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[riverbanks]

while Solas pulls an Alistair on you

 

Granted, some of us pulled an Alistair on Alistair before Alistair could pull an Alistair on us...

 

(poor dear, I try not to joke at his expense, but his turn of fate in my world state is just too funny in hindsight)

 

Ahem. Cullen, though. Cullen would indeed follow his bae to the ends of the world and beyond.... which kinda makes me hope we don't go to the ends of the world, because Cullen would absolutely follow. And he'd probably say something awfully romantic and heartbreaking like Zevran's "for the chance to be by your side I would the gates of the Black City itself" ( ) about it, too.

[Tarlonniel]

Idle question: Which is your favorite of the "I was looking for a kiss" exchanges? My vote goes to "I need to borrow you"/*chuckle* "By all means."

[ACD101]

whoops, forgot to share that Cullen drawing I finished. Here it is :3

 

 

http://acd101.devian...rford-515922027

[QweenBeen]

Granted, some of us pulled an Alistair on Alistair before Alistair could pull an Alistair on us...

(poor dear, I try not to joke at his expense, but his turn of fate in my world state is just too funny in hindsight)

Ahem. Cullen, though. Cullen would indeed follow his bae to the ends of the world and beyond.... which kinda makes me hope we don't go to the ends of the world, because Cullen would absolutely follow. And he'd probably say something awfully romantic and heartbreaking like Zevran's "for the chance to be by your side I would the gates of the Black City itself" ( ) about it, too.

Would he though, follow quizzy to world's end? *ahem* hi guys! disappear for two days and my first post is playing devil's advocate but this got me thinking that between his sense of duty to the people of Thedas, and his wanting to right so many wrongs if he has the power to do so, maybe he would apologize and part ways?

Devil's advocate! Doesn't mean I believe it!! soppy romances!!

[Cantina]

Idle question: Which is your favorite of the "I was looking for a kiss" exchanges? My vote goes to "I need to borrow you"/*chuckle* "By all means."

 

Mine is:

 

 

 

Inquisitor (to Cullen): "I need to borrow you."

 

Cullen (laughs and says in a sexy voice): "By all means. Give me a moment."

 

 

 

[riverbanks]

Idle question: Which is your favorite of the "I was looking for a kiss" exchanges? My vote goes to "I need to borrow you"/*chuckle* "By all means."

 

My favorite is the the "Do you have some time?" / *sexy husky voice* "For you, always" combo.

 

But I do love his amused throaty chuckle in the combo you mentioned too. I love Cullen being sassy and discreetly naughty with the IQ - the "Something on your mind?" / "Everything" and the "You have me all alone here" / "The thought did cross my mind" combos are some of my favorite romantic banters of his.

[Cantina]

Would he though, follow quizzy to world's end? *ahem* hi guys! disappear for two days and my first post is playing devil's advocate but this got me thinking that between his sense of duty to the people of Thedas, and his wanting to right so many wrongs if he has the power to do so, maybe he would apologize and part ways?

Devil's advocate! Doesn't mean I believe it!! soppy romances!!

 

LOL!

 

Doubtful he would.

 

This conversation late into the game:

 

 

Inquisitor (To Cullen): "The Inquisition won't last forever. What will you do once this is all done?"

 

Cullen: "If we are together it hardly matters."

 

 

While Cullen has a sense of duty, I don't think he give up on the Inquisitor since she never gave up on him. Cullen by the end of the game feels he has atoned for his past actions and can move on...with her. Finally find peace and happiness. Thus whatever happens they will do it together.

[Lorien19]

omg, yes. I loved this particularly at the end of the Perseverence scene, when I told him not to take the lyrium and that he can do it, blahblah, and he just... gave me that ... look of affection and relief. My Lavellan just about melted into a puddle, and I knew in that moment that he's definitely in love with me, even tho I was with Solas. Yuppers. That's my story. And I'm stickin to it.

 

This is pure brilliance, a masterpiece!!It describes my feelings accurately, even though Solas is winning me over, Cullen will a,ways have a very special spot in my   alongside Alistair and Fenris.

[QweenBeen]

LOL!

Doubtful he would.

This conversation late into the game:


Inquisitor (To Cullen): "The Inquisition won't last forever. What will you do once this is all done?"

Cullen: "If we are together it hardly matters."


While Cullen has a sense of duty, I don't think he give up on the Inquisitor since she never gave up on him. Cullen by the end of the game feels he has atoned for his past actions and can move on...with her. Finally find peace and happiness. Thus whatever happens they will do it together.

