The Character Romance thread (Official)

i think even before that you can hear traynor talk to edi and her voice is fawning like hell..Shes a bit like when Sera talk about qunari women..
Like THATS the moment I knew traynor was into women, because she has the hots for edi
Like I think she reacts super happy when Edi compliments her abilities and somethinga bout edisvoice? its a bit long ago but.. idk.. maybe I remember that stuff better because, hey representation matters :3
Hmn..maybe I should do a ME3 playthrough and date her..

well there is this.. its similar but not the same. maybe we can make one?

One is certainly fatter than the other, it's got a belly.

"Your sibling will be out there, doing their own thing (...)"

If by doing something you mean being in a coma for the vast majority of the game and play no significant role in the story whatsoever...

There was so much potencial for this component and they just brushed it away. I personally would have done something along these lines:

If you're playing Sara: Make Scott join forces with Kandros in the APEX missions, since Scott seems to have more of a military-side to him (I wanna say?). At some point, have a few missions in which he asks for your help with dealing with Kett forces threatening an Outpost's safety or just to take down a Kett base and both siblings fighting side by side. Hell, even make some side-comments on the squad you decide to bring along.

If you're playing Scott: Make Sara join that scientist team on the Nexus, since her background mentions she really enjoys working with scientists and that she was working with the Systems Alliance on its search for Prothean technology on Mars. Also have a few missions in which she asks for your help with an expedition she's leading in order to find more artifacts that could lead to more knowledge on the Jardaan or just figuring out more data on the Remnants. Hell, give her a mission in which you do need her help to figure out a way to activate a Vault. Let her make side-comments on the squad you bring along as well.

There, plain and simple. It wasnt that hard, was it BW Montreal?

I AM STILL TOO STUPID FOR MULTIQUOTE.. So I'm doing it manually.. (i.e open like 3 windos and copypaste.)

But those lips.. srsly every time I see Avela, Paaran or Sjefa talk-- I wonder how It would be to kiss them...




BIOWARE GIVE US GAY ALIENS PLEASE..

Lesbian or Bi Angaran lady and gay angaran dudes(and evfra, ofc)





also.. heterophobic? Idk, I see some people being a bit aggro towards people they call breeder- like cis-hets who think that having a child is the only thing a cis woman¹ should do and that the only valid form of family is the mystically elevated nuclear family with father mother child..
But that's not heterophobic because the strongest "anti breeder sentiment " I have seen is from the childfree subreddit-and I  think most people there are hetero and just annoyed other people cant stop putting their noses up their reproductive systems..

People can react angry because  they got ignored, lied to shat on and now condescended by people who dislike having their conscious and subconscious biases be called out because they know that its seen as uncouth and impolite to be a homophobe today.. But being called one isn't as bad as being one for some..7(well being called one will sting for people who arent because they dont want to be one.. but then one ought to listen and ask themselves why people may want to call oneself a homophobe and whether that sentiment may have one base in a post or a reaction.
If one then learns that ,yes, something may be taken this way, the best idea would be to try to change that.. It's hard, but changing is. Growing pains are a thing.
If it isnt and a single person that loves to spout -*ist/*phobic shit themselves and just uses the word as a club (like some altright twatwaffles love to coopt terms and use them against people who fight against those sentiments as a way of "Lol, gotcha!!" ing..) then one can ignore it but still think about it the next time? Introspection can always be a valuable thing I think..

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soo.. heteros..


I love heteros, my best friend is even a hetero, but .. eh I dont knwo whete that statement is going..
 
I also don't think heterophobia is a thing.. People dont spit in your face and call you "childshitter" or something like that.  There is misogyny but hey, Lesbians are women, sooooo
I don't think I would've been elbowed in the face had I not held hand with a really cute woman on that one day...

I don't think straight people have to think whether they want to hold hand in public or even *gasp* share a kiss, because that only rarely would lead to assaults or verbal attacks..
Not even just that.. I yesterday saw two dudes holding hand and it made me happy because it shows that they felt secure enough to do so.. but..
then again to quote the great panti bliss..

