#it will be just as effective as Hawke is

[championsandheroes]

Oh, Hawke, one day you'll succeed in defeating a big bad villain for good. ("But wait," you say, "What about the Arishok? He died, surely?" Lies and slander. One day Hawke will succeed…)

We are eagerly awaiting the dignified return of the Arishok over at Patreon and society6. He'll be back any day now.

#champions and heroes #Dragon Age 2 #Hawke #Corypheus #Meredith Stannard #no Sten being the new Arishok doesn't count #I want THAT one #the one who used Hawke as a stress toy #don't try to give me a new one and just name him the same thing #it won't work Bioware #it will be just as effective as Hawke is #that is to say it would be a lot of energy wasted for disappointing results

[flashhwing]

Warden: fuck I gotta save Ferelden

Inquisitor: fuck I gotta save the whole damn world

Hawke: fuck I gotta beat up some thugs so I can afford to pay my bar tab

#downplaying hawke’s struggles for effect #he’s gotta save the. city #just one city #dragon age #this has been a post #hawke

[silvers-starrway]

Got possessed, woke up to this. Sonjet enjoyers come get your food!!

Alternate versions and some sketches under the cut!

I didn't feel like making these sketches a separate post so here you go.

#starrway art #sonic the hedgehog #jet the hawk #sonic riders #sth #sonic #sonic fanart #sth fanart #sonjet #I don't even really ship them I just got brain blasted with this drawing and had to put it onto a canvas #Slowly learning how to make colors look cool in the initial coloring phase #so as to not have 100 effect layers #image id in alt

[hawkssucks]

what

#so like this was a wip but im abandoning it #epext more body-horrory vestige hawks some day #really i was just messing around #keigo takami #mha hawks #hawks #fanart #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha 408 #bnha 408 #vestige hawks #I got to the . smokey body effect and was like maybe later #so i just had to push thru bc otherwise id never post it #stale art

[redlyriumidol]

honestly this is kind of lame of us but I regrettably do enjoy how so many people looked at the default hawke designs and decided they were such a slay that we just kept them. like we're sooo picky about character creators 99% of the time but we saw HER

and were like that's such a vibe and better than anything I can do. I mean I think this is largely the fault of the da2 character creator (especially bc this hair is better than anything available) and I legitimately feel bad/mad respect for people who play custom hawkes, they are more original and creative than us in every way. but I can't deny that I absolutely love this strange edgelord goth bird woman and my da2 runs consist of trying to get the 'truest' version of a character that I feel i am interpreting rather than creating

#da2 character creator i dont even know her #also probably the fault of the intro forcing u to play as her. #but she just looks so cool. #ive been playing da2 and my dad or brother has walked past and said 'wow she looks so cool' #marian hawke #also i'm def not saying my interpretation is the only correct one thats just it. its my interpretation #i literally always play the EXACT same hawke and i'm physically incapable of diverging in any way #weirdly this does not happen to me in mass effect but i dont rly like the default femshep #and mshep is fake to me #dragon age

[siflshonen]

Sometimes I think about Hawks’ idolization and, in a literal toy-specific sense, objectification of Endeavor, and then I think about how it dovetails into his father/family issues and how he must see the rest of the Todoroki family, especially Shoto and Dabi, and it makes me die a little inside

And then I think about how Izuku did this with All Might, and then threaded the needle to do this with Katsuki “the one who was actually in my life” Bakugo, who meanwhile destroyed and suppressed himself because he kinda did the same thing except with the All Might Card and then Izuku, and then then got out of that mentality and then got kinda shoved back into it in the moment his heart blew up, and it makes me froth at the mouth a little like a pathetic, burbling crab full of rage and grief

#compare contrast with Ochako and the AM keychain if you want #or Spinner and his Stain fixation #or like. pick your poison. #it’s just from where I am sitting this is the most direct correlation of this effect #hawks #takami keigo #endeavor #Enji todoroki #Bakugo katsuki #Izuku Midoriya #toshinori Yagi #BNHA meta #bnha manga spoilers

[pinkcloudswhitesunshine]

Why the Hero of Ferelden’s voice and appearance don’t matter, aka: i think it’s possible to put the Warden in Dreadwolf

Original Post by @/felassan

In DA:O, we know that the protag doesn’t have a proper voice, but we can hear the chosen voice during combat. We hear the voice so little, that it almost ceases to be a part of the character. Personally, I have no connection to the voice of the character, and I get the sense that a lot of the player base feels similarly.

