shcnko:

taranoire:

My love of mHawke/Fenris is because I want to be dominant and big and strong and powerful and have wrap Fenris up in my huge manly arms and protect him forever

I feel like as a female (and this isn’t what I think women should be like or ARE like but it is what’s expected of us) in a relationship with Fenris I’m expected to lie back like a good little princess and let him be aggressive and tough and have his babies

Even TYPING that made me uncomfortable and anxious

but those are your feelings. as a female i know it too. its written in media everywhere. its what society has expected of our sex for so long. but playing as a female hawke isn’t that way. when i romance fenris as a femhawke i never get the feeling that she isn’t strong and dominating. fenris can’t be wrapped up in manly arms no. but femhawke never felt reduced to one role with fenris, nor does he act like femhawke is a princess. in fact he treats her as an equal and she even dominates him (in part bc no matter what sex you choose hawkes actions are the same throughout). and thats why im grateful that no matter what sex you choose, hawke is treated the same. its honestly why i always play the females. they aren’t reduced to a damsel needing to be saved, but are warriors and champions and wardens and inquisitors. women saving their worlds. women respected. thats the appeal to me.