Did you run across any NPC's with the "double eyebrow" look that use the same texture?
I've only had a chance to look around Haven so far, but I've only seen it on the elven servant that's in your cabin when you wake up in Haven. The double eyebrows weren't really the issue there, though. It was the dramatic eyeshadow on her that made me do a double-take. 
Good luck experiencing both paths, either way! I'm still trying very hard to make myself romance Cullen again with a different Inquisitor that's not original flavor Ari or just a class-bent version of Ari only using a different weapon, but still finding it very hard to get in the mental space of allowing Cullen to go for someone other than his "canon" bae. *SMH at myself
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Ok, this might sound weird, but from my perspective - In these types of games, you are able to play out someone that you can't be irl. All of my characters are facets of the same person - moi. Since my characters all have some nugget of me in them (to varying degrees), I have no issues with having them all romance Cullen (except the two that went for Bull and Blackwall). I've never felt the "OMG that's so Ravenna's man" when Raven romances him, or any of my girls. Cuz they're all me! 
P.S. I'm the same way with my various Sheps for Garrus, and my DA:O girls with Alistair.
I never felt like the flirt was awkward, except insofar as flirting is always awkward ("you, um, wanna...?" "uh, yeah, sure" LOL). What I thought was awkward (bless his heart) was Greg's delivery on the "this might be the first time we've discussed something other than the Inquisition" line. I mean, I think perhaps it was supposed to be awkward. But... I dunno. Compared to rest of his read of Cullen, it felt like he was just reading a line on a page.
Yeah I can see that now that you mention it. Especially since it's the same exact line for any IQ.
Oh boy... don't get me started on that one. In short: Orlais. Valmonts. Lion of Orlais. Val Royeaux.
None of those being: templars or fereldans.
Yeeaah I imagine bringing Warden Loghain to Skyhold in my game and the first thing he sees when he gets there is a Fereldan veteran hiding his face behind an Orlesian lion, and leading the forces of a paramilitary force that's conveniently sitting comfortably between the borders of Orlais and Ferelden. He'd be delighted to help this kind of Inquisition, eh.
Plus I like to headcanon Cullen as Fereldan to the bone, as fiercely proud to be a filthy dog lord as them filthy dog lords get, so the lion theme just doesn't fit him.
So I don't know if this one has been posted, but I LOVE this notion of Cullen and the Inquisitor using Cole as a Telephone. Heh heh. Soooo cute.
http://siriusdraws.t...now-that-i-know
This is so cute!
But...is that...is Cole holding a nug with a hat and wings???? 
Yeeaah I imagine bringing Warden Loghain to Skyhold in my game and the first thing he sees when he gets there is a Fereldan veteran hiding his face behind an Orlesian lion, and leading the forces of a paramilitary force that's conveniently sitting comfortably between the borders of Orlais and Ferelden. He'd be delighted to help this kind of Inquisition, eh.
Plus I like to headcanon Cullen as Fereldan to the bone, as fiercely proud to be a filthy dog lord as them filthy dog lords get, so the lion theme just doesn't fit him.
Agree. Me, too.
This is independent of how the lion helm creeps me out... and reminds me of this... 
Ok, this might sound weird, but from my perspective - In these types of games, you are able to play out someone that you can't be irl. All of my characters are facets of the same person - moi. Since my characters all have some nugget of me in them (to varying degrees), I have no issues with having them all romance Cullen (except the two that went for Bull and Blackwall). I've never felt the "OMG that's so Ravenna's man" when Raven romances him, or any of my girls. Cuz they're all me!
P.S. I'm the same way with my various Sheps for Garrus, and my DA:O girls with Alistair.
I'm kind of the same way; I usually try to channel some aspect of myself when creating characters, such as fear and arrogance with Auren (not that I was able to express that in the game, ah well), and hunger for knowledge + cavalier attitude for Kael (whom I haven't played yet). I do the same when creating females, although with them it's probably more of a power fantasy type thing since I always make them really bad ass and "take no prisoners" types LOL It's the me I'd like to imagine myself as
Probably why I can't romance someone I'm not into; it doesn't feel authentic and I can't relate to the character. Even when I do my f/f romances, I still just greatly respect and adore the female love interest in a non-sexual way, and maybe think to myself, if I liked girls, I'd like her lol
This is so cute!
But...is that...is Cole holding a nug with a hat and wings????
LOL I know! I wasn't sure what that was from.
