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[fhs33721]

I am a heterosexual male, but I actually prefer to play female protagonists. Probaly because I read, play and watch a lot of Fantasy and sci-fi and male protagonists still outnumber female ones pretty much everywhere (Except in superntural romances of course ) and that's getting old. So I like to play as female whenever I have the option and I guess about 80% of my DA characters are female.

 

I personally like f/f romances best and pursue them first. Then I mostly go for f/m followed by m/f and ocasionally I also do a m/m romance.

 

That being said, DA is probably my favourite game franchise and I've played a lot of playthroughs. By now I've romanced  everyone with every possible gender in DAO and romanced everyone with femHawke in DA2. I only had 2 Male Hawkes so far and one stayed single while the other one romanced Isabella.

[Roses]

I'm a bisexual female, and I usually choose to play a female. I just can't relate very well with a guy unless there's no other option given. Love choosing an Elf for my character. Humans are too boring for me, I don't really feel up for dwarves (I LOOOOVE Varric though) and while I respectfully adore Qunari, I don't think I want my character to be one.
Usually, I go for girl on girl romances, unless there's a very very special guy who conquers my attention during the game.

Romanced Zevran in my first game, and Merill in my second, with a slight regret towards Act 3 where I really wanted to go all sweet on Anders, but then I found out that the guy doesn't listen to reason even being in love with the player, that's no good.

[Kirie]

I'm a heterosexual female, and I've always only done f/m romances in Bioware games as that's what I prefer. For DA:I though I'd really like to push myself to try something new, so I'm very excited to try out romances with Sera and Dorian! Honestly I'd like to romance them all at some point though. Very happy with all of the characters so far, so that helps

[SofaJockey]

I bored people with this on another thread so I'll keep it short: 

 

Straight male - enjoy the role play so will try most if not all romances.

I don't usually self-insert so I usually avoid a male human playthrough with anyone,

though with Cass I'll make an exception.

 

I've done m/f, f/m and f/f playthroughs before.

This game will be my first m/m because Dorian is awesome.

 

My 'chart' 

[Super Shamois]

I bored people with this on another thread so I'll keep it short: 

 

Straight male - enjoy the role play so will try most if not all romances.

I don't usually self-insert so I usually avoid a male human playthrough with anyone,

though with Cass I'll make an exception.

 

I've done m/f, f/m and f/f playthroughs before.

This game will be my first m/m because Dorian is awesome.

 

My 'chart' 

 

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You have a chart? That's awesome. It always intrigues me when players put so much thought and effort into this kind of thing. :0)  Partially, I suppose, because it's so opposite of how I approach it.

[HK-90210]

As a straight(by choice) male, I play both male and female PCs with equal enjoyment. The only 'self-inserting' I do is that my FIRST play through will be with a male human. After that, I branch out with other genders and races. But with all of them, I immerse myself in their story. Experience it as they would, not as I would. The characters I create are their own make-believe people, with opinions and beliefs based on my own but very separate from me. They are not me, and I am not them.

 

That being said, I can't play my male characters gay. They are either 'forever alone', or romance women. That's as far as I feel comfortable taking them. That doesn't mean they can't exist in the game('playersexual', HA!), or that I have any serious issue running into characters who swing that way. I just can't and won't be playing them. Which is sad, since I have had some interesting ideas for gay PCs. For instance*spoilered for space*

Spoiler

I had an idea a long time ago for a gay Warden who refuses to sleep with Morrigan not because he was against the ritual, but because he considered the idea of sex with her repulsive, and wouldn't really be able to...'perform'. I always wondered if he would have asked Alistair, his future king and a soon to be newlywed with Anora, to do the deed for him. Or would he accept his fate as a Warden and die killing the Archdemon, leaving Zevran to wander Thedas alone.

As much as I would love to have played such an interesting story, as well as play Dorian's romance in DA:I, I have consistently found that playing gay characters does not work for me, and in fact is a big trigger that sets off feelings I'd rather not deal with when indulging in my Bioware escapism. This is, after all, a video game. Why would I play an optional aspect of the game that I gain no enjoyment out of?

 

And with my female characters I can play very light on the bisexual side, with a heavy favoritism towards males(maybe 80/20). For instance, *again, spoilered for space*

Spoiler

I had a female Hawke who slept with Isabella 'for fun'. She was interested in Isabella, and might have even come to love her if she had been open to such a relationship. But she also knew the woman she was involving herself with, and expected Isabela to 'know the score', and not expect anything more than a fun tumble. But she would never do such a thing with Merrill, as she knew that Merrill would take the relationship more seriously than Isabela would. Later, she would romance Anders, the man she was more interested in a genuine, long-term relationship with. She's actually one of my favorite Hawkes.

