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a sentient trashcan just doing her best 🏳️‍🌈 she/they
one day i’ll stop getting my hopes up 🥀 rip dreams of new vegas remaster
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
ok actually done now god i have a lot of dragon age thoughts
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
grin and bear with someone randomly and blatantly insulting the shit out of them and their culture. the story relies on the MC being passive enough to make the point it’s trying to make, but not allowing the MC to react accordingly, thus undercutting the entire message
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Chosen One Blank Canvas i should say.

point is, it’s not as impactful when your story has to rely entirely on not knowing who your MC is or where they came from or simply not caring, so it comes off awkward.

like when morrighan elfsplains to a Dalish Inquisitor or a qunari has to just
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
not so much for a game that wants to discuss inequality, classism, and revolution.
June 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
i will scream into infinity that Hawke should have been the protag going forward, just based on the nature of how games are made and the story that Dragon Age was setting up. doing a Chosen One story is fine for games like Skyrim…
June 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
adding to this—the Blank Canvas Hero simply does not work. Origins worked because you had time to learn who your character was and where they came from, and in the end, even that isn’t a Blank Canvas.
June 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
[continues to scream into the void about dragon age]
June 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
imho, the issue started with Inquisition, and will continue so long as there’s such a wide gap between the story and world Origins setup and 2 built on, and what bioware/EA decided to go with in Inquisition and Veilguard
June 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
anyway what’s everyone’s brand of autism mine is annoying
June 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
like damn bitch can’t you just write the fanfic and be happy with it nooooo she’s gotta obsess over canon compliance and have questions that reddit argues over
June 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
child seemed somewhat satisfied

apparently king kong is supposed to be angry
May 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I also just think Inq is a genuinely bad game lol it’s definitely the weakest narratively of the first 3.
May 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i really miss hawke! they have such an awesome story and i think the series would’ve been way better off with them as the face of it.

Inquisition was, in my most honest opinion, let down by not having hawke as the protag. the writing genuinely makes no sense if you play a non-human.
May 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM