vigilskeep:
vigilskeep:
da2 but cassandra doesn’t just have varric in custody and every quest has a wildly different tone and wildly different portrayals of the characters because somebody else is narrating it. every other time you finish a quest we cut to a different companion going “HUH? no don’t listen to [x companion] what REALLY happened was—” and you have to do some quests all eight times like a matryoshka doll of questing
it’s important to me that you all understand varric’s version would be the normal one with all the voice actors bc he’s a professional but everyone else’s would be their own voice actors doing an increasingly bad impression of every character. also anders is there but obviously cassandra can’t know it’s him so he’s got a fake moustache and an obvious wig that looks exactly like his normal hair and he says things like “well of course i wasn’t there but i heard that hawke’s spirit healer healed everyone and saved the day like always”. at the end of the game cassandra accuses him of being hawke in disguise and he’s like “what? no, i’m anders” and she’s like “oh okay you’re free to go then” and the end credits scroll over like ten minutes of her sitting at a desk in silence before she suddenly sits up and goes “WAIT”
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manfred-volkarin:
potterpasta:
my favorite thing about the “justice does not approve of my obsession with you” line is that you just KNOW varric made that up. like.
1: he’s telling cassandra, at knifepoint, about a private moment between hawke and anders that unless he was hiding under the bed he most definitely was not there for
2: justice is canonly kind of obsessed with the concept of love. he is in love with the idea of romance. he literally in awakening tells you how fascinating he finds it and how he kinda of wants to experience it for himself. he asks you to help him talk to aura bc he was entranced by kristoff’s memories of their relationship.
world-renowned romance author varric tethras found his target audience (or rather, she found him) and absolutely rolled with it.
#This is my favourite thing to rewrite/headcanon#Varric just needed more drama in the relationship because when he asked Hawke for juicy details about what dating an abomination was like#Hawke was just like it’s fine Justice is chill#and Varric was like well that’s a shit story let’s spice that up a bit (via teyrnacousland)
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rawranansi:
A life that eats and eats and eats and crunches your bones but leaves your heart
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mourn-and-watch:
actually i love that we never got to know anders’ name. it’s such a defining detail because i don’t think that at the start of daa/da2 he even feels the need to tell anyone what he was called once, no matter how close he gets to the people around him. does it even matter now? is there something left from the boy that set that barn on fire and never saw his home again? he’s used to anders and it suits him, not even because of his origin, but because of the reason why he got that name. not speaking, not disclosing anything about himself to people who locked him up was his first act of rebellion, in a way. it took him years and a spirit of justice and also a lot of shit to start caring about other mages, but he couldn’t accept what was happening to him since he was a kid and oh boy was he determined to stand his ground even when it couldn’t change that much. i mean, that’s why he is anders. quite literally. the first spark of the mage rebellion was lit by a person who was stubborn enough to never give his name away to anyone in that tower
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arlathvhenan-deactivated2024110:
There’s something that’s been bothering me in retrospect now that I’ve played all three Dragon Age games. It pertains to the Mage/Templar conflict, but specifically as it’s portrayed in DA 2 and DAI.
It’s not the ‘both sides’ issue. Yes, I do take issue with that aspect, but it’s been discussed at length already. What I haven’t seen discussed much is that in both games, the narratives essentially gloss over the existence of children. I find this a bit dishonest considering it’s been definitively established that Mage Circles invariably have children in them.
We know that Mages are taken away to circles as children. We’ve also seen Mage children at the Circle Tower in Origins. A major part of Wynne’s backstory involved her getting fatally injured while defending the children who were still trapped in the tower when a horde of abominations was running loose. Anders was twelve years old when the Templars took him, which is a pretty standard backstory for Circle Mages and Apostates alike. So if you decide to side against the Mages, the implication is that you’ll be actively fighting and killing children.
Then there’s the rookie Templars. I’m not sure if there’s a canonically agreed upon age when Templars are typically recruited, but Cullen was supposedly thirteen when he was formally recruited. Then by age eighteen he’d been given his first marching orders. People might not generally consider eighteen to be a child anymore, but that’s still incredibly young.
I understand not wanting to go that dark, but for a game that wants you to make tough decisions about morally complicated issues then I wish it didn’t sanitize something this critical. Glossing over the involvement of children in situations that would actively affect them feels kind of cowardly. DA is one of those franchises that’s all about the consequences of your actions. I think it’s fair to want a more honest picture of those consequences.
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vigilskeep:
vigilskeep:
kirkwall crew as aunts and uncles to a Hawkeling gets me every time. theyd be sooo cute
you know fenris talks to babies in a Dead Serious Voice and they respond in baby noises and he’s like ah yes a compelling point, and that merrill tells dalish stories that accidentally give the baby nightmares abt the dread wolf for the next ten years, and that isabela is bad at hiding how emotional she is about being trusted with the baby and jokes abt stealing them away to join her crew, and that when they stumble into scrapes and bruises and anders is there to catch them a little spark of healing magic is enough to have them laughing again by the time he puts them on their feet, and that varric spoils the baby horribly and would let them get away with literally anything, and that aveline thinks she’s going to be the Good Influence but when they get into a fight asks if they won, and that sebastian’s voice is a lifesaver for sending them right to sleep, and that carver’s thrilled he’s not the littlest hawke anymore and unionises with the baby against hawke, and that bethany’s canonically so good with children and has so many stories to tell them and also insists she’s Not Crying when she meets them she probably just has, um, baby allergies
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libartz:
Anders and Justice both getting confused about what’s real, but they’re confused about different things so it cancels out
Justice: I want us to leave the room, why is this chair not turning into a door?
Anders: They don’t do that here
Justice: ok
Anders: Is there actually someone calling me from that cave?
Justice: I feel no vibrations assaulting our ears. But I do sense demonic influence, it is deception
Anders: ok
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