Suvi Anwar (Official Thread)

Yep.  First Cass and now Cora.  Two soft butches in a row and both are "subverted" and straight.

And let's look at the f/f options:

Juhani
Silk Fox
Liara
Leliana
Kelly
Merril
Isabela
Sera
Josephine
Lana Beniko

Not a butch in sight.  Maybe the most butch is Juhani? 

#bringonthebutch

Not sure how to feel about having a very religious science officer. A cornerstone of science is doubt... which is the antithesis of faith. Every person I know IRL who've tried to reconcile the two inevitably reach a point where they simply can't. It's really hard to talk to those people, someone always walks away frustrated.

I want to ask Sheryl stuff, but...I chicken out each time.

Oh snap gaycaravaggio I only just noticed, you're a god now. You've taken to this place like a duck to water, good.

*tips hat*

Also, I found this, I can relate...

F/F love interests in BioWare games are usually cute (I am quite fond of Asari) but in real life I prefer people a bit less girly (I have a big crush on Sue Perkins and Mizu Natsuki). So I usually give my female hero a cool look with short hair. Kind of like how I look but....less ugly
If BioWare don't want to give me a cool looking love interest...I just make the hero look that way!

.....I am still upset about Cass being straight

I'm interested in Suvi's religion and science thing though. I am not religious but I am quite sciencey and those two things just really don't seem like they would mix so I am interested in seeing what she says and what kind of things we can talk to her about.

No specifics given but we know for sure that there's Pope, so Catholic church in some form is very likely. Vatican is probably doing fine.

Just had this funny image in my head of the Reapers being happy to destroy everything but respecting the church a bit. A sort of 'Kill them all but leave the pointy building with the cross alone..'kind of thing

Yeah I agree on wanting more butch F/F love interests. Bioware seems to think they're avoiding stereotypes by giving all the butch women to the straights when they rarely even want them.
The cutesy, young and super femme stereotype we are getting is a bit passé at this point. I mean for example Liara is nice and all, but I would've much rather taken Ashley or Jack or Miranda over her.
Maybe the fact that Suvi is our science officer means she'll be more mature.

That will sound nice in a Scottish brogue.

I liked your posts because I agree they should add more variety, even if I'm arguably boring and tend to like androgynous-to-femme women. But appearance is even less of an issue for me in video games than it would be in real life, so I'd probably be fine with almost anything. I thought Cass looked nice, though, as well as being awesome.

Yeah, labels. My philosophy with labels is that they're fine for giving someone a general sense of one of your traits, but I try not to assume too much from them and hope others do the same for me. For instance, describing me as a "socialist, atheist, lesbian" is useful to give people some sense of who I am, but unfortunately I know it also carries a lot of extra baggage with it and most will inevitably assume too much. Admittedly, even for me it's hard not to think of a whole host of things instantly when reading those words.

In other words, I think we should keep labels, but teach people to take them with a bunch of salt.

Since we're sharing, I'm probably somewhere between androgynous and femme, considering my appearance, preferred clothes, and makeup.

Oh, I agree that it's not about stereotypes. I actually think it has more to do with catering to some other demographic more than ours, to be honest. Probably don't need to explain further.

I SO want our SO to be an SO!

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Count me in the gay KISA advocate club! It makes me very sad that we still haven't had a gay or bi KISA of either gender in DA or ME They're lovely. I mean, I love the Cullen romance now. Imagine if he was a woman instead

Also, (about Cathe's post) obligatory:


I mean, I knew going in it wouldn't work, but it still sucked, primarily for it echoing some real life stuff at the time (and yeah, I'm a masochist sometimes). Imagine playing it for the first time and not knowing. The "This ends all possibility of romance" choice implies that if you don't take it, there is a possibility. But nope.