#gamlen

[loopofrosewood]

so did gamlen know one of the hawke siblings was a mage when he told athenril/meeran or did he just guess..?

[joestardragona]

dragon age 2 characters as cursed toilets

hawke (and varric)

fenris

anders

isabela

merrill

aveline

gamlen

[storybookhawke]

The way that Gamlen is just immediately found in the Blooming Rose the minute you're let loose in Kirkwall is just so funny to me.

[wouldtheyfuck]

Would they fuck?

Yes

Maybe

No

Voting ended onJul 11, 2024

[flowersonpebbles]

Week 1: Origins 5. Home – Emikka Hawke Dallas Surana

@elfroot-and-laurels

TW: angsty angst for the most part, canon trauma of characters mentioned, violence

I could barely remember anything from before the Circle… Mother had gorgeous red hair though, I can remember that. And that she was scared or something… I can’t truly recall. The tower was my home for many years, its all I knew… I was rarely cold or alone, it was such a struggle to be alone. I managed to find a spot at some point but I grew too big to hide in it. I had to make due with the garden then… until that too was taken away from us. Jowan was my closest friend, listening to my questions, never answering, sometimes he didn’t know how to or simply didn’t have answers, but he at least never chastised me. I miss him… Its been hard on the roads with Duncan… I can only hope he has found a safe place away from the Templars…

I lean into Zevran’s side, staring at the stream numbly. Exhausted after fighting a high dragon, so many ‘spirits’ and dragonlings… We’re almost there… I sigh shakily, eyes drooping shut as I take a breath… relaxing as Zev holds me… my new found home…

I miss Zev… I miss Lamb… “Mouse…?” I choke out softly in a broken voice, trying to quiet the droned singing in my head…Don’t forget them. We need to push on… be brave…

I never grew attached to a place, knowing we wouldn’t be able to stay long. Lothering was probably the longest we stayed at a place. My little siblings were mostly my home, of course father and mum too. And my precious Lamb. But after losing Father… and then Bethany? Kirkwall felt colder than I did towards previous ‘homes’. Mum was bitter, maybe that’s why…? Carver was just himself, if with less bite sometimes and other times, much too sharp bite. Joining the mercs was probably a bad idea but… Gamlen at least got us in safe. Then Carver had to go with Grey Wardens in the Deep Roads and I just… Mum was so much colder and more bitter than before. Her childhood home didn’t feel better than Gamlen’s hovel. Sometimes I understand Uncle too well regarding Mum.

Then flirting grew into feelings regarding Isabella and Fenris. My heart bled for Fenris when he had killed the woman who made his life even more miserable when he was a slave and he had asked me, “What has magic touched that it did not ruin?” It cut me so deep, because magic touched me and Bethany and father, yet look where it got them, where it got me. And the lump in my throat was too big to croak out, that it did not ruin him at the very least… he turned and left before I could get past the lump… He felt like home to me. Isabela started feeling like home too… the playful banters and flirting… then we even had a tumble the one evening but she left, clearly scared of being emotionally attached… But I let her. Understanding her fear after that awful marriage, after her mother sold her… She wanted to be free… Who was I to force her to settle? Fenris did the same, having left after a night as well, terrified by returned memories and I was left with an aching heart for years… my home was in two people, two people who were scared of growing attached.

After Mum perished, they were there, holding me, listening, soothing me. Making me eat and bathe so I don’t waste away. Isabela came back even when she left with that book of the qunari… the years passed after that, we were still close enough to speak and comfort each other now and again but… it took a lot for all three of us to come together and admit our feelings, after all, Fenris and Isabella also had a goings on in the years, at least. And for a time, my home stayed with me after the explosion. We left together, travelled together until we had to split up, Fenris wanted to hunt slavers and Isabella wanted a new, large ship. I wanted to try and help Anders lead mages away from conflicts… my home was once more away from me then.

[cyngharris]

Portrait of a young Gamlen Amell. He really had the cards stacked against him.

[Image ID. A digitally painted bust portrait of a young Gamlen Amell. He is looking out at the viewer and appears to be East Asian. He has short-medium black hair that is brushed back and comes to about his chin. He is wearing a noble jacket with a yellow collar and a white cravat against a dark red background. End ID.]

[fenalith]

WIP of the Hawke Family. I'm also making a picture of all the DA2 companions in one shot including both Marian and Garrett: That's a lot of characters - I'll probably die making that one. :)

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

It took me a hundred playthroughs to realize Petrice's Safehouse is virtually identical to Gamlen's house.