So in Love With the Wrong World

and then there were none

JUST RIP MY HEART OUT, WHY DON’T YOU?

But seriously, this is beautiful.

Painted a hurt Fenris and Hawke sneaked in there to kiss him better - went from pure angst to 100% fluff, I do not regret.

All together in Kirkwall! :D

| KIRKWALL SET | SKYHOLD SET | SKYHOLD PART 2 | Hawke | Anders | Bethany |  Merrill | Carver | Isabela | Varric | Aveline | Fenris |

Poor Anders.

cat husbando

Maker! The lies!

Fur is so very fereldan of hawke

JUSTICE/VENGEANCE  I would drown us in blood to keep you safe.

I miss being a blood mage Hawke

I love how literally anything we might dislike about DA: 2, we just blame on Varric misreporting.  Zev’s tragic un-hotness?  Varric thought he was overrated.  Orsino’s transformation and death were bullshit?  Varric told it that way to help Orsino disappear.  All the dungeons are the same?  Well duh, Varric hates caves.

I love it precisely because it totally works.  Varric DOES make everyone more badass (and Bethany more tit-tacular) in the beginning.  He DOES make himself suddenly massively overpowered in the beginning of his personal quest.  He’s an unreliable narrator and a liar and we know it.

Varric as the teller of DA: 2 is simultaneously amazingly awkward and totally great.

So I finally got a wig for Isabela

it me pirate wife

Isabela, à la Klimt 

aggressive hawke is arrogant and she knows it

Just imagine how differently things would have gone for the companions without Hawke there, though?

Aveline dies beside Wesley, fighting the darkspawn while protecting the tainted corpse of her husband to the last breath.

Varric goes down to the Deep Roads with Bartrand. If they aren’t all killed by darkspawn without Hawke there to defend them, then Varric faces his brother’s betrayal alone, locked behind the stone walls of an old, silent thaig.

Fenris continues running from Danarius, always looking over his shoulder, always living as prey to the tiger at his back. Eventually, his master catches up with him, and he returns to slavery as a memory-less wraith once again.

Anders goes to the Chantry alone. He fights the Templars there, and doesn’t care, doesn’t bother with healing this time when they put a sword through his heart, because all he can see is that fucking sunburst where it should never be.

Isabela goes to the Chantry alone, too. But instead of Templars, there are pirates, and no one’s at her back to keep the knife from sliding into it.

Merrill is sent away from her clan to Kirkwall, where there are no friends to keep her naivete with city-living from leading her to the Templars’ doorstep. Even if she does manage to avoid them, manages to rebuild her Eluvian - her demon-possessed mentor ends up killing her, in the end.

Sebastian hunts down his family’s murderers. But he is alone, and he is only one man, and he is cut down as he grasps for one more arrow in his empty quiver.

I just. I have a lot of feels about the Kirkwall crew and Hawke.

Okay, but consider: Isabela/Merill

Confession:  My biggest frustration is that a lot of the brilliance of Dragon Age 2 continues to go unacknowledged. The unreliable narrator, the depth Bioware tried to get into with Hawke’s character, and the fact that things fall apart some times, no matter what you do. Sometimes the biggest win is getting through the day. These are amazing things for a video game, and I hope Bioware revisits them.

It’s been 84 years and I still think about Anders caring for Hawke post-Arishok battle.

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