Had to do this, it's too cute 🥹🥰

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#ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir #FelixMercar #picrew

Meraad enjoys attention if it's admiring/respectful, but does not enjoy being stared at simply for being the only qunari for miles around 😒

Mahanon hates attention from anyone other than Dorian and his most trusted friends. He's had quite enough of being perceived.

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Meraad - friendliest bean you will ever meet 🥰
Santiago - also very friendly. Sometimes it's a problem 😈
Elion - friendly but socially anxious 😅
Felix - a more cautious bean 🫣
Mahanon - do not approach without invitation 😬

#MeraadLaidir #SantiagoCantori #ElionDeRiva #FelixMercar #MahanonLavellan

Meraad: She'd sing Man! I Feel Like a Woman! by Shania Twain. Extremely badly, but with great enthusiasm 😁

Mahanon doesn't sing to an audience. He might hum along quietly with whoever else is singing but if you hand him that microphone he's handing it right back 👎😆

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Mommy? Sorry— Mommy? Sorry— MOMMY?

...Yeah I deserve that.

Meraad: I think we'd get along pretty well... assuming I can find the courage to talk to her 😳

Mahanon: DEFINITELY not surviving that. And I don't think Dorian would save me, either.💀

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Meraad's voice claim is Jessica Brown Findlay, though I imagine her speaking in a cadence and manner similar to Samantha Béart's performance as Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3 ❤️‍🔥

#MeraadLaidir

Well it isn't her usual choice of colour (or weapons, for that matter) but you can't tell me this doesn't look fucking incredible on my girl 😍 with bonus Varric because why not 🥹

(Santiago's turn next 😈)

#DragonAge #MeraadLaidir #VP

Meraad appreciates her partner taking the time to be with her just "because", whether it's joining her for a workout or watching the sunset together. She likes a romantic gesture as much as the next person, but it means a lot for someone to give up their free time just for her 🥰

#MeraadLaidir
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Meraad is used to travelling alone for fairly long periods of time and isn't bothered by solitude, but she does enjoy the company of others when she can. When she visits a new town, she'll choose to sit at the bar and chat with the locals instead of drinking at a table by herself.

#MeraadLaidir
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Meraad enjoys the casual intimacy of hand-holding or linking arms with a partner (if height difference allows). She really likes skin-to-skin contact with her partner, even if just cuddling.

On a more intimate note, her neck and the base of her horns are quite sensitive too 😏

#MeraadLaidir
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𝘚𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.

#DragonAge #Veilguard #Rivain #MeraadLaidir #VPGoldenTuesday #VP

"Mierda, is it in my hair?"

"Hey, Kina. This little guy any use to you, or shall I put it outside?"

Santiago isn't especially bothered by them. He'd rather not have one on him, but he's not afraid to remove it himself.

Meraad isn't afraid of them either. She's cautious around poisonous ones, for obvious reasons, but will try not to kill them either way.

#SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir
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Meraad feels most confident in her looks when she's fighting or working out, especially if someone she wants is watching 😏 She also enjoys the occasional dress-up in something colourful, with lots of sparkly jewellery and bright makeup.

#MeraadLaidir
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Any volunteers? 😈

#MeraadLaidir #SantiagoCantori

Elion: very but ONLY by his partner🥰

Santiago: needs to be contained, honestly😈

Meraad: very affectionate bean😘

Mahanon: unless you're Dorian Pavus, stay away😤

Felix: cautious at first, freely affectionate with time🤭

#ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan #FelixMercar

Meraad would be a calico Maine Coon.

Mahanon would be a silver Norwegian Forest Cat.

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Meraad does her best to rest and recover if she needs to—her strength is her livelihood after all—but she has been known to push through mild injuries to get the job done.

Mahanon still hides injuries or discomfort out of habit, though he's learning to accept help.

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Meraad has played once or twice and lost badly, but didn't care in the slightest. She knows she's hot 😘

Mahanon has played a few times, and has so far been lucky enough not to be the worst player at the table (but that doesn't mean he plays well😆)

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan
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Elion would be a wood-elf bard from the College of Whispers.

Santiago would be a tabaxi (striped-fur variant) Bladesinger wizard.

Meraad would be a half-orc Oath of Glory paladin.

#ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir

Artists, quote with your faces!

I will draw in colour sometime this year, I promise 😤

Rhys belongs to @dalishbandit.bsky.social 💜
Ellisia belongs to @chennield.bsky.social 🔥
Elion and Meraad are mine!

#DragonAge #OCs #RhysDeRiva #ElionDeRiva #MeraadLaidir #EllisiaLavellan #TraditionalArtist

Elion and Santiago are both fluent in Elvhen, Trade and Antivan.

Meraad speaks Trade and Rivaini, plus a smattering of phrases in several other languages. Contrary to her appearance, she doesn't speak a word of Qunlat.

#ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir
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I just really love grumpy nose scrunches okay 😤

(...I really need to start photographing the beans from the other side don't I 🤣)

#DragonAge #VP #ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir #FelixMercar

If the others met him:

Santiago would have zero interest in yet another so-called "god", especially one with such terrible fashion sense😒

Meraad wouldn't care unless he was causing more harm. Then she'd punch him👊

Felix isn't going ANYWHERE near him😨

#SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir #FelixMercar

Meraad doesn't always think before she speaks, especially after a few drinks. It's caused more than a few barfights.

Mahanon works himself to exhaustion if he isn't reminded to eat, drink and sleep.

Felix is a serial eavesdropper. No secret is safe.

#MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan #FelixMercar

Name: Meraad Laidir Flower: Bird of Paradise Weather: summer sunshine Colour: malachite green Food: tropical fruit Beverage: piña colada Object: sea glass Place: the beach (specifically, the Rivain coast) Animal: blue-ringed octopus

#MeraadLaidir
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Elion: 🗡️🎵💜
Santiago: ❄️😈😘
Meraad: 💪😇✨
Mahanon: 🦌🏹💀
Felix: 🐾🙊🥺

#DragonAge #OCs #ElionDeRiva #SantiagoCantori #MeraadLaidir #MahanonLavellan #FelixMercar

Meraad's job wouldn't be that different. She'd still be a mercenary, travelling, helping people, and bringing gold back to support her family. She might be a little less of a magpie about shiny jewellery and weapons without the influence of her friends in the Lords, though✨

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Meraad earned several of her scars and lost the vision in her right eye when she almost lost a fight with a Fereldan great bear. She was very lucky that it happened near a town that had a competent healer, and gained a healthy respect for nature and her own mortality in the process.

#MeraadLaidir
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Meraad: "...What?"

Mahanon: "Only if I can be one too." *completely straight-faced*

#MeraadLaidir
#MahanonLavellan
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Gonna hold my hands up and say I don't really have a canon Hawke 😅 but perhaps I should change that one of these days...

In the meantime, I present my LoF lady, Meraad Laidir 🫴

Heart of gold, softly-spoken and carries a large axe (for hitting bad people)💜

#DragonAge #MeraadLaidir #LordsOfFortune