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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 0:31:42 GMT
Also about characters - I dont actually like voiced protagonists. Whenever the PC is voiced, the amount of possible dialogue choices is reduced, and there is less opportunity to make the character mine. I dont usually play a self-insert (although I can't make myself stray too far from my own sentiments - just cant play a character I would consider evil), but my archetypes come with a very specific ideas of what those characters are, and if the game insists on contradicting it, I am thrown off, big time. It took me 5 tries - yes, 5 - to finally get through the prologue/Citadel in the original Mass Effect, all because Shepard was her own character and not what I imagined her to be. Eventually I was able to get on with it a n d treat the game as a book or a movie, and Shepard proved to be one of my favourite characters - but in the same way as characters in books and movies are. Shepard is not mine.
DAO was the last game I have created more than 2 characters for, and that was because the dialogue optio n s actually allowed me to come up with my own personality, and because the origins influenced a lot of dialogue. The world reacted differently to a different kind of PC.
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Post by janalilith on May 18, 2017 0:40:09 GMT
I wish I could bring myself to play as m!shep Gwyvian I want to romance Tali so bad but I just...can't lol. It's not even about the voice or anything I just can't bring myself to play Bioware games as the male protag... Totally know how you feel. I felt sort of obligated to try playing canonical male Revan back in KOTOR, but other than snarking at Bastila, I wasn't much a fan. I didn't try a male PC after that until DA2, almost seven years later. Really enjoyed it in that game, because snarky ManHawke is just...so amazing I actually default by playing male characters. This MEA run is pretty new for me playing a female PC. I love her voice actor so much it just feels right for the mo. But in general, I enjoy playing male characters because I don't know, it's a new skin to put on?
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Post by janalilith on May 18, 2017 0:56:41 GMT
And now I've stumbled on something worse than Sara/Scott fics Alec/Scott fic Pass the brain bleach, please Just utter UGH!
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 1:14:11 GMT
Oh, that's interesting. I think I'm the opposite Whenever I "play evil," it's almost always with a female PC. IMO it's nice to kind of balance the scales a bit, since there are so few good female villains in video games. So if the game won't provide one as an NPC, I'll play one as the PC, at least as far as the game allows. The reverse is true for male PCs. There are plenty of male PC antiheroes, gruff snarkers, bad boys, etc. out there as canon PCs, so mine tend to be perfect gentlemen Especially Adam Jensen. Kind, compassionate, pacifist Jensen is probably one of my favorite PCs in anything. Ever *barges through the wall* Did someone say Adam Jensen? I have been summoned. I was pleasantly surprised by how good and pure Adam turned out to be. Of course, it depends on how you play him, but I just feel like the "paragon" way suits him more. And I just love how he used to be the captain of the debate team in high school, because of course he was. I uh, actually do the same thing. I have at least 6 complete playthroughs of my fem!Shep who looks exactly the same, except for hair color maybe. I only changed it because I thought I was getting a little static, hahaha. My m!Shep actually went through a lot more transformations, though once I finally found one configuration I really liked I replayed that a handful of times with identical configurations/choices. Not so with DA, I mixed and matched all over the place there. That's me in every RPG with CC, ever. Especially in MET. me, about to replay ME1+2 for the tenth time with the same femshep: "I'm sick of this look. I'm giving her a whole new face this time." *increases lip fullness by 1 point* " Perfect" Hahaha, yeah, exactly that. Man, I wish I had a screenshot of my Sheps on hand. At least with DA I have a different race as well as a different gender and that helps me sort of break away from my typical choices, but I also noticed that if I go too far away from my preferred styles I get bored with the character. I have two main looks for female characters (excepting e.g. the qunari because... you just can't, but I'm actually really pleased with how my qunaris turned out) and even those have similarities (Gwyvian/Gwenhyfar variations, while my f!Shep is usually Rose and looks like a cross between the two) and for male characters I also tend to stick to two preferences. I adore how my m!Shep turned out, but my m!Lavellan is to die for... I think at least. Gross. I have also seen Scott/Alec fics. No thanks. Also Sam/Sara but I am trash and liked that one. I don't know why the prevalence of people with an incest fetish continues to surprise me, but it does. Though, I'm down with SAM/Sara, too so maybe I shouldn't talk. It's in the same vein as the Skyhold/Lavellan trashfic, which I loved: Fine as long as I don't think about it too deeply. I have to ask - wtf, how does Skyhold/Lavellan even work?? I mean, I can totally see SAM working after reading enough Asimov, but... really, a castle?? beholderess OMG Reynard! :gasp: I'm curious and horrified at once? No, it's all cool, I'm just slightly traumatized after the last few times he appeared in the show version.
