HOME | DD
notationn β Dragon Age 2 - Deep Sleeper
Published: 2011-08-13 03:12:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 14330; Favourites: 335; Downloads: 97
Redirect to original
Description
I really don't have any excuse for how little I've updated... I'm really really sorry....Digital sketch of Fenris and Danarius. Not a pairing I like, but it lends to some worthwhile compositions. (Was thinking of how Bond villains always have those fluffy white-hair cats... Danarius just has a fluffy white-hair elf.) Still not really used to working digitally, but all my traditional media stuff is packed up.
Sort of goes with a fanfic I've been updating on my (occasionally NSFW) Tumblr which expands on the Act III conversation between Hawke's party and Danarius. (I'm "caiterhe" on Tumblr as well.)
Opencanvas/digital media.
Danarius and Fenris (c) Bioware [Dragon Age 2]
Related content
Comments: 41
You draw beautifully ! I'm really enjoying digging in your gallery ^^
I noticed you mentionned fanfiction you wrote, I tried to see it on your tumblr but it seems kinda empty ? May I ask where I can read those stories? ^^Β
Thanks in advance !Β
π: 0 β©: 0
Of course! You are very talented. x)
π: 0 β©: 0
yeah, Fenris was probably made to do some things he didn't necessarily want to. i've been trying to rationalize why Fenris is bisexual for a very long time and, well, since i didn't write him it's not my call to make. I prefer him strictly hetero, of course, why wouldn't I? But... if a guy is nice, ... it just leaves that open territory. Kaytara is right in that the dialog with him confronting Danarius is not really any kind of confirmation. But. The artwork is very good.
π: 0 β©: 0
You know, I didn't know it was supposed to be Danarius until I read the description. Not showing his face is a bonus, because I can PRETEND THAT IT'S HAWKE INSTEAD
LOL I love how you draw Fenris. He looks perfect every time.
π: 0 β©: 1
Thanks, I appreciate that! I know I draw Fenris a little differently than most people, but as long as he's recognizable I guess it's okay?
And yeah, go ahead and pretend it's Hawke, haha! Those robes are pretty generic~.
π: 0 β©: 1
Different is all good in my opinion. >.> I like that he doesn't look like a pretty boy, despite being an elf (and having white hair). He looks like a man and I outgrew the 'cute boy' phase about ten years ago. >.> ...and...yes, I shall
π: 0 β©: 0
Uh. Ever since Gaider confirmed that Danarius actually... and Fenris... and... Well. Let's just cover that upper part of this image.
I like your style.
π: 0 β©: 2
Wait, he confirmed that? O_O When and where?
π: 0 β©: 1
Maker, this was hard to find... Here you go: [link]
Also, when you go meet Varania and Hawke say "we can negotiate", Fenris is pissed off and than Danarius reminds him how he once had an affection for him. There's a hint even even if you choose "He's not a slave" - "Do I hear a note of jealousy? The lad is rather skilled, isn't he?"
Danarius is a blood mage and he can control his slaves and do whatever he want with them. Most of the other magisters are probably just the same, and elves - well, you have seen how they are treated like.
π: 0 β©: 1
Yeah, yeah, I've noticed the subtext and have been wondering about it for a while. But a confirmation is something different. Thanks for the link!
π: 0 β©: 0
Thanks, I appreciate that!
π: 0 β©: 0
The sereneness on Fenris's face is so sweet. Its like my headcannon of Fenris and Danarius's more intimate past (before it went sour) in visual form. So cuuuuuuute. My favorite Fenris pairing. +fav
π: 0 β©: 0
Your digital stuff is shaping up SO NICELY. Fenris looks so peaceful here. Love it!
π: 0 β©: 1
Thank youuuu 
π: 0 β©: 0
Happeh Fenris? With Danarius?? Does not compute? *ish confuzzled*
π: 0 β©: 0
I remember when choosing different dialogues options about Danarius saying that Fenris had some "affection" for Danarius (before he realized that his slave life was not a real life with the Frog Warriors). This pic can portray this quite well, I think.
Good job, as usual!
π: 0 β©: 1
Thanks! Yep, I think it's fair to show Fenris like this... you don't have to know right away something is wrong. He learned it and that's impressive enough in its own right!
π: 0 β©: 1
Yup, indeed. 
π: 0 β©: 0
Absolutely beautiful. Per usual.
About your comment: "I try to make it happy, too. Sad-happy. It's... a thing! Kind of! Maybe happiness with an acknowledgement of tragedy? Not sure...." I agree. I see Fenris' expression as genuinely content, with an aura of threat visible only to the audience. The whole picture gives me the sense that this takes place long before Saheron and Fenris' epiphany with the fog warriors--perhaps sometime after the lyrium was engraved into his skin. Learning to deal with the pain, learning to use his new abilities, had to be tiring and taxing. And Danarius, in my mind at least, strikes me as the perfect manipulative bastard that would play on Fenris' vulnerabilities. Praise him, pet him, convince him it was all for the best.
