Anders - EXPLOSIVELY Hot!!!

Another adorable kitty. D:

Anders is best when he's with a cat (and male hawke)

I'm gonna have to spank you.

Haha yes, I think so! Kirkwall must love him!
(I don't think, that Hawke would follow Varric back to Kirkwall without him!)

I'm reposting something I wrote on bsn about Anders

While Anders is my canon DA2 romance, I keep going back and forth on whether my Hawke let him live at the end or not. BUT I love angst and tragedy so I have this scenario where even if Hawke didn't kill him, maybe Sebastian found him and arrowed him up. And I headcanon a scene in DAI where a figure appears in Skyhold looking for Hawke. It is cloaked and moves stiffly, almost inhuman motions. The crew gathers around to find out who it is, Varric whispers "No, it can't be, he's..."

Figure whips off the cloak. Matted blood cakes its hair, feathered robe mostly in tatters, murderknife or arrow sticking out of its back. Corpse like pallor imbued with cracks of blue energy.

"Where is the false champion of Kirkwall? Justice must be delivered upon his head!"

One of the reasons I love DA is that it often has happy outcomes and...realistic outcomes.

So I have two separate world states in my head: the best case scenario world state where Leliana is nice, Carver is going through lyrium withdrawal but managing with the help of Merrill, IB is in a healthy relationship with Dorian, the Inquisitor is able to go into a quiet life with Cullen (still helping hunt Solas but with happy moments along the way), and Hawke and Anders live happily ever after.

Then I have my more grimdark world state where Leliana is murderous, Vivienne is Divine and rules with an iron fist, Carver is dead or a Grey Warden doomed to a bad death, the Warden performed the ultimate sacrifice, all of the Awakening Wardens died during DAI, Hawke killed Anders to try to prevent Kirkwall from falling down around him.

Neither is more canon to me. They're parallel universe canon!

Well in this scenario Justice is using Anders' body as a bloody reminder of what happened at Kirkwall and also has learned enough about emotions from living with Anders to want to use guilt and fear as tactics. He also sees it as finally bringing justice to Anders' killers and thinks Anders would want to "be" there for it.


Another angst scenario: I envision the confrontation after the Chantry blows up less as a binary choice between Anders and Sebastian and more as two separate choices. My Hawke was never close to Sebastian, he was more of an acquaintance whom only Fenris could stand for long periods of time. So my Hawke was all too happy to tell Seb to go to hell and run with his tail between his legs back home. Then he had to deal with Anders' fate. So in the worst case scenario, he tells Sebastian to leave and then decides whether Anders should live and fight or die and become a martyr.


In my heart of hearts Hawke tells Seb to fuck off but spares Anders. But he can't look his lover in the eye for months, maybe longer, and jumps at the chance to investigate red lyrium with the Wardens. He will eventually get back together with Anders but it's never going to be the same as it was in Kirkwall. Perhaps Viscount Varric will tell Hawke about how the Avvar in Frostback Basin might know of how to separate Anders from Justice.

My Hawke is all about mage freedom but not at the expense of innocent, unrelated lives. Being caught in the crossfire is unfortunate, but being deliberately attacked as a message is not okay in his books. So for him, he is holding on to the memory of the man Anders was when they first met, passionate about people being free and happy more than focused on retribution or deciding to become judge and executioner. 


It's probably good if the DA series never revists Anders as there are too many variables in his story to do them justice (no pun). But it would be interesting to see Justice/Vengeance again in some form, in the Fade or possessing someone else/Anders' corpse. I think we should get more involved with spirits and their nature in DA4.

There wasn't a peaceful solution. I know, hard to defend such a cruel act, but a rebellion/war has innocent victims. In fact, almost every victims are innocent. And who is unrelated? The mothers/sisters and templars in the Chantry? The non-mage civilians? No one is unrelated, every family have a chance having mage chield(ren). What would have been the solution? Peaceful demonstration? But who would be the demonstration crowd? The Mages, this is clear, but where? In the Gallows, in the corridors? In such a world, nothing happens when someone does not force it. Someone need to start the change. If not, then nothing happens. The bloodless change is very rare. It's "easy to support freedom, until no one to died to achieve it".

I don't want to see Anders (nor Hawke), Justice/Vengeance would interesting, if the DA4's story would be decades later – but I admit, I'm afraid, my rainbow-sunshine world would be destroyed.
But Justice/Vengeance is a very interesting spirit I also loved him in DAA too. In DAA I felt sympathy for Anders (of course, with Circle Mage origin), but my real favorite was Justice. (Probably weird, but I found him very interesting.) When I heard, that they are merged, I was very happy with this decision, and I was not disappointed. I also like Cole, so I'm absolutely into for the idea to see more spirits.