#also i miss hawks

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I said I wasn't going to get started on the topic of Aveline ruining Carver's chances with the guard but I lied okay, it's Carver Hawke defense hours.

Here's the thing; it doesn't matter if you believe Carver was or wasn't fit for the guard. That's a different debate that I'll get to. What matters is Aveline's in no position to tell the guard not to accept his application. Why does she think that's her right to judge whether or not he's fit?

Carver should've had the chance to prove himself one way or another. If it turns out he's not a good fit, then let him fail. Let him learn from it.

"Oh but failure could mean lost lives-"

Aveline doesn't get to talk shit about failure and the people. Plenty have died on her watch yet she still believes she's a good guard and Guard-Captain.

"maybe Aveline's protecting him, Carver could die while on patrol-"

Carver could die working in the Bone Pit, or serving as a templar, or when he's running around with Hawke. Carver could trip and fall down a set of stairs and die. In fact, he can die in the Deep Roads, somewhere he wouldn't have to go if the Hawke's weren't desperate.

Either Carver fails as a guard, or more likely, he succeeds and proves himself worthy of it.

But let's be real, Carver probably kept getting rejected due to being a Fereldan with a past of smuggling/mercenary work and Aveline only reaffirmed the decision, either because they asked her what she thought or she stuck her nose in unprompted.

But what irritates me is that she admits to telling them not to accept his application, and then has the balls to call Carver too proud to take up a trade or find another line of work.

Carver tells her, "And who would take on a Fereldan apprentice? Maybe in another year I could work my way up to pissboy." He has a good point here. Aside from the guard, the only other place Carver could work and use his skillset is with the Templars. Or go back to mercenary/smuggling work.

And Aveline doesn't even have a real answer for him. No suggestions, no encouragement, nothing. Just "Fine, let's crawl down some holes. Good bloody luck for your sake."

Also, if you do the Mark of the Assassin DLC in Act 1-

Aveline: You should see if any of the noblemen are looking for new men-at-arms. Carver: Are you trying to get rid of me? Aveline: It's a role with some autonomy. A good fit with your training and... tendencies. Carver: After serving King Cailan? You want me to suffer some poncy git who needs two servants to wipe his own ass? I'll find my own way, thanks. Aveline: I wish you would.

You wish he would?? Aveline, he was trying to find his way into the guard, a position he'd make a good fit for, and you helped deny him of it because YOU didn't think he would be good enough, I just-

If I haven't made it clear yet, I firmly believe that Carver would've made a great guard. He wants to help people, to be a protector. He's loyal, and despite what Aveline claims, he can follow orders and take his duty seriously. We see him do incredibly well with the Grey Wardens, after all. If he were a guard, he wouldn't have to go down into the Deep Roads with Hawke, and I think he would've been okay with that! He's so hurt and bitter when you leave him behind because that effectively tells him, "I don't need you." Carver's spent the whole first act telling you he wants to go on the expedition aka that he wants to be needed.

But if he were a guard, he would be needed elsewhere. He'd be in training as a recruit. He'd look after Leandra while you go. He wouldn't be backed into a corner with no income and only the templars left as his chance at forging his own path and providing for his family.

He doesn't get that opportunity, though.

By the way, if he becomes a warden, you can get this banter:

Aveline: I'm glad you found a place with the Wardens. Carver: Well, it's not the city guard, but it'll do. Aveline: Carver... it wasn't the place for you. Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I? Aveline: Well...

This banter makes me want to scream.

Aveline's just... she's so insistent that she's right. She's someone who will double down rather than entertain the idea that she's wrong and it's not just with Carver and the guard, it's with everything. The "my beef with Aveline" list gets longer and longer every time I replay da2, I swear.

Say what you will about Carver, whether you think he would've been a good fit or if Aveline's right and it wasn't for him, he was denied a chance and it cost him so much in the end. He either dies, or he joins the templars where he deals with Chantry's bullshit trying to brainwash him with "mages aren't people" and "magic is a cancer in this world", or he's infected with the blight and becomes a Grey Warden, forced to serve the rest of his life fighting darkspawn, tormented by voices and nightmares.

I will never not be bitter about this.

#dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age #carver hawke #aveline vallen #aveline critical #oh and also forever bitter that hawke doesn't have the option to talk to aveline about this #because listen my hawke would be on this #carver would be annoyed and all 'i don't need your help >:[' but that's not gonna stop ed from turning on Big Brother Mode #this is just one of many reasons i can't do the friendship path with aveline #i hate the thought of doing rivalries for all my other companions but i feel like aveline's rivalry route is the only chance to shake her #of her unwarranted over confidence and make her realize that she's not this lawful good 'i stand for all of us' guard captain #she still stands with me in the end but at that point i wouldn't be surprised if she was just doing to because she still feels she owes ed #for getting her outta fereldan and into kirkwall rather than because we're loyal best friends y'know? #she's certainly not doing it for the mage rights #but anyway i never miss an opportunity to defend carver #that's my baby brother and i love him

[moosu]

I didn't want to give him that chance

#dragon age #da art #da fanart #dragon age 2 #fenhawke #another redraw #but this one is because I don't like Hawke's hair in Inquisition #also this playthrough Hawke's a mage #but I missed my rogue so #rogue armour it is #garrett hawke #forgot the Garrett tag

[lightlavenders]

i'd love to hear your answers + reasoning in the replies/tags too :)

#spop #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra 2018 #bow #bow spop #hordak #sea hawk #swift wind #kyle #kyle spop #rogelio #rogelio spop #imp #horde prime #wrong hordak #king micah #im aware i missed a few #bows dads most notably but also some more minor characters #so if theyre your faves then please share bc id love to know why! :)

[hawkeyeslaughter]

and what say you jaybird !!! does it rain in southern california ?

#every scene with bj and hawk is just me and pola btw 🥱🥱 #also i turned out this edit kinda fast so it’s not as good as my others BUT #i reworked it multiple times . like MULTIPLE times #anyways . look at him . i’m crumpling him up into a little ball #can he donate some of his teeth to orphans or something like my man you do NOT need that many #( in the nicest way possible ) #anyways . s4 bj i’ve missed you a cannot lie #mash #mashposting #mashblr #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #fanvid #bj hunnicutt

[biracy]

Most unrealistic part of the Dreamer Trilogy is that Ronan Lynch, first-generation Irish-American, never ONCE gives any shit to or even lightly ribs Hennessy for being British

#sorry for bookposting i try to keep that as like my Non-Postable Hobby. but also i think these books have a fandom? #so i'm tossing my hat into the ring. i hope to do some designs soon lmao #halfway thru greywaren rn i've been binging trc and tdt for the past month. i missed them okay #open mick night #the dreamer trilogy #the raven cycle #ronan lynch #jordan hennessy #maggie stiefvater #call down the hawk #mr impossible #greywaren

[apricote]

fun fact: he’s 6′11″ feet tall and bisexual.

#simblr #ts4 #ts4 cas #ts4 portrait #dragon age #s: damian hawke #anyway woohooincoffin is playing dragon age 2 rn and i'm loving their commentary #so it made me miss my hawke #his name is damian #and he's basically a full-time golden retriever #he's a spirit healer and a mix of blue and purple personality #and friendship romanced fenrus #fenris* #which is difficult playing as a mage but not impossible! #the lore behind the eyepatch is that he lost his eye in the duel with arishok #and also three of his fingers #he's also an artist! and likes painting. especially after leandra dies #in act 3 he actually has long hair but all the hairs i tried clipped badly with the armor #this is his act 1 hair #anyway i could talk about him all day but i don't want to bore you #!!

[bonefall]

there's been some chatter going around that ivypool's super edition might lead into an exploration/revival of faded characters, mostly bristlefrost. what's your take on that? (both for how you could implement that into BB if ever it becomes a plot point, and also your general opinion)

I won't be surprised if they do! And I won't really be disappointed either. Honestly I've never been fond of the idea of double death. I love the concept of fading, but ghost-killing has always felt kinda... boring, I guess?

Fading feels terrifying, but natural. Like a soul finding peace, and moving on to whatever the next stage of being is. The idea of persisting forever, far after there's anything relevant to watch on the mortal plane, seems worse. But killing ghosts? Why? Can't think of anything else? They can't respawn, or persist with ghastly injuries?

Double-death may have been added to add more stakes to Dark Forest training, or to make it so you can physically fight the spirits and win for the climactic battle... but honestly? It feels like they were trying to prevent themselves from using their favorite characters ever again.

But I don't expect this team to stick to it. Never really have, even when I was a tot experiencing it for the first time in OotS. They double-killed off a bunch of their fan favorites. Tigerstar, Hawkfrost, Spottedleaf... it's always felt like a matter of time before they just find some way to bring them back.

For BB though? I love coming up with supernatural stuff and magic systems. I can work with it, no problem.

In fact I'll be happy to. I've already done away with demons being able to die in the Dark Forest-- they can only be killed if a mortal comes in to kill them, or they leave the protection of their home. There's also a new state of undeath, Hawkfrost is half-killed by Tigerstar but manages to make it home just in time, leaving him in a state where he phases in and out of existence. A half-ghost.

