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Revision as of 21:52, 5 July 2019

"She gave her life not because she'd sworn an oath, or had been marked as special, but because someone had to do it."

- Inquisitor Éirinn Lavellan about Andrea Hawke's death

Andrea Hawke was a human warrior, also known as the Champion of Kirkwall. She was the daugther of Leandra Amell, and Malcolm Hawke, big sister to Bethany Hawke and Carver Hawke. She was born in Lothering, and considered herself a Fereldan, despite leaving for Kirkwall at the age of 24.

Overview

Physical Appearance

Andrea

Andrea's appearance at the age of 24, when she escaped Lothering with her family

Andrea has a very distinctive appearance. She is tall and muscular for a woman, having broad shoulders and stronger arms mostly because she wields two handed heavy blades. She keeps her black hair middle-length, and tied in a low, loose pony tail. She has quite sharp features, which give an impression of intelligence, but also make her face a little less feminine - her forehad is large, she has an aristocratic nose, and a quite strong jawline.

Her eyes are very characteristic, often described as "impossibly blue". This was a trait very rare in the family, she obviously inherited it from her father's lineage - her iris is almost turquise, Anders once mentioned that the color is very resemblant of lyrium.

Andrea often wears heavy armor in fights, and enjoys comfortable, but often not really good looking clothes at home. She rarely wears any jewelery, and even than, only amulets, or some enchanted rings, that help her in the fight, and not make her uncomfortable.

Personality

Anders once mentions that jokes are Andrea's answer to everything - and that is true. However, her funny (and often unintentionally rude) personality is partly masking her inner struggles with grief, failures, losses... she takes every mistake really hard, and tries to keep cheerful, and inspiring, but it is, many times not easy. As a big sister, she has a very dual relationship with her siblings... Originally, she wasn't the defensive type. She enlisted to Cailan's army with Carver, and she fought together with Bethany. She felt her siblings could stand on their own - however, she took Carver's death really hard, especially, when her mother said it was her fault. During their years as mercenaries, she tried to keep Bethany away from the battles (that resulted in Andrea gaining much bigger name than her sister), but Bethany tried to convince her to let her take more active roles in battles. Andrea eventually gave in, and despite her original plans, took Bethany with her to the Deep Roads expedition. When she was corrupted, and had to join the Grey Wardens, Andrea never truly forgave herself, and when she lost her mother too, no one could convince her that it wasn't her fault. When the Wardens started to hear the calling, she immediately contacted Aveline, to take Bethany away from the danger... she couldn't bear the thought of losing the last living person of her family.

Despite her constant joking, she is quite shy when it comes to love. It takes her a lot of time, to admit her feelings for Anders, and even then, the mage is the one, who calls her out on it. However, once in a relationship, she is much more confident and proud.

Andrea was always supporting the mages' rights, mostly because of her sister and father. She didn't born with magic, but she lived with mages most of her lives, and she could never imagine Bethany being corrupted by power... she believed that a supportive, loving, normal environment helps more in overcoming the hardships of being a mage, than being locked up in a tower. This was one of the main reasons Anders felt attracted to her... she was more understanding as a warrior than many of the mages. When she gave him a second chance, and they left Kirkwall together, even as fugitives, she tried to give the same support and help to Anders, hoping that it will prevent him from slipping again.

Andrea was always the kind of person to "take the leap" when the opportunity presented itself. This was an advice from Flemeth, when she met her... she didn't think of what she said, but strangely, she seemed to heed it. Some called her brave, some outward foolish for running into danger, simply because she felt like that's the right thing to do, or sacrificing everything for one shot, one chance to step forward. This was the trait, which, while made her a hero, in the end, led to her death... she charged Corypheus despite knowing that losing her would break her friends, and break Anders. Overall, she had a somewhat rush and, but really loyal and loving personality.

Talents and Skills

Andrea almost always fights with two-handed greatsword. She has very little skills with the sword and shield combination (despite taking some lessons from Aveline), but she is deadly with a two-handed weapon. She fights aggressively, with strong passion - although she is trained as a reaver, she rarely uses the abilities, that come with it, she focuses on the berserker style of fighting, and therefore she does a lot of damage relying on her anger and emotions. Even Varric was surprised when he discovered that Andrea used an originally dwarven fighting style. She is strong against multiple enemies. She is also good in hand-to-hand combat, mostly because of her strength, but if she can choose, she picks up the weapon every time.

She is also considered quite smart - although her sarcastic jokes are sometimes annoying, and sometimes she angers the wrong people, she actually has a tactical mind, and she can easily see the connections. She is confident in her intelligence, and horribly annoyed, when someone underestimates it - she also jokes sometimes, that even Varric always forgets to write about her "charming wits". When she makes a mistake, her confidence cracks a littlebit. She is also a really good liar, mostly thanks to her people skills - she simply knows what people appreciate, and can tell them what they want to hear. Although she originally finds it important, to speak her mind, this ability helped her many times.

