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fenris bullying merrill is so funny to me cuz bro THIS is who you're beefing with?????? GET REAL
#((they were 2 of my favs so i always wanted to bring them along everywhere but he is RELENTLESS sometimes))#((i love running merrill//fenris//anders as the ultimate nightmare battle royale banter party comp))#((going for an evening stroll w/ my pals and anders randomly asks why fenris didn't kill himself like GIRL??????????))#((god da2 is so funny. truly a game of all time))#dragon age#dragon age 2#fenris#merrill#my art
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Someone will demand my head/And then I will kneel down/And give it to him lookin' down
couldnt get that sad sad man off my mind .
#reaching this scene on my andersmancing run WILL kill me btw#i dont even know whats different if anything but it will still be the death of me#the quencies...... of my actions......... (kissing boys)#dragon age#dragon age 2#da2#da2 anders#anders dragon age#my art
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One of my favorite things that happened during my last mage Hawke playthrough was during the final battle against Meredith. Everything's going well. We're kicking her ass, she's got just this much health left, we're so close... but then everyone gets stunned dizzy.
Hawke is stumbling around all confused, seeing stars. The rest of his companions are stunned. I'm annoyed because I just want to end this fight. Don't know how or who did it, probably Meredith, but the situation's dire.
Meredith's standing by herself at the center of the Gallows, shouting nonsense and smugly believing the Maker's going to come down and make her his new bride after she murdered a bunch of innocent people.
Truly, this is the part of the story where Varric says they all thought hope was lost, that in the end, Meredith would pull a fast one on us and claim victory...
Until the REAL hero of dragon age 2 comes storming at her. I don't know why Carver was the only one to not be affected, but he literally jumped out of no where and just started bashing Meredith with his sword while everyone else was too dizzy to do anything until she was dead and the cutscene played.
"Hawke defeated Meredith-" LIES, VARRIC. I know the truth! I was there! Hawke didn't do shit! Carver Hawke was the main character all along! He got shit done and Varric gave Hawke all the credit!
I bring this up because last night I finished my warrior Hawke run and when we got to the fight with Meredith, I kind of hoped the same thing would happen where Bethany dashed in all heroic and got the killing blow on Meredith.
She did not.
She got squished by a statue.
But it's fine, Bethany Hawke was the true main character in my heart.
#da2#dragon age 2#carver hawke#bethany hawke#da2 hawke#varric tethras#da2 meredith#listen i have so much love for the hawke twins they are the main characters in my heart like yes fine hawke you're there too#but THE TWINS aaaaaaaauughghghghhhhhh#seriously though i'll never forget being annoyed that ed was bumbling around and then watching carver be the only one unaffected#and he's the only one beating meredith and tbh i was cheering him on yes baby brother get her show her how you do it back in fereldan#honestly doesn't it figure though? carver would be the one to deliver the final blow and then be completely overshadowed#because varric has such a hard on for hawke BUT I KNOW THE TRUTH#and it's the same with bethany like this entire run i was so invested in her and i wanted her to set meredith on fire#though this time the fight was actually super easy because i was way more prepared and at a higher level so hawke never got stunned?#i dunno but i wasn't keeping track of bethany during the battle and somehow she did die once... but it's fine she got better#siiiiiigh.... do you know how much i want a playthrough with just the twins? so badly like listen hawke you're neat#but maybe this time you could let the ogre eat you instead? just this once? i love both of my hawkes but the twins??#hawke twins hawke twins haWKE TWINS HAWKE TWINS#i guess i have to settle for au crafting and fanfic...
