#it was just a post of people thirsting over emmrich

[kwyoz]

why am i seeing some emmrichmancers referring to rook in general by she/her,,, like, it's not THEIR rook, it's just them using fem words for all rooks.

besties, did we forget all the companions are pan or,,,???

[da2supremacy]

i understand that this is me and my limited scope but me and my friends say "i'm romancing [so-and-so]" all the time, and after some discussion after seeing your post, none of us view that literally and i'd wager a lot of people are the same way. when i say i'm romancing a character there's an unspoken second half to that sentence, like "i'm romancing lucanis (as my rook)". that doesn't mean that we don't and can't find the pixels attractive or whatever, but it's not a literal "ME romancing" thing.

God I wish I were you.

So I understand fully what you're getting at here because I, too, use that sort of language. I use first person while I play tabletops even when I make a clear distinction between myself and the character at play. But just as there are A LOT of people playing table tops who are just playing themselves in that tabletop there is a non-zero amount of people who engage with any and all roleplaying games as if they, personally, are the avatar. That's part of why all these inclusive character creation options are such a big deal. A lot of people out there are literally making themselves in the character creators.

I KNOW that a non zero amount of those people are also engaging in their chosen videogame romantic interests in the same way they would engage with romantic prospects themselves. It's just very clear in the content of some of these complaints.

The entire thing that spawned that post was the personal observation that people would rather re-write Lucanis' personality and romance completely when the exact characterization they want to give Lucanis is easily plausible with Emmrich or Davrin (Or Neve but this particular brand of rookanis shipper has an esp hard hate boner for Neve). When the game first came out the official Bioware discord had a BUNCH of people who were lamenting that Emmrich's romance was so good because he was old so they didn't want to do it. They don't actually like Lucanis. They just find him physically attractive and they felt personally targeted when he didn't deliver on what they wanted because he was the only white man they found attractive in the cast. If they were just going for what kind of media they enjoyed they wouldn't have felt betrayed that Emmrich's romance was more to their taste and they did not find him physically attractive bc the narrative was more to their taste. The Solas girlies that are thirsting after him MEAN it. I have seen a 5k customized sex doll with Solas' head on it. It's not about how many times you can tell the same lie before it becomes true for them. They literally want to fuck that man.

And like, for the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with any of that. I think fandom is a little over saturated by this particular brand of fan but I don't think it's bad that they do what they do, ya know? I just think that the people who actually felt jilted bc of the pacing issues in Lucanis' storyline might actually enjoy the game more if they forgot about how physically attractive they find Lucanis and went for Davrin, who seems to be everything they actually want. Or just, you know, paid attention to the narrative they enjoyed more than the type of face they liked looking at.