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[Mir Aven]

 

I do the same for my 'canon' character. Then it's a process of elimination to see who fits. I will roll other characters to explore different angles (and get the achievements if any   )

 

I think most people are doing it just because of the restriction and they really wanted to romance Solas in particular! A lot of people care a good amount about the romances and the experience and character development that comes with them, so they change their character to match so that they can explore that! If we hadn't known the LIs, pretty sure most would do what you do. That's what I did for DA:O!

 

Also I really wanna see this thread nice and happy again soon. 

 

I can understand changing your character a little to fit the romance, especially when it's after the first playthrough. It's that some posts I seen suggest that people care more about the romace that the character they play, it made me curious.

 

I do that for my first playthrough, and Samaire Cadash will probably be forever alone as a result. d: But I don't want to miss out on the party banter / romances, and so generally build a party and then see if I need to play a tank or not and then decide who they would be (a defender of their fellows, a wild thing, etc.) and then see if there is someone in the party who would compliment them in a romance or in this case, pick an advisor.

 

My, yet unnamed, human male mage from my first playthough knows how that feels. Poor guy going to be forever alone too.

 

I don't think most do this. It's more common for people to have a few different Inquisitors in mind that they want to play through at some point and then switch around the order they play them in based on LI availability. I already had a female elf mage in mind as my alternate first Inquisitor and all I did was push her up to the first playthrough when I heard the Solas news.

 

Despite what some may think, even most in the character threads don't think romances are the be all and end all. Just another factor to think about and possibly plan around, among many others.

 

I tend to do a bit of both, I guess?  With DAI I have only the vaguest outlines of characters (race, class, possible romance) but things like their personality and actual confirmed romance will be decided when I play the game and know how I want to play the character.

 

 

It depends.  It isn't the only thing I consider when making a character, but if I want to romance a particular LI on a playthrough I'll make sure the PC is eligible.  But where my canon character is concerned, my first playthrough, so far the character always comes first.  And I just hope my first choice for a romance for that particular character fits...so far only my canon Hawke has lucked out and gotten the first choice. 

 

I have a loose template that I use in that I prefer to play female, a rogue, and am usually good with either human or elf depending on the background. But from a personality aspect, I am a horrible role-player! And yes, I do select a romance interest before I start playing and then shape my character and choices around that which is why it might be easier for me to adjust. And I almost always pick the compassionate, save everyone possible type choices where I can. 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for all the answers. It was really interesting to know your opinions

[The Elder King]

Eh, there wasnt much of a drama and it ended quite quickly. And definitely little tears. In fact, more people "drunk straight dudebros' tears" than dudebros actually cried. I dont count purely homophobic folk since they complained because Sera was gay rather than because they couldnt romance her. That's what I'm saying

I didn't like much the male tears fanart, but as far as I saw there were more complainers (even without considering homophobic comments) then those fanarts.
The Sera's thread was closed, and it wasn't becuase homophobic comments.
Anyway, I'll drop this since it's not the place to discuss it.

[Willowhugger]

I think all of this controversy shows the decision to not make the characters "Inquisitor Sexual" (even if that was never the case in DA2) or all bisexual was the right decision. While it limits player options, it also goes to show if Bioware wants to be more inclusive to the gamer population, they need to represent people who are gay and "just not that into you."

 

I was really disturbed by the people who said they didn't romance Isabella because she was bisexual while they could "make" Merril straight.

Yeesh.

 

I think there's always plenty of people who are just disappointed when they don't get their love interest (Fans can get rabid about certain characters) but there was definitely a prejudiced group.

Solas being Elfsexual is kind of irritating, though. RACIST!

[Ailith Tycane]

And the victory laps some guys did in the Cassandra thread when she was revealed as straight were pretty distasteful as well.

 

Extremely, but at least they got banned pretty quickly. 

[Not a Cat Doll]

I have tears in my eyes. Bless the soul who made that. ROFL

OMG, where is that music from? I am snort-laughing!

[pallascedar]

Ah poop. I was looking forward to Solas. Guess it's pretty much just Dorian for me. Oh well. Congratulations to all the people planning on playing lady-elves that wanted to romance Solas!

[Baka-no-Neko]

Ah, finally we know

Congrats guys! To me this is lovely news~!

But also hugs to those who are sad this is the painful side of these reveals.
I just want to say that we don't know much about Solas, and saying things like 'he's OOC for being race/gender-gated' isn't very sensible. We know he wishes to be seen as more than just an elf. With the prejudice in DA towards elves, who wouldn't. That doesn't necessarily mean he'd be automatically open to all races for romance.

