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]

You joined the one organization that wants to lock your brother up all because he didn't take you on one adventure.

I think that one action can be summed up in every way your mun described you.

[theyunderestimateme]

For someone who isn't whiny, you certainly seem to do a good impression of it, don't you?

[hawkejunior]

What? What in the Void are you talking about?

[hawkejunior]

This isn't whining. This is raising clearly objectionable points about my personality.

[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?

[theyunderestimateme]

If it looks like a darkspawn and makes... horrible noises like a darkspawn...

...Bugger all, that sounded better in my head.

[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]

Well, I'm not a darkspawn, clearly. Though I suppose you could argue otherwise given my current circumstances.

[Point: missed.]

[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.

[theyunderestimateme]

Figure of speech, love.

...what current circumstances.

[hawkejunior]

The Grey Warden ones.

[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.

[theyunderestimateme]

[OH GOOD it seems like she and Alistair manage to get their shit together at some point. Awesome. Because, uh. Mostly it feels like they've been flailing around so far.]

You're a Grey Warden?

[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.

[hawkejunior]

Yes. And don't say I look too young for it, please. I'm begging you.

[theyunderestimateme]

Pfff, I was just a bit over marrying age when I was conscripted, and two men who were my senior perished at my Joining. I don't think age is a factor.

[hawkejunior]

Good. [Pause.]

Well, not- not good that they died at your joining, good that age isn't a factor.

[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?

[theyunderestimateme]

Oh, I know what you meant. I didn't know them very well, at least. Far as I can tell, luck—or divine favor, take your pick, I suppose—is as much a factor as anything else.

[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.

[hawkejunior]

Yeah. No bloody kidding.

[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.