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maxwell trevelyan all you do is suffer...
#anna's fic notes#you have to understand my thing with max is like. it's all About the performance.#and i think the circle is this truly profoundly horrific thing for him. they give you these kids and you train them and then they kill them#if i think about it for too long i lose my mind#and max doesn't get to have his catharsis. he stumbles out of the circle back to a family that has mostly imploded in his absence -#a group of other traumatized adults who all NEED him to keep being innocent and untouched by evil like they remember - and#when he goes to the conclave he winds up caught in the same leash that the chantry has always been and he'll NEVER be free of it...#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#max is also the inquisitor who does not believe the harrowing works. i've been playing with that idea for a while but i think he truly#just thinks it's an excuse to kill mages flat out. he thinks it's murder.#the rogue!evelyn doesn't really think about it at all - i don't think she quite understands what it is - and the mage!evelyn#does not allow herself to form opinions about things that make her feel powerless. but maxwell is smiling and polite and soft-spoken#and with every breath he hates the world#seven is SO many apprentices. what can i say he is a good teacher
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like if you had a big problem (the veil between the waking and dreaming world is tearing and demons are pouring through), and you had one person in the entire world with the tool to fixing that problem (glowing hand)... you would not be cool with that person throwing himself into completely unnecessary danger for the thrill and glory of it (fighting dragons)
#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#basically if i was in the advisors triangle we would be having some closed door meetings about how many lies we could tell the herald#you can't send him to fight RANDOM UNDEAD he has to fix the SKY!!! what if he dies to like. one arrow from the freemen of the dales!!#i think it would be interesting if the idea of the herald's personhood got a little more fucked than it already is in canon#at LEAST early game leliana could look at him and evaluate him as a resource rather than a person#GOD i wish it was more fucked
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does the harrowing actually work or is it more of a "mages believe it works so it works" thing. like are you actually less likely to get possessed after being harrowed. it's a test you spend your whole apprenticeship being afraid of but even if you pass it i don't know if it has a 'reward'
#i think i've found max's core belief about the harrowing and it's that it doesn't do anything#and is just an excuse to kill mages. i dont know if this is Supported By Canon. but in my heart he believes it.#the idea of vivienne recognizing his name from an incindeary little essay he wrote the year he made enchanter that wasn't suppressed#well enough by the sleepy ostwick circle is very.... i would like it#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan
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i think it would be kinda shitty and manipulative but i do wish you could recruit connor in inquisition
#he could be an agent if you ask me. they're tangential enough to thd game that him not being in your worldstate#wouldn't mess things up or anything. and i think it would add an interesting wrinkle to trespasser if you could have connor along#like with charter and the other inq representatives. basically i'd like yet another painful chapter in guerrin family history.#anyway I've decided this happened for max. he found out about the oculara on his first visit to redcliffe. then#packed all those feelings into a box and shoved them wayyy down deep. then turned around and recruited connor guerrin to a holy war.#the fact that almost half the map is in ferelden... and yet i always think hm da:i needed more ferelden#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan
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the thing about max is... if you put a problem in front of him he will solve it. this means that a lot of work goes into intercepting problems before they can get in front of him. corporal vale got away with a lot in the hinterlands because everything was so chaotic but baron desjardins in emprise du lion got a very polite, very detailed note from the ambassador about the importance of the herald's time after she found out he told him about the three high dragons in the area
#like... if he ever finds out about all the requests the advisors are denying bc they know he'll spread himself too thin to save the world#it will be. extremely bad in the inner circle for a few days.#one or two of those scouts at every camp are charged with keeping things away from the herald of andraste and they are VERY skilled#it's just... you put someone up on a pedestal right? and you give them a lot of power that you can't take back.#but if you're good enough you can still AIM them at and away from things#if i was josie leli and cullen i would absolutely never fucking want the inq anywhere NEAR a high dragon#if he dies the entire world is fucked FOREVER. NOBODY ELSE can close rifts! why are they letting him fight dragons!!#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#i'm just saying there's gotta be at least SOME information control
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tagged by @afaramir :) sorry it took me a couple days abby
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He only realizes it's a mask once it falls. "Brace yourself," Maxwell says, voice sure and strong in a way Dorian has never heard before. The Herald glances at him for barely a second, for a barrier to wash over them both, and then he plunges his hands into the air before him and wrenches. Fire roars, white-hot—Dorian is instantly drenched in sweat, which is better than the two cultists coming around the corner can say. They don't even scream for long. The dungeon floor, previously ankle-deep in water, is completely dry.
this is from something i've been noodling with for around a year, ever since i did a big dragon age replay and got to inquisition and thought 'wow the main character really only gets to be Protagonist. nobody knows anything about this character at all' so now i have this document for max trevelyan that's just various POVs about him. i'm kinda trying to marshal it into something coherent - we'll see if i get there, i've been writing a little bit every night this week :) what if the shy bookish guy everyone feels bad for bc he's getting put into a myth in real time was actually very very very good at setting things on fire and not nearly as neutral on every major issue as he has portrayed himself
#that scene from superman where lois shoots him and he stands up... that's max trevelyan#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#tag game#as usual this is a blanket invitation ppl can do this if they want#anna's fic notes
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thinking about him again (max trevelyan).....
