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Commission for of her Thera Hawke with Anders from Dragon Age 2.Anders and Thera appear in *Elywen 's fanfic, What is Justice?, which can be found here: [link]
I meant to upload this sooner, but I've been a bit preoccupied recently. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
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Thanks! Haha, I don't know what it is, but I do think he's fun to draw
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I'll keep that in mind....
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You are very high on my list of People to Commission as Soon as I Have teh Money.
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I am honored to be on your list
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Haha, aww, no worries! For now I'll just work on our art trade, and maybe that'll help you with your patience
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Maybe... But when I say quite a bit, I mean a very, very long bit. xD I dunno if I can make it.
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Lol, well you could always have me sworn to secrecy till that chapter comes out, if you really want 
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I think I'll wait til I'm a little closer, just because I'm not sure exactly how much longer it'll be... It's from the story coming after Absence, so I at least need to finish that up first.
Oh, sweet, more screenies. 
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Ahh, I see I see. Sounds good! I don't want to rush your story or anything
Oh, I know how stubborn those Mass Effect muses can be... XD
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Part of it is wanting to be sure nothing changes; Rahna can be a tricky muse like that... I don't wanna commish you and then have her change her mind(I don't think she will, with how long she been demanding this, but juuuust to be safe...)
I think they may start talking for Dwayne; that is one good-lookin' maleShep. xD
And I promise, I'm not crazy(even if my family thinks I am), hearing my muses talk in my head. 
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No worries! It's better to be safe and make sure she sticks with your idea
Oh, you flatter him! <3 Haha, I admit, I'm guilty of being distracted by Dwayne while playing ME2... even though Garrus out-distracts him during his recruitment and loyalty quests...
Nah, I don't think you're crazy! We creative peoples all have our "things"
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specially with Rahna... that girl is so darn unpredictable.
I had one Hawke who was so good looking he distracted me constantly, but I've never managed that feat with Shepard. My only maleShep, Desmond(yes, made in the middle of my Lost obsessed phase 
mine apparently being a chatterbox of an elf that lives in my head. xD
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At least she keeps you on your toes...
Oh, I had one of those Hawkes, too 
Oh, pssh, I can barely go a conversation without relating it something to some work of fiction or piece of history, nevermind my "normal" thought processes XD
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That's why I love her.
It's not just Hawkes, either... I have a redhead m!Surana I'm running on my brother's computer, and I swear I'm in love.
I have--multiple times--paced circles in the living room, muttering about how my muses just made this so much harder, but I can't change the story b/c this is how they want it. Rahna is usually responsible. I'll also go full on Firefly/Matrix/Star Wars nerd in the middle of a conversation. Either one earns me 'You are absolutely insane' looks from my family.
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asdfjkl; You have a redhead m!Surana, too? Mine is one of my favorites appearance-wise, but he was on PC so I never got passed his origin XD;; Cier sounds cool! 
Haha, but I think it's cool that you have a clear understanding of how to write characters! I don't have what it takes to be a writer because I can never stay focused long enough for a project and I often get stuck on how a character would act XD You writers don't get enough credit! Oh, I have to be careful when a conversation reminds me of random fandoms when I'm talking to more "normal" people, because first they don't know what I'm talking about, and then there's an awkward silence... o.o lol
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Yes, and he's awesome.
Sweet. I usually just managed to flip over at the worst possible times... like when facing a Thresher Maw. BecauseIfailatlife. xD Those darn spoilers... and it doesn't help that most of them accompany yummy pictures of Vega or Kaidan, so they're really hard to avoid.
It can get crowded with so many muses livin' in my head, but I don't mind.
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Haha, he sounds awesome! Have you done any fics with him? Which reminds me; I read the rest of your oneshots about Jael while I was working on my part of the art trade... I meant to read just a couple but then I read 'em all because she and Jowan are just so gosh darn cute!
Oh yes, the accursed Thresher Maw... 
KAIDEN. Gosh, he's got me torn now... I romanced him in my first ME1 playthrough but while he's charming, I actually didn't care for his character all that much, but he seems like he might've turned awesome in ME3, not to mention all the yummy pictures :< Problem is... it's going to be a real challenge to replay that femShep in ME2 without romancing Garrus (and I dare not cheat on him in ME3!). I've tried it before; I was gonna romance Thane my second time in ME2...but then oh hey, there's Garrus over there, bein' all cute 'n' stuff. Uh oh. Sorry, Thane
Hey, at least they keep things interesting!
