The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion)

Heyyy, I'm back (you've probably guessed it getting my likes left and right). Of course, I missed the old BSN closing... My wifi was wonky and I don't have data on my phone. Basically holidays suck. ...not really     

Feeling appropriately nostalgic.



I love this gif so much.

I agree with Artemis. Isabela's fast romance makes sense due to her personality, and the fact that it clearly started as a one night stand. Anders, not so much.
Fenris's pace was quite good, as was Merril. In any case I'd prefer if Bioware takes account of DA2's progression system in companions dialogue. While not perfect, it at least made the progression of friendship/rivarly and romance coordinated with the story.

Lol, the way you described it it actually makes sense. The guy is so desperate that the moment you confirm your interest he goes full yolo on you

Yeah, Anders is ready to move in quick...I tried to change the subject to sandwiches, but the game was having none of that.

Wait, we lost a Silver? Son of a ....!

Isabela is awesome. Still one of my favorite characters. Her laid back personality is more my type.

Annd Blackwall was originally a dwarf? I had no idea, and yet looking back it makes perfect sense.

If they were only going to put one dwarf in the game--Varric--then he should have been romanceable.

Oh! I remember that! I wanted to throw him out the window. Him and his feathery coat.

Crazy romance that one was.

Alistair..oh, Alistair. Still my favorite romance out of all the BW romances, even the ME ones. It felt well paced. A good friendship seemed to evolve first. It was just..idk..the writing; voice acting and facial animations all came together for me into this heady brew.

That's still my Baby.

I knew about it and very carefully did not explore several things with him. Still didn't trigger right on my romance PT (though it did on another one where I'd barely spoken to him.) Besides, as far as I can tell from the videos, it's an identical conversation (not cutscene) to the ones everyone else gets, with the exception of one question and a couple of lines in answer. And that makes NO sense that you wouldn't have a cutscene after the judgement (or better, in place of making you go through that in public.) Actually, in terms of romance cutscenes, he probably had about as much (measured in time) as Solas: A brief one on a cliff, one in your room which wasn't that long, the tavern-to-loft which actually starts as an extension of a conversation everyone had and was only a couple of extra lines if you didn't go to the loft, and the kiss option (which was definitely sadly missing from Solas's.) Everything else added one or two lines to the conversations or scenes everyone in the game got.

Haha, oh my. An "Anders" student? Better keep an eye on that one.

I romanced Anders on my first play -- because I have that kind of luck. Can't say I was completely shocked because I suspected he was going to do something. Even so, I'm glad that I did him first (and Alistair/Solas) because it gave playing the game a unique impact. I'm just wondering if my streak will continue with MEA and DA4...

Anders' romance can have that rushed feel to it and I think part of that is because it suffers from the 3 year gap and warped writing (like important dialogue being removed if Hawke is female). He's supposed to have been harboring intense feelings for Hawke for 3 years but we don't see that. Still, my Hawke was shameless about her intentions so the breathless kiss wasn't a surprise.

Isabela is my second favorite DA2 LI. I didn't expect to enjoy her romance but I really fell in love with it and like her even more because of it. It fit well with the story and I like what it brought of her character. I don't like that I can't flirt with her without having her show up at the estate, though. I just like to flirt with people sometimes and she takes it as an explicit invitation and then... it's a little difficult to get out of her booty call.

I'd say I enjoyed all the romances, though, and would definitely replay them if I could get away from Anders.

I have yet to play a dwarf. I started one in DAI but had to delete it because of Keep stuff. However I do remember the weird scene with Varric. Just. Why? And it's odd they would think more than one dwarf companion is too many. I don't understand that thinking.

LOL Agree, it was hot... and then he got all serious and clingy... so I offered him a sandwich. LOL Man. I love this game. 

Hey, there you are! wb!  aaaaand... holidays are better than attending BSN's closing. any day.

You guys are making me nostalgic. And fangirly. My ancient contribution to a tumblr that no longer exists. :/



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Bwahahaha! I like all of three of them, but I admit, Zevran and Isabela appeal to me exactly because they'd be the ones trying to make the player blush... And both of them have a surprisingly kind streak and aren't clingy...

I'm playing a Cadash/Blackwall romance at the moment and it feels like he has half of the scenes that Cullen has and he was intended to be a LI from the beginning . Cullen romance was added when they got their extension and it feels there is so much more going on there than in the Blackwall romance.