Pup AU Blog

Just a list of big events/ficlets to date in roughly chronological order, for easier searching. Will update as needed.

DA2 Pre-Act 1:

How Pup got to Kirkwall

How Pup met Anders

The day after the rescue

1-2 weeks after the rescue

A few weeks after the rescue

DA2 Act 1:

Pup meets Hawke, Carver, Merrill, & Aveline for the first time

Bonding with Anders

Pup and Hawke

Pup and Varric

Pup and Merrill

Pup, Merrill, and Fenris

Getting to know Fenris

Pup meets Fenris’ asshole cat

Pup adopts a pup (named Seth)

Pup gets arrested with Fenris (yes, seriously)

Pup is a little shit to Sebastian

Companions and presents: the origins of Pup’s comfort objects

Carver joins the Templar Order

DA2 Act 2:

Pup confronts Anders about his treatment of Merrill (based on this)

Pup’s hobby: rebellion, helping others

Pup’s other hobby: making bets w/ the misfits regarding when Anders and Hawke are finally going to hook up

Just after “All That Remains”

The Qunari attack

Unspecified/multiple Acts:

Little Pup: Song

Cute Pup things

Sleepy Pup thoughts

Crafted Gifts: Anders teaches Pup how to knit

The first time it snows in Kirkwall

Pup learning how to take up space and speak their mind

Sad Kirkwall happenings, courtesy Mok

Things Pup learned from the Kirkwall misfits

Post-Kirkwall:

A Parting of Ways: how Hawke & Anders part ways with Pup after Kirkwall

Pup is given Dalish names by Clan Lavellan

Justice wants Anders go back for Pup (based on this)

Hawke and Anders track down Clan Lavellan looking for Pup

Inquisition:

Inquisitor Pup!

Reuniting with Varric

Getting to know Cassandra

Pup and Vivienne

“In Hushed Whispers”

The aftermath of “In Hushed Whispers” (mages taken in as allies)

Sleep & nightmares at Skyhold

Reuniting with Hawke & Anders

Catching up w/ Hawke & Anders: just after their arrival at Skyhold

Pup’s nightmare:  after reuniting w/ Hawke & Anders; based on this

Anders’ nightmare: sometime after he & Hawke arrive at Skyhold

Opinion Fishing: Pup tries to gauge Dorian’s opinion about the Kirkwall rebellion

Meeting Anders: Pup introduces Anders to Dorian

“Here Lies the Abyss”

“Last Resort of Good Men” (Dorian’s personal quest)

Inquisitor Pup the combination Spirit Healer/Blood Mage (!)

…explaining that blood magic use to Anders and Dorian.

“Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts”

What demon would Pup be most vulnerable to?

The new Divine

Character tags:

Anders

Justice

Hawke

Seth

Merrill

Fenris

Varric Tethras

Carver Hawke

Isabela

Aveline Vallen

Sebastian Vael

Dorian Pavus

Cole

Cassandra Pentaghast

Solas

Sera

Iron Bull

Blackwall

Vivienne

Cullen

Josephine Montilyet

Leliana

So i’m finally remembering to post the Second Noble Doggy Order mock ups that i made in Heroforge!

Top row: Comptess Lacette de Launcet, Act 2 when they meet, then Act 2.5-3 while exploring and helping the Mage Underground with Pup, then serving as a Historian and loremaster for the Inquisition.

Second Row: Lord Dario Idoni, Act 2 when they first meet and begins his transition, Act 2.5-3 while he’s financing efforts to evacuate mages from Kirkwall/convince Nobles into financing city repairs. Retains a similar look in Inquisition while serving as an agent to Ophelia in Antiva and sending intrigue to Leiliana.

Third Row: Lady Ophelia of Hunter Fell, Act 2 when they first meet her at her estate, Act 2.5/3 while she was adventuring with the Order and building up her web of contacts and personal strength. During Inquisition she’s taken over Hunter Fell and made her city into a haven for mages during the war, while her brothers made a rather ill advised bid for conquering Occupied Kirkwall. Her ties to the bloodlines of Nevarra though several rapid marriages has her firmly rooted in place, and she takes a rather morbid joy in mounting Venatori skulls around her home. Duke Tythus Pentaghast was a cousin, and she took his ability to be influenced as weakness, even as he was convinced to make her his heir through cunning and a fondness for her similarity to himself.

Row Four: Comtesse Regina d’Serault, Act 2 when they had met and went adventuring because Regina is vigorously against staying at home in her estate, and late Act 3-Inquisition while running around harassing Templars, principally becoming a bandit to Chantry forces moving around, and generally making herself a living terror to literally anything Chantry and Templar related. Shows up at Skyhold in picked up armor stolen from nobles and well off people who were preaching death to mages and their loved ones because of loyalties, followed by a rag tag band of apostates.

oh man i just remembered this ask was here i’m so sorry.

