The whole conversation leads you to think that Cullen or whoever you romance will have some kind of proporsal or committment to the Inquisitior at the end, but instead you get his stupid comment about not knowing what comes next.........or some obscure comment, I mean really! 
I was so deflated at the end of the Cullen romance plot 
as I was really expecting more. I know that a lot of people were as well.
So to actually comment on the specific issue you brought up.... the "commitment" point with Cullen is in the sex scene in his office - he's explicitly saying, "when this is over, I won't want to let go of you" and asking if that's what you want too. If you don't want that much commitment you have the option to end the romance right there, but if you continue it, you are by all means agreeing to staying with him, even after the whole Corypheus, Inquisition etc stuff is done. Not all the romances lock-in in those terms (Blackwall's, for instance, locks in terms of "I don't know how to be with you anymore but we'll figure it out," Solas' locks in in terms of "I love you but I can't do this"); but Cullen's specifically locks in with a promise of staying together after what you brought together is over. It's not a typical proposal, on one knee with a diamond ring or whatnot, but it is a commitment.
As for a formal proposal... sure a lot of players like to headcanon marriage and babies, but a lot of players also don't want that at all. If you search the Cullen thread for marriage, you'll see long discussions we've had over the last months about it - some players like the formal structure of marriage, other players just want to be together and don't want a proposal at all... it's hard to please everyone, which is probably why BW, with rare exceptions, doesn't take romances further than "we'll stay together" and just lets you headcanon the rest.
If you look back at the series, the only two romances that could end in marriage were Sebastian and (a very specific spin of) Alistair, and these marriages were logical extensions of those characters' stories - king!Alistair needed to marry Cousland or Anora for political reasons, and priest!Sebastian needed the marriage as a religious compromise. Those romances weren't assuming marriage as the natural end point of a relationship, they were just resolving a larger issue that the romance subplot conflicted with (see Alistair breaking up with every f!Warden who's not a Cousland). Cullen doesn't have an issue like that, though; he's not a political figure, his religion doesn't interfere with his intimate life, he can pretty much do and date whoever he wants, so there's no reason for the writing to force a political marriage into his romance. He wants to be with your Inquisitor, that's it. The final terms of that relationship, whether you'll get formally married or just stay together as it is, are for you headcanons to decide.
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Post-Trespasser edit: well, this post just got really funny now, in retrospect. 
Modifié par riverbanks, 12 septembre 2015 - 02:18 .
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