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[Korvkioscar]

First and foremost I want to start out and say that I want mature answers in this post. I am simply curious of the answers and do not want this to escalate into some form of war of sexuality matters.

 

I have the tendency to try all forms of romances in DA. For this question to be more understanding I can start out and say that I am a man in a heterosexual relationship. There.

 

For example. When I played DA:2 with my male Hawke I romanced Anders on several occasions and went all the way (if you know what I mean) why? Because he was the most interesting character in the game for me. All the female characters except Merill was plain boring to be honest and that's why I chose to go with Anders.

 

When I look at the characters in DA:I I can already feel that Dorian seems more interesting than Josephine and Cassandra and will probably romance him.

 

So my question is, does anyone else just don't care about who you romance and only focus on the "character"?

 

 

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Honetly i realy do not care but i tend to go for lesbian romances being one myself.

[DarkPaleRider]

I do just not with my canon playthrough I eventually make a male gay playthrough were I romance zev and Fenris but like I said just not with my canon. Just to add I am a heterosexual male.

[Tamyn]

I can be interested in a character outside of my sexuality but in that case I will explore their friendship arc and hope it is robust. I don't need my character to knock boots with them.

[WazzuMan]

Okay, so I am a heterosexual male, I guess, despite never being in such a relationship for that to mean anything. I usually play female characters when the option is allowed because reasons. Naturally I tend to lean toward other female characters for romances. Liara, Traynor, Leliana, Isabela, sure. I don't do this as a rule, of course. I have suffered through playthroughs as male characters for the sole purpose of romancing certain straight female characters I like and even, on the rare occasion, romancing male characters with my females.

 

Basically if I like a character I may end up going out of my way to romance them. Some people might complain about "limited" romance options and race/gender gating in DA:I because they limit themselves to playing, for example, straight male characters. I on the other hand may eventually end up doing all eight if I feel compelled to. 

[Master Race]

I was never able and i don't think ever be able to do a gay romance and i was raised in a fairly liberal household full of acceptance. However i simply can't do it however i plan to make my first Inquisitor based off of Oberyn Martell from game of thrones which would make him bisexual. I've never tried it so i guess we will see how it goes. Since DA:I isn't like the witcher where you can hook up with a bunch of people i don't even know if there will be any hook ups/flirts outside of the main romances so he may just end up being completely straight in the end.

 

So to answer your question, no, it matter's who i romance on my irl preferences.

[Flog the Undying]

It's weird. As a gay male myself, I've just realised every one of my wardens and hawkes were heterosexual.

 

My canon warden is a male romancing leliana, my canon hawke is a female romancing (and then killing) anders (#tragic) and my canon inquisitor will be a female romancing either bull or blackwall.

 

I suppose it's because I very rarely play male characters, and when i did for my warden i didn't find zev attractive, and also struggle to romance females as a female because it just makes me think of creepy guys doing the romances just to get off.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

its realy an each to there own issue. remember Foxs reaction to ME1? 

[budzai]

I am a heterosexual male and well my cannon play through may char is forever alone... On my other play through I may be try to romance ( if there is a character I like) but only with females. If I find a gay character likable I will became friend with him. I hope it will be well made in DA:I (I think in ME3 it was okay)

[Lingvort]

Not sure if that is relevant, but I guess due to me being heterosexual male, I rarely try out homosexual romances. I've had more than a dozen playthroughs of Origins, and about half a dozen in DA2, and yet I've only romanced Leliana as female twice, and romanced Zevran as male once, while in DA2, I've only once had lesbian relationships with Isabela and Merrill.

 

As for your question, OP, if by "character" you mean the character of the romanced companion, yeah, I don't really care about the "romance" part much, as long as I get to know the character better, though, the romance part is still a nice addition to it.

[Darkly Tranquil]

Hmm, well I'm a straight dude and my favourite DAO romance is F!Warden/Alistair, but my fav Mass Effect romance is M!Shep/Jack, and I found everyone who was romanceable in DA2 annoying so I didn't bother that time around (I would have romanced Aveline or Varric if they had been options, however), so I guess the character matters more than gender for me. That said, I do seem to stick to heterosexual romances and I I can't really see myself doing a male/male or female/female romance because I just can't relate to that.

[luna1124]

I always start out playing a female and I romance a male. Then I start trying all the other options just because it is an RPG and I want to play the whole game. As far as DA2 goes.. sorry, I only played it once all the way through and only got as far as Anders with my fem Hawke.

[Korvkioscar]

It is great to see honest and good answers on this questions! 

 

 

Not sure if that is relevant, but I guess due to me being heterosexual male, I rarely try out homosexual romances. I've had more than a dozen playthroughs of Origins, and about half a dozen in DA2, and yet I've only romanced Leliana as female twice, and romanced Zevran as male once, while in DA2, I've only once had lesbian relationships with Isabela and Merrill.

 

As for your question, OP, if by "character" you mean the character of the romanced companion, yeah, I don't really care about the "romance" part much, as long as I get to know the character better, though, the romance part is still a nice addition to it.

 

With character I mean exactly as you thought!

[Tevinter Soldier]

I don't care much for romance in biowares games i focus on the whole "saving the god damn world" thing.

sometimes i'll romance, sometimes i wont. but overall i've never found any of the love interests male or female as well written as liara particularly as it develops throughout the arc and how things can come between you. the awkward stage whether you don't know if you can get back together. It felt more like a real fledging romance rather then what i feel ALL the other bioware romances have been male or female.

 

basically Boxed romance: take your choice

male/female

Bi/gay/straight

weak/strong

 

Liara though grew and developed through out the series starting out as boxed romance and becoming so much more. that i found caring more about then whether i role-played a gay/straight character. the rest have just felt like a detraction from the fight. completely irrelevant and worthless. and never felt like i was missing something by skipping them.

