Time for another giveaway! I’ve been planning this one for a while in celebration of reaching 800 followers and I am very excited! Thank you to everyone who follows me, whether we’ve spoken or not, I really appreciate you all. And to think that last christmas I was holding my 400 followers giveaway!! Crazy!
To celebrate, I’ve got a number of prizes lined up for you guys to win, which I’ll go through shortly. There will be three winners, receiving one prize each, allocated at random.
To participate, simply reblog this post! You can like the post, but for the sake of simplicity, I’m only counting reblogs. You must be a follower to take part and to be polite, you should follow the blogs of the other contributors (because also they’re very talented and deserve it). Because if you win one of their prizes, you’ll have to be following them anyway!
Entires must be in before 6pm BST/GMT +1 on Sunday 29th July!
Best of luck! And now for the prizes:
Prize #1: A fic by me!
Because it wouldn’t be one of my giveaways if I wasn’t in it!
Fics will be oneshots of an undetermined length, normally between 500-1000 words. I specialise in intimacy and emotion, but can translate this into almost any scenario, fluff, angst or smut, whatever you want! I will do any pairing and can include OCs if you’re willing to provide references.
The last giveaway prize I completed can be found here and similar prompts in this style can be found on my prompts tag.
I do have some limitations on what I will write, if you’re worried that what you want may fall outside of these limitations feel free to drop me a message.
Prize #2: Screenshots of your OC and their LI by @rhunae
As described above, @rhunae will take photos’ of the winner’s Inquisition OC in a photoshoot style. 12 will be taken of your OC in portrait style with some action shots, and 6 will be taken of them with their LI. They are an incredibly talented person and your screenshots will be of a very high quality!
For more examples of their amazing work, check out their screenshot tag!
You will need an Inquisition OC for this prize! If you don’t have one, let me know when you reblog the post.
Prize #3: A Coloured Headshot of your OC/Character of Choice by @badwolf626
The talented @badwolf626 will produce a fully coloured and shaded headshot of either an OC or character of choice! Of course, you must be willing to provide plenty of references. These will be in the style shown above, so you will be getting a very high quality piece! (I had to get one myself in case of art envy).
More examples of their lovely art can be found in their art tag
And now that the exciting bit is out of the way! Time for some rules:
Don’t apologize!!! I love this and answering questions about Sidni so thank you for all the numbers!! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long!
In fact, I rambled so much, I’ll put these under the cut.
1.What does your character’s name mean? Did you pick it for the symbolism, or did you just like the way it sounded?
Okay, let me explain something: Sidni was my very first Inquisitor and she was supposed to be my kind of throwaway, learn the game/character creator/wtf I’m doing character. So I stuck my name on her (because sometimes I like the default names) just so I knew those saves were my mess around ones.
Flash forward to this punk going “look how cute I am, now let me tell you about my backstory and how I romance this character WHO IS NOT ACTUALLY IN GAME ROMANCEABLE and make you fall in love with me.” Because I did. I fell in love with her and everything about her.
So, as I start to write about her and learn more, I keep thinking she needs a different name. I cannot tell you how many names I stuck on her nor how many name generators I went through and nothing fit. I even asked for outside input. No name worked. (And because she’s a little butthead, she was very proud of this and just waited for me to give up.) But I refused to let her just have my name so I turned to heritage and found the Gaelic version of my name. Surprisingly, that one FINALLY fit. The rest is history.
7.Is there a catchphrase or sound that they tend to make a lot (likely without being aware of it)?
She hums without realizing it. It’s very quiet and happens most often when she’s content. She’s never been quite so happy until she’s with the Inquisition which is why it’s not a thing she realizes she does frequently. Once the others figure out the pattern, they don’t point it out because they know it would make her self conscious.
12. Is there some particular talent, skill, or attribute that they simply could not give up?
Sidni is quite good at sneaking into places or being unseen. She honestly can’t give it up because she enjoys slipping past people, especially once she becomes Inquisitor. She also takes great joy in sneaking around. In fact, she uses it to annoy her companions once she realizes most of her tasks don’t include covert work.
Many of them can be heard begging Leliana to give her something so she stops popping up and scaring them all the time.
She’s also an expert with her knives, and you will pry that skill from her cold, dead fingers. Assuming you survive.
20. Does your character like animals? What are some of their favorite animals? Would they want pets? What about mythological creatures?
Sidni loves animals! She’s one of those “animals are better than people” people. She’s always wanted a Mabari (guys, just imagine her excitement when Cullen finds the one in Halamshiral because it’s so freaking ADORABLE), but she honestly would be happy with anything. When she winds up with her own horse and one of Leliana’s ravens is given to her, she nearly explodes with excitement. And you can bet those animals are pretty spoiled. All the Skyhold animals know the dwarf with the glowy hand will always give them treats and a scratch.
