I'm writing that I assume you mean during, not after, the game.
Should Hawke have? No. Or at least Hawke's and a love interest.
While the idea of seeing a child grow over time is alluring, and possible in this series of events, the biggest problem is
Hawke having one: a child-character would be a rather significant element, and from a writing/design standpoint wouldn't be something that should be missed (by same-sex/abstaining couples).
It also wouldn't work well being born from any union later in the game with a LI: we know that children show their powers in their later childhood, not necessarily immediately. The most reasonable time for the child to be any sort of
character, as opposed to a non-speaking pallete-swap interchange, would require a child to be about six or seven when the game enters it's final act... and that means born near the start.
Moreover, a LI-dependent child, even from a reworked time-frame, would vary either too much or not at all from a casting/writing POV.
The key requirements for a child would be an early start (too early for a LI), and someone unavoidable (can not be prevented from starting),
Two situations that would allow Hawke to be a parent figure:
1) Hawke (either gender) had a child before the start of the game. The other parent died at Ostagar, making Hawke a recent widow/widower. Hawke is effectively a single parent, though of course Hawke's family (and mother especially) help raise the kid while Hawke is out making the money to let them all live. Naturally, all LI's become foster/step parents. The other parent is left mostly blank: no names, no attributions to his/her character, and leaving to the player what Hawke feels/remembers about them.
2) The child belongs to whichever sibling dies. The sibling's other could be fleshed out a bit more in this case rather than a blank slate, and it falls to Hawke and family to raise their nephew/niece/grandchild. Hawke, as the more assertive/present family member, is the 'parent'. Sort of.
Modifié par Dean_the_Young, 31 mars 2011 - 10:38 .