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[TheKomandorShepard]

If you want corny romance from disney movie, then Josephine.

 

If you want romance moron that makes Oghren from daa look like intelligent and complex character and with tendencies to emotional abuse if you are dalish , then your choice will be Sera.    

[Dani100]

Sera's romance has a serious very loving aspect to it, it's not all fun and lighthearted. My Inky romances Sera every time, Josie just isn't her type (mine) much prefer a more aggressive type. Sera's aggressiveness was a much welcome change from most of the Li's available to women in previous games. Thank god! She quickly jumped to number one in my BioWare game Li list.

[vertigomez]

I second those who say Sera's romance isn't all fun and dirty jokes. I mean, it IS but it's also very heartfelt and has its share of dramatic, tense moments, arguments, and development. It feels like a real relationship. She's probably my favorite romance in the game.

However, your Inquisitor might be more suited to Josephine! It's up to individual tastes. They're women who're on opposite ends of the social strata, one's a girly girl and the other's almost a baby butch, one's romance is rather chaste while the other's much more explicit, they pretty much have opposite roles in the Inquisition... diplomacy versus, uhh, a humbling influence.

[Iakus]

What I found out on You tube and other places It seem that Josephine is a bit clueless when it comes to romance but Sera what fun at first but when Trespasser comes around she grow up and  what a serious romance

Josephine is a bit clueless, in a sense.  She's used to the world of politics, where marriages and courtship is about status, alliances, and such.  She's a bit slow on the uptake that the Inquisitor may have genuine feelings for her.

[Ghost Gal]

As others have said, it depends on how you view your character and what you want out of the relationship.

 

Shallow, physical, fun and flirty? Sera.

 

Sweet, classic, courtly, fairy tale romance? Josephine.

 

I'm surprised that others haven't mentioned race though, because that can impact the romance. Playing an Elf? Sera isn't the best unless you're play a s/elf-hating Inquisitor because she's just as bitchy about "elfiness" to a Dalish Inquisitor she romances as not,

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and will use emotional manipulation and blackmail to try to force the Dalish Inquisitor to abandon their religion or get dumped near the end

whereas Josephine is much more accepting and open-minded about Dalish culture.

 

Playing a Qunari? Sera's romance is much better since she openly drools over Qunari women (Sera/Female Adaar is very popular for that reason). Then again, Josephine/Female Adaar is also surprisingly popular because of the beauty/beast lady/knight dynamic they have going on. (It's one of my favorite romances.)

 

For a dwarf, I've seen a few dwarven Inquisitors get turned off by Sera openly laughing at them for being short when they first meet, while many enjoy the "ex-con bad girl falls for sweet sheltered good girl" dynamic of Mistress Cadash and Josephine.

 

It really does depend on what you want. "I want an f/f relationship, who should I pick?" alone is not enough, because while Sera and Josephine both have a lot to offer, which works better depends on who's taking it.

[PapaCharlie9]

If you don't romance Sera, at least get enough approval with her to do the Pride Cookies cutscene. Totally worth it. I'd go so far as to say that that one cutscene is worth the entire Josie romance in trade.

[Iakus]

If you don't romance Sera, at least get enough approval with her to do the Pride Cookies cutscene. Totally worth it. I'd go so far as to say that that one cutscene is worth the entire Josie romance in trade.

I don't know about that.  Sitting on the couch with Josephine in front of a fire is a pretty cute scene.  But roof cookies are definitely one of the better companion moments in the game

[Nixou]

But roof cookies are definitely one of the better companion moments in the game

 

 

But that's the beauty of it: you don't need to romance Sera to have that scene: a male inquisitor can get his roof cookies while romancing one of the brunettes

[AFA]

IMO, the Josephine romance was so bad, I plan to do a no romance run for my canon play-through. My male rebel mage's "bromance" with Sera was far more rewarding than the Disney princess. Nothing to do with the lack of sex scene, which is fine, it is everything else involved. Getting Traynor'd by Sera and finding my character's best friend was so much better than a supposed epic love story. 

[ThePhoenixKing]

Josephine. The duel sequence is one of the most fun parts of the game, and Allegra Clark does great work voicing here. Plus, she's not going to pull that emotionally-abusive, xenophobic, "deny your heritage or I break up with you" BS that Sera does if you play as an elf.

[KingofTime]

Sera if you want to date a mentally impaired baboon.