She has really good skills with animals - especially dogs, but she can easily make contact with a cat as well, she is not strictly a dog person. Her mabari, Wolfy is sometimes accompany her to missions as well, they even train together, so the dog can fight by her side.

She speaks a little dwarven, mostly picked it up when she was learning the berserker skills. Although dwarves very rarely speak in any of the ancient languages, they are mostly impressed by her knowledge. She also had to admit, that dwarven is basically the only language she had a talent to learn - for example, she gets absolutely lost in elven. She reads a lot, and even has some knowledge of magic besides seeing people use it.

Biography

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Relationships

Anders

When Andrea first met Anders, after her one year as a mercenary was over, there were few things she cared less about, than love. The young mage was a potential ally, maybe friend, but she didn't start to flirt with him, she was simply understanding about his problems. So, in the end, Anders was the one who made a move - he admitted how natural it feels for him to trust her, and asked how she feels about this. Andrea was honest again... it was unexpected, she didn't plan to get involved with anyone, but seeing how open and trusting he was to her felt good, and she didn't want to lose it. However, Anders immediately warned her, that it is not a good idea, and for three years they didn't actually stepped forward.

However, despite her shyness at the beginning, Andrea was more sure of her feelings with every day, and she started to actively communicate them towards Anders. As he grew more paranoid, she often reassured him, that she would be there for him, to protect him, if someone would attack them, but it didn't seem to help, and after he attacked an innocent mage girl, and only Andrea's help made him stop in time, he was even more afraid. But she still insisted, and teased him, which resulted in their first kiss, and not much later, their first night together.

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Anders comforting Andrea after her mother's death

From then on, they were openly a couple. Anders moved in to the Hawke estate. Some of their friends were worried, but almost everyone was supportive towards their relationship - Varric even started to speak more with the mage, to make sure he is alright. Anders later accompanied Andrea to the adventure in Orlais, with Tallis, and to the Vimmark wasteland, against the Carta and Corypheus. He and Varric were the first ones to run to her side when she and Aveline were attacked by the qunari. The fact that they lived together without secrecy offered a great protection to Anders when she was made the Champion of Kirkwall, but still, when the conflict between mages and templars started to get out of hand, she showed him the secret passage to get into the estate quickly from Darktown.

When the Chantry was blown up, Andrea originally planned to aid the mages, but make Anders pay, because she knew that his sin was too big... but she lost too much already, and couldn't bring herself to kill the man she loved. She decided to get him out of Kirkwall, and although they needed a lot of time to heal, and set things right between them, Andrea swore to protect him for the rest of her life... even from himself.

Varric

Without a doubt, the best friend she ever had. Varric and Andrea had an awful lot in common - starting with their sarcasm and awful sense of humor, through their capability to enjoy the simplest things in life, like a good meal, to their fierce loyalty to friends and family. The dwarf immediately started to talk to Anders and tried to figure out his intentions, when they got together with Andrea, visited her, when she was grieving her mother's death, and tried to comfort her, and stay beside her through all the losses - in turn, Andrea stayed at her side when Bartrand set him up, tried to keep him together when his brother turned mad.

Varric accompanied Andrea to almost everywhere, and she trusted him with her life - although after the events in the Gallows, Varric left her eventually, he still stayed longer than most of her friends. They both remembered the other fondly during their time apart, and when Andrea joined Éirinn and was left in the Fade Varric was struck by the loss.

Bethany

As children, Andrea was close to both of the twins... but later, as they grew, Carver developed some kind of loving rivalry with her, and Bethany stayed closer. Andrea wasn't particularly protective, she believed in her "little mage sister", and supported her in everything, but after losing Carver, this became much harder. In their one year as mercenaries, keeping her sister away from harm was as much of a priority as getting money... so they spoke a lot, and even argued about this. When they discovered the Deep Roads expedition Bethany wanted to go with her, and Andrea realised that she couldn't deny it to her, so she took her along. When she collapsed because of the darkspawn blood, she was frozen, and panicked, only Anders had a head cool enough to help them get to the Wardens. When Bethany became a Warden, they grew apart, they walked different paths, and this greatly pained Andrea. However when they met during the qunari attack, Bethany was greatful she told her about their mothers death, and thanked her for being there in her last moments. They later met again during their investigation about Corypheus, and Andrea rescued Bethany from the Deep Roads, and later from Grace... she tried to look out for her sister even when they were apart. She couldn't bear the thought of losing her entirely.

Carver

Miscellaneous

Likes

- Sweets, particularly chocolate. She joked with Varric that it's not fair that he portrays her as someone who always has food on her face, but actually, she truly likes to eat, and can be really annoyed if hungry.

- Almost any animal, but of course, mostly dogs. She absolutely loves her dog.

- Humor. She enjoys it even when she is the target, and not the one to make the jokes, which even she finds weird.

- Good books, especially, when she can read them in front of the fireplace. She often doesn't even bother to bring there a chair, she sits down on the floor, and enjoys the warmth while reading.

- The scent of elfroot. This is mainly because of Anders... he uses it for healing potions, and therefore, he just smelled like that. Because of this, Andrea grew really fond of the scent.

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