In a bizzarro world without my faves? I don't want to contemplate that. I write fic in my head to tell stories I can't see in the games (dragon age has a limited number of options for main character origins, so my headcanon is for something different), to tell stories that linger on things that aren't addressed in canon (the traumas, the joys, all manner of things that get glossed over), and I read fic for all of those reasons and more. Fic lets me focus on sadly underrated women, or on those minor queers, or it allows me to state that certain characters are queer.