Rory is a great guy, but he can get on your nerves, too, by being very opinionated about himself. You have to work with him and really get to know him. There’s triggers in various places in the map where he talks to you, and even piling on the Feastday Gifts isn’t going to make him budge much. Much like real life, you have to get to know him before he’ll actually fall in love. You have to talk to him a lot, and Rory has got a wonderfully mind boggling amount of dialog. Ser Gilmore comes prepackaged as not being so easy to get him into bed. Yes, you can pace these things, but DA2 and Ser Gilmore keep the pace for you. Zevran will hop into bed with the Warden practically after smiling at him, Morrigan will be happy to use him for a warm blanket, and Leliana will “Ninja Romance” unsuspecting Wardens who aren’t careful. I can get Alistair to sleep with my Warden after Lothering and defeating the Redcliffe zombies without the Feastday Gifts. In Origins, you could force the romance and get your guys or girls into bed at light speed if you talked them up constantly, used the Feastday Gifts DLC, and knew just what to say. I realize this is “cheating” but probably because it was made by fans rather than the Bioware team, Immortality (with the help of DaliaLynn and other fans) did some things with Rory which the Bioware team never has.

My favorite romance option is Ser Gilmore. No, as much as Anders suckers me in, even he isn’t my favorite. I only hope Anders washed his hands before climbing back into bed with my Hawke and applying them romantically to her body. In the vanilla game he is, without a doubt, my favorite love interest because he doesn’t do things like kiss you one minute then hold your hand after building dragon manure bombs. It would be a lie to say that the bumbling gentleman with his rose, smarmy accent and adorable hair which looks like he combed it with a fork every morning doesn’t hold a special place in my heart. I have to apologize, but I’m going to cheat. I hope you weren’t drinking anything which just squirted out of your nose or fell off your seat. We had numerous complicated romance options in the two games, and overall I’m sure it won’t surprise many people that Alistair is almost my favorite. At most, you normally have sex as an option but it boils down to notching your bedpost or lipstick case. Dragon Age is one of the few games I know of which explored that element at all. This isn’t an easy decision, because in spite of how fans might grouse about how we don’t get enough time, they’re too rushed, etc.

Today I’m going to tackle my favorite love interest in the Dragon Age world. I have been inspired by some of their topics however, so I’ve been writing about them, too. As I’ve discussed on previous editorials, I’m not able to rise to the post-a-day challenge for Dragon Age.

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