DA 4 Romances! New info for real this time!!! Zom-bangin'?

I saw this art today and thought what a great character design for a gay KISA.

Me: Give us a gay good boy KISA!!! Give us a gay werewolf!!!!!

*Kano shows up*




Me, a confused gay: GIVE US A MURDERER ASSHOLE DADDY!!!

lmao 

Also if there is no chest hair in DA4 I swear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GMAD > KISA.

I can take or leave body hair, but if other people want it so bad, BioWare is more than welcome to all of mine.

I was tempted to pick werewolf, but then I remembered DAO's werewolves. Not anthropomorphic enough for me.

Centaur it is. Dat ass.

Anyone played a mobile visual romance novel game The Arcana? Has this character called Murial, big buff ex-gladiator guy. Would totally go for a character like him in DA. He also has a pet wolf so close to a wolf man...? Totally recommend the game btw, the story is pretty good.

That's not accurate, though. There was a conversation earlier about whether the player would take the opportunity to help or encourage the werewolf person to undertake a cure, or to help them accept their existence as a werewolf. The idea of the curse and its ramifications is certainly present for some of these players.

sigh You could go back and find the discussion without making assumptions. In fact, some players said they would not want the option of a cure, or prefer that you help the person accept who they are (a werewolf).

There's a lot wrong with this, so let's break this down.

Werewolves are shapeshifters. All of them. Without exception. If they have only one form, then they are not, according to the definition, werewolves. Werwulf (man wolf) or lukanthropos (wolf person) in folklore are humans, who shapeshift into wolves or wolf-human hybrids.

What you're thinking of is the RPG style of shapeshifters, where magic is involved. Shapeshifters can shapeshift, the source of this ability does not matter.

And it's not like werewolves being blood dripping murder machines is the only valid interpretation of the werewolf myth.

In the 12th century tale Bisclavret, the werewolf is betrayed by his wife after he reveals his secret. She hides his clothes, which leads to him being stuck in wolf form. He comes across the king, who, surprised by the wolf's gentle and noble nature, brings him back to the castle and the two become inseparable. When the wife visits the castle, he attacks her. The king defends the wolf, saying it must have been justified. The truth is revealed, the now nose-less wife and her new lover are exiled, and Bisclavret and the king live happily ever after. Guillaume de Palerme and Melion feature similar "gentle werewolf" themes.

Turkic legends had shamans, who could transform into wolfmen and were revered for it.

You also have Slavic folklore that had werewolf deities (Horz and Veles), or the tradition to give children wolf names to ward them from evil.

There are a lot of myths that have different interpretations. Disney and modern cinema ingrained in us the gentle mermaid trope, but many myths, like the Greek ones with sirens and Slavic ones with rusalkas, depicted them as man eating monsters. So you might as well complain that Ariel is not a "real" mermaid.

Werewolves being vulnerable to silver is a modern trope. The alpha-beta-omega hierarchy is based on a modern bunk study. Connecting the transformation to the full moon, while present in some folklore, didn't become a universal werewolf story element until the 20th century.

The only required element is a human turning into a wolf or a wolf human hybrid. Anything else isn't obligatory. Claiming that people are sanitising werewolves is stupid. No one owns werewolves, common themes change. Just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean that what people talk about here are not "real" werewolves. Classic horror movies are not some holy scripture, just one of the interpretations. So calm down with the gatekeeping.

The Shape of Water should be enough evidence that there can be different interpretations of mythical creatures without people going "omg the vodyanoi would never romance anyone, this is unrealistic, why u sanitising swamp themed horror?!"

But yes, I want a werewolf companion, who sometimes struggles to keep control. Who's extremely territorial. Who might lash out and snarl at everyone, who tries to come close, except for a high friendship/romanced protagonist.

Also, I want this, not "funny animals" (not that those are somehow bad, or don't have a place in certain visual styles)


tl;dr

I love when Rouccoco talks dirty