Well, part of me wants to kinda shrug and go “when the flirting started” but that wouldn’t be strictly accurate, because, due to Pup keeping up their continual gender-enigma shroud and the sort of inherited from Isabella and Varric to toss out friendly flirts/commentary, it was a sort of a guessing game. Especially on Dorian’s part.Because flirting did happen between them, and Dorian had the habit of calling Pup a man, which Pup corrected and said was inaccurate but if it made him feel better they would allow him to think it but would like him to use their pronouns. It wasn’t really till they were closer that they had a more in depth conversation about it. As far as i remember talking with @bubonickitten we’d decided that really, so long as Pup wasn’t a woman Dorian was happy, but would have to explain things, but Pup was used to having to explain a range of things to people at Anders’s clinic and as a healer, so it worked out. 

I’m clearing this up mostly because I imagine it would have made Pup anxious after Dorian’s personal quest, dealing with his father. They’d been flirtatious and Dorian had probably been receptive, but because they also have a very intense insecurity about their body and how people respond to them, they’d feel weird not having a talk with their partner. They have rather bad dysphoria about their chest development, so they kinda fidgeted about moving the relationship forward due to that as well.

As to the start start though, their relationship was primarily made out of going back and forth about books. A lot. You could not physically get them in one area and not have them going back and forth about magic, history [admittedly Hamin/Pup’s knowledge was limited to what Hawke could buy for them and Merrill/Clan Lavellan could teach them] and trying to one up one another in sparring matches. 

Or you could always start when they first met-- Dorian was travelling with Alexius through Kirkwall for some artifact or another before tragedy hit Alexius’s family, and Dorian being Dorian, had wandered to Lowtown to look at the Bazaar. Pup, who was used to sitting with Fenris and thus viewing anything Tevinter as Evil Incarnate, decided Dorian was their mark for the day. So, commence Dorian having his purse cut and Pup running for their short elven lives. Dorian noticed and gave chase into Darktown, which you really don’t want to do to the Healer’s kid. Problem, necromancer. There’s a lot of dead people in Darktown, bones buried in the muck.So, it turned into a brawl in the sewer and ended with Pup ripping off a silverite bracer, 2 sovereign, and fucking up his hair before flying out the slat windows cut in the cliff and diving into the harbor. Because they did that sort of stupid shit when they got good at the barrier spell.Dorian spent a good 5 minutes processing that a mage robbed him and jumped off a cliff into a harbor, and went on with life.Several years later, Pup was wearing that bracer in the tavern one night and Dorian was just drunk enough to recognize it enough to recount the story of a similar bracer. Pup choked on the alcohol they were drinking for the benefit of the other people there.“THAT WAS YOU?”“What?”“You were the necromancer in--” Hamin choked again and banged a fist on the table again, Sera landed a good few thwaps between their shoulder blades while pulling a face at magic talk. “You sodding shit, i was scrubbing sludge off my hair and pulling lamprey off my ass for a week!”“Maker’s ass, Hamin that was-- You couldn’t have been that short--”

So I realized I hadn’t used heroforge to make Pup and felt that was a grievous oversight, so here they are!

The top three are from various points in Kirkwall, wearing a coat and clothes Isabella had gifted them. Yes, they are going to throw that banana at someone. Yes, it is going to go about as you expect. The far right pic is them returning from one of the more profitable excursions of the Second Noble Doggy Order. They bind a lot more loosely or just wear the bodice they bind wth so as to not end up hurting themselves while running around cave crawling. They’re also trying to be a good example to their friend Dario, who’s just started binding and they don’t want to give him the idea that binding up tight and heavy exercise go together.  The bottom row is them when they were refereed to either as Halani’u or Hamin Garas in clan Lavellan, serving as their healer and secondary first-- in the event of incident. The last image with the orb is well, the conclave.

Ok, so i may have forgotten freckles and Pup/(Halani’u)’s hair detailing, but I finally got their skincolor right and i am crying. My child is the proper color and not ‘my eyes are tripping out bc the light is shifting around me and i can’t squint at a colored pencil or there isn’t a good option in a dollmaker’. 

And their binder is good and they have a pretty face and nice hair and thats all that matters. Also background. Because clan Lavellan loves it’s healer and so do i.

I made Pup-- around the time they’re going by Hamin Garas and just post-becoming Inquisitor-- in a dollmaker and they look very spiffy.  They’re still attached to the red and gold color scheme from their childhood in Kirkwall, though they swear up and down it’s due to taking after Varric once they could afford fancy clothes, Varric knows it’s because they miss Kirkwall-- City, family, trouble, and all.

