TobiTobsen wrote...
Don't touch Merrill!
As soon as you two... "polish her eluvian" Merrill overwrites everthing else. No turning back! Merill and Anders are romantic juggernauts, who will destroy every other potential romances you may want to have.
Somebody's been using my lines...

HopeVessel wrote...
I know, and it's a real shame. My game had such an amazing story. But from what i have learned, they only end romances that have started, so that's why i waited with isabela.
You'd think so, but that's not the case. From what I understand how the variables work, it isn't the act of performing the horizontal blood magic ritual with Merrill that shuts down the romance for Isabela (and Fenris), but Isabela's script itself. I believe it just checks to see if you've started the Merrill or Anders romance flag when you reach her important points and shuts itself off when she's determining whether to continue with Hawke.
I tried to stay with the other romance options but they all bored me. For some reason isabela is my favorite character in the game. She seems like someone who would be fun to hangout with. So Isabela was right, she always proves them wrong. 
Indeed. Isabela pretty much slapped me, threw me down, sat on me, pointed me at the word processor and commanded me to write. I've
never written fan fiction before this. Well, not anything I let anybody
see anyway.