Bellara Lutare - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

I meant to make a joke about there probably being enchantment to keep even the silliest hair in check, but... Bellara is established as a tinkerer, who also researches ancient magic, so it may be that she did indeed find something that helps keep her hair from getting caught in things 

(and before anyone mentions 'ancient elves were bald' - *old* ancient elves were bald, and given that there exists evidence that elves of Elvenhan liked opulence and extravagance, I wouldn't be surprised at all if a lot of them wore some amazing wigs or ridiculous headgear/headdresses/whole garment that could only be fixed to place by magic)

I said I might change my opinion once playing the game. But I'll answer. She looks cartoonish in a bit of comical way and not really real on the opposite to me. There are ironically past game with asian female characters on previous consoles with less good graphics that look better and in a more realistic way than her. And i'm talking about western games. There is also a very good looking and realistic asian character in Cyberpunk. And they were no sex dolls at all. 

Yeah I agree not every character needs to be for people to get horny. A normal cute good looking face, is totally enough. She is a romance however, that has to be taken into account. Obviously, her physical appearance will get more noticed and commented as such.

I don't really like JRPGs either , it's a bit too much, and unrealistic for my taste, but I won't judge those who like that type of games. There is a path in between too. Let's not get to the extreme either to the opposite side with a crusade toward extremely attractive female characters like it seems to be the case lately in the western video game industry, to satisfy insecure people. Extremely attractive women, they exist. Let's not pretend it's not the case. As a guy who hangs out a lot, I can see that it's not uncommon at all. 

And yes, If a character is romanceable, this character should be in part attractive. it's just a video game and an RPG. People are happy with everyone being pansexual while totally unrealistic, but having very attractive romance would be suddenly an issue ? I'm aware that beauty standards apply differently with every individual, so anyone is entitled to his tastes though. 

However I don't really like this argument, especially when I have so many times noticed silently the reactions over how male and female romance characters looks from male and female gamers over their options with past game and with DAV. There had always been male and female gamers disappointed about their options because they thought they were unattractive. And I don't know how many times I have read female gamers being so much relieved when they learned that Cullen and Solas were added in the last minute because otherwise they would have been very angry with " the ugly Iron Bull and the old ugly Blackwall ". The angryness was not even about the difference of numbers, it was purely about attractiveness. Given how many times I've read such thing for litterally years, having just Blackwall and Iron Bull as romance option in DAI, I believe it would have been a real shitshow if it happened, and I'm like " thanks god Bioware didn't do such terrible mistake. "

Also very often, funnily, the same female gamers or people on twitter that for example complain because apparently female characters shouldn't be sex dolls, are very happy and swooping bad when they get male characters like Cullen or Astarion, who are literally sex dolls, I'm sorry. Or I could mention the male sex dolls in Final fantasy and other japanese games.   Strangely, never any single comment about how unrealistic these "' dolls " look and how they shouldn't exist. And it's okay if they enjoy these contents, you won't see me judging or complaining. On the opposite, just enjoy !    

It's just that this incomprehensible double standard, I see it every time and it's getting old however.  

I'd be very happy if both men and women could agree that it's both important for both sex to have appealing romance to us, without hypocrisy and double standard. 

In her latest video, Ghil Dirthalen states Bellara is the Peebee level of annoying.
Hmm...

Didn't she say the opposite? That she likes Bellara but finds Peebee annoying.

I don't know didn't think Peebee was THAT bad.

Just think what was in the Wigmaker Job and then multiply it. Whilst I would like the Vints to have come up with the occasional bit of magic that was entirely their own development, it has become something of a trope now that anything Tevinter does, the ancient elves did first (at least according to Solas). In fact didn't the Game Informer article (or was it a Dev blog) say that the elves invented a way of infusing lyrium into their architecture that to date the Vints haven't been able to reproduce. So, even if Forfex wasn't directly copying something he found in an ancient elven texts or art, I dare say the mechanism for creating magical wigs was already around back in ancient Elvhenan. There is also always going to be a helpful spirit with the requisite information if you ask nicely.

Yeah, I can imagine that the Evanuris won't see the modern Elves of Thedas as 'people'. Even Solas didn't, and he was the one who sacrificed everything to try and save them.

They may acknowledge them as useful though. A whole population of useful mundanes to serve their needs.

Call me slow on the uptake and perhaps this has already been mentioned, but in addition to her earrings favouring triangles, the bracer on her right arm and the magical gauntlet on her left are adorned with a "V". Is that for Veil Jumper or Veilguard? I wish they had given our team a name that didn't have such a strong association with one particular faction.  Also, I expect an explanation for the fixation on triangles fairly early on in our acquaintance.   They are everywhere on her outfit.   It borders on obsession.