How is your sibling these days?

Marina Hawke: Bethany's a circle mage. Love Bethany.
Adela Hawke: Carver's dead. Care very little about Carver, and I wanted a super angsty Hawke.

Found some baby birds~



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The only two outcomes I haven't played are Bethany dying and Bethany becoming a GW. Yes, I'm guilty of 'forgetting' to bring Anders along to the Deep Roads when I had Carver with me.

My canon though is Carver, Templar, Rivalry.

My canon Hawke was a rogue. A rogue who found Meredith very intimidating.

The fate of their sibling is not available in this poll.

YOU GODDAMN MONSTER, DID YOU KİLL BETHANY

It still counts as Circle mage

Look, it made sense in Hawke's head. Everything happened so quickly! One day they're sucking up to the templars, desperate to stay on their good side for Bethany's sake. The next, Meredith is barking orders and that feeling of helplessness floods in.

With that Hawke, I wanted to RP a genuine brain glitch, where you do exactly the thing you most fear, and you aren't sure why. Like if someone spends their whole life deathly afraid of car accidents, then the first day they drive they feel an uncontrollable urge to swerve to the other side of the road. To resolve the all-consuming dread, but in the worst way possible.

I did the playthrough before DA:I came out, but it fit so perfectly. Hawke immediately understood what Nightmare represented.

Supporting the templars to keep them from retaliating against Bethany. I always like to remind myself that Hawke doesn't know they're a main character. As far as Hawke knows, there's a whole host of ways the templars could destroy Bethany's life if they're angry at the Hawkes, and no guarantee that Hawke could defeat them.

Even in the final battle, Hawke has no guarantee that both of them will survive if they oppose the templars. The Rite of Annulment is supposed to be backed with overwhelming force, so the templars are likelier to win. In-universe, Hawke doesn't know that whoever they support will prevail. Much better to play nice with the templars in hope that they'll grant an exception for Bethany, than oppose them and hope for the "miracle" of spending the rest of their lives on the run (with death being the much more likely result).

Yes, that was the point. Throughout the game, Hawke was WAY too over-protective of Bethany, repeatedly denying Bethany's agency in favor of what Hawke thought was best. In some ways, Bethany's death was a culmination of all that. Hawke was so invested in the idea of protecting Bethany, that they utterly failed to actually protect her.

Obviously that protectiveness wasn't coming from a healthy place of love. It's possible it had become an ego thing. Something like "I'm so powerful I can protect my sister from any harm." Then when Meredith raised the threat of taking that power from Hawke, Hawke tried to maintain that feeling of control by killing Bethany before Meredith could. The irony was that Meredith would have let Bethany live, if Hawke had said "no". So ultimately Hawke's ego-trip was a sham - Hawke had let Bethany die when she could have been saved.

Hawke was not behaving in a healthy manner, and that was a defining trait of that Hawke's character arc.

This is no excuse, I order this mans execution immediately, his skull will decorate the gate of Skyhold

Hey I like Loghain too, and in one of my world states I saved Loghain too. It is not nearly as monsterous as killing Bethany