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Weekend vibes✨

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“Loving another is not soft, wizard. It is one of the hardest things a person can do.”

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Amidst the chaos

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In time, all becomes one

In the lyrium forest,

Where mushrooms bloom

Our silent pleas

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In peace, vigilance

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✨Rivani✨

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Thanks for the suggestion! It was nice trying to figure out how exactly I would see him!

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I think it’s a mix of me sounding like a broken record and the way I play my game, but I really do feel like Fenris is awfully reasonable towards the mages and gives mage Hawke a lot of goodwill by not killing them or shutting them down outright. Because what are we to him if not a slightly more able albeit even more dangerous hired sword? If he was as bitter and angry and broody as is the belief, he could’ve left on his own long ago. He has the freedom and the means to not stick to Hawke but instead he chose to stay and even offered his services and stuck with this band of miscreants under the guise of repaying them. He also immediately apologized for showing his displeasure with mages in front of Hawke but his gratitude is still genuine. I really respect the way he is conducting himself and not indiscriminately piles up all “mages” on the same pyre.

[theoelven]

YES!!

One of the popular misreadings I dislike most regarding Fenris. He's not some completely unreasonable asshole about them (unless it's about Merrill sometimes, I have to be fr there 😭 but her being a blood mage still partialy makes me understand his spikiness).

One other would be that he's this emotionally unintelligent, constantly angry guy that shifts blame on Hawke or others for the way that he's feeling and what's happening to him. Ugh.

Admittedly, I think he can lean on that a lot when in rivalry, but only because Hawke on that path can have many responses that are putting a lot of blame on him too.

He's SO introspective, actually. And apologetic and fairly quick to accept that he may not be right about some stuff. Including mages. He doesn't really pretend he has ALL the answers. He'll tell you when he sees he's been wrong about something

Also if your Hawke is a mage (quite popular ig) you'll never see it in the same run, but he really likes Bethany. Clearly in a way that favours her over Carver (sorry Carver 😭).

The third misreading would be that he has no sense of humour. Doesn't laugh. Doesn't understand any kind of joke. To that I say - HUH?? False. Just... false. Please bring this man out with your other companions more often, people. 🤣

[luchael]

Introspective! That’s the word I was missing! thank you! He’s fantastic and just so real! Also Merrill might get brutalized by him but her comments towards him are quite insensitive as well for a supposedly well - read and knowledgeable First to her clan’s keeper. She may act a bit too naive sometimes to the point of coming off as showing offhanded superiority. Maybe he’s a bit much towards her but how far should he allow his boundaries to be at? Maybe he sees in her too much of what he’s never had the opportunity to have yet she threw it away (seemingly not worth it from pragmatic’s pov).

Also, not only is he accepting of the fact that he may be wrong about certain issues, he straight away tells us outright that he doesn’t know the answers and that Tevinter doesn’t hold answers either. He understands the complexity of the situation and sees the bigger picture!

[butter-and-too-much-bread]

Merrill is a Dalish elf who bargained with a pride demon to learn forbidden blood magic/and demonstrated a willingness to physically leave her family to use it. The fact that Fenris doesn't kill her at his first chance is possibly the most generous thing we ever see him do.

And I wouldn't really say he sees the bigger picture. He just knows he's not going to be the one to solve mage oppression from either end. He has his thoughts, and he has plenty of experience with one specific facet of it, but he knows he won't be making any changes.

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Oh to be a fly on her shoulder~

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