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2011-11-07T00:30:37Z

player information.

name: Ally
are you over 18?: Old lady is old. /TEARS
personal lj: littlethousand
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
AIM: little thousands
e-mail: lymsleia at gmail dot com
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characters in abax: nope

in character information.

series: Dragon Age II
name: Bethany Hawke
sex: Female
age: 23
height: 5'4"
weight: 111 lbs.
canon point: The start of Act II! It's been three years since the Deep Roads expedition; she survived the Joining ritual and has spent all of this time learning just how much being a Warden sucks and resenting her sister for it.
previous cr: Nope~

history: The DA wiki has a general breakdown, but since Dragon Age is a game about choices, here are the ones made in Bethany's version of the story so far:

- Bethany's older sister was Marian Hawke, a quick-witted and sarcastic rogue. She and Bethany's twin brother, Carver, fought together at the battle of Ostagar; after that was lost, they returned to Lothering, retrieved Bethany and their mother, and ran for it. The town was destroyed shortly after they left.

- Carver was killed by an ogre. After getting the taint, Aveline kills her husband at his request. Soon after, the survivors flee to Kirkwall with Flemeth's help.

- Marian and Bethany pledge their services to a mercenary group for a year, to pay their way into the city.

- After said year is up, our heroes go on various adventures and other assorted hijinks and quests in the general area of Kirkwall to raise the funds needed to join a Deep Roads expedition. They make some friends along the way, and Hawke begins to make a name for herself in the City of Chains.

- Marian brings Varric, Anders, and Bethany along with her to the Deep Roads. They find a very valuable idol, but Varric's brother shows his true colors (Jerkass Chartreuse) and betrays them, taking the idol for himself and locking the group in an ancient dwarven thaig. They manage to fight their way out, but Bethany becomes infected with the taint along the way.

- With Anders's help, they persuade a group of Grey Wardens to let Bethany participate in the Joining ritual, the only hope she has of survival. Bethany survives the ritual and becomes a Warden herself, a fate she comes to resent.

- and then suddenly Abax

personality: "It was never anything I had to work for. Other people always took the risks, to keep me free."

Varric's nickname for Bethany is "Sunshine," which is as astute an analysis of her as any. Her life hasn't been an easy one - she's spent a good portion of her life on the run as an apostate, seen her father and twin brother die, and almost died herself. Despite these hardships, though, she is a generally kind and caring person. She genuinely cares for the well-being of others and becomes upset when others don't possess the same sort of common courtesy. She is a person who is full of love for everyone, because she was raised by a family who loved her enough to protect her at all costs.

But even though she is so loving, it's easy to see that she is bitter, too. She is particularly resentful of her magic, as this one simple thing has affected her entire life - as well as the lives of her family. Bethany knows that she is privileged in a lot of ways, having grown up as a free mage, with her father to teacher how to use and control her magic, as well as how to hide it. Like Anders tells her in Act I, "Most mages would kill for that." Despite all that, though, all she's ever wanted was to be a normal person with normal problems. She wants a home, a place she can belong to without having to run and hide from templars and live her life without fear.

"I had a twin brother, Carver. He used to nail my braid to the bed while I was sleeping. I never thought I'd miss him this much."

Bethany is calm, collected, the voice of reason - a stark contrast to her siblings. Marian is a celebrity, the center of attention, the leader, while Carver is resentful because he wants to stand in the spotlight and escape from the shadows. Despite seeming so straight-laced compared to her siblings, however, she is just as capable of snark and sarcasm as the other two - she is a Hawke, after all! And while the two of them frustrate and perplex her at times, they are her family, and she wouldn't trade them for anything. Carver's death in particular had a heavy impact on her; though the two of them weren't very close, he was still her brother, her twin, and it feels like a part of her died along with him.

Although Carver is her twin, she's always been closer to Marian; Bethany looks up to her, admires the way she can always take care of things with a smile and a clever remark. This particular relationship becomes complicated after the end of Act One, however. When Bethany contracted the Blight while exploring the Deep Roads, Marian left her in the care of the Grey Wardens, because it was the only way that she could have survived. This is a decision Bethany comes to resent deeply because, as it turns out, being a Grey Warden kind of sucks!

"Was Carver not enough for the darkspawn? Did they have to steal my life as well?"

