where is my rom com au with strict and sad teacher!Anders and students Carver and Bethany trying to fix him up with their big brother Hawke to get them both to be happy
or even better, Carver and Bethany trying to fix Anders up with someone else but Hawke is always there for some reason (too look after his siblings okay and he has the car and they need a ride) and Anders and Hawke ends up together much to the twin’s chagrin
Their first candidate for this was obviously Mr. Fenris, the phys-ed teacher at their school and that ended horribly, who knew Mr. Fenris was so opinionated against magic, on hind sight it probably wasn’t the best idea to try to fix someone like that with someone who teaches Magical Theory 101, and it definitely wasn’t a good idea to get them locked in the gymnasium together, and maybe this is a lesson for another day, write that down, Bethany
[Mr. Anders can blow doors up with his hands]
The next candidate is Isabela, Garrett’s always single friend who has also baby sat the twins before when they were younger, and you know what it turns out she is also Anders’ ex? The world we live in is so small and Garrett and Isabela and Anders just ended up going bar crawling, Anders coming into Monday class hungover and even crankier than before, this has backfired spectacularly
[Can’t he just use healing on himself? Apparently it doesn’t work on hangovers]
The third candidate is Alistair, the guy who cleans their pool and Carver really isn’t sure about him but trust me Carver, he has abs, and Carver is like well alright so they call him to Anders’ house and it turns out Mr. Anders doesn’t even have a pool in his house, AListair is just like well I get a lot of prank calls and Anders is so sorry, I don’t understand who would do this
cut to the twin who are hanging out in Garret’s car with binoculars, this is not going well, and Garret is so disappointed that it’s not going well, is this what you guys been doing with your time?? HEY I HAVE ABS
The fourth date is with Cullen, their mother’s part time personal trainer and also a cop, the date is actually going really well, Garret, why are you here (well you guys needed a ride to this fancy restaurant they’re having a date in and I’m also getting kinda invested in this scheme), until Anders brings up the fact that he used to get into all kinds of trouble as a teenager esp given that he’s a mage
and Cullen is like shoving breadsticks into his purse like well thank you, but I gotta get out my dog has an emergency right now, and Anders is just really dejected, outside the restaurant WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME AM I SO UNLOVABLE
(it starts raining on cue and he doesn’t even have an umbrella)
and Garret just gets out of the car like OH HEY ANDERS, I TOTALLY DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE HERE, what’s up do you want this donut that I most deinfitely just did not run across the street to buy, also my car is here, also my siblings who are also your students, there is nothing strange going on, if you want a ride i can totally do that for you
And Anders looks at him like Garret is the sweetest person ever
I’ve watched listened to WAY too much Grey’s Anatomy (all of it from the start, within a month and a half probably, or less). xD I meant to ACTUALLY include Anders in his nurse’s outfit but the way this went he didn’t want to be in the picture. xD LATER, then.
Aaand here’s permanently exhausted registered nurse Anders who one time fell asleep on the job in Jay’s room and got a ten-minute nap and Jay’s instructions to go HOME and sleep after his shift out of it (’in my very medical opinion–’ ‘Oh YOU have a medical opinion. Who’s the trained nurse here?’ ‘In my very medical opinion–’). :’D Please bird man you need to sleep.
Also: @tatteredpantaloons your tags crack me up a freaking bezoar??? xD I mean. This is Hawke, anything is possible pffffft. There was an episode like that in Grey’s Anatomy and I remember just watching it, too!
Jay ‘makes friends everyone in the hospital staff in a day’ Hawke, at it. ^u^
i wanted to draw something for my tumblr theme for xmas soooo i made gif haha (there is also .png below mhm) stay warm at holidays (just like these guys ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ )
Was ruminating (for various reasons) on the size of Hawke’s house in the game. It’s described as the Amell estate, and various background codeces describe the Amell family as being a fairly major noble house in Kirkwall before their fall from grace – major enough that they were contenders to be Viscount, among other things.
Yet the part of the house that Hawke inhabits from the second act onwards is honestly… pretty small. You’ve got an entrance hall of pretty small size, a moderate living room, an upstairs area about the same size, and then two bedrooms – Hawke’s and his mother’s. And that’s it. Bigger than Gamlen’s crappy lowtown apartment, sure, but in absolute terms not very big.
Call me a snob, but I wouldn’t call that an estate. More like a townhouse.
I can think of a couple of explanations for this discrepancy. The first is that I’m simply spoiled by modern notions of expansiveness and space, and the space described by the Amell estate is actually quite generous by the standards of size and space for the day, especially in a crowded city. But that doesn’t completely add up. We see other Hightown houses during the course of the game. The De Launcet’s house is much bigger; Fenris’ house is much bigger. Hightown, being the remnants of Tevinter magister residences, seems to be quite expansive. You
would think, if the Amells were really that prominent, that their house
would be at least as big as theirs. Furthermore, there’s an enormous wine cellar/basement complex under the house, that extends all the way to the Undercity; you could fit the upstairs of the house into that space several times over. How can it be that they have all those wine and storage cellars, and yet no kitchens?
The second is that there’s a level of Video Game Compression at work. Much the way we can assume that Anders treated more than one patient in his clinic over the course of seven years, and we can assume that there were more than about ten people in the Chantry at the time of its destruction, perhaps the Amell estate is actually bigger than what we see. It’s a pretty common phenomenon in video games that the ‘friendly’ areas (and friendly populations) are dwarfed in size many times over by the ‘dungeon’ areas. You don’t need to spend an hour traversing through the peaceful parts of the city just to visit the vendors (I’m looking at you, Hightown Market,) you put everything you need fairly close together and save your rendering space for the active game areas where things actually happen.
The third possibility is the one I inadvertently suggested a few paragraphs up. Maybe the Amell estate is actually just that, a townhouse. A place for the Amells to stay while they’re attending to business in the city, but not their primary residence.
If that’s the case, then there ought to be a bucolic Amell estate somewhere out in the countryside, with rolling acres and a sprawling stone pile of a mansion. Probably decrepit and abandoned for years after the fall of the Amells, maybe avoided on suspicion of being haunted! I think this would be the perfect location for Hawke and Anders to settle down and raise their mountain lion and baby dragon family, don’t you?
Where were they gonna put the sibling? Sibling was supposed to move with them before they go poof after the deep roads. Where do Bodhan and Sandal and Orana sleep??? I’m gonna agree with all of this and say the developers hid the “unnecessary” bed rooms etc, but they have to exist right? Surely hawke has a kitchen??? But out of the way estate for Hawke to hide with anders (or LI of choice…) Is awesome and I completely agree.
Delicious Fish 