Solas, IB, Cullen, and Sera are all among my must do playthroughs, though I'm having order issues on everyone except Solas. And I still want to do a playthrough with the other four as well. This is what happens when you like all the options. And they're all available to elves. And them haters kept saying elves weren't attractive. Pfft.
Who's your favorite elf?
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Posté 02 octobre 2014 - 07:39
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Posté 02 octobre 2014 - 06:03
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Merrill, the Hero of Kirkwall. An intelligent, strong, resilient Dalish mage who was willing to stand up for her beliefs, and give her life to protect people in danger. An astute scholar of the arcane arts and a proficient blood mage who refused to abuse her power, instead focusing on intriguing technology that could irrevocably benefit the Elvhen.
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Posté 02 octobre 2014 - 06:59
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I like Merrill a lot, but I still can't reconcile how they changed her from DA:O. Truth be told, I rather like the Dalish Origin's Merrill, and I feel that if they weren't going to be faithful to the characteristics they showed for the first game, they should have just made up a whole new character. All DA2 Merrill really has in common with DAO Merrill is the hair and name anyway. (They didn't even get the vallaslin right!)
- I've heard the argument before that Merrill from DA:O didn't really have a very developed personality, so they could have changed it any which way without breaking character. I respectfully disagree. DAO Merrill so stern, uptight, snappy, no-nonsense, "get your butt in gear and let's move!". DA2's Merrill is at the polar opposite end of the spectrum, being very soft, slow, ponderous, loopy, woozy, easily distracted, often lost in thought, has poor people skills even with her own people, etc.
To me, the difference in basic characteristics and demeanor between DAO and DA2 Merrill is the difference between Morrigan and Leliana. Even if we were around DAO Morrigan only up till Flemeth kicked us out of her hut (and Morrigan didn't follow), if she turned up in DA2 with the demeanor and personality of Leliana (very soft, ditzy, woozy, "la la la... ooh! Pretty colors!") most people would cry "Bullsh!t" to it.
- I've also heard it said that Merrill shows some leadership ability around her own people, so she's only really soft, submissive, and absent-minded around Hawke because of culture shock, lack of confidence, she's out of her element, etc. Again, respectfully disagree. She's around her own people apart from Marethari for only a few seconds, and she does not demonstrate the very serious, brusque, businesslike tone of the first game. When her people take shots at her too, she just takes it like a submissive puppy instead of taking charge like the first game.
- Also, basic personality doesn't melt like snow when you're out of your element. Morrigan doesn't stop being cold and aloof when she joins the Wardens just because she's away from her mother and the forest and only life she's ever known. Sten doesn't stop being the serious, stoic, self-possessed vanguard of the Qunari just because he's away from the only life he ever knew. Zevran doesn't stop being... himself just because he's away from the Crows for the first time and in a country he's truthfully never been to. I can understand DA:O Merrill feeling a little lost and unsure, but that doesn't explain going from sharp, stern, and task-oriented in DAO to loopy, woozy, lackadaisical in DA2.
Plus, DAO Merrill encounters Duncan in the game and she does NOT act like the sweet, dizzy, absent-minded, tongue-tied waif she does toward Hawke in DA2. So the whole "She acts differently around humans" excuse doesn't fly with me.
I like DA2 Merrill. I really do. But I like DAO Merrill too, and I really wish that if the writers weren't going to expand on the characteristics they already wrote for her in DAO, I wish they would have just made a new character for DA2's Merrill.
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Posté 02 octobre 2014 - 07:26
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When her people take shots at her too, she just takes it like a submissive puppy instead of taking charge like the first game.
I have never seen this, can you give an example? I don't think what happened at the end of her final quest really counts.
In DA:O I noticed that Merrill was very interested in the ruins and was disappointed that they couldn't study the mirror and that Duncan broke it. That seems to mesh well with how she is in da2.
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Posté 03 octobre 2014 - 04:11
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Meril, Ariane, Maratheri, and a lot more, almost all of them, exept the Enemies lol
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Posté 03 octobre 2014 - 08:15
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I have never seen this, can you give an example? I don't think what happened at the end of her final quest really counts.
When you first meet her. An elf takes you to her, then makes a really snide comment to her and leaves. She doesn't fully look at him, then just says quietly after he's gone, "They just don't understand..."
That's hardly the "Sit down, shut up, buckle up, and get moving" leader that we see in the first game.
In DA:O I noticed that Merrill was very interested in the ruins and was disappointed that they couldn't study the mirror and that Duncan broke it. That seems to mesh well with how she is in da2.
Interest and personality are not the same thing. Two people can be interested in studying the same thing, yet that doesn't make them the same person.
Tamlen was also interested in studying the ruins and learning more about the mirror. Does that mean they can re-skin him as female, place "her" in the second game, and pretend DA2 Tamlen is really DAO and/or DA2 Merrill?
Morrigan is interested in reviving parts of the past; she herself says "there are some traditions worth preserving," and she also rebuilds the Eluvian to do so. Does that mean they can take Morrigan's character as-is, re-skin her as an elf, then place her in DAI and say "This is Merrill. Yes, that Merrill. I know her voice, personality, demeanor, body language, people skills, etc are nothing like Merrill's, but she's interested in learning more about the past and reviving the Eluvian, so that makes them the same person!"
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Posté 03 octobre 2014 - 08:31
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Good points, although I don't personally mind what they did with her. She wasn't a substantial part of DA:O so I couldn't say that much was lost.
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Posté 06 octobre 2014 - 12:42
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So far it's Merrill, despite her attempts to use blood magic, ancient artifacts, and a demon to resurrect old lore, I find her easy to get along with.
