One last "help me choose a romance" thread for old-times sake:
I was hoping you guys would help me out. I’m doing my current “canon” play through of Dragon Age Inquisition and find myself romantically conflicted. Female Cadash, not a self insert. She is very, very ashamed of her past and to the Inquisition as a new start, grabbing the Herald thing with both hands. She’s gone out of her way to be nonviolent and forgiving because she’s seen what the grind of violence is like. So now I have two choices: Josephine or Blackwall. And yes, I’ve played the game a bunch, and know Blackwall’s story.
Josephine is who I would pick if I were writing this as an original story. The princess, everything Cadash has always wanted but has always been out of reach. And her surname is Cadash–scion of a once proud house now fallen from grace, just like Josie. So she isn’t going to be scornful of Josie’s economic difficulty the way Lavellan or Adaar would. And there’s something to be said for the criminal getting to play the knight in shining armor who literally duels for he lady’s heart. Josie was horrified by her past, but I can use that as a character moment. The problem: I don’t think the romance as actually executed in the game is very good. I almost never like the “sweet” romance and Josie feels very thin, since she spends most of the romance oblivious and you get the last romance cutscene so early. It’s not bad, by any means; just one of those things I really want to take a red pen to.
Okay, so that leaves Blackwall. I never actually finished Blackwall, but Cadash is really in step with him. Which is not surprising because they have very similar backgrounds and motivations. The idea of the two of them going on to be Thedosian social workers paying it forward has its charms. But… I always end up feeling like a schmuck when I have tried to past. Not so much because of the murder, but because he’s a really lousy boyfriend. I’m also not really sure that “former criminal reaches out to criminal associates to save boyfriend” is really how I want this story to go.
Thoughts?
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