Marduksdragon wrote...
Aveline is not his friend. Nor does he make any great pains to be hers. In that banter you mentioned his tone is hotly accusatory-- so of course he sounds hostile.
Which is different. Somehow.
Talking to a regular American instead of a KGB agent may give you ideas into guerilla tactics an average member of that population might get up to or the general personality of an American person--- which is important when trying to prepare for trouble or cricumvent it at the source. It's called reconnaissance. It's a totally different viewpoint and it's a bad comparison with a mage because there's a difference between fighting the magic and being the magic. A Templar, for all his lyrium use and special abilities, has never been the magic.
So she expected to get some incredible insight into mages that has escaped the Chantry's thousand year rule? Nevermind the fact that Anders is a spirit healer and 99.99% of the troublemaker mages are blood mages, just that she thinks a random mage hanging around Hawke has some noteworthy insight that has escaped the Chantry's notice through many nations and hundreds of years... just no.
As far as Wesley's shield --though not directed at me-- Hawke knows Aveline keeps it for sentimental reasons by that time. It's completely different.
She's a giant ball of crazy and that outburst made me want to feed her to a kraken.
Hawke doesn't even get a chance to go "There, Anders. Two mages who want to rule everyone. You've met them now." After the fact. That is bad writing-- not just fouled AI. I would have loved to have had that argument with Anders and seen how the character broke that down to be harmonious with his views. Or if he just Vengeanced me for questioning him.
I imagine he'd point out that Idunna claimed she didn't know what Tarohne was doing and Tarohne herself was almost certainly an abomination. Regardless, if you expect there to be a dialogue branch for every feasible response in every feasible situation, I hope you're willing to pay another $100 for the hundreds of hours of extra voice acting and have a few hundred gigs of free space to put it on.
Those children were not physically and mentally tortured for weeks on end by demons and blood mages. They were not held prisoner without food and water or the drugs they need to stay sane. Cullen before has little relation to Cullen after until DA2. I would have hunted Cullen down and put sword to him if there'd been a DLC (or the events of DA2) that upheld the epilogue of DAO--- and still felt awful about it. Having sympathy and caring for a character doesn't magically mean I agree with everything they do or say-- or exclude them from punishment.
Huh? Sorry, I dozed off while we were making up excuses for the deranged killer. Are we back to demonizing Anders for a joke yet?
*fans self* I totally need Cullen riding to my rescue on his nonexistant horse. 
I've been waiting all my life for a spectacularly damaged imaginary slave to come save me from imaginary problems--- WHEN HE CAN'T EVEN SAVE HIMSELF IN GAME. No. That would be retarded. He is a deeply flawed, human character that I find interesting.
Oh God, we're back to the slave thing...
I do think he's cute (I miss his mole...) but I think a lot of the DA males are cute. This hasn't been a problem with killing them when necessary or even spilling over into liking them. Cailan is adorable, charming, has a good voice and I hate him. Also I liked Anders (and Justice) and I still killed him when I felt it became necessary. --- far as the Tranquil solution, that was never Cullen's plan. He tells you there are arguments for it being applied more widely in a tone that suggests he knows reasons for it to--- and he does-- look what happened at Kinloch Hold. Does it make him right for reacting with a human prejudice towards people that hurt him terribly? No. Absolutely not. It does, however, make his attempts at mercy and willingness to watch and not kill potential blood mages even more amazing because he is overcoming this prejudice every time.
I meant in general Cullen seems to be getting a free pass, not you specifically. That said, he supports the Tranquil Solution. A lot of things are left up to interpretation and there's judgment calls to be made. That's not one of them. You're hearing what you want to hear in his response. Walk up to some random person on the street and ask them if they support the holocaust and see if they take a swing at you or make a defensive "there's certainly a case to be made for killing millions of people..."
I can't believe you're playing devil's advocate (almost literally) to that while acting like Anders was trying to raise Wesley with necromancy and attack Aveline with her husband's rotting corpse because he made a joke.
It did happen. We watched it happen. Cullen is not bonkers or roaming the countryside on a personal crusade or Knight-Commander in place of Greagoir. He's recovering and started to feel kindly towards the mages again (which you can choose to encourage or not). Even if you don't, he will still stand up for the pleading mages and still fight Meredith--- so at least part of that is still all him.
Oh, we're giving out cookies for complaining a little bit while committing genocide now?
Actually, you know not of what you speak in my case. The most you could say is that my threshold for being terrified is much higher than your friend likely because I've lived through much worse events than stalking. I have been stalked before by several different people (in my mother's words, I attract creeps. Most of them are only a danger to themselves, thankfully). Of them, only one was the stabbity kind and he went to jail. The others were just lonely. Two became friends when confronted. -- and I hate Titanic. I was dragged to the theatre by my family and spent most of the movie gagging and making excuses that I had to go to the bathroom so I could wander the lobby.
Stalking doesn't mean the guy who picked the same classes as you at junior college. When your kid goes, "that's the guy who was standing outside the playground all day" and you find some half-dissolved tablets at the bottom of your drink, you're either terrified or a honey badger.
Torax just doesn't draw the lines where you do in his support of the Mages. I don't see any reason to be terse with him over it in text even if he annoys you while you read his comments- it doesn't help your point and it won't change his mind.
He quite did draw the lines. He just isn't doing it right now. He'd be involved in the templar-mage debates, always making pro-templar arguments. Which was fine. What wasn't fine was he'd always feel the need to mention he's "actually pro-mage" but he hates the way we stereotype all the templars as the same. I almost bought it, until a topic titled something along the lines of "every single mage in this game is a psychopath" where he came in and promptly fought the good pro-templar fight once again, under a banner of the stereotyping he claimed to hate. I'm not a big fan of pretending to be part of a group only so you can smear them.
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