sacredpath | week 3 curfew

[ okay sorry one more just for funsies 1:43 to 2:26 but all their banter ... so stupid ... ]

Why couldn't he be dead too ...

[ name one person he doesn't have an acrimonious relationship with ]

[jesus. kids could you lighten up a little...

she pats him soothingly]

Maybe he's just in hell?

[Hawke had told him about this, but honestly seeing it is a thousand times worse and triggers a memory of his own.

A memory of Ali, meeting his sister in a mountainside town. Of warning her that the cave she built her nest in is too close to a town.

Of his sister, Ria, telling him that the father of her eggs is already dead, and that she needs his help making sure they hatch safely.

Of a group of teenagers, looking for a place to go camping and stumbling across a nest of eggs and a protective dragon.

Of Ali trying to stop her, telling her they can move the eggs, but his words don't reach her and she flies out of the nest to go 'handle the problem'. Her instincts to protect her next being too strong to be overcome.

Of Ali trying to move the eggs as quickly as possible, but only being able to move one at a time due to their size, and he ends up only having time to move one before some adult humans come around and smash the rest of the eggs in the nest.

Of Ria struggling to fight back as humans damage her wings and knock her to the ground.

Of the way Ria cries out "Leave my babies alone!" in a language only Ali can understand.

Of how, in the end, Ali watches his own sister get decapitated. And how he can't even cry, because any emotion would make the humans notice that he's not human as well.

And finally, of how, decades later, Ali returned to that same town and found his sister's dead body stuffed and preserved in a museum about the glory of humans who protect the world from dragons.

He probably would have been fine without seeing Anders' memory, but now? Now he's trying to punch Anders in the face.]

[ anders, fenris and merrill in a party is just endlessly This. constant bitching at one another. shut the fuck up. kill some fucking baby dragons. ]

If there is a Maker, he will be.

Huh...From the stories I've heard, making children with humans in this form just makes human children. And I really don't think there's any human who wants to copulate with a dragon in dragon form.

We have the same progenitor, Adam... So something like a distant sibling?

[That's not a thing.]

[Well unlike everyone else! Kaworu is the one transfixed by this memory.

Wow... family... a loving dad... not single one in the whole damn canon.]

[Yeah. Yeah...RIP all of EVA's good dads.]

[ listen its called a dragon age game you gotta slaughter some dragons man

anyway he's not Justice-ing out and hes a mage so yeah? he just gets punched in the face? IT HURTS? ]

Quit it!

[ he has no staff, so just. trying to slap fight him off. ]

Edited 2025-03-07 01:55 (UTC)

[pretend i've been present the whole time

Watching this slapfight ensue. To Shadowheart:]

Are we really letting this happen in a narrow maze full of glass?

Enough to charm her, and so enough for me.

[Beverly never had dokis for him once.]

Huh. Guess that's what that's like.

[she'll say it out loud fuck it]

[watching this happen like. lmao. so this is how it is when she's not the one getting in fights...]

[Yeah it's just a really unfortunate set of circumstances here.

But at least after that punch he'll turn to slap fighting in return.]

How dare you kill children like that?!