So, I'm on Act 2. 50% rivalry path with Anders romance.
**************SPOILERS*****************Ok well Anders asked me if he could move in, says he loves me, I said "I'm hungry", awesome cutscene kiss happens, we're kinda happy, but I'm so far still stuck at 50% rivalry. Great.
His love scenes were reaaaally romantic/angsty. I don't know if people in the friendship path get this but the scene I got with the first kiss was just awesome. When LH goes talk to him after the incident with Vengeance he says he's writing a manifesto in which he wishes to convince people like LH that the Circle is not the answer for mages and templars don't have the right to rule mages. Anyway, I'm playing the devil's advocate and he's obviously frustrated at LH.....reads a part of what he wrote.....God is so bittersweet cuz he looks like he's trying really hard to convince me but is in love. What a contradiction.....this scene broke my heart....so he says, "I don't know if I want to kiss your or kill you. I hate people like you. But for the last three years I can't stop thinking about you....I wake up aching for you...blah blah...I love you...." It's so sweet but he looks frustrated then the hot kiss happens. Later he wants to drop by the mansion and sexyness insues. It was actually more sweet than anything but everything felt so angsty. I'm not helping since I'm romancing him on the rivalry path.
I was really impressed at how he behaved during the whole thing. He's obviously madly in love with Lady Hawke but doesn't agree with her kind of thinking but he might seem to understand where she comes from. In fact he tells her that even if she is the only person he can convince he'll do it no matter what, which broke my pixel heart even more. He's just too sweet but again, FULL of angst. So he moves in with LH and by the fireplace I found some burned pages from his manifesto which I don't know exactly what it means?
Did he give up about wanting to kill templars and free mages or did he give up on Lady Hawke.....*sigh* I don't regret the rivalry path but it's very difficult, specially when you want to support him, but like my Lady Hawke told him in game, she doesn't want to support him hurting himself by giving into Justice/Vengeance. She actually said what my whole reasoning to do the rivalry path with him was. So far I have like 20hrs into the game. I'm trying to get my rivalry points higher since I believe I need that for Act 3 right? I will side with the mages at the end but I will have to disagree with him all the way until the big time comes.
**************END SPOILERS*****************Anyway I'm kinda obsessed with that romance but I don't know if there's a chance he'll act any differently as a consequence of the rivalry path. Just wanted to share with y'all since I know there aren't many people romancing him on the rivalry path. We'll see what happens but I don't foresee anything good. I feel so bad for Anders, I kind of miss the old one but I like this mess Bioware gave us in DA2 too.

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