Citations:friendmance

English citations of friendmance

Noun: "(Dragon Age fandom slang) a romance with a character with whom the player has a friendly relationship in Dragon Age II"

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• 2015 December 27, [deleted user account], Reddit‎^[1]:

  I've only ever done a friendmance with Fenris, and I was wondering what people think of the rivalmances in comparison with the friendmances!

• 2018 October 20, Kiralai, Reddit‎^[2]:

  Fenris friendmance (especially with a mage Hawke) for heals and feels.

• 2019 February 24, KvonLiechtenstein, Reddit‎^[3]:

  I preferred the friendmance with Fenris personally, but like with Isabela, the rivalmance is also pretty good.

• 2019 September 29, Toshi_Nama, Reddit‎^[4]:

  My first playthrough of DA2 was a blind Anders friendmance with a blue F!Hawke.

• 2019 July 13, DreamsTyme, Reddit‎^[5]:

  I really want to rivalmance Anders but honestly I love his friendmance so much I can’t do it

• 2019 December 4, PyschoFlashFan, Reddit‎^[6]:

  Which is ironic considering it's Anders who ends up betraying Hawke in the friendmance path out of his own free will.

• 2022 July 25, dustandfire, Reddit‎^[7]:

  Merrill’s friendmance is my favorite regardless of gender for very similar reasons - it’s a long term relationship all about mutual respect and understanding with the added bonus that it’s just 100% saccharinely sweet.

• 2022 September 1, MelloGlory, Reddit‎^[8]:

  I feel like most people prefer the friendmances (especially for Fenris) but the rival paths are so interesting!

• 2023 February 7, Wren-bee, Reddit‎^[9]:

  I feel like a friendmance is better for Merrill but if you want to go rivalmance then go for it.

Verb: "(Dragon Age fandom slang) to romance a character in this manner in Dragon Age II"

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• 2015 March 31, inconsonance, Reddit‎^[10]:

  I actually thought Fenris's character was better if you friendmance him, especially as a pro-mage mageHawke.

• 2015 December 28, [deleted user account], Reddit‎^[11]:

  In my peronal^[sic] opinion, Anders and Merrill are for friendmancing only, unless you want to truly, deeply hurt and bully them.

• 2016 June 30, [deleted user account], Reddit‎^[12]:

  And of course, I feel it's dramatically best to friendmance Anders in DA2 and kill him in the end.

• 2022 July 3, LootableSack, Reddit‎^[13]:

  My canon is a mage FemHawke who friendmances Fenris.

• 2022 October 10, lalaquen, Reddit‎^[14]:

  Friendmancing Fenris as a pro-Mage Hawke is another favourite. I really love the growth you see in him throughout.

• 2023 April 17, ashesforink, Reddit‎^[15]:

  My personal favorite is Anders, friendmanced by a pro-mage male mage purple (default Garrett) Hawke.

• 2022 July 12, LadyNorbert, Reddit‎^[16]:

  If female Hawke friendmances Sebastian, he will suggest a chaste marriage with her taking vows as a Chantry sister.

• 2023 May 19, HaitaShephard, Reddit‎^[17]:

  I friendmanced Fenris on my blood mage Tess (I hate the rivalmances) and it was hilarious how much pro-mage I could pull with him just sighing and saying ok babe u do u.