Which makes Fenris soon-to-come realizations all the more brutal. But that's just my opinion ^ ^
π: 0 β©: 1
I agree with all of this, definitely. I figure Danarius strongly abused Fenris' vulnerability post-lyrium-markings. That isn't to imply that Fenris is a weak person; given his restricted reference frame and his personal circumstances, it's perfectly understandable that he wouldn't have objected to his treatment from day one. A horrible realization indeed... a terrible betrayal of trust. That's one reason I don't begrudge him his... intensity.
π: 0 β©: 1
Nor I. Fenris' intensity, his vehement protesting against magic, is part of what makes him a surprisingly complex character (granted, it takes some reading between the lines and some imagination). It makes me yearn to know more about what Danarius did to him. Physical abuse doesn't seem enough to make him despise magic the way he does. But mental or emotional abuse, manipulation of his affection and trust, that's more than enough.
Which is why I like Fenris so much, and your interpretations of him. You capture that spirit, that agony, so well.
π: 0 β©: 1
I agree, and there are some aspects beyond physical abuse that are explicitly canon. For example, his being forced to wear a leash and his being forced to kill the Fog Warriors. (The latter might not initially seem like evidence, but since the Fog Warriors were enemies of the qunari establishment, as is the Tevinter Imperium, logically Danarius--as a Tevinter magister--would have let them be unless he had a separate motive.) Furthermore, Gaider has clarified that there was a sexual angle to it as well, which I honestly thought was clear from the game, but I guess there was some ambiguity. When you start considering all these different facets, Fenris' hate comes across as uncomfortably reasonable. Now, if you're playing a mage, you might think otherwise, but the issue of magic deserves to be seen from Fenris' vantage as well. Honestly, I think it says a lot about him that he'll befriend and/or romance a mage Hawke. I get the impression he's willing to give people a chance, but to tell you the truth, he doesn't get a lot of evidence that might undermine his general opinion. I somewhat blame Kirkwall for that though--the Codex makes it clear that it's a major outlier for blood magic.
π: 0 β©: 1
I admit that I don't pay attention to what the writers have said about their characters and the story after-the-fact. But I thought the sexual overtones were rather obvious to me as well. That, coupled with everything else, makes for a unique character and his unique perspective. You may not like Fenris but his reactions make sense for what he's suffered.
It makes me wonder why so many people hate Fenris as a character? Or Anders for that matter. Isabella. Merril.. If there is one thing I can praise Bioware for, it's usually making very unique and complex characters. Or at the very least characters who become complex with interpretation and discussion.
Oh Kirkwall... I always wanted there to be an option where I argue with Anders about just how many insane blood mages there are in Kirkwall.
π: 0 β©: 0
you might not be used to work digitally, but from the little "preview" i get when I log in, I knew it was you... LOL, so at least it's recognizable and therefore i feel that you did good on the digital.
ok, so basically that means you do great digital work
btw, still can't get over how "great" hawkes ass turned out in: [link] <-- Hawke+Fenris Comic 24
haha.
π: 0 β©: 1
Thanks, that butt did come out pretty good, haha!
π: 0 β©: 0
Creepy and precious . . . not a common combination.
π: 0 β©: 0
Guh. O_O
Wonderfully drawn, yes. Creepy, yes.
Gaaaah. O_O
π: 0 β©: 0
awwwieee, how cute even thought it's Danarius... x3
π: 0 β©: 0
I really like this.
I'm struggling horribly with how to characterise Fenris in my fic - on the one hand there's the Fenris that Hawke romances, who is all damaged and doesn't want to be touched and can't handle even a one-night stand, but then there's the Fenris who fucks Isabela in every direction possible (come on, you'd have to work pretty hard to impress 'Bela surely). I can feel a handwave coming on...
π: 0 β©: 1
Well, just go with how you see him! Everyone has a different interpretation. I'm sure not everyone agrees with mine either
π: 0 β©: 1
Your interpretation makes sense if you go by the Hawke-romancing damaged version. Also yours makes me a bit weepy.
You still haven't explained βFor the laganum? For βPompam Leonumβ?β... I can guess at the intent, of course (and I just looked up "laganum" - LOL) but you SAID you'd spell it out!
π: 0 β©: 1
Aww! I try to make it happy, too. Sad-happy. It's... a thing! Kind of! Maybe happiness with an acknowledgement of tragedy? Not sure....
As for the definitions--I... will! I will! That fanfic has a ways to go yet, don't worry!
π: 0 β©: 0
Fenris almost looks...content.
It's rather disturbing.
But beautiful work, nonetheless.
π: 0 β©: 0
WOW, this is really amazing; you can draw really well with digital media as wellβ¦.
Iβm not a fan of Danarius, so im just gona imagine that itβs not Danarius but my Hawke who is in this picture
PS. Love all your works ^0^
π: 0 β©: 1
Haha, fair enough! I don't like Danarius either. Well, I enjoy *killing* him...!
π: 0 β©: 0
