#in inquisition it's sort of like he forgot half the things he learned in Kirkwall idk

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

hilarious how much my hawke goes on and on about how blood magic is evil and blood mages suck and there's never a good enough reason to use blood magic. My guy. What was all that shit you did back in Kirkwall then huh? What did you do when you ran out of magic? I guess every time you pulled the blood up from corpses to keep yourself alive was just nothing then huh. Every time your enemies' blood boiled in their veins was just the wind I guess.

[mrs-theirin]

Since Varric (sadly) isn’t romanceable in-game, does Eden romance anyone who is? If so is that simply not canon and Eden has always been with Varric or does she break up with whoever else before getting with Varric? I guess what I’m asking is, what’s the timeline of Eden and Varric’s relationship? Does it all happen post-Kirkwall or during the events of the game and if so how does any other romance fit into that?

oh thank you so much for asking!!! a long, long time ago, i had eden romance fenris and then stay broken up with him when he breaks up with her, but i eventually realized that while they were close friends, they didn’t really work as a relationship? so i scrapped that

so! the timeline of their relationship is like:

act 1: varric begins to develop feelings for eden. eden kinda has a crush on varric but love scares her so she tries to forget about it. varric ALSO tries to forget about it and fails. after the deep roads expedition they are much closer to each other and begin to spend more time together

between act 1 and act 2: this is when they get the closest! we all know hawke moves into the estate and has all these riches blah blah blah but eden and leandra are. not kind to each other. so eden stays away from the estate for the most part, spending most of her time at the hanged man with her companions! this is where eden and varric really start to get to know each other. varric’s feelings grow here, and eden allows herself to begin to have feelings for him. she doesn’t think much of it though

act 2: here their relationship gets pushed aside for a bit because there’s just so much shit going on in act 2 that they don’t really have time to focus on each other? they still spend time together and such (a lot of time!) but it’s not the same as before. this is around the time that varric starts to think about how serious he is about her. i mean, technically he’s still got A Thing with bianca, and he still has feelings for bianca, but he starts to realize that bianca has never made him feel the way eden does. things really change after leandra dies and the arishok fight. eden falls into a pretty bad depression because she blames herself for pretty much everything, and varric is there to help her out when things get tough

between act 2 and act 3: this is when it happens :)) a little after the last events of act 2, varric throws a party for eden to celebrate her, hoping to make her feel better. it works, half of kirkwall shows up in the hanged man to support her, and they have a full night of singing and dancing and drinking. this is when eden realizes that she loves him. at the end of the night, they kiss and confess that they love each other, and they wake up in bed together and go about their business (you can read that here, yes i am plugging my own work please don’t make fun of me). a few weeks after, however, eden has a sort of breakdown and chops all her hair off and gets in a really bad state. during this time, varric comes over to the estate and takes care of her (it takes about a month for her to recover). they express confusion over what they “really are” and then they become an “official” couple (though they plan to keep it a secret. everyone who knows them can honestly guess that they’re a couple but they’re never romantically affectionate in public and they never confirm their relationship). eden ends up relinquishing her estate to house apostates and lives with varric at the hanged man instead

act 3: we all know things get crazy in act 3 so let’s just say they stay together lmao. during this time they actually get “married” (varric just gives her his signet ring, they don’t make it official in any capacity, but it’s enough for them) eden gets wrapped up in helping anders (the situation surrounding “the last straw” are quite different in my canon to make myself more comfortable with anders’s actions but we don’t have to get into that here). at the end of it all, varric fights by her side as they defeat meredith. a few weeks after, eden has to flee kirkwall. they say their goodbyes and part their separate ways

inquisition: not much to say here except they get officially married a couple weeks after here lies the abyss in the herald’s rest edit: OH AND THEY ADOPT A KID TOGETHER AND NAME HIM MALCOLM ANDERS I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT THAT PART (post-inquisition)

i cannot thank you enough for asking these questions it really warms my heart that you want to know :’)) if you don’t mind reading my work (lmao) you can learn more about the intricacies of their relationship here and here! thank you again!!! <3