Hah clearly it's blatantly apparent I haven't played his romance in three months and I'm a tad foggy. That makes me feel better, no ifs, ands or butts about it!

whoops, forgot to share that Cullen drawing I finished. Here it is :3



http://acd101.devian...rford-515922027

Ooo very well done!! And in color!! Color pencils scare me... *shivers* but yours looks beautiful

[riverbanks]

Would he though, follow quizzy to world's end? (...) between his sense of duty to the people of Thedas, and his wanting to right so many wrongs if he has the power to do so, maybe he would apologize and part ways?

 

Hmmm... it depends on why the Inquisitor is going to the ends of the world. If it's for a selfish reason like personal gain or glory, I'm going to storm the Black City and take the power of the Maker for myself mwahahaha, I can see Cullen not following - but then I can also see such a relationship having ended long before the Inquisitor peaced out, too. If she was going for a "greater good" reason, such as... I don't know, maybe it turns out Solas wanted to rip the Fade open all along and it's going to tear the fabric of reality apart and destroy Thedas as we know it and the Inquisitor must go back into the Fade or go fight him at the ends of the world to save the people of Thedas from annihilation or whatever, then yeah, I can see definitely see Cullen not only following her, but being at the front of her line, ride or die.

 

Cullen is not that bound by duty, as we have learned, and as we discussed the other day, if he feels his duty belongs somewhere else now he will go and do that instead. He's not so stuck in his goal posts that they can't be moved forward. I can see, as the story progresses with a romanced Inquisitor, where the lines between his duty to the Inquisition and his duty to the Inquisitor cross and blur, become one and the same, and finally when the goal moves at the end. That hug in the ending scene, when the Inquisitor is back and he throws all protocol out the window because he's just so relieved to see her alive; to me it reads like his priorities have definitely shifted at that point. Certainly he is still loyal to the Inquisition in the end, he has a duty and a bond of honor with the people serving under him and the people who depend on the Inquisition, but at that point, if he doesn't even care anymore what such a public demonstration of the intensity of his love for the Inquisitor will tell their people, I think the Inquisitor herself has pushed everything else to second place in his mind. At that point? He would follow, yeah.

 

But then again this is all idle conjecture, because the reality is that, if we see the Inquisitor again in another game, she will most likely be alone. In my mind, Fenris and Sebastian would never have let my Hawkes cross the world throwing themselves into life-threatening danger on their own either, but that's just what happened, so... my romanticized headcanons aside, in canon Cullen would likely stay home doodling portraits of his soldiers, mending his socks and reading books with griffons in them while his Quizzie goes out and gets herself killed somewhere far, far away.

[Cantina]

That scene when Cullen's praying and so afraid to lose her was just heartbreaking. It did remind me of Zevran at the gates. I just love how they hug in front of everyone at the end at Skyhold. The expressions on their face say it all!

 

Well I never romanced Mr. Leather Lover. What does he do?

 

Grrr. Must know!

 

(Runs off to Youtube).

[QweenBeen]

Ooo, love the insight, nine! Yah cullen seems to have struck that alignment in his life between personal and professional goals that he so sorely has needed....i certainly hope we see him again too, three games is a good streak!! Vacationing in Antiva, perhaps, when BOOM, Arlathan rises!

Too bad what Quizzy says when she weilds the sword of the Inquisitor isnt in the keep. Her comment there could harden her or soften her pretty early in game but carry on as available dialogue choices later...like "for my own power" could add an extra set of dialogue for evil mayhem in dlc...

[Cantina]

Ever seen Cullen's reaction if you break off and just want to be friends? Looks say it all without words! If you end the romance, he's more accepting, but to just be friends... wow... what a look he gives! You can practically hear his heart shatter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tarlonniel]

Too bad what Quizzy says when she weilds the sword of the Inquisitor isnt in the keep.

 

Oh, but it is in the Keep. Just boiled down to three different options.

 

In my mind, Fenris and Sebastian would never have let my Hawkes cross the world throwing themselves into life-threatening danger on their own...

 

The reason given for Sebastian I could buy, but Fenris? Fenris? Ugh. Still a little angry over that.

[riverbanks]

Too bad what Quizzy says when she weilds the sword of the Inquisitor isnt in the keep. Her comment there could harden her or soften her pretty early in game but carry on as available dialogue choices later...like "for my own power" could add an extra set of dialogue for evil mayhem in dlc...

 

It is! It's under the In Your Heart Shall Burn fold, and these are the tiles you can choose:

Spoiler

 

 

I've chosen all of those before, and they do change your Inquisitor slightly, in that they open unique dialogue options you don't get otherwise. It's one way of shaping up the IQ's personality when the dialogue wheel doesn't generally have a very defined tone.

 

The reason given for Sebastian I could buy, but Fenris? Fenris? Ugh. Still a little angry over that.

 

Yeah, I talk about Sebastian but his was actually the only excuse I found plausible (along with Anders' of course) for the LI not being with Hawke - that dummy would be tormenting himself between his duty to Starkhaven and his concern for Hawke. It was quite the (pleasant!) surprise to learn through Varric later that, in the end, Hawke does mean more to him than Starkhaven after all. Silly romantic fool. I love him.

