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⌈ Secret Post #2909 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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Yeah, I don't feel very strongly about it, since Bioware generally has my good faith, and I adore Leliana and Isabela, soooo. I just meant that I kind of get where some of the critiques are coming from, especially if colored by DA:O originally. It's def a YMMV thing, though, because BW still does it miles better than most games.

Also I'm so with you on Josephine! I went in fully expecting to romance her and then it just didn't feel at ALL organic as a woman. I like that she's a bit clueless, lol, but it basically felt like attempting to hit on a straight woman who's either clueless or flattered enough to humor me, which just... ehhhhh. I'm flirting with her now as a man on my first replay, and it just fits much better with the way her responses are written (though Cassandra and Dorian are too precious and dear lord I sense SO MANY replays in my future).

[miarrow]

Cullen was actually a surprise for me, I HATED HIM, but he was a pretty solid romance (I started to get desperate when I realized Josie wasn't doing it for me and I'd missed my Solas window, cos Blackwall was really boring imo). I started my Dorian "play it super gay or you'll romance Cass" man playthrough and I do like that you can flirt with the characters you can't romance. The way Dorian handled that if you're a woman was pretty awesome.

I'm surprised I haven't heard more re: Josephine. I don't like Sera's immaturity level, especially in terms of romance (worse than Merill in that regard), but I never really got a disillusionment with the idea she liked women.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, I feel like we followed the same trajectory, then. I ended up going for Cullen in the end, too, despite my initial "oh, it's THIS character type" skepticism. It was surprisingly very sweet, and satisfying enough that my SO teased me for getting so invested.

I think maybe Josephine is less of an issue because most who wanted the f/f romance glommed onto Sera immediately, and Sera turned out to be a pretty controversial character (though I agree that they established her orientation very well). Plus it's difficult to complain about the "feel" of Josie's responses when I can't fully quantify them as more than "cut-and-pasted from what was probably originally a m/f romance." I couldn't possibly give the whys or hows, just a vague sense of it, lol.

[miarrow]

I looked up her romance on youtube. Even the way they do her lean on your chest thing and your responses TO HER is very c&p typical male/female romance. I don't think the aspects of it necessarily lean in that direction, but it sort of strayed into a butch/femme dynamic that I wasn't really into with my flouncy little elf. I mean if that's what you're into, it's fine, but it felt very tacked on, like we need to write a bi-female, pick one and don't change dialogue!