Miri1984 wrote...
I don't see it that way - my Hawke is going to run off with Anders and natter in his ear the whole time about how blowing up random people is WRONG and we can do this the RIGHT way from now on. And I really see the blowing up the chantry thing as a ONE time thing. Terrorism is done for a purpose - to provoke war. Once the war is on, there's no need for terrorism any more. It's handled by the state instead.
My reasoning:
With all the confusion about whether he and Justice are the same person or not (since he keeps changing his story), the fact he lies to you a great deal, the fact he never wavers in his purpose, and still thinks he did the right thing, I don't think trying to reason with him will be very effective. He's had to be stopped from going after someone he was trying to save because she was scared of him. Even if anything he does in the future will now be an act of war rather than an act of terror, I still think he'd continue to go too far and you can't just talk away someone's madness no matter how convincing you are.
My Hawke couldn't let him continue to put everyone around him at risk and continue to make everything worse by insisting that absolute freedom for the mages was the only solution even worth
considering. She was very pro-mage and was gladder than anything to free Bethany at the end of the game but, love or not, he was too dangerous to be allowed to live and he'd only get more dangerous as things went on. The fact that he's proven you can't trust him just adds to the risk and just one slip-up could cause another catastrophic incident.