The Character Romance thread (Official)

Now add in the ~20 options from the whore house.

I hope they bring that back again, though instead of Nugs we can get some Varrens going.

I doubt they counted the options in the brother

I think people are taking the 'more options than ever before' thing a little too literally. The ME team isn't known for thinking before they speak. I suspect it was an off the cuff remark that everyone is banking on. I maintain that they were thinking of 'full romances' only for past games and then including flings for this game. It wouldn't be the first time we were dead wrong about dev comments. #alternativefacts

Exactly. The 'more romances than ever' comment (and that tweet referencing an impressive-sounding romance chart) certainly gives me hope... but not too much hope. Because they've also said there's a lot of casual encounters and flings and such, and I suspect those are being counted as well? And those really don't interest me at all. And, Mass Effect has a history of creating extra options for the straight guys when they do.

Someone ran the numbers once somewhere, and in each game in the trilogy, if you include the flings and min-romances, straight guys got about double the options for romances as the next biggest group, and more than every other group combined in some cases. (Actually lesbian players get the next largest quantity, interestingly, though they largely tend to be of the superficial variety - I suspect that's more 'hot bi chick' trope than an attempt at being inclusive however). So... I suspect that plethora of extra romances might be for the straight guys this time around too... If that is just the flings and such that's fine, I just hope to see more balance among the real ones. But I'm not super optimistic. A little optimistic, though, maybe? 

At this point, I am pleased with the two options I'm reasonable sure I'll get, so more is just icing. I just hope the s/s options measure up to at least that this time, even if straight guys still get more. Also, I want to make sure it's clear that I don't advocate punishing straight male players for the previous imbalance by taking their options away or giving them less than everyone else or anything! I'd just like to see the distribution be a little more fair this time around.

For the Tali and Garrus thing I laughed when I caught them together, wasn't expecting it at all and was happily surprised during that one playthrough.

I think some issues come from recent times where some people think they have to fill imaginary quotas of diversity of everything so when you have people trying to make a good game with good characters they add in characters that seem more filler, I believe if they just make the game mostly everyone will be happy.
You can't really please everysingle person and that is true, when playing through the omega dlc I thought finally I can have a female turian on the team or maybe even a LI. Yes I was disappointed but I know they can't please everyone with everything or you just fall flat.

With that in mind while I hope and hope that Vetra will be a LI for Scott I won't be up in arms if she is one for Sara (will play either character the same either way) and while I will be sad if she isn't a LI at all I can still hold out for her or another female turian in the next game now that they are finally showing off the opposite sex of the female races.

Seriously I thought it was odd when you know that Female Turians are as equal as the male ones in the universe but you never seen a single one.
Even if I got that last part wrong they weren't barred from leaving their home worlds, hell we even have a female krogan as a engineer for the nexus.

I think 2 options for everyone is good. If another group gets a little more than me, I'm not going to throw a tantrum. Ideally everyone, even people who want an asexual romance, would have it in one of the starting companions. That's probably not going to happen.

I don't think that has happened with bi/pan DA characters though so I'd say that it likely won't with ME:A's either. I know it did with Kaidan's, but it had disparity in romance between genders since the start, being f/m option at ME1 and only m/m at ME3. So as long as the romance doesn't have differences between the genders like DA's case there shouldn't be any debate to have.

The race-gating in DAI was probably time-based and then they tried to pretend there were legitimate reasons behind it  Honestly the DAI team flopped big in the romance department, but that's dead and gone at this point. ME peeps are a different team AND this team is almost totally overhauled from the trilogy. Hard to say what they'll do, though the ME trend is to favor straight player characters and particularly straight male player characters. 

As for me I'm feeling moderately content?? This is a first I can't get excited about Reyes/whomever because we literally don't know who this person is. As for Jaal, I'm quite curious about him and VERY pleased there's a good chance he'll be available to my character. That's rare in a BioWare game (that I learn I get who I want LOL). I almost wish he were gay instead of bi because a gay alien would be interesting, plus it would be kind of funny to see a favorite pre-launch male character go to the guys for once instead of the girls lol!!

As for my girl Ryder, I am leaning towards Peebee so was quite happy to hear she's bi. If Vetra is interesting she might sway me. Would love for Vetra to be lesbian for the reasons listed above regarding Jaal.

I know so many gay, lesbian, and bi people in my life, and perhaps this is because I'm in academia (where people are more comfortable being out) that it is just weird when that's not reflected in media I consume. 

Wait that's wrong unless I'm misunderstanding it? Female character in DAI had: Cullen, Solas, Blackwall, Iron Bull, Sera, Josephine. Male characters had: Dorian, Iron Bull, Josephine, Cassandra. With Cullen and Solas being also race-gated. 

I'm also not seeing why Peebee doesn't count as a female LI; she is clearly coded female. If asari looked like men we would consider them male love interests. /shrug

I see people say that Vetra may not be a romance so all the women on the squad aren't romance options, but isn't it a little too soon to say that? Who's to say we don't have another female squadmate that we don't know yet joining the team? If we have a Kett squaddie, which many suspect we may, who's to say it won't be a non-romanceable female Kett? I actually think that'd be pretty cool, since our other Andromeda squaddie is male.

Fenris is my canon LI for male Hawke and Isabela is canon LI for female Hawke. So it made it extremely difficult to force myself to try and romance the other two characters. I managed, but I couldn't travel with the two of them in the party; it just irritated me too much.

I don't like the Bull x Dorian romance at all, so even if I don't romance either I won't let them travel together. 

I don't know why BioWare does that. Most people are either fine with it or just loathe it. I don't think anybody's really clamoring for it to happen.