedas OC, Rana El-Khoury

Fenris stood at his larder door with a candle, taking stock of the Satinalia leftovers.

 The Songstress and the Swordsman, Fenris x Rana, Marian Hawke x Anders, Sebastian Vael x OC (the Teyrn of Ostwick’s daughter)

Fenris wished he’d never come to the Hanged Man, that night.

‘Passing Notes,’ Fenris x Rana

‘dear rana why must i write a letter if you are seated beside me i do not understand the purpose of this sincerely fenris’

‘Under the Linden Tree,’ Aragorn x Arwen (Lord of the Rings fandom)

Ever since their arrival in Rivendell, Aragorn had been swept up in a tempest of meetings, discussions, and strategizing.

‘Of Acemennan and Emmental,’ an Anders and Warden friendship fic

“Owww! Maker’s Breath, Anders, hurry up!”

‘Sub Rosa,’ Solas x Lavellan   (rated M )

It happened quite suddenly, on a Wednesday afternoon.

Revka Cadash and the Great Nug Hunt, a friendship fic featuring my dwarven merchantwoman OC, Revka Cadash

When Revka Cadash had agreed to a ‘Wicked Grace night with the crew,’ she did not expect this…

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Tagging: @bluewren @tkwritesdumbassassins @poetikat @midnightprelude @rakshadow @fandomn00blr @delicatefade @anderstrevelyan @tea42 @kittynomsdeplume @cleverblackcat @johaerys-writes and any that would like to do this! Tag me so I can read your fics <3

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #fenris #solas #solavellan #anders #hawke x anders #aeducan #aeducan x gorim #modern girl in thedas #lord of the rings #aragorn #aragorn x arwen #tag game #musetta writes

[theonekrafter]

art i did of nora royce from two nickels! she is about to stab someone since i think it is very dumb that mages get to have blades on the ends of their staves but never stick anybody with them.

#dragon age inquistor #dragon age oc #fanart #dragon age #two nickels #nora royce #fanfiction #modern girl in thedas #modern character in thedas #art #more tags #MOOOOREEE #jokes aside i am very very happy with this piece #ive come a long way from some of the old art on my blog

[liaswills]

Elariel Lavellan; Warrior Elf Inquisitor

Recruited all party members before Haven got destroyed

Romancing Solas (IM TRYING THIS AGAIN CUZ I WANT TO SEE THE HAND SCENE, trust me inquisitor Arthur Trevelyan has beat the shit out of him too, we just back with egghead for the time being because trespasser)

Recruited Mages and formed an Alliance. Magister Alexius is jailed.

I've never seen what happens when you try to restore the Circle with our favourite bitch Vivienne so I'm going to try doing that.

I'm thinking of making Leliana Divine in this one; Cassandra is becoming Divine in the Trevelyan save already.

Like in all saves, we either romance dorian or he's our bestie and this bitch a female so we besties with our favourite tevinter hoe. Besides Krem.

I'm going to make all decisions based on the fact that I'm a sword wielding dalish elf and see where that takes me. Ngl hoping Thedas gets destroyed by all elves and mages. #teamdaielves

#dragon age romances #dragon age inquisitor art #dragon age inquisitor #dragon age inquisition #dragon age lavellan #lavellan #clan lavellan #inquisitor lavellan #dragon age solas #da solas #solas #fen harel #fen'harel #solas dread wolf #solas x inquisitor #mages #da mages #redcliffe #modern girl in thedas #thedas #orlais #ferelden #hero of ferelden #king of ferelden #herald of andraste #herald #andraste #trespasser #descent #dragon age elf

[me-and-my-gaster]

[COMMISSION] Wheel of Fortune in Thedas

A commission for a lovely Dragon Age and Modern Girl In Thedas enthusiast! The Breach background was a challenge but I really enjoy the idea of comparing how a person fares in two different worlds.

Thank you for commissioning me!

#my commissions #tarot card commission #tarot card redesign #mamgified tarot #dragon age commission #dragon age oc #dragon age inquistor #modern girl in thedas

[noire-pandora]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Female Lavellan/Solas (Dragon Age), solavellan - Relationship Characters: Female Lavellan (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Happy Ending, cuz they deserve it, also papae!Solas, just a sprinkle of it, cuz he deserves it, Modern Girl in Thedas, MGiT Summary:

No one believed her when she insisted the frost engulfing Fen'Harel's heart could be thawed by gentle hands and an open mind.

Pride wiggled in her mind and she accepted it with the gates of her soul wide open. And how could she not, when she had smashed the mountain of perpetual pride and sorrow threatening to crush Solas' goodness until all that was left was the hollow shadow of the man she loved? After years of patience and love, he allowed himself to shed his stubbornness like an overused cloak and listened to the heartbeat of a world that needed no destruction.

My piece for the @solavellanhellexchange for @crackinglamb​ I hope you’ll like it! 

#solavellan #solas #MGIT #modern girl in thedas #lavellan #fanfic #dragon age fanfiction #i had lots of fun writing this #big thanks to the people hosting this exchange you're awesome

[curioushappenstance]

“Smile!”

“Inquisitor… what are you doing?”

#modern character in thedas #dragon age #cullen rutherford #dragon age inquisition #inquisitor trevelyan #cullen rutherford x mage inquisitor #cullen rutherford x inquisitor #cullen rutherford x male inquisitor #modern boy in thedas #modern girl in thedas #cullen dragon age #it may not be very obvious but #cullen is resting his hand on the hilt of his sword

[dragonagitator]

So back before BG3 took over my brain like ceremorphosis, I was pretty into Dragon Age and had started drafting an outline for a "Modern Girl in Thedas" fanfic in which my author self-insert replaced the Herald of Andraste. She was going to use her foreknowledge of events and her Western liberal arts education to attempt to speedrun both the plot of DAI and the Thedosian Enlightenment, respectively.

