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Not on My Watch

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Somehow, all my Blackwall/Inquisitor shenanigans seem to involve being heroically saved from drowning. :B

The writing on the bottom of what is supposed to be the frozen lake near Haven are the insults that Cassia started hearing increasingly more often as the Inquisition found out she was from Tevinter* - thus giving the picture additional symbolic meaning.

*There is actually a funny story behind that: as Cassia used to work as a scribe back home, she was once assigned with a super-important task of transcribing the proceedings at the Magisterium, filling in for a friend who had gotten sick. Things went fairly well, despite Cassia's nervousness - until a magister (I'm thinking it could have been Maevaris) got into a heated debate with a colleague of hers, and the unfairness of the said colleague's remarks made Cassia burst into tears. Alexius witnessed the incident, so when the Inquisition tried to negotiate with him in Redcliffe, he was like, 'Wait, the Herald is the Crying Girl?'. Which caused Cassandra and the others to demand an explanation of how the hay the Tevinter outsider and the Herald knew each other.
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Oh wow!! I'm chilled just looking at this piece. Beautiful, utterly cold, (wonderfully romantic), I totally second what Skyflower said about her drowning in her own self-doubt as much as the icy lake. The way you use text in perfect harmony with painting is really impressive!
The rays of sun accompanying Blackwall that break through the darkness have such an epic and realistic effect! Cassia's pose is also creepily realistic. I say creepily, because..well, she's drowning. But really, it looks like she's completely resigned herself to the void to get away from it all. :( 
Also, I love the name! x3 *fist bumps Blackwall* :) Beautiful, weighty piece. Just as I'm being drowned in all the emotions and heartbreaking feelz, I get nudged awake by the mental image of shirtless Blackwall, dripping wet and shaking out his beard.... 8D