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peopleofthedas2011-03-19 08:07 pm
twist_shimmy) wrote in peopleofthedas2011-03-19 08:07 pm
My Hawke is no longer a nice girl.
Last night I got to watch my Hawke snap, and the story itself is WTF-worthy enough to share with you all. Once you're done reading mine, share your current LI disasters and we can have a nice discussion about the romance mechanics in DA2.
This is Alyse Hawke. She's a rogue, and she's outside of a cut because Hawkes aren't spoilery. All other images below the cut have LI spoilers through Act 2, though.
Alyse's major goal in life is to rebuild a home for her family. So far she's pretty pleased with her progress, even though her brother's dead and her sister is in the Circle. Her pastimes include worshiping Aveline and teaching Fenris to read. She's nice, and polite, and helpful. So helpful, in fact, that she refuses to give Merrill the knife once Keeper Marethari asks her to, and goes from almost best friends forever to pure rivalry in one fell swoop.
Mean words are exchanged. Merrill screams at her to leave and never set foot in her house again, and Hawke obeys, wondering sadly where it all went wrong.
Next she does Fenris' personal quest.
She gives the elf girl a job and then lets him kill Hadriana. He yells at her for caring, comes back later and apologizes, one thing leads to another and soon she's at his house, he's drunk, and she's offering to fuck him. She's only been waiting for three years, after all. "No, not tonight," he says, but that has promise, so she lets it go and continues on her merry, helpful way.
Immediately after that, it's Time To Help Anders, and Maker knows he needs all the help he can get. She stops him from nearly killing a mage, he freaks out, she calms him down, and gets caught up in the heat of the moment and asks her to kiss him. (Note: I was wearing headphones. THAT WAS AN EXPERIENCE ANDERS, THANK YOU.)
Next thing she knows he's telling her he's coming to her house 'tonight.' Well, Fenris had turned her down, and Anders was a man who clearly needed to get laid, so she decides she's okay with this.
Well, she heads for home, and finds Fenris waiting.
One thing leads to another, walls get abused, and she wakes up feeling happier than she has in years....
He walks out.
Cue my Hawke's heart breaking. They go off to find the lost qunari patrol and during the fight with the fanatics, everything is going wrong: Anders won't heal Fenris, Fenris won't protect Hawke, and Isabela keeps dying. (I swear. Anders would not heal him.) It was awkward, and Hawke goes home depressed to nurse her wounds.
Anders shows up. Hawke does NOT appreciate his timing, and tells him to wait until the voices in his head can agree before trying to start anything. He snarls something about Fenris and stalks off.
At this point Hawke is emotionally exhausted and decides to go to to the Hanged Man, where Isabela teases her about Fenris. That... doesn't help. She goes back home becausethe quest log tells her to and all of the sudden MERRILL is there, baring her soul about how amazing Hawke is.
Hawke says the nice thing instead of the mean thing, and suddenly they're kissing, and then my Hawke is dragging her into the bedroom and I am screaming at my monitor no stop stop this is bad. Afterward, Merrill goes "OMG I LOVE YOU," and Hawke's choices are break her heart or let her move in.
Hawke dumped her.
The very next thing that happens? Mama Hawke gets some white lilies and disappears. We haven't resolved that quest yet, but signs indicate that Hawke won't be having her happy family for much longer.
This is how my Hawke tends to look now.
::EDIT::visser just bought me a paid account, so now I am going on an editing spree because WHEE ICONS. :3
Alyse's major goal in life is to rebuild a home for her family. So far she's pretty pleased with her progress, even though her brother's dead and her sister is in the Circle. Her pastimes include worshiping Aveline and teaching Fenris to read. She's nice, and polite, and helpful. So helpful, in fact, that she refuses to give Merrill the knife once Keeper Marethari asks her to, and goes from almost best friends forever to pure rivalry in one fell swoop.
Mean words are exchanged. Merrill screams at her to leave and never set foot in her house again, and Hawke obeys, wondering sadly where it all went wrong.
Next she does Fenris' personal quest.
She gives the elf girl a job and then lets him kill Hadriana. He yells at her for caring, comes back later and apologizes, one thing leads to another and soon she's at his house, he's drunk, and she's offering to fuck him. She's only been waiting for three years, after all. "No, not tonight," he says, but that has promise, so she lets it go and continues on her merry, helpful way.
Immediately after that, it's Time To Help Anders, and Maker knows he needs all the help he can get. She stops him from nearly killing a mage, he freaks out, she calms him down, and gets caught up in the heat of the moment and asks her to kiss him. (Note: I was wearing headphones. THAT WAS AN EXPERIENCE ANDERS, THANK YOU.)
Next thing she knows he's telling her he's coming to her house 'tonight.' Well, Fenris had turned her down, and Anders was a man who clearly needed to get laid, so she decides she's okay with this.
Well, she heads for home, and finds Fenris waiting.
One thing leads to another, walls get abused, and she wakes up feeling happier than she has in years....
He walks out.
Cue my Hawke's heart breaking. They go off to find the lost qunari patrol and during the fight with the fanatics, everything is going wrong: Anders won't heal Fenris, Fenris won't protect Hawke, and Isabela keeps dying. (I swear. Anders would not heal him.) It was awkward, and Hawke goes home depressed to nurse her wounds.
Anders shows up. Hawke does NOT appreciate his timing, and tells him to wait until the voices in his head can agree before trying to start anything. He snarls something about Fenris and stalks off.
At this point Hawke is emotionally exhausted and decides to go to to the Hanged Man, where Isabela teases her about Fenris. That... doesn't help. She goes back home because
Hawke says the nice thing instead of the mean thing, and suddenly they're kissing, and then my Hawke is dragging her into the bedroom and I am screaming at my monitor no stop stop this is bad. Afterward, Merrill goes "OMG I LOVE YOU," and Hawke's choices are break her heart or let her move in.
Hawke dumped her.
The very next thing that happens? Mama Hawke gets some white lilies and disappears. We haven't resolved that quest yet, but signs indicate that Hawke won't be having her happy family for much longer.
This is how my Hawke tends to look now.
::EDIT::
visser just bought me a paid account, so now I am going on an editing spree because WHEE ICONS. :3