She's plagued with nightmares, her lifespan is limited -- such is the fate of the Wardens. It is a fate that Bethany mourns, because while she got screwed over, her sister was rewarded with fame, riches, and the life that Bethany wanted to share with her. She often wonders how things might have turned out, if the expedition had gone differently, but she knows there's no changing anything. This is the lot the Maker has set out for her. She's a Grey Warden for life, like it or not, but she doesn't let that stop her from blaming it on her sister. It will take her a long time to overcome this resentment, but in the meantime, she is very cold toward Marian. She writes frequently, though her letters are rather passive-aggressive...

abilities/powers:
Bethany is a mage! So she can do all kinds of wacky shit, such as using the Force, throwing fireballs at people, and some other cool tricks. She can also heal a little bit.

Additionally, Bethany is a Grey Warden, which doesn't grant her much in the way of sparklypoo magical powers, but it does allow her to kill Archdemons and sense darkspawn and other wardens.

first person sample: hey

third person sample: hi

case no: IDK MAKE ONE UP

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2011-05-31T01:02:15Z

Player Information:

Name or Handle: Ally!
LJ: littlethousand
Email: lymsleia at gmail dot com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: AIM: little thousands | plurk: /tenkai
Any current characters here?: nop

Character Information:

Character Name: Bethany Hawke
Age: 28 or so.
Canon: Dragon Age II
Appearance:
Hotness is totally prevalent in the Hawke family genes, and Bethany is no exception. She looks a bit like her siblings, naturally, especially her twin brother Carver; brown eyes and black hair. She is also kind of short and scrawny -- not very muscular at all, because lol mages. Her breasts, however, are not nearly as large as Varric might tell you.

Personality:
"I had a twin brother, Carver. He used to nail my braid to the bed while I was sleeping. I never thought I'd miss him this much."

Though Bethany is the youngest of the Hawke siblings, it is easy to assume otherwise, as she often takes up the role of the more mature and responsible sister. It is usually her job to break up Marian and Carver's squabbles and bring the two of the back to reality to remind them of the situation at hand (i.e., fleeing from the darkspawn in Lothering). Despite seeming so straight-laced, however, she is just as capable of snark and sarcasm as her brother and sister -- she is a Hawke, after all. And while her siblings frustrate and perplex her to no end at times, they are all she has left in the world, and she would not trade them for anything. Caver's death made a heavy impact on her; though she was not as close to Carver as she is to Marian, he was still her brother, her twin, and she feels like a part of her died on that day.

"It was never anything I had to work for. Other people always took the risks, to keep me free."

More than being the voice of reason among her siblings, however, her status as an illegal mage is a very large part of who Bethany is as a person. She has been an apostate all her life, constantly in hiding from the templars, lest she be taken to the Circle of Magi, away from her family. It's not a lifestyle she enjoys, and sometimes she finds herself resenting it; not out of jealousy for her less magical siblings, though, but more her dependence on them. She appreciates all that her family and friends do for her, but she feels a bit of guilt for it, too. She wishes she could do the same for them.

There was a brief point, after becoming a Grey Warden, where all that bottled up resentment kind of exploded all over Marian. Marian didn't almost die in the Deep Roads. Marian didn't have to join the Grey Wardens and suffer through dreams of the Archdemon and the Blight in her blood. Marian's life is easy! This lasted for a few years and resulted in a lot of passive-aggressive letters, but Bethany eventually came to realize that all these things happened because her sister was trying to protect her -- and now, several years later, she understands and appreciates that a lot more, and their relationship is stronger than ever.

Varric's nickname for her is "Sunshine," which is as astute an analysis of Bethany as any. She is one of the more optimistic members of Hawke's merry little band of misfits, second only to Merrill. Despite the tragedies she's been through, she still believes in the goodness of others, even in the Circle and the Chantry. It is also because of Bethany's efforts that her mother is inspired to try and reclaim the Amell estate. Overall, she is one bright light in the Champion's otherwise dark and somewhat grim life, and a pleasant enough girl to have around -- even if she's a bit of a stick in the mud at times.

If you are apping a character arriving from another game: n/a

Background: Here! Note that she comes from more or less the same background as our Hawke, in that she survived Lothering, became a Grey Warden, and fought the templars alongside her sister to defend them mages.

Special Abilities or Weapons: Bethany is a mage with a lot of different spells at her disposal! Appropriately, she is given the Force Mage specialization in-game.

Also she's a Grey Warden so blah blah dreaming about the Archdemon, darkspawn senses tingling, etc.

Sect: UHHHH. Civilian~

Job: director of hutt porn I MEAN none yet, she'll decide for herself eventually.

Samples:

First Person: http://unknownregions.livejournal.com/5035.html?thread=1324715#t1324715

Third Person: http://pinkestsheep.livejournal.com/1279.html

Anything Else: i can't think of anywhere clever to sneak in ebon hawk so here you go

The Mage Who Went Away

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