I'M SO GLAD YOU FINALLY BEAT THIS!!! YES TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID!!!!
Totally ship Nathanial/Bethany, or to be honest, I have kind of a thing for Alistair/Bethany, which I'm really not sure where that came from. Bethany and I were BFFS immediately. That's why it made me so sad my second playthrough I let her die in the Deep Roads. I'm doing my one and only side with the templars this playthrough and I didn't want to risk fighting her if she sided with the mages.
Also, ORSINO WHAT THE FUCK. WHY ARE YOU A MORON?! Seriously, I side with the mages, kill a handful of templars and suddenly he goes "Oh Meredith wants a blood mage? Then I'll give her a blood mage?" Dude, thanks for making me look like a TARD for sticking up for you guys. (Plus, I learned that if you side with the templars, Orsino knew about the blood mage that killed Mama Hawke and didn't say anything about it. DUUUUUUUUUDE.) On the other hand, I learned that Meredith called for the Rite of Annulment long before Anders blew the Chantry up when she had no reason to. I HATE BOTH OF THEM. CAN'T I JUST SAY SCREW YOU BOTH AND SIDE WITH THE QUNARI???? I bet the Arishok and Sten could take them down by laughing at them.
Unlike in Origins, I think they did a great job with the females in this game. I didn't think I was going to like Isabela, but I can't play without me and her being BFFS and getting into massive amounts of trouble together. And then Aveline is like my big protective sister who gets me out said trouble. Isabela is worth having in the party all the time. I love her to death.
This time through I'm romancing Fenris. For me, I've gradually fallen in love with Fenris and the romance, unlike with Anders when I fell madly head over heels. He is so sweet and adorable and I think he goes really well with my warrior Kaylen. I'm trying to rival Anders this playthrough and AGH, it's so hard. I do think Sebastian's adorable, but I haven't used him much. Maybe next playthrough. Although the thought of not having Isabela as my rogue makes me want to cry. And I love Varric, but I just didn't like him in combat as much as Isabela.
This is getting way too long. Almost done, promise. :-D
My favorite party banter moment ever happened tonight when Anders and Fenris were talking about Fenris' romance with Hawke. Isabela pipes in that they're like two dogs fighting over a bitch in heat and Fenris pipes in that they weren't talking about her, they were talking about Hawke. And Fenris is so mean to Merril it's funny. I don't really use Merril either and I always end up rivaling her. I think one playthrough I'm going to be an asshole and rival everyone but be BFFS with Merril.
Oh, and yes. The reason why we recommended romancing Anders was because of the end. I think it made the game so much more powerful. I was more in shock what Anders did. I'm not actually mad at him, and the revolutionary side of me understands what he did, even if there were better ways he could have done it. I'm actually planning a series of oneshots between him and my Ariel Hawke who romanced him where she's as rebellious about the mages as he is and she rattles off 2 or 3 ideas in a second that would've worked better than blowing the Chantry up. I was definitely more pissed at Orsino.
I had a feeling that I was going to like Isabela, seeing as I liked her in Origins, and I was so sad when I realized that I had to max out her friendship meter in order to get her to stick around. Next time, I'm making SURE to do that early on. Aveline was in my party about 90% of the game, and I loved how when you walked around Hightown that the guards on post would acknowledge her presence. I was whining earlier about not having an Nathaniel-type archer around, but then I beefed up Varric's skill sets and dude. He is like the most badass wingman in the history of ever. The whole character quest where he was "Are you sure you know what you're doing, dating this guy? I don't want you to get hurt" made me go awwww and then the way that his and my Hawke's friendship pretty much went to the "we flirt around with the other because it's fun and we both know that nothing's going to come of it" level all on its own made me love him forever.
I had Fenris in my party whenever I didn't have Aveline, but he didn't really talk much to my other members. He and Varric did have a fun conversation about hanging out at the Hanged Man for a game of Wicked Grace though. :D
even if there were better ways he could have done it.
EXACTLY. There were other options, like asking that nice Antivan assassin that they just recently met to make it look like an accident or natural causes. (And the knife that he threw in that guy's eye...I did a little geek-out happy dance when I saw that. Oh ZEV. ♥)
And WTH Orsino? Here I thought that I would just have to fight Meredith at the end, but then you go and do the "I'm tired of wating and I'm tired of helping. Blah blah blah BLOOD MAGE POWERS ACTIVATE!" In the back of my head, I figured that it would come to killing them both because all through the game, neither side was completely in the right or in the wrong, but STILL. SAVING MY HEALTH POTIONS FOR THE BIG BOSS FIGHT, YOU KNOW?
