#karl thekla

[salemcantupdate]

Dreams/Loss/Longing

Process and thoughts under the cut

OOOHHHHH BOY, alright, this is the first one I haven’t preprepared much. So the next few days are probably gonna be rough on me! I might come back to all of these pieces after this week is up, since I’m mostly doing all the work in the actual day. Anyways, @andersweek2025

As you can see, I did consider the cannibalism short story, but decided to drop it because I couldn’t come up with a clear concept. Also! ANOTHER POSSIBLE ACCURSED ONES IDEA? Insanity. Clearly I have a perfectly normal obsession. Clearly I focused hard on loss and longing rather than dreams, but you could say that he’s having a nightmare about Karl’s death, or that Karl, having been made tranquil, was cut off from dreams.

But gods I’m getting tired, not really the fault of Anders week though, it’s just… me, really. Haha. Mental health is rough. Anders why don’t you cure me already?

[storybookhawke]

Oh Karl Thekla, the way your grey hair and blue eyes fascinate me

[sandwichmustbetasty]

KARL THEKLA ON MY DASH???

YES THANK YOU

GOD I LOVE HIM SO MUCHHHH

I had him for like one minute and for 90% of it he was lobotomized but I'd blow the chantry up myself just to see him again.

love confession for karl thekla

[joy-jpg]

reach out, touch faith

[pinkfadespirit]

Day 3: Loss - for @andersweek2025

[findher-ogg]

People really seem to discredit the fact that Karl being made tranquil is absolutely what drove Anders off the deep end and that makes me sad.

Like come on if your lover, who you had been endlessly searching for and promising for years that you'd help escape and love forever, was lobotomised and begged you to kill him in a few fleeting moments of actual consciousness, you'd blow up the institution that did that to him as well.

[johnnykitten]

Dragon Age Valentine's Day Prompts: Feb 4th. Against all Odds Only you could make this place bearable.

[makerscockandballs]

[Image ID: The first panel depicts Anders from Dragon Age running up the stairs of the Chantry. A speech bubble from someone behind him reads “No, little german boy! Don’t go into the Chantry!”. In the second panel, Anders is shown next to tranquil Karl Thekla, looking severely distressed and saying “Oh mein Gott! Zees ist ein Church full of Oppressionen!” /. End ID]

[albaharu]

years later it haunts me how anders could cure karl but he just didnt know it. but WHAT IF.... AND HE KEEPS HIS CAT ALSO....

[justcallmecappy]

Taken from Anders' World of Thedas vol. 2 entry:

When Anders was still an apprentice, he met and befriended an older boy, Karl Thekla. Karl and Anders would commiserate about life in the Circle and joke bitterly about being templar slaves. For years the two were inseparable, and Anders later disclosed that there was more than a simple friendship between Karl and him. The two shared a deep love, and their relationship was a sanctuary, an escape from the harsh realities of life in the Circle. Anders would often tell Karl that he was the one good thing about Kinloch Hold. In the years when Anders and Karl were together, Anders made no attempts to escape the Circle.

Anders really practiced so much self-restraint after what happened with Karl. This man was Anders' first love, his sanctuary, the "one good thing about Kinloch Hold", who was wrongfully made Tranquil (it's against Chantry law to make Harrowed mages Tranquil), and Anders was forced to live through the horrific experience of watching the man he loved beg Anders to kill him.

Instead of lashing out immediately -- which would have been understandable -- Anders proceeded to protest peacefully against the Chantry for seven years -- writing a manifesto, providing free healthcare and healing in his Darktown clinic, helping refugees, and risking his life and freedom to ferry mages out of the Gallows.

Seven years of championing the rights of mages, exhausting all other options to save his people, when the man he loved was taken away from him by that very institution.

I hope people remember Karl, when they judge Anders' actions against the Chantry.

[lesbianwyllravengard]

some dragon age as tweets inspired by various things.

[stenshale]

love and light to everyone who has anders and karl exchanging “i love you”s in the tower but the timeline to me will always be “dating” (or like, the circle mage equivalent) -> karl is taken to the gallows -> anders escapes -> the events of awakening -> anders sails to kirkwall to break karl out -> anders has to kill him with his own two hands -> the events of da2 -> life on the run with hawke -> the events of inquisition -> half a decade of relative peace with hawke -> anders admits to himself that he was in love with karl thekla

[storybookhawke]

when characters call each other "baby," "sweetheart," n other pet names

when Anders and Karl Thekla say "my love"

[chernychnyi]

karl through the years

[eastern-lights]

Most tragic DA romance: DA2 edition.

[pinkfadespirit]

Some happy Kanders for @serrantalot to say thank you for being so lovely and supportive of my work (and just generally being a sweetheart) 💖