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Aren't they? Since Rahna's single (atm 
My faithfulShep is the first one I'm porting to ME3. I figure the poor girl deserves it. Emily wants her Kaidan back(and if they kill him, she'll probably storm BioWare as a one-woman army and demand an explanation). Then the Thane girl(I'm dreadfully curious how the whole Kepral's thing is going to play out...), and then the Garrus girl. The pictures... oh, man, don't get me started on the pictures... Kaidan is so yummeh looking. I had a wallpaper on my laptop that was his ME3 look someone on here threw together, but it was replaced by an adorable chibi AU thing emedeme drew for me(Sorry, Kaidan, you're 
My brother and I fit THREE Monty Python references into a conversation after church yesterday, and it was like a huge inside joke cuz no one else nearby knew what we were talking about. Which almost made it funnier.
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Jowan and Jael definitely get the job done, if that's the case 
My first import will be Renna with my choices (Kaidan dumped for Garrus), then Renna with her choices (Garrus; Kaidan died XD). Next would be Dwayne (Ashley), then I've just started two new Shepards in ME1, Chiaki (Thane) and Sergio (Jack, unless I change my mind if I play ME3 before he gets to ME2), and somewhere in there, I'll probably give my two Renna playthroughs facelifts and unofficial re-names in ME2 to keep one loyal to Kaiden and the other single up till ME3... y'know, just in case there's any new LI's or something...
Man, I hope they find a cure or something for Kepral's Syndrome; I can't help but want everyone to have a happy ending... I'd love to see unromanced!Tali get together with Kal'Reegar!
Haha, very nice! My brother and I do stuff like that all the time, like to the point where we can actually communicate using inside jokes and references, but it's strangely awesome when we make inside jokes in the car with our parents and they don't know what the heck we're talking about XD
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And it will get more fluffy... they haven't even really started flirting yet. Just wait.
Emily's my goody two shoes, full paragon Shep who didn't have it in her to leave Kaidan even after Horizon(he did apologize--sorta--after all). And, I mean, she spent a full five minutes on Virmire agonizing over who to save, cuz Ashley was her BFF, and she was worried if she saved Kaidan people would think it was only because they had a thing almost-going. Would be a shame to waste that agony. For Allison(Thane) and Kenzi(Garrus), I um... built them as two different versions of the same Shepard port from ME1, and Kaidan's dead. I have this inability to cheat on in-game romances(flirting with Zevran doesn't count; it's the fastest way to drive up his approval xD), so if Kaidan's alive, I feel like I have to be faithful(yes, I know I'm weird). Part of me wants to start another and romance Jacob, but I've seen the end of his romance on yt, and... just... no. But when the pictures of Me3-Kaidan and Ashley came out, Emily started cackling with glee in my head(I need to write this woman some fic... maybe writing for Dwayne will get me in a Mass Effect mood...) cuz her man looks so. darn. GOOD. Oh, and if I ever finish Desmond's game, he's probably gonna go for Jack, cuz Miranda is so not his type, and I wanna leave Tali free so I can headcanon her ending up with Kal'Reegar(OTP
There needs to be cure for Kepral's. Thane CANNOT die. 
Yep. Though now that I have the mod, it's changing to Alistair 5, Jowan 2, and Zevran 0.5(I made a Brosca to go after him, but she's sitting at Ostagar like a good girl--just like the Cousland for Gilmore--'til I'm done with Eave's Origins game and Jael's Awakening one).
I know! "What're you talking about?" "Nothin'!!*giggle*"
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More fluffy? Sounds good to me!
Yeah, I’m pretty sure Kaidan's (and Ashley’s) mind was blown after seeing Shepard again so I don’t blame him for freaking out, especially since he acknowledged it along with the apology. Haha, Renna and Dwayne were both very goody-goody in ME1, too (especially Dwayne; Renna has a bit of a temper, lol), but their renegade points are a bit higher in ME2, even though they more than max out their paragon points XD I think most of Renna’s renegade-ness comes from her overall tomboy-ish attitude while Dwayne’s comes from pranks and such… though both tend to hate TIM’s guts… lol. I’m making Sergio more of a paragon military man, and Chiaki’s my classy renegade (playing renegade is haard, I always feel bad!), but she’ll soften up a bit in ME2 in part because of Thane
I can’t bring myself to cheat on game characters (on purpose) either… except when it came to Garrus, obviously >.> Mind you, that was my only femShep import and I didn’t know he was romancable till I was in-game, plus I thought it seemed like a point where Kaidan and Shepard could both move on… but I get the feeling there’s going be some confrontation in ME3… Oh the drama!
