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[NauRava]

Haha, I try to avoid spoilery threads since Inquisition was released, so I don't really know how many fans there are of certain characters and their romances.

Smart and well done too, 'cause I tell you, it's hard to avoid all the fuss/spoiling around Solas. People fangirling/boying around him are a loud punch (I know, I'm one of them).

I recomend to go check the Solas character thread once/if you're done with the game, that gives you a nice idea about the obsession around that bald nerd elf #beentheredonethat

[Flowingchesthair]

Just coming in here to say that I've beaten the prologue, and I've gone into the Hinterlands. Before that, I was talking to everyone, and I was shocked to see that even as a female you can flirt with Cassandra. She doesn't even react badly at all.

I'm wondering whether you can flirt with all romance options regardless of what gender or race you are? If so, that's pretty great.

[Tarlonniel]

No, you can't, just some of them. And some you can flirt with through the entire game, whether you're in another romance or not, but some you can't.

[ThelLastTruePatriot]

 They're all pretty tame to me, don't see how they'd raise any eyebrows, even to those who are pretty puritanical about sex. It's not like say, witcher 2.

[NauRava]

Just coming in here to say that I've beaten the prologue, and I've gone into the Hinterlands. Before that, I was talking to everyone, and I was shocked to see that even as a female you can flirt with Cassandra. She doesn't even react badly at all.

I'm wondering whether you can flirt with all romance options regardless of what gender or race you are? If so, that's pretty great.

Yup you can flirt with all of them from the start but if any of it starts to get too serious they will make their preferences known to you. 

 

Out of the curiosity, which race did you end up picking?

[Flowingchesthair]

Thanks for your answers, guys.

 

Yup you can flirt with all of them from the start but if any of it starts to get too serious they will make their preferences known to you. 

 

Out of the curiosity, which race did end up picking?

 

My Inquisitor is an elf.

[jellobell]

Just coming in here to say that I've beaten the prologue, and I've gone into the Hinterlands. Before that, I was talking to everyone, and I was shocked to see that even as a female you can flirt with Cassandra. She doesn't even react badly at all.

I'm wondering whether you can flirt with all romance options regardless of what gender or race you are? If so, that's pretty great.

You can flirt with some of them. I believe some of Cass's flirts are open to women. Some of Dorian's too. Sera shoots you down if you're a man, as does Cullen. You can't flirt with Blackwall as a man and you can't flirt with Solas as anybody but a female elf. 

 

One thing, I'd be careful about flirting with Blackwall if you're set on romancing Solas. People have reported that Blackwall's a ninjamancer, and that flirting with him can lock you out of the Solasmance.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Yes, don't flirt with Blackwall unless you want to romance him - one or two flirts and, he ninjas you and, you are stuck, even before you finalize anything with him.

[Flowingchesthair]

You can flirt with some of them. I believe some of Cass's flirts are open to women. Some of Dorian's too. Sera shoots you down if you're a man, as does Cullen. You can't flirt with Blackwall as a man and you can't flirt with Solas as anybody but a female elf. 

 

One thing, I'd be careful about flirting with Blackwall if you're set on romancing Solas. People have reported that Blackwall's a ninjamancer, and that flirting with him can lock you out of the Solasmance.

 

 

Yes, don't flirt with Blackwall unless you want to romance him - one or two flirts and, he ninjas you and, you are stuck, even before you finalize anything with him.

 

 

Blackwall is a ninjamancer? Well, good thing you're telling me before I recruit him (I don't think I'm far enough in the game yet), otherwise I would have probably accidentally finalized his romance already. My Quizzy is a total flirtwhore.

[Tarlonniel]

You can flirt with Blackwall in Haven all you like. It's the first flirt after... well... certain events... that starts the romance if you select it and then select the follow-up in the same conversation.

[Carol L S]

You could just not flirt with anybody...

[Flowingchesthair]

You could just not flirt with anybody...

 

I could, but I like to see the reactions. Sometimes it makes the entire conversation better, IMO.

[stop_him]

Yeah the closest thing Josephine has to a sex scene is when she and the Inquisitor are sitting on a couch with her head on the Inquisitor's chest.  Both are fully clothed.  It's totally up to you what you think happens next.

Heh, if you're a female elf, when she places her hand on your chest, it appears as though she is grabbing the female elf's breasts due to differences in character model sizes. Dwarven females receive traffic cone breasts in that scene.

[jellobell]

You can flirt with Blackwall in Haven all you like. It's the first flirt after... well... certain events... that starts the romance if you select it and then select the follow-up in the same conversation.

I've gotten conflicting reports on that. Maybe it's a bug, but flirting with Blackwall sometimes locks you in earlier.

[Tarlonniel]

It must be a bug - none of the romances are supposed to activate until after you-know-what. It's a bug I've never gotten, though, despite flirting with everything that moves.

 

One thing you definitely need to be careful of with Blackwall is not exhausting all of the dialogue options in his "Tell me about yourself" section. If you do, you'll lose the opportunity to ask him some rather important things a lot later on in the game, after a certain reveal.

