the most delicious thing about justice-anders is that anders has been running for so long. he’s never put down roots anywhere. “anders” isn’t even his name. he is convinced that letting himself care for anyone or anything is a death sentence, that it only stands to be ripped from him and that pain isn’t worth it.

enter justice, a friend, who is in love with the world anders has been locked in a mutual hatred of since he was a child. who asks for nothing but anders’s body (something he has always been willing to give), to borrow anders’s tenuous place in the world, and in return, anders has someone he can count on to stay, who cannot be separated from him no matter how hard anyone tries. no matter what either of them may want.

who are either of them to refuse, really

@aces-to-apples you can't just drop this in the tags and expect me not to get mad with the need to read this fic asap

Text is from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Eurypides

Hawke family

do you think they'd be friends

i think money is underestimated as the driving force of da2, beyond just hawke in the first act. “why do all these people still hang out when they are sometimes so awful to each other” well, horrifyingly, hawke consistently finding work to do together is the most stable source of income a lot of them have right now

which is yet another reason why the mages are so vulnerable here (fenris or isabela could and likely do get other jobs, but because merrill and anders are so isolated, devoted to their unpaid work, and by nature of their existence illegal, jobs with hawke are probably their only or main source of income) and why aveline, varric and sebastian are specifically the most insane because they do not need this and they are here anyway

DA2-Rogues

Varric,Sebastian,Isabela

going insane over how hawke's tragedy is about losing everything inevitably. they lose their father. they lose their home and their little sibling. they find new friends and get a good chance to make things better and then lose their second little sibling — even if they don't die they will never come back home. they finally get money and some kind of stability and then lose their mother who wanted the life they got the most. they become a champion beloved by the city and then lose their home and the family they found once again and all the titles and fame have no weight anymore. they lose the battle against corypheus because he comes back. they lose the battle against meredith because she comes back too. no matter how much they gain it will be taken away. no matter how hard they believe they got things right this time they will be proven wrong

the point of no return

my heart belongs to her but her heart belongs to the sea

Champions of Kirkwall

@highladyofdusk and I have been playing dragon age 2 together and I've been making comics to record our exploits (see: stupid comments). im basically like a worse varric

(support me on kofi! // comms)

My dragon age 2 relapse continues and has inflitrated my daily sketches 

After the rain

ANOTHER THING about Kirkwall Gang... (And obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am speaking in a very generalized sense)

Origins crew, a trail mix squad. A few of them are textually described as lookers, but most are not really defined by their appearance/you're not led to pay their appearance much mind. There's other shit going on. Awakening crew much the same. Inquisition even more so, in fact the characteristics that are framed as attractive in this squad isn't necessarily visual at all, but in competency.

Kirkwall Squad? Comparatively sexy. Isabela is there the whole time. Varric's shirt is completely open. Why waste a perfectly handsome elf? Someone mistook Anders for a prostitute in a brothel. Avelines arms. Merrill's everything. Sebastian is a prince in shining white armor. Women practically catcall Carver in the street. "You Wanna Fuck Me So Bad It Makes You Look Stupid" Hawke.

This is FUNNIEST TO ME when in the mindset that da2 is framed by Varric's personal narration. He said "oh also we looked amazing. Like sexy but not even trying. We were trying, but like it was practically effortless."

I REPEAT I'm not saying there were no handsome sons of bitches in the other games, nor am I attempting to diss your most favoritist squad if you prefer the others. I am saying the Kirkwall Gang got the Sexy Treatment, most likely by Varric.

Some winter FenHawke 🥰

It was fun painting more quickly and loosely than usual!!

i don’t care if dialogue doesn’t acknowledge it there was a time when anders was moved in and leandra was alive and you can pry it from my cold dead hands

you think anders wouldn’t be thrilled to meet a woman who ran away with an escaped circle mage for love and also got to raise at least one mage child and still loved them? you think leandra wouldn’t be fondly exasperated that her kid is apparently cut completely from the same cloth as her in their romantic choices, but also realising that unlike her own parents she can invite him into the home that she had to leave behind for her love? you think they wouldn’t both be weird and emotional abt family dinners? You Fools

@demonic-dorito you get it!

The Hawke family be like

Carver: I’m a templar and you’re a blood mage Merrill but mmmh maybe we could hang out? Like together? Just the two of us?

Bethany: So Sebastian, I’m a mage and you’re 100% supportive of the Chantry but -dreamy sigh- here you are…

Garrett: I’VE HEARD YOU HATED MAGES? I HAPPEN TO BE A MAGE! ……………………… LOVE ME FENRIS