It's like how people create tags on AO3 for their Hawke/Warden/etc. I'm like that too, though the Hawke I played first isn't quite the one I think I want to fic about (but that's OK: there are authors out there who write a lot of what I need to have my happy fandom times.)
It's also, I think, why I have a hard time writing in DA/ME fandoms. My Hawke is not your Hawke even if they're the same gender, class, theme. But I'm...very restrictive in what I consider acceptable characterization, in that I stick very hard to what canon gives me, and so if there's no canon how do I characterize this person?? And then I psych myself out and can never write.
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It's also, I think, why I have a hard time writing in DA/ME fandoms. My Hawke is not your Hawke even if they're the same gender, class, theme. But I'm...very restrictive in what I consider acceptable characterization, in that I stick very hard to what canon gives me, and so if there's no canon how do I characterize this person?? And then I psych myself out and can never write.