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[Teddie Sage]

If you disagree with how the story has been on-going so far, from Origins to Inquisition, have you made your own timeline in your head with different decisions, protagonists and companions? If so, how many? Personally, I only got one headcanon timeline I might use in my fanfictions and while I know it won't happen in the games, I like to pretend that some of my protagonists and companions met different fates on those timelines. For those who finished Inquisition and were satisfied with the ending, you could easily make a headcanon future from there while the Trespasser DLC divides that perception and creates an alternate timeline for the Inquisitor. I think it's fun to have both, your own headcanon future and the data gave to us by BioWare. It creates so many possibilities after all. Thoughts? 

[The_Prophet_of_Donk]

I think that is why I love ME, DA, and KOTOR.....

All of my PT's are in alternate Timelines and different things happen each time!

I do have a headcannon for DA and it is vastly different from BW's!

[Sylvius the Mad]

The only genuinely wacky headcanon I have going on is from DA2, and nothing I saw in DAI contradicted it.

Huzzah for the unreliable narrator.

[Al Foley]

Pre DA I my headcanon was that my canon Cousland (Mal) and my canon Hawke (Aeryn) met one another and he recruited her into trying to launch an attack on the Archdemon's while they were still asleep.  Along with the Architect.  

 

Post DA I the biggest complaint I have about Tresspasser is it really messed with the timeline.  DG made a comment, I heard, that DA I takes place over a three year time frame.  Which while granted it was an off handed comment and not canon I did take it as being really neat because its not easy traveling around countries back in that day and age and it would make Act 1 year 1 act 2 year 2 and act 3 year 3.  So I created a timeline for my Inquisitor where Tresspasser would take place in 9:46 instead of the 9:44 we got.

[vbibbi]

I always make alternate universes, not necessarily to try and headcanon or "improve" a game, but to explore what could have been, given the existing world conditions.

 

I had once headcanoned Hawke as the Inquisitor, trying to imagine snarky!Hawke responding to being called the Herald of Andraste. But after all of the *** the Inquisitor goes through, I'm happy to let Hawke remain as is.

 

Another version is of Hawke actually joining the Inquisition as a companion. Instead of Varric bringing Hawke on at Skyhold, one of the main quests is to locate Hawke, who is known to have information on Corypheus. The PC could handle the recruitment like other allies: conscript Hawke as an unwilling source of information (Cassandra Greatly Approves) or do a series of quests to gain Hawke's loyalty before s/he remains with the Inquisition.

[nightscrawl]

While I appreciate and even admire the players that can do this, I really can't.

 

I have a character who I RP, made a backstory for, and so on; I can even head-canon additional scenes since we are left with so many holes, particularly regarding the romances (relationships are more than a few cutscenes). But I can never disregard what is shown and what I played out in the actual games, I have a mental disconnect when it comes to that. I had a post-game fic that was rendered completely un-canonical by Trespasser events and I'll just have to accept that and move on.

[Regan_Cousland]

I had once headcanoned Hawke as the Inquisitor, trying to imagine snarky!Hawke responding to being called the Herald of Andraste. But after all of the *** the Inquisitor goes through, I'm happy to let Hawke remain as is.

 

Ha. That made me imagine WittyHawke in the Inquisitor's place during the Fade vision at the Temple of Sacred Ashes.

Hawke (sighing dramatically): "What's going on here?"

The Divine: "Run while you can! Warn them."

Hawke: "Oh ... a covert tea-party organized by an evil darkspawn magister I thought I already killed, some kind of depraved magical sacrifice, and lots of shifty sideways glances which suggest violence is about to break out at any moment. What were the chances?"

Corypheus (pointing): "Slay the mouthy human."
 

