R2s Muse wrote...
I didn't get the impression he was hinting anything about the future. Just saying we're extrapolating too far for what we've seen up to this point, which apparently he doesn't think is enough for our 20pg essays. .. Yeah, still smarting a bit.
Anyhoo, maybe you've already seen, but cullypie was a the subject of a dragonageconfessions today. http://dragonageconf...ost/32208059198
That seems a little bit too much of a blanket statement for we Cullen fans, I think. We don't sit and make stuff up about him. We discuss what we know has happened and how that could have affected him. So I think it's not accurate for any dev to say we make stuff up. I mean, Cullen's time spent being tortured by Uldred's abominations may not have been shown but we know it happened and can debate what that may have been like for him, what he thought, how he felt, etc. That alone is worth a 20 page essay.
I think it speaks highly of us to not just take what we're given and roll with it. Instead we try to understand the things we didn't see ourselves. I thought that was what a good game is supposed to do. I know when I played table top RPGs, my friends and I would have long discussion about why a character was the way they were and how such a person with 'X' type of personality would handle it. We all do that with our PCs. We pick a "theme" for how we play our warden's and Hawke's and run that as the canon for the playthrough. I'v done it as hardcore Templar and now as balls-to-the-wall mage revolutionary who's in the thick of it with Anders. It only makes sense for players who get so much value out of the games to analyze and think about the world they're playing in.
So, therfore, we take the events that we know of and ask ourselves what that might have been like. If they wanted to have Cullen be seen in a certain way, they didn't stick to the course well enough. If he was supposed to be mage-friendly and a revolution supporter - they failed... If he was supposed to be creepy, they didn't stick to that. Holding judgment over us for liking a character that's "rumored" to be creepy has no basis when the sole moment of this was in the beginning when it becomes clear he has a crush on the PC. And the way it's done doesn't strike me as creepy. If he'd been like "I watched you during your Harrowing... You're so beautiful when you sleep..." I would have found that creepy. Instead I found his crush endearing because he's doing his job and flustered about it. He didn't try to impose himself on my PC so I didn't take his attention to be creepy. So they failed to make him creepy enough. Now Alrik... he was creepy!
Lastly, the renewed hatred of mages that's supposed to make him the zealous Templar was what they began with Act 1 of DA2 and they didn't stick to that. I've chosen to interpret this as his growth as a character, rather than the devs not being able to decide what to do with them. So. I either want him to be killable or have his arc solved once and for all. I want to know who he is. So far all signs point to him being a decent guy that sometimes does the not so moral thing because it's his duty and he's a soldier who's expected to follow orders. It's also likely the only life he's known so his moral compass was made to point where the Chantry wanted it to. That he comes to his own conclusion of right and wrong is a big deal for someone who was indoctrinated into the Order.
If you've ever seen Stargate sg-1, example that comes to mind is Teal'c. He's a jaffa warrior who was born and raised under the thumb of a false god and who did countless wrong things because his indoctrination told him it was right. He didn't overcome the bonds of his enslavement until he was older and he had help. Plus he was forever dealing with the things he suffered both as a victim and as the aggressor who was now wracked with guilt. He was directly responsible for taking Daniel's wife from her home and thus is to blame for her fate, which included being made a prisoner in her own mind by a Gao'uld symbiote, and being raped and impregnated by Teal'c's god, Apophis and then nearly killed her own husband, Daniel while under the symbiote's control, which led to her death by Teal'c's hand. Teal'c has to live with a lot! His own family and fellow soldiers spitting on his name and calling him a traitor wasn't exactly a walk in the park either. But guess what? He's a pretty popular character. You can point to his past and go "What about that?" and most of his fans would say "Oh but he changed sides!" We didn't get to see all of us trials, but we know they happened and he's given a free pass because he changed sides.
Cullen just hasn't done this yet. Seeing what he does next is why we're all interested because if it was obvious what he's supposed to be, we'd probably have nothing to discuss. I know I, as a gamer, would have less reason to re-play the games if we knew everything. I don't have a head canon fo Cullen. I think of the possibilities and try to see if I can figure him out.
Modifié par SamaraDraven, 25 septembre 2012 - 04:40 .
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I haven't been a part of it in so long. It just changed so much since ME3 was released and everyone I knew disappeared from it.
