tankgirly wrote...
Fenris dancing
by Arylas
Someone will need to teach me how to paste the flash image from dA. Gosh.
THIS... forever!
Is it sad I actually dance like that? Also, Illuminated is my ringtone... and not because of that video or anything *cough*denial*cough*
Maker, I was catching up on my True Blood tonight. I missed so much here!
It is definitely not sad to play the same Hawke a bajillion times! Although, I do have 6 Fenris romances I did play them all differently. My favorite so far has been my 2nd friendmancing mage sarcastic/aggressive. She was just the bit of everything that I wanted in that PT. I feel her and Fenris were the best connection and everything just fell into place as far as quests/dialogue/companion interactions etc.
I don't make the "exact" Hawke each time, but I have made similar Hawkes. They don't look the same, but I tend to stick with the same personality types. I absolutely adored my aggressive Hawke. My sarcastic Hawke was a blast too. My least favorite is probably my diplo Hawke. The best I think is a mix and match hodgepodge of all 3 though I lean far into aggressive/sarcastic and only RARELY ever use a diplo line. I want it to be like "everyone turns and goes ... Hawke just said what now?" when I use a diplo line, LOL.
As for serious face argument: I don't think anyone can live in extremes, but that is what DA2 forces you to do. In fact, Thedas never has had any kind of history of peaceful resolve. It is either war, rebellion, drastic action or all out tyranny. In fact I was reading
THIS lovely thing on THEDASOLOGY the other day, and found it quite intriguing.
The whole theme of "people want change but do nothing FOR change" is an inherent problem in the social norm that IS people. Consider this example: When you are being taught CPR you are told to point to a specific person and say "YOU.. go call 911.." You do not just say "someone call 911" because people will look around them and figure "eh, someone else will do it." Likewise another ethical example -- A woman was stabbed to death in an apartment complex and there were over 100 witnesses. 100 witnesses, and not ONE came out to help her, and if I remember the example correctly only 2 calls came into 911 reporting the incident. When your dealing with a large crowd of people - they look to someone else to take the risk. It is, simply, flawed human nature. Self preservation. Yet there are volumes written on the "one man can make a difference" phenomenon. However, the simple fact is most people are sheeple. They aren't going to oppose social norms or step out of their comfort zones. If they do, there are punishments and risks. Nobody is an ubermensch, and most people don't want to be.
Also, it depends on what kind of change we are talking about here. If you can accept that the Chantry and the Templars can be changed within that is one thing. If you believe, like Anders, that the Chantry and the institution is beyond saving and must be built from scratch or not exist at all that is another. There is technically evidence to support both sides. Meredith made it no easier for the Templars to reform than the Circle did to help the mages reform. The problem also with ruling bodies is that they are inevitably subject to corruption. Are you just subjugating mages to another council? Creating a new Tevinter Imperium council because you have mages on it? There aren't soul testing rules to make sure some benevelent and just force always doing the right thing is in power. It is not that simple. So the idea of reform is intrinsically way more complicated and (to Anders) more useless to try than just starting from nothing. Destroying then Creating something new, and hoping that something will inevitably lead to a better system. Still, I do agree with Fenris. That it isn't that simple. "Because nothing bad ever came from good intentions..."
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