Small Details that Enhance the Romance

Squaddies have been confirmed to move around the ship too. Long day finding a new home, super exhausted, look at the mini map and.....LI is in your room. Tired snuggles yes please.

Aah yes it was nice when that kind of thing was taken into account. At my wedding with Cullen my chara got to recite Dalish vows and that was a super nice touch including my chara's culture in there. It was also fun that your choices got reactions as well. If you were a warrior and thought about specialising as a templar boy did cullen have some words for you, and it was nice seeing reactivity in Cullen's own history as well. Being able to ask if being a mage bothered him because of his history.

I have big hopes here Bioware XD no pressure

I think it'd be neat if you got a room decoration from one of your party members. For example, let's say Vetra absolutely loves paintings. You romance her, and she gives you a copy of her favorite Turian painting, which happens to be super rare. You then get to hang it on your wall.

Or perhaps, you take a picture with your LI, so instead of just having a picture of them on your desk, it's the both of you having fun together.

I've always wanted to be a space hamburgler. 

I can't seem to track down the codex entry on the wiki, though I remember it mentioning that turian face markings represented their home colonies and have been in use since their Unification War. My guess is that they're face paint though, not tattoos. Tattoos would be seen through the skin and thus would always have color affected by the bearer's skintone. Given that a common face marking color is white, particularly on darker skinned turians, tattoos seem unlikely and wouldn't be nearly as vibrant as most of the turian markings appear to be.

For instance, here's a colored tattoo on somewhat darker skin:



And here's some colored face paint on dark skin:



Paint is much more vibrant, given that it's on top of the skin rather than underneath it and thus, no "filter" through which to view it. There's also often a distinct texture to paint separate from the skin, even in thinner makeups (though in the case of ME, it's limited by the graphics capabilities so that's harder to distinguish)

For an in-game example, compare Nihlus' face markings to James' tattoos:





Even on Jack's lighter skin, her more colorful tattoos are still more subdued than paint would be:


More directly on topic, little details and tokens unique to a romance are the kinds of nice touches I really like in BioWare characters, and something I think on the whole they've improved on over the years and I hope they continue in that direction. I'd love to have an LI give me a momento, and I love it when companion banter reflects on game choices, including romance. Hopefully Andromeda has more companion banter than previous ME games. They're not devoid of it, but sometimes it felt sparse when traveling through long stretches (particularly in the Mako in ME1). The crew teasing Ryderabout their LI would be awesome.

Not sure I agree; it is missing the gloss, but his markings don't look like they're through his skin to me. Garrus' skin is roughly this color:

and his face markings are about this color:

While that color is less vibrant, it's not really desaturated enough to the point someone with that kind of metallic skin would likely have as a tattoo; a tattoo with a similar blue would be closer to this shade with Garrus' skintone:

Not to mention turian skin is very tough and while I'm sure it's not impossible to tattoo, it's probably fairly difficult. That's not to say they're absolutely not tattoos - just highly unlikely in my experience with lighting, texture, etc. Out of all the turian markings, Garrus' does look the most like a tattoo.

And I know about white tattoos. However, you'll note that the examples you have are on lighter skin. With darker skin, it's very, very difficult for lighter colors to be visible unless we're getting into "invisible" tattoos that appear under black lighting and whatnot. There's a reason why black and dark blue/green tattoos are more common on darker skin - they're easier to see. Many of the turians we've seen are darker in skintone with very, very bright white markings. Even if the tattoos were white ink, there's no way they'd be that saturated. Even on lighter skin, those white tattoos aren't as white as the turian face paint - they're still dilluted by the skin.

Mind, white tattoos on darker skin aren't impossible either; they can even still be quite bright! Here's an example:



That's a particularly bright white ink example, but if you sample the actual color of the ink, it's about this shade:

Nilus' markings are about this shade:

While neither is a perfect white, Nihlus' comes from an image with a fair amount of red ambient lighting, and it's still far, far too vibrant to be a shade showing through black skin.

It's also possible turian markings are more like henna tattoos, which are dyes and behave differently than traditional permanent tattoos inked in. They also tend to be very bright even on darker skin:



I've never seen henna that wasn't orange-red or white though, so hard to gauge if the red and blue markings we've seen could be that.

Exactly! I hope it's not a case like with DAI where getting on a mount disabled banter. Not sure if vehicle mechanics have the same issues a mount system would, but random banters and character commentary on current events while exploring would add a LOT to the immersion for me and help stave off any grinding feeling from collecting for extended periods of exploring.

I haven't seen enough evidence to convince me any of them were tattoos due to the aforementioned reasons, but we'll never know for certain without a word of god type deal from BioWare. Headcanons are handy for situations like this.

EDIT: I managed to track down the original codex that mentions the face markings in ME1. It's the Turians: Unification War codex you get from acquiring any 1 of the 12 turian insignias.

It's... unsurprisingly vague. Here it is though, just for posterity:

For me, a smile is enough.

Now I'm imaging two characters that want Ryder so bad. They confront him/her and tell them choose. Ryder then tells them to duel over him or something.

That did happen. That's where I got the idea from. I remember in my first playthrough, Liara and Ashley come at you. If you say that, Ashley leaves and Liara stays. I wouldn't do make the LIs compete for you, but the option would be interesting.

One thing me might not get because of the story, but I really want to see is Overprotective Dad™. I somehow doubt that any serious romances (not counting more "casual" flings) will get to a point where such a reaction from DadRyder would fit before we become the Pathfinder (and something is gonna happen to him, otherwise the title wouldn't be passed down to us). I think it would be pretty funny to see our Love Interest feeling really awkward while our dad is giving the "What are your intentions with my daughter/son" speech.
It would be pretty unlikely but I would still really like to see something like that.

[Edit] Maybe our sibling could take that role, well just have to wait and see.