 

That other chick if want a shallow, cliche, tired, boring romance plot.

[PapaCharlie9]

Sera if want to date a mentally impaired baboon.

She is not mentally impaired!

[KingofTime]

She is not mentally impaired!

So shes shes a cancerous moronic tool on purpose?

 

Alrighty then.

[congokong]

Sera's romance possibly has the most romantic content in the game while Josephine has perhaps the least. Sera can feel like dating a young teenager while Josephine feels like dating a Disney princess. Sera is a traveling companion while Josephine isn't. Sera's romance has more relationship development while Josephine's doesn't; feeling rather cliche.

 

It's obviously up to you though. If you don't dislike either character, I feel you'd find Sera's romance to be more fulfilling.

 

 

 

Playing a Qunari? Sera's romance is much better since she openly drools over Qunari women (Sera/Female Adaar is very popular for that reason). Then again, Josephine/Female Adaar is also surprisingly popular because of the beauty/beast lady/knight dynamic they have going on. (It's one of my favorite romances.)

 

Shouldn't the "Beauty and the Beast" angle be with a male qunari? And about Sera/Adaar, it is a very interesting romance; especially if you like Sera to basically drool over you. The other race that rivals it on the opposite end would be as an elf because of that elfyness tension, and Sera's initial reluctance.

[Cyberstrike nTo]

The line is a little ambiguous, true.

 

If I recall correctly, the Inquisitor makes a suggestive comment about the two of them spending some more alone time together once they get back to Skyhold... which either suggests they've ever been intimate before, or just have been having extremely frustrating, bogus teenage makeout sessions?

 

 

It's basically something like:

Inquisitor: "When I come back we need to have some private time together."

Josie: "Maker how can you think of that at a time like this?"

Inquisitor: "How can I not?"

Josie: "Then I'll see what I can do." 

 

I do think the Inquisitor and Josie do have sex it's offscreen and left to player's imagination.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

It's basically something like:

Inquisitor: "When I come back we need to have some private time together."

Josie: "Maker how can you think of that at a time like this?"

Inquisitor: "How can I not?"

Josie: "Then I'll see what I can do." 

 

I do think the Inquisitor and Josie do have sex it's offscreen and left to player's imagination.

That's only one of the options the Inquisitor can choose though. There are others where that never comes up. 

 

As her writer Sylvia said, she wrote Josephine's romance to be purposefully ambiguous about how sexual the relationship is, if it is at all. That way all players can have the kind of relationship they want. Plus she wanted to focus on just the romantic part of a relationship this time rather than the sexual. 

[Aimi]

Shallow, physical, fun and flirty? Sera.

surprisingly, the forumgoer with an elfvatar and a Lavellan username refers to Sera's romance as 'shallow'

what an unexpected turn of events

[PapaCharlie9]

So shes shes a cancerous moronic tool on purpose?
 
Alrighty then.

Yikes, tough room.

When a straight man delivers a line like, "You are X, Y, and Z!" and the comedian replies, "I'm not X!", where Y and Z are much more humiliating, the audience is supposed to laugh.

For example, if you say: "You are a fat, goat chasing, merkin-fancier!"

And I reply: "I'm not fat!"

Everyone is supposed to laugh.

Now granted, "a mentally impaired baboon" doesn't quite fit the pattern, not to mention that it was all about a third person, but in a restrictive medium like this forum, a comedian is allowed a little license.

[akbogert]

As that little back-and-forth underscores, if you actually like Sera, romancing her is a rewarding experience. Eventually you actually get under the front she puts up, learn what makes her who she is and better understand why she tries so hard to pretend that everything is a joke. This is doubly true if you take her into the fade, I feel. And then of course there's the sex scene; asking around for dating advice is a barrel of laughs.

 

I've romanced Josie twice, so I don't have anything against that route. It's storybook romance (I imagine Cassandra would quite enjoy reading the story play out, duel and all) -- cute, but probably not as "fun" as going with Sera.

[Iakus]

 

I've romanced Josie twice, so I don't have anything against that route. It's storybook romance (I imagine Cassandra would quite enjoy reading the story play out, duel and all) -- cute, but probably not as "fun" as going with Sera.

Given in DA2 Cassandra's reaction to Varric telling her about how Hawke dueled the Arishok for Isabela (even if not in a romance) sounds so "romantic" I'm inclined to agree