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[toddhd]

I'm playing a male character. At the point where Dorian opens up to me about his preference for men, he asked me if I was OK with that. I wasn't watching the little response icons at the time, and just answered honestly that I was fine with him being gay - but then the game assumed that meant I wanted a relationship with him and he kissed me.

 

The thing is, I don't want to be in a relationship with him. I've trying very hard to start one with Cassandra and also with Josephine. In both cases, I've had lots of "flirt" conversation options with them, and gotten to the point where I've gone and run personal quests for them. But in both cases, at the point where I figured we'd kiss, they just come over and say something like, "So... I hear you're in a relationship with Dorian". 

 

When I go to talk to Dorian, there is a conversation option that says something like "We need to talk" and if I highlight that, it says, "Start a relationship with Dorian". So I'm assuming it's not too late to fix this.

 

Can this be fixed?

I'll even take console codes or whatever, I just want to stop being in a relationship with Dorian.

 

Can I still have a relationship with another character even if Dorian kissed me?

 

Help?

[Eveangaline]

You accidentally clicked the big red heart?

[Ogillardetta]

This is why you save before talking with people. Also no you aren't locked into a romance if there is an option to start a romance with him.

edit: or you shouldn't be atleast. 

[stop_him]

You accidentally clicked the big red heart?

It happens. My bf flirted with Cullen the first time he met him. He laughed at his qunari's stupid grinning face. Then asked me WTF happened. I asked why he clicked on the big red heart, and he was like, "What heart? I liked his enthusiasm.  " It's his first time playing a Bioware game though. Half of the time he doesn't bother going through most dialogue trees--he just goes straight for "OK, let's fight now." I suppose, however, there is the chance he has been hiding something from me these past five years. 

[Feranel]

You may have to progress a little in the relationship, IE you will get a "next step" quest for him and you can break it off there.  Basically this is the first "affirmation" of affection, in the next relationship quest/dialogue tree you will get a two choice tree, one with a blue broken heart and one with a red whole heart, to either truly begin a relationship with Dorian or end things with him.  

 

Edit: Wait, when you select "We need to talk" it begins the relationship, or does it give an option to begin and an option to end?  IF anything, save before talking to him and see what it does.

[JumboWheat01]

And there are reasons I don't just quickly snap to dialogue choices or turn on the hide the icons options.  Don't want to give any party members the wrong idea.  Though I do like seeing Cullen get a little uncomfortable if you flirt with him a little bit as a guy.  It's just funny.

[Feranel]

And there are reasons I don't just quickly snap to dialogue choices or turn on the hide the icons options.  Don't want to give any party members the wrong idea.  Though I do like seeing Cullen get a little uncomfortable if you flirt with him a little bit as a guy.  It's just funny.

 

Flirting with some of the non-available romance options is just hilarious.  Female flirting with Cassandra makes her so flustered when she confronts you it's great, and female flirting with Dorian is practically a sure-fire free way to avoid all conflict and max approval rating.

[Eyes_Only]

One heart shouldn't lock you into a romance.

 

My elf rogue flirting with both Solas, Iron Bull, Cullen and Blackwall. But she pursued the relationship with Solas. When things with Solas didn't work out so well, only Cullen had flirtation options left but sadly the game wouldn't unlock me from the relationship. Despite the fact it was over.

[Nimlowyn]

My husband has accidentally clicked on the heart icon a couple times, once in DA2 and once in DAI. (He flirted with Fenris and he was like, "What I thought I was just being compassionate???" and I was like "How is telling someone they're crazy hot 'just being compassionate' LOL?!") It happens. In DA2 he was new to the system and in DAI he wasn't paying attention and thought he was clicking investigate (he was very amused by Vivienne's epic shut down, though).

OP I've never romanced Dorian but I had 2 outs when romancing Cullen so I'm assuming you can say " let's just be friends". Good luck!

[Marshal Moriarty]

The romances in Bioware's games have always had this awkward problem. Too often the developers seem to assume that the only reason you could possibly be talking to a potential LI is to have romance. And when you try to be supportive, you can sometimes find a romance has started somewhere along the line.

