#anders is my blorbo

[crypticdoe]

dragon age: inquisition did anders so dirty!! like they had so much potential to keep the nuance his character had in da2 but, he's just a unquestioned ruthless baddie who blew up the chantry cause he was possessed by a demon. like they dont even give the option for the inquisitor to even Think of anders as a revolutionary (even as a complicated one)!! just an instigator of war!! and like yeah ofc the chantry, the templars, and even to some extent the mages would view anders as that, and that's the narrative that would've been pushed in the game world but like!! the inquisitor could've (AND SHOULD'VE) been able to at least posture at the nuance of the decision to blow up the chantry! the balance between a man who wanted to do good but, was frustrated at the systems around him suppressing and oppressing him and everyone like him and, the spirit that shared his body and mind that could not see the shades of gray that fill situations like this AND, the decision they made TOGETHER to destroy the place that upheld this oppression while masquerading as a support system for the oppressed.

[harrycollins]

-to find the healer, look for the lit lantern.

[defira85]

Guess who wrote 600 words of Dragon Age fic in the year of our lord 2024, that's right, it's this bitch

Should I be working on any of my three active BG3 fics? Absolutely, but that's just who I am as a person, you wouldn't have me any other way

[libartz]

I vibe with DA2 Anders significantly more than I did with Awakening Anders. I’ve never been one for overly humorous characters (he *is* funny in 2, just not constantly joking and hitting on people). Also, he has a Justice! DA2 really said ‘2 for 1 blorbo deal’

[tobythewise]

Me? Once again in my loving Anders hour? More likely than you think.

[songofwizardry]

i don't know dragon age but i need someone to make a venn diagram showing what anders from dragon age and caleb widogast from critical role have in common, bc you would not believe how much fanart of a ginger mage with a cat i have seen & thought was caleb but was not

[canisvesperus]

Ben Solo is baby (honk honk), Daenerys Targaryen is the rightful queen of Westeros, Anders was right (bombing the Catholic Church is always morally correct), and Eridan has never done a single thing wrong thing in his life.

[though-you-try]

Characters who don't think they could ever be good or enough but try their damn best anyway is something that can be so personal

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

them!

that’s it. thank you for your time

[vigilskeep]

this may be controversial but i actually don’t think anders can be appropriately called a war criminal. simply based on the fact that he wasn’t in a war? like it just doesn’t make sense as a word choice. at some point we have to accept that the wizard boyfriend is a standard run of the mill terrorist

[theoniprince]

Mag es einfach... wie gut die beiden Bilder zusammenpassen.

(in der Pose können wir ihre unfassbar schönen Hände noch besser bewundern)

[ocean-in-my-rebel-soul]

I'm trying to think of what, if anything, would motivate my main Hawkes to involve themselves with the Inquisition, and while I can't pin down Adrian's thing, Garrett's is definitely Anders.

I don't have a unified worldstate between all three games, though my main playthroughs of DAO and DAI are connected (my Elves Save Thedas worldstate), so I'm not sure where my Hawkes would fit in there, but I figure the only thing that could convince Garrett to step away from the rebellion would be that the Inquisition is reasonably confident that they know Anders is alive and well, and they have the resources to track him down. They'd have an interest in doing so to cement support for the Inquisition's mission, because the faithful still want blood for the Mage-Templar War, and because if the MTW hadn't happened, then the Divine wouldn't have died, and because they want punishment/justice for Elthina's death and the fall of the Gallows. If Garrett thinks that playing nice with the Inquisition is the only way he can save Anders, he'd do it. He's moved by the Corypheus issue, sure, but his immediate concern is Anders. He's lost everyone else in his life; he's not gonna lose him, too.

This is a purple Hawke that went more and more red as the Acts went on. He's not about to put his neck on the line for a holy war on the side of an institution he hates unless there's a super compelling reason. And Varric is ostensibly the only civilian who knows where they are (they've been running a safe house in Nevarra) since he and Garrett still communicated over the years. Sparingly, since Hawke knows that part of Varric hates him and Anders for what happened in Kirkwall, but also because they were in each other's pockets for so long that it's hard to extricate themselves fully. So when he gets Varric’s letter saying that the Inquisition is closing in on them, Garrett is furious.

