Rhys Cordelle wrote...
Heh, you think you had it rough, you shoulda seen the intricate mess of relationships that happened to me. First I was flirting shamelessly with Alistair. I absolutely loved him and the way he asked me if I'd ever licked a lamp post was so felic in symbology I was sure we were about to get it on. But no, Alistair is straight :-(
My heart was broken, but eventually I moved on and started kissing Morrigan. I don't generally swing that way, but she's so awesome, and I loved breaking down her emotional barriers. Then I met Zevran and he was so blatantly ready to jump my bones that I couldn't really turn him down. He suggested that Morrigan might not approve, so I had to ask Morrigan if she'd be happy just being my **** hag, a role she seemed to fill very well.
So with two failed relationships behind me I started having regular man love with Zevran, until I discovered a console command to enable Alistairs romance even if you're male. *gasp* How could I not do it?! Suddenly my original fantasy was about to be fulfilled, but not until Alistair made me tell Zevran to take a hike. Zevran took the news fairly well, though I took a -30 hit to his approval rating, and then I proceeded to live the dream with Alistair.
That is, until we realised that the best solution was for him to marry the queen. Oh the pain, oh the jealousy. We got all the way to the landsmeet and then I just couldn't do it. I declared Alistair king and had the **** queen locked away in a tower, as seemed fitting for a jealous lover to do.
So after an intial rejection of my love, followed by two other failed romances, followed by putting him on the throne and finding a way for him to do so without marrying someone else, I'm thinking things are finally going to go right for us. Wrong. Alistair wants a baby, and evidently I can't give him one. Bastard!
Then Morrigan offers me a life saving shag and I gratefully accept. But she has no interest in making this a lasting relationship, oh no. She leaves me too.
Finally I defeat the archdemon and save Ferelden, but I've got no one to have a celebratory shag with afterwards.
Then on my way out of the throne room and on with my life, Zevran stops me and asks if we could live together. Awww. Dear Zevran, I never should have betrayed you.
Oh my, what an intriguing play through you had, I love how you wrote it, it just made me smile and I had to quote it
As for the decision to let your beloved man sleep with Morrigan.. man, I think it was the hardest decision in the game for me, harder than the Redcliffe choices, harder than choosing who to rule Orzammar, harder than letting Anora rule Ferelden.. I mean, as a girl, yeah, I found it tough. I know it's not cheating, but I really like to equate Alistair to my IRL husband because they are sooo much alike and I just couldn't ever do that to my real husband, let alone Alistair.
BUT.. how else are you going to survive the battle and live with Alistair afterwards? It's tough, I mean, technically neither of you is guarunteed to live through the battle anyway (could potentially die before even getting to the Archdemon) so it's not like the ritual is a 100% safety blanket. What cinched the deal for me, was accidently spoiling myself and learning that if you don't do the ritual, Alistair will sacrifice himself (even if you say you will do the sacrificing) and I just can't bear to see that, I freaking cry every time in an RPG when someone sacrifices themselves, especialy a character I am attached to. So pretty much, in my mind, there is no choice.
That said, at least Morrigan isn't in love with him, but I've always wondered if maybe she secretly planned all along for the male Grey Warden for the ritual to always be Alistair. Sure, maybe they don't like each other much, but maybe she secretly has a little crush on him towards the end (because he really grows up a lot over the story and isn't the same guy she met in the Wilds). So, maybe there is nothing there, but in my character's world, she's sitting in the other room while this ritual is going on thinking of all these outlandish possibilities, thinking that Morrigan is really enjoying getting something she wanted and Alistair is totally in the worst situation he could imagine being in and since you're suppose to care about him why do you convince him to do it.. and..argh! The joys of a necessary evil.
I sort of wish there was some dialogue choices with both Morrigan and Alistair afterwards, I would have liked to re-assure Alistair and gone to bed with him before the final battle that we still aren't sure we are going to live through, despite the ritual (and apparently my character's bed got all smothered in the ritual action, did anyone else notice that, they do it in the PC's room!). I was also interested in trying to convince Morrigan to not leave ( we are pretty good friends at this point so I know the ritual isn't a malicious act against me or Alistair) and to express how torn I felt about the whole thing and see if she might have softened up to say "sorry, it was nothing personal" just to reassure my character.
Or maybe I am just thinking about it all way too much.
Modifié par leonia42, 26 novembre 2009 - 03:27 .
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PC dies - ok so who's gonna rebuild Gray Wardens of Ferelden? Yes there's still Alistair left but he followed the PC around like puppy for the whole game + if you took the "responsible" option and make him king he will have a lot of things to do and definitely can't dedicate himself to Gray Wardens full time.
)? I know it has something to do with his sister but I seem to have chosen the wrong dialogue option because nothing eventuated from that and his sister won't open dialogue anymore.
