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stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage · 5 months ago

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I'm not ready to shut up about Aveline and Carver--so, when you go see Aveline in Act 1, you can catch up with her a little bit and that's where this conversation can happen:

Aveline: "It's just one more change, though. The real end for me was Ostagar. What about you, Carver? You were there. Do you feel something similar?" Carver: No. Aveline: All right, then. Bit of a tit, your brother.

I wanted to see what she would say if Carver isn't in the party. Instead, she says this:

Aveline: Carver was there. I imagine he feels something similar. If he allows it.

......well, at least she didn't call him a tit?

#dragon age 2 #da2 #carver hawke #aveline vallen #she's slightly nicer to him when he's not there but she's still like 'maybe he feels something similar but probably pretends not to'#like i'm not gonna pretend that carver doesn't bottle any feelings--he doesn't openly talk about bethany a lot for a reason #but to suggest he pretends to be unfeeling about things like ostagar is incorrect like he CLEARLY feels a lot about it #because he associates the battle at ostagar with losing his home and sister to the darkspawn #after playing as a warrior hawke who is best friends with aveline i do have a little more insight into why she might think this about carve #when hawke is a warrior they were at ostagar. they share that traumatic experience with aveline and if they're friends #they discuss it in a way that i think aveline *wants* y'know? but with carver he doesn't respond the way she wants him to #so she gets frustrated since even if she tried to talk to hawke about it... hawke wasn't there. hawke doesnt KNOW what ostagar #was like but carver does... but it's like aveline is ready to assume the worst of carver a lot of the time?#like 'carver doesn't talk about it because he's a tit who pretends not to feel' is the vibe i get from this but aveline...#that's like calling you a tit because you don't want to openly discuss all your feelings about your dead husband #listen aveline and carver are so similar but they have such key differences like they both survived the horror of ostagar #and lost a loved one to darkspawn while fleeing lothering AND they both blame hawke for it to a degree #even though they both know that's not right and that it wasn't really hawke's fault #they're both stubborn warriors with daddy issues looking to find their place #and when it comes to flirting? well i don't think carver's as bad as aveline #but i played MotA i know all about 'you could tame its wild heart'#but the key differences come in how they the end the game y'know? especially if carver's on the friendship path as a warden #i still haven't made him a templar but something tells me he ends up more on the same road as aveline #vs when he's a grey warden and able to be away from kirkwall and find a place on his own #y'all i could write a whole essay on aveline and carver but i paused my game to write this so i should go back to that sksksk

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