#rowan references

Aesthetic Board - Rowan Hawke

“Equal parts passionate and calculating, haunted and playful, charismatic and remote. As irreverent as she is loyal to that ragtag band of criminal outcasts she calls family, always ready with a quip and a disarming smile, yet to take her for a fool would be your undoing--never forget that she is the Champion and that frost may be delicate at first glance, but ice? Ice can freeze the bloody Arishok. They say she crushed his skull in ice after she had been run through with his blade, all with a blood-soaked grin on her face. She thrives on the knife-edge of death, a fury who throws her all into protecting others, as if daring death to claim her. As if she would welcome its embrace. She is the last of her family and none of them had gentle deaths. Yet despite this, or perhaps because of just how much she has lost, she loves fiercely. Fiercely. If you ever think you can force her hand by threatening her loved ones, you will learn just how fierce her love can be.

Do not test her. It is not worth it.

Do not make the mistake of Kirkwall’s leaders and think that Hawke can be controlled. She is a staunch defender of justice, but on her own terms. Any attempt to manipulate her will fail. If she feels as if her chosen family is under threat, she will not hesitate to act in their favor.

Let her retreat to safety. An absent Hawke is far preferable to forcing her hand and making an enemy of her. She has already proven capable of toppling or saving an entire city when pressed.”