[Phate Phoenix]

So... now that we know that Solas is romanceable by a female elf - does anyone care to discuss his or her female elf Inquisitor ideas?

 

I'm thinking (now) of making a female elven rogue. I might name her Brush. Black hair. Green eyes. Dark skin.

 

So, I may have already made this character in the Sims 4 CAS, because I adore it so.

 

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Braeth. Archer or mage, I haven't really decided.

[Chari]

There's no way in Styx you're going to convice me that there weren't many complaints since i've seen myriads of these personally in the webz about Sera.

Heck, the "male tears" arts exist for a reason. People know that there were many complaints about Sera. Especially homophobic and since you said there are many homophobes.... well, there you go.

I say myriads means at least three-five complaints from different users per each page. That many didn't appear in the Twitter thread as far as I recall. And I don't count those who were okay with creating a female inquisitor and pure homophobes who didn't want to romance Sera and simply hated gays. Those didn't really cry

Eh. That's just mock-art. People use this meme when they feel like it. For some even a single complainer is a reason good enough

But we're getting off topic. I personally am not going to romance Sola's since my dalish is a guy. So, eh, YouTube it is for me or a fifth playthrough

[ilikesocks]

Just wondering if Solas having a family in the past is official? I feel like I should've heard something about this and am feeling a bit like a dolt at the moment. I'm trying to catch up.

[Ailith Tycane]

Just wondering if Solas having a family in the past is official? I feel like I should've heard something about this and am feeling a bit like a dolt at the moment. I'm trying to catch up.

 

Nothing regarding his past or reasons for being straight and race gated are confirmed.

 

That being said, I am sick to death of the "I had a family and wife and they're dead" thing so if they could not do that? That'd be greeeat. 

[Baka-no-Neko]

You know, if we take our expectations off and try to view our followers as actual people in a world with their own personalities, own idiosyncrasies and own quirk, we would see that it does not make any sense for them to have love and romantic choices that caters to us or rather, caters to the Inquisitor's whim. It would not make sense for them to be equal since they are their own characters, not just Inquisitor's playthings.  

 

Before anyone comes and labels me as homophobe or anti-equalist or whatever labels they want to, my planned default Inquisitor is a male Dalish elf mage who will be a bachelor. So I really have no reason to spew BS. 

 

Which means I am not saying this out of spite or hatred, I am saying this because this is the direction Bioware wants to take their characters. They want to make them their own person as opposed to completely subscribing to a trope or an ideology. A person almost always has a mix of tropes they identify with or that others identify with.

 

In case of Solas, he seems to be an introverted and intellectual elf. However, this does not preclude the possibility of him being open minded intellectually and not having a very open view towards sexuality / being sexually preferential. That is neither a bad thing nor a good thing, its just his thing. Its Solas' thing. 

 

That is how I look at characters and their romantic preferences. Its their preferences. It is comparable to someone's in the real world with their preferences. 

 

Cheers. 

This^ Beautifully said.

[Brass_Buckles]

Anyone remember my comment early on in the old thread that with Solas's preference for tight pants he was probably a romance option?  Now I wonder how on the mark I was, since he IS a romance option.  (Did they design him with those tight clothes because he's a romance, or just because he's the sort of guy who wears clothing too small?)

[Awkward Octopus]

 

 

Thank you for all the answers. It was really interesting to know your opinions

 

 

I'll add, if you're still interested.

 

I always make my character first, but it's very vague. In this case, I knew I wanted a "snarky, male, badass Dalish mage." That's it. That said, I sometimes get pretty specific in my head about how I want my PC to look, which I will do my best to replicate in game. This time I'll be particular because I made a concept art of him, but in other games I wait until I can play with the CC.

 

EDIT: Er, to address the question better, I won't change the character to fit a particular romance. If there is a romance option available that the character (and I, because let's face it, I'm playing) would go for, sure. Otherwise, befriend all the things!

[DarkKnightHolmes]

I don't mind Solas being a female elf only romance since it gives me an excuse to play an female elf even more and adds replay value.

[Ex-Paladin]

Holy moly!! I take a long nap and come back to Solas being confirmed as LI for female elves!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'm gonna have to take my qunari warrior out as my first playthrough and throw in my elven mage that was going to be my second playthrough into first now!!! That or play two playthroughs

[xyzmkrysvr]

Really? Because you can't romance him you aren't even going to recruit him? Wow, over reaction just a tad?
You'd be missing out on a whole character and his story because you can't get into his pants.

