Hmm. It'd be nice to have a straight, sane human male warrior who doesn't have emotional baggage or issues. Perhaps a mercenary who at first hires on to your group for money but slowly gets more invested in the protagonist and her cause as the game progresses.
But mostly, just a sane LI without a crazy overly baggaged past like just about every other LI.
If I really had to put out some preferences, I'd pare it down to the simple "fun" personality that favors playful banter and humor, and doesn't have an abundance of angst lying around . Things like personal tragedy I can take or leave, but it really depends on how it's written. I'd certainly prefer to avoid anything that makes romance seem like an emotional curative.
On a more basic level, female rogue, because I dig rogues XD
the adorable-ness of Alistair + the devotion of Fenris + the intelligence of Solas = 
Basically I'd want S/S m romance that's a mix between the tough manly grit of Iron bull +the charm of Scout harding+the glibness and personality of Dorian.
That's perfection.
A straight or bisexual man with dark or red hair with green eyes. I want him to have the sass of Dorian and a good sense of humor. I prefer he'd be human, but it doesn't matter. Also very smart and kind, but also likes a good fight. I prefer he'd be a rogue or a mage (I usually go for warriors), but it doesn't matter. I'd like him to be from somewhere we haven't experienced yet from a romance option Possibly from the Anderfels or the Free Marches (specifically Starkhaven because Scottish accents 
). A spontaneous romantic would be nice.
I'm completely asking for too much.
Frankly I would go more for my first female inq (even though she turned out to be interested in Sera) but I felt more attached to my female mage Hawke I finished not to long ago in DA 2. However I am liking my female human rouge I am currently playing. However I defenetly would go for Merril because she always puts on a smile no matter how bad things get. I defenetly could go for someone like that.
Well, let's see.....I've got a few ideas. They can be either gender, really. Straight or bi if at all possible, but that would just be my personal preference, and have little to do with their actual character concept.
An exiled dwarf of Kal-Sharok or Orzammar. Put in some drama about WHY they were exiled, who they were before then, and how life on the surface has changed them and what they've been forced to do to survive since then. Might be cool for them to debate the validity of dwarven religion versus the Chant. And give them a healthy disrespect for the Carta.
Someone from the Anderfels, probably a ranger or scout, but not a Grey Warden. Fairly devoted the Chantry(As most from the Anderfels are) but also fairly neutral as far as politics are concerned. For flavor, I'd give him/her a theme of survivor's guilt. Maybe a village lost to the Darkspawn(or whoever the Enemy of DA4 is, making them plot-relevant), giving him/her a sense of duty towards those who are helpless.
The third/fourth/fifth/etc child of a noble out to make a name for themselves. Talented and ambitious, they want to have more than a life of comfort and stability, they want to EARN the right to be called noble. Rather than be married off or take a job that offers them a steady income for the rest of their lives, they make the decision to go out into the world and do something with their life. But they are too individualistic for the military, Grey Wardens or the Chantry. But they still love their family and their life from before. They just have a large chip on their shoulder over how easy they've had it compared to others.
Lastly a mage who is unconcerned with the great mysteries of the world or changing the current social order. They're not on some damned-fool idealistic crusade(Merril, Anders or Dorian), nor are they mysterious and deliberately obtuse to hide their true, secret agenda(Morrigan, Solas and Vivienne). Just a man or woman who is concerned with doing the right thing and using their gift to make lives better. Maybe a person who just wants a simple life and a family, but his/her talent and circumstances have prevented that possibility, until they meet the PC. Maybe a backstory that involves one very big mistake that resulted in a lot of pain, one he/she regrets terribly and does their best to make up for.
Those are my ideas, anyway.
In regards to the Inquisitor? A female elven love interest for a male elven protagonist would have been different from the pairings of past games and the two available Andrastian love interests in this one, and it would have been interesting to explore.
In Bioware terms, there was NWN with Aribeth de Tylmarande, Linu La'neral the the cleric, and Nathyrra the Drow Assassin in HOTU. I agree an Andrastian fan club would have some potential certainly. I think that David Gaider the writer refused on one of the Bioware forums to write any more "hot elven" chick romances, so I guess that's why we didn't get any.
