VampOrchid wrote...
Batteries wrote...
www.youtube.com/watch
Very interesting. And sad.
This right here proves that it's not really Anders who decides to blow things up! I'm wondering if Justice is taking over more and more. I'm hoping later on there will be a way to show Justice that he's making a slave out of Anders, the same thing he's trying to prevent.
*sigh* This whole situation is so depressing... But yeah, look at the video. Like I said earlier, when I went into the Fade to help Feynriel and brought Anders along... and I tried to talk to him and realized "Anders isn't here right now, leave a message after the beep", my Hawke wanted to grab Justice by the shoulders and shake him, maybe slap him around a little bit... just some kind of
attempt to talk reason back into him. Not that I think it would do a lick of good, but being able to try and talk more to him would have been nice. You know, like, "So sorry my boyfriend accidentally made you fly over the spirit cuckoo nest, but would you kindly stop holding him hostage now? 'Kay, thanks, bye!"
Or like how, in random Act 3 party banter, Varric tries to do revenge fantasy jokes about Meredith and Anders shoots him down. Then, Varric says, "Oh, Blondie. *sighs* Go
away, Justice! We want our Anders back!" Or something to that effect.
Random musings:
I like how Bioware put in the "little things", specifically the little references to your relationship. Like, how near the beginning of Act 3, you can go talk to Varric at the Hanged Man and catch Anders cracking jokes with him. When you ask Varric what all that was about, he explains that he put Blondie on his tab as a personal favor to you.
Or how Gamlen comments on it, which I found surprising. I honestly expected Leandra to say SOMETHING about her non-mage daughter bringing home an apostate boyfriend and continuing the "family tradition" early in Act 2, but all she ever talked about was how my elf friends were weird. Gamlen, on the other hand, was a surprise. After finishing the "Greatest Treasure" quest and after the initial cutscene when you visit him, you can click on him again and he says something like, "I hear you moved that apostate boy into your home. You
are your mother's daughter." That made me smile.
I'm very interested to see where DA3 picks up. Especially since Anders can either live or die after he
jumps off the slippery slope. From the posts here, it sounds like a lot of us are choosing the "flee into the countryside with our fugitive apostate boyfriend all Bonnie & Clyde style" ending. I would like to know the eventual conclusion to that, even if I fear it will be horribly tragic (I can see, for example, Bioware forcing us to do a mercy kill and end our lover's misery, sobbing all the way, as he finally slips into Total Abomination Land. "I'll never let go, Anders. I'll never let go." *cue "My Heart Will Go On"...).
*sigh* Okay, so Miss Hepler... Mr. Gaider... where, exactly, should I have this wheelbarrow of sweet, precious tears delivered for your coffeemaker?
Retour en haut
because I miss that Anders, but it also added some retroactive depth to his character in Awakening.
