Bellara Lutare - Official Companion Thread

Why did they decide to give her such a goofy face. It's the first asian character, I think ? You could't make some efforts ? I'd be mad if I was asian to be honest. Try your best the first time, I don't know.

That reminds me of when I was adolescent, very often annoyed. Never any effort to make black female characters attractive when they dared to finally create one while the others were attractives. Beyond the annoying attitude, they always had to look like " I'm an independent and strong woman that needs no men ", a bizarre feminist cliche that kept going but that never was true in real life , as if they were never concerned by the wish to be loved, purchased and seduced by men too, never a single one that was feminine and attractive. Never understood where this bizarre trend came from. 

I'm still annoyed when I'm seeing the fortnite or overwatch like games nowadays, where female black character look almost all the time very bad with ugly design, muscular and manly bodies, weird clothes, bizarre proportions probably supposed to click with the " feminist twitter like modern audience , yeaaaah you go girl. "


But at least I'm certain Bellara won't be an afterthought with the writting. I'm not sure I will romance her, there isn't really anything with her that appeals to me.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong however once playing the game. 

I hope she gives us interesting insight into the Evanuris that differs from what Solas thinks of them.

I always play elf first run, it's my thing (except DA2 of course), but which sex depends on who I might be interested in romancing first run. I went in blind for DAO, so played a male elf. With DAI as Solas was restricted to female elves, I went with a female Lavellan first run. I really wanted to play a male elf first run with DAV and the latest article makes me think that finally my male elf will be able to romance a female elf who actually is a good fit character wise too (even if Sera hadn't been a lesbian I would never have romanced her).

Bellara sounds a bit like I originally imagined Solas was going to be and, hopefully, if I ask her where she learned something, she will not reply "in the Fade". Now I just have to decide my background. At present I am learning towards Shadow Dragon, which I hope means they have geared the backstory more towards a city elf, which would be a nice contrast to the Dalish elf companions.   The only drawback is that I intend playing a mage but they say that if you like being on the front line she is a good support with her bow and healing magic.   I'm looking to play a Spellblade at present so that would fit.   It is possible I could have an all elf line up with Davrin and Assan providing the melee support up front whilst Bellara supports us from the rear.

Yeah, her features are definitely invoking the Uncanny Valley effect. It’s hard to say what’s wrong, but something is off.

I have seen pictures of her voice actress, who Bellara is clearly modelled off of, and she is pretty. But adding elven ears and a goofy beehive hairdo is not doing her any favours.

I think she is an asian girl with west behavior. And that could be the problem you may have? I don't know.
Because i see parts of her character in people i know. As far as i know, it is a way for the psyche to survive bad events and not go crazy.
They compensate things by becoming even more "happier". I don't have a good word for that.

The only thing that makes me wonder whether I'll enjoy this character is the adjective "quirky" I saw in the GI article (the trailer didn't help either). It's not my go-to personality type, but I can imagine one of my later Rooks getting on splendidly well with her.

I think the ears are probably the problem. They didn't really have to stick out that much either side just because they are pointed elf ears. It accentuates the fullness of her face and even the fact she has the beehive hairstyle. If you block out the ears you'll see what I mean. Ears do not normally stick out like that, unless you are Dobby, who is a completely different type of elf. I certainly won't be doing that with my PC if it can be avoided. For reference, here are some of our previous companions and Briala. May be Sera's ears stuck out like that but the hair covering meant it wasn't obvious but even the ears on bald Solas don't seem to stick out that far.

It's hard to say. Her design looks somewhat like a de-aged elderly person. Who knows though, maybe that's a part of her lore?

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I can see the uncanny valley complaints in the first picture. She doesn’t focus properly on the gauntlet, and it’s the focal point of the piece, which makes her look cross-eyed. The second pic jediguardian shared seems fine, though. I’d certainly have preferred her design to Fenris if you showed me both without context.

Been giggling over the nitpicks and reading stuff into her appearance (like she's an independent woman who doesn't need a man to be happy? Idk what about her face says that, but good for her I guess?).

I agree that the ears sticking out to the side rather than being alongside her head looks odd though. Maybe it's to show off the (suspiciously Executor symbol) earrings, but it is different from other elf ears and I concede it's a more cartoonish look.

I think what I like best about Bellara's appearance is her eyes. They're large and expressive and a pretty shape.