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Never doodled this dude before
Just a little guy nothing wrong with him
#He walked so Gale the bomb Wizard could run#dragon age art#dragon age anders#da2#da anders#my art#dragon age 2#anders dragon age
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just started my replay of da2 and immediately it's so much richer for having the origins context. i knew in theory that rogue or warrior hawkes had been at ostagar but just like. the horror. hawke leading their family through the wilds infested with the darkspawn that they just saw decimate an army. trying not to panic because they know if they do her family will too. just barely dragging their baby brother out of the battlefield alive only to watch him die to the darkspawn ANYWAY and not being able to DO ANYTHING anyway i'm normal and i am going to enjoy this replay a normal amount
#cleo plays dragon age#OBVIOUSLY i knew i was missing out by not starting with origins#but i also know if i hadn't already been invested i would've gotten frustrated by how often it crashed and never finished the game#dragon age 2#da2#noah hawke#new name for her i think#because i might steal mikah for when i do a brosca run eventually
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people are always hating on the hinterlands but I am here with a hot take: the storm coast sucks SO much worse
#listen#L I S T E N#YES the hinterlands are unbearably large for a tutorial level but they are well laid out#I can finish up all my shit in certain areas and then never go back#so it’s like….. semi contained#the storm coast? the STORM COAST???#I am running back and forth 75 times doing all sorts of banal shit that I don’t wanna do#I am running down an identical coast for roughly 3000 miles#oh there’s something here? it’s up on this hill?#well let me hike 10 minutes out of my way to scale the OTHER side because that’s the only way to get up it#the ONLY interesting thing about the storm coast is 1) recruiting iron Bull which happens 2 seconds in#2) giant/dragon fight obvi#3) that uhhhhhhhhhh freaky weird orlesian cannibal#everything else I have to do in the storm coast is against my will#I will HAPPILY fuck with the wounded coast all 85 times I have to trundle across that map in da2#but the sword coast is my MORTAL enemy#(my immortal enemy is the deep roads in the uhhhh whatever that dlc is for dai)#say what you will about maps in the first two games but none of them are so unbearably BIG#and YES I’m including the fade because the girls who get it get it#and I WILL be knocking out the fade in any game in like half an hour tops#dai#dragon age inquisition#dragon age
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I did all this backwards, playing DAI and DA2 concurrently for some unknowable reason and now starting DAO (yay, Zevran!!). I decided to create an elven protagonist for DAO and DAI to get as much of the elven mythos I could since the series is leaning hard on it (I do hope for more dwarven and qunari lore in DAV though). I also hadn't played the Dalish origins yet.
Anyway, how? How can I say I love Merrill and not realize she's in the Dalish origins? How can I have been playing these games for over a decade and only now stumble on it? Did she mention it in DA2 and it flew over my head? I'm sorry Merrill.
Speaking of DA2, the little would be Warden is a two-handed warrior with a weapon as big as they are on their back, insubstantial armor, a bare duck-footed walk, and I can't help thinking "let's go, my Fenris wannabe" whenever I'm piloting them around.
#dao#dragon age spoilers#dragon age origins#da2#merrill dragon age#merrill#merrill da2#dragon age 2#fenris da2#fenris#grey warden#warden mahariel#I just met Morrigan in the wilds and am about ready to do the joining#had to run around for a flower first#(i also haven't done the human noble origins yet but that's supposed to have a good story too)
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Ok I really really really wanna see a DA2 remake is this style. Kirkwall could look amazing. The way the maps work in Veilgaurd remind me a lot of DA2. It's like a perfect fit imo
#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#datv#dragon age 2#da2#i keep running around cities thinking about how kirkwall would look
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I shouldve been asleep HOURS ago, instead I did the exo tierlist....
#dont kill me dys lovers#hes good for plot and I feel like theres just no way around sol n dys being at least good friends.... n they have such beautiful potential-#to be SO messy together no matter what their relationship. I have many brainworms about this.#but jesus christ the kid pissed me off. hes so immature. hitting him with hammers.#tammy just talks about babies too much.... it squicks me out. I wouldve loved 2 romance her shes got a cute design but alas#me n seeq have a lovehate relationship too... cus.. on one hand... older nonbinary chara... but also. so insufferable. and ugly outfit.#on second thought congruence could be in good egg category also#auntie tirah up there purely for her cool hair and winning at polyamory#why is sols mom so stupid hot#vace makes me wish this was DA2 and we could start racking up points in the opposite direction <3 but I also enjoy certain parallels betwee#him n sol.... I want to be Rivals#rex is best boy marz just has a really good character arc(Even though were not really essential to it at all lmao besides mechanically)#funfact I romanced her on my first play after dys became too insufferable <3#I didnt even know sym existed.... only found him thru browsing the wiki like mid second run. just too good at the game ig didnt need saving#cus like.... my first run was literally all exploration all the time.... how the fuck did I not even SEE HIM#texted post
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oh Leto
#Currently watching my bf run in circles away from the arishok#why is his stamina like#not regenerating?? At all???#we’ve been doing this for like an hour#anyway#fenris dragon age#drunk and in the nakie#just yk#taking a nakie outdoor night nap#dragon age 2#da2#Dragon age#noble art
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im aware this is an emotional moment, but i have to laugh at Hawkes raised eyebrow and Fenris immidately catching up to what he just said
#he looks two seconds away from having a cartoony drop of sweat run down his forehead#like oop- yeah thats your “situationship” innit#fenris i adore you and hawke is pacient for that#understandable from the trauma of his sister coming back only To Do That#but damnnn#dragon age 2 they could never make me hate you#da2#fenhawke
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Heavy is the crown forged by blood 🩸
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#dragon age#da2#dragon age 2#hawke da2#garrett hawke#I always wanted to do a run called ‘The Dark Timeline’#it’s where I go through all the da games where I make the worst choices the game offers#killing or making companions worse#same with npcs#making the PC’s miserable#that sorta thing#the templar ending with Hawke interests me in particular#I think I’d play him green and mage friendly at the start of the game#but has the years go on in Kirkwall with losing his family and dealing with bloodmages and demons he’s seen the lowest of the low#and that warps his view on what could be and the templars start to make more and more sense#he grasps for a sense of control on his life with power and in the end he loses everything#but he gets a fancy title and a crown
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I believe Hawke and Varric are so tightly woven together within their souls, that if Varric is really going to possibly get killed off in DA:V, Hawke is going to feel that shit the second it happens, whether they're still in the Fade or elsewhere.
