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[Miri1984]

Oh, Cave, that's gorgeous. Mae's hair is so pretty.
I wish I could do comics - my idea for the 200 prompt would have come across much better in visuals I think. But a story it has become and a story it will stay.

TOPs are HAUNTING me . One more closer to 200! Tank's magnificent modern Anders:

Modifié par Miri1984, 25 novembre 2010 - 02:17 .

[LupusYondergirl]

cave_fatuam wrote...

Woohoo! I finished my 200 prompt. So Mae and Anders are celebrating.

Re: Chafing
That's why everyone is thankful Anders is a healer. He can clear all that right up. XD

New page already?  Well... I think this needs quoting so we can enjoy it a little bit longer. 

[Sarah1281]

So it really seems that either tomorrow or (hopefully) Friday we'll hit 200.

[cave_fatuam]

@Miri
Thanks!
You're more than on your way to getting to drawing comics.

@Lupus
-blush-
I think my drabbly bit is 300 words without resorting to just drawing it. That's like a novel for me. hehe

@Sarah
I hope we either hit it Friday or Really Early/Late Thursday. Silly Thanksgiving gettin' in the way of my internet-ing.

I think I'm going to start doing vector commissions. They don't take nearly as much time, so I wouldn't have to keep people waiting. I hate the thought of someone sitting around twiddling their thumbs wondering when that crazy artsy-type person is going to be done. XD

Modifié par cave_fatuam, 25 novembre 2010 - 02:35 .

[Sarah1281]

@Sarah
I hope we either hit it Friday or Really Early/Late Thursday. Silly Thanksgiving gettin' in the way of my internet-ing.

I know, right?

Edit: So what is a vector commission? 

Modifié par Sarah1281, 25 novembre 2010 - 02:38 .

[Miri1984]

My son is extremely excited about the possibility of hitting 200:







(seriously, I had to post this. He's been sitting on the table grinning at me for the last couple of hours - if I didn't know better I would have thought someone had spiked his milk)

[cave_fatuam]

Oh, my God, Miri. He is the single cutest baby ever. I had to run across the apartment and show my boyfriend. I think my biological clock is ticking far too loud for everyone's liking. XD



@Sarah

Just like the picture I just posted. You make shapes instead of marks like a pencil.

[LupusYondergirl]

Don't forget you can always go back and edit a post, if you can get online and just have time to post a placeholder.



@Miri: OMG, those eyes! He's gorgeous!

Why does it suddenly sound like my ovaries are trying to talk to me. Quiet down there. No, you can't have one.



@Cave: Me first! me first!

[Avilia]

@Miri - he's too cute for words /cheek pinch!

I am in Australia - and its 1pm Thursday here - so without further ado (please ignore if you don't want to see it until your Thursday) my weekly prompt:

Jealousy

Who's why's or when's its all up to you.

Modifié par Avilia, 25 novembre 2010 - 03:03 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Oooh... this will be fun

[Sarah1281]

I'm going to end up doing mine tonight since I'll be busy tomorrow. Although this should push us ever-closer to page 200...

[Miri1984]

@ Everyone: thanks for admiring my offspring - it's really the only reason we do it . And Cave & Lupus - the world would thank you if you contributed to the gene pool - we need more talent out there.



@Avilia MAGNIFICENT prompt. Fifty ideas lining up all trying to grab me at once. None of them involve Cullen. Well, maybe one of them does...

[cave_fatuam]

@Lupus

I'll message you on DW with details.



@Avilia

That's an absolutely brill prompt.

[Galagraphia]

 @Miri, wow, kids grow fast!
This picture is a good motivation to keep visiting the doctor. And... may I use it as a reference next time I draw baby!Anders? He's adorable!

@Avilia, this prompt is full of win, I had an idea after the Witch Hunt and now I'm so going to do it!

I've made a cover for my playlist with romantic music, btw:

[Sarah1281]

Mage-Envy


Sigrun froze suddenly causing Anders to bump into her and nearly knock her over.
 
“Sorry about that,” he said easily. “Why’d you stop?”
 
Sigrun didn’t say anything but slowly raised one shaking hand towards a particular bush near the Keep.
 
Anders rolled his eyes. “Oh, not this again!”
 
“What?” Sigrun asked innocently. “It’s not my fault if there’s an evil bush over there.”
 
“No,” Anders allowed, “but you’re the one has to keep walking past it.”
 
“I will not allow a plant, no matter how evil, to deter me from going anywhere on the grounds of my own home that I want to,” Sigrun said stubbornly.
 
“You could always ask the groundskeeper to get rid of it for you,” Anders suggested.
 
