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[VampOrchid]

I'm thinking, years have passed. So Cullen has grown in character. Specially now being the Knight Captain, he has more responsibilities. So he's more mature and more in control of himself. Going out a lone to hunt down someone you thought was an abomination. Now that's determination. Even the way he talks when handing you a reward for saving that templar...can't remember his name...Cullen's body language and attitude is refreshing.

I loved him in DAO and in DA2. I'm sure with having to have go against the Knight Commander and his ordeal in Kinloch has given his character strength, but also made him tired. He might have just had enough with the order by then. So there are so many opportunities for some great stories and conversations with him, depending on the options and dialogue your main would choose.

Things that might also come into factor, might be if you played as Amell in DAO and died saving Ferelden. I think that might have an effect on him. Weather your Hawke was with or against the templars in DA2. If your Hawke was a mage and sided with them, might show him that not all mages are the same and some can be trusted...

I'm hoping that he's in DA3, but I won't get my hopes up too high. I will wait patiently. The longer the game takes to come out, the more promising it might be. Maybe with the possibility of having Cullen in there. I just want him to be well written and not die lol

[LolaLei]

I think if DA3 continues down the mage/templar route it's a high possibility that he'd be a companion, maybe he was sent away to where ever the new game is set to help deal with the mage problem out there, or maybe the events of Kirkwall sent him over the edge and he decided to go rouge or whatever, the beauty of his character is he could go either way.

[R2s Muse]

I definitely think it would be nice to see Cullen get to come full circle in DA3. After his epiphany at the end of DA2 about his own vision of the Order, perhaps we could finally see someone  in the DA universe champion a reasonable view about mage-templar relations instead of the more histrionic extremes we've seen. What did DG call him, the voice of reason? Yup. QFT.

I like that he's definitely matured from his DA:O naivete, but I also think it would be cute to still see a bit of stuttering when it comes to the ladies. For example, I still see him being completely oblivious to the legion of drooling adoring fans he must have throughout Kirkwall.

But, a 30-something year old virgin? I agree that perhaps it would be more interesting (in a been-there-done-that-with-Alistair sort of way) for him to not be a virgin, but just never having been in love. Despite whatever vows they take, you know the Blooming Rose must get a lot of templar customers... I could actually see him having, like, a regular appointment with someone who he likes & trusts, in some kind of non-tawdry arrangement. Hmm... plot bunny...?

[R2s Muse]

D'oh - and Jakface has posted her Hotties of Thedas calendar pic for April. For those without Cullen already gracing your wall, enjoy!

"DA2 - April Showers brings.... wet Cullen"  by enerjak

Modifié par R2s Muse, 03 avril 2012 - 03:31 .

[LolaLei]

Lol our next PC: "Chesty La Rue" former employee of The Blooming Rose :-D

[LolaLei]

R2s Muse wrote...

D'oh - and Jakface has posted her Hotties of Thedas calendar pic for April. For those without Cullen already gracing your wall, enjoy!

"DA2 - April Showers brings.... wet Cullen"  by enerjak

Oooo it's like flash dance!

[R2s Muse]

LolaLei wrote...

R2s Muse wrote...

D'oh - and Jakface has posted her Hotties of Thedas calendar pic for April. For those without Cullen already gracing your wall, enjoy!

"DA2 - April Showers brings.... wet Cullen"  by enerjak

Oooo it's like flash dance!

LOL - it is! I finally had to ask her what he's doing... Yup, getting more wet.

[R2s Muse]

LolaLei wrote...

Lol our next PC: "Chesty La Rue" former employee of The Blooming Rose :-D

OMG, didn't see this at first. LMAO  Chesty FTW!

On a more serious note, hmm, that would actually be an interesting story if he fell in love with someone like that, given his probably prurient upbringing. Unlikely for a PC to have such... colorful, LI-specific issues, but in general, it would be nice for both halves of the couple to have issues instead of the PC being the "fixer."

[LolaLei]

R2s Muse wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

Lol our next PC: "Chesty La Rue" former employee of The Blooming Rose :-D

OMG, didn't see this at first. LMAO  Chesty FTW!

On a more serious note, hmm, that would actually be an interesting story if he fell in love with someone like that, given his probably prurient upbringing. Unlikely for a PC to have such... colorful, LI-specific issues, but in general, it would be nice for both halves of the couple to have issues instead of the PC being the "fixer."

Lol I'm glad you liked that!

Maybe even have the PC been treated badly by templars in the past so when Cullen kicks off about the mages the PC (especially if also a mage) can go into his/her own little rant about poor treatment at the hands of the templars etc.

Modifié par LolaLei, 03 avril 2012 - 06:45 .

[Laelyn]

Hi everyone! <3
It's a shame, I didn't even know there's a thread for Cullen! So I'm kinda late to the party, but I still feel the urgent need to express my utter love for him
He's my favorite NPC by far, has been since DAO. My Amell had quite the crush on him, and my Hawkes were completely distracted by him whenever they entered the Gallows. Here's hoping he will be an LI in DA3, not only because he's gorgous, but mostly because he would surely make for a hell of an interesting party member. Especially if DA3's plot revolves a lot around the mage/templar-conflict, which I think is more than likely.

[Lilaeth]

He was my hero by the end of DA2, so I'll be very disappointed if he's not in DA3.

[LolaLei]

The more I think about it the more I'm glad Cullen wasn't a companion/LI in DA2, partly because the game didn't feel epic enough to be able to fully explore his personality etc so his issues with mages etc would have been "solved" too quickly and the romance would have felt cheapened due to the flirt/flirt/kiss/shag/kiss approach. Also I hated female Hawkes voice, it grated on me something rotten and since I plan to make a second version of myself to romance Cullen (like I did with my Warden when she romanced Alistair) it would have been irritating for me a little because I find playing fem Hawke really annoying so my main canon is always male in DA2 lol.

