Title: Even the Greatest Hero Falls
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Alistair Theirin, F!Cousland, Loghain Mac Tir, Riordan, Anora Theirin
Words: 1,090
Summary: Same verse as Brothers in the Night and A Hundred-Thousand Never Agains. Alistair takes on Loghain in the duel at the Landsmeet. This is that scene from the Hero of River Dane’s point of view.

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Title: A Hundred-Thousand Never Agains
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Alistair Theirin, F!Cousland, Morrigan, Flemeth
Words: 1,220
Summary: In the same verse as Brothers in the Night. Post-Ostagar, Alistair goes over what has changed as he waits outside Flemeth’s hut for news of his fellow Warden’s survival.

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Title: Brothers in the Night
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Alistair Theirin, Cailan Theirin, F!Cousland
Words: 2,215
Summary: A What-If? story that popped into my head while reading What We Become by Crisium, wherein Teagan has a thought of Cailan and Alistair together - like brothers, not strangers. So I decided to give the poor Theirin boys their ( Read more... )

Title: Tornillo de Orejas Inocentes
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Zevran Arainai, M!Cousland, Morrigan
Words: 1,539
Summary: Taking some liberty with the completion of a relationship with Zevran. In short, after he gives Cousland the earring, our dearest assassin has doubts about Cousland staying because of his past. Cousland, of course, is out to ( Read more... )

So I was catching up on my Dragon Age fanfics (specifically the fic The Nature of the Beast by Jaden Anderson) and the latest chapter (19) involves the Gauntlet. And one of the riddles gets mentioned - this one:

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The debt of blood must be paid in full. Of what do I speak?"

"Yes. My husband would have chosen a ( Read more... )

I love this theory forever and am so on this crack bandwagon.

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And it's not one person thinking it! (**majorly DA2 screencap of WTF; theory in is comments)

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"And for another thing, Da'vil, I don't sleep with every man that I catch the eye of!" snapped the red-haired sorceress before she stormed away from the trestle table, deliberately upsetting the lunch he'd been thoroughly enjoying. Da'vil Graymare just blinked after her, a little confused by her outburst, but covered it by looking mournfully ( Read more... )

I feel in love with Sarah the moment I saw her.

For a fourteen year-old kid from a shitty home who was falling fast into the Dark she was like an angel coming to save me. She treated me like a second little brother from the start and I loved it. I wanted to be a part of their family so badly...but shit happens.

What I know now is a hell of a ( Read more... )

I think the sense of a kind of kindred spirit is what first drew me to Paul. Or more him to me as he jumped in to defend me against a pair of bullies at the start of seventh grade. With Sarah moved on to the high school, I'd been the prime target for the bullies she'd once driven off and who I refused to touch. Back then I was still too scared ( Read more... )

I remember clearly the night Mom brought Devin home. He was this tiny scruffy little thing that just clung to her neck like she was the last safe place on Earth, eyes wide in a mix of awe, fear, and caution. That impression of him, all of five years old, is one of the clearest memories from my childhood.

Only eight and I can remember every ( Read more... )