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[LolaLei]

[Battlebloodmage]

I love this picture of Maeveris. She looks amazing. Unfortunately, her creation was too late for her to be included as a companion, but I would have love to have her in the party. She's pretty awesome in the comic.

[LolaLei]

I'm gutted we can't have her as a party member, she would've been one of my favourites and I've yet to find a woman in-game that's taken on the "buddy I want to get rat arsed with" role.

[Battlebloodmage]

Gaider stated that he's not done with her yet, so there is hope that we can either see her make cameo appearance with Varric or appearances in the comics or even the next game. Seeing as many people have positive reception of her, I hope we get to see more of her in other places. While I don't have anything against Lelianna or Merill, I tend to like strong and confident female characters like Maevaris and Aveline.

Modifié par Battlebloodmage, 23 juin 2013 - 06:13 .

[LolaLei]

Agreed. While I don't dislike Leliana at all, I preferred her in the Leliana's song DLC because she was more feisty and I liked the rapport her and Marjolaine had whilst they were lovers.

[LolaLei]

Wouldn't it be cool if DAI had DLC like Leliana's song, one for each companion, during which you'd get to play as each companion going through their own personal story/situation prior to meeting the new protagonist. It wouldn't even need to be particularly long either.

They could do them as a special marketing/publicity thing and release one a week prior to the games release in the shops.

[Battlebloodmage]

Seeing as how low the sales for DLCs of companions' story often are, I don't see them making more anytime soon. I do like your idea though. That would be a good way of building up the hype. I kinda want Cullen's storyline to happen in prison (a little S&M j/k). My vision of Cullen is that he's an exile templar. As much as I like Varric, I hope we get to see new characters instead of the same exact companion in the next game.

[LolaLei]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

Seeing as how low the sales for DLCs of companions' story often are, I don't see them making more anytime soon. I do like your idea though. That would be a good way of building up the hype. I kinda want Cullen's storyline to happen in prison (a little S&M j/k). My vision of Cullen is that he's an exile templar. As much as I like Varric, I hope we get to see new characters instead of the same exact companion in the next game.

If they made them short enough they could sell them extra cheap. Or they could do little machinima style videos for all the companions depicting their story/situation then put them up for free on the website for people to watch, kinda like that one a bunch of fans done for Fenris based on the short story the writers wrote for each companion in DA2.

[Battlebloodmage]

Yeah, that would be nice if they release short videos. It wouldn't cost too much. My personal preference would be that they release it in the form of comics. They would generate extra buzz by releasing companions related storyline as well as allowing Mr. Gaider not to rush the storyline to fit it in the videos or DLC since the costs and the risks would be a lot lower for comics. These comics book could tie together to the main plot, leading up the the part where we encounter them in the game.

[LolaLei]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

Yeah, that would be nice if they release short videos. It wouldn't cost too much. My personal preference would be that they release it in the form of comics. They would generate extra buzz by releasing companions related storyline as well as allowing Mr. Gaider not to rush the storyline to fit it in the videos or DLC since the costs and the risks would be a lot lower for comics. These comics book could tie together to the main plot, leading up the the part where we encounter them in the game.

Yeah, I'd actually buy those!

I'm sure they've got something similar planned since they usually do something entertaining to introduce the companions in each game.

[Chanda]

Can we talk about Mae? I really don't know that much about her. She's a transgender woman, so that means that she used to be a man, right? (And here is where my ignorance will show and hopefully I won't offend anyone.) Is she a man that just dresses like a woman? Or did she have parts removed? Or did she drink a magic potion and it turned her into a woman?

[CuriousArtemis]

Chanda wrote...

Can we talk about Mae? I really don't know that much about her. She's a transgender woman, so that means that she used to be a man, right? (And here is where my ignorance will show and hopefully I won't offend anyone.) Is she a man that just dresses like a woman? Or did she have parts removed? Or did she drink a magic potion and it turned her into a woman?

If she's transgender, she's a woman, period.

I'm not sure what she is biologically speaking... not sure he goes into that...?? Not sure it's my business, haha 

[CuriousArtemis]

LolaLei wrote...

Wouldn't it be cool if DAI had DLC like Leliana's song, one for each companion, during which you'd get to play as each companion going through their own personal story/situation prior to meeting the new protagonist. It wouldn't even need to be particularly long either.

They could do them as a special marketing/publicity thing and release one a week prior to the games release in the shops.

 That would be awesome. They should hire you for marketing  Seriously, they need a cool way to introduce us to the companions. I'm hoping for something minimally more exciting than a simple announcement.

[Chanda]

motomotogirl wrote...

Chanda wrote...

Can we talk about Mae? I really don't know that much about her. She's a transgender woman, so that means that she used to be a man, right? (And here is where my ignorance will show and hopefully I won't offend anyone.) Is she a man that just dresses like a woman? Or did she have parts removed? Or did she drink a magic potion and it turned her into a woman?

