Falling In Love With Alistair

I recently started playing Dragon Age: Origins, and immediately fell in love with one of the characters: Alistair. He's goofy, sarcastic, sexually naive, and... Oohh... He's straight! Luckily, with the right fan-made modification, Alistair can be "gay" (by tricking the game that you're female).

The world of Dragon Age is similar to Lord of The Rings. There are wizards, elves, demonic creatures, knights, kings, and war. Set in Ferelden, a fantasy world, the people in the game has their own god called Maker. At the start of the game, Ferelden is about to get obliterated by the Blight (demonic plague/war). The player can position himself/herself as a human noble, an elf, or a dwarf. Player will get the role as a Grey Warden (something like peace-keeping warriors) and travel the land to unite the races. As the player travels and meets many people in needs, he/she will be accompanied by several characters. One of them is Alistair.

Alistair's biography is interesting. He's a bastard - his mom was a servant and his dad was a king. Since childhood, Alistair was raised by a noble called Arl Eamon before later he's sent away to a monastery. Long story short, Alistair was supposed to be a Templar but ended up being a Grey Warden.

Dragon Age allows romance for players: both straight love and gay love. Players can kiss a character and even make love him/her. Unfortunately, by default, the only gay male love interest is an UGLY ELF assassin called Zevran. Alistair, by default, is set to be a heterosexual man who's interested in female player.

It's very easy to get in love with Alistair. First, he's handsome. Second, he's goofy. In the game, Alistair doesn't get along well with the other companion: a witch called Morrigan. They love irritating each other. Some of their dialogue are amusing. Alistair himself is naive and sometimes talks in a funny way.

Some of Alistair's funny sentences:
* "Have you ever licked a lamp post in winter?"
* "They say you can get anything here. I once got pick-pocketed."
* "Why do they call it a 'brothel?' There's no broth. Or is there?"
* "*Sniffs* What is that smell? Fish? And something else. Oh... more fish."
* "What is that smell? Dwarven vomit? Charming."

I visited Dragon Age's official forum. It seems Alistair's section is crawling with fangirls. A lot of them. I never expected there would be so many female who loved playing RPG game (my own sister hates RPG btw). Gay men, including me, also love Alistair. Luckily, there's gay mod to satisfy the gay players at the expense of occasionally being referred as a woman by Alistair. Unfortunately, in Dragon Age 2, Alistair is not a playable character. However, he'll make an appearance. 

Other than gay mod, there's also male nude skin which can turn Alistair totally naked with a hard-on :D Unfortunately, that nude skin conflicts with the head skin in term of lighting. You want to see Alistair f*ck? There's a sex mod! However, because Alistair is meant to make love to a female (and a female's body is smaller than a male), the sex scene will be awkward when Alistair's face sinks into the player's crotch and shoulder.  

Female players get a handsome man? Gay players get UGLY ELF? Great!

Overall, I really like this game. However, I hope BioWare will later provide a HANDSOME character for gay player in the next sequel. Please, no more ugly elf for gay players while the female players get a hunky handsome man!