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@sapphiclament

miruna; 27; she/her; writer; videogame enthusiast; wuhluhwuh; etc

hey y'all! I'm back on here after a good, idk, 9 years (had to make a new blog since i've forgotten the credentials of my old fandom one lol. sad). been drawn back by the newly rekindled love for the dragon age series.

I'm also *relatively* freshly new on ao3, user's same as here, sapphiclament (as of rn), and here's my embarrassingly long series (and growing) of neverook fics! I'll share the new entries on here when I post again.

Would LOVE to hear your elaborate headcanon about Harding surviving because I love that idea! ๐Ÿ‘€

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Sorry for taking so long to answer this! I'm also going to tag @ninfadeloslagos because she also asked about it

The tl;dr version is that she uses her powers to suspend herself in stone to prevent herself from succumbing to her injuries.

We see her do this on instinct after she fell off the cliff when she first discovers her powers, and we know that lyrium!Harding can do it too because we find dwarves encased in lyrium at the end of Harding's questline. These dwarves are suspended in time- they have no memory from the time they were encased to the time they were freed by Harding. Sure, you could interpret this as just being unconscious but that's not fun. I choose to think of it as a bug in amber, unable to bleed or decay.

The combination of Harding being able to encase herself AND the idea that doing so suspends her in time means that she should be able to prevent her injuries from killing her until she can safely be extracted and treated by a healer. Both the First Warden and Strife get stabbed through the middle and survive so I think she'll be fine actually

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Would LOVE to hear your elaborate headcanon about Harding surviving because I love that idea! ๐Ÿ‘€

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Sorry for taking so long to answer this! I'm also going to tag @ninfadeloslagos because she also asked about it

The tl;dr version is that she uses her powers to suspend herself in stone to prevent herself from succumbing to her injuries.

We see her do this on instinct after she fell off the cliff when she first discovers her powers, and we know that lyrium!Harding can do it too because we find dwarves encased in lyrium at the end of Harding's questline. These dwarves are suspended in time- they have no memory from the time they were encased to the time they were freed by Harding. Sure, you could interpret this as just being unconscious but that's not fun. I choose to think of it as a bug in amber, unable to bleed or decay.

The combination of Harding being able to encase herself AND the idea that doing so suspends her in time means that she should be able to prevent her injuries from killing her until she can safely be extracted and treated by a healer. Both the First Warden and Strife get stabbed through the middle and survive so I think she'll be fine actually

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fuck i canโ€™t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i shouldโ€™ve been making money through internet scams

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I just noticed in all the DA games at the end the protagonist is being celebrated besides in DA2. There people are walking away from Hawke in almost horror.

In this video essay I will discuss why Hawke is so fucking tragic.

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