SteveGarbagehide bio
 Author has written 33 stories for Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and RWBY. I'm a newspaper reporter and avid gamer, and I got my start in writing in fan fiction. In elementary and middle school, I took the settings and stories of his favorite games and movies and shaped my own stories within them. Many years later and plenty of original stories attempting, I'm bringing back that experience to the realm of fanfiction from time to time. Now that that's out of the way. I love Dragon Age. I love original characters and original plots. Red, Fallen Sun is my first major piece and features plenty of OCs and an O-plot. Enjoy! NOTE: I do not use trigger warnings on stories or chapters. Stories with mature content will be rated M. Please take those ratings seriously and tread carefully. | |||||||
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Samson's Shield of Shame by Eureka234 reviews
Raleigh Samson. It only takes a name. Then, the stories start. Monster. Red Templar. Scum. Betrayer to the Order. He has heard every insult more than once, but they used to be different. Once, they were kinder. Those times feel like a lifetime ago now. This is an origin story and connects DA:2 and DA:I Samson together.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Friendship/Tragedy - Chapters: 58 - Words: 382,894 - Reviews: 60 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 11 - Updated: 4/19/2019 - Published: 4/2/2015 - Cullen, Meredith S., Samson, OC - Complete
His Queen's Courtship by redrosemary reviews
Alistair wanted to marry Lucilla Cousland to ensure that the stability that they had worked for would endure. But ambitious Lucilla's heart was with another, so would she choose her beloved Leliana or her beloved Ferelden?
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 9 - Words: 17,768 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 18 - Updated: 3/10/2016 - Published: 5/20/2015 - Alistair, Leliana, Cousland - Complete
The Spirit Is Willing by AgapeErosPhilia reviews
Flemeth of the Almarri, her wish for vengeance, the way that a wish can shape a world, if answered in the right way. Written as a gift for SteveGarbage, an unparalleled author of the dark and lost.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,274 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 12/26/2015 - Morrigan, Flemeth, Mythal
Truth Falls Below the Ideal by JayRain reviews
Halward Pavus has spent a lifetime cultivating his image and reputation to appear as the ideal Tevinter Magister with the ideal family. Happiness is a luxury no one in Tevinter can afford, but he can act the part. The problem comes when Dorian refuses to do the same. Written for the November minor character challenge in the Dragon Age fanfic group on Facebook. M for language.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,817 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/16/2015 - Dorian - Complete
Fumbling Toward Who We Are by JayRain reviews
As the third son of the Trevelyan family, Theo was a mistake, destined for the Chantry with no say in it. The only child of a Tevinter Magister, Dorian relinquished a life of power and privilege to redeem his homeland. The Inquisition brings them together to save the world; but they're also fumbling toward something else, something neither thought to find in all the chaos.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 36 - Words: 129,057 - Reviews: 363 - Favs: 151 - Follows: 146 - Updated: 9/14/2015 - Published: 1/5/2015 - [Dorian, Trevelyan] - Complete
It Goes In Pieces by orangeflavor reviews
"She keeps the sheet in her grasp, just past her knees, her knuckles white in their grip. She turns her gaze to the chambermaid and swallows thickly before speaking. 'Get the healer.' It is a strained whisper." - Anora loses more than a child with each miscarriage. The story of her barren life through the years.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,914 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/24/2015 - Alistair, Anora, Cailan T. - Complete
Interlocking by orangeflavor reviews
"This is the beginning. The start. This is how they fit." – Krem and Harding find each other in a world torn apart. A story told in brief glimpses.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 42 - Words: 51,344 - Reviews: 360 - Favs: 167 - Follows: 135 - Updated: 7/7/2015 - Published: 1/13/2015 - Iron Bull, Krem, Scout Harding - Complete
The Devotion of Soldiers by AgapeErosPhilia reviews
Cullen and Cassandra are lovers first and soldiers second - or so Cullen thinks. But when the Inquisition calls for service beyond swords, the truth may be something altogether different. Can their love survive their duty? And is it worth saving, in the end? Sequel to The Happiness of Flowers, but can be read on its own.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 23 - Words: 104,357 - Reviews: 193 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 26 - Updated: 6/15/2015 - Published: 5/1/2015 - [Cullen, Cassandra P.] [Lavellan, Solas] - Complete
Afterimage by orangeflavor reviews
"'This will not end well,' he pants heatedly into her neck." - Hawke and Fenris discover the danger of desire. Done for the February challenge of the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers facebook page.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,493 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/3/2015 - Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
