I hope you brought enough for everyone
January 8, 2015
5:41 am
I worked myself to actual sickness with day job stuff, so my thanks to Twitter person Russel Figgins who suggested this quick thing I could hammer out without killing myself on top of the all nighters I’ve been up to lately for the job that pays rent.
But hey a bonus thing if you’re interested in totally self-indulgent wanky Dragon Age Fanfiction, I also drew a scribbly four page thing about the Qunari Inquisitor having a huge loud family with a million siblings and trying to convince Bull Tal-Vashoth aren’t so bad while I was busy being stuck in an airport/on a plane for like three hundred years coming back from that mountain I mentioned last week.
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Ironbull grabbing the Inquisitors horn utterly makes this page.
Horns! They’re useful!
Horny guys (no females anywhere) in close quarters? Maybe not as much as you might think…
O.o
Ho yay!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay
What class is your Inquisitor btw?
Reaver-Warrior
ERMAHGERD! COLE AND DORIAN ARE THE BEST
That is so Cole.
Cole is a gem.
And I’m a little terrified of him, but I think that’s justified considering how stealthy and effective he is.
This comic is even funnier now that I’ve actually played DA:I and can hear that line in Cole’s innocent-earnest-creepy voice.
Dorian greatly disapproves
Congratulations. You win the 1st prize in the Guess What Cole Would Say In That Situation award.
(Got to say, the same thought occured to me when I first climbed on a mount, though I imagined my companions lined up a little more tidily. It was the first mount in the Hinterlands, so Cassandra was telling Varric that he could hang on to the horse and live, or he could hang on to her and not. And then Solas slips off and says he’ll just walk…)
The pose is perfect too, everyone is struggling to stay on and Cole just hangs there all happy to be included.
I been always wondering what happens to the guys when I pull out my mount in DA:I. Also Please please do one with how stupid they AI is. I love your work and love to see your take on it.
Does anyone else tend to not ride their mount in order to not miss out on party Dialogue? It makes me sad that the entire party doesn’t mount up.
I almost never use the mounts partially for that reason and part so I can pick every flower but the Hissing Wastes are insufferably large and empty to hoof it all the time.
Just for the record, your Adaar is now cannon in my book. Save for a minor substitution of class.
For the record, I love your “totally self-indulgent wanky Dragon Age Fanfiction” and the thoughts behind it. I love that the game inspires so many people to have ALL THE THOUGHTS.
I use my mount so rarely that I forget I HAVE one some days. But, yes, my favorite comment on the Hissing Wastes was Bull’s: “That is a whoooole lot of nothing.” Yes, yes it is. And it’s a whole lot of nothing with all of the important shit spread almost equally far apart.
Since he’s the lightest, why doesn’t Cole just sit on Bull’s shoulders?
Because thats where Sera sits
Just like in college when one of your friends brings a ride and somehow you stuff more people in it than in a clown’s car.
Just be careful not to get stuck. It took me like 10 minutes to get out from under the steering wheel when we decided to test maximum occupancy, even after everyone else piled out; I shudder to think what such a crowded vehicle in motion would be like.
Hey, everyone knows you can fit 14 into a clown car: 6 in the back seat, 2 in the front passenger seat, 1 driver (of course), 3 in the trunk, & 2 in the glove box.
A friend and I are better friends after bonding more over your comic. Also, your scribbly four page thing was awesome to the point of wanting in-game dialog like that :-) … :-/ … :-(
I am also glad they are friends.
This is awesomely hilarious and the four page “scribble” is amazing. Given the letters you get from the Valo-Kaas company if you’re a Qunari, I always wanted them to eventually show up. They sound so funny and awesome.
Once again Cole proves to be one of my top favorites when he’s around. (Though no one can beat The Iron Bull in my list of loves)
I find I use the mounts quite a bit myself. But thats mostly because I run all over the map like a pyjack with ADD and have to back track. Had to stop using the Hart cause it practically screams when you get it to gallop(kept waking my husband up…)
Origins is forever known to my family as “the game with THAT FUCKING DOG that kept waking me up,” on account of all the time I spent in camp fine-tuning my party.
That’s awesome.
On the scribbly comic though, isn’t the Inquisitor a Vashoth? Guy who’s never been introduced to the Qun. Rather than a Tal-Vashoth, who turn their backs on the Qun
His parents are Tal-Vashoth (as you have a conversation with Bull about), and several members of the Valo-Kas mercenaries are (dev notes on Shokrakar refer to her as bearing the scars of multiple reeducations before she finally escaped the Qun for good). Bull refers to Vashoth with similar disdain, so I get the distinct impression Qunari don’t really care Vashoth or Tal-Vashoth, and Vashoth is more a term they made for themselves because Tal-Vashoth is so inexorabbly linked to being a scummy murderous bandit. I also get the impression even just the word “Vashoth” has baggage attached to it considering the Qunari inquisitor refers to himself as “Qunari” in the game until Bull’s like “ha ha no you aren’t”.
Well that explains. I’m still on my elven character, so all I know is from the wiki. I always loved the irony of an elven mage saving the world of man. Everything they hate, and now it’s their only chance of survival.
