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Dragon Age Question Meme

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01) favorite game of the series? I think Origins is the best in terms of gaming while 2 has the best story.I’m most attached to Inquisition and Origins equally when you boil down to it, I played both a lot and both were huge comforts.

02) how did you discover Dragon Age? All the way in 2009 the game came out to glowing reviews and my interest piqued. During Valentines day 2010 my dad got me a game stop gift card and I bought it. (my parents rock lol.) anyway I played it but it went horribly, I missed leliana and sten in lothering...accidentally killed Irving so sided with the templars...zev betrayed me...it was a mess. It wasn’t until a third play through that I began to love the game.

03) how many times you’ve played the games? Origins: gosh I’ve gotten to the end at least 5 times, but made a lot of characters. 2: probably 3 times with a female hawke and once with a male (for some reason that’s the only game I’ve played as a male as to the end...he romanced merrill.) Inquisition: once again, at least 5.

04) favorite race to play as? Just so happens to turn out my favorite backstories and origins are the human ones, though I tried to make elves. I just couldn’t come up with a character I gravitated toward.

05) favorite class? Story wise: mage, fun to play as and personal enjoyment: rogue.

06) do you play through the games differently or do you make the same decisions each time? Make the same decisions because it feels weird if I don’t, lol. Especially with romances...I get so loyal I can’t romance anyone else. I do though sometimes change up classes for variety.

07) go-to adventuring group? I tend to shuffle a lot, but my most common groups are in DAO: Alistair, Leliana/Zev and Morrigan/Wynne but I love them all and tend to shuffle. DA2: Fenris, Anders, Varric and in DAI: Sera, Vivienne, Cassandra (though again I do a lot of shuffling for variety.)

08) which of your characters did you put the most thought into? Lydia Trevelyan, no question. I wanted to write her story and romance, so I did. :3 

09) favorite romance? DAO: Alistair, DA2: Fenris. DAI and overall: Cullen. 

10) have you read any of the comics/books? Nope.

11) if you read them, which was your favorite book? honestly I have no plans to read any *sorry.*

12) favorite DLCs? Hmmm...The Stone Prisoner in Origins, and Jaws of Hakkon! Of course Tresspasser too.

13) things that annoy you. Most are fandom related...not going to lie. But in game I wish Inquisition had more ambient music as you explored, and that missions actually meant something to the war effort other than racking in points. I wish Cullen’s trauma at the winter palace was treated more thoughtfully, and I hate, hate, hate how the inquisitor has to kneel down and loot because it takes FOREVER. I also wish DA2 had a longer development cycle because the game could have been so much more.

Oh I also wish vital story info wasn’t in books/DLCs.

14) Orlais or Ferelden? Aesthetically I like elements of Orlais, I have to pick Ferelden though.

15) templars or mages? Much like bitchesofostwick, all my OCs have, when the games pit one against the other, sided with the mages, but I think the chantry is so bad both groups need reform. (Circles need to function like schools rather than prisons, templars need to know magical defense but serve as protectors and move away from the chantry.) 

That being said Lydia is actually kind of pro templar, more than one may think anyway...in the sense that she thinks they can do better.

16) if you have multiple characters, are they in different/parallel universes or in the same one?In Origins I played through different origins for variety, but I can’t make multiple characters for one game, lol. I find making OCs so fun but time consuming and I love doting all the attention to select few, lol.

17) what did you name your pets? (mabari, summoned animals, mounts, etc) Miranda Cousland’s mabari is Hal after a prince in a book. Rhine Hawke? honestly never given much thought, lol. Probably something simple like Spot (Carver would point out constantly he has no spots and she would say something witty back, ha.) Lydia’s horse is named Pepper. Her and cullen’s mabari is named Cleo.

18) have you installed any mods? i bought inquisition on PC just to use mods and I havent figured it out yet, lol.

19) did your Warden want to become a Grey Warden? NO! In fact she resented it big time because she saw her duty as taking revenge, and Duncan basically gave her a death sentence in her eye. Eventually she kind of succumbs to her duty but if she had things her way, she would never have become a warden. 

20) hawke’s personality? she started off a good purple/blue. In Inquisition she became red.

21) did you make matching armor for your companions in Inquisition? No but maybe I should, lol.

22) if your character(s) could go back in time to change one thing, what would they change?  Miranda would make sure Howe never did what he did. Rhine would stop Meredith sooner. Lydia would make sure (SPOILER) her ex boyfriend Asher never became a red templar.

