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Published: 2015-01-19 01:16:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 13338; Favourites: 86; Downloads: 0
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Inspired by the story written by illusionaryennuiAn AU where Yvad is a rebel mage under First enchanter Fiona, and illusionaryennui's Mara, Yvad's half sister, leads the inquisition.
Yvad meets with Cullen, but he is not convinced that an ex-templar could be the right person for his sister. (Also, he has some issues with templars in general.) He believes that how a person fights can often reveal a true nature, and asks him for a sparring match.
Starts with a standard fight, then I wanted it to become a kind of "fight club" style good and honest fist fight.
Well.. come to think of it, this will come close to how Yvad made friends with Cullen in the actual canon. A good male bonding.
Sorry about all the blood and violence. (felt quite sadistic drawing all those blood and bruises.. )BTW, I don't know how to do write proper comics.. but I put together the sequences as best as I could. I actually don't know how to do panelling properly and such...
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I love this! Fight scenes are the best, and I always dig 'em XD You did beautifully
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i like youre Comic !!! i find him very nice !.* nice work
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this is brilliant buddy. I love it when people turn their pictures into stories. It flowed really nicely and I got a really good sense of what was going on. You must do more lol cracks whip
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I really like it.
Its clean and good pacing...but who is the one in the last panel?
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Ah thank you.. I just randomly drew scenes, and then stitched them together.. If I was better at drawing fights, I might have added in a few more panels.. but I guess it's not too ad for my first attempt at these things..
Oh that's Mara, illusionaryennui's inquisitor.. She's Yvad's half-sister, and a Cullen romancer.
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facial expressions are fun!!! if i could ony draw those i would...to hell with the hand and leg drawing!XD
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hahaha you do facial expressions so well too. I need to practice more. I am so used to just drawing portraits without strong facial expressions..
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I know I have more to write in the story before getting to this point... but damn if I don't want to skip ahead. XD
And I want to add a line similar to one in Captain America: the Winter Soldier when Rumlow attacks and says it isn't personal and Roger later counters: "It kind of seems personal."
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Oh I am so glad that you're into this too. I need to make a few more panels since in my head they lose the weapons and start fist fighting. Cullen has a upper hand but yvad fights dirty by adding a bit of magical jolt into the punch.. ohhh yeah, it's personal all right.
I can imagine Dorian casually watching with a smirk on his face. Sera and the iron bull are taking bets.
Seriously, for the entire game I wanted to see Cullen do some fighting. Its so much fun drawing this. Lol imagine mara's face if she walked in.. I should draw that too.
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Actually, I think if they come to actual blows that might really do some damage before Mara can step in, Dorian might actually put his foot down. Ooo, or Cassandra can barrel in and demand they stop posturing and acting like fools for being reckless and bad examples.
And they'd just shake it off and sneer before having their wounds seen to.
But damn, I like it. Even the betting. Also means hurt/Comfort aftercare.
As for seeing Cullen fighting in-game? Sadly, as of now, there are only three occasions that I've found: you see a brief take if you take the direct assualt at the beginning of the game, doing Before the Dawn, and that little bit in during the push into the Arbor Wilds... yeah, we need more of his prowess.
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Ok added a few more panels to the comic here.. It's so hard to get the flow of it right.. meh.. it's more like concept sketches anyway.
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My mage Hawke... she ruined my canon for my other story by being in Inquisition - Maria, you're supposed to be helping Sebastian take back Starkhaven (Though, in the game, she says she's the chantry advisor while in his letter on the War Table, he says he's taken the throne - make up your mind, Sebastian!).
*chuckles* I dunno, perhaps we should choose only one Hawke?
So, Yvad, after seeing Cullen throw down his sword and shield.
"What now?"
"No weapons."
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OOhh i see. hahah that's annoying that they broke your canon..
As for the comic, I had a few more panels planned in my head between the weapons being thrown down and "some time later"... but found that I am crap at doing action poses.. LOL I have a few rough sketches of them throwing punches (and taking off their gear ) lol maybe i'll add them later
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You're teasing me now with the idea of stripping. *chuckles* Yeah, mind in gutter.
And don't worry about the fighting sequences - I don't see any issue with yours. I can see what's going on and their relate-able for the content.
