I Was Going To Say… That Perhaps You're More Concerned With Whether Or Not People Talk About What You

Svarah Sun-Hair and Cassandra, drawn for @ripplesofaqua in @black-emporium-exchange 2023

“the sea doesn’t care about you!!” ok well just because the ocean is unspeakably powerful and can’t stop the rhythm she’s held for uncountable eons just for one person doesn’t mean she can’t love you. loving and changing are two different things. we wouldn’t have life without the ocean…. and yeah, if you don’t respect her and treat her cavalierly, you’ll perish. but how can anyone say the sea doesn’t mourn when she holds so much life and beautiful secrets in her belly? why are we putting atheism on the ocean that loves us?

circle mages and nationality is sooo interesting. you’re from this country. you’ve been stuck inside a circle tower so long that you can’t remember what this country even looks like. you read about your own home in books; you half remember it like a dream. the only time you are ever likely to see it is if you go to sit at its monarch’s right hand, or if at the templars’ whim you are sent away from it forever without warning or explanation. they still expect you to fight and die for this country, whatever country you’re in, whenever you’re called upon. and you’d do it, too, just to prove you belong here. you want to go home. you’ve never had one

"fuck it we ball" (x)

"...but sorry, lords and ladies! according to our source in skyhold, this bull still only has a single rider, the inquisitor himself!" transquisitor tenoren adaar, as inspired by bacchus (caravaggio, c.1589) 🌷

[maryden voice] oh grey warden

(commission for @wren--bee for their oc theron <3! slots are still open)

it's funny and kinda sad how during the high approval cutscene solas is surprised or maybe disappointed when inquisitor tells him that they don't believe the anchor changed them. he is suddenly faced with the possibility that all those people that he sees as shadows are actual people

I will just drop this here and leave and never look at it again lest I find more things to fix :’)

oh wait. fun design element, time to read into it too much

so: like the other companions, bull has a few specially-modeled armor designs in addition to his default. here they are.

notice that he's never seen without his giant belt. it's thicker than the ones other characters have, which are mostly just for holding up their pants, and it doesn't sit near his hips. he's wearing it so it wraps around his core muscles, supporting the area between his rib-cage and his pelvis. the way he wears it makes it resemble a back brace, or maybe a lifting belt.

bull is hauling incredibly heavy weapons the size of his entire body around all the time, and for as much as he plays like he doesn't care about his safety, he’s both forward-thinking and already disabled - he wears a leg brace, is missing an eye and some of his digits, probably more he never mentions. the belt he's always wearing is so he doesn't fuck up his back.