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nebulousmistress) wrote2025-02-18 02:55 pm
nebulousmistress) wrote2025-02-18 02:55 pm
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On Smallclothes
Underwear is an Orlesian Invention.
Of course the real reason why underwear in the Dragon Age games is because the inventory screen and sex scenes. We can't have utter naked in a game no matter how rated M for Mature those games happen to be. The closest to actual naked was the mythical Iron Bull cock lovingly rendered as a haze the animators went through for shits and giggles. The images were posted and then lost a decade ago but that was the closest we ever got to full frontal anything in Dragon Age.
Respect to Inquisition for its butts, though.
So why do I say underwear is an Orlesian Invention...
Ferelden had just gotten over being conquered by the time DAO is played. They're still shaking off the lingering issues of Orlesian occupation, including this introduction of smallclothes. It's more prevalent in Circles and the Chantry, both of those being heavily Orlesian-influenced institutions.
We never see anyone nude or close to it in Dragon Age 2, though the implication of Isabela is a complete lack of panties. While this could be an argument in favor of her being a whore, I instead look to an alternate solution. The only two individuals I've written in their underwear in my DA2 fics were a Fereldan and a Chantry Brother. Both wore smallclothes, though Sebastian also kept his shift on for modesty. The shift, which I've written around everywhere by now, is an undershirt meant to protect the clothes from the skin beneath and vice versa. Part of the shift's job is to be folded beneath the trousers to act as underwear, to protect the bits and butt from chafing against the inside of the trousers.
The only people I've written wearing their trousers against the skin have been those who would have been used to the concept of smallclothes.
Thus I can safely say... Outside of Orlais' influence, nobody wears underwear. Just a shift.
Of course the real reason why underwear in the Dragon Age games is because the inventory screen and sex scenes. We can't have utter naked in a game no matter how rated M for Mature those games happen to be. The closest to actual naked was the mythical Iron Bull cock lovingly rendered as a haze the animators went through for shits and giggles. The images were posted and then lost a decade ago but that was the closest we ever got to full frontal anything in Dragon Age.
Respect to Inquisition for its butts, though.
So why do I say underwear is an Orlesian Invention...
Ferelden had just gotten over being conquered by the time DAO is played. They're still shaking off the lingering issues of Orlesian occupation, including this introduction of smallclothes. It's more prevalent in Circles and the Chantry, both of those being heavily Orlesian-influenced institutions.
We never see anyone nude or close to it in Dragon Age 2, though the implication of Isabela is a complete lack of panties. While this could be an argument in favor of her being a whore, I instead look to an alternate solution. The only two individuals I've written in their underwear in my DA2 fics were a Fereldan and a Chantry Brother. Both wore smallclothes, though Sebastian also kept his shift on for modesty. The shift, which I've written around everywhere by now, is an undershirt meant to protect the clothes from the skin beneath and vice versa. Part of the shift's job is to be folded beneath the trousers to act as underwear, to protect the bits and butt from chafing against the inside of the trousers.
The only people I've written wearing their trousers against the skin have been those who would have been used to the concept of smallclothes.
Thus I can safely say... Outside of Orlais' influence, nobody wears underwear. Just a shift.