Arquen wrote...
Lol... a little bit. A little bit.
Im wondering if Isabela and Tallis together might be a bit over the top. I would almost have to have Fenris just to balance the snarky fems with some broody.
Im still reserving judgement but I swear if Tallis and Izzy both start flirting it up with Fenris Im gonna have to choke somebody. They are saying she is flurry with Hawke too. I probably will be like.. step off she-elf im so taken. I just hope Fenris isn't bugged to hell and says something similar if they start on him. Honestly I would crack up if he treats Tallis like he does Merrill.
I doubt Fenris would treat Tallis like he does Merrill, as he treats Merrill the way he does because she's a blood mage.
Well, and because she's Dalish. Is Tallis Dalish? I haven't been paying much attention; I'll give the character her chance when the DLC comes out, not pre-judge based on promos and fandom's general anti-female-character bias.
But, Dalish or not aside, most of the outright hostility is because Merrill's a blood mage. And Tallis isn't a mage at all, so that wouldn't be an issue. Fenris does tend to have problems with other elves - he dislikes the Dalish at least in part because he sees the ancient history of the elves as irrelevent and useless, and in part because he doesn't like their lifestyle (his short story puts his opinion of them rather bluntly), and he dislikes city elves for how meek they tend to be (again, the short story). Tallis clearly isn't going to be a meek city elf. If she's Dalish, that would be a strike against her. If she's not, or if she can win past his prejudice (I love Fenris, but wow, does he have prejudices

), but if she's not, he may well respect her for being a non-Dalish elf who isn't bowing to human rule. Hard to say, because we haven't been able to see how he is around such an elf except for Zev, and, well, we know why he gets cranky there.

So if Tallis gets flirty with Hawke, he may dislike Tallis for that . . .
And personally, I won't mind if Tallis is flirty with Fenris. I'm not the kind of person who freaks out when someone flirts with an actual boyfriend/girlfriend, I'm certainly not gonna raeg over a fantasy one. I consider just flirting to be harmless fun. If it gets more direct and "You, me, bed, now," that's a problem, and even then, only if I didn't think I could trust him to mention he's taken and stick by it - but we know Fenris shuts Isabela down if he's with Hawke; I imagine he would do the same to Tallis. Now, if he's flirty back while in a relationship with Hawke, that would be an issue, because we've seen he doesn't do that. With Isabela, of all people, who is the woman he ends up with if Hawke doesn't want him (or her). So that would be quite jarring. But I'm trusting Bioware not to screw that up.
Way more likely his banters just won't trigger at all, after all.