I also hope there’ll be a cure for Corpalis Syndrome for Garrus’ mom, just because the man needs something good to happen in his life aside from the femShep romance :< Oh, and a cure for Vrolik Syndrome for Joker! GO BIOWARE, GO CURE EVERY DISEASE IN THE GALAXY RIGHT NOW.
I actually really hope we can meet Garrus’ family in ME3. We’ve already seen a lot of the main species’ homeworlds/major settlements and some of the other companions’ families, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we get to at least visit Palaven. I feel like there’s a lot of potential there and I secretly want to see some family drama about Garrus dating a Spectre since his dad hates Spectres, even though I know that if it happens, it'll be heartbreaking, but that’s just me
Oh the three DA characters that’d have me torn would be Alistair, Cullen, and Sebastian (asdfjkl; What’s with me and them chantry boys??) XD Yes, Raphael Sbarge’s voice is amazing indeed. He was the main reason I romanced Kaidan on my first playthrough XD
I can understand keeping Garrus as a bro; he totally fits the bill! (which is why Dwayne and Garrus are bros, too) I think one of the reasons I like femShep x Garrus so much is from one of my irl beliefs that friendship is one of the most important things to have in a long-term relationship, and Shepard and Garrus can be such true blue friends x3 I actually probably oversimplified that but I think you get the idea XD Of course... another reason I like them together is that Garrus is so adorably awkward, even though before that, jokingly or not, he seems to think of himself as stylish and suave, so it's really cute to see him get all nervous and whatnot
My Shepards actually didn’t have personalities beyond the choices I made because 1) I didn’t really roleplay my RPGs till recently and 2) I felt like Shepard more or less had his/her own preset personality despite what choices you make…until Dwayne. He totally turned my ME experience upside down, and now I love my Shepards and the ME universe even more than I ever did before (crowd goes “aww”)
Hehe, that reminds me that I’ve still got two more Wardens left to finish; m!Amell for Morrigan and m!Cousland for Anora… and so many Hawkes! I’ll get back to them eventually…! XD;;
It just takes too long to have to explain all the references and such, and then they end up not getting it even after you explain anyway XD
Hmm, wow, my reply is looking like an essay! o_o
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Will do. The pics are stuck in my email b/c I was too lazy to go get my flash drive to pull them off my brother's computer and our home internet is down right now because of the weather.
That's the main reason I'm never mad at the VS for their reaction on Horizon. If someone I'd loed and then spent TWO. YEARS. thinking was dead suddenly showed up working for(essentially; this is a broad comparison) a splinter terrorist group we used to fight against, I'd be pretty ticked too. Especially on the 'Why didn't you let me know you were alive?!' side of things. And they APOLOGIZE. People seem to forget that. And I've heard if you "cheat" there will be conflict and you'll have to resolve the triangle, but that was a while ago, so I don't know if it's true. IF it is, I hope there's also a reward for being faithful, preferrably involving a ring and a 'Will you marry me?'(and no forcing me to choose between them and another crew member in a life or death situation, BioWare, please...). I wanted to like Jacob. I wanted to so. bad. But I just... can't. I don't know why, and it honestly frustrates me. He's okay, but just okay. And romance wise... yeah, Kasumi can have him. Tali x Kal needs to be canon(assuming she's unromanced ofc).
BioWare really should cure everybody. Happy endings all around... oh, wait... wrong game company. They have to put something knife-in-the-gut tragic in everything(though if they kill Kaidan, I may kill THEM).
Ooh, I forgot Seb. Shame on me. xD I have a thing for the black hair/blue eyes combo(I usually end up with default Carver), I swear. He's my lone exception(though Anders' romance is growing on me). Dat accent. And his faith...
