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I've wondered this myself. I think it kind of started with people playing as mages and he is all flummoxed by your female mage. That's sort of fun. Then even though he's a jerk when he's trapped at the circle, he admits his crush on you. Then people made little romance mods with him. Not long ones but a bit more involved. Sort of centered around him being in love with the mage or having a soft spot for her. I think he says that it was the quickest harrowing he'd ever seen and people got a kick out of that. It's what the mages are saying when you are in the quarters after the harrowing when you wake up to Jowan annoying you. So it's kind of this whole little thing that people decided to play up. The mages imply they know he has a thing for her. That's sort of fun. You have to play as a female though. That's the key.
By the second game if you side with the templars he's pretty cool. If you side with the mages, he doesn't totally go against you. At least not by the end of the battle. Though honestly after the second game I did side with the templars because I felt there were too many mages turning to blood magic and merideth pushed them too far so there was really no way out. I did both sides and both sides suck. Mages turn. The first enchanter goes nuts. Then meredeth is bonkers with that lyrium idol. Really, the whole thing no matter what side you choose is just a disaster. Neither really looks good in the end but it is all meredith's fault. However, the thing about cullen in the second game that makes him a winner is that if you side with the templars, he clearly has his limits. He says that things were worse in Ferelden and that was the sort of situation where he could see annulment (I don't think he acknowledges whether or not you chose it) but that here it is nowhere near that bad. And this gives you more insight into him. He's become more balanced since the last game but he was traumatized in the last and with good reason. Here, he will stand up to meredeth when you side with templars because he sees she's gone to far. If you side with mages I don't think you get that dialogue. Or maybe you do. I can't remember. But he actually does stand up for the mages and against her at some point. That made me like him a lot more. And it kind of made me think back to why he was so hateful in game one.... he went through hell and watched massive deaths thanks to mages.
He's also balanced enough to listen to what hawke offers about that young templar. He's more like Gregor in that moment. I kind of liked gregor at the end of the circle run.
Again, this has more to do with the little illicit crush he had on the female mage character in game one and how much people got into it, which was quite a lot given some of the mods I've seen. Game two it seems they played to that by giving him more balance so he wasn't as much of an overt mage hater as he seemed in the first by the time you see him after outside the harrowing chamber.
Probably this.
Fangirls love that sort of thing, it isn't so much the character himself but the desire to be adored and worshiped by cute boys, why do you think the "swaying hips" banter between Wynne and Alistair is so popular?
He was kind of flirty with the mage Warden in DA:O, and girls (and apparently some guys) liked his voice and thought the character was handsome.
And thats all it is really. All the stuff about how interesting a character he is, you can disregard. If he looked like the Architect no one would be talking about him.
To be fair I'm not picking on Cullen fans here. I think thats true for fans of most romanceable characters. Ask them while they like a character and they start rattling off a number reasons except for the primary one...that they just thought the character was attractive.
I'm a straight male and I've no interest in romancing him. And yet I like him and find him (and his possible character development) interesting. I couldn't care less on how he looks like.
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