[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 14.1
Read moreOne of the fun conceits of writing the very post-game RH is the somewhat meta treatment of Anders, Hawke and Fenris as level-capped characters in a non-level-capped world. I guess taking the Varric-really-wasn’t-exaggerating-these-guys-are-machines route does make combat somewhat less dramatic which is why I’ve been either skipping over the fighting bits in-story or have had them narrated by outside observers (Carling, Penrod).
Also: I really suck at writing combat.
Nonetheless, I hemmed and hawed a lot over whether to put the Estate showdown “on screen” or not. In the end I didn’t, mostly because it was going to be another 4-7,000 words that weren’t going to be adding anything to the plot of an already overly long fic (it and the “templars escape from the Pit” chapter both got cut for time, basically). And yeah, that’s a huge hint: Renard wasn’t the “end boss” of RH.
Which isn’t to say that no important things happened at the Estate, just that killing Renard wasn’t actually one of them.
Also: Spirit Healers are like the Wolverines of Thedas. It’s true.
… man I need to finish this thing.