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If you want a date sim is your choice but don't invite me, if i want to play a date sim where i could choose any fetish in the basket i will play a date sim, not an RPG.
Anders was a Flamboyant cassanova before Heppler ruined the character (IDK who ruined Merill, but we didn't met her enough to know her preferences in Origins, so i let her pass for now) and my appologies for origin, i felt it was an unfair and pretty bad move to give straight men 2 options by forcing bisexualism on Lelianna and left everyone else with just one. I wish i had to stuck it up with Morrigan if choose male as starter so it would be more fair for everyone else. Also complained the fact that being gay means just Zevran and just because he could even do it with Dog if given the chance.
Dating Isabela as male only would make me uproar even more since she was Zevran like in origins... Anders was what made me mad... i was ok with Fenris
About Karl he was crafted in lame dragon age 2 lore so i don't take him as official, just a plothole handler. Thought in making a mod for origins, but i keep procrastianting it, that removes the male options for Lelianna to make it more lore friendly and adding the cannon wardens to it (the dalish elf martyr, the cruel queen aeduncan and good guy Cousland), Also planned on making the dalish elf a gay male instead of female so we could leave everyone with 2 options: Zevran and the only one you can romance. That or maybe just make queen aeduncan a bisexual too so everyone has 3 options and stop complaining.
*sigh* and here we go again
No mr ,no one ruined anders character ,you just didnt grasp the thing because its complicated .
most of Anders’ character development occurs on-screen. The only thing that happens off-screen is the merger with Justice. But even in Awakening, Anders was bothered by the treatment of mages (see also: his multiple escape attempts and the lengths he went to eliminate his phylactery and any ties to the Circle). Justice was also equally appalled by said treatment, and asked Anders why he never struck back against his oppressors. So these big glaring character traits that have people up in arms were there to begin with.
What’s the difference, then? Well, Awakening Anders was still masking much of his pain with humor. That’s something DA2 Anders does, as well, particularly in the first act. Note his quips about not liking the Wardens because they made him give up his cat (rather than the truth, that they assigned a templar to guard him just like the Circle or when he crack jokes with varric !) . As the years pass and the strain of seeing nothing change despite his manifesto, despite the Mage Underground, despite running the free clinic, Anders finds it a little harder to cling to that veneer.
The important thing is, there’s a difference between the Anders we see at the end of the game—hunched in defeat at the edge of his crate—and the one we meet at the beginning—still capable of cracking jokes to hide his torment. That’s character development which occurs over the course of DA2. It’s not a sudden fingersnap between games transforming him from a free-spirited prankster to a revolutionary. The carefree Anders was always an illusion. There was no ruining just an over-the-years-developement.
As for Karl , no one said he count as an official character ! he's just a backgroud plot for Anders past !! he's just there to prove than Anders isnt meant to be straight, he in fact had relationships with men (karl being totally his first true love that he confess in case you didnt have the chance to hear it ! and also the way he respond to a male hawke flirting with a bit of ease ) .
anyways i'll leave that for you to grasp it if you want ,but one thing is certain : no one ruined anything . thats just your way of not accepting the change of an evolved character .