I do get what you mean on the femShepxGarrus romance, and I agree about friendship being important to a romantic relationship. He's just... too much like a (turian)brother to Em and Allison. It would be weird for them. xD But he is adorable. Why I love him.
I've only really truly roleplayed Emily, two Hawkes and now Cier. Everybody else was just my personality on Shepard/the Warden/Hawke's body xD. But Emily got roleplayed a bit, and then Evi and Xavier are blunt and more aggressive than I would ever be(rivalmances with Anders and MErrill, respectively), and Evi even sided with Meredith end game. I am NEVER doing that AGAIN. Cier more sarcastic and powerhungry than I usually play, but boy is he fun. xD
I have a whole bunch of unfinished Wardens and Hawkes. xD I'll get to them eventually, Cier comes first, then Eave(I want Jowan
Well, mine does too, so e're in good company it seems.
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(I disappeared for Thanksgiving weekend XD Hope you had a good one!)
Hmm, I think I'm gonna just slowly back away from Morrigan... Yes, please don't turn me into a toad or anything...!
I agree about that with Kaidan and Ashley; there was that shock on their end when it came to Shepard, and then there's also that they have other responsibilities that they've committed to over the past two years that they can't just drop to join up with Shepard. And those apologies just melt my heart. Makes me think that the people who are still mad at them probably didn't read their messages, but at the same time, that wouldn't surprise me XD Oh yes, I think it was Casey Hudson or one of the other higher ups that said in an ME2 interview that cheating on your ME1 romance will have consequences in ME3... I'll definitely be gettin' some drama on my first playthrough 
Oh, BioWare and their tragic events... :< I don't even know what to expect in that regard. Still, I hope they'll end on a happy note and not another DUN DUN DUNNN note since this is the end of the trilogy :3
Let's see... Nathaniel, Jowan, Carver... Nah, I don't think I noticed
Hehe, that's all right for Em and Allison! That's another cool thing about Garrus; he's always awesome, whether he's a bro or a boyfriend
Yeah, I do the same thing! 
Ooh, which origin is Eave? I don't think I remember her
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(I did, thanks! Got a cool Firefly tshirt from a Black Friday sale on cafepress, and saw extended family.)
Speaking of Cier... We haz pictures!
Did you get to listen to the mp3 of Raphael Sbarge reading Kaidan's apology message? It was a 'Thanksgiving present' so it was only up til Sunday, but oh, man... I think I listened to it about thirty times. Absolutely melted me in my chair. Good reminder of why Emily stayed faithful.
I have this morbid curiosity how things would go for a mShep who cheated on Ashley with Jack. Knowing Jack is, well... Jack. I bet there'll be more 'drama' if you cheated on either Kaidan or Ashley with Garrus or Tali, though. Ooooh, the curiosities I have over this game are ridiculous... Marrrrch... I need you.... 
Yeah, I'm really hoping for--at worst--minor tragedy. I know this is war, full-scale invasion yada yada. But if this is THE END I want happy-ish one to at least be possible. Even if things can end up hell-on-earth terrible, I want bliss to be an option too.
Ah, I see. The whole black/blue eyes thing mostly dictates which NPC/companions I like and drool over, though that is Emily's hair/eyes combo. And Miri's, but she looks Rivaini except for her eyes, so it's sorta different...
Garrus just = awesome. One of the rock-solid facts of the universe.
Yes, Cier... My grudge-holding, power-hungry elf, who made Alistair and Anora get married and (rather gleefully)executed Loghain. 
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(Sweet! Online Black Friday shopping is much safer than going to the store XD)
Dat elf! I approve of him for Morrigan :3
I did! It's on Youtube now, too, though, so you can still listen to it [link] 
Yeah, I've wondered about Jack, too... Combine her super violent side with her ultra-sensitive side and I really wouldn't know what to expect with that
Same here. I'm hoping that if they put in a tragedy, it'll be something more minor and in the middle somewhere (no more forcing us to kill off companions, please!), then after we defeat the Reapers (or if, or however you wanna put it, lol), we get a happy ending depending on whatever we did
Lol, the only NPC/companion I can think of off the top of my head with my combo is Sebastian, though I wouldn't be surprised if I missed some people XD
TRUE FACTS!
Haha, for Nayan, I plan for him to harden Alistair so he'll be king, then recruit Loghain
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Thanks! I was rather proud of how awesome he turned out.
