Fanfic writer with a passion for exploring romantic relationships // Fandoms: Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age // Fandom: Dragon Age, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect
read a hc post forever ago talking about the ancient elves in the Arbor Wilds raising and breeding the birds in the area. and i! love! it !
Ooh, I like this headcanon. I can also imagine Abelas spending a moment to watch those birds during each of those brief moments when he’s awoken at Mythal’s Temple over the centuries. He wakes up to fight, to ward off the intruders that would try to claim the Well’s power for themselves. He wakes up to fulfill this duty that he’s bound to and that he can’t deny.
Abelas watches those birds lifting into the sky. What must that be like, to fly free and unfettered? He can’t imagine it.
It’s the last thing he thinks about each time before he closes his eyes and returns to uthenera.
I’m supposed to say a few favourite things about My OTP(s). I have talked a lot about Aloy/Nil in previous posts – oh god, here and here and here and here and here and here – so I’ll mention a couple things I love about my Dragon Age babies instead! (Beautiful art below by the insanely talented HanSaera and NSFWFrosch!)
Solas and Elia Lavellan
They love nerding it up about the Fade and magic. Solas loves having someone to talk to about the Fade, and Elia loves learning from him. (And just hearing his voice. Voice kink smut, anyone…?) This dynamic is pretty similar to mine with my fiancé, though we switch back and forth in the “teacher” role – we work in completely different fields so we’re constantly learning from each other.
Abelas and Athera Lavellan
Headcanon fun fact: during the dream when Solas took Athera to Haven, she kissed him in the Fade. Then as soon as she woke up she ran to the rotunda and apologized profusely because he was like her brother and she didn’t know what she’d been thinking. And Solas was like “uh yeah hahah ridiculous ofc ofc let’s put it behind us” but really, Solas has feelings for Athera that never totally went away. Abelas doesn’t know about this kiss. It never occurred to Athera to mention it because it didn’t mean anything to her. And Solas never told him because they’re good friends and it would just be awkward.
Blackwall and Arya Lavellan
I have only ever written this pairing from Blackwall’s POV. All my other ships have switched between both partners’ POV. I have a hard time putting my finger on why exactly, but I think it comes down to “Arya’s thoughts about Blackwall would be boring to read because her love for him is so simple and uncomplicated.” Not that Blackwall is ambivalent about Arya, not at all, but there are things about his mindset that I find interesting to write: he’s so over-the-top utterly devoted to her, which is fun to indulge in; his guilt about the Thom Rainier deception is angsty and delicious to write; and his bullheaded insistence on protecting her despite her tongue-in-cheek mischief is a fun dynamic to play around with.
The real Dragon Age AU we need is the one @empresstress13 just suggested to me, where Abelas and Felassan’s roles switched.
Briala: Wow, thanks for saving me. Who are you?
Abelas: I am an ancient elf in service to Mythal who is currently working with Fen’Harel to bring down the Veil and end modern life as you know it. It would seem we require aid from someone, such as yourself.
Briala: ….. bye.
Abelas: Oh crap, I mean–
MEANWHILE, AT THE TEMPLE OF MYTHAL…
Inquisitor: Who drew dickbutt on all the Dread Wolf statues?
Theme; Temperance which is quite of a fitting theme for Abelas and was a nice challenge to present “Harmony” and “Balance” how I thought it could fit his character.
The personal title comes from this as well “Dawn over Evening” in old English since he himself also present the ancient times. This work is also gift was done to Path-of-Sorrows in thank for her hard work for writing prompts by my request and putting so much time and effort into them!
Also there was no Abelas art on my dashboard since 5 days, had to fix that. Well I still wont have on my dashboard, but my inner balance is satisfied. :‘D
7 Line Meme
Thanks for the tag @alyssalenko! I looove these writing memes! ❤️
Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, go to the seventh line and share seven sentences. Then tag 7 more writers to continue the challenge.
I don’t have a lengthy WIP at the moment, so I went back to the last thing I wrote that was more than 7 pages long: my Abelas/Athera Lavellan post-Trespasser oneshot, in which Abelas visits Athera in a dream after two years of silence.
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“Athera.”
She froze instantly. That voice. That silken voice, she knew that voice – she loved that voice, she’d recognize it anywhere, and the treasured sound of it slammed the breath from her lungs.
A fuzzy ringing of unreality began to fill her ears. She finally dragged in a breath that rasped at the inside of her throat. “It can’t be,” she breathed.
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