"You'll Have To Prove It," He Countered Finally.

"You'll have to prove it," he countered finally.

"Oh, I intend to." Norina's voice dropped an octave, taking on a tone he was quick to recognize as teasing. "Though, I wasn't aware the great Castis Vakarian was a man who needed convincing."

His mandibles twitched, betraying a flicker of amusement. "Don't let the name fool you. I'm not so easily impressed."

"Good." She stepped closer. For the briefest of moments, she could hear his breathing still. "I like myself a challenge."

In which Castis is absolutely whipped by his future wife.

how dare you ask me to live with it?

☼ The Sun Commission of Inquisitor Vaughn Lavellan for @silentspectres ♥ Thank you so much for working with me!

Karlach, made using Procreate on the iPad 🎨

arcane oc Yīng hehe, in the closest thing i could do for the arcane art style. i'm pretty lucky in that my painting style is similar-ish, but it was still a challenge <33

i think the idea so far is she's a firelight with uh...history with Sevika ( ´∀｀ )b. her fluff was rather fun to draw, kind of like peony petals. ౨ৎ

an. wanted to make a vastaya that wasn't cat-girl or anthromorphic animal, a sort of inbetween maybe? don't ask me what tribe she's meant to be from however, i haven't thought that hard.....

What the title says.

these two are from when I was still learning how to draw Turians! my "test" characters so to speak. Helios Octavicus (left) and Cade Decrian (right). battle buddies who are totally a couple but Helios forgot and Cade has been lowkey about it since so Helios constantly has to remind himself they're """just friends""" and keeps his feelings at bay meanwhile Cade has been like "i hope im a good boyfriend :] lalala" the entire time I have a bunch of random doodles I've accumulated while I was learning and getting accustomed to turian anatomy

I feel like Lae’zel asking her lover to protect her is severely under talked about in the fandom

The strong githyanki warrior, who will never admit weakness, telling her partner that she wants to be protected. Her going from seeing them as weak and inferior to seeing them as someone who can provide her safety. Seeing them as someone she can be vulnerable and soft around. Someone she can trust to save her when she gets herself in trouble and that she can trust to watch over her when she sleeps.

And they’re probably the first person she’s ever felt this way around. All of her classmates could slit her throat at any sign of weakness, her teachers could beat her for the smallest mistake. But her partner? She can make mistakes around them. She can be vulnerable without fearing a dagger to the heart.

And no one ever talks about it. It’s so good, but it’s completely ignored.

my stupidly romantic ass: but what if time doesn’t flow in a linear fashion in Apocrypha and Miraak, in his millennias-long quest to read everything because what else is there to do, inadvertently stumbles across books on the Last Dragonborn centuries before they’re born?

he reads each and every single one of these books with the intention of learning how to destroy the Dragonborn when the time comes, but instead, he finds himself growing attached to them the way we do with fictional characters. he knows so much about them that they could almost be a friend. the thought of meeting them helps him hold onto his sanity, and when they finally stumble into Apocrypha, all he can think is, oh, it’s finally you.

(and when the Dragonborn breaks him out of Apocrypha, the books change to tell the story of a man named Miraak and his altered fate and, eventually, a love that would go down in ballads for the next few hundred years, but Miraak never gets to read it.)