#Anders x hero of Ferelden

[sissy-the-siren]

Managed to snag two worldstate comms from @maturiin! I'm so in love with my precious beans being in love!!!! LOOK AT HOW HAPPY AND CAREFREE THEY ALL ARE!!!

[schwarznummer1]

i want to see them grow up in ferelden circle together

[rhaegar--targaryen]

[ash-of-the-meadow]

Veilguard spoilers, I suppose. If your HoF was the Queen of Ferelden and/or your Hawke romanced Anders, maybe the below will help you with the recent news. IDK. It's my own personal head canon copium.

So, with the news that Veilguard will not be taking DAO and DA2 into account, its up to us, unfortunately, to fill in the blanks. I feel especially bad for the people who romanced Morrigan. If she is a big part of the game how are they going to avoid the potential elephants in the room?

Anywho, my personal head canon for my HoF who is also the Queen is that she is still off searching a cure for the blight. Morrigan and Kieran secretly gifted her and Alistair a matching set of eluvians so the couple can visit each other often. One is kept in a discrete place in the palace and the other is relatively travel size so the HoF can take it with her.

My Hawke is living in the middle of nowhere taking care of her possessed mage boyfriend. She took the message to Weishaupt and left. The living sibling frequently visits.

Please feel free to adopt these head canons for your own wardens and Hawkes if the criteria fits. What head canons are you using for your characters that don't match? Please post, share, and tag for other people who may have simular worldstates as yours and need some sort of story to carry on into Veilguard.

[fresh-prince-of-denmark]

Dragon age incorrect tweets 2/?

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Dragon Age characters IRL#1: protagonists and love interests:

So I recently (like last year) discovered Artbreeder and so decided I’d make a series of some of the dragon age characters as I’d imagine them to look, in real life.

Amelia Cousland* & Alistair Theirin:

*Normally, Amelia’s hair would be up in a braided bun but I couldn’t get the bun to work on her portrait so, enjoy Amelia without her hair down.

Freya Hawke & Anders:

Anya Trevelyan & Cullen Rutherford:

[queerlyloud]

Okay, but genuinely, every single one of my canon run Dragon Age series characters has fallen for the character who intended to betray them but fell for them along the way anyway, despite knowing every second that this would end in flames.

I think I have a Type. 🙃

[shouldaspunastory]

Thank you @oxygenforthewicked, for @dadrunkwriting

Cadence Tabris x Anders (Past Karl Thekla x Anders, sometime Post DA2, 941 words)

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"Anders," Cadence whispers softly. The mage shakes, his body curled in on himself, hands buried in and pulling at his blond hair as he gasps between tears and intermittent whimpers, the elf helplessly watching on and desperately longing to pull his lover into their arms. They do not wish to cause their lover any further pain, however, and Anders isn't exactly in any fit state to tell them what he needs or wants. So, Cadence settles on their knees on the floor beside him and waits, even as it makes their heart ache.

"I killed him," Anders whispers, voice hoarse when it seems he has temporarily exhausted all his tears, red rimmed eyes barely able to hold his lover's gaze as he looks up at them.

"Oh, love," Cadence replies, eyes full of empathy. Anders shakes his head.

"He had a moment of lucidity- A few minutes where he was himself. He remembered me, us... our life before they sent him to Kirkwall," Anders shudders. "Said that I carried a piece of the Fade into the world, in me and it brought him back somehow. Justice. But I didn't see it. I couldn't think- He said it was fading again, asked me to... But there's a way to reverse it. Why didn't I just-"

"Because you didn't know. You loved him. Because he asked you to and you didn't want him to suffer," Cadence answers gently, spreading their legs as a devastated Anders slowly crawls into their lap, curling himself around them and clinging to the elf like they're his lifeline. Perhaps they are. It seems only fair, Anders has whether he's known it or not, been one for Cadence many times.

"But..."

"You couldn't have known. You did the best that you could with what you knew at the time," Cadence offers soothingly. "It's been over ten years. You said he had a moment. A few minutes after Justice showed himself, before he was fading again. You think a decade of those flashes of who he once was and what you had would have been any kinder to him? To you?" Anders shakes his head, burrowing a little deeper into his lover and hugging him tighter. Cadence lets him, slowly carding their fingers through his hair, massaging his scalp and quietly reassuring him that they are there, that they love him, and they aren't going anywhere.