But a 50/50 bisexual or full-on lesbian is something that I can't play honestly. By honestly, I mean that they would be a fully realized character, not just a fantasy f/f romance where the two characters are simply avatars of my attraction to women. That's not doing justice to the characters Bioware created, and it is cheapening the PC I'm creating. They aren't 'real' for me. I'm not immersed in their story, I'm observing it on the outside. I don't play characters like that. I play them real, or not at all.

 

Why I am like that with my female characters, I'm really not sure. Probably because at least on some level, I still consider women attractive, even when I'm playing a female PC. But it is male/female relationships that I find more interesting and fun to play and experience. Who the PC is in that relationship is irrelevant for me, since they are both fictional characters that are not me. As long as the relationship is between a man and a woman, I play it.

 

This is my experience with the romances in gaming. YMMV.

[AlexiaRevan]

I bored people with this on another thread so I'll keep it short: 

 

Straight male - enjoy the role play so will try most if not all romances.

I don't usually self-insert so I usually avoid a male human playthrough with anyone,

though with Cass I'll make an exception.

 

I've done m/f, f/m and f/f playthroughs before.

This game will be my first m/m because Dorian is awesome.

 

My 'chart' 

That is Awesome ! How did you do that ??? 

[veeia]

Bisexual woman who mainly plays f/f for canon/first runs, but enjoys f/m and sometimes does m/m too.

I think its interesting some people seem to think this is a binary of "play people with different gender/sexuality" or "not roleplaying/using self insert"

I will admit that often my first run is a bit more of a "me" character, but all the runs after that are heavily roleplaying based. I will come up with all differnt kinds of backgrounds and motivations and personalities for my FemWardens,Sheps, and Hawkes that are far from where I am. I often play as a different race too, because while I'm white, having my PC be able to be a woman of color is pretty freaking awesome. But I do usually---not always, I liked M!Hawke enough to do 2 playthroughs--stick with a female character with an inclination for f/f. Not because I'm female, I feel totally comfortable playing a male character, but because being able to create a wide variety of female heroes still feels like an exciting novelty.

Having said that, I will prob, time permitting, do a male character for Dorian. I prob would have happily done the Shep/Cortez romance if I didn't find Male Shep's voice so annoying.

[SofaJockey]

You have a chart? That's awesome. It always intrigues me when players put so much thought and effort into this kind of thing. :0)  Partially, I suppose, because it's so opposite of how I approach it.

 

Sad obsessed gamer more like   but thanks for the sentiment.

I tend to process pictorially, so that's a much easier thing for me to do than writing a list with a pen 

or keeping it in my head - terrible memory, for which there's a reason I just can't recall it...

 

In any case, with so few interesting games out there, the BioWare forum has almost become
a BSN Prologue DLC. Plotting my playthrough is more fun (and free) than playing some game that is out that I don't like.

[SheilaD67]

Heterosexual white female, closer to 50 than 40, and I play both genders.  I'll play F/M (me playing female romancing male), M/F (loved the Leliana romance in DA:O and Morrigan was actually 'cute' at times) or M/M (love mods.  Romanced Alistair both as female and male).  I haven't tried F/F and, honestly, it hasn't appealed to me...yet.  Although, I won't rule it out, given an interesting enough lesbian/bi-sexual female LI.  I'm actually thinking a F/Qunari romancing Josephine at some point (I love replaying games, so certainly won't rule this one out).  :-)

 

In short, I do try and play outside my comfort zone, but not far enough that I get skittish about the game.  My personal views are I don't care who you are, who you are attracted to/love, or how you go about your life (so long as it does not harm others) - so long as you respect my own individuality.  

 

Looking forward to the surprises BW has in store for DA:I.

 

Edit:  I will add in DA:2, I only played a M/M or M/F Hawke (romanced Merrill by accident once; a bit...uncomfortable, given her childlike innocence).  Not because playing F/M didn't appeal to me, but I didn't like the VA for F/Hawke.

[JadePrince]

My gender ID is complicated, but I say trans guy for simplicity sake. I almost always play m/m (even though I tend to be a bit more attracted to women than men in RL), because 90% of the time I only feel comfortable rolling male PCs (so as to avoid feeling misgendered by female pronouns), and I'm not interested in playing out straight (cis) romances. There are times when I don't feel quite as uncomfortable, that I can manage to roll a female, but I'll do f/f romance then. 