It breaks her heart to kill the dragons when they do. She recognizes the reason, but hates it anyway.
38. What kind of weather does your character like? Cloudy skies, rainy days, sunshine, etc?
She loves cloudy days, perhaps with a bit of drizzle. Just as long as the sky is clear at night so she can see the stars.
39. When people look at your character, is there some assumption they might make about them just by appearance? Is that assumption correct?
People see her, see her brand, and automatically think “thug.” And for the most part, they’re right. It’s what she’s always been.
But she’s also learned to be still, to be threatening, dangerous, and to do it all without being obvious. Even once she’s made Inquisitor, this lingers. So people look at her and their instincts make them uneasy because they recognize that she’s dangerous. Maybe not consciously, but it’s there. And yes, she’s dangerous. Always has been. And always will be. Just for different reasons now.
40. Does your OC have any guilty pleasures they enjoy? Hobbies, pastimes, music, etc that they wouldn’t want known by others?
I actually recently answered that here. Y’all just want to know her deepest secrets!
But she also really enjoys stories and songs. Whether it’s verbally passed along or found in a book, she devours them. Of course, it’s hard to keep hidden from Dorian and Cullen. And eventually Cassandra and Varric. But she does her best.
(She’s also excellent at telling stories, which you can see here.)
46. What is some random affectionate thing that your character always does to their lover?
Without realizing it most of the time, she’ll bring Cullen’s hand to her mouth and kiss his palm. Gloves or not. His hands are her favorite and it’s the easiest for her to reach when he’s not expecting it.
I am so late in posting this, but look at this gorgeous portrait of Sidni Cadash!! She is beautiful and murderous and perfect!! @kurosmind so generously did this to help support @kf1n3 (another amazing artist) after a fire took their home and everything in it.
If you can, please go donate via their Ko-Fi or GoFundMe
Here is the deal: @thebakerstboyskeeper has had some shitty time as of late, so I decided to write a little bit of smut to make her feel better. It involves her OC Sidni and our beloved Commander ^_^ It’s short, sweet and to the point (just like the OC!). Enjoy!
It was still dark when her eyes cracked open and she listened for a reason of her disturbance. Years of constantly being on guard from all sorts of enemies has trained her to be vigilant and aware of everything. She couldn’t sense any danger, but she knew something had interrupted her sleep.
A soft moan caressed her hair and traveled over her ear. Oh.
Sidni had gotten to the point where the solid and warm body tenderly wrapped around her did not feel out of place anymore. As much as he liked to act the tough guy, Cullen loved to cuddle in bed, and she allowed him the pleasure. Encouraged it, actually. But it was his restless sleep that woke her up.
Cullen suffered from serious nightmares, vivid images from his time in two mage circles that would replay in the Fade on most nights. Sidni desperately wished there was something she could do, but as a dwarf, she did not dream. She sighed heavily, hoping that tonight would not be too bad.
She was drifting off to sleep again when Cullen’s hand he kept draped over her middle spasmed and clutched at her nightshirt – another, louder moan escaped his mouth. He shifted against her and his hips jerked just enough to make her realize what kind of a dream he was actually having.
I don’t know if you all can hear me screaming, because I AM!! LOOK HOW GORGEOUS SHE IS!!!! @noctuaalba did such a perfect job and made her better than I ever could have imagined her!! I can’t stop staring at her. I can’t.
THANK YOU AGAIN!! AHHHH!!!
Because it’s Why Not Wednesday, I’m gonna reblob some Sidni art. I mean…look at her!!
With Sidni, I don’t think any of this is just work to her. Everything she’s had to do before is to survive. When she starts with the Inquisition, she’s distrustful and expecting more of the same from them. So everything she does boils down to necessary for survival.
But as she gets more comfortable and starts to realize that she’s making her own choices and doing things because it’s what she wants to and not what others expect of her (and that these people who are slowly becoming her friends want her to make her own choices), she starts to enjoy it. She seeks out her advisers’ and friends’ opinions on certain things to round out her thought process and proceed. (Let’s be honest, there are always things she will just stubbornly charge ahead into on her own.) Especially with the war table as she realizes she can’t be everywhere at once and the things she does have to do overwhelm her sometimes. And she likes war table meetings because she needs to know everything that’s going on. She’s a spy at her core.
With tactics, it gets a little trickier. She’s used to working on her own so she usually doesn’t need to have a plan laid out. But with constant companions and when everything is new, she likes a basic “okay this is where everyone is going to be” sort of thing. But she also knows things change, enemies get desperate, and you have to be ready to improvise at a moment’s notice. The longer she travels with the others, the more she learns their style and can step into a battle, confident they’ll all react to each other and the situation fluidly. So … basic tactics until she doesn’t need them. She’s more comfortable trusting her instincts.
Maker's Breath 