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[AWTEW]

Remember the drawing with the half cut-off face where you couldn't see anything at all...?

 

I guess, still think it was ludicrous to get rustled over a half cut out face.

[Merela]

I guess, still think it was ludicrous to get rustled over a half cut out face.

 

It was clearly's Varric's face, even cut half out. Like it's clearly Varric's necklace, so it is obviously a tethraghast picture. Like, if there is a picture of Cass wearing Cullen's cloak, it's obviously a Cass/Cullen shipping picture, even if Cucu isn't physically there. I mean, I could post a pic of Cass and Fjalar with Fjal's face half cut but it he would still be recognizable by everyone here.

 

But I'm not touching that subject again, even with a 11 feet-long pole.

[CassMandra]

Cass Man Can

[Hunter111]

The first time I saw that picture I wasnt 100% it was Cass, because of all the jewelry. I mean, there's Varric's necklace, but there's also all the earrings too. The only one who has multiple piercings like that is Varric, Cass doesn't.

[Merela]

 

Source: http://hydraevil.dev...-2015-528485500

[Obvious_Shining]

[Addai]

Meh, they look cool, so I don't see it as an issue.

To me they look ridiculous, hence not cool. I don't need complete realism, but beautiful and functional weaponry and armor...  

[Andres Hendrix]

Not sure if this is my best dialogue.

 

The Great Chill:

 

Something like Flemeth: "Honor, virtus et potestas! What does it mean to follow such a stringent dictum? It's an odd world, the mortals they beseech atop their ball of mud, their hands stretched out to the maw of ethereal sky, hoping that somewhere in all of that fresh air there will be some respite. And all they need to do, is turn and reach out beside themselves. To live a mortal is to suffer daily, to live a mortal with another particular mortal, is to wrap oneself in a standard of love before the apex of pain. It is funny that so much high merit is given to this 'greater good', the thing that strips the standard from individuals--and what a preveling force it is, underpinning the ethics of heroes in the old books and stories, brave Seekers, and celibate knights! According to these stories, morality is golden, if doing it means that one gives up the standard to once again gawk, and raise hands towards the sky, with a sort of renewed chattel like devotion.

 

Ah, the standard of love, the one standard that people are willing to let fall to the dirt, as long as they can get praise from those authorities who make the nothingness look more significant than one's own life. What a waste. "

 

-The Inquisitor's Quarters in the evening, a few days after Corypheus is defeated.

 

 

Cassandra: "We need to talk."

 

Inquisitor:  "Yes. Cassandra, this... will be difficult to hear.

For all of my life, until...recently, I've known very little but for war. In fact, it is the only thing that I am really good at. You know this already...What I need to tell you is, this: To be a good soldier one must learn how to survive on the battlefield, not just physically but psychologically. The later, is arguably the most difficult. See, what I did...was, I made battle perpetual in my head. The trick was to never become content or complacent in whatever slum town or camp, but to always look forward to a new battlefield, no home, but many different kill zones."

 

Cassandra: "My love, we have spoken of your life before, but this is crazy talk. No person can spend their entire life fighting in war, not without losing themselves. Look at everything you have done, what you made... This is hard, I know it, do you not think that I love you? Your disagreements with the Chantry must make my decision seem...                                        Just listen, I am doing this for Thedas, I cannot just dismiss this calling because *sigh* because we love each other. So this is my promise to you, I'm not doing this lightly...on some  whim. I will make things better for Thedas, I promise you."

 

Inquisitor: "I'm not here Cassandra to argue about your decision to become Divine. I'm telling you, the one person I can tell, that this is over, and that all I'm good at everything that I am takes place most truly, most plainly, when I am on the field of battle. In war, I can be me. I don't have to mask myself in Leliana and Josephine's religious propaganda, to *scowls* pretend that the sacrifice of a good woman never happened, and then replace it with a plebian lie. In war, I can be my truest self, I am set loose--do you understand the relief that can be had within simple savagery?"

 

Cassandra: *gently puts her arms around the Inquisitor* "I've seen you, and felt you plenty of times in this very room you are no savage..."

 

Inquistor: *breaks free*"That, cannot survive."

 

Cassandra: *sigh* "You are going then?! I was hoping you would support me..."