[Flowingchesthair]

It must be a bug - none of the romances are supposed to activate until after you-know-what. It's a bug I've never gotten, though, despite flirting with everything that moves.

 

One thing you definitely need to be careful of with Blackwall is not exhausting all of the dialogue options in his "Tell me about yourself" section. If you do, you'll lose the opportunity to ask him some rather important things a lot later on in the game, after a certain reveal.

 

Thanks for the advice. I'll make sure not to do that.

[Korva]

It's interesting that some of the "flirts" in this game are actually more about expressing respect or just a bit of humor and not "let's do the mattress mambo until the bed breaks down". I'm of two minds about that. On one hand, I guess it helps if you want to test the waters with a character without coming on too heavy, especially if going for an asexual relationship. On the other hand, these "flirts" are so non-flirty that it feels weird when they are treated as an expression of sexual/romantic interest and not simply as friendly banter.

[Tarlonniel]

That does tend to reflect the RL experiences of some asexual people, though. "He thought I was flirting with him?! I was just trying to be friendly!"

 

The not-overtly-sexual nature of many of the flirts in this game is what makes me enjoy choosing them so much. Especially with Dorian and Cassandra on a female character, where it's so very "all in good fun."

[Uirebhiril]

It's interesting that some of the "flirts" in this game are actually more about expressing respect or just a bit of humor and not "let's do the mattress mambo until the bed breaks down". I'm of two minds about that. On one hand, I guess it helps if you want to test the waters with a character without coming on too heavy, especially if going for an asexual relationship. On the other hand, these "flirts" are so non-flirty that it feels weird when they are treated as an expression of sexual/romantic interest and not simply as friendly banter.

 

I actually liked this. It suggests the individuals involved find common ground and have a mutual respect and affection for each other rather than automatically asking to hop in bed. It makes the eventual relationship feel like it was built on something other than sex or solely physical attraction. Which, sure, sometimes it is just that... but it was a nice change of pace with most of the flirts this time around. And when it comes to friendly-flirty banter, if there is interest between the people doing it there doesn't need to be overt commentary. They'll know based on the tone of voice or body language, which we don't quite get in a video game. Yet at least.

[jellobell]

It's interesting that some of the "flirts" in this game are actually more about expressing respect or just a bit of humor and not "let's do the mattress mambo until the bed breaks down". I'm of two minds about that. On one hand, I guess it helps if you want to test the waters with a character without coming on too heavy, especially if going for an asexual relationship. On the other hand, these "flirts" are so non-flirty that it feels weird when they are treated as an expression of sexual/romantic interest and not simply as friendly banter.

That's why I like thinking of the heart option more as the "I care about you" button. Depending on the situation, of course. I liked that Solas's first flirt, for example, was about reassuring him that you wouldn't let him be captured by templars after he stayed to help. It didn't exactly feel like flirting, but more about building an emotional connection, which I really appreciated. There's some more flirty flirt lines after that, but with Solas it still stays pretty subtle.

 

Then you've got Hawke-level stuff, like when you ask Cullen if he's taken a vow of celibacy.   

[Flowingchesthair]

Yes, I feel like the flirt options are pretty level. They're not overboard like in DA2; they're subtle. Even with some of them being more friendly than flirty, it feels somewhat realistic.

[Shechinah]

(to Flowingchesthair) That is what I like too. They start out that way and then move onward from what I recall.

[Korva]

I agree, the way it is now makes for a much better progression ... as far as I can say, anyway, as someone who hasn't done any romances. But it did feel weird to get the scene in which Cassandra turns down a female Inquisitor when all you do is pick "I care about you" style not-really-flirts. She's so respectful if awkward about it that I actually felt guilty for putting her in that position -- but at the same time, some of these not-really-flirts feel like they help express their friendship so much better than the normal dialogues that it feels "unfair" for the game to "punish" you for picking them.

 

Dorian and a gay or asexual female Inquisitor, though? That's really well done with no bad feelings or awkwardness. They can be so secure in their knowledge that no attraction could ever happen between them that they can pretty much say anything to each other, from friendly teasing to actual flirtation, without any worry that it might ever stray into crappy "just kidding, I don't want you -- unless you want me" awkwardness.

[LostInReverie19]

Solas would be your best bet, I think, if you can handle the feels. It's left up to your imagination whether he and the Inquisitor ever do the deed. It can easily be interpreted either way. And if I were to peg anyone in the Inquisition as actually being asexual, it would be Solas. After all, he is way more concerned with matters of the Fade and spirits than any physical relationships with others outside the Fade. You need to play a female elf to romance Solas.

 

Josephine is your other option. I've never played her romance yet, but there is no sex scene involved, so you could easily imagine that she and the Inquisitor never consummate their relationship or even that Josie herself is asexual. It's not a huge stretch to imagine that she is ace. One thing in Josie's favor is that you can play a male or female Inquisitor of any race to romance her. She is bisexual, or biromantic if you headcanon she is ace too.