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Sep. 18th, 2025 09:38 am
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Since Dragon Age is a Dark Fantasy, there's plenty to potentially opt out of. With Anders specifically, he commits an act of domestic terrorism on a church in the name of political activism by his canon point. This is in answer to:
  • oppression
  • genocide
  • abuse of mages

    In addition, personally, Anders' history involves those same themes as well as:
  • institutional torture
  • institutional lobatomy
  • religious torment
  • unhealthy relationships with food
  • depression
  • suicidal ideation/intention
  • loss of self through possession

    If you'd like to avoid any of these or the character as a whole for any reason, please comment here with your character journals so I know who not to tag or when to avoid certain topics.

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  • apurrstate: (Magic | Panic Fire)
    PLAYER

    NAME: Lysoke
    CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] lysoke, DM, or on Discord at the same name
    ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Most active M,T,Th,F at varying times. Rarely over the weekends
    BRACKETS/PROSE: Either!
    OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please avoid topics that include harming cats, just CW warn for anything else, thanks!

    IN CHARACTER

    PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Sure! He likes physical affection please and thank you
    PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yep
    RELATIONSHIPS: Easily done, he's also unromanced in his worldstate
    PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: It would likely feel like looking through a pane of frosted glass, but accessible if pushed. He also definitely feels like he has more than just two souls in him
    MAGICAL INFORMATION: Anders' main magic is healing, spirit, and electricity, so there's a bit of a crackle in the air when he's casting. If he has Panacea active, it just feels nice to be around him (and constantly regain health points)
    MEDICAL INFORMATION: Through his own efforts, Anders is underfed and Too Skinny; he has a negative relationship with food thanks to Justice's influence.
    OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Offensive to Anders would be topics of slavery, rape, exploitation, and imprisonment. From Anders, he commits an act of domestic terrorism in the name of political activism in answer to oppression, genocide, and abuse on mages and the terrorism involves blowing up a church, so please use my opt-out page if you want to avoid that entirely. Otherwise, Anders' history involves those same themes as well as institutional torture and lobotomy, religious torment, unhealthy relationships with food, depression, and suicidal ideation/intention.

    OUT OF CHARACTER

    BACKTAGGING: Yes please!
    THREADHOPPING: If it makes sense
    FOURTHWALLING: No thank you
    NOT INTERESTED IN: Negative CR just for the sake of negative CR, I'd much prefer negative CR with substance and interaction, even if the interaction is contrived or forced. If someone's going to be a contrarion just because, there won't be a lot of good reason for Anders to interact with them.

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS

    VISUAL: He's tall and lanky, 6'4" malnourished at his canon point, mid-length blond hair, amber-brown eyes, and a very angular nose. (Also freckles!)
    AURAL: He sounds like this, a lighter voice, English accent
    OLFACTORY: He smells a little like the air after a storm, but mostly he smells of poltices and plants. Medicinal.
    DEMEANOUR: Depends on what he's doing when found! He can oscillate between teasing and confident or bitter/resentful and/or wear his self-hatred on the outside. At first glance, he definitely seems like someone who's constantly aware of everyone and everything in the room, like he might have to bolt or fight at any moment.

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    Terra 🌿
    Healing Subtype (Elfroot)

    Info

    Sep. 18th, 2025 09:36 am
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    Anders
    full name:
    Anders (real name lost)
    alias:
    The Darktown Healer, Renegade Apostate, Abomination, Blondie
    age/dob:
    35
    pronouns:
    He/Him
    Soul:
    Terra More here
    Housing:
    Valentia
    Inventory:
    Staff, Imperial Chantry amulet, Elfroot seeds, hand-embroidered pillow
    PERSONALITY
    Snippy Bitch and also an altruist. More to come later
    Appearance
    6'4 . brown eyes . blond hair

    Picture references! Generally, Anders is very tall and conventionally handsome, though in that 'used to take care of himself better' way. He usually has deep under-eye circles and some malnourishment, though he still has musculature from swinging his staff around as a weapon. His eyes are an amber-brown, and his hair is blond. He has old whip scars all along his back and some working scars on his hands, though the most noticeable scar from the front is the large stab-wound scar right over his heart.
    Full wiki here.

