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[Inprea]

I am not sure how many here played Dragon Age Awakening but I'm going to guess a fair bit. This thread is inspired from Sigrun. For those who didn't play awakening Sigrun is a positively adorable castles dwarf who had a far worse life than just about anyone else, except maybe a Warden Dwarf Castles, and she is still happy.

 

I'd like it if we could get another similar companion. Someone who life has piled misfortune upon misfortune upon and instead of leaving them bitter they have become exceedingly cheerful with a positively twisted sense of humor. The type of humor a veteran soldier who has seen too many horrors to be disturbed by them anymore, a nurse or a doctor that works in the trauma center of a very bad city or perhaps certain police officers may develop. 

 

A companion that could look at an Eldritch horror and not only call it cute but tell us why. Hopefully in a very disturbing way.

 

Anyway, just a companion type I'd like to see. Thought I'd toss it out here and get the notion out of my head.

[Han Shot First]

I'd love a character that was a battle-hardened veteran of the Reaper War, whose experiences left him or her a bit like  Oddball.

[themikefest]

I like her. Too bad she was only available in awakening. A character like that would do well as a squadmate

[Inprea]

I like her. Too bad she was only available in awakening. A character like that would do well as a squadmate

 

Indeed. I loved it when she one upped the grumpy elf about who had it worse. City elfs or castles dwarfs. It's just so nice to have someone that can shut up a complainer because they've had it worse and remained positive. If perhaps a little insane. 

[themikefest]

I'd love a character that was a battle-hardened veteran of the Reaper War, whose experiences left him or her a bit like  Oddball.

He was a good character. I don't think anybody could've played the role better than Donald Sutherland

[Pistolized]

On one hand, that kind of character could be a good yang to a more serious or inexperienced yin companion.

 

On another hand, "castles dwarf" is a great typo and I love it more than I should.

[Vapaa]

and she is still happy.

Happy ? Sigrun is happy ?

 

 

Seriously ?

 

SERIOUSLY ?

[Inprea]

Happy ? Sigrun is happy ?

 

 

Seriously ?

 

SERIOUSLY ?

 

Yes seriously. She has her downer moments but tends to be exceedingly cheerful. From when she sniffs the dirt and has a talk with the elf about things that smell good to when she wants Anders to kill the evil bush and several other moments. Her cheerful happy moments far exceed her darker ones.

[Lady Artifice]

Yes seriously. She has her downer moments but tends to be exceedingly cheerful. From when she sniffs the dirt and has a talk with the elf about things that smell good to when she wants Anders to kill the evil bush and several other moments. Her cheerful happy moments far exceed her darker ones.

 

I don't even know if I'd call them downer moments. She has a death wish, but she's remarkable cheerful about it, and she's one of those people who finds joy in the little things. The smell of grass and trees just make her day, because they're new and wondrous to her. 

[Catastrophy]

Ash - left for dead on Virmire - after a long streak of awkward moments.

[Vapaa]

Yes seriously. She has her downer moments but tends to be exceedingly cheerful. From when she sniffs the dirt and has a talk with the elf about things that smell good to when she wants Anders to kill the evil bush and several other moments. Her cheerful happy moments far exceed her darker ones.

 

She's falsely cheerful, she hides behind that cheerful facade, but a death seeker is anything but a happy person.

[Inprea]

She's falsely cheerful, she hides behind that cheerful facade, but a death seeker is anything but a happy person.

 

That's how you see it. Not how I see it. So far you seem to be the only person on this thread to have that complaint. Seeking death or a glorious end doesn't mean you're a miserable person. The entire Legion of the Dead have accepted they are dead after all to free themselves up to fight the darkspawn. 

[Vapaa]

Seeking death or a glorious end doesn't mean you're a miserable person.

I never said that, you're putting worlds in my posts.

[Dean_the_Young]

Yes seriously. She has her downer moments but tends to be exceedingly cheerful. From when she sniffs the dirt and has a talk with the elf about things that smell good to when she wants Anders to kill the evil bush and several other moments. Her cheerful happy moments far exceed her darker ones.