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Rift reviews
When the Circle of Thedas fell, not all rebelled. While Templars and mages war across the world, the mages themselves still stand divided. The Loyalists pledge themselves to the Inquisition in hopes of restoring their lost Circles. But as the Herald of Andraste recruits the Rebel mages to his cause, both sides must confront their differences as they fight to restore order to Thedas
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 60 - Words: 268,187 - Reviews: 201 - Favs: 26 - Follows: 35 - Updated: 4/10 - Published: 7/17/2015 - Fiona, OC, Vivienne
Burden reviews
The moment the chubby baby boy had fully left her fingertips, it felt like an unending chasm had opened between her and him, one that she had thrown herself into and was falling, falling to this day, never to hit the bottom.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,134 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/20/2017 - [Fiona, Duncan] - Complete
Echo reviews
He had hoped things would be different. But after surviving a Kett attack on his research station, Caelus Wolf is beginning to realize some things never change. Pressed into service with APEX, he's being forced to live the life of a soldier, a life he had purposely avoided back home. But he can't seem to outrun his past, following him like echoes across dark space.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Sci-Fi/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 10,884 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 10 - Updated: 10/2/2017 - Published: 4/14/2017 - OC, Scott R.
Shattered reviews
In one heavy-handed blow, a single black demon descending from the sky had shattered what little shreds of hope they were all hanging on to to restore some semblance of freedom and safety in London. The resistance fighters scattered. If they stayed separated, they couldn't all be decimated at the same time. They could just be decimated more slowly, with less fanfare.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Sci-Fi/Angst - Chapters: 7 - Words: 56,560 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 9 - Updated: 4/4/2017 - Published: 3/14/2016 - Shepard, Major Coats, OC - Complete
Bound reviews
After being captured by the Inquisition, the Venatori mage Cassius Terro was given a simple sentence: Return home. An upstart Laetan adopted into a fading Altus family, Cassius had already risen high for his low birth. But with the Imperium divided into factions after the rise of the Elder One, he finds tangled in a precarious web - bound by his loyalties, duties and promises.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 2 - Words: 7,360 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 7 - Published: 12/23/2016 - OC, Dorian, Trevelyan, Maevaris T.
Brave Enough reviews
He spent the last two minutes forgetting how to breathe as every memory of Ashley Williams rushed back into the forefront of his mind. He spent the last two seconds watching her walk away.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 594 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/15/2016 - [Ashley W., Shepard]
Mend reviews
Jaune could remember watching Beacon grow smaller and smaller between the slits of the locker as it sailed through the air, unable to do anything but wait until it crashed down in Vale and spilled him onto the street. Weiss and Ruby had done all they could. But they couldn't get to the tower soon enough to save Pyrrha.
RWBY - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,174 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: 10/5/2016 - Complete
Breath reviews
A series of 100-word drabbles, with the underlying theme of "breath" present in each.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 507 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/22/2016 - Tali'Zorah, Thane K., U. Bakara
Survivor reviews
Shianni knew now what it was like to have everyone looking to her, as if she could someone how solve all of their problems for them. Maker be damned, she couldn't help herself from wanting to try.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,205 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 3 - Published: 5/1/2016 - Alistair, Anora, Shianni, Cyrion - Complete
Contest reviews
That led Josephine to catching sight of the note about an archery contest, which then turned into Josephine challenging Varric to said contest. Josephine had dragged both Leliana and Harding outside too, since both shot and she needed "her girls" to back her up.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,936 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/29/2016 - Leliana, Varric T., Josephine M., Scout Harding - Complete
Maternity reviews
Neither she nor Maric had intended for him to happen. Neither she nor Maric had been old enough, mature enough, to know what to do about it. Neither she nor Maric had thought that entrusting their son's care to Eamon would be a wrong move.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,559 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/26/2016 - Alistair, Duncan, Fiona - Complete
Novice reviews
"They'll never understand your gifts, your challenges or the danger you face daily." - A story of Bethany Hawke, told in brief scenes of 100 words each.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,059 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/31/2015 - Published: 12/30/2015 - Hawke, Carver H., Bethany H., Malcolm H.
