Arquen wrote...
I also agree he will always have Hawke as somewhat of a tether, especially an unrequited Hawke. It is just a point in his life where Hawke is a focal point, and his love and obsession stems from that. So fics that have him having to "work to get over his crush" are probably the most accurate because his crush is always there even if it is unhealthy, and unrequited. He can't help how he feels, or even how deeply he feels.
The most accurate of those where he moves on, perhaps, but I'm not convinced that Anders is capable of moving on at all. Maybe he could if he was not so blasted single-minded, but he is. Doing so would require that he give up his belief that Hawke is The One, and we've all seen how ready Anders is to give up on his beliefs. What Hawke feels here is irrelevant. As much power as Hawke has over him, she can never make him give up his cause, nor can she make him give up his love for Hawke. Since it's the one thing that he feels makes him human, he would never surrender it.
Whether you believe that Anders is capable of moving on probably depends on your perception of the priority Anders places on his relationship with Hawke. Perhaps. If you feel that the mage cause is really all that's important to him and that Hawke is just a pleasant distraction, i.e. a crush, sure, with help from a sympathetic and patient lover, he could probably get over it. If you feel that Anders clings to Hawke like the last shred of his own humanity, the one thing that allows him to remain Anders despite Justice's growing presence in his mind, then no, there's no way he's giving that up. Again, just my take on it.
When some mentally unstable people are forced to overcome their obsessions, they wind up with an equally passionate "scorned lover" syndrome. Affection is thoroughly gone, with seething hatred moving in to take its place. Is anyone old enough to remember Glenn Close's character in
Fatal Attraction? I hate to say it, but I can see Anders in that role far more easily than I can imagine his utterly unhealthy obsession turning into lingering feelings of affection toward Hawke while he dedicates himself to a new partner.
Also, Isabela would be the last person that could help Anders get through it. She isn't a healer. Her interaction with Hawke after Leandra's death bears that out. And Anders's intensity would creep her out. She already walked out on her first real love because he wanted her to marry him. She is doing it because she doesn't want the other person to get hurt, but it's still part of who she is.
Also, the game already allows enough time for Anders to get over it and move on, but he doesn't. Fenris, arguably the more mentally healthy of the two men, is able to overcome his feelings for Hawke and accept another lover while maintaining a close relationship with Hawke. Anders is not. Sad, but true.
And we already know what happens when Anders gives Hawke up. He sacrifices all that he is and all that he ever will be in Act 3. Hawke can give it back by remaining with Anders, but Anders himself knows that it's out of his hands. He is ready to die. He wants to die, in fact. I would not be surprised if his acceptance of death is as much to relieve the pain he feels over losing Hawke forever as it is to atone for his crimes.
Everybody perceives characters differently. And even then, personal attitudes toward the medium will play a role. I was a modder before I started on prose, and part of that was slavish devotion to preserving the original tone and personality of the canon NPCs. My own perception of the characters and their motivations did not matter as much as consistent presentation. In other words, I might adore Anomen, but I could not gloss over (or exaggerate) his faults too much. If Anomen didn't sound like Anomen to ALL players, regardless of their affection for him, it would jar the player out of the moment. I hate the way "immersion breaking" is bandied about these days. It's the new buzzword for anything the player doesn't like, and I'm sorry, but if a person is going to trot out the old argument that such-and-such trivial peeve breaks their immersion, I'm going to have a really hard time
not thinking of them as being a bit of a diva. No, real immersion-breaking is when you're playing along, enjoying the game, and you run slap up against somebody's cuddly Viconia. A little wink at the camera is OK... sometimes... but unless it's a joke mod, it has to be a very small wink. So, I approach derivative fiction (and let's face it, that's what we're doing) as a modder, not as an original fiction author, and I best appreciate fan fiction that seems like something that could have happened with the characters that were in the game.
TL;DR - Different strokes.
Modifié par berelinde, 26 septembre 2011 - 12:59 .
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. I'm rather hooked, haha.
. I guess I'll have to do.. you know... real life stuff. BAH!
