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P-JoArt In reply to Crazy-Of-The-Night [2017-08-27 20:17:51 +0000 UTC]

Yes, of course! My Warden's name is taken from the band. I was sure I had stated it somewhere in the description... maybe it was on tumblr, I must have forgotten to write it here too. I'll add it right away.

I've listened to The Final Experiment a thousand times thinking about him. xD Obviously he has nothing to do with the album's story, but some phrases resonate with the character and that's enough for my fangirl self.  

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Crazy-Of-The-Night In reply to P-JoArt [2017-08-27 20:39:44 +0000 UTC]

Haha
I´m glad to meet an Ayreonaut! ;D
And tell me... Did you listen to The Source?

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P-JoArt In reply to Crazy-Of-The-Night [2017-08-27 20:46:38 +0000 UTC]

Oh, is it the new one? I've seen it on Youtube but I haven't given it a proper listen yet! Will be in my to do list. What do you think about it?

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Crazy-Of-The-Night In reply to P-JoArt [2017-08-27 20:53:00 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, is it. I think it's pretty good, it's the prequel of 01011001 and the music makes you feel that you're really on Planet Alpha!
Also, I have to say that it has so much elements of Star One (Arjen's side project)

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P-JoArt In reply to nayakri [2015-12-16 14:16:50 +0000 UTC]

I always play male characters in rpgs, since in real life I'm doomed to be female, it's a good way to escape from reality.
And yeah, it's way more interesting to flirt with Zevran with a male character! Although in the end I had to tell him I was involved with someone... the hardest decision I had to make in the game, possibly. T^T
Thank you for all your kind comments!

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P-JoArt In reply to Yce9Phire [2015-09-15 23:31:26 +0000 UTC]

That's an interesting question! Yes and no. They definitely share a similar past, like most of the mages that were freed from the Circle by the Wardens, and such experience forged several similarities in their personality.
But they also have differences. For one, the most striking: Justice! We all know that Anders became a very different person upon joining with the spirit. You could say that Ayreon looks a bit like Awakening!Anders, before joining with Justice: more carefree, laid-back, no real goals or issues in life other than enjoying his renewed freedom and shooting lightings at fools, to use Anders's words. In fact, Ayreon wants freedom for the mages, but he doesn't really make "plans" or writes down manifestos. While DA2!Anders actively works to free the mages in Thedas, Ayreon just goes his way, and if he meets anyone threatening mages, he's going to defend the mages and probably kill the bastard that was so unfortunate to cross his path. (he has proved more than once that he doesn't really mind killing people that he doesn't like.)
There's another big difference: their opinion on blood magic. Anders, in DA2, hates blood magic in all its forms (even if in Awakening you can actually make him a blood mage, but we could blame this too on his joining with Justice, I guess). On the other side, Ayreon doesn't really mind blood magic, in fact he would use any means to accomplish what he has set in his mind. He thinks that blood magic is just another of the powers that mages are gifted with, so why not use it, as long as the user is capable and strong enough to not be corrupted by demons.
All in all, Ayreon is more selfish, immature and uncaring than DA2!Anders. He would have never accepted to host a spirit in his body, even if it were to help the mages. I headcanon that the last thing his mother told him, before they brought him to the circle, is to never let them change who he is, and he cherished those words quite literally. He never listened to his teachers (which earned him a lot of punishments xD), he is reckless, selfish, flirtatious, he never really minded to hide his attraction for men, he doesn't care what others think of him. He would never willingly give away so much of himself for a cause, like Anders did by joining with Justice. He would hate the thought of being changed by a spirit. Oh, and although he has helped poor people he met on the way several times, he wouldn't spend his days healing people like Anders does. He is a good person, but doesn't have such a strong calling to altruism.
Who knows? Maybe he'll grow up, someday, and he will take on some sense of responsability, but I don't think it will happen any time soon. So far, he doesn't even have a place to call home, he lives day by day and he doesn't think much about the future. I even chose the the "open relationship" with Roland, because I thought that was what he would do in that moment, that he would be afraid of the commitment. But I'm sorta regretting that decision, now, because I grew fond of their relationship and now I can't imagine him with anyone else. xD

Sorry for the text wall, I hadn't realized I wrote so much...

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Yce9Phire In reply to P-JoArt [2015-09-16 13:54:06 +0000 UTC]

when i thought, they're a little similar, i meant ONLY anders. not this kreepy Anders/Justice-thingy.
*sigh* poor anders. i loved him before he became an abomination. now ... i feel sorry for him and his ... improvidence.

anders calling to altruism is the result of justice's presence, not his own decision.
he wants to comfort justice, so this spirit won't come to the fore more often. anders is slaved by justice. and he's depressed by his own naivety.

and hey, your text wall is okay.
sometimes you need much space to express yourself ^^

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P-JoArt In reply to Yce9Phire [2015-09-16 23:45:17 +0000 UTC]

I actually love Anders in DA2. He is such a tragic character, I can never have enough of him.
Let's not be too hard on Justice, it's not like this is all his fault, he was a victim too. Their union was doomed from the beginning, they both ceased to be themselves and had to sacrifice so much.
But hey, from a reader's perspective, I can say that what came out is such an interesting and complex character, that I wouldn't want him any other way. Anders in Awakening is nice, but he doesn't have half of the depth and drama of DA2!Anders, that makes him a truly unique and memorable character.

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Yce9Phire In reply to P-JoArt [2015-09-22 13:15:28 +0000 UTC]

i think, you're right.
and what would happen with the story if anders wasn't with justice?

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P-JoArt In reply to Yce9Phire [2015-09-23 12:19:09 +0000 UTC]

Probably a lot of people wouldn't agree with me, but I've always thought that the collision between mages and templars was bound to happen, Anders or not. The tension was too much. So yeah, without Anders it probably wouldn't have been as spectacular as the Chantry boom, but some other event would have happened anyway, and that would have started the war. But that's just my opinion. But with Anders everything is so much better, so let's not dwell too much on what ifs.

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Yce9Phire In reply to P-JoArt [2015-09-24 13:16:48 +0000 UTC]

i agree. but the climax of their conflict would have been many years more in future, i think.
Anders was that drop that made the bucket overflow. (i'm not sure, if that's the right translation. it's an old german adage ...)

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P-JoArt In reply to Yce9Phire [2015-09-24 15:29:54 +0000 UTC]

I have no idea if it's correct in English, but we have the same expression in Italian, so yeah, I agree.

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Yce9Phire In reply to P-JoArt [2015-09-25 07:53:39 +0000 UTC]

oh, great ^^

but now i'm wondering, where this came from first. Italy or Germany?
will i ever know?

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P-JoArt In reply to Yce9Phire [2015-09-25 18:56:55 +0000 UTC]

As many idiomatic expressions, I guess its root is hard to find. Apparently, there are similar versions of the same expression in many languages ( example example ), and Wikipedia finds an Antecedent in Seneca's writings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_th… Cool, uh?

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Yce9Phire In reply to P-JoArt [2015-09-27 06:37:29 +0000 UTC]

yeah, that's cool. ^^
thanks for the research!!

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P-JoArt In reply to KageAndHikari [2015-06-26 10:00:17 +0000 UTC]

Grassie!  

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