 

Inquisitor: "To be a good solider I need to learn how to survive again. Mentally, to survive in this sense means to never be complacent in one place, and the will to battle must never be reprimanded by the  debilitating emotion of love. To be me, as I was before, the abeyance of conflict must constantly be broken. "

 

Cassandra: "What in Andresta's name are you saying?"

 

Inquisitor:  "My time with the Inquisition has ended, and my feelings for you have made me stagnate, I am content. Therefore I am going to have Cole make me forget, I thought that I should tell you now in case we ever meet again... It will be less jarring this way."

 

Cassandra: "They...are... your memories...I...*hysterical* This is you acting rash! Are you just going to destroy every memory that we made, everything that we went through together?"

 

 

Inquisitor:  "Next week, I will be in a new war, after that another, then another ad infinitum. I cannot function, not with you...In my mind. I need to survive as a soldier. To do that my mind must be filled with the hope of renewed conflicts. As you say these are my memories--Cole will give me this gift."

 

 

Cassandra: "He can't do that! Even if Cole could do it, he is a spirit of compassion, he won't!"

 

Inquisitor: "I've already talked it..."

 

Cassandra:*covers her face with her hands* "Don't! finish that sentence."*sob*

 

Inquisitor: "Cassandra..."

 

Cassandra: "Put it off until my coronation! If you are to erase me from you, give me a few more moments of happiness, because I need them. Don't let this pathetic conversation be my last memory of us."

 

Inquisitor: "I don't see the point Cassandra, In a month those holy sanctions that you put so much faith in will tell you to forget as well-or at least make you pretend to ignore your past life-you will even have a new name. I don't wish to ever see this new you in some court, not with the thoughts and memories that I have of you now."

 

Cassandra: "And what if I see you? Do you think I want to go to court someday to find you staring back at me with nothing but a hollow expression?"

 

Inquisitor: "Then, you won't see me again after tomorrow..."

 

Cassandra: "Maker...*grabs him* Where are you going to go?"

 

Inquisitor: *brushes her off*

 

Cassandra:  "Don't!"

 

Inquisitor: "There's a war on in Tevinter, I'm sure I can get something out of each side. It's just life Cassandra, duty comingled with gaudy morality, and sorrow and pain...We're just kitsch little effigies, when compared to the grand soleil that is the greater good. *mockingly* Aren't we?"

 

Cassandra: *stares at him despondently* "When do you plain to leave? It will take some time...for you to prepare, to chart your course..."

 

Inquisitor: "It's all planed; it will take the day tomorrow to get things squared with Josephine."

 

Cassandra: "Then, you won't stay with me tonight? One last time? Please Nathair..."

 

Inquistor: *Turns toward the door to leave* "Pleading does not suit you, if you develop a genuine hatred for me, your new enemies in the Chantry will have less cause to question your celibacy..."

 

Cassandra: *Tears break through * "I will never hate you, I will love you until my final breath leaves my erring body, and on that breath will be your name! I hope you never forget what we made; I hope that it becomes so much a part of you, your soul! that Cole rents himself bloody on the thought! I hope it sticks within your very marrow; and thereafter, when you have bathed in the searing miasma of battle, and then go to lay your head down, when you are alone and hopeing for the freezing darkness to cradle you to sleep, my love bursts forth to shatter you! I hope that you shatter for the rest of your life!" *cries*

 

Inquisitor: *silent*

 

The End

[Hunter111]

It was a really awesome idea for the Inquisitor to ask Cole to make him forget Cassandra. Good job.

[Master Warder Z_]

It...isn't bad.

[Siha]

It...isn't bad.

 

Oh gosh, Hendrix, you were just ennobled.

[Master Warder Z_]

Oh gosh, Hendrix, you were just ennobled.

Lets not take it too far.

It needs work, even for a short story based on it's premise would do well from adaptation.

For example.

It doesn't really go into any of the emotional context for either character, it would do well to exploit such.

Love built on a battlefield between two soldiers, a man who had never felt it and a woman who put it aside.

Duty built around two who serve others and their will rather then their own, finding something to put it aside for even if just for a time.

I could go on but that's the basis of it.

If you want a emotionally engaging narrative you should employ those emotions directly or indirectly in the narrative.

[Siha]

For example.

 

<snip>

 

I don't know but I assume this helps him as a writer more than a simple "not bad".

[Master Warder Z_]

I don't know but I assume this helps him as a writer more than a simple "not bad".

He didn't clarify for a expanded response.