Besides this, the events of origins take place almost a decade before Inquisition to my knowledge. Based on my play through as a Surana, I’m assuming that she is in her late teens/early twenties because she is an apprentice. I can assume that the different origins are all around that age too. By that logic, they would be at least 28-30 during Inquisition. Their voice would probably change and mature during that time. So I say, it doesn’t matter anyway.

As for the ‘surprise’ aspect, the character customisation prompt is a surprise in itself. I went into Inquisition almost totally blind and I was so excited when the hawke customisation option came up.

The physical appearance one doesn’t make much sense though. DA2 and DA:O aren’t so far from each other for character creation. Inquisition is obviously leagues ahead of both of them. My Hawke in DAI doesn’t look exactly like my original hawke and I didn’t expect her to. Why can’t we get the same for the warden?

#i just want to make her look realistic #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #da4 #dai #hawke da2 #warden dao #grey warden #hero of ferelden #hero of ferelden defence force in full effect

[vigilskeep]

Listen...! Keir IS cute. Just not... traditionally so. Also, what's a cuter date than the tank rendering the enemies targeting the healer to shreds?

yeah he’s the cutest 🥰🥰

#keir hawke #meanwhile anders in the background: love <3 sweetheart <3 the only light in kirkwall <3 #i had to include the toes one for the full effect but boy whyd you say that. #long post #i needed to collect all of these tbh #sometimes i think i am inventing the way he talks but then i look at these and remember no hes just like that

[shivunin]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @greypetrel and @palipunk (on the other blog); thank you both!

*Gonna say in advance that I am still getting straight who all writes fic and/or does art, especially if I follow both of your personal and fan blogs, so if I sometimes tag you and sometimes don't just lmk if you do/don't want to be in on these things and I will do my best to oblige! I know people are busy/life is a pain in the ass lately and I don't want anyone to feel pressured or stressed or left out over it

I've been working on my Morrigan scarf, pictured below (hand for scale) and am getting close to finishing the main body of it. I'm really excited for some of the finishing touches, which will hopefully include fringe-like elements along the bottom edge. If they work out right, they'll look similar to feathers (fingers crossed), but if not they'll be irregularly-sized pieces that more closely resemble her skirt. We'll see c:

And here's a bit of writing from an unfinished chapter of Book of Memories; I've been fiddling with the beginning on and off for months, but I would really like to post it sometime in the next few weeks. (CW for fantasy racism and blood/injury):

He could have sworn he'd only taken his eyes off the children for a moment—hardly any time at all for them to get into any trouble—but just then, Leander ran up, his fine tunic torn at one shoulder, his cheek bloodied, and he was panting. 

“What’s happened?” Fenris asked, his body shifting slightly in a way that Cullen immediately recognized. 

Neither of them were sufficiently armed, but Cullen reached for the support of a sword hilt anyway, his hand falling to his belt knife instead. Fenris crouched, bringing his face level with the boy’s, and Leander pointed toward a crowd forming near the small side garden. 

“Adhlea,” he panted, and that was enough—Cullen was already running. He didn’t bother to make sure the Hawkes were following. His daughter needed him, was in danger perhaps—nothing could slow him now. 

Adhlea was, in fact, in the center of the crowd. He could hear her piping voice even before he managed to shove through the crowd of bodies. 

“You take it back, you—you Blight of a boy!” she was yelling, accompanied by a yelp that was not hers. “Or say that to my face, coward!” 

Cullen went on elbowing his way through the huddle of people, his mind racing: Why hadn’t someone pulled her away from whatever was happening? What could possibly have made her this angry? The undercurrent of this all, the fear that made the rest of it unbearable, was this: 

She is a new mage. If she hurts someone with magic in front of all these people, what can I do to keep her safe?

“Mongrel,” a garbled voice said. “You and that other—oomph!” 

There was a dull sound, flesh striking flesh, and Cullen made his way to the front at last. There was a reason nobody had interrupted her: somehow, Adhlea had called up a barrier, and the bubble of it stood between them and the observers. She seemed well enough—though blood was dripping from her chin—and the boy she was pummeling seemed to be in one piece, for all that she had him pinned. 

Maker preserve him. Maker preserve them all. 

“Adhlea Rose,” Cullen bellowed, and more than one of the surrounding observers took a step back. “You stop that this instant.” 

His daughter didn’t seem to hear him at all; she raised a bloody fist and aimed for the boy’s cheek. Fenris was faster; in a moment, he’d reached through the barrier with one hand, the tattoos that marked the backs of his hands and arms lighting up all at once. He pulled her, squirming, from the barrier by the back of her nice Chantry dress. 

