#hadriana

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #16 / Match 6 of 6

Carver Hawke

"carver is easy to underrate because he spends so much of da2 being the annoying little brother, but combat-wise he is a two-handed warrior who has been fighting since lothering. he’s not a civilianhe puts himself between his family and whatever the blight/kirkwall/the universe throws at them"

"carver would win because his entire personality is “i need to prove i can do this myself” and then someone handed him a giant sword"

"Grey Warden Carver gets darkspawn experience, Warden training, and the general “survived the taint instead of dying in the Deep Roads” boost to his resume. Templar Carver gets formal anti-mage training in one of the most violently unstable Circles in Thedas. Either way, he doesn’t stay a farmboy refugee with a sword, he becomes a proper combatant."

"Carver is not top-tier flashy, and I would not throw him at ancient gods, high dragons, or the strongest mages and expect miracles, but against grounded opponents, he’s a lot more credible than people might give him credit for. He is a trained warrior with heavy hits, enough stubbornness to keep pushing through pain, and one of the better specialisations for shutting down magical nonsense."

vs. Hadriana

"She actually uses blood sacrifice to make herself stronger right before the confrontation. So if the question is “what would she do in a fight,” the answer is apparently “use the nearest helpless person as a battery.”"

CONFESSION:

First of all, I KNOW that Danarius and Hadriana are not good people, to put things delicately. But when I stumbled across her name again for my writing and compared it to Danarius, I thought that it did not sound remotely like a traditional girls name in Tevinter. And with the way Fenris described her as a 'sniveling social climber', I could not help to get the Headcanon that Hadriana was once a Circle Mage, who escaped and made it across the Tevinter Border. Somewhere along the line she comes across Danarius, who takes her in as his apprentice. To us he is a dreadful slavedriver, but to her he is a savior and that is why she is so devoted to him and takes to treating mostly non-mage slaves deplorably like a fish to water. This being a whole 'So much has been taken from me by non-mages and now it's my turn'-attitude. Yeah, these people exist. This and the mockery of other magisters for her southern heritage could have formed her into the woman she ends up being. 

It still does not make her a good person, but a novel like this would make for an engaging read at least, no?

alright! ok! every single one (for now) of my tes ocs :)

Previously

Hawke, watching Fenris rip Hadriana's still-beating heart right the fuck out of her chest: