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[Sabariel]

Just don't romance him with a mage. It'll give the poor boy flashbacks...

[Calla S]

This pretty much sums up my feelings about DA2.



I'm holding out for him in DA3. The build-up and his personality in DA2 was just. so. amazing. BioWare, you ripped my heart out and made a delicious smoothie with it this time. I'm kind of hoping you guys do the same in the next game, but with an added Cullen romance. Because it'd hurt so good just that much more. Do you want my tears or what?

[upsettingshorts]

Addai67 wrote...

Never understood the fascination with Cullen. Don't want the zealot templar.

Good thing he isn't one.  In DA2 at least.

[sevenplusone]

I want to romance Meredith then.

[Addai]

He is still a zealot in DA2 IMO, but has shed some of the crazy. Or at least he's not as barking as Meredith. I suppose since I always play mages, it seems odd to think of him in romantic terms. He's still on the job, unlike Alistair. How is that supposed to work out?

[Medhia Nox]

The man was tortured for what felt to him like years - cut him some slack. A see tons of people cutting that terrorist Anders plenty.

I'd love to play a mage who romanced this perfectly fine specimen of knighthood. We could both say FU to the Circle and the Templars - let them all burn each other to the ground.

Or better - we could save everyone, reform the Circle and the Templars and be applauded as the heroes who finally had reason enough to fix Ander's mistake - stop the BS of the Templars - and make the world safe for puppies (not cats) again.

[Thiefy]

I was a Cullen fangirl in DAO, really liked tht he showed up again in DA2

[Wynne]

Gremnock wrote...

Bioware, please give us Cullen as a fully romanceable companion in a DLC or Expansion..I've always been interested in him as a character since I played the Mage origin in DAO. Then after seeing him again I liked that you expanded his story. Now I want him. That is all.

By all that is good in this world, yes, please, yes!

As if I didn't already adore him enough in Origins before he developed his newfound emotional stability and good sense. That man needs, and deserves, to get laid something fierce!

It's hard to complain when we've got Fenris, Anders, and Sebastian all in the same game, but... *sigh*  it's Cullen! If not Cullen, though, we should at least get to see Sebastian lose his secondary virginity for real. (They do both have that whole untouchable-yet-secretly-thinking-very-naughty-thoughts thing going on, after all.)

Addai67 wrote...

I
suppose since I always play mages, it seems odd to think of him in
romantic terms. He's still on the job, unlike Alistair. How is that
supposed to work out?

In a sexy, angsty, forbidden longings kinda way? C'mon, being a mage just makes it all the tastier! Like romancing Fenris as a mage.

Edited by Wynne, 20 March 2011 - 09:07 PM.

[Isaantia]

While I thought he was cute in Origins, in that creepy zealot way, in DA2 he's just a really stand-up guy. Also its so cute about what he says about your Amell if choose that import option. He has a perfectly good reason to get the heck out of Kirkwall at the end of DA2 so seems to me like he's free to be a companion in DA3.

Please? Pretty Please?

[Calla S]

Wynne wrote...
In a sexy, angsty, forbidden longings kinda way? C'mon, being a mage just makes it all the tastier! Like romancing Fenris as a mage. 

Y'know, funnily enough, I've never been on board with the mage/templar thing. Not really. I understand the allure, but I'm more prone to pair Cullen up with a warrior than a mage. In DA2, at least. Then again, I don't care for Fenris with a mage, either, and paired him with my warrior. Maybe I just like warrior women. I don't know. :<

[Nadia]

I support this, he is an awesome character. Things he survived in Origins justify how he behaves in DA2. I was pleasantly surprized that they brought him back, I wish there will be more of cute interesting Cullen in Dragon Age universe ))

[Kattack]

In Origins, my mages wanted to seduce him just because they couldn't.
But now I would like to see him as a LI. =D He won at the end of the game, I think my warrior was ready to run off with him when he stood up to Meredith.

[Addai]

Calla S wrote...

Wynne wrote...
In a sexy, angsty, forbidden longings kinda way? C'mon, being a mage just makes it all the tastier! Like romancing Fenris as a mage. 

Y'know, funnily enough, I've never been on board with the mage/templar thing. Not really. I understand the allure, but I'm more prone to pair Cullen up with a warrior than a mage. In DA2, at least. Then again, I don't care for Fenris with a mage, either, and paired him with my warrior. Maybe I just like warrior women. I don't know. :<

Normally I do like that sort of tension, but whether as a creepy zealot or a straight-up templar, is he really going to abandon the order?

[Silentmode]

He's got the best chance of any NPC in DA2 of coming back as a companion in either an EP or DA3. I think he's a cool guy it would be interesting see if his attitude towards mages has changed any since the events at the end of the game.

[monima]

Wynne wrote...

 By all that is good in this world, yes, please, yes!

As if I didn't already adore him enough in Origins before he developed his newfound emotional stability and good sense. That man needs, and deserves, to get laid something fierce!

It's hard to complain when we've got Fenris, Anders, and Sebastian all in the same game, but... *sigh*  it's Cullen! If not Cullen, though, we should at least get to see Sebastian lose his secondary virginity for real. (They do both have that whole untouchable-yet-secretly-thinking-very-naughty-thoughts thing going on, after all.)

Addai67 wrote...

I
suppose since I always play mages, it seems odd to think of him in
romantic terms. He's still on the job, unlike Alistair. How is that
supposed to work out?

In a sexy, angsty, forbidden longings kinda way? C'mon, being a mage just makes it all the tastier! Like romancing Fenris as a mage.

My thoughts exactly. He needs to get some lovin. And from a mage would be so much fun. 

[Ryzaki]

Cullen's awesome.

He's one of the few people in DA2 I felt were awesome without being a douche.

Might've been hard to tear away from Anders but I'm sure a couple of my Hawkes would'e gone for that. 

Edited by Ryzaki, 20 March 2011 - 10:24 PM.

[Helen0rz]

no wonder he sounded familiar...

Cullen = original Anders
original Anders > emo Vengeance

my Hawke would do Cullen

[Wynne]

Calla S wrote...

Wynne wrote...
In a sexy, angsty, forbidden longings kinda way? C'mon, being a mage just makes it all the tastier! Like romancing Fenris as a mage. 

Y'know, funnily enough, I've never been on board with the mage/templar thing. Not really. I understand the allure, but I'm more prone to pair Cullen up with a warrior than a mage. In DA2, at least. Then again, I don't care for Fenris with a mage, either, and paired him with my warrior. Maybe I just like warrior women. I don't know. :<

I like warrior women, too, but for some reason I don't want to pair them with other warriors. I guess I enjoy the contrast or conflict, and sometimes both. I laughed with fiendish delight when Fenris pushed my Lady Hawke up against the wall and she did it right back to him. She constantly challenged his assumptions about what mages had to be like, and he was constantly the devil on her shoulder fuming when she was soft on other mages yet again... it just felt too fun. There was a bittersweet warmth between them because she hotly disagreed with him, yet never stopped caring for him or defending him from anyone who came after him.

I appreciate people coming from different worlds to fall in love. I do have exceptions, though; my sarcastic archer rogue will get along great with that pirate wench. They are much more similar than different.

Addai67 wrote...

Normally
I do like that sort of tension, but whether as a creepy zealot or a
straight-up templar, is he really going to abandon the order?

With a little bit of decent character development, I wouldn't have any trouble imagining him pushing for reform within the Order. Obviously, since Ser Wesley and Aveline were married, it's not like templars can't marry. And since Hawke is not a member of the Circle Cullen guards and likely never will be... remember, she's not a mere apostate in any case; she's the Champion. Even Meredith didn't try to force her into the Circle, nor try to harm her until the "persuasion" of her friend Mr. Sword became too strong to ignore. 

Edited by Wynne, 20 March 2011 - 11:02 PM.

[ThatDancingTurian]

What got me about Cullen was that I was expecting his polite, respectful demeanor to go out the window when he found out Hawke was an apostate. And then it didn't. And I realized I loved him.

I don't want him back though for this reason.

sassperella wrote...

You realise that if they do, he'll have a different voice actor, act differently, look different and he'll blow up the circle

Best to leave his memory untarnished.

[Truby-Liz]

I support this idea!

Cullen definately seems to have recovered in DA2, and he actually seems fairly balanced now, in contrast to Origins where he was fairly nuts at the end of the Mage Tower quest. I can only wonder what the devs will think of us Cullen fangirls now they made him more stable.

*Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why Ellis didn't get to voice Anders? Even he thought he was and then suddenly it's Howden? *

[Raiil]

I wouldn't want to see him as a LI in DA2 dlc. Just not the point, and the way he speaks of Amell (which my Warden was) makes it... odd, I guess.


I would love to see Cullen brought over to DA3, and then as a LI. Maybe the poor boy can have some hard-earned happiness.

[Kitaen]

Gremnock wrote...

Bioware, please give us Cullen as a fully romanceable companion in a DLC or Expansion..I've always been interested in him as a character since I played the Mage origin in DAO. Then after seeing him again I liked that you expanded his story. Now I want him. That is all.

Too late! You had your chance in DAO and blew it!
Teasing him like that, making him blush.
Alluding to going 'elsewhere' and talking things over....
He ran away crying.

Bad kitty, BAD!  <3

[Avilia]

Helen0rz wrote...

no wonder he sounded familiar...

Cullen = original Anders
original Anders > emo Vengeance

my Hawke would do Cullen

Greg Ellis did both voices in Origins (which you probably know, apologies).  At first I was all "oh noes, different VA for Anders" but after seeing how much of Cullen there is and hearing those lovely tones again, I'm all "ooh Cullen.  That's much better."

The ending of my run was so good I wanted it to keep going - how many Templars can kneel to an apostate before she turns into Andraste?   Cullen is epic at the end..and all the way through.

[Addai]

Wynne wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

Normally
I do like that sort of tension, but whether as a creepy zealot or a
straight-up templar, is he really going to abandon the order?

With a little bit of decent character development, I wouldn't have any trouble imagining him pushing for reform within the Order. Obviously, since Ser Wesley and Aveline were married, it's not like templars can't marry. And since Hawke is not a member of the Circle Cullen guards and likely never will be... remember, she's not a mere apostate in any case; she's the Champion. Even Meredith didn't try to force her into the Circle, nor try to harm her until the "persuasion" of her friend Mr. Sword became too strong to ignore. 

They're not allowed to dally with mages, however.  I think someone in DA2 straight out says that.  I just cannot see how a templar knight-commander and apostate mage could ever work, no matter how awesomely awesome the apostate.  Especially with a war going on.

What's he doing in Kirkwall anyway?

[Avilia]

Truby-Liz wrote...

[snipped]

*Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why Ellis didn't get to voice Anders? Even he thought he was and then suddenly it's Howden? *

The devs have said they don't like to give the same VA to major characters.   Perhaps they felt that because Anders isn't really Anders anymore, it made more sense to give him a new VA rather than Cullen?

Only conjecture of course others may know the real reason.