What's with all the Alastairs in my fandoms!?

[bloomxperish]

I've just realised that I've been spelling Alistair's name wrong (from DA:O) but I blame that on Supernatural because of Alastair (I do prefer that spelling though) and there was an Alastair in Tomb Raider: Legend, who I adored until what happened to him in Underworld... :(

Also, doesn't anyone else think that Shaun from Assassin's Creed 2 and

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[assassin_lucy]

Shaun > DA:O Alistair. They are similar, but Shaun just wins. His bitching is closer to pure bitching, whereas Alistair's kind of like a puppy.

And ew, spiders. You just made me check the desk. Thankfully, none around. But the laws of spider-paranoia say that because this has happened, I'll probably end up with one in bed or something.

[assassin_lucy]

Templars are evil. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown confused the shit out of me, because I read it after I'd played AC2 for the first time simply because it said "da Vinci" and had pictures in it. I was just like Leonardo = Templar = Good? WTF?

You can't really cheat on them, they get all iffy. If you're a fem!Cousland, you can become Queen. That was my first playthrough. Then I accidentally romanced Zev on my second. My third is a guy, who romanced Morrigan, dumped her, romanced Leliana, dumped her and is in a reasonably steady relationship with Zev.

As for The Fade, I try to get it over with. I died so many times, it's not even funny. I'm not a fan of the Deep Roads earlier, but at least they're better than The Fade.

[bloomxperish]

Haha! I loved The Da Vinci code, but I did read it before I was into AC- and I totally forgot da Vinci is a templar in it! That is weird- but imagine if that was an expansion for AC2- kill Leonardo because you find out he is actually a templar! Won't happen because he did live to be quite old.

I haven't romanced Morrigan or Leliana yet- I tried to with my last playthrough as a male rogue but I'd already had Zevran give me the earring so they weren't really interested. Zevran's funny though because when you sleep with him, it adds +1 approval each time so you can just keep doing it until his approval is maxed out.

Deep Roads! The Broodmother is scary- it went so bad on my second playthrough, but I somehow managed to beat it with only Oghren because all my other party members died.

[assassin_lucy]

Also, despite being willing to spend ungodly amounts of money for DLC, I wouldn't be able to kill Leonardo. No matter how evil he turned out to be (though seriously, look at him. He couldn't be evil. And he glows blue! BLUE!), I just couldn't.

Yeah, the sleeping-with-Zevran thing is useful. Though it gets a bit repetitive, and it's awkward if there are family members hanging around.

The Broodmother is the only baddie that I find easier with a mage than with a rogue. Lifeward is very useful, there. What's your usual party? Alistair's my tank, despite his Templarness. If I'm a mage, I take Zev and Leliana as rogues. If I'm a rogue, I take Zev as a backup rogue and bring Wynne along to keep us all from dying.

[bloomxperish]

Usual party has Alastair (as tank) and Morrigan, and then usually a rogue. but when I play as a mage I'll probably replace Morrigan and go for two rogues instead.