meggannn:

great, now i’m imagining a dragon age 2 rewrite with a sense8 premise, where like the companions all start visiting/sensing each other at their most vulnerable moments/most difficult situations before they meet each other in kirkwall (for the sake of story personal timelines may be stretched)

• hawke as they’re on the run from lothering fleeing the blight and fighting darkspawn. losing one sibling, both? leandra too? fighting the darkspawn alone, trying to find safety, losing hope when they’re suddenly visited by an odd, vague dwarven shadow, telling them to hang in there, they’ll make it out alive, and he’s buying when they do
• fenris when he’s still with danarius, the story following him through to when he’s on the run from the hunters… wondering if it’s worth fighting, or if his life in slavery is inevitable, suddenly feeling a gut-like reaction from the other side of the world telling him NO in the most determined sense, promising help and support, coming from a presence that he hesitantly learns to recognize is “friend”
• varric getting to know bianca as she makes his crossbow, hiding from the guild, deciding to split with her, sensing a woman clap him on the back, telling him it never hurts any less but she’ll treat him to a pint when they finally meet
• anders during take your pick, fleeing the circle to fleeing the wardens to fusing with justice, being surrounded by templar hunters, suddenly feeling energized with an odd, inhuman strength, a wild combination of terror/rage/vengeance that fuels him through the slaying of each of his hunters and doesn’t subdue till he’s fled the area, but lingers long after
• merrill preparing to make a deal with the demon, never hesitating, but welcoming the presence of a strong warrior at her back, neither approving nor disapproving but always watching her back nonetheless
• isabela saving the slaves, stealing the relic, running from qunari, wondering if she’s made the right choice, finding comfort and hesitant belief that things will get better being sent to her from a shy, strange elven girl
• aveline… knowing wesley didn’t always fight the right battles as a templar, catching glimpses of the mages’ perspectives being accidentally sent to her from a runaway apostate, feeling the terror, convincing her husband maybe to be lenient on the ones he managed to find

the most immediate thing that comes to my mind is “holy shit, now everybody will feel exactly what fenris feels and has felt, like, ALL THE TIME” but also like, “now everybody will know where anders is coming from” and also just. warriors and rogues feeling what it’s like to be a mage, fenris maybe super reluctant to visit anders and merrill, trying to close off his connection to them out of fear of what it may do to him. everybody teasing merrill a little less now that they understand where she’s coming from too. isabela feeling mortified all these strangers know her most private secrets and knowing what she thinks of herself deep down, but acting like it doesn’t bother her. aveline taking it all in stride but holding it together because someone has to. varric never needing to use the old “i made a promise; she’s the only story i’ll never tell” excuse again. hawke being immediately drawn to all of these new strangers, spending as much time as they can visiting them to ignore the darkspawn closing in. everybody wondering if the others would even find out if they died before they managed to meet up for the first time

IDK yet another gd fic idea i’ll probably never write