Many people call Skyrim an action RPG, an open-world exploration game, or some other tripe. It's not. It's a romantic comedy, a certified 500 Days of Winter, and it's high time we admit it.
I can hear people scratching their heads, maybe clicking the X to scroll aw🗹ay or write a confused comment - stop. I have ten perfectly good reasons for this completely, dead serious opinion.
Skyrim is chock-full of rom-com tropes so, if you're telling me that, when you first met Lydia, you didn't feel sparks, you're lying. Housecarl, or housecarl? Definitely housecarl.
10 The Unlikely Lovꦿers𒁏
You can 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:marry pretty much everyone in Skyrim, your housecarl Lydia in🐟cluded, and that means that there are plenty of bold choices for romance. You can take the safe routeꦯ and find someone who flirts with you, or you can dig around the Whiterun market and find someone who hates your guts.
There are plenty of choices throughout Skyrim, but my favourite has to be Uthgerd. You meet at a bar after she tells you about her short-lived days in the Companions, cast out for killing another member. It's heartbreaking. Then you beat her up and drag her on your bloodstained, murky adventures. If that isn't a perfect beginning to a perfectly unlikely love story, then I don't know what is.
9 The Camilla Love Triangle 🧔 ❀
Skyrim's introduction is deceptive. You're lulled into thinking this is an RPG about slaying dragons as you're thrown into a crumbling town besieged by the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:head honcho of all dragons, Alduin. But right after, you stumble on 🉐a love triangle.
Camilla is the town merchant's sister, and she's being pulled in both directions by Faendal and Sven, both of whom want to frame the other for being a sexist pig. You, the lowly traveller who wanders in, can help one of the two, or you can marry Camilla for yourself. Love triangle? No, Skyrim goes a step further - love square.
8 Delphine And Esbern's Will-They-Wont-They
The Blades have fallen apart - Delphine is running an inn and Esbern has become a closed-off hermit li💝ving in the sewers. The rom-com begins when you reunite these two estranged lovers. They have a b🍷ickering old couple vibe about them.
But they're duty-bound. Focused on the task at hand. Headstrong and determined. It's all about their work, but their love for one another is bubbling at the surface and about to reach boiling point. I really hope they will, because if they won't, I'm gonna swoop in and take Esbern for myself.
7 ꦬ Romeo And Miraak
One of the key ingredients to any good rom-com is the wrong lover. They're on the other side of a feud you have no part in, like Romeo and Juliet. That's Miraak.
You're the new Dragonborn, he's the old guard, and you're in the land of the living while he's trapped in the land of the dead. You couldn't be more different, but there's that bond between you that pulls you together.
It's the classic tale of enemies to lovers. I've never finished the Dragonborn DLC and I refuse to find out what happens. I'm too busy Wattpadding my unlikely love affairs with that dreamy Dragonborn.
6 ꦉ Soul Mates ♏
Another huge trope in romcoms is destiny. The love between two characters has to happen because it's bound to. If that doesn't make you think of Jiub, you missed the whole point of The Elder Scrolls.
This one breaks the fourth wall a little, admittedly, but our journey with Jiub was set in motion way back in Morrowind. We meet him on the boat, find him dead in Oblivion, and then 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:re-unite with him in Skyrim. It's like Rory Pond waiting an eternity for Amy - we're the valiant Roman, waiting for that box to open, waiting for the Impossible Girl to stumble out. Jiub is our Impossible Girl.
5 🦋 Comical Weddings
Romcoms are still comedies, though, so there has to be an element of silliness about them. And yeah it's a bug, but corpses can show up to your weddings as well as hired thugs or dragon attacks. Maybe Miraak's cultists will rock up to crash the wedding - who knows?
They're stiff, awkward, and the priest bulldozes through your vows because everyone is in a hurry to get back to their lives. Your wedding is a meaningless, comical ceremony.
4 Happy Eveꦅr After
Not every romcom ends with a nice bow tying the knot, but it's certainly a trope. Skyrim lets you relish that trope with the Hearthfire DLC.
You can build a house in the woods, live out the rest of your dragon-slaying days with your partner, and even adopt some kids. It's a picture-perfect ending.
3 Nerd Gets ꦗThe Date ไ
Another big trope is the nerd getting the girl or guy. How many romcoms have a ginger with glasses taking them off midway through during a spontaneous makeover, so they can woo someone? Or the unlikely nerd getting wit🍃h a popular girl at school? Skyrim is the Superbad of RPGs.
Only instead of Jonah Hill, we're an orc with giant teeth, stretched out cheeks, wearing jester's clothes with a big hammer on our back. We're not exactly all that - we're no Chris Evans - but we can still find love.
2 🃏 The Inevitab𒅌le Heartbreaks
While romcoms are comedic, they do have a certain tragedy about them. There's always that sad moment in the film that makes you tear up or get sniffly.
Skyrim gets right to the punch. Lydia is your first love, the one you bring🍨 on your adventure, but come High Hrothgar, the tragedy ensues. Three little words. Not "I love you," not "will you marry me."
Fus Ro Dah.
And poof. She's gone.
1 Betrayal
Cheating, backst📖abbing, not showing up to prom - betrayal is a rom-com staple. When we first met Mercer, he was looking us up and down wi꧙th that suggestive glare, putting us to the test while the palpable sparks flew.
But as quick as our love story began, it fell apart, as Mercer throws us to the wolves. He's the jock toying with the girl for a dare, the romcom baddy.