 

Not to put too fine a line on it, but-

 

Sigrun's cheerfulness was a symptom of a suicidal mindset, not emotional health.

 

Suicidal people aren't just 'oh woe is me.' There are the maniacly cheerful variants who are really, really happy because they think they've figured out the solution to their problem. In Sigrun's case, it was tied to being the Legion of the Dead, and then the Warden: she found something that was guaranteed to give her a death (and end of life) that would make up for her past.

 

Sigrun's story is a better example of a healing from her suicidal tendency- towards genuine happiness and living- than that she was happy all the while.

[Eternal Phoenix]

I love this thread simply because of that brilliant typo, castles dwarf. 

 

As for the idea, I suppose it could work. A suicidal squadie who hides his/her intentions behind a false façade.

[Dabal Hayat]

Colonist Shepard/Sole Survivor hadn't a past miserable enough? Jack ? Thane? Javik? (and all of them are likeable in one way or another, all of them are snarky, with different degrees, and all of them can be happy).

What is wrong with you people?

[capn233]

Miranda had the most miserable past.  Her father had the gall to design her to be nearly perfect, and then neglected her by giving her the best education and training money could buy.  She had enough of being a spoiled rich girl and finally ran away.

[General TSAR]

I'd love a character that was a battle-hardened veteran of the Reaper War, whose experiences left him or her a bit like  Oddball.

Agreed.

 

We need a hippy like character who really doesn't give a damn until it's time to give a damn and he gives the bare minimum of damns.

[Cyonan]

I'd say Jack had a pretty terrible life prior to meeting Shep.

 

Javik also lost all of his people and still remains the great space troll among the primitives.

[Dabal Hayat]

I'd say Jack had a pretty terrible life prior to meeting Shep.

 

Javik also lost all of his people and still remains the great space troll among the primitives.

 

I would add Thane too: no childhood whatsoever, trained to kill since he was 6 years old (I suppose it was something along Spartan way + a lot of fighting education: picture it. An old veteran of the Compact punching a kid to an inch of his life... for years.).

Sent on his first mission when he was 12th. First kill.

Found love late in life... and her wife is killed by Batarian slavers. The first person who loved him for who it was, dead...

Shieat... it's miracle he is so adjusted. Or I suppose he speaks softly with his raspy voice, but his mind keep screaming... (eidetic memory: he can't forget. Ever).

 

Or all the Awakened Collectors: 50'000 years on the Reapers' leash leave a damn scar on the mind (but they don't troll... afawk).

 

In any case, Jack took all the cake as "worse than anyone else", imo.

[CuriousArtemis]

I think Zevran is a better example of the character type you're looking for over Sigrun. Now there's a guy that hides his pain with humor. As for the character that's suffered most, I have to go with Fenris. Hard to beat his lousy past.

 

I would be okay with this type of character showing up in MEA. Cracking jokes through the pain can get old though and the character can start to seem like a cliche. Dorian also did this during DAI (same type). I guess we've never had an ME character like this. Just goes to show they're two separate writing teams.

[Han Shot First]

Miranda had the most miserable past.  Her father had the gall to design her to be nearly perfect, and then neglected her by giving her the best education and training money could buy.  She had enough of being a spoiled rich girl and finally ran away.

 

Miranda's past was no bed of roses, but she didn't have it the worst of the squadmates.

 

That would be Jack. She was abducted as a kid, and knowing how Cerberus rolls her parents were probably murdered, and then raised in an abusive enviroment where she was forced to hurt other kids. She's also a rape victim.

[Killdren88]

They are great for Schadenfreude, so certainly.

[Panda]

Miranda's past was no bed of roses, but she didn't have it the worst of the squadmates.

 

That would be Jack. She was abducted as a kid, and knowing how Cerberus rolls her parents were probably murdered, and then raised in an abusive enviroment where she was forced to hurt other kids. She's also a rape victim.

 

I think there was somewhere during Jack's loyalty quest info that her parents were tricked that their child had died during operation, cause Cerberus were trying to find out test subjects via doctors or something. I can't find it now, but I'm sure there was thing like that with dialogue and all.

[BabyPuncher]

It's in the database on the Shadow Broker ship.