#dragon age anders

[hyperfixationstation128]

Do you think Anders ever visited the Kirkwall Chantry just to see the heavenly light pour through the stain-glass windows like fountains of holy gold?

Do you think he ever cried at the face of the Maker? Do you think he fell to his bruised knees, clasping his hands so tightly that the threat of his bones breaking was imminent?

Do you think he ever prayed? Only to be met with unbearably painful silence?

[tharannas]

I love you Anders but you really need to step up your game

[theesteppenwolf]

If it be your will

So i made this playlist tying DA2 companions to my favorite songs, the criteria being ''I dunno feels like it'' and for Anders it was:

Want to Be Free by Sea Power or

If It Be Your Will by Leonard Cohen (the Antony version)

EDIT: Ok so originally i wanted all the hands to be effed up a little but then saw that i only did it on one so it just looked like a mistake, so i had to fix that hand to look normal (i wish i was making this up i feel like an idiot i only saw it after someone hashtagged it on a reblog, someone bury me please)

[lokri-art]

Just a cozy sketch~

[jinx-aesthel]

[arachanine]

Dragging age 2 is a good game

[maleficore]

Commander, why does the King call you "babygirl"?

[redmedic]

Patreon Request - Moment in Battle [Hawke and Anders]

Again, quite an old request but it has been so delightful drawing Dragon Age again, and these two have been on my brain a LOT. So thank you for giving me an excuse to draw them. They are so beautifully tragic, and I love expressing their sad dynamic in little body language details. I also ended up enjoying the lineart alone in this one too much so I decided against colouring it.

Let me know if you guys are interested in seeing more of these two in particular, because they have been knocking about in my head for the past week.

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Bonus close-up

[esthesiaart]

Gale and Anders, disaster wizards duo: cat lovers? Check. In a toxic relationship with otherworldly entities? Check. At imminent risk of detonation? Check! Jokes aside, just a little way to combine my favourite game series!

[stcnemss]

They’re gonna be weird about it.

[blearyfog]

Quote by Franz Kafka

The obsession gets to a point where I'm reminded of him in all poetry I read and all the music I listen to. Do you think he could finally rest after all the mages were freed? I don't. I think he's doomed forever.

[fangsandfeels]

I gained the next level of appreciation for how well Dragon Age 2 understood trauma, the ugly side of it.

I don't blame Fenris. I understand why after enduring years and years of abuse, humiliation, having your autonomy, your memories, everything that constituted you including your own name stripped away from you, you have no empathy for anyone reminiscent of your abusers - especially if nobody came to save you in the end and you are the only one fighting for your life and freedom. I understand why upon hearing how someone (who reminds you of your abusers) suffers unfairly, the only thing you can say is "Good" - and lash out at anyone trying to tell you off for it. Where all these fucking preachers were when you were suffering? Why even in the land that is supposed to be different from your own hellhole, your word and your experience still don't matter?

I don't blame Anders. I understand why after being betrayed by your own parent, after the decades of listening how you must suffer for the sin of being born, being confined to isolation, being treated like a monster while being a child, being denied the simplest of comforts, you fiercely defend people who share your abilities - because nobody else would ever look out for you and them. Of course you would clash even with someone who has legitimate reasons to be negative towards people like you because your own wounds sting more than their pain. You have dealt with the Chantry's vile propaganda for so long, you no longer take things at face value. Of course, Chantry would say that the foreign land where mages rule is foul, and corrupt, and full of blood magic and demons! So many times rumors, lies, and twisted religious depictions have been used to abuse, lobotomize, and enslave you, you're no longer letting it happen - and you only believe what you see and hear. And all you see around is injustice and indifference. And you're only the one screaming into the void, raging against the horrors everybody else is willingly blind to.

I don't blame them both for losing their mind in their own ways while the rest of the group silently wondered why they couldn't just be normal.

Personally, I don't think there was any chance for them to become friends or make peace during the events of the game. The "I suffered so I don't want anyone to suffer like I did" or "I'm a bigger person" are pretty lies and half-truths at worst. At best, they are mindsets only possible after someone who suffered finally feels safe and can be out of their survival mode. Which is not really true for Fenris and Anders, even during the final act of the story.

Even on high friendship or romance, Anders is still self-destructive, ready to die at Hawke's hands after launching his plan in motion. Even with a friend/lover at his side, he is alone in his head, in his vision of the world, in his pain.

Even with proper support and help, it takes Fenris three years to accept a relationship, but it doesn't change his perspective and if you don't have enough of his trust, you lose him to his trauma-based response.

I may be overthinking it, but I am truly thankful to the game for not toning down the complex, hard and uncomfortable aspects of trauma. People have always been in love with the concept of the perfect victim (who hates only "the right" bad guys and suddenly knows when to be tolerant, nice and accepting and doesn't say any rancid and hateful shit ever), but it became particularly aggravating lately.

[cozmic-ash]

played DA2 for the first time and romanced the possessed bisexual poor little meow meow who's totally down for firebombing a walmart

[salemcantupdate]

DAO folks, plus DAA cause I love them. All of them a drawn to look about how I headcanon them at the start of DAA (hence why Anders is still a golden boy). Plus some general headcanons.

Specific praise to @kesterite cause I used their art as inspiration for specifically Sten and Alistair.

[minidoodles97]

I started this ages ago and finally finished it, since my last Dragon Age Awakening post is getting a lot of likes lately.

Don’t remember if I meant to add dialogue to this but here it is lol.

(Is it too much to ask if they show up again in DA4??)

[pumpkincalico]

His love language is emotional manipulation