I'll have to see what they do before giving a definitive answer, though, since I'd be trying to accommodate what they toss at me. It's important to note that I MASSIVELY changed the way Bristlefrost died, though. Instead of evil water, she burned up in orbit, knocking Ashfur out of the sky like a shooting star.

So like... if it's a Void location that a whole soul goes to, I'll probably mess around with it. If it's a resurrection ritual, that'll be easy to just adapt 1:1.

#I might want to tie Rock into it. Like have him be collecting the double-dead #Since he is the God of Winter but also of memory and records #He'd see it kinda like keeping the area tidy #Can't be letting soul fragments get dust all over the lake #Hawk would want his giblets back like ''you had my missing pieces the whole time? Asshole!'' #bone babble #better bones au

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

I miss them. If only one day DC will let them reunite. </3

#kyle rayner #wally west #connor hawke #green lantern #the flash #green arrow #like even just kyle and connor i would take #but that would require dc using kyle for anything #i miss the kyle and connor friendship so much #also had to change connor's skin he's like so white in this comic

[variousqueerthings]

writes many thousands of words of meta over the course of years to explain why cobra kai is about closeted gay people, when really I could've just left it at "it's a martial arts sports show in which everyone has a same-gender rival that they're obsessed with but can't admit to being obsessed with, while they blunder aimlessly from underwritten het-romance to underwritten het-romance"

#cobra kai #ck #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #terry silver #john kreese #sam larusso #tory nichols #robby keene #miguel diaz #fuckn whatever was going on with anthony and kenny too even #demetri and hawk break the mold a bit (but then they also stopped really writing their narratives at some point) #(which i'll take as *they sorted their shit out*) #chozen also an outlier but that's also because he sorted his shit out NOT because he stopped thinking about daniel for 35 years... #at least terry and kreese understand that it's all about the Karate #even miyagi had a rival/former bestie back in the day #i miss shawn payne i think he and robby should've had more screentime

[octoagentmiles]

GUYS I NOTICED SOMETHING-

THEY DO ALMOST THE SAME KNEEL....

They learned this in the Polar Scouts, 100%. It's a technique meant to reassure smaller creatures, and/or make them feel less intimidated. Prove me wrong (you can't).

#i noticed a while ago that Barnacles stands with his claws facing backwards- #and i theorized it was for the same reason 👆 #now u better BELIEVE I'm gonna be rewatching and eyeing Tracker's paws like a hawk to see if he does it too djdgsdhskks 👁️👁️🔍 #octonauts #captain barnacles #octonauts tracker #i need a polar scouts episode #we ALMOST had one with the beginning of the missing lake but no 😔 #i need an ep with JUST tracker and barnacles catching up and doing scout stuff i think that'd be awesome #also. completely unrelated lmao but i love how barnacles is fully on his knees but still taller than tweak in that one pic xD

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So I went searching for special dialogue for a romanced Alistair, who stayed with the wardens, about a HoF who made the ultimate sacrifice. Specifically for what he says in DAI. For reasons.

I know what he says about her when she's alive in DAI, so I was curious if he'd saying anything about her if she's dead, like Leliana and Morrigan do. After reading through all sorts of forms and reddit posts where most of the answers were "huh I dunno what he says in DAI, I've never done that route," I eventually found out what he says.

Nothing.

Romanced Alistair says nothing about a dead HoF in DAI. At first I thought this was odd? Surely there's something referencing the fact that he and the warden were in love? even if just for fanservice like in DA2? Some of the comments on these posts blame it on Bioware doing bad writing again but it's hard to tell if they actually mean that, or if they're conflating "I don't like this" with bad writing because honestly? I disagree.

Intentionally or not, Alistair not saying anything about his dead lover is completely in character for him. He doesn't know the Inquisitor. Why should he tell them anything about the love of his life that he lost ten years ago? He's not as open about that stuff like Leliana or Morrigan.

You know what's actually out of character? Alistair giving a random stranger he met for two seconds an item that belonged to his dead lover because "she doesn't need it anymore."

Wasn't it enough to ruin his face, DA2? Did you really need to throw in some botched fanservice as well?

Wait a minute, Varric's telling this story...

Alright, new headcanon: Varric is, as per usual, full of shit. Alistair did give Hawke an item because he felt bad that he couldn't help them with the qunari except it wasn't anything special. But that's not interesting enough, so Varric lied and said Alistair gave Hawke an item that belongs to THE Hero of Fereldan for the sake of showing how super special Hawke is.

