Thoughts about Taash (and how I don't yet understand people's criticisms of her/they?)

[thejinn]

I'm not sure where to share this but I needed someplace to process my thoughts as they're going along. This is my first playthrough of DAV. My intention initially is to romance Harding first. She really surprised me because usually, I've always thought dwarven females to look too masculine, especially since when I grew up some female dwarves had beards. Harding is a huge cutie and man, I had no idea freckles could be such a huge turnon.

Well, as a CIS dude, married, with two kids, I'm attracted to the female form. Even though Taash has some masculine features in her face, she seems overall feminine. She seems to have breasts and her adipose deposits look to me in the right places. As a consequence she looked attractive to me and so I flirted with all three, Bellara, Taash, and Harding.

Well in this playthrough, I just picked up a quest with Taash and as it turns out I have to choose to reject her or choose her for romance. She is the first of the three to pop up and my last save is like from an hour ago meaning if I went back I could lose an hour of progress. This means I likely will choose Taash this playthrough.

And I like Taash. I can feel her trauma, her fear, her rejections. Like her, I am bicultural, living in the middle and never fully one thing or another. Never fully accepted. I like her personality, she's straightforward and plainspoken.

And while I'm still just getting into the comments, there seem to be a lot of people hating on Taash. I guess I just don't get it. I play a female Rook who is attracted to the female form, and Taash looks female to me. My gamer brain tells me she is a woman, even if she doesn't feel like it and if I knew her irl I'd want to respect her however she'd want to be called.

I mean it seems like genitilia, whatever Taash's might be, doesn't even matter. I mean, there are humans with penises who look more feminine, whether by makeup, exercise, personality, or otherwise than many humans with vaginas. I guess I feel like what matters more is how other people are expressing their masculinity/femininity, and what you're attracted to. I'm simply not aroused by the male form, and I guess I'm figuring out that even if Taash did have a penis I'd still find her desirable.

See? My brain thinks she is a girl and I don't know if that is good or bad or if I should change it or not or what. So yeah, it is cool with video games make you sit down for a second and feel like you need to talk or write about thoughts. It makes for a more engaging game, at least to me.

[DaisyRay]

Publicado originalmente por thejinn:

I'm not sure where to share this but I needed someplace to process my thoughts as they're going along. This is my first playthrough of DAV. My intention initially is to romance Harding first. She really surprised me because usually, I've always thought dwarven females to look too masculine, especially since when I grew up some female dwarves had beards. Harding is a huge cutie and man, I had no idea freckles could be such a huge turnon.

Well, as a CIS dude, married, with two kids, I'm attracted to the female form. Even though Taash has some masculine features in her face, she seems overall feminine. She seems to have breasts and her adipose deposits look to me in the right places. As a consequence she looked attractive to me and so I flirted with all three, Bellara, Taash, and Harding.

Well in this playthrough, I just picked up a quest with Taash and as it turns out I have to choose to reject her or choose her for romance. She is the first of the three to pop up and my last save is like from an hour ago meaning if I went back I could lose an hour of progress. This means I likely will choose Taash this playthrough.

And I like Taash. I can feel her trauma, her fear, her rejections. Like her, I am bicultural, living in the middle and never fully one thing or another. Never fully accepted. I like her personality, she's straightforward and plainspoken.

And while I'm still just getting into the comments, there seem to be a lot of people hating on Taash. I guess I just don't get it. I play a female Rook who is attracted to the female form, and Taash looks female to me. My gamer brain tells me she is a woman, even if she doesn't feel like it and if I knew her irl I'd want to respect her however she'd want to be called.

I mean it seems like genitilia, whatever Taash's might be, doesn't even matter. I mean, there are humans with penises who look more feminine, whether by makeup, exercise, personality, or otherwise than many humans with vaginas. I guess I feel like what matters more is how other people are expressing their masculinity/femininity, and what you're attracted to. I'm simply not aroused by the male form, and I guess I'm figuring out that even if Taash did have a penis I'd still find her desirable.

See? My brain thinks she is a girl and I don't know if that is good or bad or if I should change it or not or what. So yeah, it is cool with video games make you sit down for a second and feel like you need to talk or write about thoughts. It makes for a more engaging game, at least to me.

1. Omg ikr, I love Harding's freckles so much. She was actually the most requested romance npc character from DA:I. She had her big glow up in this game and looks absolutely adorable.

2. It's okay, I found Taash attractive too, but I'm a woman who like men and women. Though I have seen other cis married men who thought Taash was attractive. They have a unique face and aren't the traditional idea of beauty, but I still found them attractive. I started to romance them, but saved it because I was already doing the Davrin romance. Then my game crashed and I never got to see the end of either on my own playthrough.

3. I also related a lot to their story too, not about my gender but more about my personality. I've always been the black sheep of my family and they would call me things like "Oreo" because I didn't fit into what they thought I should be. That was before I even found out I was pansexual lol. It wasn't until I got older and made friends outside my family that I saw that I was actually pretty normal. Which is pretty much the same as Taash. It took them getting into Rook's party and learning about themselves away from their mother to realize they were normal and what they were feeling was okay.

4. To be clear though, Taash does not have male genitalia. They are a cis woman who happens to be non binary. This means that the person usually does not feel like they are male or female or that they feel like both. So they don't like to be labeled as a woman because it doesn't fit how they feel about themselves. Therefore, finding them attractive does not mean you're gay if that's what you're asking.

[Lori]

I also flirted with Taash (after heavy heartedly deciding against romancing Harding too, she is a cutie) - but I did find the way they posed their story as very immersion breaking and too "not fantasy like", if that makes sense. Same with the NPC in the Hossberg Wetlands, it felt out of place.
But Taash is sexy (coming from a hetero woman) ;)

[Simpson3k]

I was lost to Neve from the very beginning. I think beside of Morrigan, she has the most aesthetic face of all female npcs in the game.

[eyeofthenight]

Too many gamers are too insecure to be able to handle a genderfluid character. Not me, though - I'm a cisgender male and have no problems at all with a character like her in the game, even if I probably won't romance her anytime soon.

[Retrox]

Publicado originalmente por eyeofthenight:

Too many gamers are too insecure to be able to handle a genderfluid character. Not me, though - I'm a cisgender male and have no problems at all with a character like her in the game, even if I probably won't romance her anytime soon.

You just misgendered them.

[eyeofthenight]

Publicado originalmente por Retrox:

Publicado originalmente por eyeofthenight:

Too many gamers are too insecure to be able to handle a genderfluid character. Not me, though - I'm a cisgender male and have no problems at all with a character like her in the game, even if I probably won't romance her anytime soon.

You just misgendered them.

You're right, I didn't notice. At least it wasn't on purpose ;)

[barzai]

Publicado originalmente por eyeofthenight:

Publicado originalmente por Retrox:

You just misgendered them.

You're right, I didn't notice. At least it wasn't on purpose ;)

Drop and give me ten, "Barve"!