Ask game! Okay, I'm curious about your Fenris songs, and your Isabela songs? Can be shippy with Hawke or just them on their own!
AH! Thank you! Two of my all-time faves. Sorry for how long as fuck this is. It was hard to choose.
I have a whole Fenris Playlist because I can't get over him. Here's a few key songs:
Rain in Soho by the Mountain Goats- This song just has SO MANY primo Fenris lines and it has this anguished chasing feeling all the way through that HITS. Every major fanfic I've written is titled after this song and I still have dozens of good lines left to steal. If I had less self control, I would just list five of six Mountain Goats songs here.
No One is Ever Going to Want Me by Giles Corey- It's about the viiiiibe. A depression anthem for the ages that builds to a very real anguished dispair. This song will tear out your heart and ruin your day.
Color in your cheeks by the Mountain Goats - Quintessential Fenris in the Fog Warriors song. I think a lot about this time in his life and the way he experienced community and healing for the first time with all these other desperate people. The lyrics hit perfect for me.
Mountain Man by Liz Cooper - My post-game happiness song for Fenris and Hawke. I feel like all Fenris wants is time. It's a song about growing old together, about being with the one person who you really want to be with. It's such a gentle, sweet song about being home with someone. I also think there's like this undercurrent of genuine attraction in the song that isn't often there when someone is singing about their love of a man. I just vibe with it for them.
Isabela also has a whole Playlist, lmao. I love her.
Bitch by Meredith Brooks- if you can't vibe to this song, we can't be friends I'm sorry. One of the few songs chosen less because I think it suits her and more because I think she would absolutely rock out to it.
Dixon's Girl by Dessa- A song about not really knowing how to support other women and rooting for them to get out of their shitty abusive relationships. I kinda see it as Isabela rooting for people like her but not really being ready to actually help, which is kind of an unfortunate reality her character struggles with. The line between protecting yourself and doing what's right.
Bad Reputation by Joan Jett- If it's wrong, I don't want to be right. She doesn't give a damn about her bad reputation. Nor should she.
Handle with Care by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins- Fenibela or Hawkebella ship song. A song about how every shitty thing possible has happened to her and now she needs patience and gentleness to be able to fall for someone again. It's also a little about being open to love again. It's nice.