[Darkly Tranquil]

Ha. That made me imagine WittyHawke in the Inquisitor's place during the Fade vision at the Temple of Sacred Ashes.
Hawke (sighing dramatically): "What's going on here?"
The Divine: "Run while you can! Warn them."
Hawke: "Oh ... a covert tea-party organized by an evil darkspawn magister I thought I already killed, some kind of depraved magical sacrifice, and lots of shifty sideways glances which suggest violence is about to break out at any moment. What were the chances?"
Corypheus (pointing): "Slay the mouthy human."

I'd play that game in a heartbeat. Hell, I wish I could have played that one instead of the one I did play. Sarcastic InquisiHawke would have been amazing to play.

As for headcanons, I don't even really have a "canon" playthrough. I just have various iterations of the storyline that I play around with.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

My only headcanon is the one created whilst I play the game.  Which is why it's frustrating to have to deal with the imperfect import of decisions into the Keep.  Felt like I was having to tweak about half the entries for my "main" Warden and Hawke just to get them to reflect what "actually" happened. 

 

And as far as I can tell, the Keep is even less accurate in capturing what my IQ has done.  <sigh>

[Al Foley]

Ha. That made me imagine WittyHawke in the Inquisitor's place during the Fade vision at the Temple of Sacred Ashes.

Hawke (sighing dramatically): "What's going on here?"

The Divine: "Run while you can! Warn them."

Hawke: "Oh ... a covert tea-party organized by an evil darkspawn magister I thought I already killed, some kind of depraved magical sacrifice, and lots of shifty sideways glances which suggest violence is about to break out at any moment. What were the chances?"

Corypheus (pointing): "Slay the mouthy human."
 

And we find out that this Hawk is actually a regeneration of the Doctor. 

[London]

My head cannons usually involve my relationships working out better.

Queen Couland doesn't vanish and spend years away from Alistair and her throne (though I'm still wondering if BioWare didn't know what to do with Hawke and the Warden vanishing and then just made it seem like Varric lied about Hawke going missing and ??? About Lelina having access to the Warden).

Not sure why a lot of our PCs are so happy to go on multi-year solo missions and leaving behind their spouses/partners. Happened with Hawke and the Warden for me. I guess if I went with Cullen or Sera this wouldn't happen in DAI.

[Arvaarad]

Not sure why a lot of our PCs are so happy to go on multi-year solo missions and leaving behind their spouses/partners.

 

Maybe my circle of friends is weird, but this is pretty common? Almost all of the couples I know go long-distance for months or years at a time. The only couples who never have to go long-distance are either (1) incredibly lucky to land jobs in the same area or (2) one of the people in the relationship sacrifices their career.

 

There isn't anything wrong with option 2, it's a valid life choice. But given the high-octane lives of our heroes and their LIs, I don't see them choosing it. So they only avoid going long-distance if they happen to be working on the same thing (Sera, Zevran after DA2, etc.), or when one of them retires (Cullen).

[London]

I think this is a good explanation.

I can see the need for some of the characters to part in this context.

I'm used to be someone who would sacrifice a lot for a relationship but now that I am older I wouldn't be able to do so since I need my career. With some of the issues some characters face being life/death I can see the need to part.

Though - I think the Hawke story with her leaving her love interest behind I didn't fully buy as necessary. But I guess this is a situation where the former PC made a choice that I wouldn't have - though she is her own character now not in my control at all.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

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Not sure why a lot of our PCs are so happy to go on multi-year solo missions and leaving behind their spouses/partners.

 

Well, since this has been my RL experience, (married for over 30 years but have lived apart, including in different hemispheres, for extended periods on multiple occasions) the notion didn't cause any me particular consternation.  We know ours is not a "typical" relationship.  But we aren't "typical" people. 

[Redemption2407]

If you disagree with how the story has been on-going so far, from Origins to Inquisition, have you made your own timeline in your head with different decisions, protagonists and companions? If so, how many? Personally, I only got one headcanon timeline I might use in my fanfictions and while I know it won't happen in the games, I like to pretend that some of my protagonists and companions met different fates on those timelines. For those who finished Inquisition and were satisfied with the ending, you could easily make a headcanon future from there while the Trespasser DLC divides that perception and creates an alternate timeline for the Inquisitor. I think it's fun to have both, your own headcanon future and the data gave to us by BioWare. It creates so many possibilities after all. Thoughts? 

