Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Artemis, you know I'm rooting for you bby!
-hugs-

Jaal for BI!

I honestly was all for all companions bi because the. No one would be disappointed, but I know that's unpopular and probably never going to happen again so -shrugs-

It's not that I don't also like the diversity/ representation. I love it... but I don't like when people have sads over who they can romance and not. I personally can play the games with out romances and don't 'need' them, but I know people who really do need them and really look forward to if. I care about those people and I hate seeing them disappointed D;

Yeah I'm the same, which is why I'd love it for everyone to get an equal balance of squadmate, crewmember, and NPC love interest options. Alas, seems the odds are against that at the moment

Cause you know, it'd be lovely that in the future, instead of people being upset at a character they couldn't romance, or unable to join a discussion on the romance because they were gender exclusive, it'd be nice that we could instead all just be able to enjoy and discuss the romance with one another, and share in the different emotions we got from it and were evoked by.

I do think there's chances romances will be equal considering the squad and crew. I don't think the number will be equal considering the other ones. But based on what they said for a while, their goal isn't to create an equal number, but give everyone multiple options.
I'm more baffled by the possibility

Ehh I doubt they care about those hateful minority fans; Kaidan, Cortez, and Sam are proof of this, plus the prominence of Liara... as for Dragon Age, Dorian, Bull, Sera, I mean come on, BioWare, excepting BioWare Austin, have no issue including gay characters and romances. Now seeing as how writers are flawed people because they are, you know, people, they don't always get the romances "right" or fair. But I love BioWare for being so stubborn about this and not caving. The majority of the world (at least the most educated countries) are a-okay with LGBT.

I agree; I don't understand this, especially considering how much was shown in the m/m romances in DAI. 

Okay, my opinion on this? Were it not for Anders hitting on a few scared hetero boys there never would've been an issue with the "all bi" way of doing things. But those scared little triggered snowflakes put up such a fuss it completely changed BW's way of approaching romances.

Fair enough, though I disagree on this. Complaints came already when they revealed the all bi approach, and not all the ones complaining later where guys. While some might've been 'scared' by Anders (which I don't think makes much sense since we already got Zevran), I do think that some just didn't like the all bi approach. 

Gaider later on stated the reason behind it was to give everyone options, with the budget they had. Otherwise they wouldn't have put Sebastian as a straight options and picked two guys for additional romances in DAI. 

Beside, the teams had different views on many things, romances included, so even if DA would've continued that way, there's no certainly ME would've followed it.

That leaves us with very little to talk about... not surprising, considering this is a character we've only seen for 5 seconds

I totally get it! I love me a good romance chat, just hopefully keepin' it fun for everyone. lol, I follow both threads so it is kind of jumbled for me too. What we know, mainly from tweets, is that he's maybe a squadmate (? Actually, not sure on that one I think it's just speculated), his voice actor, and the possibility of a romance. The last one comes from a tweet where someone asked if they could "kiss them" (and later someone asked if they could bang them), both to which the answer was yep. Though whether "them" was specifically Jaal or just Angarans was kind of unclear.


Edit: Ninja'd

Pretty sure his squadmate status and smoochies were confirmed, but I'm not sure where the tweets are buried at this point.

Are we even talking about spoilers? I've seen a lot of speculations and guessing and hopes.  And this laptop took it upon itself to post my post in the middle of my typing.  *growl*

The way devs and VAs have talked about him, the trailer emphasis and unique design, the knowledge that we will have at least one Andromeda squaddie, and the Funko Pop all add up to what is pretty much a squadmate confirmation. Notice how nobody bats an eye when people ask questions about Jaal that clearly assume he's a squaddie.

Romance may be less clear, but I'm still pretty solid on that too. The idea that we can "bang" and kiss the Angara but not the important, detailed, pretty one on our squad with clear visual callbacks to Garrus, a hugely popular romance, seems silly. Plus the devs seemed coy and aware of what they were doing when people on Twitter called them out on Jaal. I think they'd be a bit more shut down-y if Jaal wasn't an option.

As for the idea that we have nothing to speculate on, so what? Maybe it's because I was in the Solas thread when we only had one picture of him that I'm entirely immune to the silliness of pages and pages of discussion on a character we knew nothing about. And hey, he turned out to be one of the most important characters in the Dragon Age universe so far! Looks to me that Jaal will be pretty important too. By necessity, really. After all, if he's a squadmate, he'll likely be a big introduction to a whole new culture and maybe even a guide of sorts through his galaxy. If there's any character we have reason to be so hyped over, it's Jaal.