Just apped at exitvoid

[hawkejunior]

All right, you turned the application in. Bloody good for you. About time I show up to sort this mess out (and I'm going to do a better job at it than my brother or that crazy mage, thank you very much.)

Now sit down while I list, point by point, all the parts that are wrong.

- I do not have an inferiority complex!
- I am not jealous of Garrett!
- I am not whiny!
- I do not complain all the time!
- I am not "a bit of a tit" and it's not a justifiable thing to say!
- I do too have charisma!
- I am not IMMATURE.

And last, but certainly not least, this is the worst journal name ever!

FIX IT.

Comments

[tinfoil_angel]

Wait, bugger. I forgot there are some universe differences. In certain universes your brother is a mage. Still it stands that if Bethany were alive the group you are a part of would of most certainly locked her away or made her tranquil.

[hawkejunior]

How dare you. What do you know about my sister? And what do you know about the Grey Wardens?

[tinfoil_angel]

Oh double bugger.

You know what, here.

[He'd wave a hand and would show the events of the game had Hawke not taken him to the expedition.]

You would of joined the Templars had you not contracted the taint. You would of been part of the very organization that hates and fears mages. I'm sorry I snapped but it seems there are many differences between Carver Hawkes of different universes I'm not aware of.

[hawkejunior]

.. You really think that's why I'd join the templars? Just to stick it to my brother?

I wouldn't play at something like that for something so petty. I have my reasons, you know.

[tinfoil_angel]

It seems to me like you fell out of favor due to that one event. Or was it just because you were tired of being in your brother's shadow? Either way you did end up joining a group that would have all mages hauled away.

I showed you events as they happened by the way. Simply in another universe where the conditions were slightly different.

[hawkejunior]

It's hardly as black and white as that. For every mage like my brother or sister, there's one cutting off people's heads and stitching them to things just to see what it'll do.

[tinfoil_angel]

And for every Templar that believes in justice there is one that simply hates mages or abuses their power.

Like any criminal they should be locked away on a case by case basis. If you locked away people based upon the potential for them to do ill deeds then you'd lock up every man, woman and child.

[hawkejunior]

So shouldn't those who believe in justice become templars?

[tinfoil_angel]

You're missing the point. Those who don't believe in justice will become templars too. They're not the unquestionable source of good.

No government is. I saw into the minds of people like the Templars. What they saw in me was either a monster or a tool to be caged and prodded.

[hawkejunior]

And they're not an unquestionable source of evil, either.

Though even if I did become a templar, I'd hardly owe any explanation to you.

[tinfoil_angel]

No you wouldn't.

You would just have to face the fact that your betrayed your family for whatever reasons you have that OBVIOUSLY have nothing to do with Garret.

[hawkejunior]

Striking out on my own isn't a betrayal.

[tinfoil_angel]

Not with the Grey Wardens but had you been the Carver that joined the Templars you would of taken to the organization that would of had your father incarcerated forever without any crime committed other than being born a mage.

[hawkejunior]

And again, striking out on my own isn't a betrayal.

But I'm sure you know exactly what I should do at all times, right? You know exactly what it was like to be me all my life.

[tinfoil_angel]

No, but I know what it's like to be your brother or your sister. It's very scary.

[magerights]

I'd give up while I were ahead if I were you. Maker knows Carver never gets any of this.

But it's refreshing to see someone else understand it without my having to spell it out for them. It gives me a little hope that others will get it as well.

[hawkejunior]

Yes, that's right, let's all be loony mages with crazy spirits screaming in our heads and telling us to kill people. Perfect solution!

I "get it" just fine.

[magerights]

You're only proving my point, you know. I never said we should all be like that, but then trying to explain to you what I do mean never seems to get through.

[hawkejunior]

So, do you get to do one thing and then tell everybody else they're supposed to do another?

[magerights]

You're still doing it! Maker's breath, all I ever wanted was for mages to be treated equally, not to be hunted and hated for what we are. Is that so wrong?

[hawkejunior]

No! I never said it was wrong! Bloody Void, you'd think I'd know that of all people, wouldn't you?

[magerights]

Then why say I want everyone to be like me? Andraste's ashes, you're such a bloody tit sometimes!

[tinfoil_angel]

Well I'm in the same position as yourself. Well I am the closest thing to a mage in my world that is.

The only real difference is there are only twelve of us in existence.

[magerights]

Only twelve? I can't imagine what that must be like, with the whole world as against you as it is for mages... You have my sympathies.

[tinfoil_angel]

It was worse. Because looking at the mages from your world. Well I'm not saying this to be egotistical but one of us would be able to face a country made up completely of mages.

So imagine all of us scared, stupid teenagers being attacked before we realized the extent of what we could do.