Back off ladies, Varric belongs to Bianca.sarakirrer wrote...
100% agree with these comments--while I don't see Anders as an alpha male, I see Fenris fitting that archetype even less. I don't think we've ever seen the "alpha male" type in any of our (romanceable) companions... Allistair is also a follower by nature and doesn't contradict the Warden unless s/he is doing something really morally reprehensible. And Zevran certainly doesn't have that sort of personality, either.
Fenris and Anders really seemed dependent on Hawke not only for their own well-being but also for their sanity (Anders outright says this, and Fenris' sanity certainly would have been in danger of losing what was left of his sanity if he had gone back to Danerius after he met Hawke). I would really enjoy seeing a more independent romanceable male who can support the PC and who the PC can lean on, rather than someone whose sanity is dependent on the PC. I guess I don't want an "alpha male" per se, just an independent guy that can be a PARTNER to the PC, with the PC supporting the LI and the LI supporting the PC. Anders and Fenris both had too much outside (and internal) issues going on to provide that function for Hawke, IMO.
This is part of the reason why I really enjoyed Varric in DA2--he was independent, but he was also always there for Hawke and the other companions, and he always projected the attitude that he would go to Hawke if he needed help, but that Hawke could also go to him if s/he needed emotional support. ...That's not to say that I think we need a Varric clone or that I'm insinuating that I think Varric SHOULD have been romanceable in DA2... I would just like to see a companion with that kind of attitude in the future.
While I really loved the drama of the Anders/Hawke relationship (I was lucky enough to romance him on my first playthrough, before I had any idea what he was going to do with the Chantry), I'd also like to see a healthy relationship that is challenged by OUTSIDE issues rather than the questionable sanity of one or more of the parties involved.
I would like an equal partner relationship, the male LI needs to be more assertive and wouldn't just agree with everything the PC has to do or say. I would like to romance a leader of a rebellion group, either a mage or rogue templars, who think for themselves and don't depend on PC for emotional support. Both Fenris and Anders' relationship have been about taking when it should have been a give and take relationship. They both depend too much on Hawke that I feel like Hawke was taking advantage of their fragile emtions. I really want the relationship to be more about them rather than the issues they were facing with. In most of the cutscenes between LIs in DAO, the talk is about the LI's relationship with the warden like the rose from Alistair while the cutscenes from DA2 seems more to be about their own personal issues.
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But I know what you guys mean.