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Post by janalilith on May 18, 2017 1:25:51 GMT
ok, the decks I have are The Unicorn Tarot, The Morgan-Greer (which is beautiful), Soulcards 1, again beautiful and a small deck a friend gave me called "Tarot, the Complete Kit" - those are mini cards. Morgan-GreerSoulcardsUnicorn Tarot
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Post by lilyenachaos on May 18, 2017 1:33:59 GMT
Yeah, that feeling when I realized that after 6 Bioware games and making my characters that this thing might actually make me cry - I almost went with default Sara which I really didn't want, but ended up with preset 9 more or less how lady c did hers. So, it was a choice between a total disaster and Sara #99999. Oh well, here's to hoping they let us switch eyebrows at least.YES BIOWARE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY LET US CHANGE EYEBROWS As far as presets go, I've got Presets 1,8,9 down... doubt I'll ever use them except for 1 as she's my main... but, if I ever decide to go renegade (or at least, as renegade as this game allows) Preset 8 has me hooked... IDK how, but I wound up making her look like the type that has a calm shell, but is very angry and vengeful towards even minor slights At least I found my 'Renegade Babe'! This cracks me up, because I made a valiant effort for MEA to create Ryders that all looked different. I did end up using most of the presets at least once, but they all share one of 3 hairstyles. 2 of the presets I tried working with, I just couldn't create a Ryder I'd want to spend an entire game looking at. The one looks like she had foundation airbrushed on her face that wasn't a good match for her skin, no matter what you set her complexion at, so it always looks weird. #9 is my go-to, I have the most of her. I just came from the CC, trying to create yet another new Ryder for a NG+ run (deleted my first NG+ because of bugs), and I wanted to try using different makeup, at least. I just couldn't use any of the weird ones. I tried, I really did. Spotty eye shadow just shouldn't be a thing, now or in the future. Ended up giving up and loading the game I've been playing all week. I have enough Ryders anyways.
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 1:46:18 GMT
Oh, I could talk your ear off about that subject. I suppose the best way to share is to offer interpretations? I mean, each card can be interpreted differently depending on the reading, so there are many ways to approach getting a card like e.g. the Tower; it's generally a card of great conflict, but it also signifies great transformation, which can be a good thing of course, if turbulent. As for astrology, I know a lot about the theory, some about the practice and otherwise I pester my dad for answers about everything because I'm not that good. Is there a good book or reference to start off with? I mean, I'd love to have you tutor me on readings every time I wanna do one but I suspect you have more valuable things to do with your time and energy Yeah I pretty much just changed the hair and eye colors for my new Sara, as well as using different colors for her armor and clothing than I used the first time. Same here with DA though, I changed my Inquisitor a good deal...but then again that CC was fun to work with and there were different races to try out so maybe there was more fun/incentive. I have to make a conscious effort to force diversity in my PCs across PTs. I choose what I want their appearance to be first, and then the differences in their personalities and how I RP them follows. Though, I'll also usually do 3-4 PTs with the same PC too, to refine my canon! Well, for tarot I don't have a specific book, but I can give general pointers to consider in readings? I have "golden rules" about how to do it right which have served me well over the years, but also it helps to have a single deck that you get to know as your guide kind of. Which you already have, so I could recommend some "trial runs" to get the feel of it and start to discover how to interpret that particular deck. For astrology... well I know James Braha is like The expert in Vedic astrology, my dad picked up a lot from there, I'd recommend my dad's book because it's nice and easy to read even for beginners but currently it's only out in Hungarian. He'll be doing a translation at some point but I don't have any ETA on that. I can ask for recommendations though, if you like. YES BIOWARE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY LET US CHANGE EYEBROWS As far as presets go, I've got Presets 1,8,9 down... doubt I'll ever use them except for 1 as she's my main... but, if I ever decide to go renegade (or at least, as renegade as this game allows) Preset 8 has me hooked... IDK how, but I wound up making her look like the type that has a calm shell, but is very angry and vengeful towards even minor slights At least I found my 'Renegade Babe'! This cracks me up, because I made a valiant effort for MEA to create Ryders that all looked different. I did end up using most of the presets at least once, but they all share one of 3 hairstyles. 