 

I would be a lot more likely to play out the straight romances if I could roll a trans PC (beyond head-canon). I would feel more comfortable rolling a trans man and doing a m/f romance than playing a cis man in a m/f romance. I'm not sure exactly why, since trans men are still men and trans women are still women... I guess it's just that I can more relate to the experiences of a trans person, and thus would feel more comfortable playing out a straight romance if I was playing a trans character. 

[CrimsonN7]

Lesbian here, will always go for f/f romance options in DA games, shocking I know. DAO we only had one option Leliana but that was fine with me, repetition and repetition was never more fun, Leliana was all I needed, easily my favourite DA romance so far.   I don't romance dudes in these games period, just meh not interested, and Alistair annoyed the hell outta me in DAO so yeah right as if I would even bother. Zevran was a good laugh, but strictly a pal.

 

DA2 again only played as a fem Hawke, only romanced Izzy and Merrill.

 

The only time I bother to try a m/f option is when a female LI that I really like is unavailable to my fem protagonist, like in DAO I made a male warden to romance Morrigan. I only did that once and only once, it was okay. Find it difficult to enjoy those playthroughs, it just isn't that absorbing to me, it doesn't captivate my full attention much. I feel like I'm going through the motions when I play a m/f romance, I'm there but not really.

 

For DAI I'm really looking forward to experiencing DA's first true lesbian character Sera, should be interesting. I was very disappointed that Cass was unavailable to my fem Inquisitor so for her I will have to attempt another m/f romance. I just hope it will be worth it as I don't generally enjoy playing m/f if I can help it. I have a feeling that I might end up abandoning that Cass playthrough all together mid-game, just don't enjoy playing as a male in these games. Hell knowing my attention span when it comes to m/f romance I'll probably will end up Youtubing it lol!

[DeityDi]

Not because playing F/M didn't appeal to me, but I didn't like the VA for F/Hawke

THIS.

I have a big problem with female VAs in DA & Mass Effect, especially when they flirt with someone. Sometimes it's just unbearable. 

I really hope something has changed in DAI and for the better.

[CENIC]

Asexual/heteroromantic female.

When given the option to play as a female character, I always take it, because it is rare that I come across an established female character that I can relate to. As a rule I prefer games that allow you to customize your hero and make dialogue choices. While feeling some sort of connection to the characters I create is important to me, I look at them more as a blank narrative canvas through which to roleplay rather than as a proxy or extension of myself. Since I'm asexual but still desire romantic emotional intimacy, interactive romantic content in particular is important to me; I get to indulge in vicarious romance without sex having to be involved... something which rarely happens in reality.
I will sometimes play as a male character (2 of my 3 Wardens are male). I played a male Warden to romance Morrigan because I thought it made for an interesting story. I played a female Hawke who rivalmanced Sebastian for the same reason - I was hoping for a big payoff later where she would be Viscountess of Kirkwall AND Princess of Starkhaven.
In Dragon Age 2 each of my 3 female Hawkes had a romance, and I'm extremely thankful and grateful that I will have that opportunity again in Inquisition. Right now I am planning a female human mage to romance Cullen, a female elf rogue to romance Solas, and a female qunari warrior to romance the Iron Bull.

[Hydwn]

 

 

My 'chart' 

 

My boyfriend makes fun of me because I have an Excel spreadsheet for my 5 characters.  I'm totally telling him someone out there has a graphical chart

[SofaJockey]

That is Awesome ! How did you do that ??? 

 

Powerpoint with thumbnails, build your own chart...   https://dl.dropboxus.../bemyguest.pptx

[Bioblitzer]

hetero male that plays a female any chance i get in a rpg whether theres romance or not (dont know why, ive been doing that as long as i can remember). if given the option i will romance a female and if not i dont romance anyone but i would look it up and see how it goes

[Chernaya]

I'm a bisexual female, and I am willing to play just about any kind of romance if I think I would enjoy it. I do romances based on character personality more than gender. My biggest preference is that I enjoy playing females, so about 90% of my characters end up as so. I have made male characters before, but usually after I've worn out just about every option for a female. This time I do plan to do a m/m romance with Dorian, because I think I will enjoy his character and romance arc. It will still probably be my 4th or 5th playthrough in, though. 

[SheilaD67]

THIS.

I have a big problem with female VAs in DA & Mass Effect, especially when they flirt with someone. Sometimes it's just unbearable. 