 

But Fenris? HAH. Hawke could try to sneak away for his own sake, but he would be onto her in two and a half seconds, scowling for years at her for thinking she can just up and leave him behind like that.

[QweenBeen]

It is! It's under the In Your Heart Shall Burn fold, and these are the tiles you can choose:

Spoiler

I've chosen all of those before, and they do change your Inquisitor slightly, in that they open unique dialogue options you don't get otherwise. It's one way of shaping up the IQ's personality when the dialogue wheel doesn't generally have a very defined tone.

Wait, huh? I've never chosen "for my own power" because I didn't want everyone to greatly disapprove! But does this really affect dialogue in game? I'll have to be more conscious of it in my 3rd pt! Haven't visited the keep because I heard it was a bit buggy but I totally just assumed it was too minor to bear mention!

[Tarlonniel]

But Fenris? HAH. Hawke could try to sneak away for his own sake, but he would be onto her in two and a half seconds, scowling for years at her for thinking she can just up and leave him behind like that.

 

Amen. And on the part of my Hawke, there's no way she's leaving behind the man she spent three... six... well, an ungodly number of years inching towards a relationship with. Nope. He's coming along everywhere she goes, forever, lyrium ghosting their enemies to smithereens. Hear that, BioWare?

 

Just another reason I'm wary of seeing the Inquisitor pop up in the next game. The odds are far too good that they'll end up separated from their loved one, like every other protagonist (except Warden/Zevran - run while you can, guys!).

[riverbanks]

Wait, huh? I've never chosen "for my own power" because I didn't want everyone to greatly disapprove! But does this really affect dialogue in game? I'll have to be more conscious of it in my 3rd pt! Haven't visited the keep because I heard it was a bit buggy but I totally just assumed it was too minor to bear mention!

 

I haven't actually chosen the "for my own power" option either, but I did choose the one about leading by example or something along those lines, and from the wording in that tile, both options were conflated into "declaring for the Inquisitor."

 

This choice affects dialogue as much as anything else, to be fair - unique dialogue opens up here and there that you can choose to use or not. Nothing world-shattering, but it does give your IQ some meat. IIRC declaring for the Inquisitor didn't really give me anything special, declaring for order gave me unique lines about the Templars and the Circles, and declaring for faith gave me the most unique new lines.

 

....although it's possible that faith gave me the same number of new lines as order, and my impression of it was just slanted by the rest of that playthrough. I made my Templar Quizzie super faithful and devoted, made her believe she was Andraste's chosen, made her declare for faith when she was elevated to Inquisitor, be very pro-Chantry, etc, and the amount of unique dialogue options that those choices opened up was crazy. Almost every other conversation now came with extra unique lines carrying the Chantry icon, it was really interesting to see.

[QweenBeen]

Huh, I honestly don't think I've seen chantry unique dialogues and I've been super duper devout in my 2nd playthrough too. Just noble special dialogue....that's pretty nice though, I'll have to choose the "for my own power" when I get to skyhold, ugh...for science, because if it's gonna give brash dialogue, I'm sure to notice. I'm such a cupcake all the time, I faint when I see meanie options

[LOLandStuff]

Your options when made Inquisitor depend on what you talk about with Mother Giselle. If you tell her you believe etc etc, then you get the option for faith and whatnot.

And I think for order and stability you need to choose the option with fanatics.

[R2s Muse]

Would he though, follow quizzy to world's end? *ahem* hi guys! disappear for two days and my first post is playing devil's advocate but this got me thinking that between his sense of duty to the people of Thedas, and his wanting to right so many wrongs if he has the power to do so, maybe he would apologize and part ways?

Devil's advocate! Doesn't mean I believe it!! soppy romances!!

I agree with ninetozero that it would depend on the circumstances. One of things I find interesting about Cullen and wanted to see explored in DA:I is what he would do when he started to care about one individual,  in contrast to caring about the needs of the many. He's spent his whole life doing what was right for the collective without regard to his own personal needs. So I wanted to see how he would adjust to falling in love and wanting to put that one person's needs above the needs of the many for the first time.

I like where he ended up in DA:I. He's ready to let you die in Haven. I mean, wow, talk about the needs of the many. I was saddened by it but impressed with him, because it made sense. I also like that your near death experience shakes him, possibly making him realize how much he cares about you. But by the end of the game, he's torn about sending you off to possibly certain death with Corypheus, and questioning whether he can do it. And, yet, he's strong enough to do it anyway.

So would he needlessly sacrifice himself or their cause to save her... I think signs point to no. I think he'd needfully sacrifice himself, but not just for some romantic notion of dying together for no reason if it might jeopardize other things.