Alright- here is the cannon f!Hawke with Anders part...
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A) Absolute
Hawke's first reaction to the city of Kirkwall is disgust. It never really dissipated. It was horrifying in many ways, even as it became home.
B) Beauty
Anders had been certain that when he took a spirit into himself he had stopped wanting the things he had before: a safe place and a pretty girl. When SHE flits into his clinic, confident and joking, he realizes not as much had changed as he thought. He would never admit it was her smile as much as her willingness to help that got him to give Hawke the map.
C) Champion
It happens a long time before the city notices, at least from what Anders can see. The Fereldans start looking to her to solve their problems first, then the natives of Kirkwall follow. It's when he realizes the viscount knows her name that he sees what she has become- and loves that she doesn't have a clue.
D) Doom
Anders has hated enclosed spaces ever since his year in solitary. The Deep Roads are even worse, the song calling just in the back of his mind to remind him of what he is. When Hawke's hand settles on his shoulder it pushes that away for a while, and the inevitable end of his road seems further away.
E) Everybody
Hawke secretly hates Wicked Grace, but sometimes even Anders shows up and those nights are worth it.
F) Famous
They've been tip-toeing around each other for two years when she ducks into his clinic after hours, the frilly dress obviously one her mother picked out. The attention embarrasses her unless she has a weapon in her hand. He's torn between telling her it's beautiful on her and peeling her out of it. (He does neither.)
G) Game
Hawke plays chess with the knight-captain on Fridays. Even after she brings him the information on Templar rotations as a result, Anders can't help but hate Cullen for it just a little.
H) Home
Hawke feels so weary when he walks her to the door, and she shakes her head in a refusal to enter. She is extremely relieved when he guides her to Lowtown without pressing the issue. When she finally manages to drink herself numb and drown out the images of her mother's death, it is Anders who she finds at her side and she realizes she may need to redefine a certain word in her head.
I) Interest
Anders had been afraid he'd run her off. When she tells him she will leave her door open tonight, he is relieved to know he was wrong.
J) Justice
Hawke doles out life and death so easily that Anders sometimes wonders which of them is bonded to the spirit. It seems intrinsic to her, and she makes it look so easy! In a weak moment, he confessed to her that she would have been the better host
K) Kitten
Isabella using the nickname for Merrill throws Anders for a loop. It isn't that the name doesn't suit the little dalish elf- it's just that the pirate's tone is exactly the same as Hawke when she calls him by the same name, and he has to do a double-take.
L) Loophole
Hawke would never give one of her friends over to the qunari. It helps that Isabella has never professed to be one.
M) Marriage
Hawke knew it bothered Anders far more than it did her. She would be happy to stay just like this, at his side in mutual quarters and madly in love, but she knew he longed for more. Years later, she'll wonder if that was the affront the Chantry had made that finally pushed him over the edge.
N) Noose
Hawke wakes up gasping several times a week. Usually she ends up crying as well. Anders just holds her when it happens, and knows he can add no more to her shoulders no matter what.
O) Omnipotent
Hawke has a way of grabbing his hand just before he writes the words that would damn them all in his manifesto, as if she knows...
P) Planning
If Anders had thought it through better he wouldn't have needed her help. Justice hates that thought, actually, and points out how much it took to make sure she was involved. Anders has to agree, but he did it because he wanted to give her a chance to find out what was going on under her roof.
Q) Quickly
Hawke looks up into the dragon's maw and her only thought is "I'm sorry." She had been so mad at him today she ran off without taking him with her, and she just knows this is going to give him a lot of work to do if she survives at all. It had all just happened so fast she couldn't stop it.
R) Running
There isn't enough magic in Kirkwall to stop him from saving Hawke. He's back in their room at her side before Varric can even explain what happened, and healing her in the same instant he asks what attacked her. The dwarf sees one moment he could never write: nobody would believe a mage could move that fast.
S) Stutter
When Hawke reminds him that her father studied fire magic the next word sticks on his tongue. It is a subtle sign that she knows what he is doing with the materials she gathered for him, and he can hardly believe she trusts him enough not to ask any more questions.
T) Tomorrow
Kirkwall is quiet that night. Nobody knows what he set in motion, what he has been planning. But that is for the morning. Right now, he wraps Hawke in his arms and makes love to her as though it is the last time- afraid that it truly is.
U) Ulterior
It doesn't matter if he believes she sided with the mages for the good of Kirkwall, or some higher plan. Her motive is much simpler, but easy to lose in Anders' grand scheme. It has only ever been for him.
V) Vibrant
The red of blood is stark against Kirkwall's stones. It makes them both sick to see what has become of the city, and makes a stark contrast from the facade the town puts forward.
W) White
Her hair is a shock of frost, brilliant and gleaming. The way she keeps it perfectly braided is amusing, but it also means he is the only one who gets to run his fingers through it and revel in the softness. It spills across the black and red of the sheets deliciously, and the very sight pushes Justice away every time.
X) Xiphihumeralis
It is irresponsible to keep a pet when they are on the run themselves. Even so, when she hands him the little grey ball of fluff and it mews Anders is certain that they can find room. Hawke names it Purrcival, and before the week is out he has a cap with a feather.
Y) Yammering
Merrill wasn't left behind for any reason except that she wouldn't. Stop. Talking. Hawke feels bad about it, but it had gotten to the point where if she didn't Anders was going to hurt her. That seemed like a worse idea.
Z) Zeal
Hawke really hated Corypheus, or at least blamed him. Anders tried to stop her, wanted to keep her from harm, but her spirit was far too strong and she managed to outplay him at every turn until she was simply gone. When he received Varric's letter he wishes he'd had the strength to match her fury and vows to find her- somehow.
