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[TheBlackBaron]

Would it prove IT?

[Volus Warlord]

TheBlackBaron wrote...

Would it prove IT?

It would certainly prove Infatuation Theory, which is that forumites value 20-second /fade to black "romances" over story or gameplay.

[C9316]

Why not? Apparently you can screw robots in the future, might as well be able to screw bile spreading monsters.

[tmp7704]

Darkspawn Love Interest was already done*



*) if you know what i mean, wink wink etc.

[panamakira]

So if the idea of making out with a rotting corpse it's not turning you off.....maybe the idea of turning into a ghoul because you got infected by your hot-lover-boy-toy-darkspawn should give you...well another chance to get turned off.

Otherwise. Sure, I don't see why not.

[The Hierophant]

Volus Warlord wrote...

TheBlackBaron wrote...

Would it prove IT?

It would certainly prove Infatuation Theory, which is that forumites value 20-second /fade to black "romances" over story or gameplay.

[sighs]Depressing stuff.[/sighs]

[Bacteriophage]

brushyourteeth wrote...

No no no - I mean, ugh. Okay, if you've read the "The Calling" novel, you know that when the Wardens go into the Deep Roads, it's because they've already started to transform INTO darkspawn. Slowly. They hear the voice of the Archdemon and the taint starts to take over their body. Their skin decays, they start to avoid the light, their bodies slowly rot, and their hair falls out. It isn't pretty. That's why they head into the Deep Roads - to take down as many darkspawn as they can while they're still themselves, and probably die in battle, in a place where no one can see what's happening to them. It's like Larius in the "Legacy" expansion. He was probably handsome once.

If you had a Grey Warden LI who began the whole "Calling" process and you had to deal with that as his/her lover... that could be interesting. And not like romancing a darkspawn, but still with some of those issues and taboos. Because it's still gross, and it's still contagious. But it'd be someone you can legitimately love without it being... a creature of pure evil and barftasticness.

I like this. It works as a subversion of the standard Bioware romance story. And it might fit into the plot of Inquisition depending on how they do it. At the beginning of the game you and your Grey Warden lover/spouse tearfully part ways. They go on their Calling, but they're good, really good. They keep killing and not dying untill their mind succums to the taint and they truly transform. THEN you have to face them later on in the game... when you might be in the middle of a new relationship... do you have the strength to put them down?

I'm a little surprised, though, that noone has brought up 'Beautey and the Beast'. It seems to me that a big part of any possible Awakened darkspawn romance would lay heavily in the territory of finding the inner beauty of a person beneath their outward monstrosity.

[Kaiser Shepard]

Volus Warlord wrote...

TheBlackBaron wrote...

Would it prove IT?

It would certainly prove Infatuation Theory, which is that forumites value 20-second /fade to black "romances" over story or gameplay.

I thought that was the Intoxication Theory...

[Hey]

I could see hooking up with the architect if things were different.

[CrazyRah]

This LI intrigues me, so much potential!

[Pedrak]

Bacteriophage wrote...

brushyourteeth wrote...


If you had a Grey Warden LI who began the whole "Calling" process and you had to deal with that as his/her lover... that could be interesting. And not like romancing a darkspawn, but still with some of those issues and taboos. Because it's still gross, and it's still contagious. But it'd be someone you can legitimately love without it being... a creature of pure evil and barftasticness.

I like this. It works as a subversion of the standard Bioware romance story. And it might fit into the plot of Inquisition depending on how they do it. At the beginning of the game you and your Grey Warden lover/spouse tearfully part ways. They go on their Calling, but they're good, really good. They keep killing and not dying untill their mind succums to the taint and they truly transform. THEN you have to face them later on in the game... when you might be in the middle of a new relationship... do you have the strength to put them down?

Pulling a Lucy on the players (bravo to the first one who gets the reference) could be good.
Romancing a full-fledged Darkspawn - well, I'm sorry but I can't see it working. I suspect it would be exceptionally cheesy and maybe unintentionally hilarious.

[Annihilator27]

Wouldnt be a Bioware forum without "Can we screw it" popping up often.Going to need some strong magic to protect against the taint.

[Inquisitor Recon]

Annihilator27 wrote...
Wouldnt be a Bioware forum without "Can we screw it" popping up often.Going to need some strong magic to protect against the taint.

Actually Duncan did keep telling the PC to "submit yourself to the taint"...

[BouncyFrag]

Annihilator27 wrote...

Wouldnt be a Bioware forum without "Can we screw it" popping up often.Going to need some strong magic to protect against the taint.

Never leave home without it:

[Todd23]

Am I the only one who got turned on by The Mother? A bunch of ****** and tentacles.

