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‘I can’t go on like this’

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i love the enthusiasm for anders potentially coming back in da4 but i need people to temper their expectations for that man's hairline it was on its way out in da2 and he'd be in roughly his 50s 'present day'. balders

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Alright, so now that a day has passed, one final poll:

I think it’s interesting that the results are trending away from“yes [character] betrays you” for each poll, which makes me wonder how much people “believe” in the theme overall.

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Now I’m interested about the other big two.

I’m keeping the answer options the same as the first one! Again, the question is not if you condone his actions, but if you think his actions count as betrayal.

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may you find the forgiveness that you seek, my child; just not in my sacred walls

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Top 5 pathetic Anders moments?

Okay I started compiling my list so I could narrow it down to 5 but I came up with 16 so I’m going to cheat and just post my list as is in no particular order

Earnestly trying to get Fenris to bond with him over suicide ideation

Every time you make the most milquetoast pro mage statement and he looks at you like 🥹 with wonderment and love in his eyes

If you say you don’t want him to move into your house after sleeping together once and he starts acting like an 18th century lady who just had her virtue stolen by a charlatan who had promised to marry her

Asking to move into your house immediately after you sleep together once

Instantly falling for the first person to be nice to him mere hours after being forced to kill his ex boyfriend

Getting mad when Fenris won’t say he could be trusted outside of the circle and vowing to prove it to him

Ok the first time I played DA2 I was being dumb and accidentally chose the options that didn’t save Ella (which high key was so shocking and stakes raising it’s actually my recommendation for your first experience playing DA2) but I went over to Anders after that quest SOOOOO mad at him and he was so incredibly pathetic in the scene where he’s freaking out and trying to leave Kirkwall that I spent the whole time telling him it wasn’t really his fault instead of chewing him out like I intended

That act 3 dialogue where he tries to convince aveline that her husband is scheming against the Templars behind her back. I guess not pathetic if this is actually true but I earnestly believe Anders heard Donnic make one off hand comment once and then convinced himself of a whole story to try to get aveline on his side

Frankly all of Anders’ act 3 dialogue that’s just increasingly stupid and desperate attempts to get people to agree with him

Trying to convince Hawke to leave Fenris or Merrill has to be on this list bc it’s probably him at his most pathetic but they’re too far even for me those scenes are UNBEARABLE to watch

STARTING A WORLD CHANGING REBELLION AND IMMEDIATELY GETTING KICKED OUT BC NOBODY LIKES HIM

If you convince him to side with the Templars in 2 then in DAI Varric says that he got kicked out of kirkwall immediately after for what he did. Imagining that entire series of events makes me want to THROW UP it’s insane

Trying to give Varric a treasured and deeply sentimental possession of his to remember him by only for Varric to give it back bc he thinks he’s being weird

If you kick him out of the party but then side with the mages and he shows up at the gallows asking you to please take him back so he can help

The first time I took Anders on mark of the assassin and the wyvern immediately picked him out as the squishiest member of the party and bolted over to rip him to shreds instantly. I build Anders as mostly support and I wanted his effects on the rest of the party for the fight so I kept reloading my save to try to keep him alive longer than one second but every time the wyvern would go out of its way to brutally kill him at the beginning of every fight until I gave up. Being trapped in a repeating time loop where he is mauled by a wild animal as his friends are helpless to stop it is definitely a top pathetic Anders moment for me

When I was playing a pro templar Hawke and took him, Fenris, and Sebastian with me when we talked to Meredith at the end of that capturing apostates quest and Anders started mouthing off about this all being the Templars’ fault and everyone in the room started bullying the shit out of him

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I know some people have multiple worldstates or multiple wardens, so there is room for interpretation as to what counts as the canon LI, so just go with your gut

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show them the mercy they don't find on earth

** just wanted to recreate this old comic i had. yes the parallels between anders and andraste are all over the game, argue with a wall

only thought of doing this again because this post brought back all my feelings

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Dan sighs, putting a hand to her face. She doesn't miss that she's keeping her fingers grouped—the index and the middle, the ring and the pinky.

its an honest job making the prothean cipher affect shepard more but its a living! minific the excerpt is from below the cut

Dan doesn't understand herself, sometimes. It's a terrifying feeling, because she's used to understanding herself and her motivations—she has a theory about herself that she won't share—but she's at a loss here. The Captain's quarters of the Normandy let her sit and consider this wrongness as they make their way to Noveria, at the very least.

Feros was… Difficult. Dan would have preferred to have washed her hands of every colonist there if it meant solving the problem faster, but that's not how it worked. She had to fight tooth and nail to knock them unconscious and make sure everyone survived. It meant more time with the spores everywhere, more time with the growing headache, more time with that damn plant.

She doesn't think it's the plant's fault for her wrongness, either. She wasn't in the colony long enough to be effected like that salarian, and Chakwas cleared everyone that was outside for no ill effects. And yet, Dan sits, staring at her hands.

How many fingers does she have? Five fingers, which she knows to be the correct amount a human should have, but it feels unwieldy in a way it never has before. She has to remember that she can move each finger independently.

Dan sighs, putting a hand to her face. She doesn't miss that she's keeping her fingers grouped—the index and the middle, the ring and the pinky. She wonders, then, if this feeling of what she can only describe as some sudden onset of body dysmorphia against the shape of a human was caused by whatever that asari had beamed into her brain.

So, protheans had three fingers, incredible. Humans have five.

Dan forces her fingers apart, curling each one individually. Five, she repeats internally. Five.

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you don't like anders?? you prefer him in awakening? oh my god should we throw a party? should we tell everyone?? should we invite divine victoria?????

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getting reminded this post exists here's some bonuses

game shit itself. good thing is i can now trigger the 2nd half of anders' romance scene literally anywhere

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pick the companion ur warden-commander is closest to, not including any romance!! there is no "other" or "multiple" or "it's complicated" option by design, u have to pick ONE companion. if you have multiple warden-commanders, just pick for one of them and tell me abt the others in the tags

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what are those. you know. the hiding places in english houses they used to put catholic priests in when that was illegal. what are they called. anyway kirkwall hightown needs those for mages. do you guys know what i’m talking abt or is this post unintelligible