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[littlenikki]

LolaLei wrote...

littlenikki wrote...

Shades_Of_Pale wrote...

Lola and R2 that was......That was so awesome! Oh my! Really made me sad and...oh goodness that was fantastic and beautiful! It made a little piece of my heart twinge, lol, oh dear that was wonderful.

Ah! Now I'm afriad to read it!  I mean, I know it's going to be wonderful, but I'm so horrible with stories that make me feel things

Aw go on! 

Mmm...alright I'll do it. You're so very persuasive Lola! 

[LolaLei]

littlenikki wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

littlenikki wrote...

Shades_Of_Pale wrote...

Lola and R2 that was......That was so awesome! Oh my! Really made me sad and...oh goodness that was fantastic and beautiful! It made a little piece of my heart twinge, lol, oh dear that was wonderful.

Ah! Now I'm afriad to read it!  I mean, I know it's going to be wonderful, but I'm so horrible with stories that make me feel things

Aw go on! 

Mmm...alright I'll do it. You're so very persuasive Lola! 

[littlenikki]

LolaLei wrote...

littlenikki wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

littlenikki wrote...

Shades_Of_Pale wrote...

Lola and R2 that was......That was so awesome! Oh my! Really made me sad and...oh goodness that was fantastic and beautiful! It made a little piece of my heart twinge, lol, oh dear that was wonderful.

Ah! Now I'm afriad to read it!  I mean, I know it's going to be wonderful, but I'm so horrible with stories that make me feel things

Aw go on! 

Mmm...alright I'll do it. You're so very persuasive Lola! 

Gah!!! The feels man! THE FEELS!  

I spent the better part after reading that, screaming at my computer "Cheat on that b*tch! Dump her a**!" I'm a horrid, horrid person. In all seriousness, that was absolutely fantastic. The tension between them, the confession of mutual love...


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Modifié par littlenikki, 20 janvier 2013 - 07:05 .

[LolaLei]

I'm glad you like it! Any guesses as to why he's married to a woman he doesn't love?

[littlenikki]

LolaLei wrote...

I'm glad you like it! Any guesses as to why he's married to a woman he doesn't love?

Hmm, well it could've been an arranged marriage? Set in place by his family before he joined the Order, or something like that. 

Ooh, or was it something put in place after the events of the Fereldan Circle of Magi? Something that was either forced, or coerced, upon him to help him better cope with life after being tortured at the hands of blood mages?

[meanieweenie]

Holy crap, littlenikki.... that gif is hilarious! LMVAO!

[littlenikki]

meanieweenie wrote...

Holy crap, littlenikki.... that gif is hilarious! LMVAO!

Loki'd! 

Oh god....how I love that man 

[Newschmoo]

Is that Tom Hiddleston? He was on a really good BBC series last year called the Hollow Crown. He played King Henry V.

[littlenikki]

Newschmoo wrote...

Is that Tom Hiddleston? He was on a really good BBC series last year called the Hollow Crown. He played King Henry V.

Yesum, that's him. I've seem him in pictures of it, but have yet to watch it. It's on my to-do list. 

[LolaLei]

littlenikki wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

I'm glad you like it! Any guesses as to why he's married to a woman he doesn't love?

Hmm, well it could've been an arranged marriage? Set in place by his family before he joined the Order, or something like that. 

Ooh, or was it something put in place after the events of the Fereldan Circle of Magi? Something that was either forced, or coerced, upon him to help him better cope with life after being tortured at the hands of blood mages?

Nope! 

[CuriousArtemis]

Cullen's situation in y'all's fic reminds me of Edward and Elinor Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility; Edward is secretly engaged to Lucy Steele which is keeping him from proposing to Elinor... not because he was coerced into engaging himself to Lucy but just because it was 5 years ago and he was 18 years old and thought he was in love. But then he grows up and realizes she's a shrew lol

[LolaLei]

Nikki: It's even more depressing than that!

Modifié par LolaLei, 20 janvier 2013 - 07:33 .

[Newschmoo]

He's in about three of them, I think. Each one is about two hours long! But the acting's good!

[Newschmoo]

LolaLei wrote...

I'm glad you like it! Any guesses as to why he's married to a woman he doesn't love?

I can only think is has to do with duty/loyalty. I assume it was arranged by his family or she was his brother's betrothed and he died, so he had to take up the mantle (so to speak).

[littlenikki]

LolaLei wrote...

Nikki: It's even more depressing than that!

Nooooooo!

[R2s Muse]

motomotogirl wrote...

