Aww I love this thread partly for it's lulzy but all the more for it's
good and deep characterization of Alistair (I'm a sucker for discussing a
character and his/her motives extensively -- henche my post)
I won't say martyr complex, but he's never had anyone just want
*him*. Maric, Eamon, the Chantry.... Even Duncan, for all
that I think he truly did care about Alistair, only takes
him as a Grey Warden. Your PC is the first person to be all 'I
don't care about anything else except YOU'. Pretty powerful
stuff.
Exactly, that's how I see it. Alistair is that kind
of person who puts everything else above his own well-being. So if he can save one life with the DR, he is willing to do this even if he personally clearly DON'T want to. All the more if this person is the one he came to trust and care deeply about. Yeah I see his love for the PC nowhere near to shallow, it's quite the opposite, therefore I found the example with being like his father very fitting. Given the fact that the PC has fallen as hard for him as he has for her, the PC is the first person who wanted him for being himself, not the Warden Alistair not the king,
just Alistair. That's how said in the quote is powerful stuff, he had never experienced before. That is among the reasons that he is eventually willing to do this, or better said it doesn't take much to convince him. It's not a lack of feelings thereof but the converse. The risk of losing the woman he loves and the only person who has accepted him
wholeheartely or that she won't let him sacrifice himself to save her in the end, is too high to bear after all,
I always see him there being a bit selfish there too (perhaps unintentional) which stands in contrary with his " I don't deserve to be happy" thinking but let me explain. Because by tormenting himself through the ritual -- which stands against everything he values as a GW,-- he is doing this to save the woman he loves, but eventually that ritual saves also this tiny, little piece of happiness Alistair was able to create for himself against all odds - not the Warden, not the king ---
for himself..
So bottom line is 'hardened' or not, the love of the PC is very important to Alistair, only in case of having him toughened up, he is more aware of it, when his strong sense of duty isn't clouding
everything anymore.
Okay there is still that evil demon baby, which got created in the process but well... one can't have everything, right.

Or maybe I'm just thinking too hard about it, but well I have to this later anyway, when my ficlet is reaching this 'arc'.

Gahhhh the idea some of you have that Alistair liked Morrigan 's
ritual and wants her more in the future makes me want to do
this:
/LSNFLSDFNLDFNLSDFNLSDKFHSDLFSLMEL
QFT. Yeah at some point the bodyfunction took surely over (otherwise there wouldn't be no demon baby) but enjoying it? Hell no. I think he was shrubbing his skin raw afterwards just to get rid of the scent and anything else of Morrigan while during I imagine him being -->

all the time, trying not to breathe in order to avoid smelling her scent. xD Alistair is all but no type for a fling, sexy time for him isn't something casual and has to be associated with feelings. Sure he is a man and as said body took over at a point but that isn't equal with enjoying it. All the more I think he sees as as a yucky duty for reasons explained above.
However reading this thread gives me the impression that I'm one of the few persons who got the impression that Alistair and Morrigan can't stand each other for life. I mean it's pretty obvious they loathe each other ...and not every frikkin man and woman who were bantering/fighting are secretly in love with each other or want to get it on. It happens very often that there is just
hate. As simple as it is.
This is always a part of a fandom I don't get (and seems to be a common disease/ follow a pattern of thought).
Oooh look they are quarrelling, they must want each other sooo badly. They just don't know it yet. Well....errr yeah. Exactly
Modifié par Merilsell, 05 avril 2010 - 04:30 .