Ooh, yay, youtube link!
You have a point; it might be more okay if you 'cheat' with Garrus or Tali, since Kaidan/Ash know them better. Arrrrrghhh. I wants to know. Emily would happily become Mrs. Alenko... and then set about match-making Tali with Kal. xD
If I have to kill off another companion I may well scream. Mordin... I am worried. And I wouldn't put it past BioWare to, say, kill Garrus. I don't particularly wanna disappear again either. Though I do plan to have Cier go through the Eluvian with Morrigan when I get him to the end of Witch Hunt. I want a happy ending(or at least mostly happy) for my chars.
Cier's too much of a grudge-holder... Aeyna(Brosca)'s more the type to do whatever it takes to survive, so she might... I can have fifteen(?) Wardens before it makes me delete(why the finished Aeducan and QueenCousland got deleted), and I must have at least that many Hawkes... I don't know for sure.
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Ooh, he's getting close to the end! Bet it's gonna be fun to go through Witch Hunt with him... both revisiting the Circle AND meeting up with Morrigan again
Haha, me too, ever since encountering his voice with both Carth and Scorch way back in mah preteen days
Yeah, I can see it both ways with Garrus and Tali; Kaidan/Ash could either go something like "How could you steal him/her from me? I trusted you!" or "I'm upset, but I know you'll take care of him/her, so fine" lol. Something tells me it'll start off as the first one then end up the second if you stick with Garrus/Tali, but then I can't even predict what would happen if you go Kaidan/Ash, then Garrus/Tali, then back to Kaidan/Ash... That would just break everyone's hearts :< Renna would still choose to be Mrs. Vakarian, though, or...however it works in turian culture XD Match-making Tali and Kal ftw!
I'm really worried about Mordin, especially since besides his age, he was also the most likely one to die during the Suicide Mission, according to the ME Wiki D: asdfjkl; If they killed Garrbear, they will face the wrath of the Garrus fangirl army!!
I just plan out the major choices to get different endings, then work it around the character 
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Yep, I just have to re-download the patch for my brother's computer so I can actually play Witch Hunt. xD But oh, interacting with Finn is gonna be fun... Yeah, and Cier told Morrigan he was going to follow her; he still cares about her(le gasp) and all, so that'll be interesting. My only other char all the way through WH is Rahna, who is canon and told Morrigan no deal on the whole blood magic/sleeping with my man thing.
I think it's so interesting to play a f!Shep who's girly. On one hand she kicks butt on a regular basis, and then you get her off-duty and she's totally different. One of my Couslands ended up like that(Irene). She can talk shoes for hours with Leliana, doesn't mind too horribly much when she has to dress up, but is still a terror to darkspawn and bandits everywhere(templar/berserker.... whose name means perfect peace. Ah, Irony, I love thee). However it winds up(Mrs Alenko or not) Emily's still gonna try to matchmake Tali and Kal. Unless one of them gets killed. Oh, no... Not I have this horrible thought that they'll include some light TalixKal and then kill him off. Gah. I hope I'm wrong. I really, really, hope I'm wrong.
Garrus has enough fangirls(and guys; you should see the comments on The Garrus Vakarian List on ffnet xD) I think he's safe. Think. Alistair has a huge fangirl army and they still make it possible for him to die. Ditto with Anders... I just don't know with these people any more. *headdesk* And I've kinda been avoiding spoilers too, so I don't know if there will be any new people besides Vega, either. Oh, same here. If we disappear again I'll roll my eyes at the re-use of that plot device and get over it(by losing myself in TOR; my brother's paying for a couple months as my Christmas present
Most of mine go "I wanna do XYZ this playthrough, what personality do you need for that to make sense?" I know right? I'm working on my twelfth or thirteenth Revan. Then there's all the Wardens, all the Hawkes, and I'm also trying to play Baldur's Gate and NWN(those I keep failing at so hard...). It was about a week after Korrin and Rielle were gone that BioWare announced you could port Origins games to DA2. I was so mad at myself. xD Those two were my only finished games at that point, so I hurried up and beat Rahna's, Irene's, and Trinne's to give myself options. And now I also have Jael and (almost)Eave, too.
I agree; it may move through feeling betrayed and then they come around to acknowledging they can trust Garrus/Tali to take care of Shepard. And maybe, just maybe, Kaidan would be slightly more willing to trust Jacob than Ash would be to trust Miranda. Or not...
