R2s Muse wrote...
Batteries wrote...
*So, he like, watches the Female Mage Warden sleep? Creepy.
-Probably at some point. A templar’s job is to constantly watch the mages in the tower at all times; having stalker like tendencies is pretty much required to do their job.
I don't think I'd agree with this characterization of templars as stalkers. While I know that Sheryl Chee said that, she later recanted her characterization of Cullen as a stalker. I think it would be better to just say that watching is their job. That's not the same as stalking.
Yeah, can we maybe not go there with the stalkers thing? I don't mean to be That Guy, but please remember that caretaking jobs looking after people who have to be watched day and night for their safety and the safety of others are
not restricted to the realms of fiction. As someone who has one of those jobs, it's not a characterization I'm very comfortable with.
Most of us don't do it because it's super fun to invade people's privacy. (It's not.) I realize that it's hard to understand looking in from the outside and just seeing the oddness of it, but genuinely caring about the people we're responsible for means doing what's necessary to keep them safe. If that means parking my chair by someone's bed for the night... well, it is what it is.
I am not even a little bit offended and I do call myself a stalker
as a joke, but something like an FAQ is intended for a wider audience and not everyone is going to get that it's tongue-in-cheek. I wouldn't want that comment to be taken in ways not intended, is all.

*goes to hide in the bushes outside your house and peer in your windows*
Elfman wrote...
User:
What do you think about the mixed reaction to Cullen lately? Would that ever affect him being in DAI? I like him.
Mike Laidlaw @Mike_Laidlaw:
The best characters evoke reactions.
<3
Is all I have to say about that.
Modifié par TreeHuggerHannah, 17 février 2014 - 08:39 .