Cullen's situation in y'all's fic reminds me of Edward and Elinor Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility; Edward is secretly engaged to Lucy Steele which is keeping him from proposing to Elinor... not because he was coerced into engaging himself to Lucy but just because it was 5 years ago and he was 18 years old and thought he was in love. But then he grows up and realizes she's a shrew lol

I like this idea, that people change and you'll end up loving many people, in many ways at different times. Then, true love really just about timing. Sounds unromantic saying it that way... but I think it's cool! LOL

[CuriousArtemis]

R2s Muse wrote...

I like this idea, that people change and you'll end up loving many people, in many ways at different times. Then, true love really just about timing. Sounds unromantic saying it that way... but I think it's cool! LOL

Yeah that's the thing about Austen; she puts her characters in really realistic and often tragic circumstances, but luckily she does always give us that happy (or mostly happy) ending lol

I left a review of y'all's story; it was awesome and kind of made me want to smack Cullen lol

Modifié par motomotogirl, 20 janvier 2013 - 07:47 .

[CuriousArtemis]

Newschmoo wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

I'm glad you like it! Any guesses as to why he's married to a woman he doesn't love?

I can only think is has to do with duty/loyalty. I assume it was arranged by his family or she was his brother's betrothed and he died, so he had to take up the mantle (so to speak).

Oh, OH! In S&S there's also Colonel Brandon, who loved a girl named Beth, but Beth was instead engaged to Brandon's older brother because Brandon was only a second son and would not inherit.

So maybe for Cullen it was an inheritence thing; maybe she loved someone else but her family insisted she go to his family... which would require Cullen's past being fleshed out even more, and presumably this engagement and marriage was made before he became a templar...

[littlenikki]

Hey guys, I'm going to start Livestreaming our Dragon Age playthrough again. Come on down and watch!

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[Shades_Of_Pale]

I honestly can't think of anything different than what everyone else said.....unless his wife is some sort of demon he has made a deal with because of his lonliness....

[LolaLei]

LOL ok I'll tell you guys why.

Basically, he married his wife because he felt like there was something missing in his life, something that he presumed must be companionship. Since he'd emotionally closed himself off for years after his PTSD etc (and despite realising with age that his "thing" for Amell was just a crush) he had never met any other woman of such caliber who had grabbed his attention in the same (or bigger) way.

Over the years he came to the conclusion that the notion of romance and "true love" was just fanciful fiction and presumed that he was incapable of ever finding or being truly in love. Somewhere towards the end of DA2 he decides to marry the first woman to come along that he deems suitable marriage material (at the advice of Meredith), doing so because he felt pressured into settling down. His wife is pretty in an ordinary "unremarkable" way and is your sterotypical non-offensive wall-flower/home maker type of girl who heavily relies on Cullen to be the man of the house/bread winner. Although he is fond of her, he's never been in love with her; neither he or his wife really have anything in common and she has no real passions of interests to speak of beyond Orlesian fashions and the latest scandalous gossip. 

Cullen joins the protagonist in her crusade to do whatever it is we'll be doing in DA3, during which time he finds himself opening up and subsequently falling for our new protagonist because she's strong, brave, decisive, free spirited and a remarkable woman- not at all like his wife. His adventures with our protagonist 'n' co is the first time he's ever really been free from stiffling rules, duties and regulations, thus allowing him relax and be himself instead of the formal regimented "Templar Cullen" he's been for so long. That's when he realises the thing he'd been missing in his life wasn't so much companionship but the DA3 protagonist herself. (D'awwww!)

Modifié par LolaLei, 20 janvier 2013 - 08:03 .

[LolaLei]

LOL I think I'm liking all your ideas better, but that's the basic idea I had behind his reason for marriage when we were writing the story.

[Newschmoo]

motomotogirl wrote...


Oh, OH! In S&S there's also Colonel Brandon, who loved a girl named Beth, but Beth was instead engaged to Brandon's older brother because Brandon was only a second son and would not inherit.

So maybe for Cullen it was an inheritence thing; maybe she loved someone else but her family insisted she go to his family... which would require Cullen's past being fleshed out even more, and presumably this engagement and marriage was made before he became a templar...

I really like Colonel Brandon as a character.  That was a really tragic story, as she didn't have a good end.  I love a bit of Austen.

Re Cullen, if that was his background, it would be interesting (particularly his family background) but really sad.

[R2s Muse]

Shades_Of_Pale wrote...

I honestly can't think of anything different than what everyone else said.....unless his wife is some sort of demon he has made a deal with because of his lonliness....

Oh man, I love this!

/watch out! plot bunny!

[Shades_Of_Pale]

Thats cool! And sad! Oh Lola, why do you have to really hit me in the feels?? Poor Cullen.

The whole time in your story I just wanted to somehow jump in and assassinate his 'wife' and then proceeded to complain about how stupid he was for just not jumping on the protag. but then, it just made me love him more to know that if he has a commitment he will stick to it and honor it.