I fully expect him to be a full companion by the time the Mando arc stuff is done. But yeah they need to let us lock in the romance. I hope he has more stuff in 7.3. Don't just want him to be some random flirts that go nowhere like the other newer characters have been so far.

The pickings are slim for the males. Especially since a lot of the males are either Class locked, or Sexuality locked. Bioware likes to starve us on this side. But of those available. Arcann and Theron, 2 of the most likable and some of the few I can see as canon romances. Not that I don't like other male characters, I like most of them. Andronikos, Scourge, I even like Quinn I just don't see any of them as romances for reasons. I mean I COULD see the PC with Scourge. But you know........Theron and Arcann exist. On the female side I liked Kira.

I have of course many different alts, on both factions, but I usually play imp the most. Current SW main is Valus Khul on Star Forge Sounds awesome, I would love join in Star Forges amd cpmtemt with people i'm atleast a little familiar with. I just recently came back to this game after finishing Endwalker in FF, so as of now i'm in some random guild. After a while I got tired of getting random invitations and just accepted one just to be done with it lol. Hopefully you guys are Imps because while I have many pubs mostly JK's I just love the imp aesthetic/stories too much and play it more. But I am able to join either side That sounds awesome. Yeah the last thing I want Arcann to become is another Theron. Theron already fills that role of constantly getting into trouble and us needing to bail him out, don't need another male companion being that way when we already have the undisputed king of it lol, Arcann needs to remain himself

You can add me anytime, and I love the DS skin so much. I just wish Bioware would release an updated skin for him that makes him look even closer to his cinematic model. Personally i'm not sure if i'm for a "rescue mission". Seems like it depowers Arcann a lot. This guy fought in loads of campaigns, killed so many Sith and Jedi. Withstood the power from even his faher's blast. Being a damsel in distress we must constantly save was Theron's thing, and honestly at times it made his character seem more incompotent than he was supposed to be. No, becoming a damsel for what's supposed to be one of the strongest force users in the galaxy (the commander themselves needed multiple powerups and valkorians help to defeat Arcann) is just not the way I want Arcann to go lol

Many of these VA's appear in other MMO's, Lana's VA is also Lucia, a supporting character throughout Heavensward and Endwalker, and other random civilians in FFXIV

Yeah it's also why the Arcann romance works, and also why it's so good. Arcann was always more emotional than his brother Thexan. Unlike Thexan, Arcann needed the affection of his parents. So it's perfectly logical that Arcann would fall for someone who showed him compassion despite all he did to them. Arcann romance is more recent than some of the older characters, but in the limited content that we've had, his romance feels like one of the strongest. I also love the idea that even when he was Darkside, he admired the outlander but was angered by it. But then his admiration turned to love after Senya was saved. I love his romance. Especially with a force user in his speech and his messages you can just feel that him and a force user have an unbreakable bond to the point in his own words "your setbacks feel like my setbacks". And I can't wait to see how his romance progress further. He's become my canon romance for my force users. I especially love Arcann with a Sith Warrior. The Emperor's former pawn ending up with his son who then helps the PC take out his tyrant father is just too good. It helps that I also love Senya, so the dynamic between this new family is great (I hope they include Senya in some of Arcann's scenes going down the line, I still want to see her reaction to Arcann with the outlander). Also just imagine someone trying to hurt or wrong the commander with a boyfriend as powerful as Arcann, RIP

Hopefully a lot more scenes, and customizations to come for Arcann. But of course I don't expect much big in the way of story. Lets face it, the Eternal Empire family business was basically wrapped up in a nice little bow after Echoes of Oblivion. So I only expect casual stuff, and romance stuff going forward with Arcann Vaylin didn't want redemption it's as simple as that. As Senya said "she is broken". Senya also reached out to Vaylin SEVERAL times, only for Vaylin to continue trying to kill her. Senya reached out to Vaylin even more times than she did Arcann, yet Arcann was the only one to hear her words and even while still darkside, it was strong enough to break through and he protected his mother. Darkside Arcann was a Tyrant, but Vaylin was a maniac who killed people just because "I don't like odd numbers". You have one child who is completely DS and bask in it, and another child that's DS by way of coping with feeling unloved. Which is precisely how love in the end turned him back. Me? I believe Vaylin was always "off". You hear Valkorian speak about her, how she was as a child, and you see it confirmed in how she was even as a child in the trailer. There was always something off about Vaylin and she needed special attention because neither Thexan or Arcann were using darkside powers or practically crippling knights as a child in a practice match. There was always something with Vaylin, notice how when Vaylin nearly killed the Knights she acted as if she had done nothing wrong, like she was surprised she almost killed some people, and when she was sent away her issues just further set in. Arcann on the other hand seemed like a pretty well functional child who fell to the darkside after prolonged neglect. He wasn't lost like Vaylin was, the darkside was his form of cope. This is why Senya could reach him. Some people blame what happened to Vaylin solely on how she turned out, and that's also true, but all evidence points to the fact Vaylin was not right in the head to begin with, and instead of getting help, her issues were allowed to fester through attempts to control her. I mean hell, you have the literal big bad emperor, eater of planets, stealer of bodies having children, passing some of his power to them. One was bound to be born "twisted".

