alisgirl wrote...
I guess that I'd attributed the fact that he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve (and the fact that he is very uncomfortable with PDA) to British reserve. He will talk your ear off despite the fact that he hardly knows you, and seems comfortable socially and with flirting as long as you don't call his bluff, and certain epilogues mention that if he is king, he wants to go to taverns to socialize with the regular folk. I guess none of those are very strong indicators though. I might have pegged him as an extravert because he reminds me strongly of an ESFP I once knew.
I think it may go deeper than reserve. He seems to have two modes, the one he generally displays, rambunctious, out/easygoing, talkative... And the real one, the one that comes to the fore speaking about Duncan, during and after making love, or in the Fade where he tells you he does not want to end up dead in a ditch full of Darkspawn. This to me, says introversion.
I think he is an introvert who has developed a rather good shell, probably due to being thrust into excessively social situations. One imagines that as a trainee Templar he has been living in a male dorm since the age of 12, you either develop a new persona in such a situation or perish. And his training as a fighter where putting on a good show, which he always does, there are dozens of Ali battlefield utterances, is almost as important as delivering the goods.
The good shell may be the cause of the great Ali debacle at the Landsmeet. Up until then, most players have simply
no idea of
just how much he wants Loghain's head on a plate because he may talk a lot but it is cover; he simply isn't given to revealing his innermost desires or fears. So perhaps to some extent what happens at the Landsmeet is not as much a problem with Ali as with the player who takes things too much at face value and has simply not delved deeply enough, as most good leaders do, into their allies' true psychology...
Modifié par Maria13, 06 mars 2011 - 12:19 .