Video evidence that I should be sleeping. (Post 2 of 2)

[twist_shimmy]

IF THIS POST MESSES UP ONE MORE TIME I AM GOING TO DIE.

Right now I have a mage friendmancing Fenris. I designed Vera for Anders, but it turns out Vera doesn't like mages, so... uh. We restarted Act 2 and now have a healthy, healthy relationship with the hottie who hates everything she is just as much as she does.

Woo!

But what surprises me is how different a friendmance is with a mage than it is with a non-mage. Fenris likes Vera more than he liked Alyse until halfway through Act 3, and yet their relationship has been anything but fluffy. Observe the Act 2 seduction between Fenris and my rogue.

Lenna, you can't click that. GO SEDUCE HIM ALREADY, FFS. Everyone else, enjoy my commentary. >>;;


So imagine my surprise when the post-bitter pill conversation segues directly into sex during my mage playthrough. With Alyse, he left and then came back later. With Vera, well... I guess it's not surprising that they nearly kill one another.

Now I'm sitting here wondering what Vera did to trigger rivalmance sex while friends with Fenris. Was it because they had a pissing match at the end of the fight with Hadriana? I mean, she did lose it when he went all "I'm glad Hadriana's dead! She should be dead! Just like all the other mages!"
"Hey, remember who you're talking to!"
"Oh, I haven't forgotten," he snarled. "What does magic touch that it doesn't spoil?"
*cue Vera's devastated!face*
*Fenris storms off*



At first I thought it was a mage thing, butestaratshirai  says her mage didn't get this. I love that I have a Hawke that brings out the MURDERIN' INSTINCTS in her boy.


On a lighter note, here's a video capture of a kiss and wallslam that didn't... render quite right. I won't call this spoilery since it's a clip with relatively little dialogue and everyone knows you can kiss Fenris.

WAT.

Comments

[keelieinblack]

The glowy wall-slam scene isn't specific to the rivalmance. It can happen for a friend or rival romance, and it just depends on if you've done his "Questioning Beliefs" conversation before "A Bitter Pill". There's only a couple of very slight differences between the two versions--in the rivalmance Fenris keeps his head turned away from Hawke, and a few of the dialogue lines are altered (video).

If you'd picked 'normal' dialogue option during the post "Bitter Pill" conversation instead of the heart, he would have walked off, and the other romance scene (the "I have been thinking of you" one) would have triggered for you a little later.

[solitae]

If you'd picked 'normal' dialogue option during the post "Bitter Pill" conversation instead of the heart, he would have walked off, and the other romance scene (the "I have been thinking of you" one) would have triggered for you a little later.

I had wondered about that, picking normal dialogue options there. Good to know!

[twist_shimmy]

Interesting! I'm pretty sure Alyse chose "don't go," as well, but he left anyway. But like I said, they weren't as far up the friendscale, so I bet that's why.

This outcome is far more appropriate for Fenris and Vera, though. Augh.