Sigrun sighed. “I tried that. Nathaniel walked by while I was talking to him and because they used to know each other from way back when, Nathaniel dragged me away and forbid me from bothering the guy about evil plants.”
 
“And you listened because…?” Anders prompted.
 
Sigrun looked at him as if he were stupid. “Because he is the second-in-command to Angélique Amell and therefore the one really running things.”
 
Anders realized that she had a point. Not that he would have had much experience with it in the Tower, but he supposed that not having the person in charge upset with you was bound to make life easier. “What I don’t get is why you seem to think that bush is evil, anyway.”
 
“I don’t think it’s evil,” Sigrun replied matter-of-factly.
 
Anders raised an eyebrow. “That’s news to me.”
 
“I know that it’s evil,” Sigrun clarified.
 
“How?” Anders challenged.
 
The dwarf looked like she was seriously considering make a bad pun but evidently decided against it. “I don’t know quite how to explain it. It just has this…this aura of evilness!”


“ ‘Aura of evilness’, huh?” Anders repeated skeptically. “Right.”
 
Sigrun sighed again. “You’re so lucky, you know.”
 
Well that was new. Anders had occasionally been told that he was lucky given his success with women but he hadn’t been aware that Sigrun was even interested in her own gender. “I am?” he asked carefully, making sure not to say too much in case he was reading this wrong.
 
“You are,” Sigrun confirmed. “You have the power to destroy that evil bush in so many ways! You could burn it or freeze it or strike it with lightning or send out your purple energy thing or crush it or a dozen other different ways. I’m so jealous.”
 
“Wait, wait, wait,” Anders said, holding up his hand to quiet her as he tried to process this. Surely he hadn’t just heard what he thought he had heard. “You’re jealous of me?”
 
“Right,” Sigrun said with a nod.
 
“Because I am a mage?”
 
Another nod. “Right.”
 
“Because I can kill a plant?” Anders couldn’t believe it.
 
“That is what I just said, yes,” Sigrun agreed.
 
“…Why?” Anders demanded.
 
Now it was Sigrun’s turn to be incredulous. “You know, you just told me why so I’m finding it difficult to believe that you don’t remember.”
 
“No, I do,” Anders assured her. “I just don’t see how you think that being a mage would be worth it because it would enable you to kill a plant that you are perfectly capable of killing already.”
 
“Yes, but then I would have to touch it and its evilness might rub off on me,” Sigrun said matter-of-factly. “It would be so much simpler if I could just shoot a fireball at it from twenty feet away like you can but won’t for some mysterious reason.”
 
“There’s nothing mysterious about it,” Anders argued. “I just don’t see the point. Besides, even if it were an evil bush, I still can’t see why you would actually want to be a mage.”
 
“Yes, it is so very bizarre that someone would find the nearly unlimited power at your fingertips to be appealing,” Sigrun deadpanned.
 
“You know, that’s almost as appealing as being torn kicking and screaming from your parents once the templars catch wind of your having magic…and that’s only IF your parents aren’t the overly religious types who really think that their child is evil and stop loving them the minute they change the color of their hair or freeze some water,” Anders exclaimed, clapping his hands together.
 
“That sounds rough,” Sigrun agreed. “Sort of like how where I come from, many little girls are raised to be ****s to try and improve their potentially bitter, drunken mother’s life…and that’s only IF your mother didn’t decide to sell you off or abandon you in the Deep Roads.”
 
Sigrun was so insanely cheerful sometimes that Anders almost forgot her freakishly depressing backstory. But still… “And then once that’s done, getting to spend your entire life trapped in a tower in the middle of a lake unless you’re either especially good at licking the templars’ boots or particularly bad at staying put is just such a delight. I used to thank the Maker every day for being a mage.”
 
“I know I would,” Sigrun told him dreamily. “Well…if I believed in the Maker, I would. I would definitely thank someone, though. Not the Ancestors since I don’t have those. I will have to think on this but rest assured that someone will be thanked!”
 
“You wouldn’t mind being trapped in the Circle Tower forever?” Anders asked, stunned. Given all of her energy, Sigrun had never really struck him as the type not to mind being cooped up somewhere for long periods of time.
 
“No, I would probably hate it,” Sigrun admitted. “But at least you wouldn’t be told you were worthless-”
 
“Even if you were told that you were evil,” Anders muttered.
 
Sigrun ignored the interruption. “And you wouldn’t have to struggle every day and do all sorts of horrible things just to stay alive. Besides, if I ended up in the same place I am now then I would have escaped the Circle, become a Warden, and been able to destroy that evil bush!”
 
