Ali is dressed in something other than a suit for once in his life, as he has chosen a t-shirt and jeans for the laborious task of weeding the flower bed. He could use his fire if he did it in small, contained blasts right at the weeds, but the neighbors are around and he would rather they didn't start asking questions. So, by hand it is.
"Whatcha doin'?"
Ali pauses in his work to glance up to a young boy, maybe 5 or 6. This boy has white hair and light green eyes, and yet despite looking nothing alike Ali smiles warmly at the boy.
"Weeding the flowers. Your papa normally handles it, but he's not feeling well today so I'm doing it."
The boy looks a little confused as he says, "Isn't fire faster?"
"Well yes, it would be," Ali says, speaking a bit quieter now so only the boy hears, "But we're trying to act like humans, remember?"
This seems to make sense to the boy, so he smiles widely and says in return, "And humans don't have magic!"
"Exactly. Now, do you want to help me here? Or would you like to keep playing?"
"Can I have the little shovel?"
Ali smiles a little and picks up the trowel, which he hands over to the boy, who is making grabbyhands for it. "Just fill in any holes you dig, okay?"
"'kay!" And then the boy takes the trowel and runs off to the backyard without another word.
This does not bother Ali in the slightest, and he just returns to his weeding. After about ten minutes though, he starts to hear some strange dragging noises, followed by a soft thump. This happens four times, with a few minutes of quiet in between, before Ali finally gets up to investigate. "Chance?"
He has to walk around the side of the house and towards the backyard before he finds his answer: four tall sunflowers are standing up against the wooden fence, facing the house. The boy- Chance- is now in the act of dragging the fifth over. Ali still seems unbothered by this, and in fact he just chuckles lightly. Leave it to Concord's kid to do things the hard way instead of asking for help. "Are the sunflowers ready for picking?"
Chance sounds a little out of breath as he speaks. "Yeah! Gonna put them right here. " With that, he tips up the fifth sunflower and plops it against the fence like the rest. Then he stands up, looking to Ali excitedly. "And I did no magic!"
Ali smiles warmly. "You did a good job too. Now we can cut off the heads and take them inside then-"
"Not yet!" Chance points to the window on the second floor, the one that goes to Ali and Concord's bedroom. "Now Papa can see!"
Oh, how Ali's heart melts when he hears those words. What a thoughtful child. So young, and he's already thinking of others. Ali just scoops up Chance in a hug, praising Chance while he giggles. "You're the most thoughtful person I know, my little sunflower. How about we go make your papa some lunch?"
Nothing? They just don't exist. The closest thing are the mages, but they're not strictly human as they can live for centuries.
Plus, Chance was 5. The goal there was to keep him from growing a forest in the backyard with his magic, not to teach the nuance of humans versus mages.
[ mages aren't human ... ? mages aren't human? mages aren't human ... !
sorry did you think anders was a sane or reasonable person who is willing to accept the different facts of different worlds at face value because no. he is an insane person. ]
Of course the mages are human! To call them anything else, to call them other, only allows the Chantry to further excuse their crimes. To brand us monster. If we are not human, they can maim our minds and put us to the sword like any other livestock, and those who stand on the outside will justify it as reasonable! They simply aren't human! What does it matter?!
How did anything I said relate at all to dragons?!
[ memshares this. You don't have to watch it its just Hawke fighting and killing a high dragon and it involves anders blasting magic to murder dozens and dozens of dragon babies. ]
[Looks at how he's not the only dragon here. He decides not to doxx others.]
Yeah, dragons either live up in the mountains or live among humans in a human form. I got lucky, the only visible sign of my dragon heritage is my red eyes. Some dragons can't control their form well and have scales on their face or arms.
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Ali is dressed in something other than a suit for once in his life, as he has chosen a t-shirt and jeans for the laborious task of weeding the flower bed. He could use his fire if he did it in small, contained blasts right at the weeds, but the neighbors are around and he would rather they didn't start asking questions. So, by hand it is.
"Whatcha doin'?"
Ali pauses in his work to glance up to a young boy, maybe 5 or 6. This boy has white hair and light green eyes, and yet despite looking nothing alike Ali smiles warmly at the boy.