#MASQUERADE!!!! PAPER FACES ON PARADE! MASQUERADE! HIDE YOUR FACE SO THE WORLD CAN NEVER FIND YOU!!!#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan
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max hates cassandra so much and she fully believes they are friends. this actually makes me pretty sad
#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#this relationship is bad for both of them it's such a downer#weirdly i think he genuinely likes most of the other companions (at least pre-blackwall reveal)#even solas which... could not be me. but he sees something shining in all of them.#and i think cassandra evokes such a sense of raw disgust and fear in him that he instinctively hides. so yeah he asks varric to write her a#book. and yeah he goes looking for the missing seekers. but i don't think he'll ever forgive her for Being a seeker.#and he holds the templars responsible for his dead apprentices but the seekers responsible for never stopping the templars.#also this last playthrough i got to hear cass say SO many things that if you think about them for ten seconds you say 'hang on#was that fucked up??' and yea. it was.
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the companion au for this trevelyan is sooooo
#twirling my hair about it rn#what would his canonical subclass be!!!#also thinking about free marches banter with varric is just. okay heart eyes i love thinking about the free marches#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan
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"how could the elves pour such devotion into this... nonsense?" Cassandra can we not do this IN THEIR TEMPLE
#TIME AND PLACE. CAN WE GET A TIME AND PLACE CHECK.#we get it you are devoted to the chantry but have you ever heard 'if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all'#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#i'm not gonna try to change your mind or something i'm just gonna tell you to shut up
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max trevelyan... now we would not say he is doing "well"
#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#guess who just did adamant followed IMMEDIATELY by the seekers mission... THIS GUY 😎#guy terrified of templars and seekers and the circle: hang on. something about the fear demon is getting to me rn#the tranquil cure is fucking him ALL the way up. genuinely if cassandra was not part of the inq i think he mightve said fuck all seekers#forever. never ask me for anything for them.#also doing the fade with solas is WILD he is so happy to be there it's like a little unsettling in a fun way#it was good for max bc he is The Liar Of All Time and agreeing along with solas about how cool everything was#was enough of a lie to make him feel a little more regular and normal. but my god this poor mage.#maker they're taking the mages you made to look cute and read and they're making them into murder machines#also i cant believe i'm saying it but i think one of the murder cousins is trying to seduce sebastian vael in the background of all of this#that letter you get after supporting aveline where it's like 'yeah seb gave up lol' is like... murder cousin catnip#this one is for you lay sister althea from the cumberland branch of the family. fuck him up i guess??
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everyone is so mad at max... sorry guys but when the next blight comes we're gonna need wardens
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max in haven: i might just be pulling this off! i'm recruiting people, my arm isn't actively devouring me anymore, the seeker probably isn't going to kill me since i'm the only one who can close rifts 🙂 if i can just keep every single plate spinning maybe i can keep the world from ending 🙂
the murder cousins: they're killing our boy and they won't give him back to us. start taking out supply caravans.
#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#this is the only point in the game where the family poses an active threat to the inquisition#because once they're at skyhold it's like well one free marches family can't do shit to us#but SIMULTANEOUSLY it's a time where he convinces them not to press too hard bc again... the world is ending...#when he is made inquisitor like four separate kidnapping plots kick off and have to be foiled#the thing is... he really IS the only one of them that they see as Entirely Good. and they don't want to let that GO
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max explaining how the emprise is a clear example of both the inquisiton's failure and overreach: and if you think about it, why has orlais allowed this to happen and why is it our mess to clean up—we're already too late, why didn't anyone step in earlier? furthermore, the RED LYRIUM—
the rest of the companions: 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 can we please sit by the fire for this 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
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this man trying to blackmail max for dorian's amulet is so wild like dude he is the leader of the inquisition.
#and yet it will work completely. honestly such a huge weak spot in this man#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan
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this run of inquisition is great bc instead of checking out and putting a podcast on i just spend the whole time thinking about how messed up max is. the guy trying to jump up the cliff right now has so many things wrong with him. hope getting up this cliff helps.
#bro when haven gets got....... the murder cousins situation gets exponentially worse#before that happened they were like we have one person there we can trust max to watch out for himself he has a sense of self preservation#afterwards it's like well. you have a castle or whatever but You Are Going To Give Max Back Now.#you clearly cannot be trusted with his safety if he had to go and die for you#max 'helen of troy' trevelyan#and HE has to deal with 'my family loves me but they kinda wanna keep me in a box. and i am never going back in a box.'
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