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Published: 2018-04-24 13:02:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 877; Favourites: 132; Downloads: 4
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For the blood mage who wants to carry blood stylishly.Wanted to paint something calm with my Hawke... Up to now I had never realized exactly why I was so fond of him: before Eval, I had had another dozen of Hawkes; all of them were somehow stereotyped, just because I wanted to see all the kind of interactions NPCs had with Hakwe's different personality types. Eval was my last playthrough, but midway through the first Act he kinda started acting on his own. It was similar to the way writers describe some of their own characters acting in their novels when the plot is already on its way- moving the story towards places the writer never expected to go because of the way their decisions and past had shaped them.
Eve was the first character I had ever created that had a will of his own, in a way, and even though he's my youngest hawke, arguably the most broken of the flock, I can't help but consider him one of my dearest OCs.
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Lol, your Hawkes really have a knack for practicing blood magic! Sorry if I already asked this once, but did any of your Hawkes ever shy away from studying the dark arts?
The way you have drawn the blood of those wings looks great, there is a real "feeling of motion" and you can tell it's actually flowing and kind of spiraling around Hawke. I've read in another comment that the wings are not meant for flying, but I could not help think that this is what happened because Flemeth refused to teach him "the dragon trick" and he went figuring out his own way to fly.
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My very first playthrough was actually as a healer romancing fenris - then third act wiped out her entire life and thus I decided to start tinkering more with my Hawkes....
To be honest all my playthroughs started kinda nice and then my characters just started spiraling out of control. It happens a lot. Eval, my latest Hawke, is the one who got it worse, since I had long understood that DA2 was a story about loss, and in no way about victory nor being a champion of the just. He ended up being the representation of all the flaws my previous playthroughs had, so along the lines of Morrigan he thinks the mages trapped inside the Circles are practically another race, that he's superior because he managed to remain an apostate since the day he was born, and since he was essentially Malcolm's pet he thinks way too highly of himself and can't deal with failure - which, in a context like da2, is a terrible flaw to have. Since I had been reading lots about mental disorders too I essentially forced a couple of them on him, so... there's that o.o he's probably the oc I've treated most badly, that's why I hope da4 will be a tad more peaceful for him 
oh my- yes, this hawke is totally narcissistic enough to do that ^^ to be honest I thought that people could "fly" by pressing the blood against their feet and project themselves into the air, but it got kind of ridiculous really fast so I kinda dropped that idea for now... too much Tony Stark-ey. Although I would like to see more applications for blood magic. it always feels like blood mages are just minibosses throughout the entire saga (I remember a couple of sidequest in origins were really tough, but for example during Inquisition I was kind of expecting a blood mage controlling part of a land in a kind of tyrannic way. it's true that there was the quest to get the allegiance of the mages in redcliffe that resulted in time travel shenanigans, yet it's not really what I was thinking about. Maybe I like to think too much that blood mages can be in control of the situation - most of the time in Kirkwall people turned into abominations anyway. Even Orsino kind of messed up in the end :/)
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This is such a cool and unique concept! Nice work.
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it's not really for flying... it's more for carrying blood around a battlefield, especially when there are templars involved. It could truly be in any shape, this one just looked edgy enough to suit him
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Oh OK thank you. But being able to fly with those would look badass as hell. Plus if he can manipulate blood like that can he fly by just manipulating his own blood?
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I wouldn't go that far because canonically blood magic has a whole other purpose, but yes, you're right. Tbh I thought that 'flying' would be easier if mages could just haul blood underneath their feet and use it essentially as a flying platform or something like that...
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Makes sense
Also is blood magic your own thing you made up. Cause it sounds really complicated and vool
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Uhm no xD sorry I thought you were in the Dragon Age fandom- essentially this is my player character in one of the games and blood magic is a type of magic that consumes blood instead of mana and is used against the templars because they can stop mana flow (so if people use blood the templars' powers are essentially useless). Canonically it is mostly used to fuel spell offensively, but people have suggested that since blood magic focuses on controlling blood, it could be used for other things such as controlling the blood flow of someone injured, using thus blood magic to heal people and such.
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Oh ok
What's dragon age?
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Dragon Age is a franchise of games and novels originally created by Bioware set in the fictional world of Thedas. There are dragons, wizards, cheap jokes about cheese and all that jazz. It's also one of the few fandom communities around deviantart that still seem to be active. (and dude you know you can just google stuff
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Ye but cba to google. You get a better answer off an person anyway
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Thank you! I like letting him be his edgy self
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