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3. Prior to the prologue, who was the Warden's closest friend?
Marcela: Nessa is Marcela's closest friend! She's the elf woman whose shitty human landlord decided to sell their home for storage space, forcing them to leave for Ostagar. Nessa is part of the wedding party. She and Shianni set up a lot of the wedding preparations and help Marcela pick the least terrible wedding dress. Marcela invites Nessa to live with her father. She knows he will say yes because the two grew up playing together and were never overly fond of Nessa's parents, who believed even more strongly in gender roles than most of the parents of Marcela's peers.
4. Did the Warden have any romantic relationships before the game?
Marcela: Marcela briefly dated a guy in her alienage when she was a teenager. They split ways after he figured out that a) Marcela was fully combat trained and continued to practice archery. This is why Cyrion suggested not letting Nelaros know she was a rogue. And b) Marcela had no intention of being a housewife.
Later, she had a crush on a girl in her alienage who turned out to be straight and left the alienage for her arranged marriage. After that, Marcela didn't like to acknowledge romantic feelings.
Rosemary: The short answer is no. The long answer is that the fears that come with being a lesbian in the Circle were debilitating for Rosemary.
19. Who are the people in camp that the Warden is closest with and why?
Rosemary: Rosemary is closest to Leliana, Morrigan, and Wynne. She gravitates towards women more than men and especially mage women.
Leliana charmed Rosemary by sharing her curiosity for the world and telling her stories. Rosemary used stories to cope back in the Circle, but has quickly discovered that Leliana's voice is her favorite way to experience them. She falls in love with Leliana's wanderlust and compassion. Her favorite place around the campfire to be is with her head in Leliana's lap, listening to her stories and telling the stories of the books she read back in the Circle.
Morrigan and Rosemary have friction to start and to end, but the middle? In the middle they are best friends. Rosemary can't admit, even to herself, that she is jealous of Morrigan not growing up inside the Circle. She admires Morrigan's magic, her outspokenness, her quick wit. Morrigan respects her curiosity, if not her naivety. Rosemary begins to crack jokes with her and they end up becoming gossip buddies. Rosemary is very easy to make laugh, which causes her to also get on with Alistair very well, but Morrigan exploits the hell out of when she's roasting Alistair because Rosemary just can't help it. At first, Alistair hates it, but it diffuses some of the tension because when Alistair gets huffy and roasts Morrigan back, it becomes a game of "who can get Rosemary to break the hardest when she's supposed to be concentrating". Morrigan teaches her to be a shapeshifter and is so so proud of her for "overcoming her circle mindwashing" but it all starts moving too fast too quickly when Morrigan proposes the Dark Ritual, as Rosemary still very firmly believes the Archdemons are tevinter old gods who cannot be allowed to be reborn. It becomes an explosive fight they will both always regret.
Wynne and Rosemary gel very well at the start of their relationship, but as Rosemary begins to push back against Circle teachings, they start to argue more and more often. Rosemary will always have a soft spot for Wynne and Wynne for Rosemary, but Rosemary cannot bear to be what Wynne wants her to be. With Wynne's personal quest there is some healing on both sides when Wynne stops seeing her as Aneiren
