ankuu wrote...
I am a fluffy marshmellow as well :blush:Still i love when a girl and a boy figh and then end up loving eachother...that happened to me and my bf.
Calla S wrote...
Yeah,
I'm a soft fluffy marshmallow person, too. Which is why playing such a
****y mage character is going to be a challenge, but she's here. And she
wants to be paired with Fenris. And she wants to have her romp
through the Free Marches written, too. Demanding character is demanding.
Sigh. If she ends up being my first playthrough instead of my
sweetheart rogue, I'm going to be sort of a little upset. Hahah.
I
do love the idea of rivalries, though. It's such an intriguing concept,
to have a character actually fight back about their beliefs and not
just leave in a huff. It shows strength, imo, and the rivalry romance
path is way too juicy to let go of.
Fluffy marshmallow people group hug. C'mon. You know you want to!
The rivalry vs. friendship principle in the DA2 romances is actually really awesome in the sense that it kinda reflects what I'm studying right now. (I should be studying for my exams, in truth, but a girl's gotta have a break now and then or she'll go nuts!) If anybody's interested, it's
the core qualities by Ofman.
To break it down, they both operate on the principle that opposites attract. Whatever else you have in common, there are characteristics that boil down to the core of who you are. Like, if you've had empathy for most everyone your entire life, that would be your core quality.
Taken to its extreme, empathy is a negative (pitfall, the extreme of your good quality to the point where it becomes a negative). So the thing you need to keep it in check is a certain amount of stoicism (that's your challenge, having that distance and objectivity), and the one thing you can't STAND is if somebody is cold and unfeeling (that's your allergy, cold people).
On the other hand, if you take a person who is naturally objective and a bit stoical, this is basically the perfect opposite of the empathic person. Taken to its extreme, that stoicism becomes coldness and lack of empathy (so the allergy of empathy is the pitfall of distance.) So the thing needed to keep distance in check is empathy (the challenge), and the one thing this person can't tolerate is excessive sentimentality, like a tendency to give your last dime to a bum who needs his "medicine" (so the allergy of distance is the pitfall of empathy.)
So in other words...
Friendship Romance: Would likely be based on two balanced people who have mastered their challenges and admire the other person. The empathic person sees the stoic's logic as a benefit, and the stoic sees the empathic person's understanding as a benefit, because they've both learned they need the quality the other person has in order to keep who they are from going to its extreme. They naturally balance each other out and are harmonious about it because they share a mutual admiration.
Rivalry Romance: This is interesting in that it's likely two completely
unbalanced people--of the same core qualities! The sentimental (empathic) person is driven mad by the cold (stoic) person's unfeeling nature, while the cold (stoic) person is infuriated by the simpering, bleeding heart demeanor of the other. They are both essentially allergic to each other and in desperate need of balance. But once those qualities butt heads enough times, once they start to see the validity of the other person's point of view, those core quality extremes can sometimes lessen until they are essentially in the same place as the Friendship Romance couple. It's the extremes of the viewpoints that were the problem all along, but once balance is achieved they are harmonious opposites again.
*meekly* Um... did that interest/make sense to anyone but me?
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