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[prosthetic soul]

I may be speaking out of turn here since I haven't QUITE experienced all the romances yet (28 people stopped reading here) but I don't see how Sera's romance could possibly top what I just witnessed with Blackwall's romance apex.  This is....impressive.  Seriously impressive.  I am almost kind of sad that even Cassandra's romance pales in comparison to this man's.  Let me elaborate on this.

 

For Cassandra, it's basically breaking her hard outer shell.  Then you romance her in the most medieval, chivalrous manner possible-by reading her a love poem on one knee and then lying with her in an open field.  That was great.  But the problem with it is....you don't really get to steer the outcome of it apart from choosing whether she becomes divine or not.  I mean, you can choose to break up with her but not in a meaningful way.  (more on that later)

 

Also, after you do the deed with her, the romance just sort of comes to a screeching halt.  Afterwards, you can walk up to her intermittently and ask to mack out in the blacksmith's but other than that....it just fizzles out.  Whereas there's content after the apex in Blackwall's romance. 

 

In addition, unlike some of the other romances, Blackwall's carries an intense amount of gravitas, emotion, and pathos.  You find out Blackwall lied to you about his identity and can choose to be the jilted lover, the incredulous but still loving soul mate, or the "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" archetype.  This plays out beautifully in the jail cell and the interaction I saw between my Qunari female and Blackwall was just....stunning.  It tugged at the heart strings.   I NOPE'd so hard at some of the conversation choices I could have picked in response to him and I doubt I will ever be able to do that but that's what's so great about it! The romance carried WEIGHT.  It didn't just allow me to walk up to Blackwall while he was in the barn and say "let's break up."

 

It allowed me to discontinue the romance in a meaningful, RPG-style manner.  By giving me choices through a narrative!  I could either let him ROT in the jail cell, free him from the prison, shack back up with him, free him AND shack back up with him, or free him but reject his heartfelt plea!  These are the kinds of options we need to be seeing more of BioWare! 

 

Then we have....romances like Cassandra...where there is not much conflict or....scenes where she is in deep emotional distress (scene with her confronting Varric comes close but not quite) throughout said romance.  You just flirt, have sex, and then she either becomes divine and dumps your sorry ass or doesn't become divine and....maybe...stays with you forever...perhaps? 

[Allan Schumacher]

If a character's agenda is so counter to a romance, then that romance should not be included.  Otherwise it is nothing but a movie, not an interactive game.

 

People don't generally play games for no win situations.

 

Can you elaborate on your first point about how it's a movie and not an interactive game?

 

While I haven't seen all of the romance arcs in game, I did know about them and specifically built my character to romance Solas because it seemed fascinating within the scope of the entire game.  I really enjoyed it and felt it made for an interesting narrative for the game.  I don't get the feeling that it's like a movie any moreso than other stuff, however, so I need some help understanding your position.

[Allan Schumacher]

So you ended up romancing Solas, eh? I was wondering when I heard you talking about making a female Lavellan PC.

 

Did you build your character specifically to romance Solas based on what you'd heard about it?

 

It was definitely to keep that option open, yes.  I didn't rigidly go into it that way, but there was definitely a bias in his favour.  In the end the characters my character found an attraction towards were Dorian and Solas.