I’ll be honest, I’m mostly writing this because I’m trying to come up with codex entries for my ocs and this gives me a good way to think about what kinds there are. but hey, reblog, ask for a number and an OC? or add your own. whatever floats your boat. written with Dragon Age OCs in mind.
an overheard conversation about your OC
a letter written by your OC’s family member
a report written by your OC’s teacher or mentor
a letter from your OC to their love interest
letters between two of your OC’s companions about them
someone describing a time your OC helped them
someone describing a time your OC hurt them
your OC’s doctor/healer talking about their injuries
a future historian’s account of your OC’s actions
a description of your OC by someone who hates them
your OC’s description of their game’s events
your OC overheard while drunk
transcript of an interview with your OC
your OC talking about your favorite quest
a letter to your OC from a companion they haven’t seen in a while
a conversation between your OC and their best friend
a description of your OC’s family by a future historian
what she means: sebastian vael deserved better. he was warmhearted and genuinely cared about other people and their well-being but the fandom demonized him because he showed an emotional reaction to the death of a person he was close with and whom he loved and bioware just went along with it
thinking about that Solas-Sera banter where Solas is like “our elven people fought and died here….” and Sera tries to get Solas’ goat like “Ew, we’re stepping on dead elves, gross,” and he snaps in elven, “You wanna be dead like our people? we can make that happen!” in like the most deadly scary voice he uses in the entire game.
Solas: “Our people used to be here.” Sera: “Pfft, you say that everywhere.” Solas: “It is more true than you want to believe.” Sera: “I bet, right? Who wants to think about stepping on dead elves.” Solas: “Din elvhen emma him?” Sera: “Oh, you felt that one.”
Solas says “Din elvhen emma him?” WITH SUCH A DEADLY VOICE. It means something like “Our people are dead, do you want to be dead too?” (lit. “Dead our people, your become?”)
Like… Sera tries to get his goat SO much in this game, and the only time she really succeeds is by making Dead Elf Jokes. Everything is so hurtful and nothing is good or fine.
Hey full offense but can we stop acting like canon is some horrible story line that never gets its own characters right and accept that it’s canon that gave us the characters we love in the first place and appreciate that the writers aren’t getting their own characters wrong and fanon infact changes them to fit into headcanons and fics so we can all shut up and stop calling writers not conforming to fanon ideologies ‘bad writing’
Having worked with several renaissance fairs with my friend and her husband who regularly participated as a Knight during the Jousting tourney-
The process takes about 10-15 minutes if you are in a hurry with a skilled helper and a full suit.
(Helmet, breastplate, arm and leg pieces, boots, chainmail etc…)
However, from the character design sheet it is easy to see that he has leather straps to fasten his breast plate, shoulder and arm pieces, as well as I assume some minor chain mail to deflect any blows that should make it past his armor?
So, I would guess it does not take him long, and the process is probably easier for him to strip off than the Inquisitor to, since he does do so daily.
Most men in medieval life preferred to wear bed-clothes. Therefore, it stands to reason that being a knight(or former Knight.) That Cullen is used to the monotony of the task.
The short? Perhaps 3 minutes if lazy. Less than that if he’s in the heat of passion.
(But it does stand to reason since Cullen is shy about his private affairs that if they are getting down to a quick bit of business during the day, perhaps he just unfastened his belt and frees his manhood to be more easily ready should someone barge it unannounced.)
THIS is why people like Cullen, THIS is why having characters like him is important.
When people mindlessly hate on his development in such an egregiously ableist way, it hurts those of us with PTSD deeply. When you ignore or flat out refuse to acknowledge his obvious symptoms, his word-of-god confirmation of his mental illnesses, you’re telling people like those above, and myself, that you will not believe us nor our experiences. You are telling developers and creators that you do not care about having such basic representation for us, that you would have preferred him an “evil murder-crazed villain” than a victim with PTSD who is actively trying to recover.
Every bit of Cullen hate (or “critical”) I’ve seen is ableist, completely ignoring how he is a victim of trauma and how his mental illnesses that have been gone untreated for more than a decade. It’s extremely transparent that you hate people with PTSD, you find us ‘scary’ and wish to perpetuate such harmful stigmas to further hurt us. You can dislike him all you want, but first thoroughly consider your words/thoughts to make sure they are not ableist against people struggling with PTSD, and let’s not forget the addiction as well. Bioware did right to retcon those DAO slides because they were horribly ableist to begin with.
Somehow the fandom has made it a fad to hate on Cullen and his fans particularly–ignoring the fact that we find versions of ourselves in his development to instead insist that we just like ‘a pretty white boy.’ It’s incredibly diminutive of Cullen fans, and it’s insulting to simplify his complex, mentally ill character to the point that you ignore the parts of ourselves we see in him.
Edit: this doesn’t mean I’m calling you ableist if you dislike him or have differing opinions, because apparently this needed to be said
So people with an extremely ableist Cullen-hate tag? People who have entire fucking pages devoted to slamming his recovery arc and his fans–many of whom are going through similar things?? Y’all can go fuck yourselves. Know that you are hurting countless mentally ill people, not helping. You know who you are, and I hope you know that you are the worst.
Enemies-to-lovers Trope is Fine, says Tumblr, So Long As It’s Not Actually Enemies-to-lovers.
“um sweatie you’re shipping abuse. Enemies to lovers is actually when two people from two opposing sports teams in high school don’t get along and annoy each other but then end up falling in love. That’s what it is and don’t you get it twisted sweatie.”
If they don’t try to kill each other at least once then what’s the fucking point?
this captures the saddest parts of the fall of the barricade scene; Enjolras trying to help an injured student away from the barricade, Joly and Enjôleras trying to protect Jehan, Combeferre protecting Joly, the Permits tu? moment.
its just the fact that they are all still trying to protect each other even though they know its hopeless they still care and love about each other enough to try.