I really hope something has changed in DAI and for the better.

I love Jennifer Hale, but really hated her ME voice; so gibbed the games to play a gay M/Shepard; and the DA:2  VA was far too 'girly'' sounding - hurt my ears.  Think I'm gonna like the VAs they have for DA:I.

[NextArishok]

I romanced morrigan because she was hot.  In DA2 I did not romance anyone. (Isabella was hot, but when so many people have gone for the ride it makes it one thats not for me + You should never go where you friends have and that could have been Alistar's) From the choices in DA: I I can tell you that I will not romance anyone.

[pengwin21]

Gay male, equally enjoy m/m and f/m romances. I've done m/f only in Bioware games where there was only one romanceable male option (BG2, KOTOR, Jade Empire). I've tried f/f but was never very interested in those characters.

[berelinde]

Straight female here. I'll play either male or female characters, but if I prefer one voice over the other, I'll play that one more. I like both English-accented voices (haven't heard the American-accented ones), so I've got no idea which I'll do. A lot of that will depend on how easy it is for me to make attractive characters with the CC.

 

I'll play f/m, m/f, and m/m for preference (no priority to one vs the others). I will play f/f if the female LI is really awesome and gender-gated, but she'd have to be really special. If Isabela were f/f only, I would have romanced her with a female repeatedly, but if it were Leliana, not even for the achievement. I don't know enough about Sera to say. I may romance her, I may not. I will definitely romance Blackwall and Cullen with females, and Iron Bull, Dorian, and Cass with males. I'm not particularly interested in playing an elf, so my relationship with Solaas will probably remain platonic.

[leaguer of one]

I'm a black hetrosexual male and I have a history from Kotor of playing out side my gender and preferences. Kotor was my first f/f experience(Though it was a glitch.) Regardless it was the first time I role played a female. The second time was Oblivion.(But it really did not matter.) My 3rd was my 2nd play through with ME1. Somehow is got stuck in a heterosexual female romance, but it was not that what made me like role playing female. It was the moment I suddenly felt that when playing her I was a different person. I was playing her renegade and trying to figure out how to play her and suddenly I came to the personal mission/quest " I remember me". And from that I grew a passion for the character, she was a bitter woman who lost everything a learn early in life that the world was ruthless through the lost of her family but deep down she still wanted to love and protect and at the same time lash and attack anyone she deemed an enemy. She always projected herself as strong but to though closest she showed her tender side. And this went on to ME2 and twisted on it self when she romance Garrus. I never planned on it in the play though and I though as her why the hell not. What I learned from her was passion about life with the ones closest to you. Out of all the romances in ME hers and Garrus' was the one I love the most . She truly loved him. They were a pair of broken people became one whole as they supported one another and who die for one another to make sure the other live and in the end she did.

With Dao I played my first bisexual character, Nami Tabris. I was a role that tethered on being carefree and crushing concern for her family and allies. What I love about it was her story of being a little nothing people look down on and her being one of the most important person in Fereldin. She also was a very sexual person.(Think Isabella as an elf girl.) She when after anyone she could sleep with or romance. Though her I learned an very important lesson, open relationships are not easy and far more complex then closed relationships. With Lillianna I found a cute girl with wonder full stories, with Zavren I found some one layed back and fun to be with, with Alistair who was surprisingly innocent and adorkable. And then Zavren told her he loved her and the problems started. She Had no interest in a long term relations ship with him and Lillianna was getting Jealous. And Alistair was being so sweet and then I made him king.... And we all know how that goes when he's unhardened. In the end I went with Lillianna. Zavren was heart broken and Alistair dumped me because he could not have a side woman.

 

I have other experiences but it would take too long to put here. Thought all this  learnt that

a) Role is more important then romance.

Know what you character is and their motivations are controls the playthoughs directions. The romance will just happen based on who they are.

b)Expect the unexpected.

You may not romance the person you think you are going to.

c)You're going to learn that love and gender don't matter.

Love really does not know gender. It's a connection from individual to individual. I can tell you right now if can go gay for someone, it would be for Garrus.(I can't because I'm in a heterosexual body but still...) The point is the Love based on the persons body is shallow at best.(But is does help guide things.)

[MACharlie1]

My boyfriend makes fun of me because I have an Excel spreadsheet for my 5 characters.  I'm totally telling him someone out there has a graphical chart

Don't feel bad for even a moment.

 

 

(I have no creativity in names hence the GoT names and default names!)