 

Sometimes it does feel like one minute you're talking and the next you're being handed a leopard skin mankini and feather boa, finding yourself in the middle of a Gay Pride march, with no idea how you got there. And usually your character has no option but to either rip out his copy of Bible and declaim these heathen practices or just shrug his shoulders and dance.

 

I just wish they'd be a little more careful when it comes to romances of all kinds. There are so many examples where the only way to stop a romance to act like the world's biggest jerk. And even when they do end amiably, that can spell the end of any meaningful interaction with the character, because the bulk of the character's content is LI related.

[Mummy22kids]

I "think" if you click that it does give you a chance to break everything off with him.  I'd advise trying his romance once at least- it's very bittersweet.

[katerinafm]

If you have a 'start a relationship with Dorian' option in the regular convo wheel with him, just ignore him until you lock with the other romance you want and you'll be fine.

[Marshal Moriarty]

I think the thing that unsettles people is that you never really know if the game has accepted you ending a romance or not, in Bioware's previous games. If you get to the sex scene with Isabela in DA2, you can end it there, but then at various times the game will assume you are still together (even if you definitively chose to end the relationship). But sometimes it will consider you unattached, and sort of bounces back and forth between them (Isabela and Fenris will not have a romance under these circumstances for example).

 

With Liara in ME, you can end things with her in ME2 Lair of the Shadow Broker, but that decision is not upheld in ME3 (and indeed all your personal interactions with her on a romance footing from that DLC are ignored). And whilst the break up in LOTSB is handled quite sensitively and well, the break up in ME3 is outrageous (Shepard just casually says 'yeah... we don't really work any more so... hey'. And it seems like this is coming completely out of left field to Liara who just says 'Oh... well... thanks for telling me'. And then their romance and the awkwardness of that breakup is never mentioned ever again. They move on to being just friends in the way that very, very few people can manage in real life.

 

Romance has always been a big deal for the fans, but (and I give Bioware credit for this), their writers have continually stressed that they just don't feel as comfortable or capable of doing these romances, as they do the various other aspects of the game. The romances are regularly mocked by some of the more literary critics for being cliche and schmaltzy, and Bioware seem to accept those charges. Varric's unease about his romance serial seems to be a direct reference to this - that the writing staff really don't feel they're any good at doing this sort of thing.

[Mes]

The romances in Bioware's games have always had this awkward problem. Too often the developers seem to assume that the only reason you could possibly be talking to a potential LI is to have romance. And when you try to be supportive, you can sometimes find a romance has started somewhere along the line.

 

Sometimes it does feel like one minute you're talking and the next you're being handed a leopard skin mankini and feather boa, finding yourself in the middle of a Gay Pride march, with no idea how you got there. And usually your character has no option but to either rip out his copy of Bible and declaim these heathen practices or just shrug his shoulders and dance.

 

I just wish they'd be a little more careful when it comes to romances of all kinds. There are so many examples where the only way to stop a romance to act like the world's biggest jerk. And even when they do end amiably, that can spell the end of any meaningful interaction with the character, because the bulk of the character's content is LI related.

 

While I can see this holding somewhat true in other Bioware games, I really don't think Inquisition falls under the awkward-accidental-romances tradition. Literally every romantic, semi-romantic, sort-of-at-a-stretch-romantic conversation option is accompanied by a big red heart. I'm not sure how much more hand-holding Bioware could have possibly done!

[LostInReverie19]

It happens. My bf flirted with Cullen the first time he met him. He laughed at his qunari's stupid grinning face. Then asked me WTF happened. I asked why he clicked on the big red heart, and he was like, "What heart? I liked his enthusiasm.  " It's his first time playing a Bioware game though. Half of the time he doesn't bother going through most dialogue trees--he just goes straight for "OK, let's fight now." I suppose, however, there is the chance he has been hiding something from me these past five years. 

