***Mini-rant INC!***
Ok so... I finally finished my first ever fem warden playthrough (CEF), and WOW. That Alistair break-up is absolutely brutal! Before actually playing it all the way through, I thought the Morrigan romance ending was the most heartbreaking, but in a few ways I think the Alistair one can be even worse... for a non human anyway. I was really surprised.
I opted to marry him to Anora, so post-Landsmeet he (in a
very matter-of-fact tone) declared that she would have his baby... IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE REST OF THE TEAM. Really, WTF Alistair!? Would some discretion kill him?
So I tried the "nobody can tell the king what to do" line, but his follow up about it being unfair to Anora and the warden really rang true to me and I couldn't honestly disagree. I don't know how some of you go through with the mistress ending... especially in front of everyone like that. It seems so demeaning (especially for a city elf). Ugh.
The Morrigan ending is harsh, but at least it feels hopeful (to me anyway). My warden was determined to find her at all costs; it wasn't even a question for me at the time. With Alistair, you basically turn him over to another woman and step aside, or stay in the background while he sows his royal oats. And while he says he doesn't love her (yet), feelings change. Anora is strong, smart, and gorgeous after all. According to the epilogue cards she comes to respect him a great deal and they make a great ruling pair. I imagine that would be rather hard to watch for someone who loved him.
As if that wasn't bad enough, then Morrigan comes in with the DR proposal (which comes off surprisingly cold and manipulative to a fem PC), which leaves a heart-broken warden trying to convince her ex to sleep with yet ANOTHER woman (damn, Alistair gets all kinds of action as a fem PC >.>). The Morrigan fan in me wouldn't let me watch that scene...
I was also kind of surprised at how his dialogue instantly goes from hot to cold post-breakup. I guess that just has to do with the way the game flags romance/no romance, but his final "goodbye" at the gates was
all about friendship with no mention of their past relationship. It felt really artificial in some ways.
Honestly the entire ending felt really
really wrong and kind of put me off playing that char through Awakening. I mean, I didn't personally get half as invested in this char as I have been with my male PCs but it was still really uncomfortable. I don't know how any of you can stand romancing him as anything other than a HNF, unless you don't put him on the throne.
I think this was the worst ending I've had in any playthrough thus far. I think I'll go back to Morrigan chasing.
Modifié par Axekix, 17 mai 2010 - 03:41 .
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