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Some of my RPG characters! I'm not skilled at drawing people, but I worked for a long time on these so I might as well show them to someone. Don't be mean to me, I know they're not the best. Rest assured their character models are gorgeous in the games.

Most beautiful woman alive. Religious icon. In a relationship with god. Certified weird girl. Saved the world, remade the entire south of the continent, got her arm taken. Currently she's living in the worst city in the world sleeping far too much as she tries to find her boyfriend in her dreams to stop him from destroying the world, even though she wants him to. 'She's amazing!' 'Yeah... Just a bit strange, though.' 'Oh yeah, really strange.' Update as of Veilguard: disappeared into The Torture Prison forever with her boyfriend without a second thought. She's happy now with just him and her (and the tormented, Blighted dreams of huge stone creatures) forever.

Homicide, manslaughter, larceny, assault, bribery, theft, intimidation, blackmail, soliciting a prostitute(s), political corruption, animal cruelty, heresy, war crimes, racism. She murdered landlords, too, but that's not a crime. She's either the best person you ever met or she killed your wife, stole your family sword, and called you a slur. Either way she changed your life. In her short term as a political figure she performed the first agrarian reform in Thedas' history, and inspired the peasants in her land to rise up. But not because she is a good person, just because she hates taxes, landlords, and humans. Got rejected by a straight girl. Now lives in the forest with a pack of wolves living off raw meat and being plagued by evil nightmares. Never sleeps more than twenty minutes at a time. The only reason the parasites haven't killed her is because her body is poisoned by Blight so they die first. The only things keeping her going are spite and pride. Update as of Veilguard: the Blight took her over and she returned to her homeland to be put down like a rabid wolf by the straight girl she loved and Elanna.

Her character arc was learning that terrorism is okay sometimes. Lives in the worst city in the world. The city was blown up, but she came back and now co-governs it with her best friend, nepotism abounds. 'It's not mages versus templars, it's the working class versus the rich.' '...Hawke, don't you own a mine?' 'That's not the point.' Hides all her guilt with sarcasm. Her mother's face was cut off and attached to a bunch of parts from other women's bodies, then she died in her arms. 'Never trust a blood mage.' 'Isn't your wife a blood mage?' 'Merrill isn't a blood mage, she's Merrill.' Update as of Veilguard: her best friend is dead and she will never be truly happy again.

Stolen from her family, sold as a slave, bought as an assassin. Her first act as a mage was to give in to possession and annihilate a bunch of other children with blood magic, has really cool lightning scars all over her body from this. Exploited by her first trainer until she killed him, messed up one of her first official assassin contracts, can't write, deathly afraid of her new boss and thinks he wants to kill her (he is very fond of her and she's the only one who doesn't know), possessed by what she thinks is a desire demon but is actually a spirit of liberty. Kind of an overall failure but incapable of feeling regret. 'Nooo my trauma didn't affect me at all, really.' Saving the world is a contract, not really emotionally invested in it.  'She's a top-notch assassin, so she's probably really subtle.' *Rook fist-fights an entire bar* Her boyfriend is also possessed and now the leader of the assassins. Also he once had a crush on her boss. 'Why didn't I tell you I was possessed? Well, Lucanis is possessed, too, and his whole thing is way worse than mine, so I didn't want it to seem like I was trying to show him up or anything.' 'Your journey irrevocably changed you, you can never go home' blah blah. Well Rook can. She has a 9 to 5 killing people and she needs to get back to it. The only woman out of my Dragon Age characters who can be objectively said to have a good end.

Veteran. Hero of the galaxy. If you meet her, you love her, and if you don't, you're probably dead. Eight different types of PTSD. She's not smiling, she just looks permanently smug. Had her hair genetically changed to red when she joined the army. China levels of driving. 'You took us off a cliff!' 'Yeah but we didn't crash.' Spent a day hunting down her clone and vowing to mount her head on the wall. When she got the chance, she tried to save her. Ended up watching herself commit suicide by slamming into the side of a high-rise at top speed. Physically remade the galaxy. Died twice. 'You and your cult of personality!' '...You mean my friends?'

Daddy issues. Has an AI in her head. Got red-rim mods for her eyes when she joined the army to match her dad. Wakes up every day to apply her geometric square eyeshadow. SH levels of driving. 'We're spinning!' 'We're fine!' *goes down a mountain and has to be airlifted off the planet* Technically fighting in a guerilla war against another solar system. The only good thing about never getting another Andromeda is that she gets to be happy with her girlfriend and friends forever (with the eternal looming threat of being attacked by a massive empire that wants to assimilate them).

For the next Dragon Age, I'm planning on making an elven mage assassin who romances the other good assassin guy. 'No one cares.' I care. I'm so excited for it.