I've been thinking Nathaniel/Bethany recently and I'm thinking about doing something with my Tabris, seeing that in that one, I still 'shipped Nate/F!Cousland, but where Elissa never made it out of the attack in Highever. It's looking angsty and where he's got to let the past go in order to make the most of his present and will more than likely sound a lot worse on the screen than it does rattling around in my head, but I might take a crack at it once I finish up another ficlet I have in the works.
Totally ship Nathanial/Bethany, or to be honest, I have kind of a thing for Alistair/Bethany, which I'm really not sure where that came from. Bethany and I were BFFS immediately. That's why it made me so sad my second playthrough I let her die in the Deep Roads. I'm doing my one and only side with the templars this playthrough and I didn't want to risk fighting her if she sided with the mages.
Also, ORSINO WHAT THE FUCK. WHY ARE YOU A MORON?! Seriously, I side with the mages, kill a handful of templars and suddenly he goes "Oh Meredith wants a blood mage? Then I'll give her a blood mage?" Dude, thanks for making me look like a TARD for sticking up for you guys. (Plus, I learned that if you side with the templars, Orsino knew about the blood mage that killed Mama Hawke and didn't say anything about it. DUUUUUUUUUDE.) On the other hand, I learned that Meredith called for the Rite of Annulment long before Anders blew the Chantry up when she had no reason to. I HATE BOTH OF THEM. CAN'T I JUST SAY SCREW YOU BOTH AND SIDE WITH THE QUNARI???? I bet the Arishok and Sten could take them down by laughing at them.
Unlike in Origins, I think they did a great job with the females in this game. I didn't think I was going to like Isabela, but I can't play without me and her being BFFS and getting into massive amounts of trouble together. And then Aveline is like my big protective sister who gets me out said trouble. Isabela is worth having in the party all the time. I love her to death.
This time through I'm romancing Fenris. For me, I've gradually fallen in love with Fenris and the romance, unlike with Anders when I fell madly head over heels. He is so sweet and adorable and I think he goes really well with my warrior Kaylen. I'm trying to rival Anders this playthrough and AGH, it's so hard. I do think Sebastian's adorable, but I haven't used him much. Maybe next playthrough. Although the thought of not having Isabela as my rogue makes me want to cry. And I love Varric, but I just didn't like him in combat as much as Isabela.
This is getting way too long. Almost done, promise. :-D
My favorite party banter moment ever happened tonight when Anders and Fenris were talking about Fenris' romance with Hawke. Isabela pipes in that they're like two dogs fighting over a bitch in heat and Fenris pipes in that they weren't talking about her, they were talking about Hawke. And Fenris is so mean to Merril it's funny. I don't really use Merril either and I always end up rivaling her. I think one playthrough I'm going to be an asshole and rival everyone but be BFFS with Merril.
Oh, and yes. The reason why we recommended romancing Anders was because of the end. I think it made the game so much more powerful. I was more in shock what Anders did. I'm not actually mad at him, and the revolutionary side of me understands what he did, even if there were better ways he could have done it. I'm actually planning a series of oneshots between him and my Ariel Hawke who romanced him where she's as rebellious about the mages as he is and she rattles off 2 or 3 ideas in a second that would've worked better than blowing the Chantry up. I was definitely more pissed at Orsino.
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I had Fenris in my party whenever I didn't have Aveline, but he didn't really talk much to my other members. He and Varric did have a fun conversation about hanging out at the Hanged Man for a game of Wicked Grace though. :D
even if there were better ways he could have done it.
EXACTLY. There were other options, like asking that nice Antivan assassin that they just recently met to make it look like an accident or natural causes. (And the knife that he threw in that guy's eye...I did a little geek-out happy dance when I saw that. Oh ZEV. ♥)
And WTH Orsino? Here I thought that I would just have to fight Meredith at the end, but then you go and do the "I'm tired of wating and I'm tired of helping. Blah blah blah BLOOD MAGE POWERS ACTIVATE!" In the back of my head, I figured that it would come to killing them both because all through the game, neither side was completely in the right or in the wrong, but STILL. SAVING MY HEALTH POTIONS FOR THE BIG BOSS FIGHT, YOU KNOW?
I've been thinking Nathaniel/Bethany recently and I'm thinking about doing something with my Tabris, seeing that in that one, I still 'shipped Nate/F!Cousland, but where Elissa never made it out of the attack in Highever. It's looking angsty and where he's got to let the past go in order to make the most of his present and will more than likely sound a lot worse on the screen than it does rattling around in my head, but I might take a crack at it once I finish up another ficlet I have in the works.
OH GAME, I LOVE YOU TO PIECES! *flails*
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