Maria Caliban wrote...
I love all characters. It always makes me sad when the Aveline and Isabela threads disappear.
I think the problem is that Aveline is... normal. Not an elf. Probably not a love interest (
). Not an obviously important character like the narrator. She's gotten lots of hate for not being "pretty" enough and being "manish" because she looks like she could actually heft a sword.
I don't doubt at all that she'll be a wonderfully deep character for those of us willing to give her a chance.
I've had a mild crush on Ave since the first screenies were release, and it's only grown. I think she's beautiful(seriously; freckles, red hair, awesome headband, amazing voice? dowant), and I
love that they even gave her own body model so - brace yourselves -
she actually looks like she could swing around something heavier than a pointy stick.
There's nothing wrong with liking the "pretty" characters. I, like you, am pretty impressed with roster thusfar, I just don't see how Aveline doesn't fit in that box, too. She may not be as traditionally beautiful as Isabela (which people are saying she's ugly, too, so WTF, fandom?) but she's by no means
ugly.
I would love to see a romance really utilizing the span of time. I mean, her husband
died. I'd like to see how they could work around that, make a Hawke/Aveline romance believable, rather than, say, what happened with Jaheira. Which was insulting at best, even if I did like the meat of the romance.
I've been on the fence on my belief that she's a romance for awhile now. The addition of Merrill to the roster has me worried where I was fairly confident before. We'll see, I suppose. There's always fanfic.