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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard

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Purveyor of finest quality fangirl love this side of Thedas. Canadian expat with terrible timing. Account is 99.99% for geeking out over DA/ME/BG3. (she/her) Currently playing: Pokemon Legends Z-A

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · Sep 4

My canon Heroes of Thedas. 💖 RIP to my assorted elf rogues that had brief, shining moments of being canon. 😅

#DragonAge

A graphic that shows my Hero of Ferelden, Elaryn Cousland. It includes a portrait of her in the Warden-Commander armour with the hilt of a blade over her shoulder. She has pale skin and sage green eyes that are narrowed in an expression of focus. Her dark brown hair is pulled back with a few strands framing one side of her face. The graphic also displays her key personality traits, borrowed from the Dragon Age 2 dialogue wheel--an olive branch for diplomacy, wings and a halo for helpful/good, and a diamond to symbolize charm. Beneath them are three images from the warrior tree in Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening; crossed swords for two-weapon fighting, a trophy for the Champion specialization, and a blue shield with a human figure inside for the Guardian specialization. Below the icons is an image of Alistair's face cropped in a heart to indicate that he is Elaryn's romance interest.

A graphic that shows my Champion of Kirkwall, Dacia Hawke. It includes two portraits of her, one on top of the other; the first and larger the two shows her in Dragon Age 2 while the second is from Dragon Age: Inquisition. She's the default Lady Hawke without the blood smear--pale skin, piercing cyan eyes, short black hair, deep red lips. The graphic also displays her key personality traits using icons from the Dragon Age 2 dialogue wheel--an olive branch for diplomacy, a laughing mask for humorous, and a diamond to symbolize charm. Beneath them are three images from the warrior tree in Dragon Age 2; the symbol for the taunt, shield bash, and resolute skills, indicating that her combat style is made up of skills from the warmonger, weapon & shield, and defender trees. Below the icons is an image of Fenris's face cropped in a heart to indicate that he is Dacia's romance interest.

A graphic that shows my Inquisitor, Marian Trevelyan. It includes two portraits of her, one on top of the other; the first and larger the two shows her in Dragon Age: Inquisition while the second is from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. She's in her early 30s (Inquisition) with tan skin, cold blue eyes, very short grey hair in Inquisition and a grey-white ponytail in Veilguard. She also has a large scar on her cheek and another through her right eyebrow. The graphic also displays her key personality traits using symbols from the Inquisition dialogue wheel--an armoured soldier with folded arms to indicate being stoic, a red circle with a lyrium-blue star in the middle that means arcane knowledge, and a green book with an infinity symbol on it that means history knowledge. Beneath them are three images from the mage skill tree to indicate what schools of magic she specializes in; they're a blue book for the Winter school of magic, a green book for the Spirit school, and a dark brown book with a gold sword on it for the Knight-Enchanter specialization. Below the icons is an image of Blackwall/Thom's face cropped in a heart to indicate that he's Marian's romance interest.

A graphic that shows my Rook, Ruya Laidir. It features a portrait of her smiling; she's a female qunari with dark grey/blue skin, purple eyes, gold makeup around her eyes, and assorted abstract designs done in tattoos and decorative scars on her face. She has long black hair that's shaved in an undercut and there are decorative gold bands at the base of each swept-back horn. The graphic also displays her key personality traits using icons from the Veilguard dialogue wheel--a thumbs-up symbol for honest, an eye with a tear beneath it for sentimental, and a laughing mask for playful. Beneath them are two images from the warrior skill tree; the first is the warrior core icon of a shield with crossed blades and an axe, and the other is the symbol for the Mourn Watch, indicating that her core specialization is Reaper. Between them is the symbol for the Lords of Fortune, her faction. Below the icons is an image of Emmrich's face cropped in a heart to indicate that he is Ruya's romance interest.

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Turið Torkilsdóttir @turidtorkil.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, I'm home for three weeks and in edit mood 🌺

For free of course, you know the drill.

Throw your blorbos at me in the comments and tell me their full name and which colours/flowers/etc you want 😁

(Any fandom! Portraits from head to waist work best, but we can discuss everything.)

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 4h

Listen. It used to be B. I used to get so disgusted that I didn't talk to him enough to trigger his personal quest. On my most recent play, I actually got it, so now it's A, and it sure was nice to have context for Felsi storming the Keep in Awakening. 😆

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 19h

*sob* They're beautiful. 😭 One of these days I need to get DAI on PC so I can apply these wonderful mods. ❤️

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 23h

Artificer because that was the only relevant match for my goody two-shoes Dalish hunter, and even then the logic was tenuous (traps!). 😅 The Ranger specialization in DAO was odd in the context of the game, and I get why they dropped it, but man would it have been a better fit for my Lavellan. 😜

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 1d

The next chapter of my #Shenko fic is live on AO3. 😊

Check it out here: archiveofourown.org/works/723185...

#MassEffect #MassEffectFanfiction

Graphic that reads:
Mass Effect: Survival
A Post-Destroy Ending Fanwork
Part 1: Survivor Guilt
Chapter 2 Now Available
Updates Tuesdays on Archive of Our Own

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 3d

Also Marian politely declines Ruya's Harvestmere invitation every time. 😆 Maybe Thom will talk her into going once, but she won't like it. 😜

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 3d

Elaryn (HoF) isn't going to go out of her way to catch up with anyone; it's not that she disliked them, she just can't be bothered. 😅 Hawke is too busy staying under the radar to reach out. And Marian (Inquisitor) would, but just Dorian and, oddly, Cullen. She wasn't super close with anyone else.

