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NAME: Fenris
CANON: Dragon Age
CANON POINT: A few weeks post Dragon Age II
AGE: Mid-thirties
BACKGROUND: Here!
For note: Tevinter is a country in which mages essentially rule. Often they act decadently, usign their magic for their own ends. Non-mages are a lesser class, never mind non-humans.
The Free Marches, on the other hand, where Dragon Age II takes place, are more strict towards mages. They are required to be registered and live in an organization called the Circle of Magi, where they're theoretically taught how to control themselves. In reality, Circles can range from pleasant, airy places of learning to horrifying prisons, where mages are subject to things like sexual and physical abuse, starvation, so on and so forth.
PERSONALITY: One of the first things that one has to know about Fenris is that he's a slave who has since escaped his master. These two facts make up a majority of his personality, because they're literally all he knows. Really! When he was branded in a horrific experiment by his master, he lost all memories of his childhood, his family, his old life . . . so literally all Fenris knows for a good majority of canon is slavery and being on the run. Not exactly an ideal foundation.
So with that said: Fenris is incredibly defensive, and that comes out as anger a great deal of the time. It's not stunningly hard to realize this, not when his armor is covered in spikes and he spends most of canon acting as though mercenaries and slavers are always around the corner. But it's more than that: he snarls as a way to cope, snapping without thinking when he's stressed or upset. He can channel that rage into some intense brutality (he murders his master's apprentice, despite promising her safety not a moment before), and certainly spends a great deal of time feeding that anger, brooding alone in his stolen mansion, ruminating on this and that. A great deal of his development in the game is him learning how to let go of at least some of that anger, although certainly not all of it.
He will apologize to those he's close to if he finds it's unwarrented (for example: when he thought Hawke was trying to buy a slave, he was horrified and immediately started to yell; the instant it became clear they were merely hiring a servant, he backed down immediately and awkwardly). He can be incredibly insensitive and cruel to others when his buttons are even slightly grazed, never mind pushed.
He's also deeply, deeply prejudiced, to the point of blatant hypocrisy. Fenris is a champion of freeing slaves, but ignores the fact that mages in the Free Marches (or anywhere that isn't Tevinter) are, essentially, enslaved. He cites their powers as justification for that slavery-- and to be fair, he's seen a lot of the ways magic can be abused! He knows how horrific it can get! Literally, firsthand, has been physically and sexually abused by a mage! And because that experience was so traumatizing, and because he has used that rage to propell himself over the past few years, Fenris finds it incredibly hard to see in shades of grey when it coems to magic. Mages are bad, and that's all there is to it.
He's also this way when it comes to elves. Despite the fact he himself is an elf (although he doesn't particularly associate himself with them, not remembering his family and never having had any contact with elven communities), despite the fact he intimately knows the struggle of being enslaved and why those without power keep their heads down, he looks down on those elves who don't actively fight for their betterment, deriding them as "frightened cattle" in his thoughts.
So, not great. That said: he is capable of seeing shades of grey. By the end of the game, he can grudgingly follow Hawke into protecting mages, even if it still goes against his better judgement. He can even fall in love with Hawke if they're a mage, despite his deep reservations. And while he may never be the champion of mages, he can at least learn to befriend a very select few.
He also has his charms. Beneath all that anger and hypocrisy is a man who is quite literally learning how to live. By the third act of the game, it's been nine years since he escaped his master, and while he still trusts very few, he has learned how to relax. He plays cards with his friend's boyfriend! He makes jokes! He can be civil when approached, and downright pleasant to talk to if one has earned his trust and companionship. He might never be the life of the party, but he's also not constantly brooding. He broods a lot, admittedly. The man lives in his master's former mansion filled with corpses for seven years! He does love him some brooding. But it's not the entirety of his personality.
He's also intensely loyal. To Hawke, absolutely, but even to the others in the party: despite despising Anders, he pointedly refuses to sell him out to the Circle. He believes he ought to be there, oh, yes, and he has an intense hatred of him, but he won't betray a companion like that.
POWERS/ABILITIES: So! Fenris was infused with lyrium at a young age, which gives him the ability to phase through solid objects (think shoving a hand through someone's body and rematerializing just so he can grab their heart and yank it out of their chests).
Beyond that, they also grant him extra endurance and strength.
INVENTORY: His big-ass sword he wears strapped to his back. And two bottles of wine.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis
? SAMPLES
a tdm toplevel with a few different threads!