Some other time, Cullen might have found this funny; she looked rather like a kitten picked up by a rather annoyed cat. In the moment, he only felt fear. 

“Adhlea,” he said sharply, and she stopped fighting. The barrier had popped soundlessly as soon as she’d left it. The boy was summarily scooped up by an older woman—presumably a caretaker—and tugged back from their little quartet. 

“What happened?” Cullen demanded, crouching to examine her carefully. 

One of her teeth had been knocked loose, leaving an empty space on the upper row of her mouth. Her hands were both bloody about the knuckles, and her lip was already swelling. The redness around her eye would almost certainly be a black eye soon enough, and if the laundress could get the blood out of the gown it would be a miracle. 

“He said I was trash,” Leander said unexpectedly, though his green eyes were fixed on Adhlea, “I thought it was stupid. I can’t be trash, because trash is a thing and I’m not a thing. But he said he could prove it and—”

“He was going to shove Leander into the trash can!” Adhlea said, shaking with indignation, tears spilling from her injured eye, “I couldn’t let him—it’s not fair! We didn’t do anything to him!”

Tagging: @ndostairlyrium @daggerbean @layalu (unless you prefer the other blog?) @idolsgf @brother-genitivi

#wip wednesday #shivunin scrivening #adhlea lavellan #leander hawke #scarf projects #this is the story of how they became besties for life #(also. cullen's kid absolutely would learn magic and use it to more effectively punch the shit out of someone #instead of like. actually *using* magic) #(though she does eventually learn that too...so she can be an arcane warrior lol) #(also also if you meant to tag the other blog all i got that's not dragon age is some meandering ME fic unfortunately! #but i can do that too haha. just want to keep all the da stuff together)

[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

[raywritesthings]

Even in as early an episode as “The Bus” for him, it’s really obvious how little tolerance Potter has for Frank. Whereas B.J. keeps making these attempts at peace-keeping or finding middle ground, Potter is shooting them down almost as often as Hawkeye is, and he’s the one who’s known Frank for the least amount of time.

I think the combination of Margaret wising up regarding the affair, the disappearance of the generals she was so fond of calling in order to go over Henry’s head to get what she and Frank wanted, and Potter’s absolute no-nonsense attitude in contrast to Henry’s trying-to-please-everybody approach all inevitably led to Frank having nowhere left to grow, as Linville basically put it. He’s still a great character, still incredibly funny, but he’s lost whatever little bite he may have had now that Potter just has to snap at him to get him to stop. Which is emblematic of the shift from the early seasons’ argument of “the army is an incompetent but evil machine that can be dangerously effective at achieving both ends” to the later seasons’ workplace sitcom where the army-aligned characters can be either good or bad, and the “good” ones like Potter will always win out against Frank.

It’s hard to picture an AU where they get along better, because it would take reframing the show and the Potter character in general (or rather, continuing the framing of the army and anyone Regular Army like Potter as a villain), so I find myself wondering instead what might have happened had Frank had a longer turn at command of the 4077th before Potter took over. If that might have made him more combative over being replaced, if he might have found and cultivated an ally or two among the ranks of the enlisted men… I don’t know that it would have prevented Linville from still leaving when he did, but it might have given him something a little different to play while he was still there.

#frank burns #colonel potter #m*a*s*h #the bus #read a post by someone not too long ago #that this episode is a tug of war between hawk and frank for beej #so i watched it with that in mind and definitely can see that reading #but i was even more struck by just how Done potter already is with frank #and he’s known him for all of two full episodes up to this point #bj: hey guys we’re all friends here :)) #potter: if this buffoon of a major opens his mouth one more time it’s on sight #he calls frank a creep! #and listen hating frank is probably one of potter’s best selling points #but it does make frank a far less effective antagonist just as he’s also starting to lose his co-antagonist margaret #i don’t know that i really have a Point here it’s just interesting to think about #emerson rants

[danielnelsen]

i forget it’s not canon that hawke’s just roaming around skyhold with his definitely-not-shapeshifted-husband cat, it’s just how things are