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 3d

That's gotta be Rook. Ruya is *such* a people person there's no way she's letting any of the Veilguard fall out of touch. We're talking sending out Wintersend family portrait cards of her, Emmrich, and Manfred, hosting Harvestmere feasts, all of it. Even the Inquisitor is invited. 🥰

#DragonAge

Screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard showing the VG companions plus my Rook, Ruya Laidir, seated around a table at the Lighthouse.

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 7d

The correct answer is yes. 😜

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 7d

If you caught my posts where I worried about sharing the cover image, this is the modified version that I'm hoping won't irk EA if they happen to find it. 😅

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 7d

Decided to share my Mass Effect fic. ❤️

I'll be posting one chapter at a time [and need to actually finish the second epilogue/last chapter; this will give me the pressure I need to get it done 😅].

Check it out here: archiveofourown.org/works/723185...

#MassEffect #MassEffectFanfiction

The cover image for my fanfic "Mass Effect: Survival", showing Lauren Shepard and Kaidan Alenko on a paragon-blue starfield with the Normandy and the surface of a rocky planet.

An announcement image. There's only text on a starry blue background that reads:
Mass Effect: Survival, A Post-Destroy Ending Fanwork
Part 1: Survivor Guilt
Chapter 1 Now Available
Updates Tuesdays on Archive of Our Own

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 8d

Darn it. Well, the cat is slightly out of the bag anyway, since I prematurely uploaded it to an image hosting service anonymously and there's nothing I can do to take it down. Still won't post it anywhere else, but yeah. Eep.

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 8d

What do we think the odds are of EA coming for me if I share a cover I've made for a fanfic? 😅

It imitates the style of published Mass Effect novels. It could probably fool someone into thinking it was canon if they didn't look closely enough at the author credit. Probably shouldn't risk it, right?

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 8d

Ruya is thrilled to pose for you! Marian was coerced. 😜

A screenshot from Dragon Age Veilguard showing Ruya Laidir, a qunari warrior, smiling lightly.

Ruya smiling warmly. She likes to smile. 😋

A screenshot from Dragon Age Inquisition showing Marian Trevelyan.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 11d

A gentle reminder for whoever needs it: you don't have to make yourself small for anyone. You are perfect, exactly the way you are.

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 11d

Lynaea with her hair down for her woodland prince. 🥰🐻

#BaldursGate3 #BG3

A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3 featuring my Tav, Lynaea, a female wood elf, with a flirty smile.

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 12d

Using #DAFanFriday to guilt myself into finishing my open Veilguard run. 😅 This is Valaeria, my smartass and bitchy mage Warden. I got halfway through the main plot before I missed Ruya too much and went back to her. 😆 But I should see the Davrin romance through.

#DATV #DragonAgeTheVeilguard #Rook

A screenshot from Dragon Age The Veilguard showing Valaeria "Rook" Thorne. She's a devastatingly beautiful Dalish elf with dark red hair and very kissable lips.

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 13d

A few more Ruya references. ♥️

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ZousiQ (Comms Open!) @zousiq.bsky.social · 13d

500 followers couple raffle time!! 💜
Thank you guys for the support you've send my way this past year, it means so much to me!

To enter make sure to:

🔹Follow, Like & 🔁!
🔹Drop your oc's and their love interest refs below!
🔹Winner gets a fully rendered waist up!

The raffle ends Oct 20!!
#artraffle

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats!! 🎉♥️ Ruya and Emmrich are so proud of you! 🥰 (And so is their son of course. 😜)

A screenshot from Dragon Age Veilguard showing Ruya Laidir, a qunari warrior, grinning with her hand on Emmrich's arm. Manfred the skeleton is cheering in the foreground.

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👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 13d

Yep! All but Veilguard, which will be remedied at some point. Actually thanks for the reminder, I need to get Inquisition again. 😅 I had it on disc for PS3 and got rid of it after getting it digitally on PS4. 😋

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 13d

1) She's not as selfless as she seems.
2) She tried so hard to hold it all together.
3) She needed the Inquisition as much as it needed her.
4) She wishes everyone could just get along.

They couldn't have done it on their own.

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 14d

Aww, thank you so much! ❤️ She's my big bundle of joy. 🥰

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks! ❤️ And, er, short answer, not at the moment, but long answer, I think I could make one from the chaos of my Photoshop file. It'd just take a bit of time to get all the icons for the different class options. 😊

👻🦇 Kira 🍂🎃 | Warden-Commander Shepard @wcshepard.bsky.social · 16d

Finally got the screenshots I needed to complete my canon OCs post. 😊

#BaldursGate3 #BG3 #MassEffect #MassEffectTrilogy

A graphic featuring the basic info for my Baldur's Gate 3 main character, Lynaea. She's a wood elf with darker skin and brown hair that's messily pulled back. She's in ornate armour that's gold-tinted with a swamp green shirt underneath it. The hilt of a sword is peaking over her shoulder as she looks into the distance. There's an info block that contains the following:
"Lynaea", two graphics denoting her class--one is a split between the symbol for Ranger and the symbol for the Gloomstalker specialization with the number 5 written on it and the other is a split between the symbol for Cleric and the Nature domain with a 7 written on it, indicating that she has 5 levels in Gloomstalker Ranger and 7 levels in Nature Cleric. Beneath that is a portrait of Halsin shaped like a heart with a frame of gilded leaves.