"I know I never met him, and I'm sorry I never will, but if he loved you half as much as you've said, even a fraction as dearly as you loved him, then I cannot believe Karl would have wanted you to torture yourself like this- imagining what ifs or thinking yourself a monster. We cannot change the past," Cadence whispers softly with what they hope is a reassuring hug. "But we can do better with the future. We can take this," the elf continues gesturing towards the journal which has so thoroughly shook the mage's world, "and we can make sure everyone knows about it."

"I'm sorry," Anders whispers softly, trying to crawl away before Cadence wraps their arms a little tighter around him, preventing his escape.

"You have nothing to apologize for," Cadence replies, shaking their head, pressing a gentle kiss on his lover's crown.

"I left you to find him. And even after... I didn't come back. I don't know why you even came to Kirkwall to find me, but you certainly shouldn't have to listen to me talk about him, to comfort me."

"Anders," Cadence interrupts, voice gentle, but firm as they cup Ander's face between their hands. "Do you love me?"

"Of course, I do, but..." Cadence shakes their head.

"Do you think that I love you less for having loved Alistair first," the elf asks patiently.

"No," Anders concedes with a small frown, resisting the urge to melt into Cadence's gentle touch as their thumb caresses his cheek.

"I heard somewhere once that there are many kinds of love, but never the same love twice. My heart, I could never begrudge anyone who made you happy, who made you feel loved. Not truly. That is the kind of love I have for you."

"I don't deserve it," Anders replies softly, averting his gaze.

"That's too bad," Cadence smiles softly. "Because it's not about what is deserved. It's about choice, and I've made mine. It's you. It will always be you. Whatever you need, to whatever ends of the world that takes us," the elf promises fondly.

"This isn't going to go over well," Anders replies, ignoring the way his lover's words both cause his heart to ache and soothe it in equal measure. "It doesn't paint the surviving members of the first Inquisition, or the Seekers in a very flattering light. There are those that think reversing Tranquility will only bring about demons and chaos."

"For every one person where that might be true, there are at least a dozen others like Karl who passed their Harrowing and would never have fallen prey to a demon or harmed anyone, but happened to say or do something, or to look at a Templar the wrong way. If we let the fear of a few cause us to withhold the cure and oppress the rest, we are no better than the Seekers and Templars. What's say we start with Kirkwall," Cadence suggests with a slight smirk.

Anders's eyes are watering once more, although it seems doubtful there can be any tears left to shed, at least for now. That doesn't stop the mage from throwing himself back into Cadence's arms once more and crushing his lips to theirs in answer.

[nowandthane]

🎶 9 Ship Songs 🎶

Thank you @my-dumb-obsessions for tagging me ❤️ I saw this and wanted to do it too so I’m very grateful xD

Rules: List 9 songs for one (or more) of your ships. Optionally, tag 9 people.

Tagging @azurechicken @sillyliterature @ace-trash-boi @elvhencore @daedrabait @queentheirins @yurissweettooth @malabadspice @corgiofdeath only if you wanna do it! No pressure ❤️ and sorry if you’ve already been tagged 😅 Also anyone else who wants to do this ofc!

This got long so I’m putting it under the cut 😅

I can’t choose one ship lmao so, starting off with Dragon Age~

Riyaad x Fenris (for when Fenris leaves yknow. I promise they’re not this angsty all the time)

Shadow Preachers by Zella Day

I close my eyes, just close the door You want a minute, I'll give you more Maybe I don't want you either We're both unsettled, nighttime creatures Shadow preachers, nighttime creatures

Veara x Solas (though tbh this is just peak Solavellan song to me, it’s not really specific to Veara idk)

Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) - Acoustic by AURORA

He holds the gun against my head I close my eyes and bang, I am dead I know he knows that he's killing me for mercy

Garrett x Anders (two apostates against the world + religious trauma who doesn’t love it!)

