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

Nerdy scholar in the DA setting. I can't be the only one who remembers this guy......

I remember there being a lot of shows and movies back in the 2000s like Queer as Folk, Noah's Arc, Latter Days, etc. having main characters that exhibited some of these traits, though I agree, nowadays gay characters are getting more diverse. Regardless, most Bioware titles have characters that do tend to have those traits, and the people that are for a gay KISA just want a character that doesn't fall into those traits and are of an archetype that doesn't typically get gay representation.

Yes, he is. Who said he was happy, the Templars stopped the outdoor trainings after Anders' escape...

I like *playing* as the dashing rogue character.  So, ideally, I'd like a LI for that character to have more KISA characteristics to balance him out.   But that's just me.  Also, regarding elves,  I just don't find male  Dragon Age elves to be visually appealing.  

That said, my canon romance in DA2 is Fenris.  I really like him as a character and can completely look past the fact that I don't find him visually appealing.   I would just prefer a human and/or dwarf as M/M romance options.  I don't think we will have another qunari guy.  I have a feeling that we will have a qunari woman this time.   But I do really want a dwarf guy who is NOT Varric for once.  Really it's about damn time for a gay dwarf.  

And I get why many people find human characters to be boring.  However, I am certainly not one of them, and I would absolutely not mind if we get another human as a gay LI.  Would you turn down someone like this?  Especially if he was an awesome character? 

I wouldn't turn down a character based on his looks, as long as he is male and has a good romance with good roleplaying potentials.

I don't necessarily find elves more attractive than humans, I like muscle and tall guys, but ME3, MEA, DA:I. All of those games had a gay male HUMAN LI. So let's stop this bullshit please.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, that the companions are severely broken. That might have been true for DA2, but otherwise it depends on the character. Wynne is basically a zombie, and she's still not evil or corrupted. Aveline lost her husband to the blight and she's doing fine by the end of the game, with her alignment being basically lawful good. Same goes for Cassandra. There are plenty of characters in Thedas that go through hardship and end up being ok. If we were talking about the setting of the Witcher - then yeah, no KISAs there, everyone is an evil bag of dicks. But DA is not that bleak.

Honestly, Ragtag Bunch of Misfits fits any DA game, otherwise the party would be boring. DA2 was thematically very different (family of choice, Sisyphean hero), but DAO and DAI are close to each other - a bunch of colourful characters come together to stop the looming evil. I don't find enough variation between them to say that each DA game has it's own distinct theme, when it comes to companions.

The idea you give is interesting, but I'd personally prefer someone, who's not knee deep in Tevinter politics. Which is not that far-fetched, most of the companions since 2 are foreigners to the setting, protagonist included (Cassandra, one of the most plot important companions, is from Nevarra). Orlesian politics played a big role in DAI and most of the companions didn't care about or disliked the Game. And that's not even mentioning that I don't think Tevinter will be the only nation we'll go to. A DA4 that's set only in Tevinter with only Vints on the team would be kinda bland.

And no, I haven't played Tyranny, so I can't say anything about Barik.

Yeah, we've got precedent for outsider and foreign companions coming out of our ears--Every DA has had a significant number of team members who aren't native to the setting. Changing it to only local characters would be an awfully sudden and strange restriction to introduce to the game. 

I think Sandal is saying, "I prefer to romance humans even if I get this feeling that people think humans are boring. And people wouldn't turn down this sexy human if he were gay. more gay humans please!"

And Witch is saying, "I don't romance characters based on looks. But we've gotten lots of gay humans in 3 other games, so let's not ask for more of the same here like we haven't already had our preference satisfied."

That's my parsing of it, anyway.