frostajulie wrote...
... but not once did my so called friends ever ask about my life, my trials, my hardships then my supposed love has the nerve to sound upset that I had never mentioned that I had been married.
Wynn does. Wynn inquires about your past and shows sympathy over what led to you becoming a warden. When my city elf told her about Vaughn, you could see the horror in her eyes at what he did and the sympathy she felt for my character in her voice. Which pretty much means kudos to the writers, voice actor and graphic artists.
And as for strong romanceable leads... looking at their character history, looking at what they're going through now and looking at the world around them, I think both Alistair and Morrigan are pretty strong in the first place.
Sure, Morrigan is self-absorbed and manipulative. She's out for what benefits her and the party by association. But look at the environment she was raised in. I can guarantee she never met her father. There was no warmth, no tenderness in her upbringing from Flemeth. The two of them were constantly hunted by Templars, big scary men in big scary armor who wanted to kill them for reasons she couldn't understand as a child and what look to be bad ones when she could understand. So living a life constantly hunted, with no emotional support, of course she'd grow up looking out for number one. She's all sorts of strong and vulnerable, hard and soft.
As for Alistair, you'd probably have to be severely emotionally damaged to remain confident all the damn time, especially considering what Alistair has been through. The two main people who he looked up to, one abandoned him to the Chantry, and the other who he looks up to as a father just recently died. His father just died. The fact that he can still joke around occasionally and swing a sword is a miracle. Sure he complains, sure he shows moments of vulnerability: but he admits that he should be holding himself together better and tries. Admittedly he wants your sympathy, but you can still tell him to suck it up and he will. And he never balks. He might not have known what to do in the beginning, but he knew he had to do something. He might not know what to do when he fell in love with your female PC, but he knew he had to do something. That's more than what a lot of people out there are capable of.
If you want a character 100% confident character, who's aggressive at all the right times and knows when to give in at all the right times, Bioware will not deliver. Because that kind of person isn't real and it's up to you to play that kind of infallible character. Instead, they'll deliver characters with flaws and vulnerabilities, but who still are willing to spit in the face of death and the huge odds against them. I think that's strong.
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Maybe a female elf aswell?
