Cassandra I think is the best at acknowledging that you're different because her quest is about her personal faith and the game tracks your faith independently of her romance/friendship, so it's easy for them to put some references in there.
Sera's romance deals with that too, towards the end, but doesn't really reference back to it much....which is annoying, because you can fight with her in your last conversation before the final boss and then never really resolve it.
With Solas I had to create the conditions for disagreement (I'm the one who punched then romanced him
) because I found it so annoying to have to always agree with him on the romance because it made it so unbalanced, but I don't think there's a way to have real fundamental recognized differences there, I did a lot of metagaming and headcanoning to make it work. I love his romance in theory but in execution find it extremely frustrating. I think the type of romance it's geared for is just not my thing, but I think the idea of a romance between Solas and your character is a really cool one so I've tried to make it work lmao.
It's not really a political/philosophical thing, but in the Blackwall romance you can tell him you never loved him and then get back together with him, and he'll give a special line for that. I found the fact that your responses in the jail scene and the judgment scene were separate made it a pretty neat little part of the romance because you could effectively have your Quizzie express a strong emotion and then later change their mind and have it acknowledged, which isn't something you can do a lot in the game.
I THOUGHT that was you 
I was just too lazy to go check the other board.
I'm not a fan of the Solas romance pretty much because of what you say there - because it really requires you to agree with him or be in awe of him (to a degree, a lot of the questions you ask him really sound awestruck) in order to raise his approval enough. I'm not saying it's not like this with other characters, but it's not as obvious. You can disagree in conversations with Blackwall, Cassandra, etc. and not necessarily lose any approval - in fact you may gain some, such as Cassandra's conversation with you after you ally with the mages. And Blackwall, for example, loses approval if you say something particularly arrogant or harsh, but not if you disagree with him for example when you discuss Clarel. Solas might disapprove *because you asked him a damn question* about when/how he had experienced balls before. (ok that sounds weird, I mean Orlesian balls. Dancing.)
Ahem.
I love the idea of the romance (romancing some guy who's secretly an ancient elven god? yesplz), but I don't like the kind of Inquisitor I inevitably end up playing in order to get Solas' approval up. I admire your metagame dedication to making it work!
As for Blackwall - I *loved* that part. It really reveals a lot about how he feels about the Inquisitor, and gives you a lot of leeway to roleplay - either the Inquisitor was desperately trying to save face in the jail, or it was bravado, or it was the cold hard truth, or she believed it was true when she said it, etc. Plus it really shows the consequences of what you actually said, as you mention.
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