Maker's Breath.... (Official Cullen Rutherford discussion)

Yeah I do believe the player base is older as well as 50% female for DA! Pretty cool.

Oh yes there is a Cass f/f mod, and I had downloaded it at one time, but I've lost the file, and I can't find it anymore. There was so much backlash against the woman who made it that she took it down and understandably hid for a while. However, I don't think I'm interested in playing DAI anymore. I've exhausted it lol The Cullenmance was something I made myself finish because I had been a Cullen fan since 2012 and even though I ultimately didn't get him I felt I needed to shore up that section of my gaming life, so to speak LOL get it out of my system, and my gosh was it lovely. I think earlier some were saying his asking you to marry him was a surprise; even though I knew he was going to do it, I gasped because of the way it came out. And my inquisitor's surprised face was so cute!! I adored that entire scene. And I was concerned that I'd be a floating head for the wedding LOL but my Lavellan just remained dressed in his fancy gear, so all was well.

Couldn't resist a few screencaps of course xD

I also captured this scene, which made my heart swell with love LOL



Oh I'm one who doesn't like Josie's outfit OR her constantly open mouth?! It drives me bananas!! I do use a make-up, hair, and outfit mod for her. This one: www.nexusmods.com/dragonageinquisition/mods/1008/?

I think the green/white combo is more subdued and sophisticated than the glaring gold/blue.

Cute screenshot.

Yeah... but that outfit is a tooootal deal breaker right. Let's call off dating because of it and come to the forum armed with a crowbar to file a complaint against puffy sleeves.

Artemis

I've read elsewhere that DA Devs left the Cullenmance very mod friendly in Trespasser specifically because of the fan response to him not being bi after all. They couldn't go back in time to make it happen, but the implication I read was that most of a M/M romance with Cullen was voiced? did your male Quizzy voice act his own wedding vows?

Oh no, sadly that's like 1000% not true. Modders had quite a difficult time getting the romance to work, and at first you needed two separate mods AND it would cause one of the romance scenes to not trigger. And, no, sadly most of the flirts are not voiced and none of the cut scenes are voiced. Oh -- only exception is the final scene of the base game, when you're in your bedroom together. That was voiced, and what a pleasant surprise it was!

The Solas bi-mod works WAY better. As I understand it, the modder had no trouble at all, just essentially "switched" it on (I don't mean to demean the hard work they no doubt did to make it work, just implying that it was nowhere near as difficult/complicated as Cullen). And ALL the flirts with Solas are voiced for male Lavellan, which is a treasure. 

Nah, the devs were pretty shitty on the bi thing for Cullen and Solas, to start it and then decide midway to not finish it? Struck as me as pretty not cool. BUT I also have to remind myself that just because I didn't like the m/m options doesn't mean others felt that way, too, so I just think of DAI as a game that I sadly was very unlucky in, in terms of romance. The ones I wanted: Cullen, Solas, Cass, Blackwall -- were all straight. Rotten, rotten luck.

We already speak about anywhere in DA2 section... so, I suppose there are some clearly evil choices: to kill Javaris, for example absolutely unnecessarily. Killing someone just because of you able to do it, I can say that this is evil.
But the others? depend on your Hawke's viewpoint: we can be interpreted almost every as "evil" and for the "greater good".

At first the last choice: 
Hawke can choose the Templars because
• s/he doesn't want to fight with Carver (if Carver is a Templar). This may be a selfish choice;
• s/he believes, that the Templars are the key to restoring the order in Kirkwall (hardly, because of Meredith's a madwoman, and doesn't seem she plans to retire, but perhaps, Hawke trust her, but I saw some decent reasons);
• killing the mages and supporting a madwoman is fun.
Hawke can choose the Mages because
• s/he doesn't want to fight against Bethany (if Bethany is a Circle Mage);
• this is the right choice;
• Because "letting dangerous people run amok" (Varric) seems so fun, chaos is fun.

Seems siding with Pertice is an "evil" choice.

Letting Grace and the Starkhaven apostates to run away, can be a
• good Hawke's choice, who thinks, that everyone deserves freedom;
• evil Hawke's choice, who thinks, they are dangerous.

sent Grace and the Starkhaven apostates to run away, can be a
• good Hawke's choice, who thinks, that they are dangerous.
• evil Hawke's choice, who enjoys, they will suffer.

Etc.

I think in DA2 many things depends on the RP, and Hawke's viewpoint, and Hawke's intention.

My instinctive natural selection goes in the order of chasing straight males, gay males and then females when picking romances. It seems easier for me to create a male character than to search for mods. Playing as male doesn't bother me much (since I could crush on my Warden while at it).

But, I get that not everyone wants to make alterations even with pixels. I'm neutral on this subject as long these same people don't go advocating what Hanako pointed out.

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Redacted so that the thread may continue undisturbed... SofaJockey

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...let's get back to discussing Cullen and our individual experiences

phoray He's a handsome fellow !!

Thanks! I worked on him a lot. For me, that's like 4 hours in the CC creator. WEnt out of my way to get his Dalish gear and get the colors just so as well. And then he had the british VA. And he whispered in Cass/my ear and I was like   you just made that scene for me dude. Ghi'ral was his name. Muah!

Ooof, it's hard, but if I could play exactly what I wanted ... I would probably have played Alistair x male Mahariel, male Hawke x Fenris (yay, got this one!), and male Lavellan x Solas, JUST because it's so connected to the overall story AND it fucking ripped my heart out!!!! And I loved that it could be interpreted as asexual; that meant a lot to me. I feel the deepest connection with Alin Lavellan who romanced Solas of any of my characters... even though he's much sweeter and cuter than me haha xD

But I love so many other pairings, ones I've gotten to play, like male Tabris x Zevran, female Hawke x Isabela, male Hawke x Anders, male Lavellan x Bull (I like it, I REALLY do, just, urgh can we have vanilla sex please honey) ... as well as ones I wish I could've played, like the Solas, Cullen, Cass, Alistair, and Blackwall romances. I used to add Morrigan to that list but I think I'm Morrigan'ed out LOL I wish Merrill had been in DAI instead of Morrigan, would've made so much more sense! Plus I think Merrill's reaction to seeing Cullen again would've been cute, and she'd have had something cute to say about his relationship with inquisitor, too.