It pierces them through the heart like a thousand knives and it's worse than any corruption they've experienced in the Fade and/or is a pain worse than death.
They know what occurred.
#I'm picking up my DA2 run from a while back#and am having sad thoughts#dragon age#dragon age 2#DA2#i can't even think about it#🫠🫠
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I'm back on my bullshit thinking about the Hawke siblings again and how much I love a "both twins live" AU... but y'know what I love just a little bit more? An AU where all three Hawke siblings are alive, but one of the twins still get attacked by the ogre in Lothering and is presumed dead when they actually survived.
I like to think that since the narrative in DA2 is framed as a story Varric's telling Cassandra, we can play around with the fact that he's an unreliable narrator. Varric wasn't there in Lothering. He only knows what Hawke told him. It makes for a better story if Leandra, Hawke, and the surviving twin get to huddle around the dead twin and say their goodbyes... especially if they didn't actually get to do that. I mean, a lot of us already have that train of thought when it comes to Leandra's death and Hawke getting some closure through her final words telling them how proud she is. Whose to say Varric didn't do that for the lost twin, as well?
All that to ask what if the ogre attack happened, but the group was so overwhelmed by darkspawn they had to flee further and couldn't check the twin who "died?" Flemeth still showed up, but it was too late to go back and say goodbye.... so Hawke made a deal with the Witch of the Wilds and they all pushed forward to Kirkwall.
Imagine Bethany, left behind with broken bones and bleeding in the sand, fading in and out of consciousness as the remaining darkspawn surround her. She knows how to heal, how to fight back, but she's weakened. Her staff lays out of reach. Air shakes in her lungs. She tries to call for help, but only wheezes come out. Where's her mother? Her siblings? Did the ogre get them, too?
At this point, we all know what happens to the women darkspawn take, and Bethany could've met that fate; she doesn't have the strength to fight back as they drag her away. But before they can bring her underground, she's saved by another group of survivors. Perhaps they're more soldiers fleeing Ostagar, or townsfolk who recognize her from Lothering. They do what they can to treat her wounds but she needs a healer, so they bring her with them to seek refuge in Redcliffe... except they eventually realize she's an apostate. Well, she doesn't seem dangerous, but they still contact the templars.
Bethany wakes in a warm but unfamiliar bed with skilled healers tending to her. Templars hover by the doorway. First Enchanter Irving greets her, gentle in explaining she's safe inside of Kinloch Hold and that she's going to survive. When Bethany asks about her family, he gives her a sympathetic smile and says they only found her.
Bethany, who never took to embracing her magic the way her older sibling did and always felt like it burdened her family... has lost that very family. Could they survive the ogre and darkspawn? Or did the ogre tear them apart, too? How did she survive... but not them? Did the Maker really have such a sense of humor? How else would she end up in the Circle, a place her family went to great lengths to keep her safe from?
She doesn't want to think about it. She hopes they made it to Kirkwall, but the prickle of dread that crawls up her spine knows how unlikely it is. Bethany finds comfort in speaking with the mages who rotate in to heal and bring her food. Some feel trapped by their magic just as she does, but others remind her of her older sibling in the way they embrace their magic, a gift from the Maker. The younger apprentices who aid the mages ask her questions about what lies beyond the walls. The templars mostly keep their distance, but one is friendlier than others. A man with curly blonde hair and a sympathetic view of the mages bothers to speak to her more than his fellows do.