2 of the presets I tried working with, I just couldn't create a Ryder I'd want to spend an entire game looking at. The one looks like she had foundation airbrushed on her face that wasn't a good match for her skin, no matter what you set her complexion at, so it always looks weird. #9 is my go-to, I have the most of her. I just came from the CC, trying to create yet another new Ryder for a NG+ run (deleted my first NG+ because of bugs), and I wanted to try using different makeup, at least. I just couldn't use any of the weird ones. I tried, I really did. Spotty eye shadow just shouldn't be a thing, now or in the future. Ended up giving up and loading the game I've been playing all week. I have enough Ryders anyways. What do you mean spotted eye shadow doesn't work?! Of course it works!! <= Extremely faint green spotty eye shadow!! I know you can barely make it out but I don't have a lot of screenshots on hand (I'm at work ).
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 1:54:28 GMT
I don't know why the prevalence of people with an incest fetish continues to surprise me, but it does. Though, I'm down with SAM/Sara, too so maybe I shouldn't talk. It's in the same vein as the Skyhold/Lavellan trashfic, which I loved: Fine as long as I don't think about it too deeply. I have to ask - wtf, how does Skyhold/Lavellan even work?? I mean, I can totally see SAM working after reading enough Asimov, but... really, a castle?? beholderess OMG Reynard! :gasp: I'm curious and horrified at once? No, it's all cool, I'm just slightly traumatized after the last few times he appeared in the show version. Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em????
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 1:55:40 GMT
I have to ask - wtf, how does Skyhold/Lavellan even work?? I mean, I can totally see SAM working after reading enough Asimov, but... really, a castle?? beholderess OMG Reynard! :gasp: I'm curious and horrified at once? No, it's all cool, I'm just slightly traumatized after the last few times he appeared in the show version. Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em???? I.... will never get rid of that mental image now.
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Post by Onecrazymonkey1 on May 18, 2017 2:06:31 GMT
I have to ask - wtf, how does Skyhold/Lavellan even work?? I mean, I can totally see SAM working after reading enough Asimov, but... really, a castle?? beholderess OMG Reynard! :gasp: I'm curious and horrified at once? No, it's all cool, I'm just slightly traumatized after the last few times he appeared in the show version. Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em???? I'm 12 and what is this?
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Post by ninaskye on May 18, 2017 2:42:29 GMT
RE: preferred PC genders I am kind of all over the place. Thing is, I have certain character archetypes that I more or less recycle from game to game. Some of them happen to be male, some of them happen to be female, and which one ends up as "canon" depends on which archetype meshes better with the game story, in my opinion. By default I usually start with female. Generally, my female archetypes tend to be the "fire", while my male ones tend to be the "ice". My girls usually focus on offense and are best at thinking at their feet, while my boys tend to be focused on defense and are deliberate. Here's what has been my canon in some of the RPGs I've played: Baldur's Gate: - Female Chaotic Neutral swashbuckling rogue TES series: Female thief and archer (actually the same one through the whole series - Imperial and Imperial-loyal spy named Felicia Alba. I don't even remember why). She is also one of the few of my female characters who is more "ice" than "fire". Jade Empire: Female, no romance because the only character I wanted to romance gets killed off NWN2: Male tiefling warlock named after Reynard the Fox, deceiver, snarker and trickster MET: Male, pure Paragon Vanguard Shepard (romanced Ashley) - knight in shining armor, always calm, and implacable. DAO: Male elf mage, sly and persuasive, a Merlin to Alistair's