I can't. I mean, I have but the "reality" still overrides it and makes me sad. But of course I have thousands of stories in my mind.

The one I like the most is the elven mage from Origins in her quest to master all the powers in her blood: magic, taint and elf blood. Her first priority is to recover elven immortality (but she didn't know how back then, now perhaps she finds Solas and allies with him?), but she also wants to bend the taint/blight to her will (and she tries to find the Architect again to do so, as well as Avernus and others) and of course all of this while searching for ancient magic mysteries.

Can't say there is one story of mine I dislike as much as I can say that I hate them all for knowing they will never happen.

[Ashaantha]

Hmm yes and no. I headcanon addition information, events, conversations etc but I try very hard to not change what is already seen, heard and read while I'm playing the game. If that makes sense. The only thing I changed for DAI that was already canon was how boring the Ostwick Circle blurbs of info is in my writing. Bioware canon trumps all, whether I like it or not, so I keep it. Yeah they can change their minds about stuff since they own the copyright, and wrote it anyway but that's besides the point lol.

[Regan_Cousland]

Hmm yes and no. I headcanon addition information, events, conversations etc but I try very hard to not change what is already seen.

 

That's pretty-much what I do, too.

For instance, I'll put effort into head-cannoning my protagonist's background and her psychological state, because those things inform how I'm gong to roleplay her and the dialogue choices I'm going to choose, and I'll casually daydream about what my companions are doing when they're not with me on missions, but I won't contradict anything that the game tells me is true.

One of the biggest things I headcanoned in Inquisition involved the election of a new Divine ...

Vivienne became my Divine even though I didn't think that I'd supported her in any way. At first I felt cheated ... but then -- reminding myself that Vivienne is an extremely driven and intelligent lady with a mind of her own -- I headcanoned that, while I was half-heartedly endorsing Cassandra's candidacy, Vivienne was plotting and scheming and working her little cold heart out behind the scenes to secure the Sunburst Throne for herself.

Thus, I give all credit for Vivienne's ascendency to Vivienne, and my inquisitor regards her with even more respect (and caution) than before.

[Nixou]

huuuh... why is that topic in the no spoiler section?

[RoseLawliet]

One of the biggest areas where I make up my own details is with the NPCs' ages. I met some of these people all the way back in 9:30 Dragon, where they absolutely did not look or sound 18 or 20. There are some happy accidents, but the margin of error on average is (appallingly) 10 years.

 

I have also decided that magic is magical and can do magic things.

[Illegitimus]

I never have actually played Inquisition and it's not likely I will.  My computer coughed up a lung trying to load the trial.  But I am familiar with it via youtube and have thought of a few hypotheticals based on discarded elements.  For example restoring the bit of cut content where Cassandra has to order a group of angry refugees to not attack her prisoner.  Making Connor or the OGB the Inquisitor.  Letting that casteless kid from DAO show up looking for the Warden now that he's grown up and his mother told him he owed his life to the Warden's intervention into her domestic spat with her father.  Find Alistair and his collection of barmy formerly tranquil mages now that he knows it's curable because in this continuity Hawke didn't bother to put him out of our misery.    

[Dai Grepher]

DAI messed up on the references to who rules Ferelden. The whole prince-consort thing, Anora's last name not being Cousland, and all the Theirin banners around Ferelden, I reject all of these as non-canon and replace them with the Hero being king and having Cousland banners everywhere instead.

 

I headcanon that my Rift Mage Inquisitor has turned his handicap into a strength by recreating his left arm from the same material as Stone Fist. The material can also be remade into various shapes, and it can also disconnect and hover/move in the air. Many, many uses. So his adventuring days are far from done.

 

Man, Trespasser sucked.