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I am reading a book that is not completely awful! It's one I'd dismissed as being awful, too! (It's Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater).
It's about werewolves, and it will STILL not be the werewolf book I want (because no book is, and sometimes I wonder exactly what it is I DO want). I think it starts in the wrong place, and I think there's some skeevy morals (though that may change, or not. More when I have finished it), and she has a few irritating characterisations and turns of phrase, but other than that, it's OK! I am even contemplating reading the rest of the trilogy, of which my library has one, hopefully both other books (why does everything have to be a trilogy these days?)
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Playing DAII. Killing everything and everyone with Bron, because she's like that. Managed to fully rival Anders, which was hilarious (especially because he basically asdfghjkl; at you, saying "but you're a mage! YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD UNDERSTAND MY PLIGHT!" I understand it, Anders, I just DON'T CARE). Also he does not seem to understand that when I tell him no, I will not help with his personal quest means no, I WILL NOT HELP.
Also have I ever mentioned that if you take Anders into the Fade, Justice is really fucking scary? Because I did, and he is.
So I've:
~ killed the qunari delegates (god that made me feel awful)
~ made Feynriel tranquil (also with the awful feelings)
~ killed a dwarf dude who did/didn't steal from the qunari (can't remember what he actually did)
~ bargained with the sloth demon and then killed it (because no matter how much of an arse Bron may be, there's no bargaining with demons)
~ killed those mages who were just trying to escape and be happy (although that was last time I played with Bron, which was nine months ago (approx), but I just remembered it.
~ killed the dude who's not the dude who's the serial killer (I can't remember his name! Gascard something?)
~ apparently already slept with Fenris (although Bron's mum calling him "the elf" rubbed me the wrong way, but someone else said something nice about him so :) but I don't really like mum Hawke anyway, so). We have the relationship flag, and I'm trying to keep it that way. Cue multiple save files because argh. And I think I may have messed it up when I accidentally flirted with Aveline (I know Fenris isn't as picky as Sebastian (who I don't have because no money but also I've seen his VA in TV stuff and yeah. Also Scots accents just are not my thing) but I don't want to get things wrong but whatever whatever. IT'S JUST A GAME).
(I want to kill Petrice as well, but I felt like that last time. There will never be a time when I don't want to kill Petrice).
(Also weird is how little of this game I remember, but ME3 is etched into my brain with crystal clarity. And I have only played both games twice. I see more ME stuff, probably, because I'm not as nuts about DA, but I don't think that's it?)
(Can we talk about how Merrill is the only elf with a Welsh accent? I dunno what we'll say, but how come she is?)
It's about werewolves, and it will STILL not be the werewolf book I want (because no book is, and sometimes I wonder exactly what it is I DO want). I think it starts in the wrong place, and I think there's some skeevy morals (though that may change, or not. More when I have finished it), and she has a few irritating characterisations and turns of phrase, but other than that, it's OK! I am even contemplating reading the rest of the trilogy, of which my library has one, hopefully both other books (why does everything have to be a trilogy these days?)
~*~
Playing DAII. Killing everything and everyone with Bron, because she's like that. Managed to fully rival Anders, which was hilarious (especially because he basically asdfghjkl; at you, saying "but you're a mage! YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD UNDERSTAND MY PLIGHT!" I understand it, Anders, I just DON'T CARE). Also he does not seem to understand that when I tell him no, I will not help with his personal quest means no, I WILL NOT HELP.
Also have I ever mentioned that if you take Anders into the Fade, Justice is really fucking scary? Because I did, and he is.
So I've:
~ killed the qunari delegates (god that made me feel awful)
~ made Feynriel tranquil (also with the awful feelings)
~ killed a dwarf dude who did/didn't steal from the qunari (can't remember what he actually did)
~ bargained with the sloth demon and then killed it (because no matter how much of an arse Bron may be, there's no bargaining with demons)
~ killed those mages who were just trying to escape and be happy (although that was last time I played with Bron, which was nine months ago (approx), but I just remembered it.
~ killed the dude who's not the dude who's the serial killer (I can't remember his name! Gascard something?)
~ apparently already slept with Fenris (although Bron's mum calling him "the elf" rubbed me the wrong way, but someone else said something nice about him so :) but I don't really like mum Hawke anyway, so). We have the relationship flag, and I'm trying to keep it that way. Cue multiple save files because argh. And I think I may have messed it up when I accidentally flirted with Aveline (I know Fenris isn't as picky as Sebastian (who I don't have because no money but also I've seen his VA in TV stuff and yeah. Also Scots accents just are not my thing) but I don't want to get things wrong but whatever whatever. IT'S JUST A GAME).
(I want to kill Petrice as well, but I felt like that last time. There will never be a time when I don't want to kill Petrice).
(Also weird is how little of this game I remember, but ME3 is etched into my brain with crystal clarity. And I have only played both games twice. I see more ME stuff, probably, because I'm not as nuts about DA, but I don't think that's it?)
(Can we talk about how Merrill is the only elf with a Welsh accent? I dunno what we'll say, but how come she is?)
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Also wow, this post has made me realise how little I remember from DA2, because I only really know what you're referring to with...uh, two of the things you've done.
I understand it, Anders, I just DON'T CARE
This however I can relate to!! Please, just take your problems away from me, Anders! Away! Go and confide in your cat about your various mage problems.
Merrill's accent is SO WEIRD, especially coming from Origins where she's not remotely Welsh sounding. I still have no idea why Eve Myles was brought in to do voice work, I don't think she'd done any game work before DA2 and she's not done any since.
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I prefer DAII to Origins (shocking, I know), but honestly most of it is so forgettable. I mostly remember the main plot and dragons! In the mines! but that's it. And me, actual me, not my character, I understand Anders, but the way he goes about things is all wrong. And he's not really helping his case when he runs around screaming "I'll show you why mages are feared!" in battle. No.
I know! And that none of the other elves are Welsh, either! I think someone on the dev team said hey, kids like Dr Who these days, and she was in Torchwood (she was, wasn't she?) and lo and behold, that's why she was cast. Maybe. I mean, I don't know, but that's what it kind of seems like to me, especially since she's never done any voice work before or since (even the guy who voices Sebastian has done voice work, and has worked for Bioware before - he did some voices in KOTOR).
(Which is not to say that I don't like listening to her - I do! I love Welsh accents. It's just hella weird when no-one else is Welsh, y'know?)