As for my Sebastian fics... yeah, they're pretty old - I've definitely improved as a writer since then. I romanced Fenris with a fem-rogue first and then made a fem-mage, which ruined the other classes for me. I think I read one Sebastian fic by Lywinis and I was hooked, therefore unable to romance anyone else besides him (and Fenris), depending on my headcanons for the playthrough. Never romanced Anders - I hate to admit it, but I was never attracted to him at all. I actually did a playthrough where I romanced no one. *laughs* Just for an AU where Cullen was with Hawke. Even my adoration for Cullen may have started with Origins (save for his anger after the Broken Circle), it was pretty much locked by Galagraphia and her comics.
I only hope that I have taken what was given and shared and found my own place within it as a a member of the fandom.
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hehee I just finished the comic strip, and updated it. I wanted them to just be like "Hi~" at the end, as if nothing had happened.. Oh boy I felt a bit sadistic painting all those blood and bruises on... hahaha
hahaha yeah poor Cullen in DA2.. torn between his duty and what's right while Meredith is going ape shit crazy.. i felt for the guy too.
Anway.. hope you enjoy the comic.
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Yeah, I don't know why... the whole cat thing and him getting angry at me the first time he flirted with my Hawke and she didn't respond like he wanted... kinda turned me off him. I did like him Awakening, but didn't feel a spark for romance then. I feel kinda bad now, but for my canon playthroughs... he's kinda... not breathing after Kirkwall... unless he somehow pulls another trick (he lived in Awakening for me, however - managed to save both the city and the keep).
And I did enjoy it. *hugs* It's not crappy at all. You were able to put your ideas in a visual form very quickly - that is more than most of us can even do. Certainly more than I could manage, especially. I think it's more than some storyboards even have in detail.
And if you still want, I can write the sparring match to follow this - it can work. Might have to throw about about them venting about why Yvad has it out for him there, though. By the looks of things, Yvad has two hot-button issues in our AU: his disdain for templars and making sure his sister is happy and safe. And I'm actually surprised Cullen won... I was secretly rooting for Yvad and proud he held his own.
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Oohh you killed Anders? LOL In my playthrough where I romanced Fenris, I set out to kill him at the end (just to see) and I coudln't do it. hahaha
Hah! You don't need to bring on the fight too early if you haven't planned it that way.. I just wanted to get this thing out of my system.
I was gonna let Yvad win when I started out too. Yvad starts the fight with his pent up rage, most of which is not even to do with Cullen. As he fought on, he realised Cullen is not like other templars, and perhaps he had misjudged him. By the time they toss away the weapons, he no longer feels the rage and just wants to have an honest good fight. He also realises that Cullen's definitely not taking lyrium and so he drops using magic all together. I wanted Yvad to cheat so he can win, just something about the commander inspires him to fight fair. Realistically, my weedy mage is no match for Cullen in an honest fight.
Actually Yvad's dislike for templars not just in the AU. In the backstory I thought up for him originally, he gets beaten up by templars so badly at one point he nearly dies.
Anyway.. looking at my comic strip over again... that face's gonna hurt so much.. LOL my poor baby. just don't let him near any mirrors for some time..
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Just wanted to confirm is carrying that headcanon of his dislike through to the AU was okay. But I do like the concept- it's good for conflict and something to overcome. And painful... Mara may have done something about that templar and regrets it... *thinks* So many thoughts.
I'd imagine respect could be earned for Cullen as he fought with only the weapons he had, willing to fight despite his disadvantage and what troubles lay against him. At the same time, Cullen can understand Yvad in return, see the pain and be enlightened by it.
And may have come from a random urge, but I want to uplift that. *hugs* I appreciate all creativity. It'll come into play into a later bit, so don't worry. I've got time to play around with it and incorporate any ideas or wish-list items you want.
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I admit to having thought of Yvad's character months before DA:I came out (I was so hyped about the game.) His almost irrational dislike of templars was one of the first I thought of. I didn't know much about DA:I specialisations, so I thought him as a spirit healer, and he would often play with wisps/lesser spirits in the tower, following them to the places he's not meant to be. He gets caught by a templar, who strikes him across the face. Yvad instinctively heals himself, and then the templar thinks it insolent behavior. He drags Yvad to the dungeon, where he locks him in the dark, repeatedly beats/tortures him over the course of a few days, allowing him to heal in between so he can torture him again and again. I have a nasty mind, don't I? 
What's the worst thing that you put your character through? since you're a writer... do you ever feel guilty that you put your character through such nasty experiences, if any?
