The Character Romance thread (Official)

I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but maybe the tragic past trope or something along those lines?

I honestly didn't have a problem with his backstory, I just prefered Kaidan tbh.

How was Kaidan's ME3 romance with your Shep? I'm curious because his writer (who took over for Kaidan in ME3) is writing Jaal.

She also worked on ME3 Citadel DLC, Leviathan DLC and dialogue stuff for SWTOR. Apparently Kaidan on Mars was Mac Walters though. No other characters that I know of or that are listed anywhere.

I can tell you Leviathan imo was a really amazing DLC! It was a mystery that turned into a big discovery (and my LI was just precious in it)!

How was Kaidan's ME3 romance with your Shep? I'm curious because his writer (who took over for Kaidan in ME3) is writing Jaal.

Hmmm... well


This just makes me more excited for Jaal now! I'm really curious! I mean I saw a few vids of male Shep and Kaidan, but I never experienced the full story, so playing it sounds better than a few clips.

Omg, another leak :0 ? What's the source? Any more info from that leak? 

Huh..if that leak about Jaal's romance being happy and sad is true I am both enthusiastic and a little nervous. I'm enthusiastic because I hate myself and love angsty relationships, though I do not prefer completely or mostly serious ones where only bad things seem to happen —which is probably one of the reasons why Kaidan's romance was never all that appealing to me.

It seemed like there was always something dark and upsetting happening —but to be fair this is Mass Effect—such as Ash's death, Kaidan's initial distrust of Shepard in both ME2 and ME3 due to Cerberus, his near death experience with Doctor Eva, as well as the subsequent hospital stay (especially if you had started another romance during ME2). By the time it felt like their relationship was any type of happy was during the Citadel DLC and shortly before the end of ME3 and we all know how that turned out. I like the idea of conflict being a major part of relationships, whether internal or external, but it can get to the point where it just seems like too much.

Which is why I just hope that if Jaal's romance is anything like Kaidan's, I wish it will have some happier moments and isn't nearly as bittersweet. The devs did say MEA will be more lighthearted than the original trilogy, and while that gives me hope, that could just be an overall view of the game and not looking at specific relationships.

Then again all of this could be moot if that leak is fake, so I'll try to take it all with a grain of salt. However, I like to over analyze things regardless (^^^^^^), so we'll see how well that works out for me )))))).

EDIT: Proofreading before posting would be a great idea >))))), maybe I'll try it one day.

Yeah I'm not surprised if he's the angsty relationship for Sara. Liam looks like the chill one of the male LI's. But we know he won't pull a Thane (squad can't die) or a Solas, so I suspect his loyalty mission, past or something in the main plot might make it a mixed package. I mean, people get all gushy abut Cullen, but romancing a man with PTSD and a dangerous addiction that made him violent wasn't a happy time, nor when he's crying/praying not to lose you near the end of the game.

Yeah, it's funny that word 'sad' has become something of a trigger for us female players in regards to romance (male gay ones too, though to a lesser extent, maybe? - though unfortunately that's because they've had less options to begin with). We automatically assume the worst, because so much tragic shit's been thrown our way. Like, we consider Cullen's romance a happy one, despite, as @beautesombre pointed out, there being a lot of sad elements. Same with Kaidan, if you consider the whole romance arc, especially as a female player (that sting of rejection, complete with letter about how he was almost over you (planned date included) until you went and ruined it by not actually dying, plus his behavior on Mars, has so far made me not able to continue his romance into ME3). Zevran has a tragic past thing and can betray and turn on you, and his romance is one of the more light-hearted ones. Even Garrus has a whole arc where his whole crew dies and he goes to this pretty dark place emotionally where he plots the murder of his former friend. And that's after you save him from a situation where he fully expects to die. I literally can't think of a single male romance in recent Bioware history that you couldn't be described in that way to some extent.

So yeah, not too worried about Jaal, though I'm still planning to romance Liam first because he seems a bit... safer. Like, I feel like it'll be harder to screw things up with him through your choices in the game, as long as you at least play a good person. I get the sense Jaal might be more of a challenge to keep around. One I'm up for, but not until I've played the game once before so I can know what he's about.