#da2 playthrough

[scifigirlgamez]

The funniest fucking thing about starting my Dragon Age 2 playthrough on stream is my chat wanting to name my character "xX_Girliepop_Xx" but it was too long and I wanted to at least fantasy-esque the name but we also don't have apostrophes (which is incredibly sad)... So say hello to Gherliepop, her nickname is "Pop" according to chat and if you say the first half of her name you are required to say it in a Scottish accent, I don't make the rules (I did actually). She's a warrior with the biggest bonkus and her sharpest weapon is actually her wit.

Also, I love making the portraits uncomfortably close there's just something so funny about it. Like a dad who doesn't know how to take selfies and does it on accident then uses it as a pfp.

#Dragon Age 2 #DA2 playthrough #scifi.txt

[road2love]

[clueless] yeah i will make hawke a mage this time. yeah im going to romance fenris. why are you laughing

#bro +15 rivalry upon meeting him. WHAT the hell #da2 playthrough

[beebundt]

just finished first playthrough of da2, thinking about some post-game ship captain isabela and her 2nd hand (and lover)

#dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age #da #isabela #my ocs #joan hawke #femhawke #hawke #captain isabela #ever since i saw that one mod on nexus of captain isabela... chefs kiss my love goes out to that modder #also of course my joan is a purple hawke 💜 with a secret heart of gold #i throughly enjoyed this playthrough so much im still thinking about it... #my canon is that post-game hawke buys a big ass ship for isabela and they just sail the fuck anywhere they want #hawke frequently writing letters to varric to keep him updated with every last thing of course claiming it's only for his story fodder (lie) #also whatever the fuck is going on with hawke and varric? gayer than gay could be. love that for them #i imagine she of course also writes letters to merril frequently as well bc she has a soft spot for her... #also because merrill x hawke x isabela is so good. so good. #my art

[just1gnome]

and they were little horsies.....

silly doodle of bishop hawkes evil love triangle that i hate but they are pon e

#i havent posted about bishop i think #im not very far into his playthrough i just think about it a lot #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #da2 anders #anders dragon age #fenris da2 #fenris #fenris dragon age #hawke #da2 hawke #hawke dragon age #m!hawke #mlp #da2 fanart #my art

[ydeme]

Oh Anders … what have you done

#finished my first da2 playthrough #dragon age 2 #dragon age #anders #dragon age anders #my arts #fanart #gaming #troublesome mages are my type apparently

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

One of my favorite things that happened during my last mage Hawke playthrough was during the final battle against Meredith. Everything's going well. We're kicking her ass, she's got just this much health left, we're so close... but then everyone gets stunned dizzy.

Hawke is stumbling around all confused, seeing stars. The rest of his companions are stunned. I'm annoyed because I just want to end this fight. Don't know how or who did it, probably Meredith, but the situation's dire.

Meredith's standing by herself at the center of the Gallows, shouting nonsense and smugly believing the Maker's going to come down and make her his new bride after she murdered a bunch of innocent people.

Truly, this is the part of the story where Varric says they all thought hope was lost, that in the end, Meredith would pull a fast one on us and claim victory...

Until the REAL hero of dragon age 2 comes storming at her. I don't know why Carver was the only one to not be affected, but he literally jumped out of no where and just started bashing Meredith with his sword while everyone else was too dizzy to do anything until she was dead and the cutscene played.

"Hawke defeated Meredith-" LIES, VARRIC. I know the truth! I was there! Hawke didn't do shit! Carver Hawke was the main character all along! He got shit done and Varric gave Hawke all the credit!

I bring this up because last night I finished my warrior Hawke run and when we got to the fight with Meredith, I kind of hoped the same thing would happen where Bethany dashed in all heroic and got the killing blow on Meredith.

She did not.

She got squished by a statue.

But it's fine, Bethany Hawke was the true main character in my heart.

