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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: Arwing
OVER 18?: Yes
PREFERRED CONTACT(S): arwingyoshi or ping me on the discord server
OTHER CHARACTERS: Finn Onaru (the Dragonborn)

CHARACTER INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Anders
CANON: Dragon Age
TIMELINE: After the events of Dragon Age 2
AGE: 37

REFERENCE: https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Anders

PERSONALITY: If there’s one word to describe Anders, it’s selfless. Anders is a spirit healer, meaning that he specializes in using magic for healing. It’s rather telling that the first thing he does upon getting to Kirkwall is open up a free clinic in the dirtiest, lowest part of the city for those who can barely buy food, let alone pay for healing. He does this because he wants to help people, even though he risks the Templars finding out about him and arresting him. Anders also wants to see his fellow mages free to live their own lives outside of the Circle, because he knows that the treatment of mages in Thedas is inhumane and he wants to create a world where no mage goes through what he and countless others have gone through. Sometimes he’ll lash out at people who agree with the Templars or Chantry, and get testy with people who are on the fence.

Anders is a romantic, as shown by his romance with Hawke, and even his flirting with the Warden in Dragon Age: Awakening. He’s less flirty in Dragon Age 2, but he does still occasionally flirt with Hawke should the player pursue a romance with him. Despite this, Anders is hesitant when it comes to romance. In the Circle, relationships between mages were discouraged at best and at worst, it gave the Templars something to use against a mage. In his words “it gave the Templars too much power if there was something you couldn’t stand to lose”. This was reinforced when Anders’ first love was taken away from him. He also has a jealous streak, as shown when he disapproves of Hawke flirting with anybody else while in a relationship with him.

Anders has some sense of humor. It was more pronounced in Awakening, but it is still there in Dragon Age 2. Anders used to use humor to mask his own trauma and pain, since he was always angry about Templars and how mages are treated, but he just chose to hide his negative feelings. By the time he’s merged with Justice, he’s simply decided not to mask his pain any longer. He does still make quips and jokes on occasion, such as when he banters with Varric. It really depends on his mood when it comes to how funny he gets. If he’s in a good mood, he’s more likely to make quips, and is less likely to do so if he’s feeling sad or dour.

Anders shares his body with a spirit of justice. His and Justice’s anger is towards people who hurt others and abuse their power, like Templars, or those who sit back and do nothing to help the oppressed. Justice is the reason Anders is more proactive in helping others than he was in Awakening, where he was mainly concerned with keeping himself safe, because he felt powerless to actually do anything.

ABILITIES: Anders is your standard RPG video game mage and has all manner of magical abilities. His main magical talent lies in healing. Anders is a very skilled healer, able to heal anything from a small cut to major injuries like broken bones or internal injuries. Anders also knows elemental spells such as fire, lightning and ice. Other spells in his arsenal are shielding spells, a spell to make allies faster, a telekinetic blast, and glyphs to paralyze an opponent or repel enemies from an ally. Like in many video games, magic is cast from mana, and the more spells he uses in a short period of time, the more mana he uses. Using too much mana at once can leave him feeling exhausted.

Anders is possessed by a spirit of justice, and sometimes this spirit will come to the forefront and take control of his body. Justice grants Anders some unique abilities, seen in gameplay as well as supplementary materials. When Justice is in control of their body (basically Justice acts the same as a sustained spell in terms of gameplay), Anders can survive wounds that would normally kill him, as demonstrated when a Templar stabbed him in the heart and he shrugged it off. Justice also enhances any spellcasting Anders may do. Justice’s gifts seem to only work when he’s in control of their body.

For the sake of not overpowering him, Justice no longer prevents Anders from surviving fatal wounds if he’s in control of their body, nor with Justice gain control over his corpse like any other spirit normally would. If Anders dies in the game, Justice dies too. If Anders dies and get resurrected, Justice comes back to life inside him.

Justice doesn’t know how to cast healing spells, so he has to give Anders control again if they want to heal themselves or allies.
PERSONAL EFFECTS: Clothing, bag of elfroot, and a magic staff. The staff slightly increases his mana to allow more spellcasting and casts lightning damage as a basic, low-power attack.
PRIZED POSSESSION: His mother’s pillow

CRAU PREMISE: Mask or Menace was a panfandom RP where characters are placed into a superhero setting and given superpowers. Anders got a feel for modern technology and being in a less stressful environment did good things for his mental health. He helped out at a cat shelter and worked at a hospital, helped prevent an apocalypse, and started taking care of himself better.

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