He quite literally is the most popular romanced male in the game, who beats out all others on every poll Hence his continued existence, and hence why he survived better than anyone with the option, he's demanded. How out of touch do you have to be to think a flipping ugly monster substitutes Theron? How even more out of touch are you to think gay males and females only option for mainstay romances should be monsters and characters with no content. Literally, Khem has exactly one scene and his romance is a dev joke, not to be continued. That's excluding the fact, he's hideous. We get it, you find Khem to be cool, that doesn't mean females and males are supposed to be attracted to that. Learn the difference, what a straight dude finds to be cool relates to what gay men and women are attracted to in no way. You don't think of this, because you only think this game is supposed to cater to your wants, sorry sweetie but that's not the way it's going to be, as you can see from this very thread, people will fight the devs on this. So you can take several seats over there in the corner until you understand people with different ideals than you play this game too. Why don't you romance Skadge? that's basically what you're telling us lol. Talking about serving no value. Lana has had no major character development nor a major arc since her inception. She thinks, feels and does whatever the player character wants. That is her entire character, that is her storyline, and has been for every expansion up until now. The most poorly written character in this entire game, who finds a reason to stick around without actually adding anything to the story but being a glorified quest giver, a block of wood has more development. Taking up needless screentime from our more interesting vanilla companions with only filler dialogue that any other companion could handle just as fine, is something she does do quite well though. I give her that atleast.

Anyone else remember the time Troy Baker had THIS haircut? I wonder if that had an influence on the hair they chose for Theron in his arc lol Also Theron Shan is hiding a secret talent from our PC

Honestly I agree with Jax, it's just no defending the writing at that point. Lana was willing to stand up for, and believe in people she knew even less time than Theron, like Koth. It made absolutely no sense for her character at that point to act that way after everything. In actual fact, Lana SHOULD have been the one to figure out everything wasn't as it seemed simply by Theron's initial monologue. She KNOWS it's not true that he tried to "undermine" the alliance, she KNOWS everything he did was to benefit us. Sith or no, the writing made her look one dimensional and quite aloof. These two people spent enough time together to develop a super secret BFF decryption method. But somehow Lana doesn't know Theron long enough to see through the mirage when even the PC had the ability to? The PC was gone for 5 years, and in that 5 years Lana was still working with Theron. Lana effectively has spent more time with Theron than the PC has by KOTFE. Yet defends him less than Koth. And the icing on the cake was the DS option which made Lana's lack of reaction even more out of character and insulting. They were supposed to be good friends and she quite literally just tosses the dude aside with not the least bit of resistance besides a frown, which for me ultimately destroys any development the two of them had since the beginning. Nathema was just all around poorly written and had all the characters acting completely ridiculous. But I guess that's what happens when you rush such a complex story just to pull a mcguffin to depower us.

I will, when I get on later. I always speak up, because it's people like those who barked hard enough at the devs which got such an option implemented in the first place. So I always refuse to not speak up for Theron whenever necessary to show the devs he has many supporters. Say what you will about Lana fans they aren't as hands off, and I suppose that's why she's still permanent.

Imagine the guy having a boot option and still people make threads like this to spite him Most of the stuff pre-kotfe is just casual flirting. You become somewhat of thing during yavin 4, but if you're imp he breaks it off.

I think all sides are just struggling of wanting more of a bygone era, we all just want to continue our adventures with the characters we've done in the past, and that's just not happening as much now for none of the mains simply because the story has moved forward. But therein lies the problem. This game has a much smaller fanbase than other games, so you have a bunch of people who have grown close to these characters and don't really want "new", but more of the same. I will say, Theron and Lana are lucky in that both get to stay near the PC going forward, despite me not agreeing with the direction of the writing always.

Lmao not wrong, because the largest playerbase is usually male their opinion on characters sometimes effect and influence the options for females and the type of males we get. It's like how most of us are not big fans of Doc or Tharan Cedrax, but more of the male players find them cool, defend them or find them not so offensive. So we tend to get: abusers, perverts, betrayers or LI's into weird bdsm stuff like Iron Bull lol. It's a trend Bioware has to change, and they've tried to in this game....in some ways, though many of the males still fall into the same trope.

You won't ever catch me defending his writing. Nathema DS ending destroys both Lana and him as characters and is completely out of character. I could never be mean to him without hitting esc ;-; he's too nice and considerate. I still love how modest he is and how he always defends his friends even when he shouldn't.