Sinners by Lauren Aquilina

So lets be sinners to be saints And lets be winners by mistake The world may disapprove But my world is only you And if we're sinners then it feels like heaven to me Our hearts are too ruthless to break Lets start fires for heaven's sake

Arianwen x Cullen (this was always their song for me, I listened to it all the time when I was writing Command Me to Love)

Gold by Echos

Nobody knows who I am I've got intentions of gold with my plans Nobody knows who I am I've got intentions of gold with my plans

Some polyships—

Heroes of Ferelden (Nayima x Leliana x Alistair)

Nayima x Leliana (they have issues post blight/honeymoon phase but they’ll work things out eventually. I see this as Leliana singing the song about Naya)

October Passed Me By by Girl in Red

Yeah, I got bitter when you got cold Could you really blame me though? 'Cause I'm still tied up when you go You know this song is about you, who else could it be? You were the first to make me feel like I was me

Nayima x Alistair (sometimes I think I choose this song for them/aliwarden just because it has the word ‘tainted’ in it)

Battlefield by SVRCINA

Meet me on the battlefield Even on the darkest night I will be your sword and shield, your camouflage And you will be mine

i havent made a leliana x alistair playlist yet

3 Snipers + Tali (the name started as a joke but it stuck lmao. So this is Sarani’s polycule with Tali, Thane and Garrus. Garrus is also romantically involved with the other two, Tali and Thane are queerplatonic. It’s a whole thing, I’m writing their story rn and it’s pretty complicated ngl but I’m having fun)

Sarani x Tali (yeah ok the music video I edited for them is to a different song but… *shrugs*)

Love from NGC 7318 by Tanerélle, Barnes Blvd.

I wanna tell you how I feel tonight I keep trying, but the words ain't right Nothing's fitting for a kind like you I'm never speechless when the earth's my view Killing the time Building a fort Wrapped in each other as we fall in love I've never met a girl like you, never met a girl like you

Sarani x Thane (but they WILL last, they WILL, I will MAKE IT SO)

Won’t by Tanerélle

I tell him 'Go fast' I've gotta thing for speed He tells me 'Lean back' I let him take the lead I know it won't last But he is all I need I write my name over his tongue So it is all he speaks I got a million fucking reasons I should leave him But I don't I got a million fucking reasons to stop dreaming But I won't

Sarani x Garrus (hmm, that’s a lot of Tanerélle, you might think. idk I was listening to a lot of her when this polycule was cooking in my head)

Ripe by Tanerélle

I know you been thinking that you can't But I think that you should If I can make your whole body ache I can make you feel good I'm what you need, I'm what you know Hooked on your axis You make my world go I'll keep you wild I'll keep you free Say you'll be mine I'll show you what that means

I have songs for the entire polycule too but I’m already at 9 so I’ll stop lmao

[lets-get-brave]

Another Secret Sanders piece, this time for @jarakrisafis ! It's our favorite healer enjoying some quality time with Warden Commander Brosca. ;)

Anders has two hair styles because I'm indecisive. XD Click HERE to see the full uncropped NSFW versions on AO3! And check out the secret sanders 2022 collection on AO3, there's so much good stuff!!!!

[jaskierx]

A cleanse that isn't pirate related: Fave Dragon Age ship(s) for any or all games?

Mine's Amell/Alistair, purple friendmanced MHawke/Anders, and Trevelyan/Dorian with a very fond spot for blue rivalmanced FHawke/Isabela, and this complex love/hate thing with Solasmance. I haven't decided who'll be first in Veilguard yet, but I'm leaning toward Harding 'cause I've always thought she was just so cute. 😁

excellent question!! (sorry i accidentally wrote a Thesis)

my first ever playthrough was mahariel/alistair with alistair dying at the end and i was BEREFT at the time but i love the angst so much like god. the hero of ferelden suffered more than jesus. she ended the blight. she demanded sovereignty for the dalish in return. her keeper is proud of her. she got everything she ever wanted and it doesn’t matter at all bc alistair is dead and she blames herself and she wants to lie down in the grass and cry and sleep for a billion years but now she feels like she has a duty to rebuild the order but the only guy who knew anything about how to do that is dead and she misses him and Fuck i’m gonna be sick

my favourite da2 romance is red hawke/anders where hawke is a mage and is a very tired boy and just becomes increasingly more disillusioned with everything in the fucking world due to how badly his life is going and at the end he doesn’t even approve of anders doing a bit of terrorism but he runs away with him anyway bc he’s like ‘fuck it i’m not going to deny myself the only person left that i feel anything for when everyone i loved has been killed or turned against me’. but Disclaimer i’ve never done a fenris romance playthrough and idk why bc he would probably sway me

none of the romances i played in inquisition really Got Me the way the other games’ have? i haven’t tried dorian’s bc i’ve never played a male inquisitor. however my most recent playthrough was lavellan/solas and the bit where she gets to say ‘no, you’re not killing solas. I’M killing solas’ was incredibly cathartic and i hope she gets to get his ass in veilguard 🙏 this is absolutely not a hawke/anders ‘let’s make each other worse’ scenario. she wants that egg Obliterated

anyway in veilguard i am making a beeline for taash bc HAVE YOU SEEN HER i want to know everything about her i want to braid her hair while she tells me how she lost her horn and how she killed the world’s scariest dragon and how she’s sooo strong and beautiful i love women x

[barbex]

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Fic Writer Asks

✨️ Out of the comments you’ve received on your fics, what are two or three of your favorites?