King Arthur. Romanced Morrigan, and, basically, this character was created to be the kind of person who would happily romance Morrigan, because that, I thought, would make the happiest and most sensible ending. Shadowrun: Male elf mage, based on the above DA2: I don't have a canon Hawke because Hawke is a loser who sucks If I had to have one, it would be my "fire" female mage in rivalmance with Fenris, because this city deserves to burn DAI: Can't chose between two versions, both are female and both make a good story. One is a very Andrastean human mage named Joan, for obvious reasons. Come on, we have a fantasy counterpart of France and a leader figure allegedly chosen by divinity - of course there has to be Joan. Romanced Cullen, because it is his fate to marry a female mage. He cannot avoid it The other one is a female Qunari mage, my typical "fire" girl - master of desttructive magic, with temper to match. Romanced Josephine, because Qunari and Josephine are the Beauty and the Beast MEA: Sara, Sara, Sara. My first play through of any game is a female because, as someone said earlier, its something I rarely ever get the chance to do. It's getting better now, thankfully. Quite a few games have been released with canon female protagonists. :-) Anyway, my list. TES: Female Breton, specialising in archery and restoration magic. Destruction thrown in sometimes. Married Vilkas because height differences, plus is accent is swoon worthy. Jade Empire: Female. Didn't romance anyone. NWN: Female human as either a wizard or druid. Went with Gann because Sand wasn't available. KOTOR: Haven't played the game in years, but I think my canon playtrough was a female scout who romanced Carth. MET: Female, pure paragon, Biotic specialist who romances Garrus every time. Once you go Turian, you never go back. (Mourns lack of Kandros romance ) DAO: Female Circle Mage, romances Alistair. Goody two shoes, until the end where she marries Alistair to Anora (because I actually like and respect her), and she becomes his mistress. The game's based on medieval times, so it's not the most terrible outcome. Especially when the marriage was more for political means. Wouldn't be shocked is Anora had her own lover. DA2: Female mage who rivalmanced Fenris, had a short fling with Anders which ended when he made a remark about Fenris. Sided with the Mages because fuck the Templars. DAI: Female human Circle Mage. Romanced Cullen. Agreed, Cullen's fate is to marry a Mage MEA: Sara. Biotic. Jaal is her bae. I... need to vary up my play style, it seems.
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 3:45:10 GMT
Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em???? I.... will never get rid of that mental image now. You ask the questions you get the answers lol
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 3:46:41 GMT
Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em???? I'm 12 and what is this? Well, you see, when a giant ancient castle and an elven man or woman love each other veeeeeeeeery much, they give each other a special hug...
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 3:51:06 GMT
RE: preferred PC genders I am kind of all over the place. Thing is, I have certain character archetypes that I more or less recycle from game to game. Some of them happen to be male, some of them happen to be female, and which one ends up as "canon" depends on which archetype meshes better with the game story, in my opinion. By default I usually start with female. Generally, my female archetypes tend to be the "fire", while my male ones tend to be the "ice". My girls usually focus on offense and are best at thinking at their feet, while my boys tend to be focused on defense and are deliberate. Here's what has been my canon in some of the RPGs I've played: Baldur's Gate: - Female Chaotic Neutral swashbuckling rogue TES series: Female thief and archer (actually the same one through the whole series - Imperial and Imperial-loyal spy named Felicia Alba. I don't even remember why). She is also one of the few of my female characters who is more "ice" than "fire". Jade Empire: Female, no romance because the only character I wanted to romance gets killed off NWN2: Male tiefling warlock named after Reynard the Fox, deceiver, snarker and trickster MET: Male, pure Paragon Vanguard Shepard (romanced Ashley) - knight in shining armor, always calm, and implacable. DAO: Male elf mage, sly and persuasive, a Merlin to Alistair's King Arthur. Romanced Morrigan, and, basically, this character was created to be the kind of person who would happily romance Morrigan, because that, I thought, would