I know there are fans who accused me of introducing homophobia to Thedas with Dorian, but it's not quite that simple. There are a lot of folks from cultures and families who can attest to the ridiculous burden of expectation sometimes laid upon children by their parents, and the pain it can deliver.
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I’m very glad you wrote him. The scene with his father hits me hard every time. It gets a bit close to home re: me & my mother about who I am.
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reason why I love dragon age so much is the fact that it has so many different topics, dark and light.
Some of us do bear similar emotional scars. Bad parenting should be a fairly universal concept, even without sexuality. I'm not sure why people are upset.
That said, I'd rather the writers have freedom to tell a good story. JMHO, don't shackle the storyteller.
Without those jarring moments of offense, it proves more difficult to connect with your audience. Experiencing the bad makes us yearn more for the satisfaction of overcoming it.
To me, it just seems like people are looking for things to be offended over instead of seeing the merit of the story and the character development that happens because of it.
A good story connects to people and Dorian's story did that. Forget the haters.
Elves, mages, even the dwarves against themselves.
It isn't out of place to have a story regarding a magister's obsession with magic lineage and breeding. If anything, that bears similarities to Dune's Kwisatz Haderach. It works.
I love that storyline.