Dragon Age: Origins/Awakening, Part 5: Permanently Frozen

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Cousland/Alistair She would pick her family over love any day

[anonymous]

A desire demon shows Cousland a life where her family lives but she never meets Alistair and she becomes seduced by the demon. Even though Alistair kills the demon and saves Cousland, he relizes that even if she does love him, she loves her family more and he is not the only person in her heart.

Broken Dreams 1/5

[anonymous]

Alistair rushed after the mabari, hurrying towards whatever problem the hound wanted him to come fix. When Kazaril had bounded into the camp and barked at him frantically, it had been clear something was wrong, and he’d sprung to his feet to follow immediately. He could only hope that someone with a broader vocabulary would be able to fill him in on the details when he got to wherever the mabari was leading him

Broken Dreams 2/5

[anonymous]

Alistair closed his eyes and was somewhere else, a large hallway with worked stone walls. Judging by the crests worked into the décor, this was Highever, and he thought he probably should have expected that Alexia’s fondest thoughts would involve her lost home. He heard the sounds of music and merriment coming from the far end of the hallway and walked in that direction, seeking the heart of the dream

Broken Dreams 3/5

[anonymous]

From listening to the conversation, he was able to identify the members of Alexia’s family and piece together his place as a household knight who had become a Grey Warden. He supposed it was a logical role for him to assume in this domestic setting, and Alexia seemed to regard him as a trusted friend, which would hopefully help with freeing her from the dream.

As the merriment subsided and the guests began to trickle out, things turned calmer and more intimate, just the family and close friends remaining. Alistair decided to seize the chance to talk to Alexia, trying to judge how far the demon had distorted her view of reality to create this idyllic scene.

“Everyone seems so relaxed and happy here. Aren’t you concerned about the Blight?”

Alexia laughed. She actually laughed, and that, more than the changes in her appearance and watching her completely at ease and happy with people he’d never met, began to convince Alistair that he didn’t really know her. Her indifference to the cause they had devoted themselves to together

Broken Dreams 4/5

[anonymous]

The tiny, shy smile on Alexia’s face felt like a punch to the gut. Alistair struggled to breathe as he turned back and forth between the two women in stunned bewilderment. Alexia had been snared by her deepest desires in the form of a dream where she didn’t recognize him and planned to marry someone else? He couldn’t understand it, couldn’t formulate a single coherent thought, and he simply stared at Alexia in mute appeal, hoping she would say something that would make the world make sense again

Broken Dreams 5/5

[anonymous]

Alistair remained silent while she thought, holding his breath and hoping that searching her memory in this deliberate fashion would weaken the demon’s hold on her mind. Her eyes widened slightly as they focused back on his face, a look of pity and grief coming to her features. “You went to hold them off, bought me time to escape. You’re as dead as everyone else here.” Fresh tears ran down her cheeks as she blinked. “But you’re not part of the dream, are you? You knew enough to make me see it wasn’t real, and you haven’t dropped dead now that I know you should be. You’re really you, somehow, come to help me. That’s twice you’ve saved me

Re: Broken Dreams 5/5

[anonymous]

Not OP says ouch. :(

(In other words, great job making with the angst, a!a!)