I'm thinking (hoping) DA3 will feel bigger and more epic with more places to visit, thus giving all the characters more time to grow and expand personality wise, giving us more options to explore relationships etc (like in DA:O.)


... Also I want my new PC to be able to shag him outside... in the rain. LOL!

Modifié par LolaLei, 04 avril 2012 - 07:35 .

[VampOrchid]

I'm liking that they made Cullen a shield and sword Warrior in DA2, that was a nice surprise. And I like the changes they made to the templar uniform.

[LolaLei]

So I was thinking about whether or not they should make Cullen a virgin again, obviously they've already done the whole virgin templar thing with Alistair soooo I reckon that Cullen should tell the new PC in DA3 that he has a little experience with women and that he had one or two encounters after DA:O between becoming Knight Captain in Kirkwall inorder to try and get Amell out of his head (if we played as a mage Warden.)

Modifié par LolaLei, 04 avril 2012 - 09:59 .

[meanieweenie]

LolaLei wrote...

So I was thinking about whether or not they should make Cullen a virgin again, obviously they've already done the whole virgin templar thing with Alistair soooo I reckon that Cullen should tell the new PC in DA3 that he has a little experience with women and that he had one or two encounters after DA:O between becoming Knight Captain in Kirkwall in order to try and get Amell out of his head (if we played as a mage Warden.)

Please no more virgins! There should be enough fodder for good story lines without having to address this. Little experience is fine. It goes with my whole "take charge kinda guy" fantasy that I've conjured for myself.

[LolaLei]

meanieweenie wrote...

LolaLei wrote...

So I was thinking about whether or not they should make Cullen a virgin again, obviously they've already done the whole virgin templar thing with Alistair soooo I reckon that Cullen should tell the new PC in DA3 that he has a little experience with women and that he had one or two encounters after DA:O between becoming Knight Captain in Kirkwall in order to try and get Amell out of his head (if we played as a mage Warden.)

Please no more virgins! There should be enough fodder for good story lines without having to address this. Little experience is fine. It goes with my whole "take charge kinda guy" fantasy that I've conjured for myself.

I had completely forgotten that they'd already done the whole virgin templar thing with Alistair until earlier... because he'd only been an initiate and didn't behave like a templar it completely slipped my mind, so I think Bioware will probably take the following route with Cullen's back story regarding past "romantic experiences":

Cullen will get to know the new PC in DA3 and start to have feelings for her blah blah blah, eventually they'll have "the talk" and he will confess that he's had very little experience with women but the one or two encounters he has had occured after the events of DA:O and between becoming Knight Captain in Kirkwall. The experiences were purely a physical thing in an attempt to get the mage Amell out of his head during a drunken self pitying phase (if we played as a mage Warden) IF you didn't play as a female mage then he'd say something like he'd had one or two encounters, purely physical to ease his loneliness and that he's never been in love because he was scared of getting to close to someone in fear of losing them or never found the time to attempt dating, y'know something like that.

As for the romance scene between Cullen and the PC, I'd hope it would be very sweet but very heated/intense. My head canon is that he'd finally let himself go completely and allow himself to be fully taken over by his emotions/desires so the scene would be very passionate, like he can't hold back any longer (kinda like how Isabela practically jumps Hawke in the DA2 romance scene sort of thing.) If the PC is a mage then there would be an extra scene where her magic is flaring throughout or she uses it to pull him close and he'd let her use her magic even though he's wary because he has come to trust the PC implicitly. I think the romance scene should take place outside of the bedroom though, either al fresco or in whatever room they happen to be in at the time. I found the bedroom scenes in DA2 to be pretty dull in comparison to DA:O, Hawke had a whole house to "play" in, why restrict it to the bedroom with every single LI... I could see a character like Merrill being more inclined to do it somewhere safe and out of sight because she's shy and innocent but companions like Isabela or Fenris strike me as the type to just go for it where they stand, in the heat of the moment.

Modifié par LolaLei, 04 avril 2012 - 11:00 .

[VampOrchid]

Well they did that thing with Seb....

[LolaLei]

VampOrchid wrote...

Well they did that thing with Seb....

Did they? I've never tried romancing him so I'm not sure what he's like romance arc wise.

[VampOrchid]

Oh well you have to! I love all the chantry boys now...Alistair, Cullen, Sebastian...

[LolaLei]

VampOrchid wrote...

Oh well you have to! I love all the chantry boys now...Alistair, Cullen, Sebastian...

You don't get sexy time with Seb do you? Even if you agree to marry him it's a sex-less one right?

[meanieweenie]

I'm going to be shamefully honest... I didn't bother with Seb because I knew there was no payout.

[LolaLei]

meanieweenie wrote...

I'm going to be shamefully honest... I didn't bother with Seb because I knew there was no payout.

LMAO! Awesome!

[meanieweenie]

Seriously, sometimes us sad lonely house fraus need some lovin'. No time for little boys who don't know what they want. LOL

[R2s Muse]

VampOrchid wrote...

Oh well you have to! I love all the chantry boys now...Alistair, Cullen, Sebastian...

^This. Ah, still loved the Seb romance even without payout. Realistically there was little in game, but in my head... it still worked. My canon Hawke who crushed on Cullen was a Seb romance playthrough... she then ended up with Cullen after Seb went to retake Starkhaven, poor dear.

[R2s Muse]

meanieweenie wrote...

Seriously, sometimes us sad lonely house fraus need some lovin'. No time for little boys who don't know what they want. LOL

LOL - understandable. It was hard during my Seb romance not to succumb to Fenris puppyeyes or Anders nomnomnom. That's where Cullen came in... quick trip to the Gallows to fangirl, and I was good.