Things were NOT going to work out like she expected. It was to be a dark tale of hubris, butterfly effects, major character deaths, an Orlesian Revolution even bloodier than the French one, and two worlds' worth of unintended consequences so terrible that the working title was "Solas, Hold My Beer."

It's possible that I will return to it someday, depending on how DA4 goes -- my solution to the Solas Problem was to evacuate the population of Thedas to Earth (oops, sorry for bringing the Blight with us, my bad), and I gotta wait and see if that still fits with canon -- but in the interim I am definitely going to repurpose all my "attempts to speedrun the Enlightenment in a medieval fantasy setting, it goes poorly" ideas for my BG3 "Modern Girl in Faerun" fanfic.

Because Faerun? Absolutely riddled with terrible ideologies and institutions. It's slightly less of a crapsack world than Thedas, but it's still a medieval fantasy setting. While individual characters often express anachronistic viewpoints palatable to modern audiences, the cultures, systems of governance, etc. are generally much more period-appropriate.

Anyone coming from a modern Western democracy would suffer terrible culture shock and feel compelled to try to change things for the better. But if you've ever taken any "history of thought" courses from your university's Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics departments, then you know that we didn't get from there to here overnight.

A modern character's ideological framework alone would be enough to get them branded as batshit crazy, even if they kept the "I'm from another world and you're all fictional characters from an interactive story that I played as a game" stuff to themselves.

#it's a lovely morning in faerun and i am a horrible author self insert #modern girl in thedas #modern character in thedas #modern girl in faerun #modern character in faerun #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #forgotten realms #dragon age #solas hold my beer #get in losers we're speedrunning the enlightenment

[panther-os]

The one thing I never see an MGIT fic address is shared voice actors. I've seen it in non-MGIT fics, but usually only for big names like Cullen and Awakening!Anders. But like Gaspard, Rylen, the Augur at Stone Bear Hold? Same guy. I kinda really want to see a MGIT refer to them as "French, Scottish, and Yorkshire mouth fonts, respectively". Also Cassandra and Varania is a "big name" one I don't usually see people talking about.

#/incoherent noises/ #dragon age inquisition #mgit #modern girl in thedas #promptish #accents are mouth fonts #gaspard de chalons #knight captain rylen #cassandra pentaghast #dragon age varania #jaws of hakkon #stone bear hold #stone bear hold augur

[jennguyen-draws]

I feel like if I keep noodling at this I’ll go mad. Might come back to it later.

Short comic for a scene from chapter 22 of The Corrupt and the Wicked.

Ao3 synopsis: Antonia "Tony" Artura Dorotea Gonzalez: teacher by day, bartender by night, Herald of Andraste by unlucky circumstance. After an attempted robbery outside of her apartment ends in a stray bullet hitting her in the chest, she falls unconscious and wakes up in Thedas, the world of Dragon Age. Unfortunately, she has never played the games, and has nothing but her own intuition to guide her. Her intuition says that there are a lot of assholes in Thedas.

If you like Modern Day Girl in Thedas trope and FemaleInquisitor/Cullen Rutherford ship 🙈 than you should really check out this gem of a story. Hands down my top 5 DA fics of all time.

#jendraws #dai #dragon age inquisition #dragon age inquisition fanfic #fanart of fanfic #dai fanfic rec #dai fanart #cullen rutherford #female inquisitor #modern girl in thedas

[visceralcoma]

So I hit a pretty big fanfic milestone today!

I don't normally put much weight into kudos or hits to be honest, but I recently checked my stats to see how many subscriptions, bookmarks, and comment threads I had, and I noticed how many kudos I was about to hit on one of my fics and had to do a double take. I hit 1000 Kudos. I'd never breached the four digit threshold before. My long wips all get to about the 500-800 kudo range and then stop getting new kudos (but plenty of comments). So I was honestly shocked. I had to take a moment to sit back.

And then immense doubt overfilled me so I went to the fic in question and noticed about 330 of those kudos were guest kudos, so it could have been people logging out to kudo the fic again to inflate the numbers like they used to when rapid-clicking the kudo button.

But even still... four digits! 1000 kudos. I thought I'd never see the day. Especially because I write OC-centric fics, Portal Fantasy/Isekai sorta stuff. So I never thought it would be read all that much. It's wild.

And to add to it, I was just considering posting the fic over on fanfiction.net because I know gen fics tend to do better over there vs on ao3. Guess this is all the motivation I need to do just that.

The fic in question that hit 1k kudos is Rippling the Pages, an adult fan of HP steps through a red telephone booth and lands in the Ministry of Magic and has to be quick on her feet to get help without revealing she's not supposed to be in their world.

To be honest I owe this milestone to my prior fics and the people who read them and supported me through out writing them. Each wip I've done, even if I've stopped updating them, has helped me improve my writing. Including but not limited to all my Modern Character in Thedas/Modern GIrl in Thedas fics.

My MCIT/MGIT long fics that really helped me get here are (in order of when I was working on them)

Maker Have Mercy (2015-2016 - In Rewrite)

By the Tits of My Ancestors (2016-2021 On Hiatus)

No Deed Left Unpunished (2017-Present)

Mea Culpa (2019-Present)

Sins Against the Wall (2020-Present)

These aren't all of them but they are the biggest/longest ones I have.

Anyway that's all. Just wanted to share this milestone.

#ao3 #fanfiction #modern character in wizarding world #modern girl in thedas #modern character in thedas

[theonekrafter]

nora sketch

#two nickels #dragon age #dragon age oc #modern girl in thedas #fanfiction #i love her #she is about to set someone on fire #kiss kiss #art