No, I'm not going to have him in my party because I always travel with my LI and as a gay guy now I will be romancing Dorian. No need for another mage. The reason I MIGHT not invite him into my home AKA Skyhold is because he was supposed to be an "open minded" character (wasn't that the same buzz words they used to describe Josephine being bi) but turns out to be the MOST restrictive romanceable character ever. Also, "elf only" sounds racist and I don't like homophobes or racists. Sure, I'll wait to see what "totally awesome story-related reason" (rolls eyes) Bioware has to make him such, but if it has anything to do with him needing to have LOTS OF BABIEZ then I'll pass.

  

People like you are the worst and a reason I'd be all for it if the entire romance aspect was scrapped from future Bioware games.

Really? The worst? Turn on the news and see what ISIS is doing in Iraq before calling a disappointed gaymer "the worst".

[mindoirs]

The whole baby thing was literally a random as hell theory that someone just threw out and I'm seeing people calling Solas and the romance disgusting for it on Tumblr.

Talk about insufferable.

 

POOR DUDE HAS DONE NOTHING BUT BE BALD AND LIKE ELVEN CHICKS

SOLAS DEFENSE SQUAD

[Phate Phoenix]

The whole baby thing was literally a random as hell theory that someone just threw out and I'm seeing people calling Solas and the romance disgusting for it on Tumblr.

Talk about insufferable.

 

POOR DUDE HAS DONE NOTHING BUT BE BALD AND LIKE ELVEN CHICKS

SOLAS DEFENSE SQUAD

 

SOLAS

 

BALD, DOESN'T CARE FOR PROPER FOOTWEAR, LIKES ELF GIRLS

 

HE'S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT

[NextArishok]

edit. wrong thread.

[Roxy]

Anyone remember my comment early on in the old thread that with Solas's preference for tight pants he was probably a romance option?  Now I wonder how on the mark I was, since he IS a romance option.  (Did they design him with those tight clothes because he's a romance, or just because he's the sort of guy who wears clothing too small?)

 

I think because he's a romance but that's my opinion....or maybe it's a little bit of both reasons.

Holy moly!! I take a long nap and come back to Solas being confirmed as LI for female elves!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'm gonna have to take my qunari warrior out as my first playthrough and throw in my elven mage that was going to be my second playthrough into first now!!! That or play two playthroughs

 

HA! Yeah I was going to play a female human first but looks like I will have to play my female elf first which is fine.

[Basement Cat]

People don't have to like or agree with my questions or my will to expand my horizons, but I want to learn and understand everything that I can.  Even if other people think its stupid, small, or look down on me because of my want to learn....thats fine.

 

I thank those that help me along.

 

I think you might have the wrong thread... I don't recall you asking a question here...

[Ispan]

I repeat... maybe he's just straight, and the elf-only preference has other reasons behind it.

 

No need to repeat.  I was responding to the notion that no LIs should be interested in children and saying that, while I'm personally not excited for the possibility of children coming into play, with the number and variety of LIs and romance arcs that exist throughout Bioware games it wouldn't be farfetched for one of them to be interested in starting a family.  The post was in no way saying that his sexuality is based on his interest in having children.

 

I've posted many times that all I really want from romances is variety, anyway

 

So... now that we know that Solas is romanceable by a female elf - does anyone care to discuss his or her female elf Inquisitor ideas?

 

I'm thinking (now) of making a female elven rogue. I might name her Brush. Black hair. Green eyes. Dark skin.

 

I'm considering naming my Dalish warrior Suledin and, depending on color and style options, she'll probably have dark olive skin, green or purple eyes and... hair.  Haha, haven't gotten that far yet I guess   Probably jet black or platinum, if I had to guess right now.

 

Then again I might do a self insert and go with an olive-skinned elf with short brown hair and brown eyes

[RynJ]

So, I may have already made this character in the Sims 4 CAS, because I adore it so.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Braeth. Archer or mage, I haven't really decided.

 

She looks awesome! I made my Lavellan in the EVE Online character creator forever ago. I recommend downloading it, even though it takes forever. It's so much fun to use it!

 

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Her name is Cari and she and Solas would make some pretty babies. Yep, I went there.   

[revan11exile]

i wanted to romance him with a qunari but iam fine with using an elf oh well iam just glad he is a romance