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WHAT IT MEANS TO DROWN by robynhode ↳ E • Sebastian/F!Hawke • Warden Sebastian AU • Complete!

“I cannot see the path. Perhaps there is only abyss. Trembling, I step forward, in darkness enveloped.” —Trials 1:49-52

When Sebastian takes vengeance into his own hands, a new path opens before him. It leads to the Grey Wardens.

Hawke holds a hand out, a sliver of moonlight bisecting her palm. “I don’t, either. I feel like I’m drowning. Every morning, I wake up gasping for air. My hands are always cold.” He leans forward and curls his hand around hers. She’s right. It’s cold. “I can warm them for you.” “Would you?” she says, voice trembling.

anyway, below the cut are some DA OCs that i've made up, and how i imagine them visually!

WHAT IT MEANS TO DROWN [AO3] ↳ E • Sebastian/F!Hawke • Warden Sebastian AU • Complete • 104k wc • #*gws

"I cannot see the path. Perhaps there is only abyss. Trembling, I step forward, in darkness enveloped." —Trials 1:49-52

When Sebastian takes vengeance into his own hands, a new path opens before him. It leads to the Grey Wardens.

WHAT IT MEANS TO DROWN by robynhode ↳ E • Sebastian/F!Hawke • Warden Sebastian AU

“I cannot see the path. Perhaps there is only abyss. Trembling, I step forward, in darkness enveloped.” —Trials 1:49-52

When Sebastian takes vengeance into his own hands, a new path opens before him. It leads to the Grey Wardens.

“And besides,” he says lowly, confidence rising as her fingers tighten in his hair, carrying him sharply back into that heated haze, “you’re gift enough.” “You can’t—” She stifles a noise as he gets back to his feet and leans into her to kiss her forehead, her temple, her jaw, her neck. Everywhere he can reach. She’s clinging to him like he’s a lifeline. “Sebastian, you can’t just say things like that…” If she’s still able to speak, he’s not doing his job properly.

WHAT IT MEANS TO DROWN by robynhode ↳ E • Sebastian/F!Hawke • Warden Sebastian AU

“I cannot see the path. Perhaps there is only abyss. Trembling, I step forward, in darkness enveloped.” —Trials 1:49-52

When Sebastian takes vengeance into his own hands, a new path opens before him. It leads to the Grey Wardens.

Sebastian lets go first, moves back just slightly, so he can see her and be sure that she wants this even half as badly as he needs this—but her eyes fly open, wild, and she balls her hands in his shirt and pulls him back in with a strangled sound— Maker. This is what it means to drown. She’s the Waking Sea and he’s a sailor in a storm; she’s the Minanter and he’s fallen into her depths. Folded into her, surrounded by her—the shadows that haunt her and all the things she doesn’t say, the flames that she can draw from thin air. She kisses him with such fervor that he can’t think of anything else. Sebastian registers, on some base, far-away level, that they’ve somehow shifted into the Minanter and their clothes are soaking through. But it hardly matters. He isn’t cold, and she has no interest in stopping.

WHAT IT MEANS TO DROWN by robynhode ↳ E • Sebastian/F!Hawke • Warden Sebastian AU

“I cannot see the path. Perhaps there is only abyss. Trembling, I step forward, in darkness enveloped.” —Trials 1:49-52

When Sebastian takes vengeance into his own hands, a new path opens before him. It leads to the Grey Wardens.

“It’s foolish, of course,” Vivienne continues, ignoring Sebastian’s stricken expression. “Love. Romance. They’re intangible, unquantifiable things, my dear. To put stock in them is to gamble—and, yet, I’ve found they can be quite the advantage. A mage inevitably walks a difficult path, and it does well to have powerful allies along it. Your Hawke is a clever woman.” “She is not mine.” His own voice is distant to himself. Vivienne laughs, the sound like a glass ornament in the wind. Somehow, it’s neither pleasant nor condemning. “If you insist, my dear.”