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Life in Camp Shady Fuckers

WHO: Everyone living in or visiting the Warden camp
WHAT: Just some low-key action-spammy stuff for a bunch of sketchy losers who got tossed into the camp for sketchy losers. And the people who come to hang out because sketchy losers are the coolest losers.
WHEN: Vaguely stretching around Cloudreach?? Nothing is set in stone, time is an illusion
WHERE: ~~Camp Shady Fuckers~~ The Warden camp
NOTES: Just throw whatever warnings necessary in the heads of your threads

Just throw opens or whatever up this is a low-key general mingly kinda thing for hanging out and shouting at each other. Feel free to interrupt other threads or whatever and idk man this is basically like a network post but in real life.

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Then my job here is done.

[He's gotten Velanna to laugh. But he's not going anywhere.]

I live to be a modern-day example of the past and how we should all bend into tiny preconceived molds for the sake of those who profit from said molds. When people recognize this, I move on.

[She lets out a sigh, shaking her head.]

I'm afraid we aren't meant to be. I never excelled at fitting into molds. [As Ilshae often liked to point out.]

A shame. Our romance would have been quite the passionate affair.

[He and she would never have worked. She and Justice, on the other hand... He doesn't want to think about that. Nor does Justice, because passion requires desire and only demons desire.]

[aaand now she's thinking too hard about it, and her ears turn a little red as she glances away]

I don't know about that. The first boy who ever kissed me said I kissed like a dead fish. [Although she suspected he had largely kissed her on a dare. Her clan sucked.]

That's when you turn around and tell him you knew you smelled something funny, and suggest kissing women more often.

[Her ears are red. He should ease up a little on the flirting, but it's difficult.]

Look. No one's great at kissing their first time. It's a weird process, where the lips go, do you involve tongue, oh, they have teeth too, and so on. That has no reflection on you, and a great deal on him.

I am aware of that.

[She's only half snapping, and she crosses her arms in front of her, resting them on her knees.]

However, I have no positive experiences to reference, so I am the problem. [She doesn't sound entirely sad about that, more like she's just stating a fact out of one of her books.]

[He's quiet for a moment, unsure if this is an issue that bothers her or something she's fine with. In the end, he shrugs.]

If you want to learn about kissing, if it matters to you, I'd suggest speaking with Zevran. He doesn't judge, he's highly talented, and I know he's a skilled teacher as he's working with me on something else.

I do not need to learn about kissing!

[Now she sounds a little exasperated.]

Even if I did I would not need to- I'm not- Zevran is not-

[And now she gives up on what she's attempting to say with an aggravated sigh, although the redness in her ears has spread to her cheeks.]

You said you were the problem...

[He trails off, looking confused.]

Do you not have any interest in kissing at all then? And why not Zevran? He's skilled, kind, discreet...

I do not wish to talk about this anymore.

[She falls into a sullen silence for a moment, her arms crossed tight around her. Eventually she speaks again.]

If I were to kiss someone, I would prefer to have some affection for them.

All right.

[That's to all of it. Pressing her has never been a good idea, and romance and sex are tricky territories to wander as it is.]

And the good news is that should the affection be returned, they'll not care what skill level you do or do not have with kissing yet.

[Or they shouldn't. He's judged people on kissing ability before, but never when he's felt anything for them. Then again, he hasn't felt much for many at all.]

So I've heard.

[She doesn't have a lot of practical to base that on.]

I see the True Calling happening before that ever does, however.

You never know what can happen.

[It's said thoughtfully, with a glance back at camp, before he shakes his head.]

But you may be right. Some never find that, and they've no need of it. It's even safer to be without.

[Ten years ago, she would have said she was perfectly fine with that. Even now, she almost says that out of sheer instinct. It's safer to be alone.]

It's also lonely. [She finally says, leaning her chin against her arms.]

[Anders exhales, looking down.]

It is. And it's exhausting to be lonely.

[It's part of the reason he'd been willing to come to Skyhold, after all. The plan had been to finish out his usefulness serving and being around people rather than being out, alone, trying to heal and help and always looking over his shoulder.]

People are... People need people. Connections. It's worth the risk in the end.

[Hopefully. He hates the risk Nathaniel is taking even as he desperately wants what they have; it's less Anders' heart and far more Nate's physical self that Anders worries about being hurt.]

There's pain, but there's a great deal of joy.

I'm learning that. It was always Seranni and I. It never mattered that the others didn't like me, because she did.

[She exhales, glancing over at Anders.]

I don't know how to be someone that another person wants to spend time with.

[He gives her a small smile.]

You say, after I've come over because I wanted to spend time with you. I realize friendship and relationship are different levels of time desired, but you've at least achieved the one.

[Not with many, sure, but she's started.]

When we first met, I only kept bothering you because making you snap was... safe. Now? You're a friend, Velanna. To myself, to Nate... I daresay Bethany may consider you one as well, and there are no doubt others. I'd know who, but my stalking days are long past. Be someone you like, and look for what there is to like in others.

[Except Templars. And blood mages. And slavers, and qunari who believe that mages are sarebaas, and so on and so forth, but he can't and even shouldn't go down that list.]

There will still be people you don't like and that's fine. But there will also be more you do like, and who will like you back.

[It's profoundly nice to hear someone call her a friend. She lets out a sigh, smiling a little.]

Ma serannas. It's... good to know I have friends. I could never quite say that, before. [She'd used the phrase to describe those who had left the clan when she did, but that wasn't accurate. None of them had really liked her, just seen her side of things.]

I can understand that, some. When I came here...

[He shakes his head. He'd thought himself entirely alone, expected to remain that way for the rest of his very short life.]

But I'm glad you know it now, and that you've friends.

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