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Recent college graduate (in anthropology) writer, weaver, baker, Dragon Age fan, Dishonored lover, video game nerd. There's fic over at Ao3 under the same name. I live in Portland with my awesome boyfriend.

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— The anonymous author of Lady Pokingham; or They All Do It: Giving an Account of her Luxurious Adventures, both before and after her Marriage with Lord Crim-Con, as published in the first issue of The Pearl in 1879.

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21st November 2011

Post reblogged from NIGHT OF THE WITCH with 103 notes

this is a bethany love post

tuchanka:

spicyshimmy just posted a fantastic post about carver, and i have been meaning to say some things about bethany but kept…forgetting… she just reminded me that i wanted to do this! it is really difficult for me, okay, because i love both of the hawke siblings so much.  i personally have a ridiculously hard time playing a mage because standing back and blowing things up has never been my preferred playing style, so more often than not, bethany is my survivor, and it breaks my little black heart because i absolutely adore carver too.  they are both wonderful characters in their own right.

but it really bums me out when people say bethany is a boring character!  because honestly, she is one of my favorites.

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This. This this this forever. It bums me out when people say she’s boring, or weak - because really, she’s neither. You can be gentle with a spine of steel. (And honestly, she can snark pretty darn well - I wouldn’t say she’s all nice.)

I think my absolute favorite part of her, though, is something I only noticed on my third playthrough as a non-mage - Act 1 is Bethany, 19 years old, trying to find an identity for herself, just as much as Carver tries to. She’s a little quieter about it, but she’s asking questions of meaning to all the companions, trying to figure out where she stands, what her opinions are. And she comes out not a carbon copy of anybody, not imitating or trying to imitate anybody. She ends up her own woman.

Her banter in Legacy really, really made me love her even more. She’s snarky about the templars, and it’s clear that she runs circles around them. They tried to push her down, tried to Harrow her in an attempt to get her out of the picture, but she showed them all. She took what her father taught her, and transformed it into her own tennets.

And at the end, when she faces down the conflict between her faith and what the institution based on that faith, she’s strong enough to step away what she’s felt she’s betrayed for most of her life and reinterpret, to not say my faith is wrong, but to say the way it is practiced is wrong.

(And as a side note? Sister Leliana, with all her stories back in Lothering, would be so incredibly proud.)

Tagged: dragon age 2bethany hawke

  1. lifeofkj reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    Wonderful!
  2. historymiss reblogged this from rhiannon42 and added:
    Reblogging for Bethany week. She is my favourite of the Hawke siblings (sorry Carver! I have an irl little brother and...
  3. rhiannon42 reblogged this from serindrana
  4. minorearth reblogged this from serindrana and added:
    I’m just gonna reblog all the posts about how awesome Bethany is this week.
  5. serindrana reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    This. This this this forever. It bums me out when people say she’s boring, or weak - because really, she’s neither. You...
  6. thewaroffivequeens reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    Bethany is the best and anyone who disagrees can just go away.
  7. coo-beastie reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    Reblogged because I love Bethany :D
  8. dragonagefanweek reblogged this from beermuda
  9. fuckyeahbethanyhawke reblogged this from beermuda
  10. combefierce reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    because i love bethany and i wish fandom loved her as much as carver.
  11. meishuu reblogged this from b-mommy and added:
    Broodmother speaks the truth.
  12. ilikelookingatnakedmen reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    actually quite sassy, with...I think she could...game needs...
  13. katiebour reblogged this from annavainen
  14. unfamiliargroundsquirrel reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    #DRAGON AGE FEELINGS BLOG #I TALK TOO MUCH. Hee! XD On the contrary! I love this post and agree wholeheartedly. Well...
  15. iapetusneume reblogged this from beermuda
  16. brienneofblue reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    Bethie. She’s such...lovable character and almost certainly
  17. defira85 reblogged this from beermuda
  18. queerspeculativefiction reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    I agree completely,...Bethany I am writing in my fics.
  19. barbeauxbot reblogged this from hemisphere and added:
    My favorite thing about...is that she is genuinely nice to you. There are precious few...
  20. renaissancedweeb reblogged this from fuckyeahaveline
  21. khamsin reblogged this from hemisphere and added:
    Nope, me either. I certainly don’t have any feelings about this. -__-
  22. hemisphere reblogged this from beermuda and added:
    Yeah, I’m not partial towards Bethany at all. Not. At. All. >_>;