Fenris – "Festis bei umo canavarum!"

Squee! that introduction photo though! Fenris is my favorite Dragon Age romance! He is also the main reason I have to Replay Dragon Age 2 occasionally. I still have mixed feeling about the book with him in it being canceled. Mostly still glad at least nothing horrible happened to him because of said book.

Yay, Fenris thread! Along with Solas, he's my favourite broody elf  I haven't played DA2 in a long time because it hasn't worked for some reason, but even just thinking about Fenris makes me want to try it and romance him yet again
I like to romance him with mage!Hawke, too, although mine is usually male  I also prefer friendmancing, I can't bring myself to rival anyone (except Carver, but that takes no trying, he hates me and everything I do so I don't care ) because I hate being mean to people, real or fictional. In my opinion Fenris has gone through quite enough of hate and rivalry with mages already, so letting him be happy for once and actually like, and love, Hawke for real seems so much better option. 

I think I once tried rivalmance with Anders, and it didn't go too well (if I remember correctly, I thought it was just stupid), so I'm usually sticking with friendmancing. Although, if I can get my DA2 working, I might try again with it... we'll see, maybe I'll rivalmance Fenris one day!  And yeah, Sebastian is... Sebastian.

I tryed both with pro-mage Hawke, but I found creditable the rival romance, because if a pro-mage Hawke want a friedship romance, s/he need always lie to him, or hiding from him, when he want to save some mages*. I think, the rival relationship with Fenris do not mean hatred, do not mean that Hawke does not understand him, and does not help. The fact that Hawke insists on his principles, does not affect that he will help to Fenris. In Fenris life the most important thing the freedom, and Hawke can agree with him in this goal. However to Hawke also important the freedom of the Magi, but if Fenris do not know this fact (because Hawke lie from it, or do it secretly), Fenris do not get a chance to accept this. If he can not accept, they will not be able to stay together for a long term.

The rival path not cruel, just harder but more honest, I think. (At the end this clearly shows.)

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*Certanly the game mechanics allows that easily, but from the roleplaying perspective a bit weird.

A lot of people think that it is cruel. "Hawke to break him, because he blames himself at the end" etc., but that's simply not true. He don't blames himself, but no longer blames also the "mages", and rejects hatred.

I did a happy picture of the front of the thread. I do not like that many times portrayed him as an angry defiant child. That simply not fit him. Fenris have a sense of humor, and use it. He wants to live, and like to live. He are sad? He have reason, I guess.

Beautiful pic!

I completely agree. He is not a guy who wants to end his life at all or remain anti-social. He had a horrible past but he didn't let it control him. He fought for his freedom. He only truly seems to give up if you send him back to Tevinter and I have only seen that on vids. I could never choose that option. You can almost hear his heart being crushed into tiny pieces when Hawke chose that!

I a little scared from it. Just remember Zevran's return in DA2 ... or rather forget it, if you can!

(I admit: I rarely read fanfics)

Fenris, my other favorite elf! I have a thing for voices and in my opinion nothing beats Gideon Emery's voice.... although Gareth David Lloyd is a strong contender.

I can never rivalmance him though, it makes me feel abusive like some hatemance. I loved playing a mage with him; trying to prove to him that not all mages out there are ticking time bombs makes for a really sweet story. I also found I could navigate playing a pro mage without lying to him or sacrificing my ideals but I admit it can get a bit meta gamey. Basically I left him home for very pro mage quests that I knew dropped a lot of points and hated blood magic around him. After a while the friendship slowly built up even though I disagreed with him for most conversations about mages.

Also I'm not sure I want him to appear in dragon age 4; In fact the very thought frightens me. I don't know how I could handle having the choice to kill him off or someone else I liked. I just want him Safe and wrapped up in my Hawke's loving arms

That's one of my favorite line the delivery is spot on ,saddly it's hard to get it because other companions have priority on this exchange.
The "I shall endeavor to exist with less offense" is also a good one

I also like the banter in one of the DLC when Hawke says something like "We haven't talked since..."
Fenris goes "You want to do this here?!In front of everyone?"
And sarcastic Hawke goes "Kinky!".
You feel like Fenris can never win with sarcastic Hawke , and sometimes he ignores what's coming out of his mouth ."It's a lot to take in , I know*trollface*" with male Hawke is also one of those "....." moment.
Ah Fenris and goofy sarcastic Hawke are such fun together.

I adore Fenris, he's my second favourite fictional romance (favourite is, of course, Solas). Aside from his voice, I really love his bone-dry humour and acerbic manner of speech.

I don't like the idea of a rivalmance either, I prefer to be kind to my LIs. And since I always play pro-mage, I tend to have to meta-game with the romance. But it's worth it 

The sexual tension is unbelievable between a Mage Hawke and rivalmanced Fenris! When they finally give in and give themselves to each other you can practically feel the heat lol