He’s that guy you see in the hallway at work that you have nothing in common with but you feel obligated to talk to anyway he’s your friend’s boring boyfriend from university he’s the person you invite to your house party while secretly hoping that they don’t show up.ĭragon Age is a very serious game. He shows a bit of fire in the game’s final act, but by that point I was too invested in literally everybody else to side with him. He’s too posh to slum it with Varric or Isabela, too straight-laced to indulge in the anger that motivates Anders or Fenris. Sebastian, the Chantry-dwelling, revenge-chasing former dilettante doesn’t fit into that family. Despite its faults, DA II portrays its companions as a diverse but closely-knit circle of friends: a revolutionary cell that grows out of natural affections and affiliations. So I’m picking Sebastian, the launch-day DLC character for Dragon Age II who more or less totally fails to get on with any of the other characters in the game. I’m a bit tired of the ‘quirky little sister’ template (Imoen, Tali, Merrill) but all of those characters have their moments. Jacob Taylor is boring, yeah, but his arc pays off in Mass Effect 3. I struggled with this one, because there aren’t really any BioWare characters I truly don’t like. If you bring her with you when you encounter the Terra Firma rally on the Citadel, she’ll angrily condemn their leader for using political pragmatism to disguise the racist element of his party. As for the space racism: well, yeah, she says some unfortunate things. In a series largely defined by people that Shepard ‘fixes’, Ashley demands to be understood on her own terms. It’s a sore spot, but also a point of pride.
Her motivating crisis is a smear on her family name that she’s had to struggle with to get where she is in the Alliance military, a struggle that she’s already largely overcome by the time she meets Shepard. Ashley’s background is defined by stable, positive relationships – with her sisters, her parents, her religion.
She’s a rare example of a love interest for a male protagonist that doesn’t really need anything from him. I’ve heard every argument against Ash in the last couple of years – often the same argument, over and over – but she’s still one of my favourite BioWare characters. Ashley who only survived Mass Effect 1 because she’s not as boring as Kaidan.
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