#i'm sorry i should have answered and talked about millie hawke earlier

[thenugking]

What is the biggest similarity and difference between the set of protagonists you created first, versus your newest ones?

So worldstate 1 is Therlia Surana, L. Hawke and Kas Surana, while my most recent Warden, Champion and Inquisitor are Seren Surana (worldstate 14), Millie Hawke (worldstate 6) and Rynessa (worldstate 7).

Therlia and Seren are obviously both Suranas, and I think most of their decisions are similar? They both save Redcliffe and the Circle, side with Caridin, make Bhelen king, and kill the werewolves. I haven’t played that far with Seren yet but I suspect that like Therlia, she’ll let Isolde die to save Connor. They approach those decisions differently though. Therlia regrets killing the werewolves and only did it because she didn’t want to risk hurting the elves by turning on Zathrian. She killed him after discovering Lanaya could also cure them. Seren was maybe not 100% behind Zathrian, but there was still no question on whether she was going to side with him or not. He deserved his vengeance, she felt. She’s also more enthusiastic about Bhelen as king, compared to Therlia’s “uhh, I guess he sounds a bit better?”

Their personalities are also fairly different, Therlia is very cautious, while Seren is very Not. Therlia starts off with Isolationist leanings and while she’s always been angry at the way mages were treated, she only starts Saying things about that after the end of Origins. Seren meanwhile is a Libertarian from the beginning, and after being told Duncan will take on responsibility for her actions, she punches Greagoir before leaving the tower.

I kind of feel like the main difference between Lucy and Millie is just how I’ve changed in building my stories. Back when playing Lucy Hawke I was keeping everything to close as canon to possible with “well, if I’d known in advance I probably wouldn’t have let Carver die in the Deep Roads, but it Happened and now my story needs to build from it”. Millie is the Kid Hawke I mentioned the other day and started playing a few hours after, so with her we have “ There’s nothing new I can Do with the canon Hawke backstory, so let’s give Leandra and Malcolm a younger kid for a new perspective. And then older Hawke sibling - let’s go with fandom’s purple Garret Hawke - can die escaping Lothering so I don’t have to deal with them getting in my protagonist’s way. And actually if he dies, does Bethany really need to? I haven’t had both twins survive before and that creates new interesting possibilities, let’s do it!” Also, back then my Hawke was just called Hawke and didn’t like using her first name, whereas now I have enough Hawkes that it gets confusing.

Lucy Hawke is also the most similar Hawke to Fanon Hawke that I have, whereas Millie isn’t even the person the game thinks is the protagonist because she was born about 14 years after them. As for similarities, uh, they’re both very pro-mage? Although Lucy more actively so, and Millie is a lot more scared of templars. Like Lucy Hawke, Millie is purple at the moment, but she’s going to be red in Act 2 and green in Act 3. They both try desperately to be cool while failing to actually be cool, I guess. Although by the time Millie is Lucy’s age, she’ll likely have learnt how to be.

The biggest difference between Kas and Rynessa is that Kas is a sweet cinnamon roll and Rynessa is a monster. Kas is as nice as possible to almost everyone she meets and always tries her best to not kill, if that is a feasible option. Rynessa is a dick who doesn’t give a shit about whether most people live or not because they’re mortal, so it’s not going to make a difference whether they die now or in a few decades.

Similarity-wise, I guess they’re both very dependent on Cole as a moral compass. Although in Kas’ case, that’s because she has far too little faith in herself, while Rynessa has exactly the right amount of faith in her own moral compass and knows she’s the Worst. They’re also the two Inquisitors who, despite making him more spirit, have Cole stay with them after Trespasser, because they need his help too much for him to go to the Fade.