make the happiest and most sensible ending. Shadowrun: Male elf mage, based on the above DA2: I don't have a canon Hawke because Hawke is a loser who sucks If I had to have one, it would be my "fire" female mage in rivalmance with Fenris, because this city deserves to burn DAI: Can't chose between two versions, both are female and both make a good story. One is a very Andrastean human mage named Joan, for obvious reasons. Come on, we have a fantasy counterpart of France and a leader figure allegedly chosen by divinity - of course there has to be Joan. Romanced Cullen, because it is his fate to marry a female mage. He cannot avoid it The other one is a female Qunari mage, my typical "fire" girl - master of desttructive magic, with temper to match. Romanced Josephine, because Qunari and Josephine are the Beauty and the Beast MEA: Sara, Sara, Sara. My first play through of any game is a female because, as someone said earlier, its something I rarely ever get the chance to do. It's getting better now, thankfully. Quite a few games have been released with canon female protagonists. :-) Anyway, my list. TES: Female Breton, specialising in archery and restoration magic. Destruction thrown in sometimes. Married Vilkas because height differences, plus is accent is swoon worthy. Jade Empire: Female. Didn't romance anyone. NWN: Female human as either a wizard or druid. Went with Gann because Sand wasn't available. KOTOR: Haven't played the game in years, but I think my canon playtrough was a female scout who romanced Carth. MET: Female, pure paragon, Biotic specialist who romances Garrus every time. Once you go Turian, you never go back. (Mourns lack of Kandros romance ) DAO: Female Circle Mage, romances Alistair. Goody two shoes, until the end where she marries Alistair to Anora (because I actually like and respect her), and she becomes his mistress. The game's based on medieval times, so it's not the most terrible outcome. Especially when the marriage was more for political means. Wouldn't be shocked is Anora had her own lover. DA2: Female mage who rivalmanced Fenris, had a short fling with Anders which ended when he made a remark about Fenris. Sided with the Mages because fuck the Templars. DAI: Female human Circle Mage. Romanced Cullen. Agreed, Cullen's fate is to marry a Mage MEA: Sara. Biotic. Jaal is her bae. I... need to vary up my play style, it seems. Yep, thirding this...my first and canon Inquisitor is a female Trevelyan mage who romanced and married Cullen
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 4:50:32 GMT
I.... will never get rid of that mental image now. You ask the questions you get the answers lol Fair, fair. I'm now drawing conclusions about architecture that make me vaguely uncomfortable, but hey, I'm a curious person.
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Post by kestrel on May 18, 2017 4:51:55 GMT
This has vague echoes of the giant squid x Hogwarts fanfic.
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 4:52:55 GMT
This has vague echoes of the giant squid x Hogwarts fanfic. OK, seriously WTF??? Is this legit a thing??
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Post by Gwyvian on May 18, 2017 4:59:09 GMT
I... don't know how to feel about this? Thanks... I think?
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Post by theratpack55 on May 18, 2017 7:46:31 GMT
RE: preferred PC genders I am kind of all over the place. Thing is, I have certain character archetypes that I more or less recycle from game to game. Some of them happen to be male, some of them happen to be female, and which one ends up as "canon" depends on which archetype meshes better with the game story, in my opinion. By default I usually start with female. Generally, my female archetypes tend to be the "fire", while my male ones tend to be the "ice". My girls usually focus on offense and are best at thinking at their feet, while my boys tend to be focused on defense and are deliberate. Here's what has been my canon in some of the RPGs I've played: Baldur's Gate: - Female Chaotic Neutral swashbuckling rogue TES series: Female thief and archer (actually the same one through the whole series - Imperial and Imperial-loyal spy named Felicia Alba. I don't even remember why). She is also one of the few of my female characters who is more "ice" than "fire". Jade Empire: Female, no romance because the only character I wanted to romance gets killed off NWN2: Male tiefling warlock named after Reynard the Fox, deceiver, snarker and trickster MET: Male, pure Paragon Vanguard Shepard (romanced Ashley) - knight in shining armor, always calm, and