I love every single comment, I feed on them like a feral animal. They're all precious.

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🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

I have an unpublished WIP floating around, which will feature Anders in a dress, with Fenris in a fancy suit at his side, dancing at a ball, Zevran in the shadows, some sort of heist, and developing Zevran x Fenris x Anders. There's not much there, yet, but have this:

"He is quite the legend among the wardens." Fenris watches Zevran, waiting for him to say more. "What kind of legend?" "He saved the life of the Hero of Ferelden several times. Not just with healing, with his battle magic. He defended Vigil's Keep from hundreds of darkspawn, on his own. They built a statue for him in the village." It makes Fenris strangely proud to hear that, a feeling he doesn't understand at all. "He is very capable." "Yes," Zevran says, leaning to the side to catch Fenris' gaze. "You noticed that before, haven't you?" "Of course." Fenris raises his eyes, really looking at Zevran for the first time. The elf has such a confident air about him, but his eyes show a strange sadness. "But still you don't get along, why is that?" "My experiences have taught me to fear mages. Anders doesn't understand that." "He doesn't? Are you sure?" Zevran still touches him, just resting his hand on his upper arm. He stands very close, Fenris can feel the heat radiating off him. He smells of wine and hot sand. "I used to be sure." Fenris drops his gaze. "I used to be sure of many things. That I hate him, that he is weak and will hurt everyone as soon as he has the chance. That I saw a future magister in the making."

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📗 Do you want to write something outside of fanfiction? If so, what about?

Do you know what procrastination is? Procrastination is when you keep three tabs with three beginnings of original novels open for over a year. Yeah...

There is a fantasy romance here with an older heroine and a younger hero, there is an erotic femdom scifi, and a fenders inspired fake marriage romance with magic. If I could just get myself to write them all...

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Thank you for the asks!

[rhaegar--targaryen]

pov: you and anders hugging beneath his feather cloak

[thiefbird]

Alistair meeting Anders again after Anora makes him go after Dirthail 👀👀👀

I had a fun idea for this! For @dadrunkwriting

Alistair rushed up the stairs to Dirth's quarters, dodging servants and junior Wardens as he went. He'd never been up here, had barely ever set foot in Vigil's Keep, really. Thankfully the senechal had given him detailed instructions on how to get there, or else he'd have been completely lost

The hallway at the top of the stairs was dauntingly long, and Alistair lowed his pace, eyeing each door nervously. The senechal had advised him that Morrigan's quarters were on this hall, too, and the Howe's, as Warden-Constable, neither of which he relished seeing. Morrigan because of their long-lasting rivalry, and Nathaniel Howe because of murdering his father.

Though Dirthail had been involved in the murdering, and by all accounts, he and Howe were perfectly amiable. More amiable than Dirth and Alistair in recent years.

And didn't that sting? Alistair knew he had been the one to pull away, but still. Dirth could have reached out, could have apologised.

Alistair finally made it to the end of the hall, and without knocking, burst into the grand, yet cosy, quarters.

A fire was gently roaring in the hearth, Barkspawn snoring gently in front of it. And prone on the couch was...

A decidedly naked blond man, posed provocatively, and fast asleep.

"Oh dear Maker! Alistair exclaimed, waking both the man and the mabari as he covered his eyes.

The blond man screamed, hands flying to cover his crotch. "What the fuck?!" he shouted indignantly. "Who in the Fade are- King Alistair?!"

Alistair's face was burning red as he peeked out from behind his fingers. The man had tossed a pillow into his lap and was now leaning back on the couch, completely comfortable in his nudity now the shock had passed.

"Err- yes. That's me? I, uh, I'm afraid I don't know your name."