23) do you have any headcanons about your character(s) that go against canon?Miranda meets Lydia at Skyhold and is the Warden contact. there’s a big party at skyhold and lydia makes an epic speech. this is a big one: Rhine loves Fenris, but he leaves like he always does, and she knows Anders loves her to death so she gets with him. Ultimately though they have a mutual break up, and she goes back to fenris a month later. (they’re endgame) this makes her feel extra responsible for the chantry explosion. (She approves of sending the message...just not that way lol.)

24) are any of your character(s) based on someone? Well Lydia is the most like me, but the more time I have spent with her the less I find us identical. I made Mira/Rhine as different as I could, but none are really based on anyone. Maybe parts of Lydia are based on Lauren Bacall/Vivien Leigh, more old hollywood ladies <3 

25) who did you leave in the Fade? In game always Stroud. Or sometimes Hawke. In my story it’s Hawke :( sorry all i thrived on the drama.

26) favorite mount? the war nug!

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101 Dragon Age Questions

Was thinking about doing these and since I really don’t get asks I will just go ahead and answer them ALL muahahaha. I’ll split up the questions and do say.. a couple a day. I’ll tag with Arquen DA quest. So if anyone wants to block or whatever feel free.

1. How did you get into Dragon Age?

Funny story. My fiance got me into Dragon Age when he literally would not stop bothering me to “TRY THIS GAME YOU WILL LIKE IT!” I mean, I saw him play Dragon Age: Origins and I was sort of meh with the whole thing. Then he played Dragon Age 2 and was insisting I play the series. I was sort of inbetween stuff to play and he literally installed DA2 on my computer, clicked PLAY and sat me down and said “PLAY IT.” From then on I was in Dragon Age hell and I could never turn back. Life ruiner. In so many ways.

2. Have you finished all three games?

bwahahahahahahaa. I’ve played Origins about 5 times and DA2 about 20 times. I’ve played Inquisition 3 times now and working on a 4th. So, yeah. I never really played the Darkspawn DLC for Origins, but I played all other DLC for all the games as well. Honestly, all the DA2 DLC was excellent. The inquisition DLC was disappointing as hell though, until Trespasser.

3. How long did it take you to finish the series?

Interesting question, and I can’t really recall. I played DA2 first which was blasphemy I know. I played DA2 probably about 12 times before I sat down and played through Origins. What can I say I loved Hawke’s story, and since the Warden was a mere mention and side note in DA2 I wasn’t in any real hurry. Then I played Origins a bunch of times and then Inquisition came out and I played the hell outta that. I got to the point where I could do a DA2 run in 3 days (including all side quests and missions). I could do Origins in probably 4-5 days. Inquisition about 5 days still because I like exploring.. sue me.

4. What was your first Warden (gender/class/race/personality)?

Arqueniel Surana was my first Warden. Elven Female Mage with a good nature and sense of humor. A bit naive of the world, but always ready to defend what matters to her. She would choose more diplomatic and tactical responses with the occasional snark thrown in for good measure.

5. What was your first Hawke like (gender/class/temperament)?

Ahh my first Hawke. A mess of a playthrough that somehow ended well. Arquen Hawke was a diplomatic mage who picked mostly (if not all) diplo options. She looked like a younger version of Leandra. She was kind and tried her best and lost so much and sided with mages and always wanted to do the right thing. She payed for that, but she learned and Legacy about ruined her because even her father who she looked up to so much, wasn’t above making mistakes and doing wrong things for right reasons which is something she avoided doing at all costs. My poor sweet summer child. How she ended up with Fenris I still don’t quite understand because she was pro mage as hell but ended up in a friendmance with him. HEH.

6. First Inquisitor (gender/class/race/personality)?

Arquen Lavellan (yes I realize I use that name a lot.. I like it.. fight me). If I can play an elf in any game I will do so. If I can play a mage or magic wielder I will do so. So naturally my first inquis is an elven mage. My Lavellan... she breaks my heart because she started this whole thing with a “how am I even alive?” mentality. She took up the inquisitor title reluctantly. She is sarcastic as all hell, but she is also very tactical. She would make an excellent bard. She took to diplomacy and “fitting in with the shems” like she was born to do it. Honestly, she just simply didn’t trust anyone except herself. Away from her clan, slapped with an anchor she really was just relying on her instincts and wits. It weighed on her that her only elven companions were either rattling on about the fade or reminding her every day how the “other” elves live and resent her and elves like her. She enjoyed talking with Solas though, and she liked to listen to Sera. Even if she held her tongue a few times. She would joke and tease, but also be serious and say all the right things at all the right times lest people see through her mask and start punishing her for being an elf or a dalish or a mage or whatever else was wrong with her.