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

Uh... cause not every inquisitor romances Cullen? lol

As for a PC who starts a family, that would be tough to write in a pregnant adventurer, though I'm not saying it couldn't be done. I think pregnancy tends to be a thing writers of all genres shy away from (along with menstruation). Still, I don't blame BioWare for not wanting to deal with it since it could be tricky, plus it would have to be (obviously) entirely optional.

Would work better in maybe a sci-fi (or contemporary) setting so lesbian protags could make dem some babies too Or hell, if we're talking super speculative sci-fi, let's throw in some m-preg while we're at it

Actually, a male dwarven noble can also have a child, conceived before he joins the Grey Wardens. So some men can finish DAO with not one, but two kids, one of them potentially in line for the throne of Orzammar...

So dwarf noble gets to be a dead beat dad twice in one game Classic.

Ouch.   

Glad I never hit that button just to see his reaction with my Inq's.

Now, now, part of the DN story line when you return to Orzammar is providing for that son. Though I think you can opt not to, not sure.

It's a critique of the writers, y'all, not the character.

Yep, even characters who are really sympathetic like Thane have that as a plot device. It's very annoying. Then there's Jacob's father... Wrex and his insane daddy haha.

In Dragon Age, Alistair's OBVIOUS issues with his dad. 

And even though it is a tired trope they can't seem to shake, it's even more annoying when they saddle the player with it. And you know they would never do that to a female player character - make her have two children yet not give her the option to be a mother to them. (Even Kieran has a single parent potentially until Witch Hunt; and I have no idea where daddy!Warden goes between that and Inquisition.)

To be fair we also had the crazy absentee mamas of ME, i.e. Samara and Benezia lol

It does create angst for a character, but they need to try something else. I know loving parents make boring backgrounds, but still.

At least two of your companions in SWtOR kill their fathers, and at least one other is out for revenge for her surrogate dad. And in the expansion KOtFE, you get both mommy and daddy issues with Arcann and Vaylin. And mommy issues for Theron Shan and Satele. They do seem to like that theme...

^a bit silly i know, but up until now, I still cant muster the 'will' (or courage, or 'heart' or whatever) to click on the heart broken icon.. or even see it on yt.

... must be something wrong with me ^^'

I never have either. I mean, I don't want to break up, so...

Yeah I'm a super romantic so I don't think it ever occurred to me to break up with my LI, at least in a BioWare game...

But this made me remember that I DID break-up with Ulfric in Skyrim so I could start the Thieves Guild storyline and eventually marry Brynjolf... ahh mods

I left Ulfric the house, though. Seemed the right thing to do since he refused to return to Windhelm.