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alias_sqbrSo fred_mouse asked me to write about my headcanons for romances I've played and I was so UTTERLY BAFFLED by the idea that anyone actually enjoys me talking about this kind of thing I stalled for like a month.
So I'm just going to go through relationships my PCs have had and see if I have anything to say about each.
The first player controlled romance I ever did was Alistair/Martya Brosca in Dragon Age Origins. And the thing about that was he KEPT SAYING HE WAS GOING TO DUMP ME, because of a bug where the game assumed you'd made him King. So I tend to imagine them as more unstable than the game usually writes them as (when it's not being buggy), and actually sort of breaking up during Awakening when Alistair NEVER SHOWED UP, though I think they worked things out (as is evidenced by them still being together in Inquisition)
Dane Amell dumped Morrigan when she asked him to and got together with Zevran but she was so sweet and affectionate afterwards, even calling him "my love" that I think they all worked out a poly thing.
And then I made up a Cousland for Inquisition who was in a relationship with Leliana and married to Anora, and Morrigan said he was in a relationship with her too?! So that's the game giving me poly when I didn't ask for it haha.
May Hawke screwed up the Isabela romance and got together with Fenris and I TOTALLY see that as a happy poly triad.
You asked about the Ferdi/Cassandra "friendship", basically this was an example of my PC pursuing a positive relationship (via personal quests and generally being polite) for work reasons because he likes what Cassandra does for the Inquisition and Chantry, and the game assuming that if he was putting that much work in it must be because he wanted a friendship/romance. So she was there saying "you are a great friend" and he was basically thinking "You are a great person who I like ok but don't really click with".
I find the Cassandra romance a bit weird, the way she's all "this is a terrible idea" and the Inquisitor is calmly smug, so have started romancing her with a much younger sheltered Dalish mage who thinks he is literally god's gift, and thus it REALLY IS kind of a bad idea and his arrogance will hopefully feel more like youthful bravado than manly dominance despite involving the same lines. We will see.
The way characters still REALLY LIKE YOU if you're a jerk who gives them gifts and says roughly the right things does make me feel weird sometimes. I set up a human noble PC in Origins to marry Alistair and she just COULD NOT bring herself to talk to him much, it felt too creepy when he responded so gratefully to the attention.
I kind of miss the rivalry relationships in Dragon Age 2, it made it interesting to not get along with characters, in Inquisition they just clam up. Though I did enjoy some grumpy conversations with Blackwall after my first Lavellan went around saying she was the Herald of Andraste. Rivalling Merrill enough to side against the mages in Dragon Age 2 was more than I could handle, even for my tragic pro templar Hawke who rivalmanced Anders.
Dorian's quest didn't fire in my first playthrough, I imagine it just happened off screen.
I tried headcanoning the post-reveal Blackwall romance as rocky but the game gave no options for that so I went back and dumped him, it all felt too good to be true. And then there was some mutual pining with Blackwall, Josephine and the Inquisitor, but I couldn't figure out a way for them to work as a triad.
The game gives space for Inquisitor/Dorian/Iron Bull but my Dorianmancer wasn't interested. See also Shepard/Tali/Garrus...actually I can kind of see that with my Talimancer hmmmm.
I headcanon Solas pining after my Levallen after they broke up and she got together with Cullen haha, it made it all more bittersweet and interesting.
Thinking of other games...my male Shepard in Mass Effect was SO AWFUL I headcanoned his girlfriends being all "Oh god why I am into this guy he's so awful /o\".
HMMMMM that's all I can think of for now. I feel like this is very boring, sorry!
fred_mouse asked me to write about my headcanons for romances I've played and I was so UTTERLY BAFFLED by the idea that anyone actually enjoys me talking about this kind of thing I stalled for like a month.So I'm just going to go through relationships my PCs have had and see if I have anything to say about each.
The first player controlled romance I ever did was Alistair/Martya Brosca in Dragon Age Origins. And the thing about that was he KEPT SAYING HE WAS GOING TO DUMP ME, because of a bug where the game assumed you'd made him King. So I tend to imagine them as more unstable than the game usually writes them as (when it's not being buggy), and actually sort of breaking up during Awakening when Alistair NEVER SHOWED UP, though I think they worked things out (as is evidenced by them still being together in Inquisition)
Dane Amell dumped Morrigan when she asked him to and got together with Zevran but she was so sweet and affectionate afterwards, even calling him "my love" that I think they all worked out a poly thing.