For my part I would have liked to have seen for a male protaganist a female opposite (race not a big issue) who was less a fixed brutish personality like Cassandra (even without the scars she comes across as impatient) and more rounded and well balanced, like the gorgeous Harding - race not a big issue and class irrelevant. A survivor type from the Alienage would have been good too. Plenty of them became mercs in DA.
straight/bisexual male Tevinter battle mage.
more dark and machiavellian personality.
rebel elitist.
There! Younger and more handsome, more charismatic Tevinter Loghain. Perfect.
For me, that's fixed. 
Race: I think I have no problem with race, can be any one.
Gender: Female, Of course, it would have to like men, but would not mind if she likes women too.
Appearance: Also do not care about that, but I like girls with short hair and with unconventional hair color, like... blue, pink?
Personality: Particularly like women with strong personality. Confident, mature, intelligent. Women cold on outside, but sweet inside. (Of course, without those weird stereotypes.) Women hardened by life also catches my attention.
In other words, I think an elf (given the measures of dragon age) had a bad life and are more restricted and sensitive to approach, but still has a good heart and can be a carious woman, I would be perfect.
I would list: Liara , Samara , Morrigan and Leliana.
Anyone that is voiced by Gideon Emery or Liam O'Brien...
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Someone who is incredibly, crotch-tinglingly hot yeah? I know Bioware usually goes for realism first but this person would just have to be really sexy. The romance starts off mostly as mutual lust, which btw is something games generally fail at to convey. Their beauty would be a defining characteristic, it would be really important in how they saw themselves and who they were. The romance up to this stage would be light and casual, maybe with some glimpses of deeper emotions. And then the LI just vanishes one day. Queue some investigations and its found out their past has caught up with them (whatever that past may be) and for once you don't arrive in the nick of time. LI has been tortured and not in the convenient invisible way, they're scarred/burned maybe they're missing an eye or a finger or two. Point is: that defining characteristic, their beauty, is gone. The real romance starts (or doesn't, depends on the player) now where the LI tries to figure out who they are when the shiny surface has been etched away.
The other one would be a bookish, disheveled, deeply analytical/logical type whose sweet and kinda awkward (but only when it comes to romance) and who absolutely has to wear glasses and has to periodically push it up their nose (it's like integral characterization and stuff) who betrays you at the end because they've come to the conclusion that the bad guy is actually right. The primary motivator can't be fear, it has to be that they've come to the well-reasoned conclusion that the bad guy was actually right.
Ehhh I usually end up romancing the ones I wasn't "planning to" and/or have no idea what the heck I'm doing and just go with the flow of how I'm RPing the character, so I don't trust my preferences. Still... there's some types I'd like to see.
Dwarves. Where's the love for dwarves? We already have some awesome dwarf ladies in the game. Dagna is adorable (even my douchy Wardens/Inquisitors would like to hug the **** out of her) and Harding is probably getting annoyed how these Quisitors keep throwing cheesy lines at her.
Homosexual human male warrior. I also have this... fascination to see a Templar LI. An actual Templar, not an ex or would-be one. Would like it if he wasn't some "holier than thou, the Order dictates, mages grrr argh" -type but someone with a more down-to-earth outlook. (For some reason the person I keep imagining highly resembles Templar-Samson... and the other one looks like Ser Bryant).
Male mage with a bit darker aura. Not because of wanting to make a statement or having some enormous emotional baggage but simply because that's how he rolls.
Same. I love the tension they bring. Elf/human unions especially given the rather toxic relations they have.I've always had a weakness for the "forbidden" romance types, like with Merrill and Hawke. Cross-race and cross-culture aspects interest me the most.
1º) Human male, heterosexual, second or third son noble, rogue, duelist, selfconfident, intelligent, handsome, funny and sarcastic.
2º) male version of Cassandra(faithfull, warrior, secretly romantic etc etc) homosexual or bisexual.
3º) Female dwarf, heterosexual, only available for dwarfs hehe.
And I would like to see a love interest that literally backstab you at some point, that would be very interesting.
Someone who looks like Dorian and has a similar wit about him, but is adorably earnest like Alistair or Cullen. Or someone with a personality like Anders pre- DA:II. Man did Justice suck the fun out of him. Ser Pounce-a-Lot carrying Anders was the best.
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