Hira x Miriam

Hira x Miriam is the femslash ship between Hira and Miriam from the Dragon Age: Absolution fandom.

Canon
Hira and Miriam met when Miriam left Tevinter. After Miriam's escape, the two of them become close friends, and later lovers. But when the Breach started, Hira wanted to join the Inquisition, who she thought was the only solution to the threat to the world. Miriam, on the other hand, refused to join because she didn't trust they could change the world. So the two of them parted ways, and broke up. Hira went to join the Inquisition, while Miriam joined Roland and became a mercenary and thief. That's how she meets again with Hira, some time later. After their reunion, Miriam refuses to look at Hira, hurt by her leaving her behind. But Hira reassures her that she has a mission that could save the world. She promises to then return to a calmer life with Miriam, if that's what she wishes, so Miriam agrees to join Hira on her mission. However, she quickly realizes Hira tricked her just so she can join the mission, so she leaves the place, hurt. Hira follows behind and tells her to face her fears and to let her past behind, so they can both be happy. Miriam asks her: "together?" And Hira just replies with a kiss to Miriam's lips.

Once they arrive at Tevinter, Miriam is already sick of being there, where she was enslaved and abused for so many years, but Hira goes to her side to comfort her. And later at night, when Miriam gets harassed by a group of Tevinter men, only for being an elf, Hira and the gang stand up for her and protect her, even risking the mission for it. Miriam is upset by this and Hira immediately notices this so she follows her to comfort her once again. So when Miriam shares just how scared she is to follow through with the plan, but that she still wants to do it, to live comfortably afterwards with Hira, Hira hugs her and tells her that she must come back or she'll kill her herself, which makes Miriam chuckle.

After chaos reigns in the palace, Miriam sets out to find Hira, alongside Lacklon and Roland. And when they find her, she's trapped in a magic cell. Miriam tries everything to save Hira from there, but Hira tells her to preserve her blades and energy. When Miriam informs her of Fairbanks' death and that she has the Circulum now, Hira asks her to take it  to a place where she has a contact. Miriam keeps fighting to get Hira out of the cage, but when an opening in the little cave where Hira is appears, she decides to leave from there, saying goodbye to Miriam, who is left screaming for her to come back since she just recently "got her back."

After Miriam gets shot with an arrow while escaping the palace, and gets heavily injured, she has a dream where she meets Hira, and the thought of losing her scares her. At that moment, Rezaren appears and threatens her with Hira's life, so Miriam has no option but to find Hira and save her, before he does. Meanwhile, Hira is imprisoned in the palace, and she tells the Commander that she hates the Tevinter Empire because it hurt the people she loves, including Miriam. When Rezaren comes to see her at her cell, he physically attacks her and asks her why she helped Miriam escape.

As Miriam risks her own life at the palace to rescue Hira, Hira already escaped during the commotion of the escape of the dragon, so she goes to the safehouse, shouting Miriam's name. When she realizes there's no one there, she grabs the Circulum and decides to flee the city. However, on her way, she encounters Miriam and the gang. Miriam quickly runs to hug her, overtly worried since she thought they'd taken Hira. But when she breaks the hug, she sees the Circulum in Hira's bag, realizing that she was planning on leaving the gang behind, with the Ciculum. Miriam realizes that Hira has been the traitor all alone, and as Hira escapes from them, she says a last little "sorry" to Miriam. Qwydion and the gang quickly stop her escape by creating a wall of fire. And Miriam confronts her by asking her about her plans. Hira explains that she wanted to do this to solve the Earth and rid it of all injustices. But she says that in order to do that she had to make a deal with Rezaren. When Roland presses her about what she had to give Rezaren in exchange, skeptical of why Rezaren would ever exchange his nation and reputation with her, Miriam realizes that it was her who was offered in exchange. When Hira confirms this, crying, Miriam falls to her knees, completely broken, thinking Hira sold her to the man who had her enslaved for such a long part of her life. Then, their conversation gets interrupted by Rezaren attacking the safehouse.

Finally, after Miriam kills Rezaren and retrieves the Circulum, she approaches Hira who was lying hurt on the floor. Miriam tells her that she's willing to try to start all over with her, and says that although she understands her resentment towards Tevinter, she can't let anger consume her. Miriam desperately asks Hira to say that she is more important to her than the Circulum, but when Hira reveals herself behind Miriam, showing the one that Miriam was talking to was just an illusion, she cries "I wish I could," leaving Miriam behind.

Now, Miriam affirms that since Hira made her choice, she will too. And decides to embark on a mission with her friends, Roland, Qwydion and Lacklon, to destroy the Circulum, since powering it requires the death of dozens of people. A mission that directly goes against Hira's plan.

Fanon
is one of the most popular ships within the fandom of the new rendition of Dragon Age, Absolution. Since the two of them were established as lovers since the very first episode of the series, people started shipping them from the beginning. LGBT+ fans within the fandom found the ship specifically comforting and immediately went to social media to create fanart and fanworks related to it. However, similarly to the other gay ship in the series, Lacklon x Roland, the ship also received homophobic backlash from some people online, which was quickly shutdown by the fact that the Dragon Age franchise had always had LGBT+ representation.

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