[Ice-Whiz]

Bacteriophage wrote...

brushyourteeth wrote...

No no no - I mean, ugh. Okay, if you've read the "The Calling" novel, you know that when the Wardens go into the Deep Roads, it's because they've already started to transform INTO darkspawn. Slowly. They hear the voice of the Archdemon and the taint starts to take over their body. Their skin decays, they start to avoid the light, their bodies slowly rot, and their hair falls out. It isn't pretty. That's why they head into the Deep Roads - to take down as many darkspawn as they can while they're still themselves, and probably die in battle, in a place where no one can see what's happening to them. It's like Larius in the "Legacy" expansion. He was probably handsome once.

If you had a Grey Warden LI who began the whole "Calling" process and you had to deal with that as his/her lover... that could be interesting. And not like romancing a darkspawn, but still with some of those issues and taboos. Because it's still gross, and it's still contagious. But it'd be someone you can legitimately love without it being... a creature of pure evil and barftasticness.

I like this. It works as a subversion of the standard Bioware romance story. And it might fit into the plot of Inquisition depending on how they do it. At the beginning of the game you and your Grey Warden lover/spouse tearfully part ways. They go on their Calling, but they're good, really good. They keep killing and not dying untill their mind succums to the taint and they truly transform. THEN you have to face them later on in the game... when you might be in the middle of a new relationship... do you have the strength to put them down?

I'm a little surprised, though, that noone has brought up 'Beautey and the Beast'. It seems to me that a big part of any possible Awakened darkspawn romance would lay heavily in the territory of finding the inner beauty of a person beneath their outward monstrosity.

As I wrote in my post on the first page, the personality would become the main appeal, instead of the appearance. But I think for many it is not as much about the fact that darkspawn aren't good-looking, it's about what their looks represent: the decay of the body, and the corruption of the mind, it's something that is hard to get past.
Although most people forget one very important aspect: a relationship does NOT have to be physical, and in this case there is a very clear opportunity to write a very intrigueing romance on a purely emotional/intellectual level.
You could consider it something like the case of Morinth in ME2. Pursuing a physical relationship would ultimately lead to death; with a darkspawn, the taint, a slower and much more painful death, would be the risk in having a physical relationship.

[Huntress]

I think the OP knows nothing about darkspawns:
The darkspawn are a race of mostly-humanoid tainted creatures that dwell in the Deep Roads
The darkspawn are perhaps the greatest single threat to all of Thedas; they are bloodthirsty, exceptionally numerous and willing to indiscriminately kill or corrupt all in their path.

The darkspawn horde is connected through the taint, functioning as a hive-mind similar to ants. While high ranking darkspawn (like emissaries or alphas) have a limited influence upon small groups, and the Architect and the Mother also command larger groups, only an Archdemon can command the entire horde.

So having one of them in the group is a certain DEATH sentence for everyone if not Warden and even after becoming a warden drinking darksapwn blood is a slow death process but at the end it is absolute.

Modifié par Huntress, 30 septembre 2012 - 06:12 .

[CARL_DF90]

OP, I just have to say both "EW" and that would be an unhealthy choice of a love interest.

[Kidd]

It'd be very hard to write, but if the writers could pull it off then I don't see why not. It would certainly be interesting =) Never considered good looking polygons to be something an animated characters needs to have to woo another animated character that I'm role playing.

[Villiamus]

Darkspawn are for killing

They aren't for kissing

[Vandicus]

Huntress wrote...



I think the OP knows nothing about darkspawns:
The darkspawn are a race of mostly-humanoid tainted creatures that dwell in the Deep Roads
The darkspawn are perhaps the greatest single threat to all of Thedas; they are bloodthirsty, exceptionally numerous and willing to indiscriminately kill or corrupt all in their path.

The darkspawn horde is connected through the taint, functioning as a hive-mind similar to ants. While high ranking darkspawn (like emissaries or alphas) have a limited influence upon small groups, and the Architect and the Mother also command larger groups, only an Archdemon can command the entire horde.

So having one of them in the group is a certain DEATH sentence for everyone if not Warden and even after becoming a warden drinking darksapwn blood is a slow death process but at the end it is absolute.

You incorrectly attach the Architech and Mother to the hive-mind command structure. They and their followers exist outside of it. The Messenger is a good example of a heroic darkspawn who saves lives. A darkspawn LI doesn't make a whole lot of sense regardless, since even free/sentient darkspawn don't seem to understand the concept(Architect). 

[Plaintiff]

Villiamus wrote...

Darkspawn are for killing

They aren't for kissing

Make love, not war.