autumnyte wrote...
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I wish they were real. I have to admit that I was disappointed; I liked the DLC, but it would have been nice to have some acknowledgement that my Hawke stuck it out for three years and finally got his man back.
I'm starting to think it's a bug. Considering how Anders, Isabella, Merrill and even Sebastian (imagine that) have lines relating to romance status, I find it weird no one's been able to get anything out of Fenris.
First Zevran now Fenris, why must our hot elf boys have romance glitches?
Anyone know how to go diving for audio files? That would be one way of finding out if they're there and just not triggering.
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Personally, I suspect that it isn't a glitch. I think, because of the way the Fenris romance arc plays out, it would have been difficult to write lines that make sense at every point along the continuum of Fenris/Hawke's relationship. Take, for example, when you meet Zevran and Fenris pulls the jealousy card. If that triggers during the three-year break, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Likewise, some of the party banters about your romance.
So, I suppose I can understand why it was left out, even though it's disappointing.
My current peeve is that they couldn't include any Fenris romance stuff, but they managed to get in a Fenris/Isabela banter. Nothing against that pairing, but it kind of drove home the lack of Fenris/Hawke stuff even more.
They seemed to have no problem recognizing different relationship states for other characters though. If you romanced Sebastian and you're using an endgame save, there's a reference to the wedding. And of course, all of the other relationship conditions are recognized--dead/Warden/other sibling, for instance. And at other points in the game, Fenris' dialogue changes based on whether you've moved on and if so, with who.
In particular, it seemed strange that Anders should be the one to talk with me after the "Malcolm's Will" quest. I just had this huge reveal about my father--including that he was hoping I wasn't a mage, oops!--and I don't even get the awkward attempt at sympathy I got from my boyfriend after "All That Remains"?
If there had been more reactive dialogue from Fenris in general, I might have felt better, but Fenris seemed oddly unresponsive in places I would have expected a reaction from him, especially toward the end. Corypheus looks at my party and says, "you're human". Yeah, except for the short, stocky guy with the chest beard and the shortish, heavily-armed guy with the pointy ears. Even if I wasn't playing a mage Hawke, shouldnt Corypheus have assumed Fenris was my slave? And then when Corypheus says he's a Tevinter Magister and we should all kneel to him, Fenris has absolutely no reaction? Even more than the lack of romance-specific dialogue, that just felt off to me.