implacable. DAO: Male elf mage, sly and persuasive, a Merlin to Alistair's King Arthur. Romanced Morrigan, and, basically, this character was created to be the kind of person who would happily romance Morrigan, because that, I thought, would make the happiest and most sensible ending. Shadowrun: Male elf mage, based on the above DA2: I don't have a canon Hawke because Hawke is a loser who sucks If I had to have one, it would be my "fire" female mage in rivalmance with Fenris, because this city deserves to burn DAI: Can't chose between two versions, both are female and both make a good story. One is a very Andrastean human mage named Joan, for obvious reasons. Come on, we have a fantasy counterpart of France and a leader figure allegedly chosen by divinity - of course there has to be Joan. Romanced Cullen, because it is his fate to marry a female mage. He cannot avoid it The other one is a female Qunari mage, my typical "fire" girl - master of desttructive magic, with temper to match. Romanced Josephine, because Qunari and Josephine are the Beauty and the Beast MEA: Sara, Sara, Sara. Lists, yay! I'm bored at work so I'll add my own canons: Baldur's Gate: Female Neutral Evil Priest of Talos. Evil Ascension ending. I loved having Sarevok as my biggest fan. KOTOR: Female, Dark Side. Felt good to be Darth Revan again, and I also liked the mechanic of dragging my companions into evil with me in KOTOR 2. DAO: Female Cousland. You can't really be properly evil in DA but I did headcanon that she only married Alistair for the power. DA2: Male Red!Bloodmage!Hawke. I loved that guy, too bad no one seemed to notice him splashing blood left and right while casting spells, guess they just thought he was clumsy? DAI: Male boring old sword and board Trevelyan. I just wanted a knight archetype to contrast with Dorian, whom he romanced. MET: Female Shepard, soldier, pretty much pure Renegade. MEA: Female Ryder, soldier/tech, but I haven't used a tech power once lol. Not many options to make her personality distinct, sadly. Some non-BW favorites of mine: FO3: Male Lone Wanderer, a resentful teen who hated his father for abandoning him and poisoned the purifier out of spite. (He didn't really think that one through, did he...) FNV: Male Courier, an all-out horrible dude who sided with the Legion, because hey "rape, pillage and burn" is a fun way to live your life, right? FO4: Male Sole Survivor. A douche. Sided with the Institute cause, one - it's his son's legacy, two - he now owns a synth army, three - it's nice and hygienic there and he hated the wasteland and its dirty, irradiated inhabitants. Would totally go with a plan like "wipe them all out and replace with synths to gather resources for us while we live comfortably underground for another 200 years". TES Oblivion: Female Imperial thief and Dark Brotherhood assassin. Probably very rightfully incarcerated at the beginning, continued with her life of crime once freed. Did the main quest only to ingratiate herself with powerful players in Cyrodil. TES Skyrim: Female Breton mage. A vampire, necromancer and devout Daedra worshiper. Loyal servant of Hermaeus Mora. Had lots of fun in the Dragonborn DLC, joyfully doing Mora's bidding.
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Post by janalilith on May 18, 2017 10:35:53 GMT
You ask the questions you get the answers lol Fair, fair. I'm now drawing conclusions about architecture that make me vaguely uncomfortable, but hey, I'm a curious person. Gives whole new meaning to load bearing wall.
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Post by janalilith on May 18, 2017 10:45:32 GMT
RE: preferred PC genders I am kind of all over the place. Thing is, I have certain character archetypes that I more or less recycle from game to game. Some of them happen to be male, some of them happen to be female, and which one ends up as "canon" depends on which archetype meshes better with the game story, in my opinion. By default I usually start with female. Generally, my female archetypes tend to be the "fire", while my male ones tend to be the "ice". My girls usually focus on offense and are best at thinking at their feet, while my boys tend to be focused on defense and are deliberate. Here's what has been my canon in some of the RPGs I've played: Baldur's Gate: - Female Chaotic Neutral swashbuckling rogue TES series: Female thief and archer (actually the same one through the whole series - Imperial and Imperial-loyal spy named Felicia Alba. I don't even remember why). She is also one of the few of my female characters who is more "ice" than "fire". Jade Empire: Female, no romance because the only character I wanted to romance gets killed off NWN2: Male tiefling warlock named after Reynard the Fox, deceiver, snarker and trickster MET: Male, pure Paragon Vanguard Shepard (romanced Ashley) - knight in shining armor, always calm, and implacable. DAO: Male elf mage, sly and persuasive, a Merlin to Alistair's King Arthur. Romanced Morrigan, and, basically, this character was created to be the kind of person who would happily romance Morrigan, because that, I thought, would make the happiest and most sensible ending. Shadowrun: Male elf mage, based on the above DA2: I don't have a canon Hawke because Hawke is a loser who sucks If I had to have one, it would be my "fire" female mage in rivalmance with Fenris, because this city deserves to burn DAI: Can't chose between two versions, both are female and both make a good story. One is a very Andrastean human mage named Joan, for obvious reasons. Come on, we have a fantasy counterpart of France and a leader figure allegedly chosen by divinity - of course there has to be Joan. Romanced Cullen, because it is his fate to marry a female mage. He cannot avoid it The other one is a female Qunari mage, my typical "fire" girl - master of desttructive magic, with temper to match. Romanced Josephine, because Qunari and Josephine are the Beauty and the Beast MEA: Sara, Sara, Sara. Lists, yay! I'm bored at work so I'll add my own canons: Baldur's Gate: Female Neutral Evil Priest of Talos. Evil Ascension ending. I loved having Sarevok as my biggest fan. KOTOR: Female, Dark Side. Felt good to be Darth Revan again, and I also liked the mechanic of dragging my companions into evil with me in KOTOR 2. DAO: Female Cousland. You can't really be properly evil in DA but I did headcanon that she only married Alistair for the power. DA2: Male Red!Bloodmage!Hawke. I loved that guy, too bad no one seemed to notice him splashing blood left and right while casting spells, guess they just thought he was clumsy? DAI: Male boring old sword and board Trevelyan. I just wanted a knight archetype to contrast with Dorian, whom he romanced. MET: Female Shepard, soldier, pretty much pure Renegade. MEA: Female Ryder, soldier/tech, but I haven't used a tech power once lol. Not many options to make her personality distinct, sadly. Some non-BW favorites of mine: FO3: Male Lone Wanderer, a resentful teen who hated his father for abandoning him and poisoned the purifier out of spite. (He didn't really think that one through, did he...) FNV: Male Courier, an all-out horrible dude who sided with the Legion, because hey "rape, pillage and burn" is a fun way to live your life, right? FO4: Male Sole Survivor. A douche. Sided with the Institute cause, one - it's his son's legacy, two - he now owns a synth army, three - it's nice and hygienic there and he hated the wasteland and its dirty, irradiated inhabitants. Would totally go with a plan like "wipe them all out and replace with synths to gather resources for us while we live comfortably underground for another 200 years". TES Oblivion: Female Imperial thief and Dark Brotherhood assassin. Probably very rightfully incarcerated at the beginning, continued with her life of crime once freed. Did the main quest only to ingratiate herself with powerful players in Cyrodil. TES Skyrim: Female Breton mage. A vampire, necromancer and devout Daedra worshiper. Loyal servant of Hermaeus Mora. Had lots of fun in the Dragonborn DLC, joyfully doing Mora's bidding. Your characters sound so fun and dark. I wish I could try to be a villain. The closest I've come was a real hardass Hawke and it was hysterical but no one really seemed to take offense when he'd tell them off. And Isabella was totally in love with him though he was romancing Anders. Now, when I try to play a hardass or villain, I always just end up being nice again. I can't make myself do it >_<
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Post by ninaskye on May 18, 2017 11:02:37 GMT
Lol. All you guys with your evil dark characters. Meanwhile, all mine are good two shoes I'll add some more FO3: Female specialising in mostly rifles and shotguns. Generally played her off as a naive newcomer who was curious about everything. Would have romanced Charon if given the chance. FNV: Female courier. Disgusted by the Legion, best friends with Cass, went independent, but now I think I should have gone NCR. Generally a goody two shoes idealist, but she seduced and slept with Benny for the hell of it. FO4: Female Sole Survivor. Sarcastic shit. Hates the institute. Backed the Minutemen and Railroad. Totally jumped Hancock's bones.