And then I made up a Cousland for Inquisition who was in a relationship with Leliana and married to Anora, and Morrigan said he was in a relationship with her too?! So that's the game giving me poly when I didn't ask for it haha.
May Hawke screwed up the Isabela romance and got together with Fenris and I TOTALLY see that as a happy poly triad.
You asked about the Ferdi/Cassandra "friendship", basically this was an example of my PC pursuing a positive relationship (via personal quests and generally being polite) for work reasons because he likes what Cassandra does for the Inquisition and Chantry, and the game assuming that if he was putting that much work in it must be because he wanted a friendship/romance. So she was there saying "you are a great friend" and he was basically thinking "You are a great person who I like ok but don't really click with".
I find the Cassandra romance a bit weird, the way she's all "this is a terrible idea" and the Inquisitor is calmly smug, so have started romancing her with a much younger sheltered Dalish mage who thinks he is literally god's gift, and thus it REALLY IS kind of a bad idea and his arrogance will hopefully feel more like youthful bravado than manly dominance despite involving the same lines. We will see.
The way characters still REALLY LIKE YOU if you're a jerk who gives them gifts and says roughly the right things does make me feel weird sometimes. I set up a human noble PC in Origins to marry Alistair and she just COULD NOT bring herself to talk to him much, it felt too creepy when he responded so gratefully to the attention.
I kind of miss the rivalry relationships in Dragon Age 2, it made it interesting to not get along with characters, in Inquisition they just clam up. Though I did enjoy some grumpy conversations with Blackwall after my first Lavellan went around saying she was the Herald of Andraste. Rivalling Merrill enough to side against the mages in Dragon Age 2 was more than I could handle, even for my tragic pro templar Hawke who rivalmanced Anders.
Dorian's quest didn't fire in my first playthrough, I imagine it just happened off screen.
I tried headcanoning the post-reveal Blackwall romance as rocky but the game gave no options for that so I went back and dumped him, it all felt too good to be true. And then there was some mutual pining with Blackwall, Josephine and the Inquisitor, but I couldn't figure out a way for them to work as a triad.
The game gives space for Inquisitor/Dorian/Iron Bull but my Dorianmancer wasn't interested. See also Shepard/Tali/Garrus...actually I can kind of see that with my Talimancer hmmmm.
I headcanon Solas pining after my Levallen after they broke up and she got together with Cullen haha, it made it all more bittersweet and interesting.
Thinking of other games...my male Shepard in Mass Effect was SO AWFUL I headcanoned his girlfriends being all "Oh god why I am into this guy he's so awful /o\".
HMMMMM that's all I can think of for now. I feel like this is very boring, sorry!
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Date: 2015-02-18 03:13 am (UTC)Is there a way around this king bug? Because I have it too! My Brosca had the post-coital conversation option of telling Alistair he'd better get back to doing king stuff, and then right before the bit with Morrigan's project he was talking as if he already is the king. It seems like either he's delusional and amnesiac, or his oath to Anora wasn't worth the paper it's printed on and he's started scheming to overthrow her the minute he got out of her sight. I did everything I could to get him out of it, and he throws it all back in my face >:( After discovering some quests left undone, I went back to a save before the Landsmeet and tidied up, and have been too busy to make progress since; is there a chance of having a non-bugged play-through?
Your Cassandra/Dalish mage reminds me of when I played a wizard in Diablo 3. The wizard is characterised as ridiculously super-talented (the whole game is an up-to-11 power fantasy, which is partly what turned me off it; I'd rather play downtrodden-but-persevering or coolly-competent) and his battle verbiage is cocky lines like "I'm so good I amaze myself" and "I didn't think I could get any better". I had no fun at all playing such an arrogant character; I decided instead that he was incredibly insecure and trying - unsuccessfully - to cover it up by talking big, and liked him much better after that.
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Date: 2015-02-18 03:18 am (UTC)I know no way around it sorry, but on the plus side it doesn't mean he actually will become king, it's purely a dialogue problem. I've never heard of it affecting the end of the game. EDIT: I don't know if there's any chance of it not firing a second time through the same scenes.