(edit: come to think of it: are they bribing Cole with those things? offerings to get him talking?? LOL)
Yeeaah I imagine bringing Warden Loghain to Skyhold in my game and the first thing he sees when he gets there is a Fereldan veteran hiding his face behind an Orlesian lion, and leading the forces of a paramilitary force that's conveniently sitting comfortably between the borders of Orlais and Ferelden. He'd be delighted to help this kind of Inquisition, eh.
Plus I like to headcanon Cullen as Fereldan to the bone, as fiercely proud to be a filthy dog lord as them filthy dog lords get, so the lion theme just doesn't fit him.
Lions aside, I didn't really get any sense of patriotism from Cullen. He says he hadn't been back to Ferelden in 10 years, and hadn't planned on ever going back. That and his Halamshiral advice is to pick Gaspard.
I see him as being fiercely proud of the Inquisition and what it stands for, not his country of origin.
Lions aside, I didn't really get any sense of patriotism from Cullen. He says he hadn't been back to Ferelden in 10 years, and hadn't. planned on ever going back. That and his Halamshiral advice is to pick Gaspard.
I see him as being fiercely proud of the Inquisition and what it stands for, not his country of origin.
True. But this just as well could be because he's never had any control over where he goes. So he just never expected to be back in Fereldan after... what happened.
LOL I know! I wasn't sure what that was from.
(edit: come to think of it: are they bribing Cole with those things? offerings to get him talking?? LOL)
Hey Cole, come pet the pretty puppy....oh and by the way, can you take a message for me???
I'm a huge fan of the Arthurian legend. My favorite interpretation is Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon."
With Excalibur, I couldn't get over dis guy...
Whenever I watch that movie I just giggle uncontrollably whenever he shows up.
But hey! Look who else is in it:
This is so cute!
But...is that...is Cole holding a nug with a hat and wings????
Maybe it's a Nug Griffon!
NO. He killed my beautiful, beautiful Gwaine and I will never forgive him. 
Between that show and S3 of Downton Abbey (Sybil! WHY??? *sob*) I had to break up with TV for awhile. My poor poor feels.
Ok, this might sound weird, but from my perspective - In these types of games, you are able to play out someone that you can't be irl. All of my characters are facets of the same person - moi. Since my characters all have some nugget of me in them (to varying degrees), I have no issues with having them all romance Cullen (except the two that went for Bull and Blackwall). I've never felt the "OMG that's so Ravenna's man" when Raven romances him, or any of my girls. Cuz they're all me!
P.S. I'm the same way with my various Sheps for Garrus, and my DA:O girls with Alistair.
Yeah, I get that perspective from a theoretical point. I just don't do self-inserts, myself- I roleplay different characters- so I never feel like they're me. All my heroes are just characters, completely fictional people with their own very different lives and quirks and beliefs and morals, and almost none of it is taken from myself. I like to explore the aspect of "someone that you can't be irl," as you mentioned, only to the other spectrum - I can't be a fiercely religious believer, or a shady criminal manipulator, or a rich arrogant noble etc myself, but I can roleplay a character like that. I create them as one would write an original character in a novel, shaping their actions and choices like a story... and that sometimes ends up in the love interest being locked into that one story because it's the one they belong to in my head. Say, Cullen, he doesn't belong to me - he belongs to this specific narrative.
I can romance certain love interests with more than character - I've romanced Zevran, Fenris, Sera, Kaidan, Thane, with a number of different characters, and never felt that they "belonged" to one more than another. But then every now and again I get trapped in this mental space that this love interest belongs to that one character and that one character alone, and I can't move myself out of it. I couldn't tell you why, or what causes that, it just happens. Unfortunately Cullen seems to have fallen on the second spectrum for me; I can see him with Ari only, and all my attempts to romance him with anyone else have either fallen flat or died out after the first flirt. Or is it fortunately? I can't tell - but I do feel that my "locked" romances are somewhat more meaningful to me. I could wax poetic for years about Evelyn and Alistair, Rowan and Sebastian, Ariana and Cullen, but if you asked me about my favorite Fenris romance I would blank out on an answer. There were many, I loved them all, but don't really have a favorite.
In any case, I'm still trying. Who knows, maybe one of these days I'll manage to find the sweet spot for his romance with someone else too. If not... well, there's always that strategic save right before his door to give him a nice woo-break with Ari any time I start missing his romance too much. 
whhhooooaaa! The jackpot of Cullen gifs! 60 of em! And the tumbrite says we can use them!! http://youxwontxreme...icons-of-cullen
Lions aside, I didn't really get any sense of patriotism from Cullen. He says he hadn't been back to Ferelden in 10 years, and hadn't planned on ever going back. That and his Halamshiral advice is to pick Gaspard.
