The Character Romance thread (Official)

I'd be more in favor of having there be two paths and having it be optional over ambiguous once Bioware can prove they can actually do the two paths right. If they can do that then I'm all for it as long as the rest of the romance is equal for both routes too, but so far they have not. In DAI, for the romances where it was optional if you opted out you got nothing to replace the sex scene including the characterization in them. As you put it, you weren't deemed as worthy of as much content. And then in MEA, all but one of the romances that has it as optional does the same and then acts like you went the sex route anyway. So far the only one that may have done the two routes well where both are equal and respected is Cora, and that's still up in the air until they are done with Ryder's story either at the end of the DLC cycle or the end of whatever game finishes with them. I'm cautiously optimistic since Cora's writer Jo Berry seems really happy that the non-sex route is so well-received and likes how it allows options for people like those of the ace spectrum, but it's not over until it is over. Meanwhile with the ambiguous romances so far they have a better record of treating both sides equally, and through it the only ace/demi representation in Bioware history has occurred.