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coprime_recs ([personal profile] coprime_recs) wrote2020-04-07 09:11 pm

Dragon Age: And You Thought the Lions Were Bad by PersonalSpin

And You Thought the Lions Were Bad (Dorian/Iron Bull | R | 19,534 words): Bull gets captured by blood mages; Dorian is also one of their prisoners. This is a great alternate take on how Dorian and Bull might meet. Great characterization, and long enough to really sink my teeth into.

Excerpt:
"You got anybody looking out for you?" Bull asked.

There was a long silence before Dorian answered and when he did it was quiet, a confession whispered in a prison cell. "No. There's nobody else."

Now Bull felt really shitty, and an apology definitely wouldn't fly. "Don't worry," he said instead. "When my boys get here, we're getting out." The least the guy deserved was to be rescued from that fucking cave.

"Of course," Dorian said in a voice that said he didn't believe him. Bull turned towards the door like it would let him figure Dorian out. Bull was good, and that kind of training never really left you, but even he had trouble reading people like this. Two doors and still no idea what Dorian looked like.

Krem and the others couldn't get here soon enough.

"Hey," Bull called. "You wanna hear about the time we were hired to take out some giants and set half the forest on fire? Rocky had been tinkering with his explosives, which always goes well, and Dalish decided her archery technique needed work too—"