Everyone I meet pretty much unanimously feels like Female Qunari Mage is probably coming from the most disadvantaged position to start with :P When you go to the Winter ball as a Qunari you get a little popup that tells you Orlesians think of Qunari as only slightly better than Ogres and you have your work cut out for you, and when you wander around before you bump your court approval people are whispering like “That’s not the inquisitor, it’s somebody’s pet”
And those reactions are exactly why I love playing as them. “Btch you better swear you loyalty to this Ogre, or I’ll just ignore that rift on your lands”
I also loved staring down Apostate hunting Templars in DA2 with a staff on my back.
I thought that was rather amusing, because on my second playthrough as a qunari, I actually got 100 approval. I had like 50 on my first playthrough as a human mage >.>
I had 100 as a Qunari too
Yeah, I have no clue what I did wrong with my mage. Like, said all the wrong things, tried jumping into the dance floor. Was late but not fashionably late. >.<
Best thing, I was actually fashionably late on accident. I was on my way back, and delayed, when the second bell went as I wast JUST about to enter the main hall
Seriously! Where does your party go? I pretend they have generic mounts of their own when you summon yours, but I miss the banter too much and tend to walk a lot as well. Half the time I’m just walking around, switching out party members to hear what they talk about. Sera and Viv are great, Bull and Viv, and Solas and Bull. But winners have to be Varric and Cassandra.
I wish they had added companions on mounts bantering but I guess the engine is limited.
Very good friends, I see.
Drakolisks are creepy as hell, at least I thought so until the game gave me a blood unicorn.
Still a lot better than what a companion in Skyrim has to go through when you take up a mount. Uncomfortable but not inhumane at the very least.
And of course; OH Cooooole XD He’s my favourite companion since his pure good status and innocence brings a completely fresh perspective.
Well, that’s a way more comfortable answer on what happens with your companions. At least more comfortable than the idea by Tim Buckley of CAD Comic :D
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20141128
I was so excited about getting the dracolisk, like “I’m gonna ride a dragon-lizard yeaaaahhh” and the first time I see it it’s the derpiest skull-lizard staring at me. Just staring. Then it moved those stupid disjointed legs around and I really thought I was riding a broken animal.
Guess now I know how it broke its legs, by packing a full party on.
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20141128
Relevant.
I read the scribble and now I’m sorry that Cole and Dorian, the other companions, and the Chargers didn’t get to go visit your Adaar’s family too. He appears to be the only person in DragonAge from a normal, happy well-adjusted family.
Jussssst take care of yourself coel if you die no-one else can make these comics.
Is it sad that one of my first thoughts after ordering DA:Inquisition was “I can’t wait for MGDMT to make comics out of this.”
Oh, Dorian! That has a simple answer!
…You could have ridden the Bull.
…..so wait, 2 Qunari proud of their horns…and they are not riding a great nuggalope???
for shame!
1. My Quizzie is the same, only he’s got an actual beard instead of scruff, and the horns that have the bun hairstyle. By same, I mostly mean he’s also a Reaver (Dragon Rage is the ONLY way to fight!)
2. That is my exact same party setup.
3. I think you’ve said you’re romancing Bull. For those of you who aren’t (and have apparently traveled back in time to read this comment), if you have Bull and Dorian in your party and romance neither, you can actually get them involved in their own relationship.
In response to Adoribull…I REALLY like the pairing, I think it’s fun and a nice twist…but I think it was handled pretty poorly in some ways…some of Bull’s dialogue there borders on harassment and he doesn’t really respect Dorian’s boundaries or desire for privacy…and all of these things seem very out of character for Bull so it’s weird…I think they could’ve handled the matter better but I still enjoy the fact that it happened at all
Iiiiiiii think that one got kinda blown outta proportion by the fanbase (particularly the fans who were angry that an unattached Dorian canonically goes after an unattached Bull rather than Cullen) Bull supposed to be really good at guessing people’s kinks (there’s a whole conversation about him just wanting to give the people what they want), Dorian keeps calling him a brute and a beast and in that specific instance says “You stand there, flexing your muscles, huffing like some beast of burden, with no thought save conquest”, he reads this as flirting and assumes that’s what Dorian’s into, and responds in kind about “conquering” him. Dorian is set aback and Bull is confused, saying ” Oh. Is that not where we’re going?” and adding that if Dorian is still curious he’ll leave his door unlocked.
Dorian, evidently, of his own free will takes Bull up on this (for some reason people always make this out like it wasn’t consensual when it is hammered home about as explicitly as possible that Dorian was the one who went to Bull to pursue this), and Bull kinda pokes fun at him for it later, which mildly embarrasses him until he gets over it. Which honestly, isn’t really out of line or character either considering a) Dorian was kinda fetishizing Bull and qunari in general pretty hard, which he really does deserve to get razzed over (If no one romances him in Trespasser he muses about how great it would be to be kidnapped by Qunari pirates, he just has this Harlequin bodice-ripper fixation on Qunari dudes) and b) Bull canonically doesn’t enjoy sleeping with people who deny it or act ashamed of him. It’s a game-breaker in his romance when Cullen and Cassandra walk in on you if you try to shrug it off as a fling, he’s just like “all right this was fun but if you’re gonna be like that it’s over”. So it would make sense that him razzing Dorian is more about him trying to get Dorian to stretch his comfort zone and treat him with some respect than Dorian being a poor victimized delicate flower.