Best defense against #MakeJaalBi ever

I meant that, in general, the patches are probably going to cause more bugs that affect romance regardless of whether a Bi Jaal is among any of those patches.

Oh, I was wondering about it. They had that weird close up of Jaal in the end sitting in a weird position, so I sort of wondered if it was a missing romantic reference. Never seen the movie night before.

Also, wanted to note, that while Jaal banters with the females more in what can be construed as flirting manner, there are three females on the team, and only one other male, Liam. He is pretty friendly with Liam in my experience, no different than with Vetra. It's just an artifact of having mostly female crew, particularly if you play a female Ryder. *

(that imbalance is one of my very few pouts in respect to Andromeda, and why initially I wanted to play a Male Ryder. But, the gate on Jaal led me to playing a F!Ryder, because it is an essential romance with the Angaran rep on the crew.

And that's the reason why I am a strong supporter of a bi Jaal. The genre lands itself very strongly to having a significant lovestory with someone you meet upon arrival to the new Galaxy, and the males do not get that.

* Unless you are one of those rare people that considers Asari not to be female (in which case Jaal flirts with non-females).

He's more than just "friendly" with Cora, when he compliments her and talks about watching her he says "the mind wants what it wants". There's his banter about Peebee (if he's not romanced by Sara) where he admits he finds himself "looking back" when she looks at him with interest. Pretty different from the way he behaves around Liam. And there's the part after his loyalty mission when Sara asks about his new scar and he wonders if it'll make him more appealing to their female friends.

_{How could you forget Drack...}

Oh, absolutely! Peebs is sooo much better than, say a male Quarian with the same subplot! So cool to see a techie Asari instead of a purely biotic Asari! Who needs another techie Quarian, sheesh. Plus, Lexi is just not enough of Asari representation. It's not a mass Effect game unless you don't have three slots on the crew booked for Kro-Asa-Tur. Okay, I am not bitter or anything.

I love the matchmaking you can do with the Angara. You have a male Turian with a female Angara, a male Krogan with a female Angara and can witness love blooming between a male Angara and an Asari.

You could apply this kind of reasoning to absolutely every character/person ever... maaaybe they are actually bisexual, just didn't like any of the thousands of males/females they met "that way". But the thing is, this is a game not the real world, so the traits the characters actually show are the only ones that exist, since that's what the writers ended up putting in the game.

As for Asari and pansexuality... debatable, but that's more of a meta case.

Right, but in this case Jaal really doesn't meet anyone but Liam. Also, well, perhaps he loves flirting with girls in an easy way, but is more reserved with boys, and that's why his compliments to Liam are directed more to his battle prowess, rather than his appearance, etc. It is, as you noted a game, so every player can make what case she or he wants with the material given.

Actually, I seem to remember a banter between Jaal and Peebs when he is freaked out by Asari procreating with any species and popping out Asari as a result, I.e. being like Kett in a way, only using seduction vs exaltation. Peebs calms him down in a follow up, but... but... where am I going with it? Asari are not universally attractive. I remember Kai Leng outright thinks of them all as whores.... so yeah, not universally sex-goddess crazy status. Some of aliens can cut through their biotic-enhanced pheromone blast.

Still has nothing to do with the perceived burning necessity to ardently protect Jaal from a horrid prospect of going for a swim in a lake with a male Ryder, and then kiss him all over.

Haha yeah and later he trolls her by saying he wants to mate with her, then after she freaks out he tells her he was just harmlessly flirting.

LOL protect Jaal from that? I would rather protect him from being messed up more than he already is after that Day 1 patch. But the fact is Jaal is straight and if they change him now, they are changing what they intended and not something they had planned, and to me, that's wrong. And as someone who once strongly supported him being bi, what I saw in the game will never convince me he would have worked that way anymore. If they do change him, as I said, it's not what they intended, so it's a forced change to please others. And not fair to some people who wanted to romance Suvi as Scott or Gil as Sara and more demands might be forced on the devs. It's their call however.

But they did have a bi Jaal planned? Not saying they should make Jaal bi in a patch, but the code showed intent on making him available to both Ryders.

Are you referring to that one line of recorded dialogue? This thread's been going on for a few pages but earlier on, I explained that it's apparently part of a cost-saving measure and it is not an indication of any plans on the writers' side. Sera has them as well with a male Inquisitor but she remains a lesbian that is wholly uninterested in men.

If you are referring to other content that might have been datamined then plans change and it's not unusual for people to discover unused content or discarded plans. According to the Toolset, Flemeth was originally confirmed by Morrigan as being her grandmother by blood. In the game itself, it is never confirmed by Morrigan or anything else if Flemeth is even related to her.