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

In my PTs it usually happens with Fenris. Though do not recall such cases with Zevran.




Usual things.
Zevran wanted to kill the GW. But the truth - Zevran wanted GW to kill him. And how do I know that? Because I talked to him many times, took to mission and understood what kind of person Zevran is: the most dedicated character.
Even if I kinda like Alistair (but after DAI conversations I started to hate him at the same time thanks to BW devs and think that he, with some outcomes in DAO, is just lying POS), Zevran is a better person imo (Alistair is just another topic).
Fenris is often called some emoboy. Fenris always tells the truth, he never asks anything (only in act 3 asks to help with his sister), if he was wrong, he admits it and always apologizes. He has no past as has no memories, he does not know what it means to trust a person, to have a family, friends, a person who actually loves him. How do I know that? Talked to him, listened PBs, did his quests, and yes, had patience as with Zevran.

People tend to abandon characters if see something they do not like in the very beginning.
For me e.g., Zevran ambush/ Fenris not trusting me in the beginning/ Sera, hinding her past and making interesting speeches - a sign that such characters are not what they seem.

In MEU Jack is such a person e.g., she is the only LI for my male Shep. But Jack is so unpopular. Only her LM tells so much about her even if it is very short, talking to her as a male opens other facts. In one DLC the "tattoo scene" is just amazing.
Only no, Jack is just rude, bald, almost naked woman from the prison with many tattoos. Nothing else.
Sad.



Yeah, I really like this image and how Cullen is depicted here: happy, has everything he's dreamed of, calm, relaxed (will forget for now that there is still an asshole trying to screw up again and kill everyone).





Took these two parts as want to add one thing that concerns understanding Cullen as a character.

Childhood, family, the place where he lived, events that happened back there (the same with Sera btw) - this part of life is one of things that should be studied to understand a character. As people know certain periods of human life are more importnat to form character's views.
The part with becoming a templar is also very important - he begged to take him fo training, but always heard "no". He indeed wanted to protect and insisted, saw himself only in that role.
Such decication paid off: finally was taken for training.

Cullen has a good family (only lost his parents), even plays chess, that dedication and great desire to become a templar to protect says much about him. Only later played a really bad role.

That he went through all that and remained a good person - it is just something.

Greg Ellis uploaded a rant about SJWs in character as Cullen

Based. 

especially not the red kind...it's bad

In my opinion, there's no need for Cullen to reappear especially if Inky is not the protagonist of the DA4. If he does have a big role in the next game (which I doubt) Bioware can just recast him with someone with similar enough of a voice. For me, that's fine. I'm a Cullen fan, not a Greg Ellis fan. As far as I'm concerned, Ellis didn't create this character even though he did a good job giving him a voice.

I wonder if anyone has made a fanart of Cullen and Lavellan as John Smith and Pocahontas

there are...I've seen a few, but it's not really my cup of tea

I'm watching Attack on Titan and, well... I think I've found a Cullen.