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Ooh, seems like Rahna and Cier are going to have pretty different experiences in Witch Hunt... sounds fun!
That's a good point! My other femSheps are tomboys or the more hardened military type (and the rest are men, 'nuff said, lol), so I hadn't really thought about that with a girly femShep. Irony is great XD Nah, Kal was already able to be killed in ME2 (if you let him fight and took too long taking out the geth), so I think they'd have to keep him in as a reward to those who kept him alive (plus I've seen that he's got a pretty good sized fan following for such a minor character; a lot of people actually want him as a companion). I kind of think the same thing about the rest of the Normandy crew since everyone can die, like Jacob died in my first playthrough, but I'm not importing that one, lol.
Haha, yeah, Garrus and Tali's fanbases are pretty strong, and BioWare knows it, hence the companion plus romancability fanservice (the best kind of fanservice is the kind where the devs/producers listen to their fans <3). I more think he's safe because he already had a chance to die in ME2, but y'never know with BioWare... they always have to keep us on our toes... XD Killing Anders in my second playthrough was one of the hardest things I had to do in the DA games, I actually got teary eyed, lol. Of course, nothing's beat Alistair's death yet, since that was totally unexpected because I fail, haha. Fenris died in my first DA2 playthrough, though XD;; Woohoo, TOR! I'm still pretty torn on when I should buy that XD I totally agree. And even if the ending winds up something we don't like, we still know what happens and have closure, plus being the silly fangirls that we are, we can make AUs where everyone gets happy endings and everything's all sugary sweet
I fail so bad at BG... Well, I couldn't get BG to install on my laptop, but I tried a teenie tiny bit of BG2 and failed. I'll have to try that again at some point XD I haven't had the chance to get NWN yet, though. Ohhh, gosh, yeah I'd get mad if I deleted my saves right before they announced it, too! XD;; But at least now you have more options
It's hard to guess... but it seems like Kaidan's got nicer guys to be jealous of than the girls Ashley has to worry about XD Jacob, Thane, Garrus vs Miranda, Jack, Tali... Jack and Miranda always seem to come across in a bad way with first impressions, but Jacob and Thane are pretty nice guys (if you don't know Thane's an assassin >.>). Well, I'll have to YouTube most of those whenever it comes around since I'll only have Garrus to worry about
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Oh yeah, considering Rahna was so mad at Morri she came thiiiis close to killing her. But she has to admit, she's the one who said no. Trinne's working through, but she also told Morrigan no deal(she didn't really care about dying after Alistair broke up with her... my lone ultimate sacrifice so far).
Kenzi's my girly Shep. Allison's earthborn and I have this whole long headcanon involving her and Irish gangs etc. xD Emily's a spacer, so I just figure it wouldn't be easy to be really, really girly growing up like that. She's very practical(hence the simple ponytail that almost makes her look like a monkey...), but then again, her favorite color is pink. So she's a little girly anyway. I never know who
s safe and who's not with BioWare(well, Varric had to be in DA2. But aside from that). I killed Anders on my first playthrough(the warrior who romanced Sebastian) and had to take a minute to weep over my keyboard before kicking some demon tail. Alistair's death was absolutely gut-wrenching, even though I knew it was coming(Rahna's my seventh or eighth char). I still cried. And then I did it with Irene, and aided by a kiss mod I'd forgotten I'd installed, it was even worse. The really weird thing is I was almost as depressed when Trinne(Amell) did the US as I was watching Alistair die. I really, really liked her. I actually wrote a(very, very terrible) fanfic about what Revan and the Exile(both female) were doing in the Unknown Regions and then had them come back.
BG... I went long enough between the tutorial part and playing again, that the dude who attacks you maybe half an hour into the game always kills me because I can't remember how to fight. I fail so hard. NWN I'm stuck in the dungeon. xD I fail at old games.
Yep, Kaidan definitely got the 'easier' crew to deal with; all of 'em are nicer.
