elvenforestwitch

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NATHANIEL HOWE

#Anders #Anders funny

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This is probably just me with my pro-Anders goggles (and my "Orsino needed more depth" goggles) on but, after the initial shock wears off, I'd love for Orsino to recognize that Anders has done the one thing he was afraid to do. He crossed a line that Orsino was often toeing but never had the strength to step over himself.

There was no compromise and he knew it, but he was still too subconsciously bound to the Circle's teachings (its their job to break their mages after all, even Anders suffers this when not overridden by Justice), too bound to the idea of being an exemplary mage and a palatable leader to look that idea in the face and accept it. He had desperate measures in his back pocket that he could never get himself to pull out until the biggest step was already taken by someone else.

I will never accept the "Okay, we tried everything but then Anders fucked it up, time to bring out ✨The Harvester✨" ending they gave us. Orsino was radicalized by seeing his friends and peers driven to suicide through oppression and unlivable conditions. He saw the worst that the templars and Chantry could do, he saw the oppression and looming hammer about to come down on them.

For all the pain and loss he suffered and the good he tried to do, some part of him had to know they'd already reached the point of no return and protest and talking were no longer an option.

This (and the fact that Orsino being a boss fight was an EA decision, not an intentional writer choice) is all the more reason why I simply headcanon that he survived and Varric covered for him with a damning and conclusive end that distanced him from the uprising and Anders's views/actions enough to allow his escape.

I'd like to think he's still out there fighting the good fight and aiding mages during the war and aftermath.

#mage rights #da2 meta #Orsino

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I present to you — a cat

You know, this is a very painful character for me I love what the fans have come up with for him and how he's been reimagined in the community (the message of his storyline was understood) But I'm so fucking annoyed with the way his story was presented in the canon, I want to climb up the wall every time I play da2 and da3

You were almost there, you ALMOST GOT IT And the worst part is that if da2 hadn't gone through that development hell, we could have had a really cool representation of opposition to repressive regimes, of peaceful protests and what leads to riots and bloody revolutions.

But alas

Still love him

#Anders #Anders!!!!

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a handers comm i got by aer0spac on twitter!

#yes. #handers #Anders #handers art

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Yet another day with our comedy duo.

#I love this #Zevran #Zevran funny #Oghren #Oghren funny

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POV you're an Orlesian wandering around Skyhold and you walk into their meeting.

Alternate POV, you're Solas and you definitely weren't invited to the Elf Party

#this is hilarious #dragon age #da funny #DAI #DAI funny

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they are going to be the death of me

what boyfriend in the fade does to a mf

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im currently allowing myself to exist in the world where they are happy and nothing bad ever happens to them c:

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One day you will all have to contend with the reality that Anders was the only actually heroic character in Dragon Age 2

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the one bright light in kirkwall

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Hawke from Dragon Age! :)

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eagle eyed readers may have noticed that im a huge sucker for suffering but not today

today i want you to imagine anders being made tranquil but the whole thing immediately backfires because, you know, turns out brainworms make you immune to that shit.

so the thing that finally makes cullen rutherford piss his pants and board a pathetic cartoonish raft and row all the way back to ferelden is the sight of a man, fresh sunburst brand on the forehead, laughing his ass off in the middle of a room that smells like rotisserie templar. again.

#yes. good #anders

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what if hawke and anders kept writing to each other while hawke was getting his unforgettable 'cassandra is beating the shit out of a dummy with my face on it' experience at skyhold

one day hawke witnesses a raven almost crash on his desk. the note, written in blocky letters, reads, "HAD TO TAKE OVER FOR A WHILE. HE KEPT TRYING TO FOLLOW SOME 'SONG'. WILL 'CATCH UP' ON 'SLEEP'. YOU BOTH ARE WELCOME. WHERE DO YOU KEEP 'TEA'."

the second raven flies in five minutes later. "FOUND IT."

hours pass, hawke goes to bed. the third raven screams to let her in.

"THAT WAS NOT TEA. PLEASE LABEL YOUR ELFROOT."

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My gift for @acesdesire for the 2024 Handers Exchange!

She wanted some Inquistion-era boys and I was more than happy to deliver. I had such a wonderful time drawing this <3 They deserve their happy ending!

@handers-time

#yessss #Anders #handers #inquisition Anders #DAI Anders #DAI handers #soft handers #soft Anders

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“Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I made friends with an emotionally unstable blue-glowing man with trauma and a chip on his shoulder, I’d have two nickels! Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.”

—Hawke, probably