The naked man snorted, head lolling back on the armrest. "Of course you don't. I am Anders, former apostate and current Warden-Healer. I'm honestly hurt, ser, you were there when I was recruited."

That jostled Alistair's memory, a dim idea of arriving at the Vigil just after Dirth had taken command. "Ah, yes. You're-" Dirth's apostate. Well, his other apostate.

"You're-" he repeated, trying to find a less imprudent way to refer to Anders.

"I'm the Warden-Commander's kept man, as opposed to Morrigan, yes," Anders drawled lazily, gesturing to the room around them. "Which explains my presence. I assume you were not looking for me, but for Dirth?"

Something in Alistair's chest (not his heart, no, it couldn't be his heart) snapped at the casually possessive tone in Anders' voice. He was too late.

"Yes. I have... important matters to discuss with him. Kingly business."

Anders grinned, wiggling his eyebrows. "He's busy."

"Well, when will he be available?" Alistair demanded, feeling the childish urge to stomp his foot at the cheeky expression on the mage's face.

Anders shrugged, "He's with Morrigan and their- and our son," he corrected himself, a slight blush coloring his cheeks.

"And you were... waiting for him?"

"Mmm," Anders agreed. "A surprise. I should probably get dressed, if you have 'kingly business' to discuss. Maybe I'll go bother Nate instead."

He stood up, smirking as Alistair averted his eyes again, and threw on a set of rather revealing robes. It was almost worse than seeing the man naked, watching him fuss with the flimsy, sheer material, draping it artfully around his waist and hips.

Anders gestured to the now-vacated couch as he moved to the door. "Good luck with your business, King Alistair." he said with a wink as he left.

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Dragon Age canonical world state rambles #1: the mage rebellion.

All of my canon protagonists support the mages, but their ways into it are very different.

Amelia Cousland did not know about the mages struggles until she went to Redcliffe and Kinloch Hold. She knew that harbouring a mage wasn’t very good, and that non circle mages were called apostates but because she was not a mage and was noble who spent most of her time in Cousland Castle and in Highever growing up, she had no idea how bad things were. It was really meeting Connor and then seeing how things were at Kinloch Hold that showed her how awful things were and turned her into a mage rights supporter and silently fighting for better conditions for mages and to change how the circles are run.

When she became queen, she tried to get the circles changed, both her and Alistair actually drafted out possibilities but they were both too scared of how divisive it would be, especially early in their reign of Ferelden.

Amelia did try her best, and she managed to give a mage with the surname Amell from Kinloch Hold a job at Denerim Palace as lead magic researcher and come the Mage-Templar war, the Rebel mages would receive supplies from an anonymous source (which was definitely not Amelia 😉) and Alistair did give the mage rebels shelter in Redcliffe as temporary as it may have been. Amelia also checked in with Connor post the Fifth Blight regularly to see if he was alright.

Freya Hawke is an apostate mage herself. She grew up on the run, moving constantly, and she’s related to a mage who was at Kinloch Hold, she’s directly impacted by the treatment of the mages, so of course, she wanted things to be better. She was always supportive of the mages in her decisions and almost got into several fights because of it.

Although she didn’t really start fighting for the mage rights actively until she met Anders as she wasn’t quite sure how to go about it.

Freya had the same drive as Anders, the same passion for change, and of course she fell in love with Anders, partly because of his drive and passion for mage equality. although she was less radical than Anders, and didn’t think blowing up the chantry was the way to go, she did believe it was a long time coming and so she couldn’t really disagree with Anders actions and she did agree to go on the run with Anders after and is part of the mage rebellion, her husband being a major figure in it.

Anya Trevelyan despite being a noble and not magic was unlike Amelia, more aware of the plight of the mages. Her older brother, Percival was taken to the Ostwick Circle on his fourteenth birthday and the secret letters he wrote informed her of the treatment of the mages, so she was a proud supporter of the mages and their rights. It’s one of the reasons why she wanted to convince her father to let her go to the conclave in the first place.

Later Anya chose to gain the mage’s support, in one of the few times she outright disagreed with Cullen, and made the rebel mages at Redcliffe allies, offering them shelter after King Alistair banished them. She also supported Cullen’s suggestion for reformation within the circles in Ferelden, supported Leliana as Divine, kickstarting the dismantling of the circles and the mages being allowed to govern themselves. Oh and her best friend is a Tevinter Mage.

[anderstrevelyan]

Garrett Amell, everyone!