The Tiniest Bug

ive always been in love with the idea of doing comics for Ashasiara specifically i just like her so much i want to go through how she’d react to things in expression and the way she would talk. if i were a machine id do essentially the entirety of the games as comics with her

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Akin hasn’t actually ever gotten any magic instruction and has kind of just relied on hoping she doesn’t blow up. Luckily, Ashasiara is a good teacher

davrinstits:

driving home in the car thinking about ashasiara and rhys’ first meeting…. rhys accusing her of being a blood mage and shes like ? you shouldnt listen to every rumor you hear. sometimes youll hear there’s free cheese wheels and go to get one for your husband but it turns out it was a euphemism for a charcuterie themed brothel. and rhys will go well. yeah. thank the maker i was worried. ash says oh you should still be a little worried that blood mage rumor is actually true

i only ever got like. three decent screenshots of Ash. and 2/3 are of the end of the game lmao

Ash is so cool. i like to imagine in my head that shes some kind of like. extension of falon'din that was saved from dying at a very young age. but she keeps evading death, sidestepping it since. always beside so many other people dying while she stands and watches and cant fix it. but she was meant to die so it will always follow her until she does. shes lived her entire life on borrowed time, and thats only made doubly so when she gets infected with the taint.

its tragic, but then shes sooo strong in return, out of spite. you practice hard to be the best you can before you die, thats what shes done. shes barely in her twenties and destroys the blight in record time while stumbling in a husband at the same time.

she taught herself how to do blood magic and is a staunch believer in it not being dangerous as long as you are strong enough to beat back the extra demon eyes that come with it and only use your own blood or that of someone willing to give it in a desperate situation. her and merill practiced it together growing up.

she uses a bow instead of a staff because she values practicality. she watched two best friends die. one was of her own hand after an action taken out of exhausted desperation. she gets older and forgoes armor at all, partly out of a semi-suicidal lack of care for herself and partly out of confidence that nobody can touch her. shes the queen of aoe and damage.

if someones a shithead about blood magic she just ignores that they exist, because why bother trying to talk sense into someone who wont listen from the start? she leaves to seheron with sten and refuses to be a higher ranking gray warden. shes had her share of being in charge and shes done with it. she wants to find a way to cure the blight so she can hang with her silly husband for longer than their timer allows. or at least to let him live a full life after shes gone.

she has a dog that she named after her patron god. when she isnt in armor shes the kind of person to hang around in like.. ethereal flowing dresses. she has no respect for authority and would much rather do the right thing as best she can within the limitations of the physical world.

shes bisexual. shes probably nonbinary but she doesnt have time to think about that. her eyesight sucks. um. i love her. thanks

one day. i’ll talk about the cringe backstory between ashasiara and her gods

Aaa I could talk about Ash all day all the time if I have the chance lol. Personality-wise she ended up being kind of inspired by one of my aunts and by my oldest sibling :]

Also…

she’s nearsighted. she needs glasses

you’re still standing when you should be dead thrice over, aren’t you?

i like her

ash and alistair. that’s all. thank you

A little bit of blood magic never hurt anyone

I’ve had Ash for 7 years now, so since I was 15, and god. She was a totally different person in appearance and personality it’s really funny to look back on the first art of her I did and how quickly I went “i don’t like this.” but now she’s perfect and im not struggling to draw her like i was for actual years

ash through the years… i do love her

choccy-zefirka:

@droodlebug ’s Ash Mahariel with Alistair’s rose, for Artfight!