Dragon Age: Origins & Roleplaying (plot spoilers).

[cloned_fiction]

So, I've been getting into discussions on RPing games over at the Mark Plays Dragon Age comments, and someone actually asked me about my characters and their story. Baaaaad idea. This is just my main DA:O character. I tried to write up my main DA2 character as well, but too many feelings got in the way, so for now there's just this.

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Re: My Warden, Part One

[wake_the_dragon]

The Cousland origin is definitely my favorite; I liked the Cousland family for the most part and I was so sad when they all died. It was the most emotional origin for me of the ones I've played.

I have a Cousland floating around about 1/4 of the way into the game that I put on a shelf until I can make up my mind whether she romances Liliana or Alistair (on the one hand, being queen next to Ali sounds good, on the other the angst between Ali and my mage might make a better romance and I want to romance Lil at least once with a female Warden (which both my mage and Cousland are) but there's still my female Dalish elf that I could romance Lil on

I blame Bioware for making so many interesting characters romanceable in their games. I eventually want to make a Warden to romance Zevran, because I really liked him (though not as much as I liked Alistair).

Aiducan's story she didn't punch Alistair out at the start of the cutscene and so couldn't stop him from sacrificing himself because he still loved her and couldn't let her die. Watching him kill the archdemon and having him die in her arms broke her heart all over again, and I'm pretty sure she just disappeared after the battle was over.

Ouch.

I almost had my Cousland reject the ritiual and go for the tragic ending, but she'd lost almost her entire family and there'd been so much death and darkness since Ostagar that I wanted something to go right for her. I'm thinking about making another Warden and going for a sadder ending, but not for a Cousland Warden.

Re: My Warden, Part One

[cloned_fiction]

I really like all the romance options in this game, though I like Alistair and Liliana most. I romanced Zev on the only other character I've finished on - my male city elf rogue and it was very... I won't say sweet because it was Zev and my rogue was one of those self-serving types that don't get attached. Yet they still managed to get really attached, in a non-sickly sweet way. I liked the romance very much.

I'm currently romancing Morrigan with my male dwarf commoner. It was a tough choice between her and Liliana for this particular character, but this is my last chance to romance Morrigan as it's definitely the last male character I'll make. It's very sweet so far to see how my character is beginning to grow on her, and she's beginning to have feelings, apparently for the first time if you beleive the front she puts out most of the time. But she won't admit that yet.

And the DA2 ones are even better. Except I never really liked Merril all that much. But I've rival-manced Fenris on a male warrior Hawke, friend-manced Anders on a female mage Hawke, and I plan on friend-mancing Isabella on a female rogue Hawke.

Ouch.
Yeah, it was my first Dragon Age playthrough and the whole thing, but especially the ending, was one of the most tragic things I had ever experienced in a game. [spoilers for specifics of my sad ending]My Warden made all the wrong decisions (didn't harden Alistair so he could be convinced not to break up with you, then put him on the throne, then refused the ritual, then decided to try and talk sense into him about how he was the king and had a responsibility to the kingdom not to die instead of just picking "I won't let you do this" in the first bit which I am told would have punched him out and is the only option without the ritual, if he's there and he's in love with you to let you kill the archdemon instead). Then he went and said "You know how I feel about you. I won't let you die, not while I can help it" followed by me saying "I won't let you do this" and him replying "You say that like I'm giving you a choice" and running at the archdemon without me having the option to do anything about it except watch in horror (at this point, Criedhe would have totally hamstringed him with her sword if it saved his life but the game wouldn't let me). My heart was in a million pieces forever.