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Why? Genuine question. At least superficially, he seems to be exactly the knight in shining armor type folks have been clamoring for. They only reason I can think of why he wouldn't fit the mold is... not nice, so I won't assume that. Maybe there's something else I'm missing.

As for the rest, beauty standards are ultimately subjective. I would more or less agree that 1. Neve is beautiful (though not quite my type), 2. Harding and Bellara are cute, 3. Taash is rather plain (though maybe we've only gotten unflattering angles of her), and 4. whether we're talking romance or the character in general, writing and voice acting supersede looks (though I won't be one of those enlightened few who say they don't matter at all).

I don't think my fellow straight men have much to complain about, since we're getting at least twice as many options as in DA:I and they're more conventionally attractive overall.

It's exactly the not nice thing you're thinking. I have seen just enough backlash to him, and just enough people saying they don't find him attractive (or asking why there's no Alistair/Cullen - which is why I say he doesn't seem to appeal to that crowd - I should be nicer and not generalize and say *some* of that crowd) to be like what's the deal. He's exactly the kind of Grey Warden *I* want to romance except he's not a hot lady Warden, but I'm excited to romance him first of the guys when I get to it.

And re: the women oh yeah I'm totally into everyone, Harding maybe the least but that's because I'm more interested in the new factions, and not a knock on her. Bellara has what seems like a glorious amount of hair in that huge bun. And Taash is fortunately exactly my "bored at the meeting" jock type of lady so. I know taste doesn't always overlap but I assumed straight guys had a lot to celebrate here too haha.

OK but why remove them from the games altogether? I'm totally fine with changing how they look, add a male version too for example. I just really like the concept of desire demons, they're cool and terrifying. All the demon types are because most people can't resist them. And the idea to be powerless is scary.

I want them back in some form. There is no reason to remove just them while the other types are still around. So what then is the reason to remove them in your opinion?

I'm totally fine with having different types of desire demons tailored to the character's triggers. Nothing wrong with sexual desire being somebody's weakness though.

Like I said, just improve them if they didn't look how they were supposed to. Don't just delete them.

SAME SAME her shot in the group shot was exactly why I was like oof love her now. 

Funnily enough, both Taash and Karlach are tall muscular warrior women with horns and a crazy skin color, but I think the latter's easily the hottest (ha) companion in BG3 

Any romance considerations aside, based on the little blurbs we've gotten about their personalities, Taash sounds like one of the Veilguard companions I would enjoy the most. I, too, hate work meetings.

And if you're wondering about the overall preliminary ranking... Emmrich > Taash/Davrin > Harding > Neve/Bellara (got small concerns about both) > Lucanis (got BIG concerns).

Sensitive topic but I'll post this anyway:

Well, sexual attraction is something one cannot influence really. And there is nothing wrong with not being attracted to certain features.
I did a quick search on the topic of same race preferences on top of the things I remember vaguely from stuff I read on it ages ago and found an interesting study.
It basically says that ALL races prefer European faces overall. It's especially true for white male features. Asian women find European males very attractive. That probably explains Asia's obsession with white features.
Interesting detail is that a blend of faces for each race is seen as more attractive than individual faces. Makes sense.
I was surprised that mixed race faces were not deemed more attractive because that often is the case with me.

So same race preference is not a thing at all except sometimes for men here. I read another study in which women prefer their own race more than men. So like all studies nothing is conclusive.
Women rate male black faces as fairly attractive in this study while men rate female black faces as less attractive and they tentatively link this with perceived masculinity and femininity. Which explains why men often like Asian women and Asian women are into European faces and also African faces.

Based on this study Davrin should be popular. But yes, white male romance options are apparently the most attractive to everyone. I still find that so weird tbh.

But goes to show how different everyone can be. Me, I have always been into Asian men who are always rated lowest because less masculine. Granted, I don't usually like the very feminine pop star faces either, so think Lan from Wheel of Time for peak hotness. Sadly because Asian men are so unpopular with everyone I'm still waiting for one in my western RPGs. ;_;

I find white Europeans often the least sexually attractive. Especially when they have blond hair. I assume that's the case because I'm a pale blonde myself so I seek somebody who looks very different.
I also like Indian and Middle Eastern features.

But on the other hand I admit I am not very attracted to very dark African features. I do find plenty of mixed race black men attractive though. Like the English soccer star Bellingham. Hot guy.

So if there's racial bias towards Devrin it might be the black elf thing rather than just being black. He looks OK to me, hard to tell from the snippets. I would prefer he wasn't an elf though, I admit. I don't like elves dark skinned unless it's fantasy dark like purple colored dark elves in Elder Scrolls. (Edit: It's actually the African bone structure and not so much the skin color because I like brownish colored wood elves a lot. That probably makes it worse but I'm just being honest.) Call me racist for that, it's just how it is. I also struggle a bit with Bellara as an Asian elf. My brain needs to get used to it, I think. Too many Tolkien elf images in my head. Can't tell yet how attractive I'll find Davrin in the actual game. Voice is going to be a big factor as usual. I find Lucanis most attractive personally. As I said before Cullen was pretty but not my type because blond. So it's not about being white.

My rambling 2 cents on this delicate topic. I hope it's not offensive.

It's all my fault. Blame me, it's fine. I can't game right now because I have fucked up thumbs so I got too much time to go crazy.

Davrin is probably the hottest of the three new male LI, imho.

What made me become obsessed with Bioware was that when I found them in 2016 they were my first experience having a game that recognized I was *a woman* and that I could fall in love while saving the world. Or trying to keep the family together, ala DA2. The only other experience I'd had where my gender mattered was what men I could marry in Harvestmoon.

It legit changed me and my standards for games. I want to be a woman, recognized as a woman, in that I am NOT a man. Diablo, Borderlands, no recognition of you picked the female sprite over any of the other sprites. Tried Disco Elysium the other day only to find out you could only play a man. I also couldn't get it to work. So between the two, I turned it off and never intend to revisit it. Spiders is trying to do something Bioware-Esque, but didn't quite catch that romantic magic in Greedfall but their romances were also player sexual and I don't super recall that it mattered that I played a female sprite. Horizon Zero Dawn is 100% a woman seen as a woman, but falling in love is only available in the second game's DLC- and only with another woman. Detroit Become Human, super great, multi protagonist genius, can only have romance as a fixed protagonist that looks male with a NPC that looks female (I use looks because they're freaking robots and do they even have gender?) anyway.

My point is, Bioware is all I got as a woman, where I'm recognized as a woman, saving the world. falling in love with NPCs that are well written who fall in love with me because of my strength and accomplishments as I do so. That reactivity is wonderful. Literally it's nowhere else. And no, it's not a goddamn romance sim. Jesus, DAI was 220 hours if you did everything. Look up "Complete Cullen Romance Scenes" and there is an HOUR of content. An hour. Multiple that by the 9 romances available, and y'all know they weren't all treated equally, and that's 9 hours in a 220 hour game.

Also, Davrin is hot. Lucanis looks a untidy, like he hates himself. Emmrich is an OLD man. And they're catering to ME, "the female players" huh? Maybe if I were a lesbian 🤷🏻‍♀️ considering the four legitimately good looking women available. I so hope there are one night stands and casual stuff like they had in Andromeda.

have people not seen Neve and Harding?