NAME: Fenris
CANON: Dragon Age
CANON POINT: A few weeks post Dragon Age II
AGE: Mid-thirties
BACKGROUND: Here!
For note: Tevinter is a country in which mages essentially rule. Often they act decadently, usign their magic for their own ends. Non-mages are a lesser class, never mind non-humans.
The Free Marches, on the other hand, where Dragon Age II takes place, are more strict towards mages. They are required to be registered and live in an organization called the Circle of Magi, where they're theoretically taught how to control themselves. In reality, Circles can range from pleasant, airy places of learning to horrifying prisons, where mages are subject to things like sexual and physical abuse, starvation, so on and so forth.
PERSONALITY: One of the first things that one has to know about Fenris is that he's a slave who has since escaped his master. These two facts make up a majority of his personality, because they're literally all he knows. Really! When he was branded in a horrific experiment by his master, he lost all memories of his childhood, his family, his old life . . . so literally all Fenris knows for a good majority of canon is slavery and being on the run. Not exactly an ideal foundation.
So with that said: Fenris is incredibly defensive, and that comes out as anger a great deal of the time. It's not stunningly hard to realize this, not when his armor is covered in spikes and he spends most of canon acting as though mercenaries and slavers are always around the corner. But it's more than that: he snarls as a way to cope, snapping without thinking when he's stressed or upset. He can channel that rage into some intense brutality (he murders his master's apprentice, despite promising her safety not a moment before), and certainly spends a great deal of time feeding that anger, brooding alone in his stolen mansion, ruminating on this and that. A great deal of his development in the game is him learning how to let go of at least some of that anger, although certainly not all of it.
He will apologize to those he's close to if he finds it's unwarrented (for example: when he thought Hawke was trying to buy a slave, he was horrified and immediately started to yell; the instant it became clear they were merely hiring a servant, he backed down immediately and awkwardly). He can be incredibly insensitive and cruel to others when his buttons are even slightly grazed, never mind pushed.
He's also deeply, deeply prejudiced, to the point of blatant hypocrisy. Fenris is a champion of freeing slaves, but ignores the fact that mages in the Free Marches (or anywhere that isn't Tevinter) are, essentially, enslaved. He cites their powers as justification for that slavery-- and to be fair, he's seen a lot of the ways magic can be abused! He knows how horrific it can get! Literally, firsthand, has been physically and sexually abused by a mage! And because that experience was so traumatizing, and because he has used that rage to propell himself over the past few years, Fenris finds it incredibly hard to see in shades of grey when it coems to magic. Mages are bad, and that's all there is to it.
He's also this way when it comes to elves. Despite the fact he himself is an elf (although he doesn't particularly associate himself with them, not remembering his family and never having had any contact with elven communities), despite the fact he intimately knows the struggle of being enslaved and why those without power keep their heads down, he looks down on those elves who don't actively fight for their betterment, deriding them as "frightened cattle" in his thoughts.
So, not great. That said: he is capable of seeing shades of grey. By the end of the game, he can grudgingly follow Hawke into protecting mages, even if it still goes against his better judgement. He can even fall in love with Hawke if they're a mage, despite his deep reservations. And while he may never be the champion of mages, he can at least learn to befriend a very select few.
He also has his charms. Beneath all that anger and hypocrisy is a man who is quite literally learning how to live. By the third act of the game, it's been nine years since he escaped his master, and while he still trusts very few, he has learned how to relax. He plays cards with his friend's boyfriend! He makes jokes! He can be civil when approached, and downright pleasant to talk to if one has earned his trust and companionship. He might never be the life of the party, but he's also not constantly brooding. He broods a lot, admittedly. The man lives in his master's former mansion filled with corpses for seven years! He does love him some brooding. But it's not the entirety of his personality.
He's also intensely loyal. To Hawke, absolutely, but even to the others in the party: despite despising Anders, he pointedly refuses to sell him out to the Circle. He believes he ought to be there, oh, yes, and he has an intense hatred of him, but he won't betray a companion like that.
POWERS/ABILITIES: So! Fenris was infused with lyrium at a young age, which gives him the ability to phase through solid objects (think shoving a hand through someone's body and rematerializing just so he can grab their heart and yank it out of their chests).
Beyond that, they also grant him extra endurance and strength.
INVENTORY: His big-ass sword he wears strapped to his back. And two bottles of wine.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis
? SAMPLES
a tdm toplevel with a few different threads!