But it felt like I was missing something, and when I rediscovered my joy in writing, I realized that I missed having a creative outlet. I stopped writing years ago because I attended university and had just started my career in healthcare, and I always heard the voice of my parents at the back of my head – get a real job, writing will always be a hobby. I enjoyed the characters and the lore and the world of Dragon Age so much that I started writing fanfiction. The choices you make and how it affected the world around you, along with the characters you gather into your party and how they all reveal things about the intergalactic conflicts that you learn about as you travel through the vast universe. I made choices that changed my relationships with people in my party, I got to know their backgrounds and histories, and that was what made the game so interesting to me. Even though I was the commander of a space ship and I was tasked with figuring out the mysteries of alien technology by completing missions on various planets, the relationships were just as important as the shooting. I didn’t think that video games were for me, until I started playing Mass Effect. I would try a game here and there, but I was not very good at first person shooters because of my terrible hand-eye coordination, and I didn’t like driving games (bad sense of direction). Years later, video games would become way more popular. But even though I liked the worldbuilding details and solving little puzzles, I connected the most with other people who are online at the same time as we fought monsters together side by side. I played late into the night when I was supposed to be asleep, imagining myself as an explorer of these fantastical worlds. That didn’t stop me though from discovering the world of text-based RPGs, where you would move your character through different rooms that are described in text and interact with aspects of the environment, like picking up a sword from a dead adventurer or jabbing at monsters. We didn’t have a console in our house and our computer was strictly for homework purposes. When I was a teen, I was not allowed to play video games.
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