The Gay Knight in Shining Armor

talking about ideal LIs groups for DA4

women:

Straight Elf Mage: a dalish elven mage, and possible future keeper for her clan, if she is single she goes back to her clan, if not she stays with the male MC, if the MC is a elven male and they have a romance they can go back to her clan if the player wish, as a special ending.


Bisexual Qunari Mage: a tal-vashot, hot-blooded, strong and intimidating she is always in the defensive and is distant in the beggining until you start frienship with her, in the romance, with you she show her more sensible and emotional side, like all qunari she is taller than the other races, she worked with her family as mercenary, so she is more a battlemage than a pure mage, she no received formal mage training just the basics from other mage qunari tal-vashot, she really, really hates the qun, she believes in freedom and liberty, in live her own life under her own terms, something that is totally against the qun philosophy if you support directly or indirectly she would left the group, she also hates the Bisexual Elf Rogue because.... well he is a qunari spy.

she doesn't like the circle of magi because they restrict freedom to mages or the tevinter imperium because the slavery, but for her, anything is better than the qun.


Bisexual Human Warrior:she beautiful, blonde, with green eyes, she is from one village in anderfels, near tevinter, her parents where plain rural peasants, but she always have bigger dreams than plow land, she always dreamed about the tales of brave warriors, specially the grey wardens, soon started to train to be a soldier, where she showed excellent skills, and soon enough she was commading a little battalion from the inquisition, she have a mage big brother, she shaw with her own eyes how the templars forceful take her brother, she and her family never have any contact with him after that and now she don't know if he is dead or alive, for that reason she is friendly with rebel mages even if she is a faithful andrastian.


Bisexual Dwarf Rogue: scout harding, because why the fuck no? i want more of her and i'm sure more people wants harding as a companion and full romance for DA4.


Gay Human Rogue: a tevinter rebel who works to liberated slaves from their masters, despite being a rebel she tries to be professional, she have "ice queen vibes" and she thinks the circle of magi, the templars and the common chantry are better than the chantry and the political system from tevinter, she is rather anti-mage thanks to their past masters, their parents where antivan merchants who fall in bankruptcy, their parents had to become slaves to don't die from starvation, with their master they where abused, forced to work during days in various mines until they die, she would die soon enough if is not for the help of some rebels who save her, now like sera, she works for red jenny, unlike sera she take seriously her job, espionage and information.


men:

Straight Human warrior:
he is loyal tevinter warrior, he is loyal to his mage masters and to the tevinter imperium, and he seriously believes mages have the natural right to govern over common humans, for him mages are not a enemy, or someone to fear, just people blessed from andraste, he despite the qun for the many problems they are causing to the tevinter imperium, aside from that, he have sense of humor, is romantic, a little dork, and in his romance he have some special conversations with a female MC if she is mage.


Bisexual Elf Rogue: born in the qun by his ex-slaves parents, raised to be a spy like tallis, he is level headed, chill and can be a bro, just like bull, but his loyalty only resides the qun, his only mission is to help the qun and woudl betray and try to kill you in a ambush (similar to zevran or iron bull) if you harm the qun, privately he thinks all countries and cultures in thedas (besides the qunari) are sick and dysfunctional, he thinks freedom is a lie, and have some good arguments about it, in that aspect he is like sten, he is always loyal to the qun, and unlike iron bull he would never left it. you can romance him if you are not a believer in the qun, just don't harm the qun, you can also agreed with him in a lot of matters and join with him to the qun, i think would be great if we have a "qunari ending", i would like to have that with sten in DAO.


Bisexual Human Mage: a noble mage from tevinter, he is reformist, and he thinks the tevinter imperium should abolish slavery, have good relationships with other andrastian nations, form a alliance with them against the qunari, between other things, in many ways he is like dorian, less sassy but sexy and charming like him.


Gay Dwarf Warrior: the kisa so many people wanted, he is a proud dwarf warrior, rather traditional and not the most intelligent person in your group, with a certain disdain to dwarf merchants, he was born in the surface, but still, he is rather traditional and he believes caste should be reinforce between surface dwarfs, anyway, he can be convinced that castes are stupid, specially by another dwarf.


sorry for the bad english, is not my native language.

Going to revive this topic to only say that after playing PoI after an year or so, I find that Maneha was actually into women.. huge barbarian raider that flirts with a kinda of KISA character Pallegina, bless you Obsidian!

Also for reference,

No, there is nothing wrong with roguish characters.  They can be interesting and compelling (which I said in the OP), I just would like for the achetypes to be switched up from time to time. 


The closest we've gotten IMO is Kaidan. 

Really glad that this thread has been revived on this forum! Even though I don't care one way or another for a gay KISA, I'm happy to see a strong push for the archetype as I'd rather have that over yet another roguish or troubled gay LI.

I know the title mentions specifically gay KISAs, but can a person discuss KISAs of other LGBT+ orientations as well since we haven't had those either?

Of course dear.  I just use gay for simplicity's sake.  Discussion of lesbian, bisexual, trans, and yes ace and demi KISAs are welcome. 

Since it was briefly talked about in the Romance thread and I've been thinking on it more, I think a good example to look to for an asexual/demisexual KISA character for Mass Effect is Bobbie Draper from the book and television series The Expanse.

And add a dialogue, where a female squad member tries to flirt with him and he immediately shuts it down.

And after the MEA fiasco I want a lovingly rendered sex scene.

Really would like a gay character who flirts with other men, and not in a creepy, sexual, winkwink nudgenudge way.

Do I detect a hint of vindictiveness laced with schadenfreude?

Another thing is that KISAs tend to get incredible plot relevance, especially in DA (Alistair, Aveline, Cullen, Cass) so having an LGBTQA+ KISA would do a lot to finally get those types to be non-optional, non killable, and plot important. The roguish types are sometimes not only not that plot crucial, but also optional.

But then again, we could finally get our not straight KISA and they'd be a non plot crucial, optional character, but hey, at least it'd be something.