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For the Sexual Headcanons Ask Meme. (CW: canon sexual abuse mention)

Zevrana (I like this ship name, anon 👌)

1)  Who tends to initiate? Does it change? Why?

I have 3 ‘canon’ Wardens, so the group dynamic is a little different than in the actual game 😅

Bearing that in mind, Zevran’s first instinct is survival. To that end, he’s willing to use sex as leverage to ingratiate himself to whoever is in charge. In my canon, that would be Valdrin Aeducan, but Val is a bit of a dwarven traditionalist (and suffering a serious identity crisis after his brother’s betrayal) so the last thing he’s interested in is ‘sexual experimentation’ with some elf he doesn’t fully trust.

Val would have killed Zevran if left to his own devices, Aleria Amell is indifferent. Eríst Surana is the reason Zev survived the ambush at all, but the thing about Eríst is that he’s well familiar with the tactic of trading his body for favours and he’s not willing to subject anyone else to that. They both use flirtation as a defence mechanism, so it goes back forth for a long time before Eríst finally has enough and corners Zevran in his tent, demanding to know his intentions.

Zevran, who by now is genuinely intrigued by the young mage, convinces Eríst that he has no ulterior motive, that he finds him attractive and that sex between friends could simply be a pleasant way to pass the time. Eríst admits that he’s curious about being with another elf (which hasn’t happened before) and so they fall into a friends-with-benefits arrangement.

For a while, it’s Zevran who initiates, but as they get to know each other and feelings start to develop, it becomes fairly even.

2) Any preferences for top/bottom?

When they start their relationship, Eríst is used to bottoming exclusively. He assumes that role by default for their first few encounters, but when Zevran mentions switching things up, he's eager to try.

He still likes to bottom, but he discovers he has a slight preference for topping. Zevran is happy to oblige.

17) Dom/Sub dynamics? Who’s dom, who’s sub?

Their dynamic is fairly equal. Eríst has something of a bossy streak while Zevran is more accommodating.

18) Dirty talk, sweet nothings, or no talking (or discussing only technicalities)

Zevran loves to talk during sex. He tends to slip into Antivan so Eríst has no idea what he's saying, but he develops a bit of a kink for it. He loves the sound of the foreign words, breathless and rough in his ear.

*Fenhawke under the cut so the post isn't 5 miles long 🥳

For the Sexual Headcanons Ask Meme.  (CW: canon sexual abuse mention)

1) Who tends to initiate? Does it change? Why?

Mostly Fenris.

Hawke tends to lead once they get momentum, but getting them started more or less remains Fenris’ prerogative.

For one thing, Fenris’ libido runs higher than Hawke’s, so it just occurs to him more often. (Hence the inside joke about ‘plucky elves’). There’s a certain power in it too. While enslaved in Minrathous, when and where and how he had sex depended entirely on Danarius’ moods. His own preferences were completely irrelevant – to the point that he didn’t really even have them. Being semi in charge of this aspect of his and Hawke’s relationship is an intensely liberating experience for him and one of the strongest hallmarks of his life as a free man.

For the Dragon Age Asks: Hawke + Companions meme

4. What sort of relationship did your Hawke have with Merrill? Were they protective of her?

Wreath’s relationship with Merrill is complicated. On the one hand, he does feel protective of her. She reminds him of Bethany and he worries about her being all alone in the Alienage with no experience of city life.

On the other hand, he is also protective of all his other friends, as well as his own skin. He knows what happens to anyone in Kirkwall found to be consorting with a blood mage. He has enough problems with the templars on his own account without adding that into the mix. And that’s not counting his concerns over her use of blood magic itself.

He wants to help, but he isn’t sure if she needs protecting from the world, or if the world needs protecting from her.

Ultimately, he doesn’t want to be responsible for stopping her if anything goes wrong, so he copes by alternately lecturing or avoiding her until Varric or Isabela forces them to interact.

4. How did your Hawke’s relationship with Aveline change throughout the Acts? Did they connect to her because of their mutual escape from the darkspawn in Ferelden?

Aveline did a lot more with Wreath than flee the Blight. She stood beside him while he conjured fire so her husband and his sister’s bodies wouldn’t be eaten by the darkspawn. She followed Flemeth to Gwaren and sat beside him in the hold of a ship for two weeks. She waited for Gamlen and worked for Athenril while sharing a room with his mother. She helped him hide from the templars and kept his secret for nearly five years before he became Champion.

As far as Wreath is concerned, Aveline is family, and family is everything to him. He helped her court Wesley (even though it was very much a case of the blind leading the blind) and gave her away at her wedding. If the Hendyrs have kids, he’ll be their godfather.

He doesn’t always understand her, but unlike Isabela, who he does understand, he trusts Aveline implicitly. She’s far more lawful in her approach than he’ll ever be, but he tries his best to support her and believes wholeheartedly that she will do the same for him.

