"Dragon Age is a VERY queer inclusive game. If you're ace, you don't need canon rep or dialogue options to help you feel included. You can just CHOOSE NOT ROMANCE ANYONE."

The devs' opinion of you if you "choose not to romance anyone":

@darrylayo.bsky.social I've had a lot of respect for you in the past but this is aphobic. This line of thought is deliberately dehumanizing toward acespec people. You cannot claim to care about the queer community when you hold beliefs that dehumanize an entire group of queer people.

So, she didn't intend to make an aphobic caricture, it's just a coincidence she leaned into. She created the most "non-human" character she could think of and just happened to come up with an aroace agender person! Great! That's so much better!

Hey team: I just wanted to personally thank yall for including this dialogue between Melinoe and Narcissus! It's so important to me as an AroAce person who so rarely sees any hint of people like me in media that Melinoe feels the same way I do. AroAce Melinoe ftw.

I literally just like to eat food.