So, posting these up here since it’s no longer in the realm of possibility to ink and color them.  These are sketches of more varying OC’s and Pup of the Pup au-- Noble Doggy Order of Kirkwall, version 2. Lord Dario Idoni friend of Pup in Act 2 [Antivan with no ability to freerun], followed by Lady Ophelia of Hunter Fell [fantastic swordswoman and master of strategy], and Comptess Lacette de Launcet [adventure creampuff and smarter than you and every person you have ever met. Ever.].

Last picture is Pup with Clan Lavellan while they went by the name Halani’u-- the name that the keeper called them: “Lonely Help”, both in reference to how they were found wandering the woods alone and how the clan helped them open back up to people before the Conclave.

So, i can’t remember if i did this before or not but I did a height comparison between Anders [left, 6′4″] and Pup during pre-Act 1 and most of Act 1 [Right, 3′10″].  Since Pup’s 9 in Act 1, they are in need of noms after being stunted in the Alienage they came from in Fereldan and in Darktown before being picked up by Anders. 

Look who I made in this cool dollmaker I found!

Pup pre-act 2, possibly just before the Deep Roads expedition practicing their magic in their gear that Isabella got them as a return for all the shit they keep stealing for her. [feat the growing bowl cut Anders adopted them with.]

Pup and Leliana is best summarized as “Two flexible nerds hang out in an aviary having conversations about faith, dagger techniques, and the nature of the historical implications of the Human Chantry re: Elves, mages and Elven Mages, and what would need to happen to the Chantry to ensure no one was treated inhumanely.”They approve of the fact she advocates for Mages for a lot of the reasons they do, the only thing is that she and Pup would be likely to have debates on faith– Leliana, unlike say, Cassandra however, would go back and forth with them instead of simply dismissing the Creators. She is a human, so there is a blindness there, but she is more willing to learn– and with having traveled with Warden Surana, she is more aware of her blindspots and more willing to listen. Pup is at first wary of that, considering the human and the openly Andrastian aspects– but they warm up eventually. In turn Leliana approves of their childhood delinquent tendencies– Well, the ones that benefited the poor, anyway. If the Kirkwall Chantry wasn’t helping the poor and they wanted to reallocate the wealth to the needy, that was their right. Granted, perhaps doing so with an adorable little dog was odd and filling Revered Mother’s beds with spiders or old cheese is a bit cruel.

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As to the Origins companions, there isn’t much crossover there past canon and Anders’s stories– Well, there is one caveat, but we will get there.

King Alistair, they consider a “rude, hypocritical human noble that went back on his word” ever since their encounter with him in Redcliff, since he was rather rude about their decision to ally with the Mages. In their mind, he also didn’t do enough to protect the boon he granted to Warden Alim Surana– that the Ferelden Circles would be independent– when the war began. The apology letters that followed came across to them as hollow human politicking. 

Morrigan is an immediate moment of setting their teeth on edge– not simply because she is powerful and an unknown, but because she claimed to be an expert on their people as a human. Her possession of a functioning Eluvian and her lack of willingness– really, outright refusal and then continued lording over of access to information about said mirror’s origin and function is offensive to them. In their opinion, Merrill would have been more suited to being the expert, and were they not in need of this shemlen woman’s help, they would have contacted her and went from there– but their hands were tied in a rather unfortunate way. By the Temple of Mythal, Pup had reached a near breaking point of being fed up with her human entitlement to elven knowledge and artifacts. They nearly dove into the Well to drown her out and glared daggers into her for the rest of her stay. They do not view her well, nor regard her warmly.

The caveat would be, finally, the Hero of Fereldan himself– Alim Surana.

Alim and Pup have a very interesting working relationship in that it’s mostly work. Alim is in Skyhold with Morrigan, ostensibly on his mission to locate a cure for the Calling, but is rather more focused on spending time with his son Keiran, and Morrigan. He is making use of the library and discussing the lack of progression inside Anders, however, as he rather quickly sensed the apostate’s presence in one of the tower rooms and went prowling. Alim has, as he had in Amaranthine, no intention of letting his friend be captured for anything so that was not the concern. What was, is that Alexis Hawke had the taint that was progressing and Anders did not.So began a rather vested combined interest project on the part of Alim and Pup using Inquisition resources. However, because Pup dislikes Morrigan and Alim is around her so much, their conversations are often curt and short in nature. This is different only when Pup manages to drop by while Alim is catching up with Anders. This being said, Alim is rather fond of Pup– as they are a child of a close personal friend– even if Pup doesn’t feel close to him.

Omg that’s so cute! It’s always great to see people relating to Pup!Little Pup is a precious bab.