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[altsolani]

I don't know whether to be grateful that nothing repaired stays fixed forever or frustrated. One the one hand, it keeps me in a job, on the other it means that there's an awful lot of running around Zion.

I thought this might be an easier way to find out where I'm needed. I can do repairs to cooling and venting systems in your homes and have some training as an electrician. A lot of the major repairs come through dispatch but if you happen to realize your system isn't working as well as it ought too but hasn't reached failure yet, I can help out with those during my free time.

My name is Blight. You can contact me here or message me privately.


[A pause, he adds:]


Yes, I realize how pathetic it is that my first post here is an advertizement. Hopefully I'll have more interesting things to say in the future.

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[altsolani]

I was sick and my mind needed to catch up that it was an illusion. Let's say it inspired my name.

[forcemageure]

[ ...that's. Surprising. ]

You mean you had the Blight and it actually followed you out of the Matrix? I didn't know that was possible. Even in the mental sense.

[ What an unsettling thought D: ]

[altsolani]

[It takes him a while to respond because he worries for a moment that he's said too much.]

Well, I do like to be unique.

[forcemageure]

I'd say you've succeeded. And then some.

[ Does the incredible dryness come across in text?

PS: 'You'd be surprised how people just tell me their darkest secrets' etc. It's okay, Felix, you're just conforming to canon. ]

[altsolani]

Oh good. I get to be different I didn't even have to try.

[forcemageure]

Not to criticize your right to creative liberty and everything, but naming yourself after the thing that ate Thedas and made you sick seems a little odd.

[ He's thinking of Carver, who in fairness probably hates (hated?) the Blight and its denizens more that most people. If that's possible. ]

[altsolani]

I know...

I've been told it's important to move on, but if I do that completely I might forget how terrible it was.

The name is to remember me what it felt like to watch my body be consumed by the taint. That way, I don't forgive.

[forcemageure]

Oof. Don't let the Council hear you say that. Or anyone native for that matter. I assume you've already gotten a lot of furrowed brows.

[ He gets it though, at least a little bit. Knowing it was some mechanical design that killed his sister and made Carver joining the Grey Wardens a necessity rather than much of a choice ...really doesn't make it better. ]

[altsolani]

I'm aware. [And that's really just the tip of the iceberg.]

You're from a place that had the Blight, though. Does it bother you to read that word uses as a name?

[forcemageure]

The Fifth Blight started about fifteen minutes down the road from where I grew up, in fact. Not even weeds will grow there anymore.

Plus it left my family in itty-bitty pieces, so you could say reading it as a name might require some adjustment. If you wanted an award for understatement.

[altsolani]

I apologize for that.

The darkspawn killed my mother when they sickened me and my illness drove my father insane. I know it's not an easy thing to be forced to remember.

If it makes you feel better, you can call me Felix.

[forcemageure]

Well, it's not as if you're embracing the idea with open arms, is it. Or that I was ever likely to forget anyway. I wouldn't worry on it too much.

Though I might take you up on that just to avoid any sudden retching noises. Seems like it might disrupt conversation and all.

[altsolani]

Yes. I hadn't thought of that when I made up my mind to remind myself of it every day.

I hadn't spoken to others from Thedas until now.

[forcemageure]

There aren't loads of us, but there are a fair few! Though of course we're meant to all ignore one another and embrace diversity, I suppose.

[ He's really awesome at doing that, by which we mean he isn't. ]

[altsolani]

I suppose that means I'll have to get used to hearing 'Felix' again. I wouldn't want to upset any one.

Or think of a good middle name to go by.

[forcemageure]

You could combine them! Blelix has a certain ring to it.

With all due seriousness I wouldn't try to reconstruct yourself entirely just for the handful of us. Hard enough to hold onto who you are in this place as it is.

[altsolani]

Felight?

And it's not that. It's a friendly nick name to those of us who had to deal with the machines deciding it would be fun to wipe out large numbers of us in one go and pretending it was all thanks to an archdemon.

[forcemageure]

I like it. Makes you sound like a flying cat.

In hindsight Thedas does seem like a series of experiments designed to see how much the little tube occupants can take before they snap and slaughter everyone around them, doesn't it?

[ ...which isn't all that inaccurate. ]

[altsolani]

[Oh Hawke, even when you're not trying to be funny, you're hilarious. Blight is grateful this is over text, considering that his whole face goes white for a moment. And he's just going to ignore that whole bit for now.]

Hm. A flying cat is much better than what I was thinking? I thought Felight sounded a little dirty.

[forcemageure]

[ HA ha ha sorry Felix. ._. It's a tossup whether he would have rephrased if he had better knowledge of the whole incident, but Varric only ever knew Felix existed in the capacity of his intervention in Redcliffe, and he was Hawke's only real source of Inquisition information sans his brief involvement pre-extraction. Either way he's willing to let it go sight unseen. ]

Really. Now we're back to public relations, aren't we? Truth in advertising etc etc.

[ Thankfully for everyone involved he doesn't have the vernacular to make a pussy-related joke. ]

[altsolani]

I think the truth in this is that I'm doomed to have a bad name.

[forcemageure]

Could be worse. You could've been Orlesian. Felix von Fromage or something.

[altsolani]

I did go to the University of Orlais... That was close enough to being Orlesian for anyone.

[forcemageure]

Living there and everything! You're lucky you're not literally cheese-filled by now.