Alistair: In Game
Approval
So all this time we've spent together... you know: the tragedy, the brushes with death, the constant battles with the whole Blight looming over us... will you miss it once it's over?
The approval is a quite a tricky thing, you need to have high approval, if you want the characters in the party to follow you and also gain bonuses, because they like you, if you want to romance a character, then it’s a must having really high approval. The dog starts with highest approval, and you cannot do anything to lower it.
Now Alistair can be tricky, especially if you like to do bad things, like not helping or killing. If you have Alistair in your party don’t do that. I normally take Morrigan and Zevran, along with the dog, when I know I’ll be doing something that Alistair wouldn’t approve. And when I’m doing good stuff I have Alistair and Wynee in the party.
There is three types of approval getting – during quests, when you do things he approves of, or during the charring with yourself, final is the one with gifts, yes you can buy his approval giving him stuff.
I will not copy-paste the whole dialogue thing, because it can be find on Dragon Age Wikia, and it has everything (I’m crazy enough that I went and got almost all dialogues from there). And it would just made a huge pack of stuff.
What I want to say is, the most fun getting approval from Alistair is chatting with him in the camp, or outside. Depending on the comments, you can have him being funny (and failing at it), sassy, and similar. It’s actually like bantering with a friend.
After Alistair's approval reaches Adore/Love, if the Warden talks to Leliana she enquires about his 'performance'. If this takes place outside camp with Alistair in the party, he'll interrupt, asking why Leliana is giggling. The Warden may respond:
- "You. And your performance." Alistair will be confused at first, then Leliana will say that you are discussing how he 'treats her in bed'. Alistair will finally cotton on and say "Maker... What is wrong with you women?"
- "Uh.. Darkspawn." Skeptical, Alistair will respond, "Right. Yes, you're giggling about darkspawn. So funny, them darkspawns!"
- "Nothing, just girl talk." Alistair will decide not to enquire further.
-- Dragon Age Wikia