Anders groaned. She was never going to let that go, was she? Almost lazily, he flung out his arm and watched the fireball speed towards the supposedly evil bush and engulf it in flames, Sigrun cackling evilly beside him.

[LupusYondergirl]

Oh god. No more cullen for me.  I've had more than enough.
(And my genes don't really need to go on. I come from a long line of the crazy and the drunk.  Plus, PhD)

@Sarah: I love that! The evil bush banter is probably one of my favorites in the entire game, and the subtle one-upmanship of whose life sucked more is great. It's also neat seeing a non-romance take on the subject since relationship-jealousy is the only thing I've been able to think of so far.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 25 novembre 2010 - 04:17 .

[Avilia]

@sarah ditto what Lupus said. Much fun with those two trying one up on rotten pasts. I love that he gives in and kills the evil bush.

[Miri1984]

@Lupus Can I use Maggie for mine? She won't be actually there... but she'll be mentioned....

Edited to add: Plenty of crazy & drunk in my genes too, I promise you. Still make cute kids though

Modifié par Miri1984, 25 novembre 2010 - 04:41 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Oh, now I'm curious! Go right ahead!

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

@Sarah: I love that! The evil bush banter is probably one of my favorites in the entire game, and the subtle one-upmanship of whose life sucked more is great. It's also neat seeing a non-romance take on the subject since relationship-jealousy is the only thing I've been able to think of so far.

Thanks.

Of course, if there is any possible way to make a topic platonic, I will do it. One of these days the prompt will be something like 'smut' and I'll cover the smut fungus infestation of the Wardens' food supply.

[Miri1984]

@Sarah: loved it btw!

[Galagraphia]

@Sarah, I love it!

Hehe, I also had relationships in mind. And teyrn Fergus.



Blasted hospital, I'm going to be late at work for entire day, some people are so slow

[Miri1984]

@Gala By the way, you can use my son as a model for young Anders any time - I'd even be happy to give you some more photos. I just hope he ends up looking a bit like the real thing when he grows up . I shall take him to get his ear pierced for his eighteenth birthday...

[Avilia]

You would not believe how many times I changed my mind about this one. You'd think I'd cheat on my own prompts and have an answer ready, but noooo, I have to do the 'right thing'. I blame my father.

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"My fireballs are bigger than your fireballs."

Anders stopped. He couldn't have heard that right, could he? "Its not the size that counts."

Velanna sneered. "Is that what your Chantry told you? And you believed it?"

"Are you telling me they lied to me!? I feel so betrayed." Victory. After lifting her nose, the combatative elf walked away. "What a strange woman."

"Her fireballs are bigger you know." Oghren sniggered when Anders scoffed. "I'd worry if I were you lad."

"I'm a healer, not a tinderbox. Any fool can sets things on fire, it takes real finesse and skill to keep people alive. Drag them back from the brink of death! Save their lives in the nick of time! Snatch them from the icy grasp of. Hey, come back. I'm not finished."

"Yeah, you are." It was tossed over his shoulder. Oghren knew if he stood there the mage could, and would, go on for hours.

"She really doesn't like you."

"Velanna is incapable of liking any human." He looked down at Sigrun when she hmm'd. "No?"

"Oh, no, I'm sure you're right. But she dislikes you more than, say, Nate. I've noticed it. He teases her and she gets angry but its just in fun. You, she really just doesn't like very much."

"You said that." Now he thought about it, Anders was a little hurt by that. What had he ever done to Velanna? To any Dalish in fact? Nothing. "I should talk to her."

"I don't think that will help much." Sigrun could see Anders wasn't happy with the idea that Velanna didn't like him. "She can't be the first person who hasn't liked you, surely?"

"Templars don't like me, but as they hardly count as human, I don't care. Other than that. Yes, I believe she is."

After crossing her arms, she looked him up and down. "The first 'person'? Or the first 'woman'?" Sigrun estimated it had taken her, oh at least two minutes, to work Anders out. He wouldn't care if Velanna hated the sight of him, as long as she was male.

"That has nothing to do with it. Nothing. Not. A. Thing." Anders refused to believe he'd be so shallow as to only care whether someone liked him or not because of their sex. Refused. Absolutely. "Oh, fine, yes, the first 'woman' who hasn't liked me." Clearing his throat he qualified that. "Before I've slept with her."

She tried, she really did, but the disgruntled look on his face was too much for her. "That's." Bent over double laughing, Sigrun couldn't speak to finish her sentence.

"Yes, yes, hilarious."

It took a while, but she finally got herself under control enough to ask. "Does sleeping with women usually make them dislike you? That bad at it are you?"

"I! What! No! Andraste's ****** woman! I meant things get messy afterwards, they want, things, you know, stuff."

