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[AngelOfOutlaws]

While I was playing DAII, I was going about my mission quests and then low and behold, I acquire Merrill. Okay. Then as I begin to talk with her I came across a horrid discovery: she is the video game equivalent of my old roommate.

 

Now, I have a begrudging love for my roommate, but playing DAII was essentially me virtually baby sitting her.

 

• She talks exactly like her, with that lost, not all their, voice.
• I would walk into our room and she had chalk pentagrams on the ground with rocks and gems. I still don't know what she was doing. Never going to ask.
• She is incredibly naive, I've had to try to explain to her why she can't walk around the bad parts of our city at night by herself and why hitchhiking on the highway is bad. She doesn't listen. Ever. 
• She gets lost walking in a straight line.
• She has her strange set of beliefs that make zero sense, but even with actual proof that she is wrong and it is bad/harmful, she brushes me off as wrong.
• She has no idea how social situations work.
• Arguing with her is exactly like arguing with Merrill. 

I just...why BioWare? Why did you do this to me?

 

Long story short, Merrill stayed in the alienage. A lot.

 

Just felt like sharing my experience with this so you all could enjoy my pain of being a real life Snarky Hawke handling a real life Merrill.

[Akrabra]

That sounds incredibly stressful to be honest. I was exhausted just taking care of her ingame, but i loved the conversations between her and Varric on the subject. 

But i wouldn't be able to handle it real life, that is for sure. Chalk pentagrams? Creepy.

[jeromefiefdom]

Is she bi, tattooed, and cuts herself?

[Obadiah]

I dunno how I would handle someone like that in real life. At least Merrill is capable of living on her own.

If only you'd played Dragon Age 2 first. Then you'd know to give your ex-roommate a ball of string so she doesn't get lost.

[AngelOfOutlaws]

As I've said, she's no longer my roommate, but she's still my friend, and, yes, it is incredibly tiring. She can live on her own, just differently. If I gave her a ball of string, I'd come back to it unraveled all over the room. Also the pentagram, yeah, she was casting spells...I think.   

[LobselVith8]

While I was playing DAII, I was going about my mission quests and then low and behold, I acquire Merrill. Okay. Then as I begin to talk with her I came across a horrid discovery: she is the video game equivalent of my old roommate.

 

Now, I have a begrudging love for my roommate, but playing DAII was essentially me virtually baby sitting her.

 

• She talks exactly like her, with that lost, not all their, voice.

 

I never thought Eve Myles had a 'lost' type of voice; she uses her normal voice when she voices Merrill. It's easy to recognize her voice from Torchwood, where she plays a very different character. "The Stolen Throne" also mentions that the Common Tongue is a second language for the Dalish, since they speak elvish at camp with one another.

 

You also don't 'babysit' Merrill in Dragon Age II. Your character can tell her that she's wrong about things your character is completely ignorant about, but that's not really babysitting her.

 

• I would walk into our room and she had chalk pentagrams on the ground with rocks and gems. I still don't know what she was doing. Never going to ask.

 

I don't think that's comparable to the elven pantheon, unless you see yourself as an Andrastian human and view all other religious beliefs as 'strange'.

 

• She is incredibly naive, I've had to try to explain to her why she can't walk around the bad parts of our city at night by herself and why hitchhiking on the highway is bad. She doesn't listen. Ever. 

 

I think that's different than a mage walking in Kirkwall at night. Merrill isn't a damsel in distress who needs to be rescued; she's capable of taking care of herself.

 

• She has her strange set of beliefs that make zero sense, but even with actual proof that she is wrong and it is bad/harmful, she brushes me off as wrong.

 

Considering that "The Masked Empire" and "Inquisition" prove Merrill was right, I don't even know why you're mentioning this.

 

• She has no idea how social situations work.

 

Merrill took time to adjust to Andrastian human culture. Dealing with an entirely different culture than her own took some getting used to. Was your roommate from another culture than you?

[TheBlackSwordsman]

Creepy,but cool
She's using blood mage too?