ME1 is also bad for this, definitely. My Shepard's experience:
Shepard: *is nice to Kaidan, flirts heavily with Liara*
Kaidan: SUDDEN LOVE TRIANGLE DIALOGUE
Shepard: Kaidan, I'm not even into men.
They did get clearer about romance stuff but Blackwall managed to continue the ninjamance tradition.
Everytime I play ME1 I have to avoid talking to him after a certain point until post-Virmire and I'm locked in with Liara.
And, because it needs to be said again:
STOP. FLIRTING. WITH. JACOB. SHEPARD.
Ninjamance - You're sort of locked into a romance without realizing it. Blackwall does this if you flirt enough. Then you're sort of locked in without there being a clear cut - YES I WANT TO ENTER INTO A ROMANCE WITH YOU.
This happened to me. I don't even like Blackwall as an LI, I was just experimenting with the flirt options for all characters. I didn't even realize it was an official romance after the cutscene was over (it was on my first PT) until a bit later when Trev tried to flirt with Cullen.
Cullen: There are rumors you're already involved with Blackwall.
Trev: I am?
Everytime I play ME1 I have to avoid talking to him after a certain point until post-Virmire and I'm locked in with Liara.
And, because it needs to be said again:
STOP. FLIRTING. WITH. JACOB. SHEPARD.
Yep, I stopped talking to him after a certain point.
The Jacob thing was just terrible. Like...just...what bad direction or something.
Guys, I have a Solas art and I'm trying to find the original source but a reverse image search on Google isn't helping. Anyone know where this came from:
http://grotesqueerie.../fenharel-stuff
This happened to me. I don't even like Blackwall as an LI, I was just experimenting with the flirt options for all characters. I didn't even realize it was an official romance after the cutscene was over (it was on my first PT) until a bit later when Trev tried to flirt with Cullen.
Cullen: There are rumors you're already involved with Blackwall.
Trev: I am?
If you're with Solas and flirt with Cullen during chess
If you're with Solas and flirt with Cullen during chess
Out of curiosity, does Solas say anything if you're in a relationship with someone else and try to flirt with him?
Out of curiosity, does Solas say anything if you're in a relationship with someone else and try to flirt with him?
You can't. You're locked out.
@jawsisinmywc - YAS! All the Aen Elle. From like 10 min. into the gam when Eredin shows up with his beauteous voice and skeleton ship - I was like "OH NO. OH NO". Then Avallac'h and the way he rolled his r's and was all sad. I was like 'no bby! I WILL LOVE YOU!' AND YES at the disappointment at the lack of caranthir face reveal. he was super...umph...with that staff *WINK WINK*
As much as I think the Wild Hunt are cool, I don't think good King Radovid would be accepting towards interdimensional elves.
So sadly...
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Very spoilery? ... I wonder in what sense?
As much as I think the Wild Hunt are cool, I don't think good King Radovid would be accepting towards interdimensional elves.
So sadly...
Yeah, too bad Radovid died like a ****** in my game
Very spoilery? ... I wonder in what sense?
Perhaps explain his reasons why he feels that way about the Wardens and/or spoil some sort of upcoming confrontation or plot development? plus, no matter what happens, Weisshaupt goes silent. Something is going down. And the answer to that question the person asked might not even be addressed until the next game.
... What if all of Skyhold is a dream? xD
What if everyone died in Haven, aside from Inquisitor, whom Solas keeps (barely) alive in order to get use of Anchor and eeeeeeeeeverything we experience is just an elaborate figment of our imagination?
What if Fen'Harel didn't lock the elven gods? What if he locked the elves, the humans, everyone, into a permanent dream from the moment they're born till their death, so that the gods can feed on the energy generated by their bodies? What if it is the fade that is real, and Thedas is just a dream?
In this analogy, the dwarves are simply machines programmed for system maintenance
I've thought about both of these being a possibility. It would be a total mindf@ck if it turns out to be true! 
Very spoilery? ... I wonder in what sense?
