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[psycholawgy]

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[kirkwalled]

okay no, nevermind. let me talk about hawke and sousei...... good god.

hawke really, really, really likes sousei. not in that way, probably? (at most she's like "i'd do you but you also have the sexual libido of a telephone pole") but in terms of cerealia, he's accidentally become one of her most important people. how did that happen? she slightly resents the fact. hawke's a strong independent protag who don't need no companions!!

anyway, sousei is smart, he is capable, and he has an incredibly wide berth of patience than given credit for. he's also completely different on the inside than what's on the outside and this fascinates hawke. she's a people reader, she's a people person, and even if hawke hates the fact she's a protagonist -- it doesn't stop her from being pulled in to interesting people, which sousei is. he's just like her! sort of. not exactly like her no but they share the same opinions on basically... everything in a way that both surprises and delights hawke immensely. there's nothing better than having a friend that hates the same shit you hate, right?

then there's also the fact that being around sousei chills hawke the heck out. sousei's like this really weird amalgamation of fenris and aveline and that weirdly enough, soothes hawke. they've never talked about feelings or anything (because hawke... doesn't talk about feelings) but when hawke's feeling all messed up inside -- heading over to sousei, bothering him and/or baiting him into a fist fight, that makes all of hawke's troubles just. poof, gone. which is helpful since without her kirkwall crew, there's no sort of like... valve release for the pressure cooker that is hawke's bullshit.

so, there's understanding here. there's companionship. there's the fact sousei is actually kind of brilliant at the banter. but sousei's still not a proper Bioware Companion mostly because he... just wouldn't be. it's slightly frustrating. sousei is probably one of the few people hawke knows in cerealia that she constantly thinks to herself "oh, if varric/aveline/bethany/etc were here, i could introduce them to sousei" which is a high honor, okay. it totally is.

so yeah, hawke feels an embarrassing amount of things for sousei and will just deal with it by being intensely sarcastic at him. since, y'know, hawke's an adult who deals with things in adult like ways.