"Weeding the flowers. Your papa normally handles it, but he's not feeling well today so I'm doing it."
The boy looks a little confused as he says, "Isn't fire faster?"
"Well yes, it would be," Ali says, speaking a bit quieter now so only the boy hears, "But we're trying to act like humans, remember?"
This seems to make sense to the boy, so he smiles widely and says in return, "And humans don't have magic!"
"Exactly. Now, do you want to help me here? Or would you like to keep playing?"
"Can I have the little shovel?"
Ali smiles a little and picks up the trowel, which he hands over to the boy, who is making grabbyhands for it. "Just fill in any holes you dig, okay?"
"'kay!" And then the boy takes the trowel and runs off to the backyard without another word.
This does not bother Ali in the slightest, and he just returns to his weeding. After about ten minutes though, he starts to hear some strange dragging noises, followed by a soft thump. This happens four times, with a few minutes of quiet in between, before Ali finally gets up to investigate. "Chance?"
He has to walk around the side of the house and towards the backyard before he finds his answer: four tall sunflowers are standing up against the wooden fence, facing the house. The boy- Chance- is now in the act of dragging the fifth over. Ali still seems unbothered by this, and in fact he just chuckles lightly. Leave it to Concord's kid to do things the hard way instead of asking for help. "Are the sunflowers ready for picking?"
Chance sounds a little out of breath as he speaks. "Yeah! Gonna put them right here. " With that, he tips up the fifth sunflower and plops it against the fence like the rest. Then he stands up, looking to Ali excitedly. "And I did no magic!"
Ali smiles warmly. "You did a good job too. Now we can cut off the heads and take them inside then-"
"Not yet!" Chance points to the window on the second floor, the one that goes to Ali and Concord's bedroom. "Now Papa can see!"
Oh, how Ali's heart melts when he hears those words. What a thoughtful child. So young, and he's already thinking of others. Ali just scoops up Chance in a hug, praising Chance while he giggles. "You're the most thoughtful person I know, my little sunflower. How about we go make your papa some lunch?"
"'kay!"
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anders is FROWNING. ]
Humans have magic.
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Plus, Chance was 5. The goal there was to keep him from growing a forest in the backyard with his magic, not to teach the nuance of humans versus mages.
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sorry did you think anders was a sane or reasonable person who is willing to accept the different facts of different worlds at face value because no. he is an insane person. ]
Of course the mages are human! To call them anything else, to call them other, only allows the Chantry to further excuse their crimes. To brand us monster. If we are not human, they can maim our minds and put us to the sword like any other livestock, and those who stand on the outside will justify it as reasonable! They simply aren't human! What does it matter?!
[ if he could be glowing right now. he would. ]
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His world is just different, you lunatic. Also, sorry, did you just say non-humans are livestock?
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LOUDLY: ]
I wasn't talking about the elves!
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So I guess that means dragons are livestock in your worldview?
[He should not be enabling this argument, and yet.]
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How did anything I said relate at all to dragons?!
[ memshares this. You don't have to watch it its just Hawke fighting and killing a high dragon and it involves anders blasting magic to murder dozens and dozens of dragon babies. ]
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Not always.
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godmaker! ]Of course we do! I'm a mage, you little idiot!
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[Q.E.D. Checkmate Mage!]
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I agree with you, humans don't have magic.
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DIE. ]
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You know, Chance is an adult now, but he's still just as kind and thoughtful.
[Ali is so proud. Both of his kids are the best.]
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Well, it's a very sweet memory. Is it rude if I ask what you are, if not human?
[unlike some weirdos she doesn't just assume everyone is a human but he seems to have such human-y ears.]
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Ah, well. Chance and his father Concord are unicorns, and my daughter Ava and myself are...dragons.
[He seems a bit hesitant to answer but what's the worse than can happen right?]
The kids call both of us dad but that's the biological relationships at least.
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[since some do have the ability to appear human where she's from, too.]
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Yeah, dragons either live up in the mountains or live among humans in a human form. I got lucky, the only visible sign of my dragon heritage is my red eyes. Some dragons can't control their form well and have scales on their face or arms.
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Wow... family... a loving dad... not single one in the whole damn canon.]
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[she'll say it out loud fuck it]
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