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Hi everyone! I'm Brandy and I'm bringing in Cullen Rutherford from Dragon Age. His canon point is post-Trespasser, so if you'd like to avoid spoilers, please let me know so I can make sure to avoid them in tags to your character(s).

Cullen's spent most of his life as a soldier, so he's well versed in military matters and trained in weapons of all kinds, though he favors blades. Personality-wise, he's blunt and straightforward. He says what he's thinking, he has very little patience for diplomacy, and he can be short-tempered and irritable. Unless he's in a mood, he's generally polite, though not overly gregarious. He doesn't like to talk about himself or his past beyond cursory details. He's got PTSD, claustrophobia, and he's recovering from an addiction to a magical substance called lyrium, though he's unlikely to speak of any of that.

He's also going to have his mabari with him. It's a pretty big dog and it's very smart. It's also unfortunately named Pup, because Cullen isn't creative when it comes to naming things. (Someone please teach him how to name a dog.)

I can be reached at

romancandle, which anyone's welcome to friend, or via PMs to Cullen's journal. It's great to be here and I look forward to playing with everyone!

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hello brandy, welcome to the game! c: i'm lena, and i play olivia here from fire emblem: awakening. i don't know much about cullen but I FEEL BAD FOR HIM ALREADY... ;; also pup is too cute what the heck

Hello! It's great to meet you. I'm afraid I'm only familiar with Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, but I very much enjoyed them, so I'm looking forward to getting to know Olivia! Tbh, the best thing about Cullen is the dog.

oh, not to worry! all you really need to know about olivia is that she has the self-esteem of an awkward teenager (as in, 0) despite being an adult... so expect a lot of stuttering and apologies out of her, tbh. but i can't wait to see him and pup around!!

Oh good! Then he can be awkward. And it can be a huge mess. I'm looking forward to it!

omg are they just gonna be awkward at each other... YOU LOOK LIKE A SMOOTH OPERATOR, CULLEN, WHY ARE YOU AWKWARD

He's usually smooth! But if he's just trying to socialize with women and not talking business, ehhhhh, he can get a little awkward.

ah... olivia feels that pain... socializing with strangers is hard.

(funnily enough, one of her supports has her friend attempting to tackle that problem for olivia

by teaching olivia some pick-up lines in order to speak to men :'|)

Oh my god. That's hilarious! Cullen's so bad at flirting. He can do it well sometimes, but if he thinks about it too much or someone surprises him with it, he gets awkward.

it was terrible... the ladies didn't realize until after the fact, and now olivia has a bunch of pick up lines under her belt, ready to be hastily thrown out when she feels anxious enough. :')

now i kind of want her to try one on cullen...

That's so cute!

Hey, if the opportunity arises, go ahead! I'm not sure how he'll react but it'll be fun.

that's half the fun, in not knowing! lol

Don't ask Nico for help with naming the dog. It will end up with a name that is weird and adorable and thus probably not what Cullen is looking for in a wardog's name. Then again, if it's named Pup, it doesn't sound like that's too much of a concern for him.

Anyway, welcome! I'm Yosie, and I play the aforementioned Nico from Love Live, who is a pop idol who shares basically no traits with Cullen except for being short-tempered and irritable sometimes, and I guess being a character that I am fond of. I've played most of Dragon Age: Inquisition, but I haven't gotten to the Trespasser DLC just yet (I'm in the middle of the Jaws of Hakkon post-game), so I am one of those who will be avoiding those spoilers with until I get to that! Hope you have a good time here.

Hi! It's great to meet you! Cullen would definitely prefer something fierce and menacing or at least a good respectable Fereldan name. Though since Hawke could name his dog Dog, and I think the Warden's was something goofy like that too, maybe lame names are good Fereldan names. Who knows.

Okay, great! Thanks for letting me know! I don't anticipate that it'll come up in conversation (I can't see him talking about stuff like that) but I'll make sure to keep it out of any introspection that might come up in tags to you.

But that's a good Fereldan name; maybe not strong but it's simple and to the point! Like a true Fereldan is, or something.

Anyway, hello, Brandy! It's a pleasure. My name is Lofn, and I'm playing Hawke here. She's from pretty early on in the DA games' timeline (9:34), so she's going to find that Cullen has...aged, maybe like a fine cheese? More seriously, if you'd like, I would have no problem not tagging/not having CR since I don't want to impose anything too unpleasant on him! (Not to mention world state differences.) I've played all of Inquisition + DLC so there's no worry about spoilers, but I play Hawke as a mage. In general she leaves Templars alone and knows her brother wanted to be one, so at least she's not hostile, and honestly at this point won't disbelieve that he's changed/a decade from further on in the future because magic.

Hello! It's great to meet you! You're right, it's very to the point. Just like Cullen. Some day the guy'll get an imagination. Maybe.

I definitely don't mind you tagging me with Hawke. I don't imagine it'll get too unpleasant. They're not from the same world, so he won't expect her to act like anyone he knows or treat her like she's someone she's not. (Garrett's a mage too, though he was vaguely friendly with Cullen and sided with the templars in the end.) Cullen understands that mages can and do hold grudges against templars, and why, so if she dislikes him because of what he was or doesn't want to have much to do with him, it won't surprise him. And I always welcome negative CR, so either way, no worries!

It's more imaginative than Dog, at least.

Ah, then I would like to, I think it would be a very interesting situation. Marian was/is vaguely friendly at home with Cullen too so she won't be unpleasant per se, just a little weirded-out out to hear there's a male Hawke out there (though mostly she'll just want to know if he's good looking and hope he's not a blood mage lmao) and Not Surprised when she learns about Anders' little firework display. But I do also like an array of CR types, so if it goes that way, I welcome it. o7

That sounds great. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes when they meet! (Cullen also just may be able to answer those questions she'll have about her counterpart.)

Why did no one ever tell me Dragon Age had panther puppies, look at it, look at that puppy.

Hiiiiiiiii, Brandy - happy to have you!

Ngl, these dogs are one of the best parts of Dragon Age.

Thank you! I'm excited to be here!

...please tell me there are Dragon Age doge memes.

I had to google, because I'm usually way behind on the memes, BUT, I did find this one!

wow Cullen might just be the dragonage, blonde version of Graham lmao. your description makes them seem v similiar!

Graham here also has ptsd, claustrophobia, and an adorable puppy pal (it's a wolf tho). I would love CR with them because they might really get each other!

welcome to the game. c:

Oh man, yes please, I would love for them to have CR! Graham's one of my favorite OUAT characters. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they interact.

me too!! i shall throw him in Cullen's direction when I get the chance.

Hey! I remember you from MidSyn. Nice to see you around again--and nice that Cullen gets to be with his mabari; aww.

Hi! It's good to see you again! I hope Koltira's enjoying his stay here.

Ah, he never really enjoys anything. But this setting is a slightly better fit than MS was, lmao

Cullen will second that so hard. (Maybe even the first part too, grumpy curmudgeon that he is.)

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