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[Ajna]

I'm thinking my Cadash may just walk around singing this to herself the whole game...

 

[Chernaya]

Sure, f*** it. The following absurdly long post is basically me sulking at length - feel free to skip it if that doesn't interest you.

 

Spoiler

When Dragon Age: Origins announced it would have same-sex LI's, I'd already been planning to buy it. I've been a BioWare fan since before they started adding options for queer gamers, so no surprise there. Still, it was a really welcome surprise, and it jacked up my expectations a hell of a lot. I figured hey, save the world and get the guy, awesome. Instead I got f****** Zevran, who pretty much pissed me off on every conceivable level. I forced myself to play his romance arc in the hopes it would get better, which was a mistake, because by the time I finished DA;O the first time I was so sick of him, and DA:O by association, I put the game aside and didn't pick it up again for six months, which is pretty rare for me. I don't want to say it totally ruined my first playthrough, but it was in the neighborhood, to the point that I selfishly wished it hadn't had queer options at all for awhile.

 

... But hey, it happens. I got over it. A lot of people liked him. It's not like he was poorly written or anything, he just wasn't to my taste. Sure, it would've been nice to have options, but that's how it goes sometimes. Better luck next time, right?

 

DA2 comes out. I made sure it had queer options again (Multiple ones! Holy s***!) and then immediately went into media blackout, because I didn't want to see any spoilers or know what was coming. And then I played the game, and hey! Varric! Varric's sweet, he's grounded, he's charming, he's a bit on the beefy side cause yeah, that's where my tastes run, he's pretty much perfect! He's not romanceable. Well, okay. Instead you get Fenris and Anders, who are both angsty, melodramatic, and clearly need some kind of therapy. Plus Anders is incredibly overbearing in his romance arc, and Fenris is another Scrawny Bisexual Elf Boi (okay, lanky, still). I've been digging up queer fantasy for the last fifteen years - I'm sick as hell of skinny bisexual elves. Also vampires, but that's less relevant.

 

... But okay. Hell, it's not like I hate either one of them, so after Zevran things are looking up. I play both of their romance arcs, I enjoy them. They're not the kind of thing I go for, but they're well-written and I can deal with it. Better luck next time.

 

DAI. I start out with the media-blackout mindset, but end up tossing that because, well, *points up*. So I get to know the cast. Blackwall! Blackwall's tough, honorable, principled, grizzled, beefy with a huge beard... yeah, there's no way in hell this is happening. But hey, Varric's back! And he's really popular, and his new character design makes him look great. And holy s***, eight options out of ten? Now those are great odds! Maybe? Maybe? Maybe?

 

... Ha ha no. Ignoring Leliana and Cole (who were nixed early, and who had really good reasons for being off-limits) it now looks like the only two non-romanceable members of the team are the two I like. And to add insult to injury, it now looks like the last male LI announced is going to be yet another Scrawny Bisexual Elf Boi. Nothing against Solas' fanbase - I'm legitimately happy for you guys - but come on.

 

I don't mind games where the options don't really speak to me personally, that's how life goes sometimes. But at this point there hasn't been a queer guy in the series that really caught my interest, and based on the archetypes that keep getting trotted out, I'm increasingly convinced I'm never going to see one. There's a certain point where "better luck next time" starts to seem like kind of a joke, and I'm pretty rapidly reaching that point.

 

So yeah. That's why I'm feeling bitter today.

 

Edit: JFC! Uh, guess I didn't know how much I needed catharsis right now.

 

I'm truly sorry about that. It's perfectly understandable how you're feeling right now, and heck... I feel kinda stupid about being so upset over the news today, in retrospect. I'm glad you were able to vent about it a little bit though, and hey, Blackwall isn't out of the running yet, and I'm hoping maybe another character will pleasantly surprise you even though so far they may not have piqued your interest yet. This is my last desire for DAI, I want everyone in my Varric family thread to be happy and be able to enjoy the game!

 

[Chernaya]

Funny enough my younger sis got me into the DA series and now I'm a bigger DA nut than she is aha!   

 

And I don't normally pop round these parts but tough break guys,

 

*snip*

 

I like Varric, sorry he's unavailable to all those you wanted to romance him. You guys are taking the news quite well as disappointed as many of you are right now, chill group of peeps in here.   Hopefully you'll find another to enjoy in this game as bittersweet as it may be right now.

 

Thank you for dropping by and being sweet, it's really appreciated. I feel much better now than I did a couple hours ago. The news has settled and I'm making peace with it.

[Jewlie Ghoulie]

-hugs Foe- I'm sorry and you can talk/rant/whatever to me any time.

Blackwall is still in the running. I mean "Soon..." Pretty promising, but I understand being skeptical. I am about everything at this point.

[Little Princess Peach]

 

 

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Tharja, on 23 Aug 2014 - 10:45 PM, said:

dose that mean hes not a romance?

 

Varric is not a romance.

 

 

 

This made me rather sad but I will just have to hug my varric plushie and hope for a fond friendship a la Hawke

[Chernaya]

I'm going to friendship Varric so hard. 

 

 

I think posting Doctor Who gifs is helping with my healing process, lol.

[Little Princess Peach]

lets all be Varrics BFF's

[Chernaya]

Agreed! out of likes, but BFFs forever!