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Haha, wow, I didn't even know you could kill Morrigan! Guess it never crossed my mind to look for the option XD I've only played WH with my f!Tabris, and they parted on good terms so that she could go back and kick Zev's butt out of trouble in Antiva
Irish gangs? That sounds awesome
Yeah, it seems like BioWare's not afraid to kill anyone off anymore, unless they're absolutely necessary for the story (aka Varric)
Haha, I'm going to have to start over on BG2 to see if I can figure out how to play, haha. Old games are more challenging, though
At this point, the only romancable I'll "cheat" on is that one Kaidan (sorry, dude!), and every other Shepard will stick to their guy or girl
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Well, you stab her and she falls through the Eluvian, so I have my doubts that she's actually dead, but yeah. I think part of why the ultimate sacrifice was so hard was I'd spent who knows how many hours building her and being her, and I'd made her into a pretty awesome arcane warrior.
Yep. I see her involved with some futuristic version of the IRA, probably working in England or something. My view is spacer kids move around a lot, so you're gonna only collect the things that really matter, hence a practical tomboy with a few girly habits. xD
Oh, yeah, I remember that from Irene's game. With Rahna I picked the 'this is crazy' option, and he tells her it;s the sanest thing he's ever done and runs off to slay the dragon while I try to direct my tears away from the keyboard. xD All the possible stuff that got cut from KotOR2 is ridiculous. Especially Atton. Man, there's some good stuff from him that got cut. *pout*
One of Sebastian's quests, the one where you run into her--Faith, I think, apparently her dialogue's a little different if she was the Warden's LI.
BioWare's been hammering the 'no new LI' thing, but I'm wondering about Joker still. He's technically not new, after all.
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Ahh, I see I see. Yeah, something tells me that BioWare would keep her alive... she might just be a little crankier than usual when/if she ever comes out
Y'know, sometimes I wonder if BioWare would ever release DLCs that let us play Shepard's origin and psychological profile stories. Could be interesting, but at the same time, that's where headcanon can easily come in to fill in the blanks, so it's not really necessary 
Awwww, Alistair...! D': Oh, I got a bit upset when I found out just how much they cut out of KotOR2, especially the Atton stuff 'cause he's awesome! (especially if you get to turn him light side XD)
I probably should've guessed that, but I suppose now I have something to look forward to in that playthrough whenever I get back to playing Dragon Age
The "no new LI" thing makes me wonder if you'll be allowed to romance the previous LIs if you didn't romance them in an earlier games. I mean, what if someone (as crazy as they would have to be) went and played ME3 only? The whole romance subplots would be cut out
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Yeah, with BioWare, I won't believe someone's dead without seeing their lifeless body. And sometimes even then I'm still suspicious. xD
That would be cool, but at the same time I like it being a mostly blank canvas where I get to fill in the details. Especially being a writer who loves being given a framework and then told 'the rest is up to you'.
I know! They cut a whole bunch of stuff from Malachor especially that would have been so awesome(most of what involved Atton was pretty tragic, but still). I mean, Atton would fight Sion for you, and he could lose. And die(I heard there would have been an option to save him, but it would lower your max health/force points. I'd have considered it worthwhile). Darn people who rushed the release date...
Ooh, yeah, that's a possibility. I mean, if I was just coming in on ME3, I wouldn't want to be totally locked out of romancing anyone just cuz I only started here, ya know? That's a good plan, so that you don't have to worry if there isn't anyone worth saving her for.
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*cough*Saren*cough* lol
Yeah, I'd rather lean toward it being a blank canvas, too. It's fun to be able to get more creative than being told "Hey, this is everything about your character, don't color outside the lines." DAO does a good job of giving an origin and keeping it open, though :3
I'd save him, too! (I always have this idea in my head that if a game lowers your health/skills/whatever or gives you less supplies/money/whatever, it's still going to have to be plausible to continue on, otherwise the game is broken, lol) I also remember that Atton and Mical/Disciple can have a fight on Malachor, too. Rushed release dates are terrible >.< That's why I was cool with it when BioWare pushed ME3 back
Besides, I've got, what, four other Shepards to worry about getting through up to ME2? XD Maybe they'll make another comic thing like they did for the ME1 story. How they'd make one for ME2, with it being as non-linear as it is, though, I have no idea o.o
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Exactly.
I had so much fun coming up with a history for Gabriel(my Andras, who's an almost-main character in Absence now...), because you get nothing for an Orlesian Warden. So I invented this totally awesome backstory that made me love him even more than I already did. And some of the things for my Tabris'(especially Jae) that I haven't been able to include yet are neat(imo, at least), and then I've head-canoned Miri as Rivaini b/c of how dark-skinned she is.
Atton is too awesome to just let him die if there's anything I can do about it. xD Yeah, Atton can fight Mical and I think Visas could fight Handmaiden, too for a male Exile. I've heard Atton's dialogue for that fight and wow, does his VA do a good job at sounding creepy. That's one thing I like about BioWare; they(usually) will bump back release dates if need be(I still feel another six months even could have made DA2 so much better).
Yeah, the comic thing could be hard to do for ME2, since there's not a set order for you recruiting people and all.
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For a second there I was like, "Andras? Who's Andras? .... Oohhh, must be an Orleasian Warden!" I don't have any Orleasians, lol XD;; That sounds pretty awesome! The cool thing about making up your own origins is that your character will be unique from other people's
Agreed! And yes, Atton's VA was awesome! I barely even remember his voice, but I remember it was awesome, especially during those scenes that wound up cut :< Yeah, I think DA2 seemed to have a time/budget problem. Hopefully they'll be able to work out the kinks on the next one!
I've heard the comic was originally made for PS3 since ME1 was never converted for it, so maybe they won't make one for ME2's story?
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Oh, yeah. Andras is the Orlesian elven Warden(whatever the class). I also have a Caron(human) that I'm gonna work into Rahna's canon as sort of a villain(hey, someone has to be responsible for the whole mess with Anders...). Orlesians are really easy to make unique because all you get is that you're a Grey Warden from Orlais. No history or origin beyond that. Made me very happy when I got to write in Gabriel's whole story.
Atton's VA was really good at getting the right emotion in his voice, whether anger or regret or loathing or whatever. The cut scene with Mical still makes me shudder whenever I listen to it. DA2 was definitely rushed. I won't mind(too much...) waiting a couple years for DA3 if they can make it awesome.
I have no idea. From what I've heard, there is the little comic thing for your story if you start a new Shepard in ME3, but I dunno how they'd handle ME2's storyline in that format.
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That's awesome! I don't think I could make a very good character like that (one of the reasons why I haven't been able to do anything much with my original story idea yet, lol)
Yeah, personally, I'd rather wait for a good game, then get a blah game at an earlier date.
I hadn't heard that, but it'd be cool if it fit with the pacing of the game (depending on where they put it). I guess they also need it for if players didn't get the Arrival DLC... Maybe the comic will only be for The Arrival? Hm...
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Heh, I gave myself a personal challenge when Aftermath turned into something serious(aka topped 20 chapters) that I was going to try and work in as many of my Wardens(one from each Origin) as I could. So far Mahariel's the only one I'm still trying to figure out from Origins, and Kader(dwarf) is the only Orlesian. Some--like Brosca and Caron--haven't shown up yet, but I know what I'm doing with them. Aeducan was the hardest so far. And Amell the most tragic.
Quality(plot, game mechanics) is one of my top criteria for replaying a game(along with it being easy to not die xD). Probably the reason I have ten or so Revans and fifteen odd Wardens. xD
Yeah, I dunno for sure; I'm always worried about spoilers so I don't know many details.
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Whoaa, that sounds so cool! And at least now you know you have what it takes to become a novelist, if that's something you want to do
Haha, agreed
Same here... Guess we'll find out for sure in March!
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Oh, yes. I have a couple half-written original things that I need to work on but never do because I'm too busy with fanfic. xD Whoops.
March needs to hurry up, then.
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Haha, well, you could always say that the fanfics were practice (fun practice, at that!)
That it does.
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I actually did say that on my ffnet bio, 'cause that's how it started a couple years ago. 'Ooh, I'll write my favorite Revan and Carth a fanfic to hone my writing skills so when I rewrite my novel, it's better!'
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Haha, the same thing happened to me with fan art vs original art... I'd have trouble coming up with good ideas for my art classes, but I'd come up with more ideas than I could draw for fandoms XD IT'S TAKING OVER OUR MINDS!!
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I have people ask me if I've made any progress on my novel, and I always have to mutter a sheepish 'no'. I don't tell them my fanfics have taken over my mind. xD
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Aww, I know how that is. Normal people don't understand the woes of us fangirls, what with these fandoms taking over our minds and all, lol
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This is why we need fangirl friends.
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