So I've been lurking the Solas thread lately (on semi-media blackout now - I check this thread, and I'll watch VA vids and such, but I'm avoiding any gameplay vids and the Twitter thread because unfortunately people like to chatter on about spoiler-y stuff they glimpsed in said gameplay vids instead of just commenting on dev tweets and such
- even though it's the Twitter thread and there's dedicated threads for those other things.... /rant).
Anyhoo... I think it is kind of amusing that people are still on this 'Solas is a racist!' thing. I mean, how many of our elven/dwarven companions have made some humorous comment on 'you humans' and no one jumped on it like this? I've never followed a game pre-release like this before but it's odd how people use the smallest tidbits of out-of-context info to come up with these sweeping preconceptions that completely bias them about the game or its characters. I mean, there's definitely characters I'm not sure I'll like based on what we know so far, but I'm not going around posting everywhere I can to anyone who will read it about all the reasons I just KNOW I'm going to hate them.
And as far as Solas mentioning children - I don't mind of it's mentioned the way Anders did at the end of DA2. Even though I have little interest in baby plots, that was sweet and non-comittal enough to add some nice insight into his character and motivations without going overboard. But to have our fertility become a plot point, again - ugh, no thanks. First off, been there done that with the whole Morrigan/Alistair fiasco which I still get annoyed thinking about. Also, as a woman who cannot have biological children for medical reasons - the idea of having someone I'm in a relationship with, be it in a game or real life, reject me if I can't or won't have his genetically-ideal babies just really squicks me out. If that's the case here (which I really don't believe it will be) I'll finish the romance, but it'll definitely sour me to the whole experience and I won't be romancing him again.