The Character Romance thread (Official)

DA teams seem to be better at this. But yeah DA2 is the only game in DA that has equal options. 

You know, it's a little strange. Metaphorically speaking, I was born in the Jaal thread. My BSN adolescence was spent thinking, "Game will come out, I'll romance Jaal, it will be amazing." Then the game came out and Jaal was spoiled for me by Bioware's shit (let's be honest, you can love BW but they were REALLY shitty this time around and the Straight!Jaal decision was just INEXPLICABLE) and the general furore surrounding the discussion of characters' sexualities. 

I never realised there was so much resentment that some characters were made non-straight. I mean, if a character is available to me, I don't care how many other people have access to him/her. It's actually nice if many people can experience the romance because it makes it easier to discuss and compare notes. I don't care that IB was bi. I actually couldn't even care less if Dorian was made Bi, although since Dorian is the ONLY gay LI, I can understand gay people's reluctance to have him made bi. I do not understand Straight people's reluctance, but I don't want to start this shitshow of an argument again.

Now, even though the initial problem has been solved, and I'm really happy for everyone enjoying the romance, I can't even bring myself to start another Playthrough. Jaal isn't doing it for me anymore, and Andromeda is not a strong enough game for me to be excited about playing it multiple times. For me, Jaal is almost a symbol of shattered expectations and Bioware's myopic nonsense. So I really don't want him in DA4. Hahaha.

Some of us straight females also had the experience ruined because our friends here went through crap because of their decision to make him a non-romance for males. Once it was solved, I was ready to enjoy the romance since all I did was speedruns for others and I just can't bring myself to try. I am burned out, emotionally drained and that's not how someone should feel when playing a game they love.

What I'd like to see for once, is a male character having plot armour. For now, at least in the BioWare games I've played, only female characters got plot armour: Isabela, Leliana and Morrigan, all can be (sort of) killed in game (Isabela given to the Arishok) and all came back with no big problem. But male characters for the most part stay dead: Anders, Alsitair, Zevran... none of them have some excuse to came back to life.

Well...none of them risk to actually die...Dorian have no less plot armour than Sera, and for Solas we never had any chance to actually try anything yet against him.

No. Plot armour is about choices not respected to take back a character. We never get any choice in game to kill neither Solas or Sera, or Dorian, we don'stab them or kill them in any case, the choice is not there. If we stabbed Solas before he goes into the Elluvian like Morrigan, and is safe and well after, is plot armour.

For now, in all the choices to kill characters, only males stay dead. 

If anything Sebastian was a curse on the game, not an option to be jealous about.

I've only just met him in Kadara. Still haven't finished Andromeda. I wonder if he'll have a reason to stay alive plot wise.