Ok, I need cheering up, popped into another thread about Ugly characters......it seems, to a few people that aging and increased ugliness go hand in hand
I'm sitting here, the other side of 40 thinking "urgh, bad hair day, totally didn't need to read that today" lol.
The consensus seems to be that Cullen and Lelliana have aged pretty well but poor Morrigan has polarised some opinions.
In my opinion, Cullen has grown into himself, we have the benefit of being able to see the changes, almost gradually through the games which probably helps.
My question is, even although I feel we have been lucky and he is indeed very handsome, would any of you have turned away from his romance in DAI if his look had been, in your opinion, bad?
He is almost the stereotypical Knight in Shining Armour and I wonder if that has influenced anyone to romance him, taking priority over his character growth and story arc?
Frankly, I have little pity for people who dismiss a person or value them solely for looks because they usually get what they deserve in my opinion. I can enjoy someone's appearance in an artistic sense, but it has nothing to do with what attracts me to a person beyond noticing them initially, and once I get to know someone, my opinion of their attractiveness can make make a complete 180. Though I have to say I don't get the issues with Morrigan, I think she's gorgeous in the latest trailer.
Yes, Cullen is very good looking (any decent warrior/rogue has to be in good physical condition, after all, to survive), but that was never what interested me in him as a character, it's a sense of someone who's evolved and grown in a lot of ways, someone who's struggled with his decisions and experiences. I probably won't romance him until my third or fourth PT; IB's sense of humor and potential crises intrigue me more that way and Solas is a thinker, which I love. But Cullen's probably the character I'm most looking forward to getting to know and befriend.