#sebethany

Bethany: My sister gets "Lady" a lot more than I do.

Sebastian: You're no less deserving.

Bethany: You think so? The templars might not agree.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69814441

@varghaxa -- I AM SO SO SORRY but yes, like I said in my earlier post answering your questions and talking about my Regency AU fic “A Chance Engagement”, there absolutely WAS going to be a Bethany/Sebastian subplot but I had to drop it because there were already so many other romantic subplots and the fic is going to be long enough! 😂  But I hinted at it in Chapter 5 of ACE, even if I later decided to drop it after publishing that chapter, and left the reader to headcanon whatever they wanted regarding Bethany’s fate. 

Like I said, I was going to pull out the Regency AU Bethany/Sebastian into its own story in that universe -- I think in Chapter 5 I alluded to Prince Sebastian Vael (Duke of Starkhaven) enjoying a “brief flirtation” with Miss Bethany Hawke until a tragedy befell his family and he departed Kirkwall abruptly to take care of business, and the nobles of Hightown and Lady Leandra all wondered why Bethany was so serene about it, rather than being disappointed a courtship had not been pursued further. It was because she was secretly engaged to the man 😄  and I felt it would be good to explore that in a separate fic! Well, until I didn’t write it 😂 

Here’s my (late) entry for @scharoux‘s 14 Days of Dragon Age Lovers, days 1 & 2. I’ll be combining every other day so the next will be for days 3 & 4 and so on.

Pairing: Bethany Hawke/Sebastian Vael

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The dress has barely been finished when Bethany eagerly pulls it on. Rose-red satin and velvet skirts flow around her legs as she spins, once.

“It’s perfect,” she says. She admires the embroidery on the sleeves for a moment, then turns to face the seamstress, who’s already packing up her basket of spare fabrics and notions. “Do I owe you any remaining payments?”

The woman shakes her head with a smile. “Oh no, milady. His Highness has already paid in full.”

It’s Bethany’s turn to smile as she thanks the seamstress and scurries off to deposit her old dress in her dresser.

When she was a young girl in Ferelden, Bethany had dreamed of having such a wardrobe, full of fine silks and velvets in nearly every color. She longed for the life her mother had left behind in Kirkwall; fine clothes and wealthy suitors and no magic to speak of. As she grew older, the world had made her abandon such fantasies as childish, and she had tried to find contentment and purpose in the Circle.

Sebastian had changed all of that. A prince in gleaming white armor had, against all odds, fallen in love with Bethany, like one of the tales from her storybook come to life. As much as he longed to marry her, her magic had kept the Grand Cleric of Starkhaven from granting them permission to wed, but that had not deterred Sebastian. He was determined to petition the Divine herself to allow their union by the end of the year, and Bethany couldn’t help but believe her prince would ultimately succeed.

Her prince.

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

In some spaces I'm a little embarassed to admit that I like Sebastian and ship Sebastian and Bethany (Even though I seemingly admitted it in a proud way)

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

I would have to say the fact that canonically speaking children of a human and an elf appear more human (or completely human) than elf. Like damn, bro, that's lowkey lazy design smh.

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to

I wouldn't say unwillingly, but unexpectedly, Sebastian x Bethany. I didn't really care for the ship at first, though I did know it was implied, and I never really shipped Bethany with anyone, but then I did some rp with someone where Bethany and Sebastian end up together and now I've fallen in and can't get out.