I see him as being fiercely proud of the Inquisition and what it stands for, not his country of origin.
Yeah, that's why I said I headcanon him like that. I know he doesn't give any indication of it (or otherwise) in the game, but since there wasn't much to go on about him either way before, I've been headcanon-ing Cullen as very proud to be Fereldan and missing his country, his people and his culture for years now. I couldn't just stop thinking of him like that at this point, it's too deeply entrenched in how I interpret his character.
As for his supporting of Gaspard... I just chalk that up to a reductionist zero-sum of, we need each advisor to be a mouth piece for the candidate that most resembles their advisor chair, because there's no amount of headcanon I can come up with to rationalize Cullen supporting something like just sitting by and watching the very murder of a head of state that they went there to prevent. It sounds like something Leliana might have supported, or even Josephine could have rationalized, but for Cullen to go all, lol maybe we should let the Empress die... I can't. I give up. There's no headcanon for that. I'll just assume he was drunk and annoyed with his pet Cullenites and not thinking straight on the implications of what he was suggesting there.
This is so cute!
But...is that...is Cole holding a nug with a hat and wings????
Did you get the banter with Bull asking Cass if Cullen would agree to lending him one of the trebuchets? Apparently Krem has been sewing stuffed nugs with wings on his spare time to amuse the soldiers.
Apparently Krem has been sewing stuffed nugs with wings on his spare time to amuse the soldiers.
Haha xD He's awesome.
Having a banter bug makes me a sad panda.
Yeah, I get that perspective from a theoretical point. I just don't do self-inserts, myself- I roleplay different characters- so I never feel like they're me. All my heroes are just characters, completely fictional people with their own very different lives and quirks and beliefs and morals, and almost none of it is taken from myself. I like to explore the aspect of "someone that you can't be irl," as you mentioned, only to the other spectrum - I can't be a fiercely religious believer, or a shady criminal manipulator, or a rich arrogant noble etc myself, but I can roleplay a character like that. I create them as one would write an original character in a novel, shaping their actions and choices like a story... and that sometimes ends up in the love interest being locked into that one story because it's the one they belong to in my head. Say, Cullen, he doesn't belong to me - he belongs to this specific narrative.
I can romance certain love interests with more than character - I've romanced Zevran, Fenris, Sera, Kaidan, Thane, with a number of different characters, and never felt that they "belonged" to one more than another. But then every now and again I get trapped in this mental space that this love interest belongs to that one character and that one character alone, and I can't move myself out of it. I couldn't tell you why, or what causes that, it just happens. Unfortunately Cullen seems to have fallen on the second spectrum for me; I can see him with Ari only, and all my attempts to romance him with anyone else have either fallen flat or died out after the first flirt. Or is it fortunately? I can't tell - but I do feel that my "locked" romances are somewhat more meaningful to me. I could wax poetic for years about Evelyn and Alistair, Rowan and Sebastian, Ariana and Cullen, but if you asked me about my favorite Fenris romance I would blank out on an answer. There were many, I loved them all, but don't really have a favorite.
In any case, I'm still trying. Who knows, maybe one of these days I'll manage to find the sweet spot for his romance with someone else too. If not... well, there's always that strategic save right before his door to give him a nice woo-break with Ari any time I start missing his romance too much.
I don't do self-inserts, though I think all of them have some trait of mine. I've never ended up with a romance that I couldn't imagine romancing with several personalities (and my favorites, I usually do so,) but maybe the difference is I haven't yet found one that I was genuinely attached to? Even with my favorite LIs, I'm usually thinking, hmm, I wonder how this would play with this personality? Of course, I also don't lean toward the idea that there's one "perfect" match for a person (I don't believe in perfection anyway), and that most people can find a very good fit with several personalities. I don't know if that's part of your mindset or not, but I was curious? Like I said, it could be that they still haven't written the character who completely wins me over...
Lions aside, I didn't really get any sense of patriotism from Cullen. He says he hadn't been back to Ferelden in 10 years, and hadn't planned on ever going back. That and his Halamshiral advice is to pick Gaspard.
I see him as being fiercely proud of the Inquisition and what it stands for, not his country of origin.
Well, there's a difference between being patriotically nationalistic and refusing to be embarrased about where you come from. I write off favoring Gaspard as recognizing his military connections and being pragmatic about it. But for him to wear the symbol of a country that perpetually makes fun of where you're from (aside from the invasion and occupation; Honnleath is near the border) would have come across as a little out of character for him to me.
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