 

And can I just say, I love the title pun we're still cheeky even in the face of disappointment, Varric would be proud lol

[Ajna]

Agreed! out of likes, but BFFs forever!

 

And can I just say, I love the title pun we're still cheeky even in the face of disappointment, Varric would be proud lol

Aye, can't ever lose our humour...the world would surely end then!

[Little Princess Peach]

let it be known what ever we where before now we are the Varricquision!

 

Typos may be included Batteries may be sold somewhere in Thedas

[CrimsonN7]

I'm going to friendship Varric so hard. 

 

 

I think posting Doctor Who gifs is helping with my healing process, lol.

 

Varric is the only bro you'd need, top bloke.  Have the same love and respect for him that I had for Garrus and I loved that bromance.

[SmilesJA]

All I'm saying is that I really hope there's a GOOD reason why Varric isn't romancable. 

[Little Princess Peach]

I just had the strangest Idea ever what if the warden was Bianca or the wardens sister if she was part of the dawrf commoner questline?

[Foelhe]

BFFs! Forever and ever!

@ Chernaya - don't feel bad for feeling bad. That never ends well. I'll probably have more optimism in a day or two, just for now I'm a little tender. Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

[Ajna]

All I'm saying is that I really hope there's a GOOD reason why Varric isn't romancable. 

One of the mods from DAConfessions commented on his tweet that 95% of confessions "don't want him as an LI as it would cheapen him" or something...

[Evelane]

Wow just got back from a long weekend, wow..... this is the worst news ever... seriously.. WHY? why bioware, why do this to me ''us'' for the  2nd time.... my dwarf rogue will just be forever alone... 

[Little Princess Peach]

One of the mods from DAConfessions commented on his tweet that 95% of confessions "don't want him as an LI as it would cheapen him" or something...

really? thats not the answer we got on the twitter thread something about resources

[Pevesh]

So I didn't read the Varric thread at all today and decided to check in after watching Doctor Who and I immediately notice the page count has jumped up like 20 pages. Then, I think to myself, "What could have gotten them all so excited? Oooh, I wonder if they announced Varric as an LI!" I got about a page further in the thread before I saw the bad news...I am a naive soul. I intentionally kept my hopes for Varric as an LI low after Solas got semi-confirmed, but it seems like it wasn't enough to prevent all the pain.

 

I'm not angry about this or anything, of course, and I am still excited about Inquisition and everything: there's a number of other LIs I'm interested in (though Varric was my first choice, of course) and way too many other things to be excited about. I still wish that marketing, or whoever made the decision, had gone about announcing this in a better way. If they had given Leliana such a clear "no" a long time ago, they could have done that for Varric as another returning character too. Sure, they probably didn't want to spoil the Bianca thing, but after the comic that was hardly a secret. The long wait and knowing his chances weren't high already just made it more painful then necessary (though I realize, of course, that it would have always been a sad announcement).

 

If they'd announced it along with the last two confirmations, it might have helped too. I'm not even interested in any of the last three as LIs, but at least I still could of focused on being happy for those who wanted them. Now, I'm just still anxious, because there is still one group of fans who will be disappointed and while I think that two characters in particular are almost certain, any way it goes down now will be really painful for that last group if they wait much longer with the last two announcements. I feel really sorry for those still waiting for a confirmation.

 

Still, I'll get over it soon enough, I think. I'm already feeling a lot better after really all the posts you left, guys. Mike Laidlaw's tweet that Anja posted especially helped (I would have liked it, but I ran out of likes). Also I want to say that while I'm mostly only lurked since the early days of the thread, I'm glad I decided to join in the posting really, because all of you have been really nice and it feels a lot better to be able to comfort each other. So thanks so much for all of the fun and friendliness! Bioware may have taken away all hope for being able to romance Varric outside of our headcanons and fanfics, but they can not take away all the nice memories we had celebrating the possibilites of a romance with Varric together and we can still share our love of Varric and excitement of seeing him in game again. Hey, who knows, maybe Bioware put off the bad news for so long because they were fighting over who would have to tell us, because they didn't want to break our hearts.

 

Gotta say I definitely agree with what Yinello posted many pages ago: now I'm hoping Bianca is going to be well written and done well. Ultimately, I just want to see Varric get someone he is happy with, and if I get that an an awesome, complex female dwarf character to be excited about, it will make me feel a lot better about not getting to romance Varric. I'm not going to be at all happy if they kill her off now, make her a really flat character who is only about Varric, or some other kind of drama now. I'm going to be hopeful on that front and fervently ship Varric/Bianca now.

[Ajna]

Wow just got back from a long weekend, wow..... this is the worst news ever... seriously.. WHY? why bioware, why do this to me ''us'' for the  2nd time.... my dwarf rogue will just be forever alone... 

A calming waterfall...and a hug for you...

 

[Little Princess Peach]

Hope this will be ok

 

[Ajna]

really? thats not the answer we got on the twitter thread something about resources

Something about resources?  In the interview it was said that he already had someone so to speak...so I'm guessing Bianca.  *thinks happy thoughts*

[AresKeith]

All I'm saying is that I really hope there's a GOOD reason why Varric isn't romancable. 

 

Because it isn't the story they want for him?