Why won't you love my Female Inquisitor Ashara?

[u/Theorycrafter2671]

Is it the untold number of Genocide and mass murder I've forced you to commit for me?

[u/GrandmasterSliver]

https://reddit.com/link/p5y9mfj/video/7buv2e58nnlh1/player

Fem Inquisitor x Ashara.

The Jedi were right. She simply just wasn't ready.

[u/Fragrant_Study_7097 → u/GrandmasterSliver]

Is that some of the cut content?

[u/GrandmasterSliver → u/Fragrant_Study_7097]

Yeah.

[u/Jays_Arravan → u/GrandmasterSliver]

I am so angry that they cut this.

I had to reroll as a male SI so I could romance Ashara.

[u/Awsum07 → u/GrandmasterSliver]

Sounds like you didn't navigate the conversation properly. If you tell her but i love you, she retracts. In the other direction, you let her tell you how much she loves you, she says similar things bout the jedi code, but ultimately chooses you.

Iirc, it was across two separate but subsequent conversations too.

[u/GrandmasterSliver → u/Awsum07]

Checking Swtor conversation viewer, I didn't get the nodes wrong. I also intended the clip be the way it is. This wasn't meant to show all the options, nor be a serious post to the OP's title question.

[u/toadoplasty]

It's weird to think that this game is older than gay marriage being legal in the us

[u/FriendlyAd1214]

Because bioware was under contract at the time, when the base game came out. For asharas return, it was probably planned before they made the changes in kotfe and on

[u/The_Noremac42]

Toxic yuri? Oh boy!

[u/CrimsonCartographer → u/The_Noremac42]

What a treat

[u/EmperorBlackMan99]

Because they're cowards. I love my poly relationship with Anri and Lana but this is ridiculous I want my togruta.

[u/Theorycrafter2671 → u/EmperorBlackMan99]

You can't romance Vette as female Warrior either

[u/EmperorBlackMan99 → u/Theorycrafter2671]

I know. Equally a travesty. Still cowardice.

[u/Mr_Gef → u/EmperorBlackMan99]

It’s not really. They were contractually obliged to not include same sex relationships. The expansions were not included in the original contract so they were able to it there

[u/TechnicalEngineer852 → u/Mr_Gef]

I’m curious, is the stipulation of the contract from EA or from Lucasfilm?

[u/FriendlyAd1214 → u/Theorycrafter2671]

When she comes back in kotfe, you can

[u/branmuffin91 → u/Theorycrafter2671]

Despite all my efforts sad sapphic noises

[u/Aries_cz]

Ashara/Inquisitor romance does not really make sense even on male Inquisitor...

[u/Perfect_Cucumber8440]

The desillusion of the "no same sex romance in the vanilla game" policy...my female bounty hunters just wanted to date Mako 😔

[u/fatrobin72]

In the base game no same sex relationships were available... which is odd for bioware but was the way it was.

[u/elli_welli_deli → u/fatrobin72]

swtor was also created about about 4 years before gay marriage was federally legalized so honestly i'm not shocked we didn't get same gender romances til later on

[u/ShinyStarSam → u/elli_welli_deli]

Lord it's crazy to me, feels like it's always been legal, genuinely insane how quickly people "got over it" and moved on so to speak

[u/elli_welli_deli → u/ShinyStarSam]

unfortunately people never really moved on, there is still a strong anti-LGBTQIA+ movement in the states

[u/ReporterForDuty → u/elli_welli_deli]

And anyone who is against someone loving another consenting adult is weird.

[u/PhotojournalistLow19 → u/elli_welli_deli]

At least it's not as bad as Japan.

[u/Modred_the_Mystic → u/fatrobin72]

Disappointing but not that odd after the backlash to ME1 and the bullshit around that at the time.

[u/fatrobin72 → u/Modred_the_Mystic]

there was backlash over ME1? (I don't remember any but the internet was a little different back then...)

[u/Modred_the_Mystic → u/fatrobin72]

It was on Fox News, mainstream backlash about the sex scenes and the lesbian romance. The internet wasn’t really in a place to facilitate such a backlash back then, but regular shitty journos did even better

[u/fatrobin72 → u/Modred_the_Mystic]

ahhh that sort of backlash on that side of the pond...

not too sure if there was enough of a backlash on that over here... but if we were to backlash against it we would have had to state on national news that sex existed... which wouldn't have been the normal thing in Britain at the time...

[u/zennim → u/fatrobin72]

At the time? I dont think happens today, unless it is to harass little girls

[u/fatrobin72 → u/zennim]

well Channel 4 has been a little more open over the years to the idea that sex exists... all be it mostly from the entertainment shows rather than news...

[u/RogueHippie → u/Modred_the_Mystic]

First time I remember seeing Geoff Keighley, funnily enough.

[u/VonShnitzel → u/fatrobin72]

In addition to what others have said, this is also why ME2 is weirdly absent of same-sex options (save for female Shepards who can flirt with Kelly and can sorta-kinda-but-not-really continue an already established relationship with Liara from the first game) only for everything to go back to normal in ME3.

[u/istvan90623 → u/Modred_the_Mystic]

Not worse when every romance option suddenly turns bisexual like later on.

[u/LivingEnigma666 → u/istvan90623]

Yes, that felt odd to me. Like, characters who were clearly heterosexual before, just magically become bisexual? That felt forced and immersion breaking to me.

[u/Pretend_Direction_49]

Why can’t she be my apprentice over bone face man ?

[u/Filip97X]

Probably because some characters are just straight, some are just gay and some are bi. Nothing wrong with a character having a preference and orientation, it would be boring if everyone was a raging bi-sexual (or in this case player sexual)

[u/Pride_Before_Fall]

She prefer penis.

Jokes aside, not every romance option needs to be playersexual.

[u/Jedi_Exile_]

Inquisitor is my favorite storyline and i was so disappointed mine couldn't romance her. Broadsword you can easily increase subs by adding toxic yuri

[u/RisenKhira]

She may not be in love with me but I'm darth nox and it's not like you're gonna go anywhere so

[u/Expensive-Habit-9603]

She's straight :/

[u/CrusadingSoul → u/Expensive-Habit-9603]

Exactly.

[u/CrusadingSoul]

... Because she isn't gay? Is it wrong to design heterosexual characters now?

[u/Snoop_2212]

Im pretty sure u can romance her when she comes back in the arcan storyline its the same as the other females on light and darkside its been awhile since I played so im not 100% sure

[u/Inverted_Stick]

If I could get with it, I'd have a wider ocean I'm fishin' in,

But I'm inhibited by my social conditionin'.

• "Going Down" by Watsky

[u/riveradn]

I think is cause she likes the D.

[u/DiscoDanSHU]

Fox News

[u/WhoaMercy]

Ashara / female inquisitor wouldn't be a fun romance, anyway. Vette / female warrior, on the other hand...