Fic: What Really Happened

[hawkeward]

Title: What Really Happened
Author: hawkeward 
Fandom: Dragon Age 2
Pairing: M!Mage Hawke/Anders
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Spoilers (entire game)
Length: ~1500
Disclaimer: I own them not, I make no profit.
Summary: AU. Five things that never happened to Hawke and Anders.

Comments

[spicyshimmy]

you are rapidly becoming my very favorite hawke/anders writer i think. everything you do is fantastic; you always shed a different light on their relationship and i love the simplicity and style and elegance with which you write. please never stop.

[hawkeward]

Aw, thank you! I will try to keep the depressing AUs coming.

[middlemarching]

Ohhh, these were marvelous. The last one especially seemed so plausible; I can imagine that this would be the perfect catalyst for pushing Hawke into blood magic.

[hawkeward]

Thank you!

I actually kept a specialization point in reserve while I was playing, waiting for the right in-character moment for Hawke to turn to blood magic. Which then never came. So here it is.

[middlemarching]

As awesome as the blood mage specialization is, the fact that no one talks about it and no one reacts to it in game really ruins it for me. :T What's the point of playing a nefarious maleficar if no one is going to try to smite me?

that was rather OT, sorry!

[hawkeward]

Not at all! I love talking about this stuff.

That is kind of annoying. Meredith having to speak politely to a blood mage would have been massively entertaining.

I generally find trading HP for mana to be not a worthwhile exchange for my play style (particularly if I can't be healed while using it, holy poop I'd die so fast). So that's the other reason I never got around to assigning it.

[la_libertine]

Powerful, very powerful, especially that last one. Even in addressing the changes in the others you mention. 3 was chilling, I had goosebumps.

Thank you :3

[hawkeward]

No, no, Thank you! :D

I enjoyed writing 3 a lot.

[i_notaricon]

Viciously tantalizing. I'd dearly love to see any one of these expanded upon.

[hawkeward]

I admit, the one with Karl keeps expanding in my head. There may yet be more of it.

[i_notaricon]

That one was largest in my mind when I made that comment. Consider yourself creepily watched, stranger.

[hawkeward]

Then I suppose this would be the least awkward time for me to bring up that I've been creepily fangirling you in silence?

because daaaang, Plucking the Strings was fantastic i have no words

[cowards_kiss]

I absolutely adore that last one. Like, ridiculous amounts. The others are great, too, but that one was hands down my favorite.

[hawkeward]

Thank you!

I like the last one a lot, myself. It was kind of the main idea kernel for the whole thing.