#and omg the emmerich siblings...

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Finished MGS 2 here my impressions.

Cool Otasune teamwork

Oh fuck

Ok pretty boy Raiden

Wtf is going on

Omg Snake hi

Partner 🏳️‍🌈?

SISTER?!

A parrot is making me want to kms

Wtf is going on pt2

Am I in a simulation??

Hideo Kojima New York Trip tapes

I'm reading all your comments in previous posts about MGS not making sense the more you learn and yk yall right. I'll still watch and act like I do bc I want to see my boy Otacon.

Stay tuned for more reviews that nobody asked for

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13 + 14 for your hawke?

omg thank you! these got long, so partly hidden under a read more.

13. How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 

Well, he’s a spirit medium. When I played Veilguard I was super fascinated with the idea of a spirit medium, and heard the banter about Emmerich being able to hear Spite, and there’s this one line in VG that got stuck in my head about a spirit who wouldn’t have become a demon if he’d been met with more compassion and understanding, and those two things were kind of what formed the basis for Redd’s story.

He is essentially Anders’ right hand in the Mage Underground for all of acts 1 and 2, weaponizing the connections and knowledge of Kirkwall’s illicit lyrium trade he gained working for Athenril to weaken the templars of Kirkwall’s circle via sabotage.

In the fic I am writing (mostly jn my mind so far) about him, although he is a mage, he manages to defeat the Arishok without being outed as a mage; Anders, however, is identified when he rushes out to heal him in view of the public immediately after (the templars have been closing in on “the Darktown healer” for a while at this point). In act 3 he asks for a boon from Elthina for being made Champion because in the fic I’m writing Champion is a legal title within Kirkwall that comes with certain legal protections, including the right to request one (☝️) boom from the Grand Cleric. He requests the right to marry an apostate and hilariously enough Elthina is like, at this political moment, why not. Plus at this point Anders is only publicly known as Apostate Who Heals The Poor For Free, he has not been identified as having any connection to the MU. So refusing would make her look pretty bad— Anders is a very sympathetic victim at this point. So Anders gets to be alive and live in a nice mansion AND they both get to keep running the mage underground, yippee yayay.

Uh also without getting into even more detail the rebellion at Kirkwall goes completely differently than it does in canon and he ends up becoming the commander of a cell of mage guerrilla fighters for a while.

He’s also a chain smoker who rolls his own cigs, which I think counts because you can’t smoke in DA2. Constantly smoking to keep himself from eating people. He has no sense of smell also so the combination of these factors means he smells like shit all the time and neither notices nor cares. Stinky4stinky Handers.

14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be? 

Red Hawke is implied to not have had the best relationship with Malcolm. For my particular red Hawke, this stems in part from being made unduly responsible for his sibling’s lives, on many an occasion, from an irresponsibly young age, although he’d never admit that as it would require admitting he was once a scared child.

It also stems from the fact that despite being an apostate himself Malcolm still disbelieved Red about his experiences as a spirit medium since they didn’t align with the teachings of the chantry and the Circle at the time. My Hawke’s problem with Malcolm is that he was not anti-chantry enough.