"Ah huh. I see. Where are you going?"

"Inside. I don't have to stay out here and be insulted, I can do that anywhere." The closing door cut off Sigrun's answer. Cheeky wench. Now then. Did he seek out Velanna and try to coax her around? Or find something more pleasant to do, such as chat to that lovely young lady in the kitchen? If he remembered correctly she'd said they were baking pies today.

That seemed like a good plan, until he wandered into the kitchen and found it occupied by more than the kitchen staff. "Howe."

"Anders."

He had the worst luck today. First that elf and now this. Howe taking up space that would be better filled with a girl. "Sorry you have to leave."

"I'm not leaving." Nate heard the servant giggle and knew exactly why Anders was here. "Perhaps you should reconsider your presence?"

"Hardly I think. I've come seeking pies. That overrides whatever trivial task you've come to complete."

"My task is the same. Pies." He made his smile as insincere as possible. Just so Anders wouldn't mistake it for genuine. "What a coincidence."

Coincidence? He didn't think so. How best to get rid of an inconvenient Howe? "I think I heard the Commander calling for you."

Nate lifted an eyebrow. He wasn't falling for that trick. "If Lilibeth called for anyone, I believe it would be you, Anders. Wouldn't it?" He added another insincere smile, just for good measure.

"Ah." A quick glance at the pretty girl, told him he'd taken the wrong tack with that one. A bit more prodding from Howe and she'd toss him out on his rear end. "Perhaps I was mistaken after all."

"Perhaps you were." Catching sight of movement behind the mage, Nate beckoned. "Velanna. The pies are almost ready."

Fabulous. Not just a Howe but the Dalish wench as well. All he needed to complete his day was a Templar wandering in to drag him back to the tower. Anders waited a moment but when nothing happened he assumed he was safe from that at least. "Velanna."

Velanna sniffed at him and went to smell the oven. "Lovely." The girl smiled. She was a sensible enough girl, for a flat ear. "Stay away from the mage Meggie, he's trouble."

"Yes ser." Meggie giggled when Anders growled. "I wasn't going to let him near me in any case."

"Hey! I'm right here."

"Good, it will save her repeating it later." Velanna watched him try to think of a witty response to that.

"I'm here for pies." Arms crossed he looked from her to Nate and back. "What is it you're here for?"

. . .

"Ouch." Anders tried sitting but was pushed back down. "I mean, really, ouch."

"Serves you right."

He sat again with the same result. "I didn't. Ouch. Stop that!" Finally she stopped poking sharp objects into his leg. "Velanna hit me with a fireball. Years ago. This hurts more."

"Why did Velanna hit you with a fireball? Or is that a stupid question?" Rhosyn grinned when he gasped a breath. "No?"

"Maker no. I'm not insane. If I recall correctly I was trying to annoy her and Nate into leaving me alone, so I may have implied, they, were, you know." The sound of her laugh was nice but still, the memory stung. "She didn't even try to pull it. Just 'bam'! Straight in the face."

"You seem to have survived." Not even a scar. "Are you sure it was a fireball?"

"I think I know a fireball when I feel one. In my face."

Nate crouched beside Rhosyn. "Will he live?"

"Its only a scratch." Lifting the padding, she showed him. "Anders was telling me Velanna tried to kill him."

"When was that?"

"Just after we picked up Sigrun. Cursed female hit me with a fireball. I was fortunate to survive."

"Stun. Not a fireball, a stun." Nate grinned when Anders swore. "Sorry to spoil your story with the truth."

"Pfft. Truth. The truth is Velanna hates me and was looking for an excuse to hurt me." He knew that raised eyebrow. "No?"

"No. It took me a while to work it out. She's not a friendly woman, doesn't make friends easily and as a mage, even a Dalish mage, its more difficult."

"Heh. With that personality." Anders winced when Rhosyn pressed harder than she needed to on the padding. "Pardon." He'd forgotten they were friends. "I shouldn't have said that." Thankfully she nodded and lifted a bit. "What did you work out?"

"She was jealous. That you could make friends so easily or seem to not care if you didn't. That you treated your power so naturally that the people at the Vigil weren't nervous around you."

"Pardon me? Jealous?"

"She was. She isn't now. So don't gloat too much." Small chance of that.

"No, no gloating." Velanna, jealous, of him. Lovely. That almost made the pain of this worthwhile.

[LupusYondergirl]

@Avilia : I like the twist at the end. Interesting explanation for her behavior to Anders, it makes perfect sense. She's a lot more sympathetic for it, actually.

I love Sigrun's immediate assumption that women dislike Anders after sleeping with him because he's bad in bed, not because he's the "never calls the next day" sort, too.