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 11:09:50 GMT
Lists, yay! I'm bored at work so I'll add my own canons: Baldur's Gate: Female Neutral Evil Priest of Talos. Evil Ascension ending. I loved having Sarevok as my biggest fan. KOTOR: Female, Dark Side. Felt good to be Darth Revan again, and I also liked the mechanic of dragging my companions into evil with me in KOTOR 2. DAO: Female Cousland. You can't really be properly evil in DA but I did headcanon that she only married Alistair for the power. DA2: Male Red!Bloodmage!Hawke. I loved that guy, too bad no one seemed to notice him splashing blood left and right while casting spells, guess they just thought he was clumsy? DAI: Male boring old sword and board Trevelyan. I just wanted a knight archetype to contrast with Dorian, whom he romanced. MET: Female Shepard, soldier, pretty much pure Renegade. MEA: Female Ryder, soldier/tech, but I haven't used a tech power once lol. Not many options to make her personality distinct, sadly. Some non-BW favorites of mine: FO3: Male Lone Wanderer, a resentful teen who hated his father for abandoning him and poisoned the purifier out of spite. (He didn't really think that one through, did he...) FNV: Male Courier, an all-out horrible dude who sided with the Legion, because hey "rape, pillage and burn" is a fun way to live your life, right? FO4: Male Sole Survivor. A douche. Sided with the Institute cause, one - it's his son's legacy, two - he now owns a synth army, three - it's nice and hygienic there and he hated the wasteland and its dirty, irradiated inhabitants. Would totally go with a plan like "wipe them all out and replace with synths to gather resources for us while we live comfortably underground for another 200 years". TES Oblivion: Female Imperial thief and Dark Brotherhood assassin. Probably very rightfully incarcerated at the beginning, continued with her life of crime once freed. Did the main quest only to ingratiate herself with powerful players in Cyrodil. TES Skyrim: Female Breton mage. A vampire, necromancer and devout Daedra worshiper. Loyal servant of Hermaeus Mora. Had lots of fun in the Dragonborn DLC, joyfully doing Mora's bidding. Your characters sound so fun and dark. I wish I could try to be a villain. The closest I've come was a real hardass Hawke and it was hysterical but no one really seemed to take offense when he'd tell them off. And Isabella was totally in love with him though he was romancing Anders. Now, when I try to play a hardass or villain, I always just end up being nice again. I can't make myself do it >_< I am the same way. Just cant play hardasses and villains. I guess it is because saving people is a part of my power fantasy I have tried, truly I did, but it never worked. The closest ive got was my female Shepard, who tended to be a pure Renegade in dialogue right until the moment when she had to make a story-critical choice. Then she is still all being merciful, saving people and brokering alliances. I officially suck at evil
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Post by Aeclaey on May 18, 2017 11:44:30 GMT
Good morning Jaal thread! Yeah, I know I'm a little late, but here is some of my list. Mass effect 1,2,3: my canon character was female shepard and she romanced Thane. She was a mixture between renegade and paragon. I headcanon her as slightly ruthless with a morally gray compass. Very much in the mindset that the end justifies the means but as the games progress that sort of changes. Dragon age Origins: I have a confession to make: I have never actually been able to finish the game. And that´s not because of the story; which seems great by the way. The characters are interesting and fun to get to know. It´s the damn gameplay mechanices that is driving me insane. I will do a full playthough some day, but yeah the game kind of frustrates me in some aspects of it. Dragon age II; mine was a female hawke. Mage. Romance; well I never found a character I really liked. I couldn't romance Varric which was disappointing because he was one of the characters I did like. Fenris, I tried to romance once but never really liked that much. My hawke was a pro-mage advocate; so yeah, that relationship was strained to say the least. Still undecided on which one is cannon though. Dragon age Inquisition: Female mage. This time a elf. Pro mage. Again. I will always choose the mages over the templars. She was a non-believer in every way. She didn't even believe in the elven gods, imagine her surprise about a specific character who shall not be named. Yeah, that was fun.... (Sarcasm by the way. ) Andromeda: My cannon is Sara. She was a mixture of biotics, and soldier. Sniper rifle being the favorite. Romanced Jaal, of course. I headcanon her as someone adventurous with not the best morals. A real thirst for the unknown and science. She would have no problems with bending the rules if it meant getting the job done. Really wished there were more ways where you could be ruthless though. I loved the dialogue wheel but wanted a more aggressive option in certain situations. I have yet to do a scott playthrough but will once the changes to the CC will be patched in.
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