#Hezenkoss is definitely out here yelling “Pull the lever Mort! Wrooong leeeeveeeer!”

[cybershock24601]

In a universe where my Ingellvar doesn't get picked up by Varric and go on to become Rook, I know my girl would absolutely be crashing out and probably end up as Hezenkoss' goofy sidekick.

My Ingellvar's whole identity is wrapped up in being a Watcher and a young prodigy and rising star within the Watch, the Necropolis is the only home she's ever had or known, and suddenly having pretty much every figure of authority in her life is mad at her, or worse, disappointed after Ingellvar feels she did the right thing and the only people that don't think Ingellvar really did anything wrong are Myrna and Vorgoth who are the one's telling her it's for the best that Ingellvar left the Necropolis for a bit so it still feels like Ingellvar is being rejected from the only home she's ever known would put my Ingellvar is just the right headspace that she'd be almost perfectly primed to listen to whatever Hezenkoss has to say and think maybe building a giant skeleton to take over Nevarra is a good idea.

I just think it would be really funny if Hezenkoss and Ingellvar developed a kinda Yzma and Kronk dynamic where it's less Ingellvar being incompetent and more having some serious moral qualms about abusing spirits the way Hezenkoss does which frustrates the hell out of Hezenkoss but Ingellvar makes for a great student and an excellent lab assistant so Hezenkoss has to throw up her hands and tone down the unethical science just a tad. Luckily for Hezenkoss though Ingellvar is still angry and emotionally unstable enough that she's pretty easy to talk into assisting with the rest of Hezenkoss' schemes.

Then Emmrich and Rook show up and suddenly Ingellvar starts having some second thoughts because this is the first time Ingellvar's interacted with anyone other than Hezenkoss or various spirits in months and maybe the giant skeleton idea is a bad idea and Hezenkoss' plan does seem like it might have some holes in it that they should maybe address before moving forward. Of course Ingellvar's still in a pretty bad headspace and still pretty under Hezenkoss' spell so they mostly just stay doubts until the second confrontation and actually these guys might have a point and we shouldn't be throwing a murder party to harvest the souls of all our critics Dr. Hezenkoss but it's not like Hezenkoss is going to listen to reason so Ingellvar ends up joining Emmrich and Rook to stop Hezenkoss.

This is all a pretty big wake up call to Ingellvar and I'm not sure what happens afterwards, but it would be pretty neat if Emmrich volunteered to keep an eye on Ingellvar as well as Hezenkoss and try to get Ingellvar back on the right path because he might not be able to help Hezenkoss but could certainly try to do something to help the bright young lady that reminds him of a young Hezenkoss (before she went completely cartoon levels of villainy coocoo bananas). And my Ingellvar ends up latching onto Emmrich in a 'you are my dad~ you're my dad! boogie woogie woogie~' fashion that she did in canon with Varric

Also please feel free to imagine Ingellvar having a Kronk style angel-devil conversation with two spirits during this whole situation because my girl is struggling to justify a lot of what she's doing with Hezenkoss this whole time.