Cora Harper (Official Thread)

I love how bioware said they were aware of the queercoding in Cassandra design and now they are doing the same with Cora but I mostly fine with it only if Vetra is a lesbian.

I understand the criticism on her hairs as if not liking it, but I don't get how an hairstyle might necessarily make one masculine or feminine, or that she looks like a 'type' for it.

Well, it wasn't their first idea since she had a ponytail in a leaked footage.

Humm is not really the hair per se, it is the sense I get from design and behavior. I am not that into Cora but I understand perfectly where the criticisms is coming from, Bioware has this strange mindset that lesbians need to be always "feminine" because "stereotypes"? but those exist for a reason. There is nothing wrong with looking stereotypical. So they fall always in the trap now of making straight female romances more appealing for some wlw. Also they are aware of it even before DA:I, especially with Sera, I mean her liking Qunari women is a big tell.

Let just put it this way, Cullen is your stereotypical straight romance, the same way Cassandra is your stereotypical lesbian romance and Dorian your stereotypical gay romance. They seem to be afraid of doing this for lesbians and so straight dudes get what is more appealing to a lot of wlw.

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I like her voice. Her hair looks fine.

Stereotyping might have it's uses, but ultimately does more harm than good. I feel like that should be common sense. If BioWare always, and specifically, reverses the "traditional" coding that almost becomes a stereotype itself. People will be able to call it before they play it. They should probably switch it up now and then to really be diverse.

We don't know for sure yet if Cora is straight, though. She may end up being bi.

Well the most sensible thing to do at this point is wait and see. We know nothing about her and how she is going to behave. Let's postpone this controversial discussion for when we will know more.

Biotics are ubiquitous in Mass Effect.

Almost every job in the universe has a position that could be reduced to "Second in Command".

Receiving special training is almost a requisite for any character important or interesting enough to be heavily featured in the game. Shepard had special training. The Ryders all have special training. Fairly common for named story characters.

The connection to Cerberus has only been speculated by fans, and denied by devs. It's a big universe, some last names are bound to be similar.

Good concept art is good concept art. Just because they went a different direction with Miranda shouldn't have anything to do with Cora's look.

Most of your complaints seem kind of petty.

Another retcon; unless that's dye, Drew Karpyshyn's novels established that the trait for blond hair in humans was all but extinct.

which was stupid, the gene won't die out unless it gets selected against, and I doubt that blonde hair impedes the ability of someone to reproduce

If it's a retcon, it was already present in the trilogy, since Shepard notwithstanding, we got Kahlee Sanders and Bailey in ME2, and another cop in ME.