Primordial Sin

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 the lord  looked with favor on abel and his offering, but on cain, he did not. the lord said: “why are you angry, cain? if you do what is right, will you not be accepted?"

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the firstborn at last created something new ━━

Envy.

— erudition 2:1

  rule 001.    consistency
i'm extremely chronically ill and so my ability to write and respond ooc is frequently hindered. i tend to disappear a lot and then crawl out of the woodworks to rekindle friendships. if the inconsistency bothers you, no hard feelings but i'm not the writer for you!

  rule 002.    pro freak safe space
i write erotica for a living and predictably have very few limits that i'm not willing to write. i love dark media and will indulge basically anything! that being said, whump isn't the focus of this blog, though it will probably be featured.

  rule 003.    anti call out culture
i will hardblock if i see call outs being reblogged unhesitatingly.
if you're going to softblock me for whatever reason, please just hard block so i don't assume tumblr unfollowed. no hard feelings!  rule 004.    ships
I'm open to all sorts of dynamics; from fluffy to toxic. I have no triggers or limits and will happily write on or off the dash depending on our level of comfort. I may drop ships in time if I feel like my energy isn't being returned, but I will always speak with you about the issue first before assuming anything

  rule 005.    addressing the dni
I'm aware that plusdedragonne has me on their DNI; for context, this is because we dated a few years ago and while the breakup was mutual, it was emotional. I have absolutely no beef with them or anyone who writes/is friends with them!

  rule 006.    following
I don’t always follow with the intent to write. Sometimes I follow people just because I like the way they write, or I want to read their headcanons, or I mean to write with them in the future. I’m not in a rush here to figure out what to do with every last mutual. If that bothers you, please hard block me. No hard feelings!

  rule 007.    dupes
Dupes are welcome! I'm more than happy to figure out companion verses!

  rule 008.    nsfw
Dark/Mature/Taboo themes will be mentioned; Blood magic, canon typical violence, body horror, etc. If you want to write NSFW with me but don't want it on the dash, I am more than happy to move it off platform. I'm also equally happy to fade to black, NSFW is not a requirement for ships

  PERSONALITY 
strength ━ ●○○○○○○○○○ 1/10
stamina ━ ●●●●●●●●●○ 9/10
stealth ━ ●●●○○○○○○○ 3/10
smarts ━ ●●●●●●●●●○ 9/10
sarcasm ━ ●●●●●●●●●● 10/10
sass ━ ●●●●●●●●●● 10/10
charisma ━ ●●●●●●○○○○ 6/10
sociability ━ ●●○○○○○○○○ 2/10
style ━ ●●●●●●●●●● 10/10

  APPEARANCE   Her build is small and unmuscled, a typical mage's body. She seems much paler than the average white person due to her frequent use of blood magic. Her skin is freckled and her cheeks are often hollowed. She usually wears her hair in a high/medium ponytail but will style it down with parted bangs for special occasions. She has some scarring in easy to hide places from casting cuts, mostly on her upper arms and thighs.

  biography   born as a fraternal twin in kirkwall to revka and henri amell sr, aalis' magic manifested when she was seven years old. alone in her room, inspired by a picture book of ferelden in the winter, aalis summoned a fistful of snow with glee. days later, she stood in hightown's square surrounded by children eager to witness the miracle for themselves. a whisper of ice floated through the air, raining fragile crystals of snow that just as soon melted in the kirkwall summer, and as a passing templar saw the flash of magic, he apprehended the girl.her twin, henri jr, stepped forward, claiming it was him who had cast the spell. when the commotion was noticed by the nearby nobles, the templars were pressured into taking only the boy who was willing rather than the girl who stared wide-eyed from her mother's breast.three years later, aalis dared to show off her magic again; to a boy whose eyes she liked. they were deep brown, unlike hers, and shown like honey in the sun. he didn't cower when she claimed to have magic, but when she presented him with a delicate shard of ice in the shape of a heart, he refused to touch it.that afternoon, the templars came for her, too.  temperment   aalis is, in equal measure, a radicalist and selfish. she owes credence to two dogmas only; the wardens and the mages. she will always put the well-being of mages above everyone else's while simultaneously using every political advantage she can to further the relevance of wardens in ferelden.she doesn't always do things above board. she is very willing to work with criminals and get her own hands dirty to further her power; whether this be by allowing the thug organizations to continue their activities so long as she gets a cut and has the final say in their plans, or by personally assassinating an ally's political opponent. aalis knows she has the power to manipulate and persuade herself out of any situation she doesn't want to be in and has no qualms abusing that power.  likes   anything that makes her feel like a girl rather than a warden (nice clothes, hair/skin products, jewelry), fine and expensive alcohol, attention, anything to do with tevinter (tomes on blood magic/the old gods, misc paraphernalia, etc), anything antivan (alcohol from there, fine jewelry or knives, reading about the crows, etc)

  AGNUS DEI   ━━━  he made and ate of me.

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they’ve kept the truth about persephone a secret, burying it deep below hercules’s murdered wife and all of zeus’s affairs. it’s dangerous, you see, a spark threatening to ignite a long dead flame.
power.
she loved her power.

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━ Emily Palermo

i made the  obscene decision  to do something unforgivable for the sake of my survival. listen to me:
 i was a child  who only wanted to heal.now i  want to be  an abomination.

