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"I would drown us in blood to keep you safe" might just be the most romantic and brain-rotting line ever written and it only works because it's said by a psychotic bisexual man with long hair.

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Not a finished sketch. But I want to show it *^*

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Official Handers Exchange Roundup!

And just like that, the Handers Gift Exchange for 2025 has officially come to a close! On behalf of all the moderators, we would love to thank each and every one of our 24 participants who showed great love for Hawke and Anders and wonderful effort and generosity for their giftees.

To see all the wonderful gifts our participants have created, please look below for links!

A final reminder to our participants: please make sure you fulfill your part as giftee by leaving a comment of at least three lines in length! Be it in AO3 comments, tumblr reblogs, or tumblr tags.

Fanfiction:

@daysofauldlangsyne - oh! how free will we be! - AO3 - m!Handers

@full---ofstarlight - you pierce my soul - AO3 - f!Handers

@goth-surana - Of Pardons and Regrets - AO3 - m!Handers

@heinrixvancunt - hawke's day - Tumblr - m!Handers

@lenioxoxo - Scorch Your Flesh and Shatter Your Heart - AO3 - m!Handers

@librivore42 - Without you, without me - tumblr - f!Handers

@little--abyss - Speak the Word Only - AO3 - m!Handers

@only-slightly-terrified - Come hell or high water - AO3 - m!Handers

@pinkfadespirit - in dark times and forever - AO3 - m!Handers

@sandcoloredcat - I Need a Healer - AO3 - m!Handers

@storybookhawke - Forever Isn't Long Enough - AO3 - m!Handers

@transandersrights - Recycling, fear, and the civic importance of kissing - AO3 - nb!Handers

@winebearcat - Love Bite - AO3 - m!Handers

Fanart:

@auphaniim - m!Handers - tumblr

@bowiebond - m!Handers - tumblr - and a second piece!

@ceredblythe - m!Handers - tumblr

@comfortyart - m!Handers - tumblr

@emeraldscholar - m!Handers - tumblr

@falcatas - m!Handers - tumblr

@justafterjuly - m!Handers - tumblr

@only-the-coolest-apples - m!Handers - tumblr

@ridivenire - m!Handers - tumblr

@salsedinepicta - m!Handers - tumblr

@winterhartarts - f!Handers - tumblr

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they deserved to be happy

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Rainy Anders 🌧

sometimes you just gotta draw wet, long-haired Anders you know what I mean

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SEB ily but do you really want me to answer that

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I love you Anders but you really need to step up your game

DO NOT REPOST, I WILL CURSE YOU

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they had no business making him this cute in awakening

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may you find the forgiveness that you seek, my child; just not in my sacred walls

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Sometimes Bg3 will do this thing where it acts like Baulders Gate is the most evil city ever. However. I've been to Kirkwall. So.

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I Need a Healer

My gift for @auphaniim for the 2025 Handers Gift Exchange (@handers-time). I hope you enjoy it!

Pairing: Anders/Male Hawke Word Count: 2,488 Tags: Purple Hawke, Love at First Sight, Fluff Summary: Hawke goes looking for the Grey Warden in Darktown. The man he finds is nothing like what Hawke expects.

Read on AO3!

Excerpt: They’d enter the clinic. They’d find this “Anders.” He’d presumably be a stodgy old Grey Warden downing his seventh or eighth bottle of whiskey that day. He’d presumably be so incoherent that all they’d have to do was ask for the maps and he’d give them up before passing out on the floor. Easy.

Hawke steps briskly into the clinic and almost collides into a man rushing through the entrance.

“Whoa there, Blondie —” Varric says, sidestepping out of the man’s path. “What’s the hurry?” “I heard shouting outside,” the man answers. “Someone was calling for a healer? Is someone hurt?” The man looks worriedly down at Varric, then to Bethany, then, finally, his eyes land on Hawke. The color drains from Hawke’s face. His heart begins to pound. Standing in front of Hawke is the most beautiful man he’s ever seen. Tall and lithe, pale skin flecked with freckles, gilded hair, amber eyes staring at Hawke as if he’s the only thing important in the world. “You —” the man says to Hawke. “Me?” Hawke’s voice cracks. He clears his throat. “Me?” he repeats, his voice cracking again, Maker damn it all. “Uh — I, uh —” “You look awful,” the man says. “Come with me.”

Read the rest here!

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Reunion.

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refugees in darktown know-- to find the healer, look for the lit lantern.

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you see a man blow up the chantry and you’re NOT supposed to propose to him on the spot and then run off into the sunset with him?? Smh

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This is my handers exchange gift for @transandersrights !! I hope you like it <3!

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Quote by Franz Kafka

The obsession gets to a point where I'm reminded of him in all poetry I read and all the music I listen to. Do you think he could finally rest after all the mages were freed? I don't. I think he's doomed forever.

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i saw an image and i had to do it

inspired by this beautiful thing