The Queen reviews
Every lesson she took as a child in Highever, every dinner with her father and mother, every trip to the royal palace in Denerim in her youth had been preparation. Lucilla was groomed to rule Ferelden. And now, she did.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,959 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 5 - Published: 12/4/2015 - [Cousland, Leliana] Alistair, Zevran A. - Complete
Caregiver reviews
She would not be afraid to tell him the things he needed to hear or speak words he refused to accept and force him to accept them, if needed. She was strong, trustworthy and stubborn to a fault. If there was anyone in Skyhold who could objectively weigh his desires against his well-being and make an objective decision, it was she.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 5 - Words: 9,343 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/2/2015 - [Cassandra P., Cullen] Dorian - Complete
My Final Failure reviews
"How many times have I tried? The past cannot be undone. All that I fought for, all that I betrayed, and what have I wrought?" - A father who cannot let go. A story of the failures of Gereon Alexius.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,578 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/1/2015 - Dorian, Trevelyan, Felix - Complete
Where the Druffalo Roam reviews
"LOST: Prize-winning druffalo, Druffy. Ran when demons attacked, last seen down in the gully. Reward if found and returned to farmstead." If only it were that easy... a tale of impossible struggle against the forces of a poorly designed quest.
Dragon Age - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,837 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 2 - Published: 11/10/2015 - Cullen, Cassandra P., Solas, Trevelyan - Complete
Apart reviews
The flood of courtiers around him was nearly as thick and frenzied as the new Divine. But the conversations he had were distracted all night, his eyes constantly checking back across the room and the smile on his face turned up by force of will alone. All of Val Royeaux was celebrating. All of Val Royeaux, except the leader of the Inquisition.
Dragon Age - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,305 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 4 - Published: 10/8/2015 - [Cassandra P., Trevelyan] Varric T. - Complete
Unredeemable reviews
Levyn was turning out to be as much of a failure as Jowan. Freedom was turning out to be even worse than the Circle. Every choice he made was wrong. Every attempt to do good with his life was futile. Maybe the Chant of Light was right. He was a blood mage and everywhere he went, despair, destruction and death followed.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,598 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 2 - Published: 10/8/2015 - Amell, Jowan - Complete
Liar reviews
Bull was what he had always been. Qunari. Ben-Hassrath. Hisraad. Although she wore the same grey skin and horns as he, she was not his kind. She had never been his kind. But she did not reject him. She did not fear him. She did not distrust him. She had never said katoh. ***A short story set just after the events of Trespasser DLC***
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,249 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 5 - Published: 9/15/2015 - [Adaar, Iron Bull] Cole - Complete
Maimed reviews
"He was so tired. So tired of fighting. But he could not stop. He could not rest. Not even for a day. He would need to do better. One strike would not be enough. One small victory could not suffice. Trevelyan remembered the pain. He had to remember the pain." *A short story set just after the events of the Trespasser DLC*
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,726 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 6 - Published: 9/11/2015 - [Cassandra P., Trevelyan] Vivienne, Solas - Complete
Business As Usual reviews
Maker damn her. Maker damn him. Maker damn this entire city. He wished a giant Qunari warrior would kick down his door and chop off his head some days. Today was shaping up to be one of those days.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,886 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 9/2/2015 - Aveline V., Seneschal Bran, Serendipity - Complete
Alone reviews
He had no memory. No past. He was once Leto, but that life was nothing but a few fading wisps that slipped through his mind. Everything he was now, everything that he had become had been forged in Kirkwall. Once, it was only hate that held him together. And when that was gone, there was nothing there. Nothing but Hawke.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,447 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/31/2015 - [Fenris, unknown 1] Lavellan, Stroud - Complete
Royal Blood reviews
She wanted to give the nation the heir it deserved, the security that it needed. She wanted to see the joy on her husband's face as he held a baby boy in his arms and dreamed of all the possibilities he would have in his lifetime. She had never thought she wanted those things before, but now, she was sure she wanted to give those things to Alistair.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,869 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 4 - Published: 8/24/2015 - [Alistair, Anora] Cailan T., Erlina - Complete
Horizon reviews
"The Tome of Koslun had been in her hands. She stood at the gates of Kirkwall, straddling the line when she stopped. She looked at the large, leatherbound book in her hands. And then she turned back. Why did she turn back? She still wondered. It was Hawke's fault. She went back for him."
