Dear DA2 fandom,
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of M!Hawke/Justice fics in your library. This needs to be remedied. Now.
… Please?
Pretty please?
Agreed - NEEDS to happen me thinks…
There really are only a couple I can actually think of (though, admittedly, most of my reading is on the AO3): Corbie’s Spaces in Between/Unjust being the most obvious.
Fic writers have a tendency to write Justice as kind of an uptight prude. Say whatever you like about the guy, but I honestly just don’t buy that as a characterisation. I’m sure Justice has, erm, “intimacy issues” — “DESIRE IS A DEMON EMOTION, MORTAL!” is I think the line I’ve read somewhere — but it’s pretty freakin’ obvious from DA:A that he’s neither innocent nor particularly disgusted by love/sex. Witness his a huge crush on Aura and all the “straight man” (in the comedic sense, not the BioWare sense) style dialogue he has with Oghren.
I guess my problem with a lot of DA2-era Justice is that he’s often written very… black and white and flat. When people bother to write him at all, and aren’t just erasing him out of history (which I have a separate bunch of Issues with, what with him being a not-particularly-subtle of mental illness allegory for Anders).
So I guess really what I’d actually like to see is more DA2-era fics where Justice and Janders is handled with… a bit more nuance (read: Justice!angst).
And, yanno. Some schmoopy happy endings wouldn’t go astray either. Because that how I roll and all.