 

I accidentally flirted with Cassandra this way with a femQuizzy. I wasn't paying attention very well and thought it was another extended conversation option. I realized almost right away I'd accidentally clicked on a heart option though, but in the end I rolled with it anyway and kept flirting with Cass, because my Quizzy is a lesbian anyway so whatevs. lol. But yeah the moral of all these stories is to not be half asleep when talking to your companions.  

[Marshal Moriarty]

I never said Inquisition *was* to blame on this (I haven't dabbled in the romances very much, as none interest me this time round). I'm making the point of why people would get flustered and uneasy about this, because Bioware's other games have been serial offenders on this issue. Choices having consequences is one thing, but having a game tell you one thing has happened (i.e you broke off a romance and that was that), only to find that the choice hasn't implemented properly and/or has been ignored completely, dozens of hours later (or even in a later game!) is something else.

 

People just like to sure this is working properly. Inquisition may not be guilty of it (again, I don't know), but it Bioware could hardly complain if people fear it might be that way. Because it would be the Boy who Cried Wolf scenario. Its happened in the past that this hasn't worked right, how do we know it won't happen again? How do you know your game won't glitch on this, like has happened in their other games?

[Mummy22kids]

Well so far I've done IB, Blackwall, Dorian, Cullen Solas and am now doing a playthrough romancing Josie and I've never had a romance start without me intentionally working at it.  The one that seems to be the easiest to "slip" into is Blackwall as you only need a very few heart responses to start a romance with him.  Every other character you have to actively flirt (more than one or two times, even with IB) with to start a romance (and the flirt options always have a heart).  And each one has been easy to break off by clicking "we need to talk about us" and then the end romance option.

[Jestina]

Ninja romances...this game has them. You have to tiptoe through the minefield carefully. Unfortunately there's no, murder companion, option. Blackwall seems especially bad since that option is perma there most of the time, even though my character has made it clear by now that she has no romantic interest in grandpa.

[ThreeF]

Ninja romances...this game has them. You have to tiptoe through the minefield carefully. Unfortunately there's no, murder companion, option. Blackwall seems especially bad since that option is perma there most of the time, even though my character has made it clear by now that she has no romantic interest in grandpa.

 

Spoiler

well in case of BW you actually have it.. sorta

[Knight of Dane]

My husband has accidentally clicked on the heart icon a couple times, once in DA2 and once in DAI. (He flirted with Fenris and he was like, "What I thought I was just being compassionate???" and I was like "How is telling someone they're crazy hot 'just being compassionate' LOL?!") It happens. In DA2 he was new to the system and in DAI he wasn't paying attention and thought he was clicking investigate (he was very amused by Vivienne's epic shut down, though).

OP I've never romanced Dorian but I had 2 outs when romancing Cullen so I'm assuming you can say " let's just be friends". Good luck!

 

Hey! I tell all my friends they are crazy hot all the time, no kissing yet!

[ThreeF]

And there are reasons I don't just quickly snap to dialogue choices or turn on the hide the icons options.  Don't want to give any party members the wrong idea.  Though I do like seeing Cullen get a little uncomfortable if you flirt with him a little bit as a guy.  It's just funny.

 

He flusters a lot when you flirt with him as a woman (although I suspect that the first flirt scene with Cullen is a troll),  is there any difference if you are a guy, do you get to ask him about templars and their vows as a guy? Other than that I don't see why he should be specifically uncomfortable if guy flirts with him? Doesn't fit his character.

[ThelLastTruePatriot]

 Oddly enough this exact thing happened when I first recruited blackwall in the hinterlands. I think one of the dialogue options was something like "what does this mean for us?"I clicked it by accident and for  a good chunk of the game, every npc considered he and my inquisitor a couple, was rather funny.

[Nykara]

Its actually really easy on the console version of DA:I to accidently hit the wrong conversation options! You have to hold the controller ON the conversation choice and then hit the A button for it to activate so if you accidently move the stick just up a bit too high or just down a bit too far suddenly you find yourself in a conversation you never intended to have!

[Jestina]

The same sex stuff has gotten fairly awful now in Bioware games. It's like the character's have to wave it in your face now for some reason...and then you get the really inappropriate bombshell moments like Kaidan in ME3.