I think Weekes just means that if he answers the question, then he will have to reveal details about what happened in-game. And he doesn't want to spoil anything for other people who read his tweets and haven't played the game yet.
I didn't find DA:I's ninjamancing to be that bad - mostly because all the romance enabling options have a big pink and red shiny heart icon which screams FLIRT every time you hover over it. As well as that, DA:I tends to also change the look of the dialogue wheel when you make a really massive choice.
I think I've only actually ever flirted with Solas, Sera, and Harding for that reason.
Part of the issue with Solas, and to an extent the ninjamance of Blackwall, is that it takes more time to dump them and move to someone else, but it is possible to start with a couple of people. Even if things get more committed with someone like Dorian you can hurt him by keeping it casual. But it's still a casual relationship. Still if you want three and foursomes, not in this one. But I find the romances mostly better overall.
Some of them will also tell you to go dump so and so before they'll even be open to anything. Like Sera.
I like hers if you're romancing Solas. Something like 'If elfy's not doing it for you anymore, tell him first. I won't be anyone's second'.
That line is half the reason I flirt with Sera. Also, because she's Sera.
Everytime I play ME1 I have to avoid talking to him after a certain point until post-Virmire and I'm locked in with Liara.
And, because it needs to be said again:
STOP. FLIRTING. WITH. JACOB. SHEPARD.
I'm now working through my third full playthrough of Mass Effect (it's what I'm using to kill time between now and DLC) and because of this, as a rule, I just don't ever talk to Jacob.
I don't say hi. I don't do his damn loyalty quest. When he offers to climb through the vents on the suicide mission, I just let him do it and have him die. No major loss.
After playing through ME1 though, DA:O's ninjamancing seems a walk in the park. At least in DA:O you aren't 'locked in' and can at least be presented with jealousy dialogue. In fact, if you play your cards right it's not an issue at all. Hell, I think with my first playthrough of DA:O I was technically romancing both Zevran and Alistair (a sort-of-on-purpose-accident, I struggle to not flirt back with Zev, regardless of roleplaying, ahaha). I am not a very good person in game, it seems.
I agree, but the other way is also somewhat strange. You could be around Skyhold talking to your other companions, doing war table missions, then you walk into the rotunda and it turns out you're dreaming? Did you fall asleep in the middle of the main hall?
I play that scene right after I've dressed up as a merc and gone off to talk to the soldiers with Bull. I assume it's late, Lavellan is slightly tipsy and she goes off to chat with Solas in the rotunda. She's still slightly overwhelmed from the whole 'being named inquisitor' thing and she wants the distraction of conversation. Tipsiness and exhaustion get the better of her though, and she falls asleep on the couch while they're talking. Solas just rolls with it and continues their conversation in the fade.
He also wakes up before she does and carries her up to her bed, because that's just too adorable. 
I also wish there were more random fluff scenes with the LI's. Even just the option for a kissing cutscene whenever you talk to them after a certain point in the relationship. Pure, pointless fluff. Add a few of those with different animations at different locations around Skyhold... No voiceovers necessary, just a bit of animation and music so you have a reason for going to see your LI after you've exhausted the conversation options.
He also wakes up before she does and carries her up to her bed, because that's just too adorable.
Carry her all the way on the top of Inquisitor's tower??? You have no mercy for Solas' back! xD
I can imagine him suffering the next day from back pain and supporting himself with his staff, only to hear a few amused comments about him being old (to which he'd likely respond "You have no idea!").
Or even better - after the closes the door leading from throne room to Inquisitor's chambers he just uses some sort of levitating spell and flies snoring Lavellan upstairs 
I play that scene right after I've dressed up as a merc and gone off to talk to the soldiers with Bull. I assume it's late, Lavellan is slightly tipsy and she goes off to chat with Solas in the rotunda. She's still slightly overwhelmed from the whole 'being named inquisitor' thing and she wants the distraction of conversation. Tipsiness and exhaustion get the better of her though, and she falls asleep on the couch while they're talking. Solas just rolls with it and continues their conversation in the fade.
