Suvi Anwar (Official Thread)

First of all sorry it took so long for me to respond. Second of all, speaking of ME2 Prima guide, it's been 7 years so maybe I remembered something wrong but I was on old Bioware forum and I'm quite sure that right before the release of ME2 people were very hopeful because apparently there was a sentence about romances in Prima guide implying that some characters are only interested in opposite gender, but other are "more open", or something like that. I remember that some people on forum tried to downplay the whole mess by insisting that people behind the guide were simply mistaken because of Jack's confessions about threesome. IIRC datamining later showed that Jack and Tali had voice files recorded for f/f romance, and Thane for m/m, don't know if anyone else.


The problem with the assumption that Suvi was intentionally written as someone 'in closet' is that it would only make sense if it eventually was made known to the player. When you play as a man you will get absolutely no clue she's anything but straight-by-default, so she provides absolutely no representation for us. Similarly when you play as a straight woman you will get no clue she's anything but straight. When you play a woman who's romancing her you will only get a clue she likes you, but you won't know if she likes women in general or what, you'll hear nothing implying she's a lesbian even when you're dating her. And because of this we have people here who try to appropriate her as bisexual or asexual.

So once again, that's why I prefer to believe Sheryl was asked to write her as another romance option for Scott and now her bosses just force her to say untruth for damage control, instead of intentionally making the sole lesbian representation in this game completely invisible.

I don't have the book. "Some shipmates will consider a relationship regardless of gender" is what the fuss was about 7 years ago.

Finished my Suvi playthrough and I can honestly say I enjoyed the hell out of it. I still think I like Peebee's romance more, but Suvi is just a kinds of adorable and charming. I'm starting my first Scott third playthrough now and it'll be interesting to see how she interacts with him compared to Sara.

ETA: She got me my romance achievement so she'll always be special

I had broken out my (now rather) battered copy of the guide before commenting.

Thanks! I was super pleased with how she turned out.

Yeah, suuure. I guess the prima guide folks just have mad photoshopping skills or the dev team didn't get the memo*. The rejection was handled poorly. She should have just said 'not interested'. 'Professional' would mean professional and we wouldn't have to listen to her boring faith stuff. Sheryl might have envisioned her as an l-word but the way she's presented in the game just makes her not clarified/Sarasexual.

Anyway the only reason I'd want her is because she looks cute. She doesn't have a sense of humor (remnant parties? nothing? cmon... ) and since that's a dealbreaker she's not a great loss. I'm glad that it wasn't Vetra who got sacrificed on the altar of representation.

*I think that 'romance scene' with Scott was indeed in the game and prima's guide is accurate but the two together led to a "aargh, *panic!*, cut it, cut it!". That should have stayed in the game because it would have been the spending time together scene. Every other crewmember (-Kallo, the frog need one too) has a scene like this which can result in a romance lock or a simple friendly time. But thanks to laziness, lack off resource/interest it ended up as the 'sex scene' instead.

Yup manly her problems lie in lack of content/design/polishedanimations. I still need to get around to do her romance but both Peebee and Vetra are hard to resist. Also Suvi being more reserved would had been fine but after the prima guide things got complicated real fast. Which is sad since I do believe in her writer but she cannot control what other departments do.

Wait, is that the only thing you see?

Anyways, I love that lesbian Suvi who loves being in a romantic but not necessarily a sexual relationship with women.

You made that one harder to work with than last time.

Suvi loves rawing Sara in the captain's suite after a good workout because seeing Sara all sweaty gets her a little turned on.

Suvi loves to talk about sex pheromones in bed, which is Sara's turn-on. They're both such science nerds that they've memorized a ton of science-based pick-up lines and dirty talk.