ViSeirA wrote...
OK, finally had some time for Photoshop... I manipulated the image a bit, I don't know about you guys but there are some serious artifacts in this pic (around the hair, the neck area... etc), but there's also some serious detail, some things were not visible in the original pic, if it was indeed a fake I don't think anyone would go that far to make it look real... I still can't make up my mind about it, but I'm leaning towards the real camp now.

If this Turns out to be 100% legit I'll be rather happy for my fellow Merrill shippers. She's easily going to be my Leliana for Dragon Age 2 and, much like Leli, I have no problem what so ever with the idea that Merrill is Bi-Sexual. It doesn't take from the character at all, and on top of all that, in my continuity, my Hawke will be Male and romancing Merrill, so what ever occurs in someone else's Universe has no impact in mine. So, yeah, I hope this is real. If anyone has a problem with the idea of Merrill, or all the companions, being Bi-Sexual because "That wouldn't be realistic" then grow the heck up. Despite the immersion of BioWare games, it's first and foremost "A Game" meaning some rules of "The Real" will be bent, broken, and so forth. Anyway, I don't want to get preachy. Nice work cleaning this up ViSeir, great detective work. You're a regular Batman.