#alistair theirin #hero of fereldan #varric tethras #da2 hawke #dao #dragon age origins #dai #dragon age inquisition #imagine alistair reading tale of the champion and getting to this part where he gives hawke an item that belonged to his dead lover #how insulted do you think he'd feel? #also i bet he gets a lot of questions about her regularly because everyone wants to know what the hof was *really* like #but he knows that they don't want to actually know her. they just want an exciting story with a big heroic figure at the center #oh also i couldn't find anything in video or on those forms but if by chance i DID miss anything and he actually says something #and we've all just missed it then let me know and i'll correct this but i haven't found anything and given dai's been out for a while #you'd think there would be something to easily find y'know?

[zaaaras]

i love her so much it destroys my little marinette lover heart to see her so anxious like this was season 4 finale level of anxious but oh my god LOOK!!!how far she’s come LOOK AT HER she can stand up to chloe She can come up with plans and everything has made her a better ladybug AND a better marinette im SO PROIUD OF HERR ☹️☹️

AND THIS GUY TOO!!!

the patience he has with her Especially compared to his what his father just tried doing is so nice to see Being someone with anxiety as bad as marinettes almost everyday seeing adrien be so patient with her is really really nice to see 🫶🫶 I LOVE THIS SHOWEWWW IM SO PROUD OF BOTH OF THEM

#miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous #ml spoilers #ml s5 #ml s5 spoilers #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #adrienette #ml derision #derision spoilers #ml analysis #ml derision spoilers #hawk moth #the bitchass fucking OOUURRGGH HE MADE ME SO MAD #i also miss fanon chloe redemption #chloe bourgeois #the woman you could’ve been

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Anders buddy i have barely done anything 😭

#anders when you show him a bit of basic kindness: you have my deepest gratitude and devotion and i am madly in love with you #buddy. friend. please raise your standards ToT #poor guy is so starved for affection #(& misses the vigils keep gang probably (no bioware i dont believe u that they hate each other now)) #laya plays dragon age #also liams start of his friendship w merrill is so. he never really agreed to bring her along and kinda is uncomfy around her #cus of her whole blood magic deal any everything #but shes also so genuine and lonely and sweet?? and he doesnt have the heart to tell her uh no id rather not come visit regularly actually #(which is true for his friendship with anders too tbh LOL he wanted to keep his distance but also hes so sad and lonely) #((this is ALSO mutually true for him and varric lmao)) #his and varrics first shared trait: getting accidentally attached to people xdd #my ocs #oc: liam hawke #since i got rambly abt him in the tags again lol

[whitherwanderer]

6.58 -> 7.0 Comparisons!

#[ the longest road ] #[ the steel hawk ] #[ copper heart ] #[ gatherer's guile ] #i'm mostly content overall #middie gals somehow got more eyeliner?? not sure how i feel abt it #i also feel like the eye shapes have changed EVER SO SLIGHTLY?? #and their eyes seem darker than they were previously #so i'm probably going to end up spending some fantasias on eye color changes #i also miss that ambient glow from beneath #you can see it best on sif and sawyer's jawline in the 6.58 shots #i notice that in a lot of ffxiv maps but not all of them #however it seems like they completely removed that from the CC in the DT benchmark #it may still be there in-world

[camgirlkaminari]

i just caught up with the latest chapters and like. those dudes definitely made out right? like that's not even subtext? like horikoshi fully said one and two absolutely went hog wild upon each other like. in the text, right??????? I have other, more cool and normal thoughts, but what is really important to me right now is that. those dudes definitely canonically got nasty. right???????????????????

#other things to note: oh my god afo absolutely gave shigaraki his brothers hand. unbelievable #also: what happened with hawks? did he fully get absorbed into afo? why was he all the way in there like that. did i miss something #bnha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #but really like what the fuck is this story about. all might starts off like yeah you gotta swallow my dna #NOT lets do some sort of. blood oath where we manfully exchange bodily fluids #thats soooo specific #like heroes rising? they touched bloody hands but this is NOT a syphilis situation this is a #katsuki had to have stuck his nasty little fingers in his mouth before they could start the fight. which is SO funny to imagine #and then im back to yoichi and how he must have given away his quirk the first time like #like. doesnt it sound like kudou was like i feel weird. better get a pregnancy test about it #right? right? am i insane here? #bruce says hm. youve got some weird little unformed thing in there #kudou replies: hm. its just as i expected. i knew ever since the time we made love under the moon something about me was different #right? #ugh a lifetime of trying not to read to much into shonen shit im truly like. grappling with this #they fucking. fucked. right?!!!????!!!

[sadmages]

hm. i will not replay da2 with the exact same character again. i will not replay da2 with the exact same character again. i will not replay da2 with the exact same character again. i will not----

#gabby rambles #sorry that post. and its like getting dark again. this is literally the play da2 setting for me. i miss kirkwall so much. #what if. what if. but baldurs gate...and a different playthrough with an isabela romance. #but also....moustache hawke and anders.... #someone help me im spiralling