Brin (Official character thread)

Not as of now. Maybe later.

Did I imagine it, or did someone say she is Asian in one of the Q&As?

Hold on... Is Brin a Cypher for the Sentinels? Or can anyone hop into one of those amplifier things? In the recent footage she seems to have the same kind of situational awareness as Owen as she's talking to you.

Here's her face! She seems to have lost the long hair.

Jesus, Bioware really has some kind of unnatural aversion to long hair (or at least long hair that isn't tied up), don't they?

Also, that's a very generic Asian face - almost no defining features. Walk into any mall in China and there'd be no less than two dozen people within your sightline at all times that you could mistake for Brin.

Now that we know what Brin looks like, I wonder when they said "there's Brin" in the stream if they were talking about the person crossing in the foreground rather than the person with the bun in the background.

Also, do you think Brin was named after the author David Brin (who wrote the Uplift series, The Postman, etc.)? Some people at Bioware have obviously read Brin's works as the Volus are a client species of the Turians and the Council races uplifted the Krogan, both terms/concepts from Brin's books.

No mention in the thread that she is a huge Crimson Lancer fangirl. I confess, I started listening the show because of her...and Cassandra moaning half her lines...

First explicitly Ace character in a Bioware game!

What do you mean?

I don't mean to say that having a character be ace is a bad thing it's just... There's a lot of conversations in the game, either overheard or participated in, that talk about the romantic relationships that all the OTHER characters have. They've been rather adamant about "no romance options AT LAUNCH" which implies the devs are possibly thinking about adding this kind of feature in at a later date, but it seems like all the existing characters you can interact with are off the table.

Also it's rather rich that they've also bragged about the "richness" of the non-romantic relationships you have with Anthem's cast, when the actual meat and content of same is so damn shallow. They took out the possibility of romancing these characters and replaced it with... Nothing, essentially.

I suppose I'm taking it a bit personally since Brin is a character I had HOPED would someday be "available" (as it were) in a later content update. It seems useless to clarify a character's sexual identity when it will never come up or be relevant to anyone in the actual game, unless there's someone ELSE trying to flirt with her and she shuts them down. People are miffed with JK Rowling over the situation with Dumbledore for the same reason. Not because they don't WANT him to be gay, they just want it to mean something in the actual work and not purely to pad a content author's "woke" meter.

AND SHE'S INTO/WRITES FANFICTION! Shapersdamnit...

Can someone take a better photo of Brin to the OP? Maybe during a cutscene.