#or like. the western approach. just carrying him around in his coat like anders did with pounce #he’s an orange cat (of course) and hawke calls him blondie when people ask #dragon age inquisition #dragon age #hawke #anders #handers #da #dai #can’t imagine anders NOT being a shapeshifter #that’s kinda the thing with origins mage specs tho..they all feel like they need a good reason for someone to take them #spirit healer’s kinda the default ‘normal’ one (and i guess battlemage) but the others all need a backstory #like i’m my canon wynne doesn’t have a second spec because none of them really speak to me #also awakening is weird because unless you’re playing a mage warden……..how tf do they actually learn any of the specs???? #especially shapeshifter and arcane warrior. you’re not learning those from a manual or literally ANY awakening npc #like i personally feel like nobody other than the origins warden should even be able to learn arcane warrior #(lore-wise that is. i just feel like that knowledge can’t be imparted that effectively) #but yeah for shapeshifter: ASSUMING THE WARDEN LEARNS IT you can’t convince me that anders wouldn’t be ALL OVER THAT #personal

[arabian-batboy]

Binge watching a long show before stepping foot in the fandom is such an experience, because when you finally finish it and decide to check the fandom you can’t help but get a whiplash and go:

“Why does everyone hate her?? What did she do??”

“Ya’ll like him?! HIM of all people?!”

“Hold on, why is this ship popular?? Did they even talk to each other for more than 5 minutes??”

#watching one ep a week for years might effect your watching experience compared to watching 4 seasons in one week #but goddamn #did I miss something? #why are you shipping Dabi and Hawks? I have nothing against but I'm just surprised

[cringefailnatsuo]

sometimes i think about the fact that hawks' cover for getting into the league was "the world i once admired and dreamed of joining turned out to be a birdcage locking me up" and that dabi found out about hawks' past but still thought he was a traitor. and then i think about how the indirect fallout of dabi revealing hawks' identity is the hpsc temporarily shutting down and hawks saying that "i'm free of my shackles". and then i wish i couldn't think at all :)

#bnha #dabihawks #dabi #hawks #even if redestro didn't demolish the hpsc building i still think dabi revealing hawks' identity would have had the same effect #i don't think that the hpsc would be able to maintain their strict control over hawks if the entirety of japan already knows about his past #what is the hpsc gonna do? threaten him with a pay cut? stop financially supporting his mom? #yeah that's what i thought #also there's something to be said about the fact that dabi still thinks hawks is a hero through and through even after talking with his mom #what did hawks do for dabi to even think like that?? #every hero goes out of their way to save civilians so what was dabi basing his assumption off of? #man i wish i could just shut off my brain wtf

[orc-apologist]

something that i feel isn't talked about enough when it comes to dragon age is just how well they do the "just some person" trope. all three are special only through circumstance.

the warden can have a more "special" background, like a dwarven prince(ss) or a human noble, but they can also just be some mage fresh out of the harrowing or an impoverished elf. there's nothing inherently special about them. no great prophecy, no inherently superhuman capabilities. the only thing that makes them special is that they happened to have been recruited and happened to be the one recruit to survive the joining. well, what really makes them special is that they were randomly placed in a position to change the world and they took it, for better or worse.

hawke is literally just a refugee at the start of the game. the only thing that makes them special in any way is the fact that they are related to a noble family, but that noble family was only ever minor and had long since fallen from grace. at their core, hawke is just someone who was using their abilities to survive and somehow made their way to become the hero of a city. hawke is an incredible person, but only because they chose to be one.

then the inquisitor takes all of this to the next level, because it makes you believe that you are special. you're the fucking herald of andraste, the maker's chosen to beat back the demonic tide that is sweeping thedas. except you're not. they tell you that, again, you were just some person at the conclave, who happened to be in the right place in the right time. but the inquisitor doesn't care. they can choose to believe that they were chosen regardless, or they can resolve to think it just doesn't matter. what matters is that they can help and thus they should.

i just think it's really refreshing that dragon age has never gone the route of "oh this person is totally normal ... except they're actually the most important and powerful person in the world, according to this prophecy". they stick to the formula of "some person saves the world" and i like that.

#mass effect does this to a lesser degree as well since there's nothing inherently super special about shepard #except inherent military talent #and then ryder is just a nepotism baby controlled by AI lmao #dragon age #the warden #hawke #the inquisitor

[veinereastath]

Eᴛʜᴀɴ Hᴀᴡᴋᴇ ᴀs Aʀᴛʜᴜʀ Hᴀʀʀᴏᴡ ɪɴ Mᴏᴏɴ Kɴɪɢʜᴛ [26/?]

#playing with coloring oh yes #he's so absolutely adorable in this I'm not sorry #but it makes me wonder #if he truly was just wearing off post-sedative effects #was this Ammit's influence #or was he just pretending to be a weirdo #maybe all three to some extent #still #I adore his look when he realizes something is wrong #my poor boy #arthur harrow #ethan hawke #moon knight #mcu #marvel #my gifs