Being a writer myself I know all too well how I would react if somebody took my character and wrote about her.
You get used to it. You have to, if you do this for a living. We had seven fulltime writers for most of DAI. We each "own" certain characters and plots, but that doesn't mean we are the only ones writing them. The main dialogues, yes, but those are (like everything) evaluated at multiple stages by peers who don't pull punches. And when the characters pipe up elsewhere, in games the size of ours it's simply not possible to jump in to write every interjection/banter at the time. We're usually in each other's heads enough that we can write for the other characters. But sometimes not, so you go in after and check voice, and you bounce it back and forth to satisfy both. Sometimes one of the others suggests a direction that changes how you look at the character. On a meta level, it's the only time I get to "play" a BioWare game unspoiled.
So yeah, we are specifically trained to brutally dissect what other people do to the voices of our characters. I won't subject fans to that. But, you know, start drawing a paycheque and the glare from the eye of Sauron turns. Shades help. ![]()





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