    Short version is: magic presented itself when he was 13, whereupon his father sold him out to the magic cops who took him to mage-school/prison. Mages are systematically abused, controlled, raped, murdered, or lobotomized. He spent a lot of time trying to escape, and the only reason they didn't kill him for it was because he was a powerful healer, a rare skill in mages. He finally escaped for the last time in his late twenties and half-accidentally joined the Grey Wardens, a special monster-hunting group. That was great until the politics of anti-mage sentiment found him, and he was forced to run again. Unfortunately, that resulted in his near-death, so a spirit of justice who was his friend possessed him to save his life. This was ultimately not great for either of them, as Anders couldn't resist his anger at injustices anymore, and justice was slowly being turned into a spirit of vengeance. The situation for them got steadily worse while they were in Kirkwall, where the systemic abuse against mages is measurably worse, and eventually led Anders/Justice to blow up the Chantry in Kirkwall to try and force the issue and make it one people couldn't ignore anymore.
    history
    Abilities
    Creation.
    Creation Magic, this is Anders' specialty. He also has access to the spells: dispel magic, spirit mastery, spirit bolt, chain lightning, tempest, winter's grasp, mind blast, and crushing prison, as detailed in his app.
    Spirit Healing/Vengeance.
    Vengeance Ability Tree, Ander's personal ability tree, he doesn't have access to the actual 'vengeance' half due to Justice being locked away.
    herbalism.
    Herbalism in Dragon Age, Anders is a highly proficient herbalist along with his magical healing.
    ooc info:
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    Activity Log(Incomplete)

    Drift Fleet CR Chart

    History: CRAU: Just after the events of Awakening, Anders woke up on the Drift Fleet hosted by a group called Latroma. He was told he was part of a reality tv show where participants were placed on a fleet of ships floating through space, visiting destinations the automated mothership was headed towards. Participants were told they were constantly being watched and would receive boons from audience members based on drama and ratings.

    At first, Anders arrived not knowing of his future events, something the rest of the cast didn't talk about with him, including the Hawke in-fleet who had romance Anders. After a few months, however, Anders fell into a coma and lived out the next ten years of his life in two weeks, waking back in the fleet just after receiving a letter from Varric stating Hawke was headed to Weisshaupt.

    During the events of Drift Fleet, Anders learned of events at home up to Trespasser, though he hasn’t experienced them himself. He was also told Leliana would be made Divine. Over the course of his time in the game, he learned more about multiverses and that, sometimes, people may be pulled from one universe into another without returning home (due to CRAU characters in game). He also learned a fair amount about technology through his time in Drift Fleet, though any expertise on the systems he knew will vanish upon leaving. While with the fleet, Anders learned more about how spirits are made and corrupted while speaking with Cole, instead of the Chantry rhetoric he grew up with.

    After about five months on the fleet, Riona Cousland told Anders about Allen Walker, someone on her ship who could separate spirits from those they possessed. After a couple weeks of thinking it over, Anders accepted the idea of giving it a try. (With mod approval) Allen, Riona, and Hawke worked together to remove Justice/Vengeance from Anders, though Anders still isn't sure if Justice was sent back to the Fade or laid to rest.

    Eight months later, Justice arrived in the fleet as well, though prior to he and Anders merging, something Anders had to take care in trying to keep secret for as long as he could. Eventually, Justice did find out and it very nearly sent him into Despair, but Anders and Justice's other friends we're able to help him through it.

    During an event where the fleet landed on a hostile planet, Hawke, Fenris, and Anders, we're separated from the ships and we're attacked by the natives. During the fighting, Anders stepped in front of an attack meant for Fenris and nearly died of it. Fenris was angry and confused and cornered Anders about it afterwards, resulting in a near-catastrophic conversation that resulted in them finally seeing the things they had in common. During the conversation, Anders also admitted he'd already seen Fenris die and it had altered his perspective on what he had thought he felt about the elf; in the end, he had no intention of seeing it twice, if he could help it.

    Personality: He’s been called out on a number of occasions for his lying and, while he knows it and recognizes the consequences likely to come up from those lies, he will still hold to them either for another’s protection or if he feels the consequences of the truth more greatly affect others than the consequences the lie will hold for him. That said, he does not lie flippantly, if he can help it.

    The removal of Justice has made it so that his anger and hatred, while still plenty present, no longer end in an uncontrollable rage and loss of himself to the spirit, Vengeance. Anders has had plenty of conversations about his actions, including what the mage-templar war turns into for Thedas during the events of Inquisition. Ultimately, his opinion hasn’t changed: he will spend the rest of his life attempting to atone for the deaths of the innocents he caused and he’s sorry for them, but he still holds fast that the action, the change was necessary. In this way, Anders’ major trait of unparalleled stubbornness could not be more evident.

    Planets
    Yaugur (Steam/Mist Planet)
    Yadrolla (Sports Teams Planet)
    Lone Breaker (Ghost Town Planet)
    Shinda BR-10 (Dual planets: Summer/Winter)
    Selvin-9 (Winter wonderland Planet)
    Lato'li (Cannibal Planet)
    Eyuzi (Fortune/Superstitions Planet)
    Kyanni (Big City Retail Planet)
    Mafik (Water Planet)
    Rew System (Ring Planet)
    Solace (Sky City)
    Hotel Corona (Las Vegas Planet Station)
    Lagan (Forest Planet-Wrecked Ship)
    GX-973-8 (Tri-Faction Planet)
    Hand-Holding Planet (Giving Tree)
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    The Circle (cw: Scopophobia)
    "Anders" (cw: Ommetaphobia)
    The Cause of Mages (cw:Blood)
    Consequences (cw:Blood)

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