Well, until today my headcanon used to be that he casts a spell to put her to sleep and gets Cole to carry her back to her bed. Then he falls asleep himself and walks into her dream. Now that I know it is she who walks into his dream, I have to make up something else, but I haven't gotten the chance to daydream yet today
I REALLY wish there was an apathetic option for Lavellan to choose in this situation. Depending upon how quickly you went about the game AND the sequence of his quests, you could have been dating for as long as a year or two all the way down to like.. three weeks. Maybe less. And even then... you might never feel that close to him. He's so closeted about personal information, your Lavellan might wonder just who they're dating months into the relationship.
So depending upon the attachment of your Lavellan AND the length of the relationship... You might not care that much. Moreover, you might honestly take it as HIS loss. Not your's. Where is that option!? Where you shrug it off and tell Cole it's not that big a deal? You've dated and loved before. Now is no different.
But maybe I'm just the lone bird that didn't roleplay virgin!Lavellan who never loved before and will never love again.
I think the manner in which they wrote the romance implied that the connection between Solas and Lavellan was very strong. Solas is so cagey the whole way through the romance, after all... Lavellan has to push through that in order for him to give in to his feelings and allow himself to be with her, and even then much of what he says implies that while he adores her he is very conflicted. It's unlikely someone who didn't care very much would go to all that trouble for a relationship that's about as stable as a three-legged chair.
Though I suppose if you RP the story as stretching over a year or two, it does make sense that her feelings might wane. Especially if you're playing an older Lavellan who is slowly getting fed up with all his 'mystery'.
I also wish there were more random fluff scenes with the LI's. Even just the option for a kissing cutscene whenever you talk to them after a certain point in the relationship. Pure, pointless fluff. Add a few of those with different animations at different locations around Skyhold... No voiceovers necessary, just a bit of animation and music so you have a reason for going to see your LI after you've exhausted the conversation options.
Cullen's has that. You can go to him whenever and say you want to spend some time and you get a kissing cutscene.
Why's Solas the only romance option who doesn't get a special "let's spend time together" cutscene? Hmm, maybe it also has to do with the fact that the romance doesn't lock in until... well, the heartbreak. Either they just didn't have enough resources/time or Weekes is playing a sneaky card here.
Cullen's has that. You can go to him whenever and say you want to spend some time and you get a kissing cutscene.
My favorite fluffy bit about Cullen is doing pranks with Sera after unlocking his sex scene. Sera wants to de-stabilize his desk, but without breaking it, and the IQ says, "Oh, it's very sturdy!"
Why's Solas the only romance option who doesn't get a special "let's spend time together" cutscene? Hmm, maybe it also has to do with the fact that the romance doesn't lock in until... well, the heartbreak. Either they just didn't have enough resources/time or Weekes is playing a sneaky card here.
I assume it's mostly budget... ALTHOUGH, Cullen was added at the same time as well and he got far more romance material - about the same amount other LIs got.
Eh, it might just be the sneaky card then, though only because of the whole Dread Wolf thing. There's just no telling at this point where this whole romance thing will go (with any LI, really)... though the fact that Solas romance locks right after he dumps Lavellan should likely tell us that they're planning some sort of continuation.
Art break.
Solas and Lavellan kissing.
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Relaxing.
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Lavellan teaching Solas an old Dalish game that they play together after her war meetings.
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Abelas x Lavellan, and Solas x Lavellan.
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Solas and Lavellan being very intimate. (NSFW)
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Gorgeous artwork of Solas and Lavellan by airagitt. (NSFW for boobs)
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Keeping Secrets fanart: Solas teaching Emma about veilfire.
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Another fanart based on Keeping Secrets. (NSFW)
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Solavellan sketches. (NSFW for boobs)
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deedylovescake's lovely sketch of Solas with glasses.
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Nice artwork of Solas.
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More half-naked Solas/Fen'Harel. (Slightly NSFW)
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Solas line art.
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Good egg, bad egg. (Saitama from One-punch Man and Solas.)
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