30 Day Dragon Age OC Challenge Day 8: Fighting 2-Morality
What do they think about fighting/violence as a solution to problems? What was the first time they killed someone? What fight do they have nightmares about?
Naerwen is...odd about fighting. Originally, before the Inquisition, she would prefer to avoid fights if she could and liked to get in and out of situations without people noticing. She didn’t mind fighting if she needed to, or the stray assassination requests, but she didn’t make killing people a habit.
During/post Inquisition, Naerwen is much more willing to jump into a fight. She follows “kill or be killed” mentality, and it shows in the way she’ll easily slit a throat without batting an eye. Violence is not the only solution to most things, she knows. But it is a very good solution when someone’s coming at her with a sword. It’s also far easier than sitting through meetings.
The first person she killed was when she was younger when her clan stopped near a city. According to her, it was an accident with one of the other cut purse youths. She didn’t have territory and she was invading on theirs, there was a fight, Naerwen won. She had nightmares about that one for weeks until it settled in that this was just the way the world worked.
As far as a fight that Naerwen had and still has nightmares about, the Battle at Haven as well as Adamant never leave her. Of course, the fade is a big one too. I imagined that the fear spiders everyone saw were covered in eyes and muttered things because Naerwen can’t handle things like that. So they’d often pop into her head or dreams.
