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Arashi08 wrote...
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Merrill was unbelievably naive. It was like the director said " okay, she's child-like, great. Now turn it up to eleventy and we'll be square."
She is actually a lot like me in many ways. I had a ciscussion with someone else about it back in the DA2 days and we came up with the theory that like me, and the person I was discussing it with as it turned out, Merrill may actually have Asperger's Syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia....perger_Syndrome
Actually I think one of the character designers say they based her personality on Williams Syndrome
http://en.wikipedia....lliams_syndrome
espcially the "Elven" qualities.
As someone who most likely has AS, I thought Merrill might have it too, but she does beem a bit more...social than me somehow...
I thought they said they were basing the elves appearance on Williams syndrome, but whatever. Even though I'm classified as severe, I can still be very social on occasion. Not saying you're wrong, just that it could be both.
She just seems more outgoing overall than someone with AS, at least in the sense of basing a character's personality on it. Plus she is alot more trusting and talkative than one would expect, especially from Dalish elves. She pretty much tries to get along with everyone, she doesn't even stay mad at Hawke for very long if you don't give her the Dalish tool. To me those don't seem like AS symptoms, except maybe her obsession with the Eluvian (sp) and blood magic and such, but that is too subtle since it could simply be attributed to her desire to help her people.
Not saying you're wrong either, it just seems less like AS to me based on what I know about the two disorders (not that I am an expert by any means mind you.)
I see where you're coming from, but like I said earlier in this thread I'm classified as a severe case of AS, yet I still exhibit the symptoms you presented even though I don't have WS.
Correct, I can be more social in certain situations too so I understand where you're coming from, thought I don't know my own classification, but the point I'm trying to make is: why would you make a character's personality based off AS if said personality is an exception to the rule rather than the standard?
When people think of AS they tend to think of antisocial tendencies because that is a typical symptom associated with AS. Conversely, people with WS are expected to be overly social, which is more of a trait Merril exhibits.
Liara would probably be a better example of basing a character's personality on AS, at least in ME1, due to her difficulty with social interaction, having a harder time conversing and understanding sarcasm and jokes, reluctance in interacting with people, and having a rather self-consuming obsession with the Protheans. Of course, having all these symptoms doesn't mean that she has AS (though having two Asari parents could cause some genetic abnormalities that could be the Asari equivalent.) Still, if you were attempting to relate her personality to one of those two disorders, you would expect her character to be based more on AS than WS based on those aforementioned character traits.
The argument I'm trying to make is that I don't think it makes sense from a character development or storytelling perspective for her to have a personality that could be based on AS but have one of its defining symptoms, the antisocial tendencies, not present, whereas she exhibits more obvious WS symptoms, so having that be what her personality is based on seems more likely.
To me, it would make more sense if the character actually
had AS, and the audience and some other characters knew it, but she isn't stereotypically antisocial, or is more high-functioning than expected when it comes to social interaction. That would show the complexity of the disorder and be an interesting character trait. But what I'm saying is that if a character's personality is intended to be based on the symptoms of a social/genetic disorder, one would expect those symptoms, particularly more generally understood and expected symptoms to be reflected more in the character's personality so that peopel playing the game can look at her and say: "Ya the way she talks/acts reminds me of this certain thing."
Sorry that was soooo long-winded, but I'm better at writing than I am at talking so I tend to get caught up in what I'm trying to say when I write. As opposed to when I talk, where I just try to get the point across as fast as possible lol..
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