She's still in recovery when Uldred and his blood mages attack the tower, but she survives. Bethany heals, even as she's haunted by nightmares of the ogre wrapping its tainted hand around her body to crush her, flinging her aside to lay among the limp bodies of her family... haunted by the horrors the blood mages unleashed on the tower. She aids in restoring the tower the best she can, and accepts her new home, her new life. When she's well enough, she lights a candle for each of them; her father, mother, her eldest sibling, her twin... she even lights a candle for the family mabari, and prays to the Maker to give them her love as they stand at His side.
The Blight ends. Years pass. Bethany settles into her new life, becoming a fine example for the younger apprentices she mentors. She witnesses wrong doings against her fellow mages, loses friends to their harrowings or tranquility. She accepts what she is, even if bitterly. The Chantry's teachings about magic scar more than enlighten; she sees it in some of her fellow mages, feels it in herself. Secret meetings. Whispers of escape, of freedom. More escape attempts. Harsher restrictions.
Around this time, back in Kirkwall, Knight-Captain Cullen stands where he always does in the Gallows courtyard. He notices Hawke appear with some of their companions. It hurts to think back to Kinloch Hold, but something occurs to him: he knew of another Hawke who was brought to the Circle while he served there. They only spoke once before... well, before. He wonders if there's any relation. When Hawke wanders over to speak to him, as they always do, Cullen brings it up.
Hawke pales. A beat of silence. Cullen recognizes heartbreak; he sees it unfold in their eyes and swell in their throat as they realize that all this time, their baby sister was alive.
Then the day comes where new whispers float among the mages in the Circle. A visit by a Grey Warden. Most, including Bethany, assume he's here to recruit... until Irving comes to her. He says this warden's requested, though more like insisted, he see her now. But then Irving smiles; the warden in question said his name is Warden Carver. He received an urgent letter that his sister is here, alive, and he demands to know if that's true.
Bethany nearly collapses when she sees him.
While the reunion can't last; she can't leave the Circle and he has his calling; the twins embrace, sobbing out apologies and exclamations that they thought the other was gone. Carver tells her of Kirkwall, the expedition that led him to the Grey Wardens, and their older sibling's status as Champion. With a gentleness she never knew her brother to have, he tells her what happened to their mother, and more tears flow freely. Their sibling learned about her from a templar, though Carver grumbles that the bastard could've said something sooner.
There's the Maker's humor again.
...Now flip the script: imagine Carver being left behind instead.
For as strong and passionate as he is, that ogre still picks him up and slams him to the ground. Bones crack. Black splotches flood his vision, agony exploding across his skin. His sword flies from his hand. The soulless bastard tosses Carver aside like he's nothing, and he's left to lay there. His mother's cries muffle in his ear as though he's stuck underwater, sinking slowly into the dark.
It figured, honestly... that he'd survive Ostagar while his fellow soldiers were cut down all around him, that he and his eldest sibling would flee the field when all hope was lost... that he'd make it home to get his family out of Lothering... only to die protecting his mother. And why not? He is a protector. A warrior. It's a honor to die saving those he loved... so why didn't it give him peace?
Carver eventually wakes in the night among the bodies of fallen darkspawn. Everything aches painfully hot and his thoughts reject coherency. He knows his family is gone; they're dead, or they've fled... either way, he's alone; left behind. Something's broken inside of him, but he has just enough will to pull himself up at the sound of approaching footsteps. A group of survivors find him- funny enough, the same group who aided Bethany in an alternate timeline. Imagine that.
That's how Carver ended up in Redcliffe's Chantry with an overworked healer tending to him. He doesn't even flinch when the mage works their magic on him, knowing all too well the sensation of healing magic seeping into his skin, mending the flesh. He tries not to think of Bethany, or what might've happened to her.
The Chantry's overwhelmed with townspeople hiding from a danger outside that he can only assume is darkspawn... except it's not. He wonders how hard he hit his head when he hears the undead have come from the castle to slaughter what they can of the town every night. But then he sees it with his own eyes when one breaks in, taken down by a templar, and never before has he ever felt so useless.
Then the last two remaining Grey Wardens arrive. They're crucial in the final fight against the undead, swearing to enter the castle to stop the attacks at the source. While Carver couldn't participate in the final fight, something he complained loudly about, he did what he could in his condition to help like sharpening swords and handing out supplies. Mostly to keep his sanity and quite his thoughts throughout his recovery.
