The Character Romance thread (Official)

Twist.

They wake up wearing more clothes than before it all faded to black.

How are people comparing nudity in scenes, I seen Peebee/Ryder mentioned, and people saying Peebee/Ryder(female) has more nudity. But if both are topless, and see the bottoms of both, that doesn't make the female one have more nudity just because women have breasts.

In this game, we're never going to see penis/vagina/penetration or anything near to that. A topless male is a topless male, as is a female. If the female/female scenes have both topless and the male/male scenes have both topless, it's the exact same amount of "nudity".


As for options, I 'd be surprised if Vetra wasn't available to male characters, female characters got the turian last time around, I think they'll give it to the males this time around. Though that would give male characters 3 female companions which will no doubt give straight males more options than others, unless they make everyone an option this time around, hard to say if they will or won't do that. So far it seems, everybody minus Drack is semi confirmed as an option, and after Bull in Inquisition, I wouldn't be surprised to see it.

I don't know, I'm increasingly thinking that maybe Vetra isn't an option. I think it would be weird if every single female squaddie was a romance option. And we know for sure that Cora and Pee Bee both are. I wouldn't be surprised if Vetra is our Vivienne this time around. She's just uninterested for whatever reason. Maybe she's already married? Or she's just not into humans? I know that people will be disappointed if they introduce an awesome lady turian and then decide not to make her an LI, but I'm just kind of getting this feeling about her.

I have a feeling that the rest of the female options will come from NPCs. Dr. Lexi as a prominent NPC for both Scott and Sara. And some unknown female NPC as the lesbian option. That would give straight Scott three options and lesbian Sara three options. If gay Scott has two options and straight Sara has 2-3 (I'm not convinced that Liam and Jaal are all for her), then we'd definitely be in the "most options ever" territory when combined with the flings added in.

Yeah and in ME1 Garrus, Tali and Wrex couldn't be romanced, ME2 Zaeed, Legion, Mordin, Grunt, and Kasumi weren't love interests, and in ME3 EDI, James and Javik weren't either, so we should expect that not every squadmate is going to be a love interest.

I think its extremely likely Drack won't be. I'll eat my hat if he is.

And Vetra maybe won't be either. Nyreen wasn't. And I wouldn't be disappointed by that myself, but I know loads of people will, though this is inevitable since BioWare are bound to let down one group of fans who were hoping to romance a specific character.

I still think and hope that everyone gets at least one of the starting five, since from the trailers it is heavily implied that our other squadmates join later (it can even be argued Peebee, Vetra and Drack aren't from the very beginning, unlike Liam and Cora).
As to be expected straight men get two, Cora and Peebee. Straight women only get one, Liam. Lesbian women will get Peebee (and maybe either Cora or Vetra, but not both, and if Vetra is a LI, I think she'll be an exclusive for Sara). And I am still strongly certain that gay men won't get one, since I just don't think BioWare have made Liam bi

It's really not even about Liam now in the wider context, I'll just be disappointed knowing yet again I can't romance a squadmate from the beginning/early on and get to enjoy a longer arc like everyone else.

Actually, that's exactly what dictates that the female version of your scene has more nudity. You can disagree all you want, but that's currently how it is and how ratings are formed. Women have 3 parts of their bodies that are considered private/sexual and therefore considered nudity if shown whereas men only have 2. And where did you get that the reasoning is "breasts are bad"? Does society think butts and genitals are bad, too?

Like it or not, breasts are sexualized and therefore considered nudity. This might seem odd from an evolutionary perspective, but it... makes sense from a practical one ( ) and is unlikely to change.

I know its pretty much a given anyway becuz asari, but bisexual asari LI makes my eyes roll SOOOOOO far back in my head lmao..

I know its pretty much a given anyway becuz asari, but bisexual asari LI makes my eyes roll SOOOOOO far back in my head lmao..

Honestly, I would have had mad respect for BioWare if Peebee wasn't romancable at all. Just to throw the trope away and make her unique.

Honestly, I would have had mad respect for BioWare if Peebee wasn't romancable at all. Just to throw the trope away and make her unique

Yes! For once I want the Asari squadmate to not be interested in having a relationship with the protagonist. 

I mean, we had Samara. But even then it was a semi-romance, 'maybe in another world/under different circumstances' thing. I'd have loved if Peebee was just like "nah, bro. Not interested." Especially since there isn't a Liara lingering in the background like there was with the original trilogy.