#da2 #dragon age 2 #carver hawke #bethany hawke #da2 hawke #varric tethras #da2 meredith #listen i have so much love for the hawke twins they are the main characters in my heart like yes fine hawke you're there too #but THE TWINS aaaaaaaauughghghghhhhhh #seriously though i'll never forget being annoyed that ed was bumbling around and then watching carver be the only one unaffected #and he's the only one beating meredith and tbh i was cheering him on yes baby brother get her show her how you do it back in fereldan #honestly doesn't it figure though? carver would be the one to deliver the final blow and then be completely overshadowed #because varric has such a hard on for hawke BUT I KNOW THE TRUTH #and it's the same with bethany like this entire run i was so invested in her and i wanted her to set meredith on fire #though this time the fight was actually super easy because i was way more prepared and at a higher level so hawke never got stunned? #i dunno but i wasn't keeping track of bethany during the battle and somehow she did die once... but it's fine she got better #siiiiiigh.... do you know how much i want a playthrough with just the twins? so badly like listen hawke you're neat #but maybe this time you could let the ogre eat you instead? just this once? i love both of my hawkes but the twins?? #hawke twins hawke twins haWKE TWINS HAWKE TWINS #i guess i have to settle for au crafting and fanfic...

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

i gave in to the sirens 😔

#the sirens call of da2 has grown stronger than that of dao and with bg3 done i have nothing thats keeping me at bay #so: liam replay lets go! #(ik i should finally play robin or maybe replay lilian but. unfortunately liam has a chokehold on me and i miss my son) #(poor guys are getting neglected im so sorry </3) #laya plays dragon age #<- tag for playthrough posting #sadly it didnt register kalas finished save smh so i imported neiras instead #shoulve maybe gone with renans for a change? ah well. doesnt matter much anyway xd

[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

[worm-entity]

Going against ur morals for a himbo we’ve all been there fenris

#fenris was nice to me in my mage playthrough #my friend is gonna yell @ me for using guides again #its fine #need that fenrussy #da2 #dragon age 2 #fenris #garrett hawke #male hawke

[kirkwallguy]

honestly inquisition would've benefitted so much from a good friendship/rivalry system like da2 had. this playthrough im using the fair weathered friends challenge (grants double disapproval) and it feels SO much more alive. solas fucking hates me and rants at me for siding with the templars even though i haven't been openly rude to him! varric dislikes me for not keeping the status quo! dorian chews me out immediately after joining because i didn't go with the mages initially! and it's a shame to know that these interesting dynamics are the lowest i can go with all of these characters

#solas' rant against mary and actually giving his option on the templars was SO good. then i got the option to hit him #and realised this was supposed to be the utmost lowest point of their relationship #playing with this challenge on partially for the steam achievement and partially bc it's more fun narratively #but ughhhh da2's rivalry system added so much depth #i rivalled fenris for the first time in my recent playthrough and it gave me such a different perspective on his character #but in inq it barely even registers that hawke rivalled varric despite it completely changing their relationship dynamics...

[v-arbellanaris]

a tiny game for anyone interested -- if companions could give your PCs - wardens, hawkes or inquisitors - gifts like the gift-giving mechanism in dao, what kind of objects/things would get approval? what would get a cutscene? what feastday prank gift would get disapproval?

#yes i am currently thinking about this instead of my da2 playthrough. im working on compiling a List of names i can choose from for cc #and i got BORED. sue me.

[lelianaslefthand]

"Just as I suspected all along."

DRAGON AGE 2 | NO MAGIC, NO PROBLEM! PLAYTHROUGH

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #da:ii #meredith stannard #first enchanter orsino #hawke #gloria hawke #no magic no problem! #playthrough title very ironic rn #.myedits #gloria like: if not for the constraints of the narrative i would have slaughtered you #the way hawke is so nonchalant about this like they were really pressed for time omfg she should be enraged #the clip i saw of when bethany is in this scene she has more emotion than hawke does like what

[qvietspvce]

i have to say my housemate deals with heartbreak in a much healthier way than i ever did. she’s turned the living room into a sofa fort nest thing and has a bunch of snacks

#she’s also checking her phone every 2 minutes to see if the lad that dumped her has messaged her again #but that’s to be expected #downside for me is that i can’t play da2 because she’s commandeered the tv to watch the office (us) again #guess i’ll just hang out in my room and watch da2 playthroughs on youtube to scratch the itch for now

[sun-marie]

What I really think media with ensemble casts, especially those in a traveling group of some kind, are missing are big, blow-out arguments between the group. Especially when there's a conflict of interests, I am such a sucker for when two or more characters disagree so strongly that they realize very little is actually holding them together as a group, and wonder if it's time to go their separate ways.

