Ryder Confirmed to be Brother/Sister

Sept 8, 2016 19:21:42 GMT The Elder King said:

Sept 8, 2016 19:15:27 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

This sucks. Now there being family issues/drama and them forcing your character to feel certain things is guaranteed. Bioware really can't drop a single one of their terrible cliches, can they?

I do hope they'll allow more freedom in defining how our characters feels about the sibling and the father.
I don't think though that having a family, in itself, it's a terrible cliché. If well executed it can be a good feature, though I know you don't like a detailed background.

I prefer player-defined backgrounds as well but I'm staying optimistic about it since it does have story potential if done well. Partially, that means that since this was a story element that they felt needed to be mandatory then I feel they need to prove that it was worth it and truely use that family aspect for what it is worth like not use it for cheap deaths, hollow motivation or unearned emotional tugs.

I'm also hoping for a compromise in the sense that we still get to define some of our past and importantly, our relationship to our family. It can give way to a lot of variety in the relationships like love, dysfunctional love or even indifference or hate. This variety also helps avoid the character inconsistencies that can and likely will arise if there's a set relationship value. Just because someone is related to you does not necessarily mean that you will care about them or love them. That might sound horrible to some but it's an actual thing: sometimes people just wind up not feeling anything special towards their family and sometimes that is feeling based on the behavior of the family.

The quote, "Blood is thicker than water" is actually a bit of a misquote from what I know. It comes from this; “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” This quote actuallys refers to the bond between soldiers, not a bond between blood relatives. It is commonly used to refer to loyalty and such to blod relatives but it does not actually have something to do with family.

Wait, what was I talking about? I think I got sidetracked. Oh yeah, optimism and hope and stuff.

Sept 8, 2016 19:39:17 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

The Inquisitor gets so much but they're still one of my favorite protagonists. I always imagined my main Inquisitor would have gotten along great with the Exile, one of my other favorite protagonists. Probably become good friends given that they were both complete dorks that struggled with the weight of responsibility and the experience of betrayal from someone they trusted.

Now that I think about, the Exile is probably the only character of mine from the old games who wasn't a jerk in some way. Revan was a bitch to almost every member of the crew while being nice to almost everybody outside of the crew. I always headcanoned that she was like that as Revan: it was no wonder Malak turned on her. The Spirit Monk complained and loved telling nobody anything to the point where I think Zhu's stunt was rather justified given that for all she was sharing, she looked like she might just be a narcoleptic everybody kept claiming spoke to divine beings. She was nicer than Revan, though, and did end up adopting the little girl, Wildflower.

I think it was because I went a bit overboard when I found out there was no approval meter.