darkgriever26 wrote...
purplecookie wrote...
ElleMullineux wrote...
Of course it's fine, I love picking up the ends of debates from pages back and pumping some life back into them.
And that's a lovely idea - and it makes me want to protect him even more!!! He does come across as overly clingy to me personally, but my Hawke is pretty much messed up by that point (no family left etc etc) so welcomes his obsessive idealised love because he'll take just about anything from Hawke. Which makes the rivalmance more upsetting for me, because he just accepts Hawke's negative view of him.
I was talking to someone else about the rivalmance and how you basically destroy him by the end and he's just a husk of a man. You have effectively stripped Justice and the Templars, and there is nothing left. On the friendmance he's validated and able to build from where he is, because lets be honest he's not going to get back to what he was. Better to start fresh and help guide and support him, in my eyes anyway.
This is absoltely my thoughts too! I've not done the rivalmance but I will when the next patch is out - I know that it's going to be an absolutely emotional gut-kick because my understanding of it is that Anders has the same preoccupation with his idealised Hawke, but in this instance is constantly having his negative perceptions of himself confirmed ie confiming that he is a monster and an abomination. His mental state must be so broken down not only from Justice/Vengeance but after years of having his negative self-perceptions reinforced by the woman/man he loves more than anything, it's just heartbreaking to me
Hmmm I think in the rivalmance it is still up to you on how you want him to understand that merging only caused him and his friend Justice problems. In my rivalmance playthrough I wasn't really THAT mean to him [and as much as possible I do not want to be agressive because I do support the cause it's just not the means] So anyway, I'm really gonna wait for the patch to see the bug fixed. And by then, I'll see which of the romance is better.
That's good that you don't have to be that cruel to him, as I say, I've not played it yet so don't know too much about it but I still feel like I'm going to find it a difficult playthrough. Bring on the patch though (and hopefully fixed rivalmance bugs)!
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Heck I wouldn't even side with the templars if it wasn't for my curiosity of what will happen on the other side of the coin. 
Anyway that's really cool 
