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player information.

name: Hannah
age: 3 19
personal lj: feilyn
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
AIM: xfeilynx
plurk: hannahcake
characters in abax: NO ONE


in character information.

series: Dragon Age II
name: Marian Hawke
sex: Female
age: 31
height: 5’9”
weight: 153
canon point: Early to mid Act II, when she’s done a bunch of missions and things but hasn’t romanced Anders or suffered through All That Remains
previous cr: Nope!

history:
Marian Hawke was born in Ferelden, a recently liberated country in the greater land of Thedas. She was the first child born to the apostate mage Malcolm Hawke, and Leandra Amell, a noblewoman from the port city of Kirkwall in the Free Marches (a collection of city-states separate from Ferelden, though still a part of Thedas) who was subsequently disgraced for marrying him. Magic in the land of Thedas is seen as dangerous, unpredictable, and mages are tarred with the same brush – ‘Magic is meant to serve man, and never to rule over him’. Also mages are supposed to be taken to the Mages’ Circle in their land once they are discovered to use magic, to be watched over and restricted by Templar Knights for the rest of their lives. Malcolm Hawke disagreed with this, and so much of Marian’s young life was spent travelling Ferelden in an attempt to escape the gaze of the Templars, something that only increased upon the birth of her twin siblings, one of whom also exhibited a mage’s abilities.

When Marian was around eleven, the family finally settled down on the outskirts of the village of Lothering. Malcolm taught his daughter, Bethany, how to control her abilities and keep them secret, while Hawke and Carver spent their time over the years training to be warriors. Seven years later, their father died, and Marian was left to look after the family; three years after that, the Blight struck.

⇁ Carver and Marian fought against the Darkspawn in the battle of Ostagar where the army was betrayed by its general, the king and most of his forces killed

⇁ The siblings escaped the slaughter, making it back to Lothering where they picked up their mother and sister and ran for it. Lothering was destroyed behind them.

⇁ They met up with a Templar and his wife on the way, and decided to travel together. The templar was injured, the wife was a fucking bamf.

⇁ In trying to outrun the horde, they were attacked by an ogre, who killed Carver before being taken down. Leandra blamed Hawke for this, and the party was subsequently rescued by a dragon who turned into a disturbingly hot older lady aka Flemeth.

⇁ Flemeth promised to help them in exchange for a favour; she then informed them that the Templar had to die, infected by the darkspawn taint as he was. His wife, Aveline, kills him at his request and then everyone goes to Kirkwall, where the Amell family has an estate.

⇁ They don’t have an estate. Leandra’s brother gambled it away, and so Hawke and her sister promise their services for a year as warrior and mage to a smuggling group to pay their way into the city.

⇁ When the year is up, the sisters start looking for a way to make some money. They hire onto an expedition going to the Deep Roads in the hope of finding treasure, engaging in various quests and missions and whacky hijinks around Kirkwall and the surrounding mountains in order to raise the funds to become partners.

⇁ During the aforementioned hijinks, Hawke meets an assorted collection of people who start to follow her around, for various reasons. She grows closest to the expedition leader’s younger brother, the dwarf Varric, Isabela the hot pirate captain without a ship, and Anders the apostate mage who is possessed by a spirit of Justice.

⇁ On the expedition, she takes Varric with her, as well as her sister and Anders. They find an idol of extreme value, but Varric’s brother betrays them, taking the idol and locking them in an old dwarven thaig. Eventually they fight their way out through darkspawn and demons (finding treasure on the way!), but Bethany gets infected with the same taint as the Templar did a year before.

⇁ Anders, however, used to be a Grey Warden, and sensing their presence nearby, leads the group to them. After some persuasion, the Wardens agree that Bethany can participate in the Joining Ritual, the only way to save a person from the taint, and become a Grey Warden. They take Bethany with them; Hawke doesn’t see her sister again for years.

⇁ Upon returning to the surface, Hawke becomes moderately rich and famous, buying back her old family estate. She spends the next three years doing good (or at least not morally bankrupt) deeds, helping her companions with their issues, getting in close with the viscount of the city and absolutely not falling in love with the mage Anders.

⇁ The main issue in the city at this time is the Qunari who shipwrecked three years ago and refuse to leave. Tensions rise between humans and Qunari, and throughout her various shenanigans, Hawke finds herself gaining the respect of her leader as no other human has, although Isabela keeps leaving her company every time Hawke pays a visit.