I feel like a lot of video games, specifically, just kind of assume once the traveling band is "complete", it's forced to stay together until the player expressly permits it, but I don't really find that very compelling and a lot of times it feels more like they're relying on some kind of immediately strong bond that hasn't really been earned. Which is a shame, because in my opinion one of the best ways to strengthen that bond is to have the characters disagree and argue. Maybe they realize they're only being superficially held together and so they temporarily split up, only to then realize how much they've come to care for the others in the group. Then they reunite, make-up, formulate a plan to go forward, and boom, the group bond is that much stronger. Or maybe they don't even split up, and maybe they never learn to like each other, but they decide whatever cause their working toward is more important. Something else, bigger than them, is holding them together.

It just feels like a lot of potential is going to waste to just skip straight to the intense found family bond, without earning it.

#there are exceptions of course #like I thought it was clever how bg3 did it where the group didn't necessarily intend to be traveling together this long #and then once they learned about the tadpoles and the artifact it turns out it's either stay together or die #but a disagreement between them every once and a while instead of assuming they're all insta-besties couldn't hurt #and DA2 kinda circumvents this by Hawke not really going anywhere #so if Fenris isn't having a good time with Anders he can just like stay home and vice versa #but games like Octopath Traveler 2 would really benefit from some stronger disagreements #like my first playthrough Castti's ch. 4 and Osvald's ch. 5 lined up right next to each other #and like vague ot2 spoilers #but what I would give to see them hash it out #over whether to save thousands of people Castti doesn't know potentially at the cost of saving one person Osvald cares a great deal for #or vice versa #especially with how hardened Osvald's become it would have been soooo juicy #i get that would've been difficult to implement and that's probably more the job of fanfic #but that's just an example of what I mean #idk I just think more creators shouldn't be afraid to have their characters seriously argue with each other #because not every disagreement is a dealbreaker and can in fact strengthen their bonds #and like not every game cast needs to be found family! but if you want that found family effect you have to show them arguing like a family #poe1 is a good example of a group that travel together and don't necessarily have this tight bond #they just feel like good friends (mostly) #i had other examples that I can't think of now and may add later #I feel like I was going somewhere with this but yeah it's just something I've been thinking about #let characters fight sometimes. conflict is what makes stories good #edit: FE: 3 Houses was the other example I was thinking of! #like things get pretty dire in the Blue Lions route and Dimitri has some pretty questionable moments #but with the exception of like Felix hardly anyone calls him out on it they just kind of go along with it #and lo and behold Felix is one of my favorite 3H characters and his friendship with Dimitri is extremely compelling #bc their friendship was tested and survived #marie speaks

[imthejudge]

Asha Hawke | Barbarian

#yes I remade my hawke from da2 for this game #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #baldurs gate tav #baldur's gate oc #her playthrough is going to be dark urge cause I didn’t do that for my first playthrough :)))) #Asha #Asha Hawke

[libartz]

I know someone’s 100% made this already but I just finished Trespasser recently after having played the other two games.

Look how they massacred my bann! What the hell is he wearing? What is that hat? Why is he such a dick for no reason? I’m not even mad he wants to disband the inquisition I’m mad he’s a dick about it

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #dao #da2 #dai #teagan guerrin #bann teagan #low effort meme #the playorder was a weird experience #it went DAI -> origins and awakening -> 2/3 of 2 -> The other DLCs including Trespasser #from 'oh yeah guess that's the king. I know I'm playing as one apparently but what's a dalish' #to AHHH ALISTAIR WROTE TO HIM THAT'S SO CUTE!!!! #‘oooh actually given I’m an elf this romance has some major compatibility issues’ #and 'screw the chantry we're ONLY STAYING because Divine Leli is SUCH A QUEEN' #in one playthrough