ages of dragons

I finished Awakening again yesterday. I let the Architect live and killed the Mother (is there an option where you don't kill her, or does she always die? I mean, I don't EVER want to let her live, but is it an option?) Also I did not manage to save Vigil's Keep AGAIN (although I think I know how to save Amarathine and it involves smugglers, GDI).

Reading the bits at the end, where it said Circe and Alistair probably just ran off together where no-one could find 'em made me feel all fuzzy. Alistair's about the only person I ship in Origins (with Leliana, because reasons, also LELIANA) and I only did Circe's playthrough so she could be queen of Ferelden. I was not expecting WARM AND FUZZIES. And yet, here we are.

(I'm actually quite pleased about that, because my shipping tendencies lean far, far away from warm and fuzzies a lot of the time. As an example, see my Ur-OTP, which is Stark and Zhaan**)

(Fandom waffling on about Cullen all the freaking time and going, "BUT YOU DIDN'T DO A MAGE GAME SO YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE'S REEEEEEEEAAAAAALLY LIKE!!!"*** makes me think maybe I should at least play a mage once in Origins. I mean, I don't have to finish it, do I?)

Then I put DAII in, and was utterly confused when Bron's next quest that wasn't storyline was to go off and sort out Feynriel. I could've sworn I'd done that already (I did. What I didn't realise until, like, an hour later, was that I'd gone back a whole bunch of saves because Fenris is a pissy elf and I wanted to complete his romance, damnit!*)

And then I got distracted thinking about my man Hawke (Merrick) and Anders, so I decided to actually commence that game, since I've done nothing with it.

I forgot how easy it is to max out Bethany's friendship gauge. She's not going to be happy with me once I don't let her come down the Deep Roads, but hopefully less so than when she yelled at Eirian because she got darkspawn taint and then she had to be a Grey Warden. (I'm sure Merrick'll have some witty quip about it for her. I'm playing as Sarcastic/whatever Hawke (apart from a couple of sentences here and there) and it's making me lol quite a lot already. Also amazing how well Aveline and Varric respond to being snarked at).

EH WHATEVER. I'm just here to set up boyfriends.

So that's what I'm doing. I hope you lot (who are playing it) are enjoying Inquisition****.

*I know I can fix it in the Keep, but I'd actually like to see the whole thing play out.

**For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, all you need to know is that it really doesn't end well.

***Actual true fact: I only know/remember who Cullen is (prior to DA:I) because of dragon age confessions on tumblr, and people going about him non-stop (or, at least, that's how it feels to me). I know he's in DAII more than in Origins, but he's just not that memorable to me. Also a templar, but not very memorable.

****I have a vain hope that I might get it for Xmas from rellies, but it really is very vain.