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Published: 2011-03-28 19:01:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 9354; Favourites: 89; Downloads: 118
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YES! SoniaCarreras , now in technicolor!
Oh, yes, for the fifth episode of The Good Ol' Days series, I am returning to a lighter theme and who better than the talented SoniaCarreras to depict a light situation?
This is staged in the tower days, after Anders' infamous escape swimming through lake Calenhad, and features Eloise's return. You will get more of her, in the future
This gave me also the occasion to express a theory about how the chantry (and the templars) deal with sexuality.
According to various fonts, in Thedas homo/bisexuality is not strangely seen, though discouraged in the noble families as they must produce descendents (I thought Gaider also stated that somewhere), and according to what Wynne said, and according to the Comic written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, mages are highly discouraged to "entertain" themselves together because they will most likely produce magic descendents and thereso they belong to the chantry... thereso, why shouldn't they encourage same sex relatioships then? If it's not seen as something "sinful", it would be a perfect method of birth control, isn't it? BTW: according to her, I managed to make Sonia draw her longest comic so far, in fact this is her firt multi-page comic!
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Other short soried of The Good Ol' Days Series
The Chapel
Promotions (written by Rowlina )
The Warden (feat TheOneKnight )
The Arcane Warrior
The Queen: (feat. emedeme )
The Crow
The Spirit: (feat. Galagraphia )
Heroes: (feat. Lilithblack )
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Well, the problem of medieval-inspired world and homosexuality is that you have to choose what the lore religion says about it. In middle age Europe homosexuality was punished by death (by fire, sometimes) but that's because the church said it was a sin and an abomination, and even in the roman empire was frowned upon if passive (because roman empire had a cult of "virility", and "being the woman" in a relationship was degrading and almost blasphemous, that's why it was mostly practiced with slaves). But it seems in Dragon Age that the chantry has nothing against it, so I think culturally it would be a non-issue...
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If only the Church in our world had that mentally as the Chantry does.
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In ancient times they used honey as anti-conceptional, a sweet solution.
And actually the dead talk sometimes... they also walk, fight, become main caracther when possessed by a spirit and can teach you how to become an arcane warrior.
If he told Jowan at the time they could have became farmers instead of saving the world.
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Very nice comic!
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Awesome!
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I think so, something like "Anders is dating Karl" "Oh, at least they will not spawn a baby abomination-to-be..."
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good, as she will appear more often...
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Hahaha yes this is a perfect method to control births XD
Ewan: you´re forgetting Karl. He is quite the hunk... epic win!
I love how you two work together. I hope someday I can see more Ewan´s and Eloise´s comics ^^
Or maybe Ewan like Marilin with dress...
Oh! I forge it, he wears a robe, not a dress XDD
Don´t kill me please!
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You will definetly see more of Eloise in the future
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Nice cooperation, both of you) Sonia's style is easily recornisable and suits story wery well)))
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oh I knew the drawing was strangely looks like Sonia's!
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yes, they told me the same also with eme and knight's collabs...
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That their style looked like mine? 
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No, that the drawing strangely looks like their work...
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*giggling madly*
You two... this is just epic win!
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oooh!! Eloiseee! 
I love Sonia's drawing with your colours! It looks so so cartoon-ish : D
Damn you Anders ¬¬ Now the girls (and Ewan) wont' have they share of "nice views" because of you!
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the pidgeon escapist always spoils everything...
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So... I've spent the last ten minutes looking up and down to this strip and wondering how something I've drawn can look so well 
You know, I'm open to more collaborations... this has been terribly fun!! (Specially having another person doing what I hate most: coloring and editing 
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I just try to give your drawing justice.
My fear was that coloring - and mostly shading - I would have changed too much your part of the draw (like in the shadows on the noses) "adding" too much on the lineart, so I tried to stay true to your lines and the way you draw the elements... it was challenging but fun...
And yes, the fireball of Eloise was what this strip needed to be "finished" and her line to be "final", gives a "guess what happens next" to the reader, I think...
Coloring and editing, you say? Funny, is te part I like the most...
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Hahaha, that means we can make a good team!!!
I think your coloring was great, it gave the strip quite a cartoon style. Anyway, if you had concerns about shading, if you saw the strips I've shaded in b/w, specially about the noses and all that, the effect was similar. I think you caught it quite well 
I wanted to show Eloise making a true threat, not just a joke
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I had that in mind when making the shades, thought I used a different coloring tecnique
And yes, it was quite Eloise, and I think you depicted the true nature of their relatioship, as they were friend but also rivals, in a competition to win the First Enchanter's favour. They used to hang out wery well as they were similar in many ways, but they also used to start little fights and makes silly praks to each other, kind of a "rivalry-friendship" if they were in DA2, but in a school context.
And the change of position is good, I use the same trick when I write endless dialogues and pages with 10/11 panels in (sometimes I cut them out merging dialogues in a single panel
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Whoo, good job both of you! Combines the best sides of both of your art styles and writing that is at the same time light and entertaining, but also has deeper structures that make people think. Yay for awesomeness!^^
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Thank you
I wanted to try something different with this, because I think color as I usually do it doesn't fit well Sonia's style, but I didn't want to do something "totally" different from what I usually do, because I think this deserved full color
As for the dialogues, I wasn't sure about it until I have seen Sonia's work, because it has all that I wanted into but "written" didn't worked much, it seemed rushed and unfinished (though is the script that tooke me the longest in this series
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Well I think it compliments you both well. ^^
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Congrats to you two, this comic was epic.
One nitpick though: It seems to me, that the dialogue in panel should have the "actors" reversed. It should be her who's saying the stuff about the chantry.... to and him who's going "WHAT" at the idea of it being for their sak.
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You are right, I'm finxing it...
It happens to me a lot when there's someone speaking out of frame, especially when the longest line is of the unseen character 
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Now, that's an interesting insight! Haven't thought about that! You just gave me an epic idea to include into my story.
"I could have thrown myself in the middle..." -so much dirty thoughts they peek out of the ears-
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new ideas? I'm afraid to ask...
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Ahahaha, that's not a bad idea. I guess they don't encourage it "canonly", but I bet there are *some* people in the chantry who think like that, even if it might seem in a derogatory fashion ("Let's make those mages have to do it this way, I don't want any tiny ugly mage children blowing everything up!!").
It's also nice to see how our young mages are looking into their budding sexuality. ...I kind of wish I had a budding sexuality D=
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Well, I think they know they can't keep the mages off each other forever...
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This is true! I bet if stuff like that does happen though they just do what they did with Wynne, and ship the baby off to another circle. Probably it's what they think is best D=
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Actually according to the lore I collected they are "belong to the chantry". Now, I don't know if they wait for them to show magical signs and then sent into the circles or they train them as templars teaching them templar magic... after all templars DO use magic... who knows... this is unclear, the only two character I know born into the circle are Wynne's son (which is unkown his fate) and Gleam from the comic, which is tecnically an apostate because her mother fled before she was born and she was adopted by a smith on the Frostback mountains...
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Yeah, I don't know what that means either, but I do assume that they are taken somewhere like a chantry in another locale (and make some cockamamie story like their parents died or something), and if the baby gets mage powers, they ship them off to the circle in another country. Sounds logical at least.
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I've had an awful day and this made everything so much better
Sonia in technicolor! w00t!!
Apparently Ewan looks super hawt even in Sonia's cartoony style XD And he is blushing!
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Glad you enjyoed it, I knew you would have liked the young Ewan...
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