[o Ventus]

Is this a really weird, impractical looking sword or is this one of those sheaths that don't actually exist in-game? ...which she either holds in her hand or doesn't pull the sword out of, I can't quite see that. 

 

 

The sword she's wielding? That's this:

 

http://dragonage.wik...weetish_Fingers

[Andres Hendrix]

Lets not take it too far.

It needs work, even for a short story based on it's premise would do well from adaptation.

For example.

It doesn't really go into any of the emotional context for either character, it would do well to exploit such.

Love built on a battlefield between two soldiers, a man who had never felt it and a woman who put it aside.

Duty built around two who serve others and their will rather then their own, finding something to put it aside for even if just for a time.

I could go on but that's the basis of it.

If you want a emotionally engaging narrative you should employ those emotions directly or indirectly in the narrative.

It's not a short story, it's a dialectic (a glorified dialouge) that explores the idea of the 'greater good'. I however added more verve than one would traditonaly find in say, Plato.

[Andres Hendrix]

Oh gosh, Hendrix, you were just ennobled.

Not really, that has to come from someone who is already a noble, and besides who actually believes in such authority? lol

[Master Warder Z_]

Not really, that has to come from someone who is already a noble, and besides who actually believes in such authority? lol

I'll have you know that only forty three generations separate me from royalty.

Admittedly it's a extinct dynasty but still.

[Siha]

It's not a short story, it's a dialectic (a glorified dialouge) that explores the idea of the 'greater good'. I however added more verve than one would traditonaly find in say, Plato.

 

It's true, Plato wasn't much for emotional character development. Which might be why Plato doesn't sell as well recently as, say, JK Rowling.

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

It's true, Plato wasn't much for emotional character development. Which might be why Plato doesn't sell as well recently as, say, JK Rowling.

Harry should have been expelled! If not in his first year then in his second. It's total BS!

*waves Draco flag and runs away*

[o Ventus]

Not related to Cassandra, but I wanted to share this little tidbit of information with more people, because it could be big news. From another BSN thread in the off-topic section (for those of you who don't go there):

 

http://forum.bioware...kes-warp-field/

 

If the scientists are able to replicate and verify their findings, this has the potential to be the single most important discovery in human history. Not even exaggerating when I say that. It makes me giddy and excited for what it might mean for the future of astrophysics and space travel, but I'm not holding my breath on it. It could be a fluke. There would still be a lot of hurdles to jump through before starships become a thing, but if this is true, then cheap and easy faster-than-light travel may be a plausible idea in our life times, if not a reality.

 

I figured I'd be more productive than starting another conversation on the philosophical ramifications of licking butthole.

[MisterJB]

Not related to Cassandra, but I wanted to share this little tidbit of information with more people, because it could be big news. From another BSN thread in the off-topic section (for those of you who don't go there):

 

http://forum.bioware...kes-warp-field/

 

If the scientists are able to replicate and verify their findings, this has the potential to be the single most important discovery in human history. Not even exaggerating when I say that. It makes me giddy and excited for what it might mean, but I'm not holding my breath on it.

 

So, how long until we can leave this shithole of a planet?

 

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

So, how long until we can leave this shithole of a planet?

What, so we can go and destroy something else?

[Andres Hendrix]

It's true, Plato wasn't much for emotional character development. Which might be why Plato doesn't sell as well recently as, say, JK Rowling.

JK Rowling banks on school children or more so their middle aged mothers to simply buy for vouge. Leo Tolstoy, and Ian Mcewan are masters of character devlopmenat, yet I'd bet that Harry Potter alone, has outsold them both. Few people read the classics, so that puts Tolstoy in the gutter, and Mcewan is destined to become a classic novelist...

[thesuperdarkone2]

Not related to Cassandra, but I wanted to share this little tidbit of information with more people, because it could be big news. From another BSN thread in the off-topic section (for those of you who don't go there):

 

http://forum.bioware...kes-warp-field/

 

If the scientists are able to replicate and verify their findings, this has the potential to be the single most important discovery in human history. Not even exaggerating when I say that. It makes me giddy and excited for what it might mean for the future of astrophysics and space travel, but I'm not holding my breath on it. It could be a fluke. There would still be a lot of hurdles to jump through before starships become a thing, but if this is true, then cheap and easy faster-than-light travel may be a plausible idea in our life times, if not a reality.

 

I figured I'd be more productive than starting another conversation on the philosophical ramifications of licking butthole.

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