[Eonetic]

just tend to pick characters i like because i enjoy a nice romance story.

[Bugsie]

I play both male and female PC's and have RP'd gay, straight and bi PC. I vary my romances based mostly on character and whether I like them enough to pursue the romance. My introduction to s/s romances was with fShep/Liara, but it wasn't my cup of tea - more in the sense Liara felt more like a friend than a lover to me, for both male and female Shepards. I have a number of preferred romances, all based on character and whether my PC felt 'right' for them.

[sylvanaerie]

The character definitely.  Gender doesn't play a huge role in what I plan on doing.  I'm far more into the 'story' of Dragon Age than the actual combat.  That said, I am a heterosexual female and prefer to play ladies romancing the guys.

 

In Origins, I loved Alistair far too much for any females to slip past Ostagar without total fangirl squeeing and falling hard.  So to romance Leliana I had to make a male character.  While I loved Zev and Morrigan, it was only as friends.  I found their personalities (which were fantastic fun) didn't mesh well with mine in a romantic capacity.  Not romancing them actually made them deeper to me, since I did try, but didn't like the romantic dialogues much.  Morrigan is particularly touching when, after gathering the book from Flemeth she asks if there is anything more there could have been and you tell her "I like you but as a friend only".  Her response almost made me cry knowing what will happen later.

 

For DA2, none of the male options appealed to me.  My first character (blindly going in) didn't recruit Fenris, didn't like Anders and Sebastian, while fun to flirt with was boring and poorly integrated as a romance.  So she was my "Forever alone" Hawke.  On subsequent plays I romanced all but Anders with males, females (did my first s/s romances in this game).  Ultimately, my favorite was Isabela because of the depth of character development that comes from that romance.  This was on Kit, my snarky rogue ladyhawke.

 

So tally:

 

Neria Surana, romanced Alistair: Heterosexual

Kit Hawke, romanced Isabela: Lesbian

 

I have yet to determine who will be my favorite companion (BTW in DA2, it was Varric who is completely unromanceable), some candidates are really jumping up to wave at me already.  Strong contender is Dorian who utterly fascinates me and I will definitely be making a hot male Inquisitor for him.  But what my favorite inquisitor will be and who they end with remains to be seen.

 

So to make a long post short (I know, too late) I don't care from gender.  If an NPC interests me, that's the criteria.

[NukeZen]

So my question is, does anyone else just don't care about who you romance and only focus on the "character"?

 

I have 2 ways to play. The first way is a kind of role-playing pure, fully immersive, but also with a kind of vision of the Dungeon Master. This includes whether and with whom my character will decide to have an affair. In this game mode, is my hero who choose who he like ... eventually. I try to imagine who might be suitable for him in the context in which I decided to play the campaign. Hard to explain and understand... i know.

The second way to play it is to achieve 100%: try all the characters, visit all the sights, find all secrets, and so on. With this way of playing, to find everything, of course, I have to try everything

[Pinkcarnation09]

I am bisexual and prefer to play as bisexual male characters who romance anyone they can. For Inquisition though I plan on an eventual sexy lady play through to romance Sera. First I'm going to romance Dorian with a dashing male elf!

[DRTJR]

In DA:O I was a male City Elf who romanced Morrigan, or a female Elven Mage romanced Alistair.

In DA2 I was a male Mage who romanced Merrill, or a female Mage who romanced Sebastian.

[BadgerladDK]

I'm not really a heavy role player, more of a self-inserter. So since I like women, so do my characters, generally.  I have done one DA:O run with a female warden romancing Alistair, but it was a bit of an effort for me, just couldn't relate to the character's story and never finished it.

 

Maybe I'll try again some day, but I'll need something else to set the story apart too, as in the grand scheme of things, the romance content isn't terribly important to me.

 

As for m/m romance... I'd love to say I'm open minded enough to play it, but like I said, I'm not a heavy role player, so it just doesn't appeal to me. I like that it's there, though.

[WildOrchid]

As a gay lady, i tend to do gay romances..... sometimes gay male romances.

 

 

But I can't do straight romances at all.

[Blisscolas]

I feel oddly that I'm not as cool as you guys when I read the posts here.

 

Heterosexual male here raised in a fairly liberal household (parents went quite far in sciences and both from very different social and geographical background)

 

I somehow almost always had a male character in my DA playthroughs. I identify quite strongly with my characters usually and it makes for difficult decisions sometimes (my moral views on some stuff almost always lead my decisions in game: siding with mages and not letting demons take over little kids). Therefore I always find it impossible to engage in homosexual relationship. Not that I find homosexuality amoral, just that it doesn't feel like what my character (ie. me) would do in that world.

 

The only time I felt quite detached from my character was when I played a female Hawke. I could make decisions that I couldn't have on my other playthroughs (always side with templars, be greedy, etc..) but I still couldn't engage in a homosexual relationship.

 

My guess is that I identify too much with the character and that as such am not able to make decisions that would be different to the ones I'd do in real life. Seems like a lot of people here are able to cross the border and see how things unfold. Congrats to y'all

[xkg]

As they say, appearance isn't everything, but there are some character that looks so repellent that even they personality can't save them. Case in point, Vivienne. I can't stand how she looks nevermind doing anything more than leaving her in the camp through the entire game.

 

And it works both ways. There are nicely looking characters with so screwed personality that I don't want to have anything to do with them. Case in point, Merrill.

 

 

Now about romances. If I play as a female charcater I rarely do them because F/F doesn't interest me all that much, and F/M are out of the question for me.

 

On the other hand, when I play as a male character, I am doing all the available M/F romances there are (all with some exceptions like Vivienne and Merrill I mentioned before). M/M, I am not doing them no matter what.