If she's transgender, she's a woman, period.

I'm not sure what she is biologically speaking... not sure he goes into that...?? Not sure it's my business, haha 

I guess what I'm asking is how do you become a transgender in a medieval world where there are no plastic surgeons or hormones that you can take in order to change your body? 

[Battlebloodmage]

Chanda wrote...

Can we talk about Mae? I really don't know that much about her. She's a transgender woman, so that means that she used to be a man, right? (And here is where my ignorance will show and hopefully I won't offend anyone.) Is she a man that just dresses like a woman? Or did she have parts removed? Or did she drink a magic potion and it turned her into a woman?

A man who dresses as a woman is a cross-dresser which has nothing to do with transgender people. As for the parts removed, I don't know since I don't believe he goes into that in the comic. As motomotogirl said, she's a woman period. She's not a man who dress like a woman or a a man who wants to be a woman. She's simply a woman. As Gaider wanted Mae to have a non-curvy body type during the design phase, I don't think there is such a potion to turn people into the other gender. 

Modifié par Battlebloodmage, 23 juin 2013 - 09:45 .

[R2s Muse]

motomotogirl wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

Wouldn't it be cool if DAI had DLC like Leliana's song, one for each companion, during which you'd get to play as each companion going through their own personal story/situation prior to meeting the new protagonist. It wouldn't even need to be particularly long either.

They could do them as a special marketing/publicity thing and release one a week prior to the games release in the shops.

 That would be awesome. They should hire you for marketing  Seriously, they need a cool way to introduce us to the companions. I'm hoping for something minimally more exciting than a simple announcement.

That would be sweet. I hope at the very least they do short stories again, or something. They def need to jazz up their marketing roll out from here on in.

[R2s Muse]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

I love this picture of Maeveris. She looks amazing. Unfortunately, her creation was too late for her to be included as a companion, but I would have love to have her in the party. She's pretty awesome in the comic.

Love her. Love this pic. Love to see her again.

Of course she's already a snazzy dresser in the comics, but this outfit makes me think she could fit in in Val Royeaux, say, in the new book?? Although I would expect her to show up in a DG penned product instead.

[neonmoth]

Chanda wrote...

Can we talk about Mae? I really don't know that much about her. She's a transgender woman, so that means that she used to be a man, right? (And here is where my ignorance will show and hopefully I won't offend anyone.) Is she a man that just dresses like a woman? Or did she have parts removed? Or did she drink a magic potion and it turned her into a woman?

I am not an authority in this matter but I'll make an attempt. First you have to differentiate between sex (physical characteristics) and gender (social roles/how you identify yourself). The term "trans" implies change, going beyond, hence there is no overlap between the two - sex&gender (as opposed to "cis" where there is), and you can have two possible scenarios: being transsexual, i.e. when you are changing your sex to match your gender identity, or being transgender, when you keep your biological sex but your gender identity is changing, i.e. you were assigned male sex at birth but you identify yourself as female, and that's the way you behave, dress etc. You can see that Mae is not just dressing as a female, she identifies herself as a female, and for that she does not need to undergo any physical change. Hope it makes sense

I agree that Mae is a great character and I so would wish for her to appear maybe as a temporary companion or at least a quest giving npc. And I also love this picture of Mae, thanks for posting it BBM :happy:

[LolaLei]

Is Mae actually from Tervinter? Or did she just move there?

[Scroll]

Hey, how are you all doing? I just re-read Silent Grove, Those who Speak and Until we sleep. Love Mae! Hope we see more of her in the future.

Been celebrating midsummer, recording a Let's Play Leliana's Song and soon going to see Startreck. Anything to keep my mind off DAI. xD

[JediBeagle]

Scr0ll wrote...

Hey, how are you all doing? I just re-read Silent Grove, Those who Speak and Until we sleep. Love Mae! Hope we see more of her in the future.

Been celebrating midsummer, recording a Let's Play Leliana's Song and soon going to see Startreck. Anything to keep my mind off DAI. xD

Nice to hear someone else is celebrating midsummer too!  

[R2s Muse]

LolaLei wrote...

Is Mae actually from Tervinter? Or did she just move there?

The comics do not say, except that she is a magister officially recognized by the Imperial Senate in Tevinter. I would guess that means she's from there... but I don't know what it takes to be recognized.

[Tinu]

We're going to buy a new pc (well my parents are). I wonder how far we'll have to go in order to play DA:I at high quality...

[R2s Muse]

TinuHawke wrote...

We're going to buy a new pc (well my parents are). I wonder how far we'll have to go in order to play DA:I at high quality...

Mmm, no kidding. Ah, for system specs! Always seems that you never get those til the bitter end.

[LolaLei]