I imagine that maybe Varric saw it as a warning, as well as an ask, but Garrett saw it as a threat. "Do this or I'll make sure they know where you are." Varric's already let the Inquisition know that Garrett and his companions had dealt with Corypheus before, so why wouldn't Garrett think he'd sold them out this way, too?

Garrett wouldn't willingly come to the Inquisition's aid if not for Anders' sake. There's nothing in him that would volunteer to align himself in any way with them. They are just another branch of the Chantry, no matter how much the Inquisition and the Chantry try to distance themselves from each other, and once Garrett knows that Cullen is in charge of its military? Fuuuuuuck. Varric warns him of that, too, but that tidbit just adds to why Garrett sees that letter as a threat.

Garrett's involvement with the Inquisition marks the end of his and Varric’s relationship. He doesn't even offer to sacrifice himself in the Fade; it's simply not an option for him. He was up against Stroud, so why not let the Wardens clean up the mess they'd made? He's got maybe another good fifteen, maybe twenty years with Anders, and he's not going to waste them trying to fix a problem he didn't cause and doesn't have any power over.

Varric doesn't really understand the end is coming, though, because he saw the letter as he'd intended it: as a last-ditch effort to get more firepower against Corypheus. Though Garrett isn't an expert in how Corypheus operates, he at least has some experience with him and can relay that to the Inquisition. He's upset but not really surprised when Garrett cuts him out, and his bitterness toward Anders only grows. He definitely sees him as a, if not *the*, reason why he and Garrett aren't close anymore. If not for Anders' zeal, Garrett wouldn't have been so involved in Kirkwall, and maybe he wouldn't have been so quick to ally himself in Anders' plans. Varric doesn't really understand the depths of Garrett's resentment and outright hatred for the Chantry and its treatment of the mages, though he tries. He just can't relate to it. If Anders hadn't been so set on bloody revolution at the end, he thinks Garrett wouldn't have been, either.

I mean, he's wrong, but he hopes it, anyway.

So yeah. Garrett only works with the Inquisition under duress and aligns himself with the conscripted mages all the while. I imagine this particular worldstate would probably lean more pro-Chantry/Templar than my usual approaches, so this doesn't fit into an established playthrough, and I'm thinking this is probably gonna have a Trevelyan Inquisitor. There would be an interest in keeping Starkhaven from annexing Kirkwall, so there's also the political machinations happening behind the scenes there. The Chantry is going to be invested in having another pro-Chantry viscount in Kirkwall, and so they're gonna try to find a suitable person there. Starkhaven taking Kirkwall would potentially destabilize the region by throwing it into more internal political turmoil (can't have the Prince trying to take over sovereign states, after all, else the others would stand against him and go to war over it), so it's in the Chantry’s interest to keep things calm there and reestablish its foothold in the city. It wants to eventually rebuild the Circle to make up for the loss of both itself and the one at Ostwick (and since Starkhaven's own burnt to the ground in 9:31). Finding and executing Anders would drum up even more fervor and support for the multi-pronged efforts the Chantry and the Inquisition are trying to pull off.

So yeah. Anders is the only reason Garrett would go, and they'd pull up stakes and torch the safe house before going to ground again immediately after Garrett escapes and gets home.

[magerightsyeah]

All of my video game babygirls

[mabaris]

[themournwatcher]

Anders' 'electricity thing'... he and Oghren are buddies harassing women together in Awakening!!! Control or no I'd run away! If he won't respect me the chance I can trust him to not zap me is zero...

ok fair actually anon. very true

idk why someone looked at my blog and was like. yeah. Cas knows about the anders sex lore

[tobythewise]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

Thanks for tagging me @broodsys!! I threw this together in no particular order though tbh Anders is first because he's my current blorbo who I'm more than a little obsessed with XD And yes, I put minecrafters on here as three different fandoms because I'm just a boy who's forever stuck in his minecraft era don't JUDGE me haha!

If you're seeing this and want to play along, consider yourself tagged!

Dragon Age 2- Anders

Life Series (mcyt) - Etho

Hermitcraft (mcyt)- Mumbo

The Witcher- Jaskier

Leverage- Eliot

Critical Role- Caleb Widowgast

Empires SMP (mcyt)- Smallishbeans

Supernatural- Dean Winchester

Dragon Age Origins- Zevran

BG3- Astarion