"But now, our small intimate gesture between two people in love is no longer a small intimate gesture, it is a political act of defiance and it has been ruined"

(I can only recommend her talks.. She(as the drag queen) I think was the person who helped massively in getting the irish to vote for gay marriage..
(video and transcript of her ted talk: dublin.sciencegallery.com/blog/2015/01/transcriptpantistedxdublintalk

and here the Video that, I think, helped start the process in ireland:

It has subtitles in 18 languages and its around 10 minutes, I CANT RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH. IT'S GREAT. WATCH IT.  IT'S AN ORDER :3

those are just little things that wont be there for heteros..
And I haven't ever met someone who isnt hetero who has shown hate against people who are hetero BECAUSE they are hetero..

No, they show it against certain people, because those people try to legislate our rights away, some would love to outright murder, no exterminate us..

(like in chechnya where the head of state HAS STATED EXPLICITLY THAT HE WANTS TO MURDER EVERY GAY PERSON THERE.. that's not a joke. its not hyperbole, it has been proven..
that's real..www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/04/anti-lgbt-violence-chechnya
(In case anyone wants to help:  Rainbow road provides safe houses in russia and support to all gay men who are able to flee chechnya  www.rainbowrailroad.ca/)


so.. yeah..
Sorry, when people, who know that there are humans who would LOVE to murder us for no fault of our own and are actually doing it right now to people of our community, react a bit iffy when people try to equivocate some verbal rude shit they got with a history of oppression..
(calling it heterophobia does exactly that) ..
Yes, they are mean words and people should be polite..
But it is makes a difference whether a word is a general term, mean or whether it is backed by active tries of oppression worldwide and a sentiment that exists in culture and media since 
 hundreds if not thousand years ..
Whether its something that may happen in single instances without much effect or whether it's accompanied by other acts of disdain, disgust, ignorance and violence...
(Like here where they act so inclusive but only give us scraps, showing they are unwilling to risk anything for us or give us anything other than some badly written scraps or a copy of the baseline of the prioritized straight male experience....)

like.. please dont compare it because its just not the same..

1)(I specify cis here because those people don't regard transwomen as such. (Just to avoid any misconceptions: I repeat their position, I don't share it. Women are women. Transwomen are women and it's incredible sad I have to even state this shit.)

So what should we call personal bias against straight people? A person who thinks black people are mentally inferior to whites is called a racist for good reason, even though racism also refers to structures of power. Homophobia refers to societal practices that make life that much harder for LGBT people, but a homophobe is one who personally hates gay people for whatever reason.

I think you all are getting caught up in the semantics and whether or not straight people are on the receiving end of discriminatory practices in life, but that's not my intent. I've never said that straight people are receiving discriminatory pressure from LGBT people in society.

i'm just speaking for myself but i don't think we need to call it anything. other than 'bias against straight people' i guess. giving it a word like 'heterophobia' or any other word can legitimise the view that sees it as an 'institution' or that straight people suffer from societal discrimination on the basis of being straight, and i think we all agree that that is not a thing.

Right...alot of words there but nothing was actually said?

Oh I have, but she never seemed that way to me I guess. I've just never romanced her and wondered if I'd missed something.

Don't you worry dear, you're certainly not dumb. :kiss:

Do you mean personal bias as in the following train of thought being "well, I wish to see more gay protagonists in my stories. I just stumbled upon a story about straight characters, but this high fantasy one with a protagonist who so happens to be gay has my full attention way more."

OR, are we talking about personal bias as in gay people being mean to straight people for being straight?

Because I see the former more than the latter. And in either case, does it really matter to you that we give it a label?

As a straight black guy I kinda scratch my head at this.  So is anyone saying straight people are inferior to gays?  You are making the racist comparison which doesn't really make any sense.  Also considering that the vast majority of the population is straight are you really so fragile that your feelings get hurt if a gay person says something mean to you?