DRAGON 4GE - DAY 2 : HAWKE
(I’m kinda using the fanart prompts as a base here, but doing my own thing with it, writing something out for my dragon age ocs and celebrating the month and game my way. ♡)
May I present you my dear Hawke and, with her, and the bunch of misfits she reunited under the banner of “the more, the merrier” while not really thinking it through as much as she should have, probably.
Claire Hawke, -full name “Clarisse Penelope Hawke”-, older child of the Hawke household, was still striving for a decent life in Kirkwall, especially since she had abandoned the illusion of earning her brother and mother’s appreciation back without some money in her pockets. Feeling unadmittedly guilty of both being an apostate -in Kirkwall- and of her sister’s death, it took very little for her playful, positive and uncaring appearance to harden in a even more impenetrable mask of flair, theatrics, sarcasm and extroversion. If she couldn’t have her family’s love, she was simply going to look for it somewhere else. Claire’s desire to be liked and admired shone through her new acquaintances, from the skeevy friends Varric introduced her in the Hanged Man, to fellow trusted apostates, to strange old witches, to even the templars in Gallows. She was funny, beautiful, brave and unbeatable, and she had no idea what was coming to her.
Born in Antiva to poor merchants, Nicholas goes through a rough childhood, if happy nonetheless despite the hardships. He is raised to work alongside his parents daily, and, when one day the sickness takes them to a better place, the boy learns to live with that.
He finds his way here and there, traveling on ships as a cabin boy or cleaning fishes along the decks. He acquires a keen eye, quick hands and a love for the sea, and, years later, he is a mercenary at the Red Iron Band, and Claire Hawke owns him a favor.
Firstborn of the respected and noble household of the Bourgeois, Ariel was very early trained in the arts of the “Chevalerie”, a banner of adroit battling, charm and nobility. Until her parents decided her younger brother a better fit for the title, and so she was send to the Templar order, to give up her rights to the inheritance. To send her oversea was just further assurance that she wouldn’t interfere, but Ariel had given up quickly the pretense, and had started trying to earn her future into a life of devotion and duty. That is until she truly realized what disaster was awaiting for her in Kirkwall.
After growing up in the Kinloch Hold Circle and somehow “accidentally” making a bad reputation of himself because of a general disregard for the rules, -in addition to frequently having his way with templars thanks to a number of favors-, Conte was finally sent to the Kirkwall Circle following the dark events of the Tower during the Fifth Blight, suspected of being unstable despite already having passed his Harrowing years prior.
His life there quickly turns hellish, and once the news reaches him that a certain Hawke is reclaiming the Amell name in town, well, is seems like a chance like any to escape from the dirty claws of Meredith’s abuses.
The mischievous dwarf had always found her way in the wicked mercantile underground of the Carta. Sophisticated but with a businessman flair and enough charisma to fool a Qunari into nakedly playing the lute, the woman has founded years prior a singular branch inside the Carta, called “the Golden Hand”. Smuggling, loaning, but, most importantly, an agency running deep with “rumors” and secrets, all under the guise of “advice” that the Lady would offer alongside her tarot reading. That is if one could make her hand heavy enough with riches. Business, she would call it, and business it is. What better for it to flourish than to feed it some new blood. The Tethras brothers have a new partner, and she is apparently quite the type.
