Lackland

Lackland is the slash ship between Lacklon and Roland from the Dragon Age: Absolution fandom.

Canon
Roland and Lacklon are both warriors who meet each other after they join the gang of thieves known as Dolph's Daggers. Throughout their journey to Tevinter, Roland appears to be very flirty as he teases Lacklon, who is the more grumpy of the two. As the two of them are warriors, they are assigned as the ones to take down the guards and watch the gang's backs. So they practice fighting together, and while doing so, Roland flirts some more. When Lacklon thinks he's trying to distract him, and tells him that he has to focus on "his girlfriend," Roland is genuinely shocked as he tells Lacklon that he doesn't have a girlfriend, which also leaves Lacklon speechless.

After chaos reigns in the palace, Lacklon and Roland find Miriam near Fairbanks' dead body. When Lacklon starts thinking she killed him, Roland quickly jumps to her defense, knowing there must be an explanation to it all. Lacklon questions why he's always defending Miriam so Roland explains that he knows her and all of the reasons why her being the killer doesn't make sense. Even so, Lacklon decides to leave since he doesn't want to die in battle, but Roland stops him. Roland proves just how much he got to know Lacklon even though they recently met, when he tries to tug at his heart, talking about his possible legacy, trying to convince him to stay. Lacklon was about to be convinced, but still refuses to. So Roland looks him right in the eyes with "puppy eyes" and that's what makes Lacklon decide to stay.

The two of them fight side by side against demons and spirits, and manage their way out of the palace. But once outside, Lacklon confides in Roland to share his suspicion of a traitor being among them. Roland once again jumps to his best friend's defence when Lacklon insinuates that Miriam might be the traitor. And Roland tells him he understands if he doesn't trust her. And begs Lacklon to trust him instead, which he does.

Later, when the gang goes to rescue Hira from the palace, Lacklon starts talking with Roland about what the both of them can do if they survive the mission, which gets Roland's hopes up.

However, Roland gets shocked by Lacklon once again, later on, but for a very different reason. When they were trying to come up with a plan to save Miriam from Rezaren, as Roland was agreeing with Qwydion's plan, Lacklon suddenly surprises him with a passionate kiss. Roland is shocked for some seconds, but quickly smiles tenderly at him, returning the kiss.

Fanon
is one of the most popular ships within the fandom of the new rendition of Dragon Age, Absolution. Fans of the ship love their flirtatious/serious dynamic and their height difference, so fanworks of the two portraying this were created as soon as the Dragon Age: Absolution series was released. However, similarly to the other gay ship in the series, Hira x Miriam, the ship also received homophobic backlash from some people online, which was quickly shutdown by the fact that the Dragon Age franchise had always had LGBT+ representation.

Fandom
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