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,810 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 3 - Published: 8/17/2015 - [Isabela, Hawke] Zevran A., Fenris - Complete
Calling reviews
The call of the Old Gods can no longer be ignored in the head of Warden Commander Kallian Tabris. With precious time left, Kallian makes her final goodbyes before descending into the Deep Roads one last time. (Written pre-Inquisition. As written, the timeline of this story would occur just before the events of the game, approximately 9:36 Dragon)
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 9 - Words: 15,618 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 9 - Updated: 8/11/2015 - Published: 7/31/2015 - [Leliana, Tabris] Alistair, Sigrun - Complete
The Gambler's Fallacy reviews
Vigil's Keep has been cleansed of the darkspawn ambush. Three recruits await their opportunity to undergo the dangerous Joining ritual. Ser Mhairi has waited her entire life for the moment when she would lift the chalice to her mouth and become a Warden. **Completed for the July Minor Character Challenge, "Mhairi" on the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers group on Facebook**
Dragon Age - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,011 - Reviews: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/6/2015 - Oghren, Tabris, Anders, Mhairi - Complete
Failure reviews
The Herald disappeared. The Inquisition broke upon the walls of Redcliffe. Ferelden and Orlais crumbled, the Inquisition shattered. The Breach expands day by day, swallowing Thedas. Josephine and Blackwall steal what little joy they can as the world collapses around them, lost to the Elder One. **A brief glimpse into the dark timeline of In Hushed Whispers*
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,897 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/2/2015 - [Blackwall, Josephine M.] - Complete
Moustache reviews
It's the clash of the 'stache. Warden Jean-Marc Stroud takes on Dorian Pavus moustache to moustache. **A short, light-hearted farce for the June Minor Character Challenge "Stroud" at the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers group on Facebook**
Dragon Age - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,813 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 2 - Published: 6/30/2015 - Varric T., Dorian, Stroud - Complete
Red, Fallen Sun reviews
The Templar Order has fallen and the faith that had once bound Cain Wygard to it has run out. The Breach and the request of an old friend drew him to the Inquisition. The emergence of the Red Templars gave him new resolve. But not all of the Order has been twisted, an unknown force is drawing both the corrupted and the pure to the west as red lyrium spreads across the world.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 40 - Words: 130,770 - Reviews: 126 - Favs: 40 - Follows: 43 - Updated: 6/24/2015 - Published: 2/11/2015 - Cullen, Cassandra P., OC, Josephine M. - Complete
Homecoming reviews
The castle was taken in a cowardly ambush deep in the night. Blight swept through Ferelden. Arl Howe had been slain, a new King restored and the Blight ended. Now Fergus Cousland must return home, to his lands he left many months ago, to reclaim what is left of his shattered house.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 6 - Words: 6,727 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/25/2015 - Fergus C. - Complete
Homesick reviews
She has studied in the Circles, delivered groundbreaking research on magic and taken a position as Arcanist for the Inquisition. But there's a piece of Dagna that she left behind in Orzammar. There's one person left to thank for her success. **Completed for the April Minor Character Challenge "Dagna" at the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers group on Facebook**
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,546 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Published: 4/4/2015 - Dagna - Complete
The Hunger reviews
The taint is irreversible. Those it not does kill outright slowly undergo a transformation, rotting from the inside out and becoming ghouls. The young Dalish hunter survived the shattering of the tainted mirror. But the taint runs deep and the hunger must be sated.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Horror/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,561 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/9/2015 - Tamlen - Complete
Perennial, Eternal reviews
The Fifth Blight rages on, but spring is returning to Ferelden. In Par Vollen, the seasons do not change. The ground before the Circle Tower was once a battlefield, a great defeat for Sten. Now, the site of this disgrace is covered in wildflowers. **Completed for the March challenge, "Spring," over at the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writer's Group on Facebook**
Dragon Age - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,110 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Published: 3/8/2015 - Sten, Wynne - Complete