ㅤkinloch holdㅤ
#i was born waiting
aalis enjoys many luxuries as first enchanter irving's right hand. most prominently is the lack of suspicion surrounding her insatiable curiosity.
friends: jowan, anders, uldred
likes: senior enchanter lenorah, godwin
dislikes: niall, wynne, cera, finn, karl, lilyㅤoriginsㅤ
#why should there be silence
it isn't until after the group's first successful conscription at the dalish camp that aalis finds someone willing to teach her more than the theory of blood magic.
dao choices
friends: morrigan, zevran, dog named flower
likes: oghren
dislikes: alistair, sten, shale, lelianaㅤawakeningㅤ
#this freedom tastes like ash
given the arling of amaranthine for her victory at the battle of denerim, aalis enjoys her power as de-facto arlessa despite the local darkspawn deciding to talk.
friends: anders, oghren
likes: velanna, justice
dislikes: sigrun, nathanielㅤdragon age 2ㅤ
#i had my cake: i ate it and it ate me too
after the unfortunate events that occurred at amgarrak, weisshaupt forces aalis' hand to wrangle the beasts. her search eventually leads her to kirkwall.
friends: anders, merrill, isabela
likes: fenris, varric
dislikes: aveline, carver, bethany, sebastian

ㅤinqusitionㅤ
#my brother's keeper
after following morrigan through the eluvian, the two become a quick novelty of the orelsian court, which is where leliana finds the women when she's looking to recruit for the inquisition. aalis begrudgingly leaves morrigan and their son, kieran, in orlais to chase warden rumors and save the world again, she guesses. only to realize the idiot who got himself marked is no one but her twin brother, henri amell jr.
friends: varric, cole, solas, dorian, josie
likes: blackwall
dislikes: cullen, leliana, cassandra, iron bull, vivienneㅤinterludeㅤ
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  PERSONALITY 
strength ━ ●●●●●●●●●● 10/10
stamina ━ ●●●●○○○○○○ 4/10
stealth ━ ●○○○○○○○○○ 1/10
smarts ━ ●●●●●●●●○○ 8/10
sarcasm ━ ●●●●●●●●○○ 8/10
sass ━ ●●●●●●●●●○ 9/10
charisma ━ ●●●●●●●●●● 10/10
sociability ━ ●●●●●●●●○○ 8/10
style ━ ●●●●●●●○○○ 7/10

  APPEARANCE   his build is surprisingly lithe and less muscled than one would expect from his combat armor and sword. His skin has a healthy glow and some small freckling, only noticeable after several days in the sun. His cheekbones are high and full. Before acquiring Fen'harel's orb, his eyes were a light blue, however due to the Fade's influence, they are now a startling aqua, nearly an ocean teal. His hair is a medium brown, usually worn in a low, messy bun or braided.

  biography   born as a fraternal twin in kirkwall to revka and henri amell sr, henri jr's magic manifested when he was ten years old. however, he was taken to the circle in ostwick when he was seven.tba  temperment   Henri is devout as any Chantry brother and wholeheartedly believes in the necessity of the Templar order. He has long accepted the Chantry's version of the world and while he doesn't proselytize, everything he speaks on will eventually circle back to the Maker in some way. He is generally book smart and highly educated on magic and history as it pertains to the Chantry. His "street smarts," so to say, are incredibly lacking however, and given free-reign in any city, he would most likely find his coin purse missing very quickly.Henri would be the first to blame the rebel mages for their position in the war, not understanding the gravity of suffering in other Circles until shown it first hand, since Ostwick was a sedate and peaceful Circle. This leads to him choosing to bring the Templars to Skyhold. Despite his ignorance, Henri is a good person who does genuinely like helping people, and so he does feel bad that the remaining rebel mages were red Lyrium blighted as a result. As the Inquisitor he has to shove the feeling down and focus on the fact that they would not have put themselves in that position if they hadn't opposed the Templars in the first place.As a man at the Maker's mercy, he prays that none of his family were among them.  likes   Anything Andrastian (holy symbols, texts, etc), anything about the former Inquisitor Ameridan, anything from Kirkwall or having to do with the Amell family (stuff with his house crest on it, anything rumored to have belonged to his family, genuinely anything that could be considered an import from Kirkwall), fine armor and mage paraphernalia (oil, lyrium potions, grimoire additions, etc), hair care products

  GOD THE GARDENER   ━━━   i will not seasons fear.

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“have you considered my servant, job?" the lord asked, "there is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright.”the devil spake: “does job fear god for nothing? stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you.”then  god rained fire upon job  and the faithful fell to his knees. “naked i came from my mother’s womb, and naked i will depart. the lord gave and the lord has taken away;  may the name of the lord be praised. ”

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━ job 1:1-22, niv

i'm finding  mercy cuts  like a sharpened knife
i've been aching, so personal is pain
i'm afflicted but still  you give me joy the bones you're breaking,
the bones they will rejoice!

ㅤostwick circle of magiㅤ
#bird cage blue and yellow
tbaㅤinquisitionㅤ
#see what his children in arrogance wrought
tba

ㅤinterludeㅤ
#tba
tbaㅤveilguardㅤ
#tba
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