⇁ Intense UST is happening between Anders and Hawke. Hawke gets her bro Aveline hooked up with her husband. Anders almost murders a mage girl, but is stopped by Hawke. Hawke gets kidnapped to Abax.

personality:
Generally when they first meet her, people have one of two reactions to Marian Hawke; they try to kill her, or they ask for her help. This simple reaction essentially sums up the woman’s basic personality – she can be frustrating, arrogant, and uses humour in situations that really aren’t appropriate, but at the heart of it she’s a kind-hearted woman who cares deeply about those she loves, and wants to Do The Right Thing. If only she could figure out what that was.

Outwardly, she an air of easy humour, even when situations probably call for a little more gravity. She would far rather that people see her as someone who isn’t capable of taking things particularly seriously and have them be surprised later; she feels she can get the measure of people easier if they are underestimating her, and with all the people out to kill her at various points in her life, Hawke has decided that being underestimated is by far preferable. She also just enjoys trolling people for the hell of it, whether to get them to lighten up, or to see them blush or get flustered. Snarking off to authority figures is also something she takes a great deal of pleasure in – Hawke is her own authority, and you have earn her respect before she’ll bother giving it. And even then , she’ll probably still making teasing comments. It’s just in her nature.

Beyond this, though, her humour is a defence mechanism. When she’s feeling awkward, she’ll crack a joke, when faced with a particularly dangerous or awful situation, her first instinct is to say something flippant. However, as with most things when it comes to Hawke, in those situations that are particularly personal her reactions are different. Hawke is the quintessential older sibling, and once her father died, head of the family. She feels that letting others see how deeply situations such as the death of her brother and mother affect her is, in a word, unacceptable. She sees herself as the person that those close to her rely on, so if she is feeling particularly sad, or hurt, she’ll try her damnedest not to show it. Humour is a mechanism she uses for this, but more often than not she’ll take it a step further and simply pretend that everything is fine, that nothing bad happened at all. It’s only the people who are extremely close to her that she’ll let see the more vulnerable side of her, and even then it takes some prying on their part.

Once she gets close to people, however, she’s the sort who’s a friend for life. Hawke essentially loses her entire blood family over the course of her life – first her father, then her brother to darkspawn, her sister to the Wardens and while she still has her mother, she won ‘t for long :’D – so the idea of ‘friends are the family you choose’ is particularly poignant to her, although she’d never be so sappy as to actually say something like that (and would likely make fun of anyone who did)

She’s a very confident sort of person, who has faith in her own physical abilities. She’s completely aware of the things she’s capable of, and also her limitations – although just because something should be beyond her, doesn’t mean she won’t try for it. In fact, she’s one of those irritating sorts of people who will look at the insurmountable, shrug, and say ‘hey let’s do it anyway’. Especially if the insurmountable happens to involve someone cares about. She tries to stop and think before she does something – particularly after what happened to her sister as a result of her decisions – but if someone she cares about is in danger, her attitude is very much a look before leaping sort. Actually, it would probably be accurate to say she usually leaps, looks back, and then makes some shit up about how she totally thought it through. She might pretend to be irritated or fed up with the seemingly never-ending line of people needing her help, but the truth of the matter is she would far rather they came to her than go without that help; she might take pleasure in gouging those who she feels deserve it for her services, but if anyone is in genuine need, she won’t hesitate to help out. Usually without ulterior motives.

Although she has risen to become quite prominent in the city of Kirkwall lately, Hawke’s fame sits uneasily on her; despite her noble heritage, she was born a peasant in a different land entirely, and her rise to power is something that even now takes her by surprise. Hawke has her own particular set of morals and ethics that she sticks through throughout her life – look after family, look after good people, stop bad people. Not having encountered a lot of moral dilemmas that make up her later life, yet, she still holds to this fairly well. While she’s quick to deliver justice against those who have wronged her or the people she loves, when it comes to the people she loves wronging others, she’s a lot more at sea. Although this hasn’t happened in her canon point, I think it’s still serves as a fitting example. When Isabela need a relic to save her life that could otherwise stop a war, Hawke lets her take the relic – and offers herself up as sacrifice instead, fighting in single combat to make the Qunari leave. Hawke would rather risk herself than let others risk themselves – even if it’s their fault they’re in the position in the first place.

Hawke isn’t one to enjoy the responsibilities she’s been saddled with over her lifetime, but she nonetheless fulfils them the best way she knows how, and makes the most of what she’s given outside of them. She can be serious when she needs to be, but you’d be more likely to find her in tavern with her friends, flirting with the bartender, throwing back a few beers and gambling away whatever she picked up from the people who decided to play ‘let’s try to kill Hawke’, than in a library or some other place of quiet contemplation.

abilities/powers:
Hawke is a Warrior class lady! So she can do this shit:
Two Handed Warrior talents
A couple of Warmonger talents
About half of the Battlemaster talents

first person sample: All the examples

third person sample: Bam.

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