every single day I think about how the DA2 male love interests had their queerness erased in a straight romance because the writers feared that the straight girlies would find it off-putting to romance a queer guy
but yeah sure custom fem!hawke/fenris is suuuuuch an underrated ship 🥺🥺
"Now I'm thinking about Cullen going to a strip club again.
...
DRAG SHOW. I meant drag show. I don't know why I said that."
- Milena
One of my favourite things about Scarlet Hollow is how frequently you have the option to start crying. It's so real. I would be crying too if I were facing The Horrors.
Anders, mid act 3, on the verge of a mental breakdown that will shake Thedas to its core: Everyone was hooking up in Kinloch. I was the biggest slut to ever graduate from there.
something so crazy-making about unhealthy mentor-protegé relationships. we're foils, we're mirrors, we're the same person, we're a parent and a child, we're lovers, we're enemies, we'd be better off without each other, we'd kill and die for each other
It is fascinating to me that, despite being one of the games love interests, Avery is essentially an optional part of the game. Like I'm thinking about it and the time that you are actually forced to interact with/be in general proximity to Avery is significantly less than every single other one of the potential love interests, even moreso now that the update has come out and you can completely avoid even meeting Avery until the third episode (and even then I don't think you actually learn their name. And you barely even interact with them).
All of the instances of you actually interacting with Avery (going to the diner in ep 1, seeing them on the street talking to Sybil in ep 2, hanging out with them in ep 3, and talking to them at the diner when you're looking for Stella in ep 4 (assuming that they haven't joined you to look for Stella beforehand)) are optional and can almost completely be avoided. You have to actively try to hang out with and include them in activities because they won't naturally be invited along.
Wyll romance as The Dark Urge is so funny cuz he’s trying his hardest to live his fairytale fantasy, meanwhile Durge is out there saying the most unhinged things and barely preventing themselves from going on a killing spree