#blue plays da2

[preciouslandmermaid]

GUESS WHO KILLED A DRAGON?????

Yvaine and her crew of 3 redheads.

[fatcowboys]

fenris: what does magic touch that it doesnt spoil

hawke: 😔

[featherfangart]

'Not now, not in front of--'

[lonelyoleander]

CHOOSE YOUR CHAMPION

[kylominis]

At the training ground [♡]

[whoisnotmyname]

obligitory fuzz post for Griffon Hawke

[densewentz]

Look, the final acts of the dragon age games are the big boys, the angry and exhausted turns to Red, the 'fuck you, ive had enough' hours. Act 3 in da2, Trespasser in dai- they're so cathartic in that you can finally drop the sarcasm and the optimism and the desperation to hold it together and just go tf off. absolute ragers.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

The fact that Aveline is nicer to Carver when he's dead than when he's alive is so... oh, I don't know, super goddamn annoying?

"I would've liked him" Aveline, you called him a tit in this exact conversation when I played as a mage just because he didn't want to openly talk about his Ostagar trauma with you in front of everyone, you blocked from a job in the guard, and you're so condescending to him all the time, like???

I don't doubt that Aveline cares about him when he's alive but maybe I wouldn't be so bitter about it if she treated him better.

[grapecaseschoices]

me: you know i like varric. he's cute and funny, but i think he's really better suited for a friendship with hawke

me, after playing maior against him for two seconds: wow. i cant wait until they get married!

me: meh. i dont get the anders hype. it really depends on how they execute his plot, and i'm not really hopeful. i guess it's nice that they have an average looking ro, though.

me, after playing noah - who really just wants money and avoiding bad notice [though he does have Feelings, obviously as he is an apostate]: wow, when are they going to kiss?

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Thinking about whether I should do warden or circle Bethany for Kamal again...

[suranastair]

Lucia "Lux" Hawke 🪶

🔸 Age || 24 (DA2) - 33/34 (Inquisition) 🔸 Pronouns || She/Her 🔸 Identity || Ace/Biromantic (female-leaning) 🔸 Personality || Humorous & Diplomatic 🔸 Class || Mage 🔸 Specialization(s) || Force Mage 🔸 Romance || Merrill 🔸 Besties || Varric & Aveline 🔸 Frenemies || Fenris, Anders, & Sebastian

[preciouslandmermaid]

They really waited three years to kiss again that's so INSANE !!!!! (also yes, new hairstyle in honor of starting act 3)

[fatcowboys]

cullen: mages cannot be trusted. they are different than you and me

mage hawke: 😬😶😐

[13skeletons]

The more I think about it, the more I think I should've paired a mage Hawke with Tobias Cousland. (Knight Enchanter so he spent most of the game fighting with sword and shield.)

Like, your family has had to move constantly your whole life because of magic. But you've finally settled outside Lothering and tried to just stay in one place for a while, but then the Blight comes and you have to flee with your lives, barely making it out in time. You're refugees in a templar-controlled city and you have to hide your magic harder than ever, but you're determined to make it work this time. Then the Hero of Ferelden ends the Blight in record time and rises to the throne. The official word out of Denerim is that he's a warrior of great skill, but certainly no mage. Certainly no apostate. The noble Couslands hiding their son's magic? CERTAINLY not. And what Ferelden would refute that? They owe everything to him, what's a little blasphemy to a hero? But the rumors persist.

("I have a cousin who saw the Hero crush the life right out of a hurlock with magic!" "Well my sister was living in Denerim during the final battle and she swears she saw him in a field of frozen genlocks and there were no other mages anywhere NEAR him." "Me nan lives in Amaranthine and she saw him walking around with a staff on his back, bold as you please!")

The rumors reach your ears and you think, "if he can do it, why not me?" And for a while it even seems to be working out that way. You regain your family's estate. You save the city from the qunari, you defeat the Arishok himself in single-combat.

But it all falls apart. Champion you may be, but the Arishok is no Archdemon, and you have no queen in your corner, no ancient and respected family name. The mage-templar war erupts right there in your city, and no amount of magic can stop it.

History will remember Tobias Cousland as a warrior and a Hero, but you're just another apostate - a danger to yourself and everyone around you.

Like. OoF? Ow? Pour that salt directly into my fucking wounds??

And also the more I think about it, the more I think I want to completely swap out my canon. Like. I LOVE the narrative circle of starting Jasper Mahariel's journey by being corrupted by this ancient relic of his people and ending it by following his lover through the same. And I LOVE that the first human Merrill ever met took Jasper, one of her only friends away, and she never saw him again. Then the second human she ever meets ends up falling for her and taking care of her and giving a her real home and supporting her unconditionally for the first time. I love that through-line, that's why I did it.

But also I set it up years ago and I'm slowly finding that other stories are more compelling in my old, depressed state. [weary emoji]

[little-crow-heart]

03. favorite player character

game: Dragon Age 2

[krsnope]

I'm like 40 hours into my first Inquisition playthrough but I can't stop thinking about Dragon Age II. Outside of the fact that I went in blind and romanced Anders and caused myself emotional pain, today I remembered all of the things that Gamlen says to Hawke in the cutscene after the All That Remains quest and that the next time I saw him in Act 3 he talks about your LI. I played a blue Hawke and like he immediately jumps to agree when you say it's your fault, like he's grieving whatever. BUT the audacity the next time I saw him to say:

"I hear you moved that apostate boy into your house. You really are your mother's daughter."

This is why my Hawke playlist is sad.