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For the third trick-or-treater, Marian and Isabela answered the door!

For all u hornies (me)

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It really gets me that since my canon Hawke is a mage, I'll never actually get to know Bethany.

Sure, I could just start an alternate playthrough with Hawke as a warrior or rogue and get to know her over the course of Act 1 before I have to decide if I want to take her on the expedition and make her become a Grey Warden, or leave her behind to be taken to the circle.

Except that's not my Bethany, just as it wouldn't be my Carver who died. My Hawke twins grew up with an older brother who was a mage. Their respective character arcs rely heavily on being the sole mage or non-mage of the siblings, so if my Hawke isn't a mage, they're not the same people... and unfortunately, we don't get to see the arc of the twin who shares Hawke's class. Y'know, because of the death.

The last time I tried doing an alternate run with a warrior Hawke, I had a conversation with Bethany where she said that Carver would've hated Kirkwall and probably would've gotten himself arrested the first day, and I sat there like.... I'm sorry? Are we talking about the same Carver?? Because the Carver I know would only get himself arrested for resisting and fighting back with any templars who tried to take his siblings away? He spent the entire first act being like, "Hey, don't do stupid shit or attract too much attention, or the templars will take you away!"

And that's when it really hit me that sure, I'm getting to know Bethany, but I'm getting to know a Bethany who grew up as the lone mage in the sibling group, and that's not the same Bethany that died in my canon run.

I want to know the Bethany who grew up with an older brother who also had the gift of magic but embraced it more than she ever did. I don't even get to learn much about her through dialogue, either. Carver doesn't talk about her nearly as much as Bethany talks about him when she's alive, and when someone does bring her up with him, Carver's usually super defensive about it.

I'll be running around and Bethany will just, "Yeah, my brother used to nail my braid to the headboard. I miss him so much. Hey, the Chantry, I lit a candle for Carver in there. Remember Carver's jig? He used to do that to make me feel better. I miss Carver so much."

Carver's just more reserved and defensive about his grief over losing her, and when he does willingly bring her up, you can feel him struggle to even get her name out; "These are blood mages, they're not like you or... Bethany."

That's why I love the Legacy DLC; Carver will talk about Bethany, and Malcolm, with Hawke without his guard up. At least he does with me, at that point I have his Friendship nearly maxed out so he's just softer in general.

But someone else brings her up, like Anders? Who was genuinely trying to be nice? Carver's response has the vibe of, "You didn't even know her, and you don't care about me, so you're only saying this because she was a mage. Just shut up, stop talking to me."

And I can't even bring her up to Carver in dialogue options the way I can bring him up to Bethany. You can ask her what Carver would think of Kirkwall. During the Legacy DLC there's a humorous option to do Carver's jib for her when she's sad. She brings him up in companion dialogue. It feels like there's more opportunities there, and perhaps Hawke just knows how Carver is and doesn't want to prod. Honestly, maybe it's just me, but my game always feels like that vine-

Hawke: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Carver? Carver: No. Anders/Fenris/literally everyone else in Kirkwall: We do! Hawke: I know, y'all. Anders/Fenris/literally everyone else in Kirkwall: We're sad! Hawke: I know, y'all.

I'm sure the differences in the starting Friendship/Rivalry also play into why Bethany's more open about it than Carver is in Act 1, and they're characters who have different grieving processes anyway.

I don't know, maybe you have an easier time merging them through different playthroughs, but DA2 is one that I struggle with deviating from my canon path, I can't do it... Which means poor Bethany's always dead, and I'll never get to be mage siblings with her or see the Hawke trio take over Kirkwall together because DA2 is just a constant "great, so what can we do this week to make Hawke extra sad?"

The FenHawke family get into a fight with some bandits. Weakening Veil shenanigans ensue:

Hawke certainly isn't winning any awards for intellect...

I had my friend pick a pose from my reference folder at random for a practice sketch. She got a bit of a spicy one. :3

So have a FenHawke moment on the house. It’s been a while since I’ve drawn them.

The second in the series of Dragon Age commissions I had the pleasure of working on for the wonderful @ohmyarda it was fun to draw her Hawke again!

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“I've heard the name "Hawke" on several lips this week. Many of us blame the Champion for the events in Kirkwall, which sparked a war and hurled all Thedas into chaos. But can we truly fault Hawke for what she did?” — Codex

okay having a conversation with gamlen where he talks about how his and leandra’s parents only cared about leandra, their beauty, their scholar, the light of their lives, and immediately following that by going on the expedition and getting leandra’s “you i understand wanting to do this. but leave your sister here, i beg you!” is um. well it’s something

I want to tattoo your tags on my eyeballs ser gaychocolatehomicide

bianca: so i leaked the thaig location and flooded the surface with red lyrium lol whoops

hawke: …i liked you better when you were a crossbow

I LIKED YOU BETTER WHEN YOU WERE A CROSSBOW i’m fckin dead

The Champion of Kirkwall

The Admiral and her Champion

Commission for @princessbatteringram​ ♥

I just finished Dragon Age II for the second time, so here’s my crew! They deserve to just all be cozy together <3

rivalmance, huh

reeses puffs reeses puffs

So people have been talking about the disgraced Arishok as an Advisor….but…

What if when Hawke was on the run, she found a cave of Tevinter slavers on the coast? And being the upstanding citizen she is, murdered them all brutally and cheerily chanted Fenris’s name all the way. 

She then went through and let the slaves free, but stopped, on the last one. It was a Qunari, but those eyes, pale grey and violet hued, so familiar…

“Varric is going to shit himself.”

“Have you not informed the dwarf of our relationship?”

“Oh, honey, he doesn’t even know you’re alive.”

Just me in my little AU corner, don’t mind it…

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