When the time came, he took up his sword again in the name of all those he lost.
An archdemon was said to be on the horizon, and the Grey Wardens needed everyone they could get to fight. Carver fights in the battle of Denerim where the Hero of Fereldan defeated the archdemon. He cuts his way through every darkspawn he sees. Ostagar flashes red behind his eyes. Lothering clutches at his heart. So much anger and sorrow built up inside him, flooding out in his tears and screams. Blood everywhere. Fire and smoke.
Then it's over.
In the aftermath of the Blight, like so many others, Carver has no home to return to. No family. He thinks to go back to Lothering to help rebuild, only to hear the lands were too tainted. These tainted creatures took everything from him... That's what eventually brings him to Vigil's Keep, standing before the Hero of Fereldan themself, asking to be made a Grey Warden. He already dedicated nearly two years of his life to killing darkspawn, and he had nothing else. Even when faced with the Joining, holding the chalice of darkspawn blood and being told to drink, he didn't flinch.
Life as a Grey Warden isn't as simple as he assumed it would be, but Carver finds purpose in his calling. Over the years, he grows to view his fellow wardens as family. He travels all over Thedas, venturing down into the Deep Roads to help clear out hoards of the darkspawn. But then comes the day he finds himself in Kirkwall, and it doesn't take long before he hears the name Hawke on the lips of the townspeople. His eldest sibling was not only alive, but they're quite popular among the people. But what about Mother? Bethany? He doesn't have to snoop too far to learn templars took Bethany away to the Gallows, and that Leandra Hawke was the final victim in a string of murders committed by a blood mage.
Carver finds himself standing outside the estate, glaring at the door. Furious. Heartbroken. Bitter. He wants to scream. This entire time, they lived. He's torn between wanting to reunite with his older sibling again, to get the truth from them, and wanting to barge into the estate, demanding answers to how they could let the Circle take Bethany... after what Carver sacrificed, how could they let Mother die like that? Was it all pointless in the end?
He leaves without knocking. He can't bring himself to see them. Not that it mattered. Before he could leave Kirkwall, the tensions with the qunari finally overflowed, and chaos fell upon the city. He's forced face to face with his older sibling again, but he wasn't prepared to watch the recognition slowly bloom on their face, or for all his anger to turn to mush. Carver's the first to speak.
"Somehow, I knew it would be you."
.............So, yeah. I really like this idea.
#da2#dragon age 2#bethany hawke#carver hawke#long post#there are so many routes you can take with this too like hawke finds out bethany's alive in fereldan's circle#and they gather all their companions like 'y'all we're doing a heist' 'great what are we stealing?' 'my sister'#'...isn't your sister dead?' 'APPARENTLY NOT'#or carver and anders could know each other from the wardens and one day anders tells hawke that they remind him of another warden he knew#and hawke is like '.............that little shit survived and he didn't tell me?? i'm telling mother'#OR both bethany and carver end up as wardens and happen to run into each other like '????? I thought you were dead?????'#and tbh bethany doesn't have to end up in the circle or carver with the wardens. that's just the paths i explored#maybe they're found by the warden and alistair who have wynne fix them up and they join the dao party#hell this could be backstory for an inquisitor carver or inquisitor bethany in dai#also yes this post is my way of saying that i love this idea but i'll probably never turn it into a fic so let me gush about it this way
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"she wouldnt want you to blame yourself"
"you dont know my mother"
#i played da2 for the first time very recently after running away from my mas lol#hawke and leandras relationship is my roman empire#lile i genuinely think about this so much#da2#dragon age 2
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i literally entered 2024 like it was 2014 i am sitting here reading all of solas' dialogue with the other companions on the wiki and looking up old patrick weekes tweets and listening to the trespasser soundtrack and reading posts with speculation from 8 years ago i am the world's stupidest soldier
#but hey it's better that it got to me now than earlier right 💀💀💀#IT'S SO FUNNY HOW I KEEP RUNNING INTO PEOPLE SAYING 'omg hope they take their time with da4 release it in 2-3 years even!!'#and they're dated like. 6+ years ago lmao#but idk what they'll do bc like... they have to include the inquisitor somehow right.............right...................pleath#and you know what i realized even if da4 isn't that great... inquisition wasn't deemed as that great either but i fucking loved it#if it's even close to as good as inquisition i will be so happy#just... make it nowhere close to da2 and i'm good<3333333333333333333333#.txt
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