[quote]Gamer Ftw wrote...
I disagree forcing you into marriage isn't looking out for you.[/quote]
Marriage is a right of passage in city elven culture. You aren't an adult until you're married, which is actually accurate for most cultures in times past, particularly medieval cultures. Rather than letting your character be considered an overgrown child or a social outcast comparable to middled-aged men who live in their parents' basements in our culture, your character's father tries to give him the best life and the best passage into adulthood that his culture deems acceptable.
Might not be what your character
wants, but it doesn't mean his father isn't looking out for him.
[quote]Did you even play a city elf?[/quote]
All the time. It's my favorite origin.
[quote]And It is stated alienage's are the same everywhere. {by Zevran I think]
At any rate,I never said they liked living there...[/quote]
Yes, filled with poor elves herded together like animals because humans won't let them live among them like people. Poor, over-worked, under-paid people who make the most of what they have and look out for each other the best they can despite all the odds against them. The Alienage Culture Codex Entry (and Cyrion) makes it clear that city elves tend to try to look out for each other and protect each other from human hate crimes like arson, lynch mobs, and race riots. It's hardly a dog-eat-dog fighting pit you make it out to be.
[quote]Anyway it's called rp my elf can think differently from you.
I am so tired of people stating their opinion as fact as if it couldn't be any other way.[/quote]
You kind of invite people's ire when you brag about your characters betraying and selling out other characters for self-gain, and then claim that the victims deserve attrocities like death, tranquility, imprisonment and rape because of simple mistakes and petty slights. Then you act like your character is morally superior to the victims and you are personally offended when anyone says boo to you? This is a forum about sharing ideas and discussions; you'd better expect people to share differing ideas and opinions when you invite discussion.
[quote]At any rate Cyrion is an **** who only thinks of what he wants IN MY OPINION.[/quote]
And your character is any better after selling his cousin into sexual slavery? Hell, all the characters you've shared on this forum can be described as asses who only think of what they want.
[quote]First he tries to force his son in to marriage,
insults the guy's mom.[/quote]
Didn't you read what I typed? He didn't insult his mom because he clearly loves your character's mother and likes that trait about her. He also says how he was ready to run for the hills when he was a groom-to-be
until he caught sight of her, fell in love, and had a happy marriage. He clearly wants that happiness for your character, even if he's mistaken in how he goes about it.
[quote]Then after his son is accepted as a Grey Warden he says "oh,I wanted grandchildren." so it's me, me, me.[/quote]
The guy whose character sold not only his cousin but every woman in his wedding into unwilling sexual slavery for money loses the right to claim moral superiority.
[quote]I wish I had a option to knock him on his arse.
It's almost like he doesn't want his son to excel at all.[/quote]
Yeah, he should totally be happy for your character rising in the ranks after selling his family for self-gain. Your character's cousin, potential bride (who left her home and her family to be with him, possibly against her better wishes as well) and several women he grew up with will be forever scarred, possibly catch sexually-transmitted diseases and endure unwanted pregnancies just so HE could get rich quick, and his DAD (the uncle of the girl his son allowed to be raped) is selfish for not being pleased?
[quote]Not to mention he never would have gotten grandkids because my city elf is not into women.

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My cheeky response would be: "Take one for the team, dude. Lie back and think of England."
However, since I have several homosexual friends and would never seriously advocate that if it was at all avoidable, I will say that, as Riverdaleswhiteflash said, it's not realistic from a medieval history point of view to expect parents to be completely okay with it, nor from the fantasy perspective of people from a race that's slowly dying out to be completely okay with a viable member of the community choosing not to help preserve the race because they're not in the mood.
Maybe it's not right for Cyrion to push his idea of happiness on your character, but I still understand his and his culture's point of view. Not to mention that, even if your character didn't want to get married, it's hardly a travesty that warrents selling his cousin into sexual slavery and selling his father into actual slavery. Nothing you say can ever make that all right.
[quote]And proud strong people?
Not in the least,they live under human rule no matter how badly they are abused.[/quote]
Where else are they supposed to go? Humans dominate the entire surface world. Elves among humans are out-numbered and overpowered. Only elves that live outside of human societies are safe, and the Dalish hide so well from humans that most city elves cannot find them either. Most city elves don't know how to survive in wilderness, and roads are extra dangerous for elves since bandits consider them easier targets and guards look the other way, so most elves who seek the Dalish die long before they find them. Are you saying that elves found dead on the road, beaten and robbed, or mauled by animals, are more respectable than elves who find joy in life despite hardships?
[quote]If I had heard the arl was a murdering rapist,[which they mentioned they already knew] I would have gotten the hell out of there with my family.[/quote]
Clearly not, since your character sold his family to be raped by the arl's son.
Modifié par Faerunner, 02 février 2013 - 10:52 .