#makaruba

//Whaaat? Kaaras having bad experience around female Qunari? Never (I'm sorry Kaaras)

Hee, yay! I hope my Fallout AU fic doesn’t disappoint!

i think Dorian would have stayed? "just a little longer?"

Yes, I think that’s a definite possibility too! But I guess I’m trying to speculate how Bioware themselves would handle the romance. My two feelings on what Dorian would actually do are that he would either keep putting it off until he stayed basically forever, or that he left for Tevinter as he said he would, but kept up the relationship as a long distance one. (But temporarily, where the Inquisitor joins him in Tevinter later.) But what Bioware does with the relationship is where I’m a little scared, because I don’t put it past them to mess it up somehow. (Again, scarred by Thane - their handling of very sweet romances makes me nervous now, lol.)

makaruba replied to your post “Okay, I’m kinda scared Bioware will be idiots and make Dorian and the...”

and then Dorian finds out the mark is killing Aeric

YES! Which I am also okay with having some “my love’s life is in danger and I don’t know what to do” angst, so long as it has a happy resolution. I really hope that, if Bioware is going to do that sort of thing, that they give us at least one scene where the LI talks to the Inquisitor about it and expresses those fears of losing them. And then it turns out okay - with or without the Inquisitor’s left hand intact - and then they have the option to run away together. The sappier the better!

Yay, thank you!

ALLIUM:What’s the best thing you can cook?

Hmm... Does baking count? I don’t know what’s the “best”, but I’m really proud of the birthday cakes I make for my family. My favorite recently was the Inside-Out Samoa Cake I invented for my husband, which was chocolate cake with vanilla swiss buttercream and caramel and toasted coconut filling. I kinda crave it sometimes, lol.

PRIMROSE:Favorite kind of soup?

My favorite is a curry-flavored one that I usually make with sausage, sweet potato, and vegetables. I feel like I posted the recipe at some point, *looks for it*... Oh, here it is!

AZALEA:What’s a movie you cried while watching?

I don’t often cry at movies, but I do cry sometimes during the beginning of Up. And recently I cried at the end of Tinkerbell and the Legend of the NeverBeast, lol. Kids’ movies have been really getting to me lately. ^_^;;

Oh, thank you! When creating believable and complex characters, you always want to be asking “why” and delve deeper and deeper. I don’t know if I would recommend coming up with a set number of “strengths” or “weaknesses”, because I feel that personality traits can’t be defined so succinctly, but I think if you have a basic idea of what kind of personality a character has, and what their core values and character traits are, then you can start asking yourself questions and build from there.

Let’s take Aeric, for example. When I started him off, I pictured him as gruff and quiet and blunt and practical, but with a soft spot for a certain Tevinter mage. ;) But that was all I had at the beginning. And I gave him the History Buff perk (I forget what it’s actually called), so he really loves history. When I started to develop him beyond what I had of him in the game, I started to ask why. Okay, he loves history, but why? Well, he used to read a lot of history as a kid. Great, but why did he read so much, especially about societies outside of the Dalish? Because he was a sort of outcast as a child, needed something to pass the time while the other children were playing without him, and wanted an escape from the loneliness he felt amongst the Dalish. Why was he an outcast? Because he didn’t like to talk, and people thought that was strange. Why doesn’t he like to talk? He doesn’t know; it’s not anxiety or shyness really. He just doesn’t like talking.

From that one trait - Aeric loves history - we already have a great wealth of backstory and depth that we didn’t have before, simply because we kept delving deeper into why he is who he is. Not everything has to have a reason. People like things sometimes without there being any particular cause or backstory for it. Aeric loves honey but hates other sweets, for instance, simply because honey tastes good to him, but other sweets don’t. But you should know that fact.