I got the impression that was the majority of the interest in Blackwall as a LI.
I popped into his thread because I thought, hey this Grey Warden character looks cool...lets see what other people are saying about him. And it seemed like the thread was primarily dedicated to bear fanart/fanfic.
Of course that was my mistake. You never go into a character fan thread expecting to see anything other than people posting about all the dirty things they want to do with that character. They all kind of immediately morph into LI threads and Its virtually impossible to discuss characters in a fan thread in a non-romantic way.
Erm, no. There was a moment after Solas was announced female only, when gay fans were expressing hope for Blackwall to be a bi or gay LI. Nobody was expecting female elven inquisitor.
I would gladly discuss something not romance related but the problem is that we know next to nothing about Blackwall. So it's either to burry thread until November 18, or talk about something we know. Which is romance. Shrug.
Even this info dump about gameplay features is a recent thing. You can't discuss it in characters threads because offtopic.
It's even worse for Iron Bull because even devs only speak about his sex life. Which getting a bit annoying.