I meant to have this for yesterday wrt Kandersgiving but OH WELL
Anyway, I’ve been kicking around an AU where Anders is sent to the Kirkwall Circle and Karl becomes a Grey Warden. And in this AU, Karl is in Kirkwall legitimately (Hey, Vigil’s Keep is full of Templars, you think I can get reassigned? Sure, I’d love to go to the Free Marches with Stroud!) and requisitions a healer from the Gallows to help refugees and for no other reasons at all, don’t be ridiculous.
Hawke finds the Warden, which means he finds the Healer, and he is Delighted. When Anders’s templar minder is, for example, Thrask, who is willing to look the other way, Hawke will drag both of them to the Hanged Man. It’s hard to not like Hawke, and he makes Anders laugh, so Karl’s more-or-less fine with it (and is not at all jealous when Anders and Hawke flirt at each other terribly.)
Also, Justice is still Kristoff (for now – this doodle is act I). He came to the Marches with Karl because again, Templars were getting touchy about the possessed corpse.