Anyway.. Sounds like you're busy in your creative activities too! I saw your tumblr post, trying to write 3 fics at once!! hahaha i have like 5 different paintings going.. the trick is finishing them all somehow..
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That's actually pretty cool - seeing your character in a certainly light, knowing them, letting them grow. But that is painful - poor Yvad!
My Hawke hated most templars (thankfully her brother went to the Wardens), but my Amell and Trevelyan were fine with them.
Worst thing? *taps her chin* Depends on the character and the story. But I suppose I must admit that I have trouble writing a simple happy ending - there's got to be a lot of pain and loss before they get anything they can be even content with. I've written terrible things for all my characters, especially for Mara and Cullen for the Order and Chaos series - I may cry, actually, when I write some of it. The notes are bad enough. It hurts to write some of them: minor character deaths, rape, murder, miscarriages, etc. A demons drugging my Hawke and Sebastian, my Amell even unknowingly sacrificing her own child to an Old God... stuff like that. My first Cullen fic came from a kinkmeme prompt about making him addicted to a mage. In my notes for it, Meredith was supposed to find out and then lock our dear knight-captain up in a dungeon with lyrium just outside his reach, all Torment of Tantalus-style as he detoxes in a bad way.
Yeah... I'm not very nice to my characters. You might not let me have Yvad to play with for very long lest you don't mind the possibility of bad things happening to him, too.
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Pah! simple happy ending's boring anyway.
Anyhow.. I hereby give you my permission to do whatever you like with Yvad. I am SURE that you won't give him worse treatment than I sometimes give him - lets just say I have some sketches that I won't share online.
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*chuckles* I'll do my best. *hugs* Though, I may have to wonder about those sketches.
And I don't mind. I consider myself a Christian, but truly admire much of the Buddhist's views and understanding.
Also, Samson will be making an appearance in my Order and Chaos series...
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hahaha hmm.. disturbing sketches.. I have some sketches of Fenris that I did ages ago.. had to use a LOT of red.. but that's just Fenris being in character..
There's one of young Yvad being tortured.. i just uploaded it into my stash.. I will send you a link in a note, since it might be relevant... and also since you're curious.
Oh cool that you're gonna be writing Samson!! i quite like him as a character.. he's just seems so.. tired.. I feel bad for the guy.
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*makes faces* Then you may hate me for what happens to Samson... but there are some redeeming parts of it, I hope. We'll see when I actually turn the notes into the fic.
And yay! *waits for the note*
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OH dear.. poor Samson.. did you kill him at the judgement in game?
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No, I did not. I turned him over to Cullen and serve the Inquisition... but in my headcanon, that red lyrium in his blood is still a problem... *whistles*
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Ah.. I did the same thing with Samson.
Actually.. do you have Mara's cannon backstory written up?
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Samson said that Corypheus only delayed his corruption... I figured with Samson away from the former magister and locked up, the red lyrium would start to grow again. So, I wanted to play on that. But that'st If They Dared (where a lot of shit will hit the fan).
As for Mara's backstory... I roughly outlined it here: illusionaryennui.tumblr.com/ma… but it covers the whole game plus parts of my series (some that are still in the works - I have all the notes done, it's just a matter of sitting down and working on the final drafts). But there is some backstory there... I should probably develop it more.
(I actually made something simple for all of my heroines for my canon playthroughs: illusionaryennui.tumblr.com/ho… )
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Thanks for the link. I love how you wrote the game progression as a story too. Mara's a great character... very well thought out.
Anyway.. just been doodling a lot, and finally drew our daddy this is him in the present time.... he's maybe around 60 years old? I wanted him to look a bit like an older version of Yvad, around the nose and the jaws specially.. hard to draw an old guy tho.
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I was never good at drawing older characters either - every time I've drawn my father, the man now in his late 50's, he always ended up looking years younger. *shrugs* And actually, I like it. He's got the same sort of hooded eyes like Mara does even if not the same color, but more of Yvad's shape (my mother's eyes were blue, but I ended up with the brown of my father's, but my younger sisters had our mother's). Their ears are about the same, a similar forehead and chin... Damn, Daddy Trevelyan's kinda... attractive.
And thank you. I found it easier to write it that way, for some reason. I may have gotten a little carried away in any case - I think I rambled more about the relationship between Mara and Cullen than anything else... I played around with it after I sent you the link originally - I had forgotten how slap-dash it was. (The grammar and some of the wording - remind me never to just "wing it" late at night. 
