mcilhany wrote...
ReiSilver,
Thank you for your concern. The post isn't for you though. It's for the writers. Fenris has never wanted to leave Kirkwall. I am talking about a discrepancy in the actual story. He has in fact never wanted to leave. He wants to stay. If you can rationalize that codex entry then that is up to you. Every indication Fenris has given is that he wants to stay with Hawke and company. He's never talked about leaving. As to what he's thinking that is anyones guess. The codex is just plain wrong. If you're not bothered by it that's fine. But I am. Besides, he's also implied he doesn't know where to go or how to "be free." But on that note, does anyone? Also the whole "insert race/color/creed" here all look alike line has got to be gone for good. I don't think my ears can take that line anymore, like nails on a chalkboard. Again, bad writing and unacceptable for this quality of production.
Actually the writing in this game is actually one of the parts that's most deffinately
not bad. Look at it this way. If it's in a codex, its fact. If he spoke about leaving, then he was truly contemplating it. There's no discrepency in the writing for someone to -think seriously- about something, and then later decide against it. The Codex's
are written by the writers, and while some change depending upon what choices you make, most are set in stone. They are factual to the world we're allowed to romp and play within. Just like the Codex says that the Templars are the real power in Kirkwall, and that Hawke's parents met in Kirkwall. These things are "set in stone", canon, for the world. You can't just throw them out because you dislike where they take your story.
As to Fenris himself... We know that Fenris has wanderlust/a fear of comitment. Staying in one place, untill we kill Denarius, is a, and let me bold and underline this,
a bad idea. He knows this very well, because when ever he stops somewhere, he gets attacked. Its dangerous for him, and dangerous for anyone he might get close to. He was on he run for three years. The only difference is, this time he got saved by Hawke and co. Which is something he's having trouble reconciling in his head, because he's a slave, or Ex-slave, and deserves no help.
Hawke and Co are his friends, but he's never had friends before and is
litterally lost for what to do with them. He doesn't know how to have friends, or how to even accept compliments. So, it is not outside his character to be in a constant state of movement, even if its just in words. In fact, he feels very much like someone who would
pace a lot. Someone who walks back and forth in front of that fireplace because he needs to be moving, acting, doing. Even when there's nothing to do.
In fact he even goes so far as to ask Hawke on
several different occasions what someone
does to put down roots. It takes him almost 7 years in fact, to get over his feeling of being hunted, and his feelings that he's endangering these people that he can't seem to
not care about. And then, its only
after we've helped him kill Denarius and learn of his past(or let him kill his sister) that he's even comfortable enough to consider staying on full time. I wouldn't put it past him to be in a constant state of "one foot out the door" until that point, even. Even if he never acts upon it.
It hardly matters that he loves or doesn't love Hawke. To Fenris, just being near her/him is putting them in mortal danger. If anything a romanced Fenris would be
more inclined to want to run away, for fear that caring about Hawke will bring the wrath of the Magisters down upon his/her head. That's actually a big reason why he runs away after the romance scene. Sure, memories.. but also the realization that being that close to someone puts
them in as much, if not more danger.
"I thought it better that you hated me" is a telling line. He cares, but is scared. Scared
because he cares, and scared because he doesn't know what to do with it now that he knows he cares. Denarius is a sick son of a ****, and Fenris is smart enough to
get that the easiest way for people to comply to something they're against is to use their loved ones against them. He spends
three years trying to convince himself that its better for everyone if he just leaves Hawke alone. It takes Hawke killing Denarius before he's willing to even breech the subject again.
and.. I think I got lost in all my early-morning-before-coffee rambling. Oh, wait, yesssss.. writing descrepencies with Fenris. There aren't any. Fill in the blanks, they're clearly written between the sentences and the tone-of-voce. This is why they got Gidieon Emery to do the voice, because he's GREAT at leaving openings for interpretation.
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