4. Did your Hawke relate to Varric’s rocky relationship with his brother? How did they feel about Bartrand’s betrayal?

At first, Wreath just thinks that Varric and Bartrand have the same dynamic he and Carver have. He’s paranoid and suspicious as heck, but he would never betray family. He assumes that if betrayal happens, it’ll be Varric and Bartrand working together against him and Carver.

When Varric gets locked in with them, it comes as a major shock. Before, he liked Varric but he didn’t fully trust him. In the DR, he sees the same loyalty he feels for his family in Varric and he can’t imagine how much it would hurt to be sold out by one of his own. After they survive Bartrand’s back-stab, Varric gets pulled firmly into Wreath’s ‘my people’ bubble.

4. Who did your Hawke back, mages or templars, and what became of Anders?

Wreath sided with the mages and told Anders to leave. My headcanon is that Anders returned to the Wardens and rekindled his relationship with Warden Amell.

4. Did your Hawke choose to kill or spare Anders? Did their relationship with Sebastian change depending on their choice?

Anders saved Carver’s life. No matter what Wreath might have thought about the whole Chantry explosion thing, he’s Chasind and the Chasind take a life debt seriously.

Wreath wasn’t sparing Anders so much as refusing to give him the martyr’s death he wanted, but Sebastian couldn’t see that. All he saw was one apostate taking pity on another after targeting the woman who raised him for assassination. Sebastian experienced that as a major betrayal and didn’t stick around to hear Hawke’s side of things.

Sebastian also assumed that his relationship with Wreath was closer than it actually was, and that probably added to his shock. Wreath related to his anguish over losing his family and the burden of trying to preserve their legacy, but he’s an apostate and a criminal first. All Sebastian saw was the Amell scion and the Champion, which was never how Wreath saw himself. He showed Sebastian the same veneer of respectability he showed all of Hightown, because he couldn’t survive without support. Wreath never fully trusted him, but unlike Isabela, the understanding wasn’t mutual.

4. How did your Hawke react to Carver’s appreciation for the templars? Did they approve?

Carver never expressed appreciation for the templars in Wreath’s canon.

When magical shenanigans was a certainty, Wreath didn’t take him along, so Carver never saw Keran imprisoned by Terohne, he never saw Decimus and Grace perform blood magic in the cave and he never met Feynriel.

If Carver did join the templars, Wreath would have been devastated. He would’ve experienced it as a crippling betrayal and their relationship would never have recovered. There is a lot of friction between them, but they love each other a lot. Losing that isn’t something either of them could cope with, so it would probably have destroyed them both.

For the Dragon Age Asks: Hawke + Companions meme

4. How did your Hawke respond to the mutual resentment between Fenris and Anders? Did they intervene?

Wreath follows the same strategy he used as a boy while babysitting the twins: as long as there isn’t any blood, I’m staying out of it.

He is a farm-boy at heart and he’s practical by nature. He tends to focus on the here and now and what he has to do next to survive. All this talk of ideology and injustice seem kind of pie-in-the-sky to him. He has maps to follow, rations to tally and scrimmages to plan. If these two want to quibble about the power structures in Thedas to while away the time, knock yourselves out.

5. What motivated your Hawke to be either a friend or a rival to Fenris? Were they indifferent to him?

Wreath is far, faaar from indifferent to Fenris, but at no point does he actively seek to challenge him or change his mind. He simply states his own views when he thinks it matters and leaves everyone else to decide for themselves what to think.

So, I guess you could say it’s more a case of Fenris rivalling Wreath than the other way around.

Wreath is a second-generation apostate who watched his father bleed to death after templars attacked them en route to the Highever market. He’s decidedly anti-templar in his general approach to the world. He’s also an aggro douchebag who tends to piss people off by looking at them. Of course he’s going to get Fenris’ hackles up.

The thing about Wreath, though, is that he’s protective of the people he sees as his, and it doesn’t take long for Fenris to get sorted into that category. Wreath means well, but his idea of protectiveness tends to skew toward overbearing – just ask Carver. And Merrill.

Initially, Fenris isn’t sure what to make of this. The last mage who was ‘protective’ of him literally owned him and he never wants to be in that position again. He has zero experience with setting boundaries and communicating what he feels, though, so he flares hot and cold a lot. For a long time, he expects retaliation for every argument, every dissenting opinion, because in Tevinter, to disagree with a mage was to invite punishment. This never happens, of course. Wreath yells back sometimes, but he never hurts him, never threatens to sell him out.

Along the way, Fenris realizes that he’s allowed to be angry and that there are lines Wreath’s anger won’t cross. He learns that he doesn’t have to be afraid of either and, as time goes by, he starts to trust his own feelings and believe in the sincerity of Wreath’s.