Dragon Age: Origins - Alistair
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lolpersephone:

reegars:

baranchi:

You ever have a moment where you have to put down a videogame and just think because the choice they are offering you is too difficult?

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dgaider:

theminttu:

I took a little break from commissions. I bring you: the Hottie Warden!

This is marvelous, really. I’ll never get the fans who keep asking to bring Duncan back from the dead— me, I think he should rest, poor guy. Still, I can only assume it’s because they love him so. :)

Yes.

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Pole dancing Alistair [x]

how can you not reblog this…

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givethemhorns:

gamerchicksworld:

ammoncrisom:

I think people hate him because of his fan girls not because he shares a name with Edward. And probably because of the way he acted in dao or da2? I mean he does flop around. First he’s in love with you -if your a female- and doesn’t really seem to like what he does. As in he was scared to kill you and scared he wouldn’t know when to strike, and is put off by other Templars who make a game of it. Then after he wants all mages dead, which to me is understandable as a lot of his friends Mage and Templar alike got killed infront of him or forced into an abomination. Then there is two were he’s trying to figure out what’s happening to his new recruits and then wants to save the Circle in the end. But then some people wonder why he didn’t stop things sooner and hate him for that. But how could he? He’s not on the top. Meredith is. Even if he did she wouldn’t care, she was power hungry -she was above the guard- and eventually went insane because of that idol. If she was doing away with mages who’s to say she wouldn’t turn around -just like Logain did- and put him in a cell so he wouldn’t squeal to the chantry or Viscount. Even then it’s her word against his and she has a lot of power.

Some of his fans certainly have not made it easy. Thats for sure!!! It really pissess me off how they sweep all the mage abuse under the rug like it never existed.

I sure hope they don’t sweep the mage abuse he ignored under the rug. This is headcanon, but I thought he didn’t try to do much about the abuse in the Circle because he really needed something to believe in after the events in DAO. Something to hold on to, to the point of having almost blind faith. And it was the Templars and Meredith.

Also remember the experiment with people giving potentially lethal shocks to test subjects if they were under supervision and that someone was claiming responsibility for the consequences while they would have never done the same on their own? It’s not pretty of course, but I’d think this could apply here.

I am not sure if I’m defending him or the opposite, but either way I’d really love to see where he stands in the end.

I’m ambivalent about him myself, mainly because I have a hard time totally condemning ANYone. There’s always reasons for why someone is the way they are, and I don’t think that he is evil, nor a ‘bad’ person per se.

She eyes the unusual dwarf with scarcely disguised suspicion. Oddly his refusal to guarantee results reassures her rather than puts her off. Surely if this was a scam, he’d say anything to get her to go along?

She accepts his offer because, really, does she have any other options? But he delivers on his promises, she will give him that. And he makes her laugh.

They have very different fighting styles; she gets up close and personal with the bad guys, while he sits back and picks off targets from a distance. Although she has to remind him constantly to keep that distance; he seems to think he has to rush in and keep her company. His enthusiasm is hard to resist.

There’s always a bond between those that fight together: You have to have some trust for the one guarding your back. Trusting someone with your life, however, is easier than trusting them with your self. But little by little, she starts to depend on him. By the time they’ve both saved the other’s life a few times, she realizes there’s a bond between them. They’re becoming… friends?

In the Deep Roads, what started out as a business relationship becomes something more. He knows she’s worried about Bethany and Mother, left alone with Gamlen, and he never stops his jokes, trying to keep her spirits up. All their spirits, actually. The Deep Roads are… a darkness on the soul, and he lightens it, somehow.

Until… Bartrand. For once she sees a side of Varric he usually manages to keep hidden. While it was obvious he and his brother didn’t see eye to eye, this betrayal breaks open the shell of the jovial dwarf. The pain in his eyes makes her hurt, for him, and now she’s the one trying to cheer him up.

After the Deep Roads, it’s not even a question. Where she goes, Varric goes. He doesn’t hesitate to speak up when he thinks she’s making a mistake, but he doesn’t argue when she does it anyways, trusting that she knows what she’s doing.

His nosiness for information for his books, his need to know the story behind the story, is invasive at first but it soon becomes a game between them. They jockey back and forth amiably, with a grin and a wink, and he acknowledges with a silent, resigned headshake when she outmaneuvers him.

She sees what he does for the others, too. Quietly, not ever letting on that he’s the one that does the little things that make their lives easier, diverting trouble or simply watching over them. She wonders how he can be such a man, with a brother like Bartrand. But perhaps that’s the answer: they’re his family, now. And he looks out for them.

Even at the end, he follows her through the fire and the ashes, the heartbreak and despair. And still he stays at her side, until he has to leave her, to make her safer.

They will meet again, though. She trusts in that.

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Dragon Age: Origins - Alistair
That’s what I’m here for! To deliver unpleasant news and witty one-liners.

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dgaider:

Seeing you posted about your favorite characters recently, I wondered if you would mind talking about Anders? I would love to read your view on him. — syzara

I’ve received a few questions about Anders specifically, so sure— I guess I can talk about him a little. I don’t know how much I want to make my Tumblr a “talk about this character now!” thing, but I think Anders has some unique qualities that are worth discussing.

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“…much of the commentary on the topic seems to say way more about the commenter than the topic.”  (regarding sexuality of the npcs, but pretty much applies to, well, just about everything.)

movealongmachere:

My Top 10 Fave Game Developers Of All Time Ever

Number 4: Bioware

Mass Effect and Dragon Age… how can you not love Bioware? They brought femShep into the world. Ok, they also gave her scary makeup, but still. And Garrus and Tali ♥ And Jacob D: And epic epic Dragon Age. And Alistair D: They definitely write characters you have an opinion about. Which is an awesome thing. Sexy storytelling and freedom of choice put Bioware at number four. Mm yes, they would be higher up on this list if not for Jacob and my inexplicable hatred for EA :)

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dgaider:

Was there anything ultimately cut from the games that you wish had been left in? I heard that Jowan and Nate were initially going to be companions in DA: O and DA2 respectively, and that would have been really cool to see. — senorsparklefingers

(Since there’ve been a few requests that these answers be re-bloggable, I’ve decided to put them in a different format. Thanks to those who’ve sent such thoughtful questions. I may not get to them all, but they’re still appreciated.)

Talking about cut content is tough. Whenever it’s been mentioned previously, there have always been a range of responses from disappointment to anger, all imagining what was cut as some ideal thing that worked very well and which was only kept out of the final game because we were cheap, stupid or malicious. Most stuff which is cut, however, is removed during the concept phase… it was something we thought of doing, perhaps had some half-baked ideas regarding, but ultimately discarded amidst the jumble of changes which occur early on. A bunch more is cut during pre-production, things we planned out (perhaps in detail) but never actually started work on prior to it being removed.

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“it’s probably best not to say. Even the more reasonable among you would go YOU CUT THAT OMG WHY WHY WHYYYYY about them. Don’t lie. You know you would.”

You know us too well. :D