Checkerbox
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The First Month by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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“You think I’m weak,” Cullen hissed, voice breaking. “You think I’m not strong enough.”
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- Part 16 of a black arrow in the fog
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,566
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 20
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The Night Before by Checkerbox
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
18 Dec 2025
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It wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been alone.
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Does Deceit Take Flight by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
29 Aug 2025
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Ruminations on a doomed romance and a prevaricating empire in decline.
(or, a rewrite of Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts that incorporates several quests that relate to the Orlesian Civil War)
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- Part 9 of a black arrow in the fog
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“He’s rather despondent over the life’s path you’ve charted for him[…]I think a part of him sabotages all efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow, either to spite you or to punish himself[…]No matter what he feels, it would be a pity for such a mage to go to waste. Our Imperium needs better.”
Also, Dorian and Trevelyan indulging each other during a private night in.
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It was never a question of if he would come back, drenched and looking like he'd been dragged for miles by the back of a carriage. Only when, and would it be before he'd finished pulverizing what was left of his life.
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- Part 5 of a friendly knife in the back
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a black arrow in the fog by Checkerbox
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
27 Feb 2026
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A loose collection of fics set in my "canon" Inquisition playthrough, which follows the exploits of one Alexiel Trevelyan, a gleefully murderous and morbid archer with a thing for dashingly heroic Tevinter mages. Arranged in as chronological an order as is possible.
- Words:
- 168,000
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- 23
- Bookmarks:
- 11
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a friendly knife in the back by Checkerbox
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
27 Jun 2025
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A post-Inquisition series about an Inquisitor that loses everything and does not respond well to it.
- Words:
- 31,443
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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There are no tadpoles. No meat-puppet cultists for a would-be “god”. Just six souls who need protecting, and a hireling with a soft spot for charity cases.
An adventuring party was formed, one with a very simple creed.
Stay on the move. Stick together. Stay alive.- Words:
- 54,058
- Works:
- 9
- Bookmarks:
- 5
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Stories about the wizard Faustus and his once-lover, now-master Astarion, the Vampire Ascendant.
- Words:
- 39,936
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 4
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A series of alternate takes on the in-game scenes from Dorian's romance path, written for my main Inquisitor Alexiel Trevelyan.
- Words:
- 17,479
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 3
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"There's more writing on the bottom of the bowl," Shadowheart said. She was crouched down and pointing to markings on the underside of the creepy, bloodstained altar.
"Is there? What does it say?" Gale asked, shuffling on his knees to get closer to where she was pointing.
"He's going to crawl around like this and then complain about his knees all the way back to camp," Astarion muttered, sounding half amused and half exasperated. Karlach chuckled just a little, because he was right. Talk about being your own worst enemy: Gale versus his knees and back.
"It says 'within each self a monster'," Shadowheart read off of the underside of the bowl.
"Oh, this is very interesting," Gale said. "The blood spilled in the bowl will touch the other phrases, but not this one. I think that marks it as optional. I've heard of something like this before. Azuth set out trials for young mages where one could mark certain incantations with chalk and leave others blank, indicating how difficult a challenge one was willing to face."
"This would make the trial harder?" Shadowheart asked, straightening. "A more difficult test?"
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,863
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
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- Comments:
- 217
- Kudos:
- 347
- Bookmarks:
- 53
- Hits:
- 3,135
Bookmarked by Checkerbox
30 Dec 2025
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The Battered Casebook of Neve Gallus by Octosan
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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A story about a detective whose week is ruined by an eccentric magister and his squeeze.
Takes place in the same continuity as The Escort Mission Mode of Dragon Age Inquisition
Bookmarked by Checkerbox
15 Sep 2025
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We're Going to Need a Fletcher by Octosan
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 May 2025
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"I needed more allies, people I knew I could trust. To that end, there was a... personal matter I wished to attend to."
Five years since the day she parted ways with her old mentor, Briala turns up in Antiva with a favor to ask of the Inquisitor.
Bookmarked by Checkerbox
28 May 2025
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The Years Between by blarghe
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 May 2025
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This is a follow up fic to The Hunter, the Snake and the Fox. I do not recommend reading if you haven't already read that (and I do recommend reading that). Some pieces from the timeskip, for those who might be interested.
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- Part 2 of The Hunter, the Snake, and the Fox
Bookmarked by Checkerbox
23 Jan 2025
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Typhus wants two things, in this order:
1) to make Bhaal proud, and
2) an enduring romantic love.This goofball really thinks he can have both.
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- Part 1 of Typhus Ruins Everything
Bookmarked by Checkerbox
30 Oct 2024