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I actually wanted to make the Bann look quite attractive. I think he should be quite a charismatic man, proficient in the Game, using his charms for politics. hahaha I think his eyes should be brown.
Yvad didn't like Vivienne, and the disapproval went ALL the way.. I am surprised that she didn't leave.
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Mara gives Blackwall to the Wardens so he can do good there - she respects Blackwall, but he should have told her the truth. It seems like everyone lies to her, but she wants to give everyone the best chance to atone.
As for Sera... I personally struggle with her, but I think I made it worse because I didn't go pranking with her, more or less stunting whatever interaction afterwards. She didn't leave, but I felt like I missed out for the rest of it. I didn't realize that I had to do it as part of her "personal" stuff.
But Yvad and Sera being besties - that could work. *makes a note*
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hehee too many people don't like Sera, but I really liked her for some reason. I keep wondering what happened to her in the past for her to become that way.. or was she always like that? If I have a chance to play yet another playthrough, I might make a female Qunari and romance her. LOL
Oh so you're romancing Blackwall huh? hahaha He's my main man.. My standard party was Blackwall, Sera and Dorian. His banter is sssoo amusing both with Sera and Dorian.. i like him very much.
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Cullen's my canon playthrough's romance du jour for Mara. She usually has Varric and two bodyguards, Iron Bull as the two-handed and either Cassandra or Blackwall as her shields. Dorian likes to come along, though. Mara enjoys his company, respecting him as a fellow mage, and his need to prove that his home is not some dark, venomous thing that the rest of Thedas believes it is. Solas also finds his way into her party... she's grateful to him that she's alive and respects him as well, but I have a feeling that other than the Anchor and his respect for her as a person first and a mage second, I think he's a bit too wrapped up in his own head for adventuring.
All the others are more or less AU's for me: Kana is my mage Trevelyan for Blackwall, but apart from getting the Inquisition started, I haven't done much for her. Same for my Lavellan mage for Solas and my two Trevelyan warriors for Dorian and Josephine/Cassandra (haven't decided yet). But oddly enough, I like The Iron Bull too much as a friend and BDSM is a bit disconcerting to me, so I feel I may be better by keeping him as a friend. And yeah... I have no desire to romance Sera. I can't offer a
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interesting that you chose to have other Trevelyan playthroughs..
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I like playing mages too much, I guess. And for some reason, I don't beeline for being an elf for my main character. Perhaps their Origins were just too painful for me? I'm not drawn to their allure among fantasy? Honestly, I don't know. Perhaps I just like being a boring old human.
More or less.
Though, my Alia (born Era'Halani) Lavellan is my hard mode Quizzie. My Blackwall-mancing Trevelyan is my nightmare. Or vice versa, I can't remember which. I would have made dwarf for the Warden, but as I said, I like mages too much.
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When i play any RPG, I ALWAYS play a half-breed (half-elf, if available), and when I played Origins, i didn't know that half-elves just look human.. so I guess I can now pretend that my human warden was a half elf too.. lol
In Inquisition, only human mages seem to have their backstory directly linked to this Mage-templar conflict, and i really like that.
Ahhh.. i played a bit of my Nightmare Qunari last night... man.. Alexius fight was sssooo hard.. *Cries*
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The Alexius battle would always glitch when we got back to the present. Have to load up the autosave just as the fight started and do the battle again - that seemed to fix it and let me move on.
But for our AU, I like how we've been developing it thus far. It's been so much fun and I hope it will continue to be.
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I love our AU too!!!
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If you're inspired for more, I'm truly flattered.
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I am actually thinking of a fight club style fist fight.. good and bloody, but really not trying to kill each other.. a good fight that makes them feel like brothers afterwards.
Oh Sure they'll take some damage, but nothing a certain good mage inquisitor can't fix up..
The fight should gather some spectators.. Who wouldn't want to watch a good commander of the inquisition fight? Cassandra will not approve, of course.. Dorian will enjoy it for a time, then he'll probably think it's barbaric. If your Hawke is there too, would she enjoy watching Cullen fight? My Hawke will place a bet on Cullen. She's a mage, but for old time's sake.
Yeah I took the direct assault option with my 2nd playthrough.. but that fight scene was way too brief..
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