Pseudocognition wrote...
Broad, general concern incoming:
Can we cut the possessive tones in here? It's kinda creeping me out. She's not 'yours' but she's not a selfish rude pig either, meaning it's not like you will walk in on her with Carver someone else and she goes SURPRISE THIS WAS AN OPEN RELATIONSHIP ALL ALONG! People discuss these things and set relationship boundaries and expectations up front, if they are sane. And it's not such a dire situation to shelve the promiscuity for a while, not to mention that it's creepy if she's not doing it of her own volition.
Open and frequent communication! 
If anything I think she'd be wary of commitment but might 'try it' and see if she warms up to the idea. But even then it's not like she's throwing away her former life for youuuu~ Though I suppose you are free to interpret it as such if it happens that way. Which... I suspect some people are eager to do.
Idk. Creepy words get thrown around in here but that's just me. Carry on.
so uhm.....you do imply "possession" (not ownership) each time you say something on the lines of "she is
my girlfriend".
But that's not the place for such a debate. There is nothing wrong with being possessive as long as it does not become harmful to the relationship. 99.99% of the characters I play are of the possessive sort and I am possessive (and jealous often I have to admitt) in real life as well.
Sure, Isabela will not throw her old life away for my Hawke (GOD that sounded dirty even to me) but you know what? like in every other relationship of the sort, fictional or otherwise (with someone who is "open" and non commital), if in the end she chooses Hawke for an exclusive relationship she
chose him. Him over everyone else. It is not a matter of taming or forcing or taking but a matter of her surrendering herself to him by the very choice that binds her, by her own will, to him. And that makes Hawke special, unique, if anything to Isabela herself enough so that she (again) chose him.
Maybe this means nothing to some and everything to others but ultimately, to me, that makes Isabela mine (or my Hawke's) just as much as it makes me (or my Hawke) hers.
or maybe I have just a very screwed view of relationships....and so does my wife.....
as a side note the name Hawke is getting to be way too inconvenient for comfort. :innocent: