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* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'''s creators probably knew that that shipping was inevitable, so they made [[Relationship Values]] lead to [[Multiple Endings]]. Despite this, there are still scenes that favour the two main female leads more than the others; with the most blatant example being a skit that occurs in Welgaia between Lloyd and Sheena. When someone other than Colette or Sheena is your closest party member, the cutscenes are generally nonromantic, exploring various other types of relationships such as admiration and friendship; but [[Freud Was Right|a lot of people seemed to think they were all love options]]. In the sequel, the Raine and Presea options ''are'' promoted to full romantic levels.

** It helps that Presea looks like a young girl around Genis' age ({{spoiler|but is actually a woman who is a decade older than Lloyd}}), and Raine is Lloyd's teacher. The Genis/Presea and Regal/Presea ships often get teased; when Zelos suggests that Presea could fall in love with a much older man around Regal's age, Genis gets very defensive.

{{quote|'''Balthier:''' No one knows men like Fran does.

'''Balthier:''' I always knew Fran didn't take well to being tied up. I just never knew how much. How about you? }}

{{quote|'''Fran''' (cupping Balthier's cheek): Hadn't you best be off? That's what a sky pirate does, you fly, don't you?

'''Balthier''' (holding Fran's hand): I suppose you'd better hang on then. }}

** There's also some Ship Teases for Balthier/Ashe too in the original game. During a scene closer to the end of the game, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXIe7Bv1HY he seems rather agitated when Al-cid flirts with her, prompting Fran to give him a knowing look]. Also, in the scene in which {{spoiler|1=Balthier is risking his life to stop the Bahamut from destroying Rabanastre Ashe seems particularly scared that he might die, ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultjsCoYXlo especially in the original Japanese version]) The following is a translation of some of the scene:}}

** Ashe and Basch is also plausible. In the ending, Penelo writes to Larsa, and she tells him how she hopes Basch will see Ashe because she thinks Ashe misses him (which Basch reads after Larsa hands him the letter).

* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]'', a series of scenes involves [[Final Fantasy II|Firion]] trying to approach [[Final Fantasy XIII|Lightning]] to talk to her, only for a string of [[Moment Killer|Moment Killers]] to scare him off. It turns out he lost his rose and she found it, and he's trying to ask for it back but is embarrassed about the [[Hot-Blooded]] rebel having to ask the resident [[Action Girl]] for his flower (in his exact words, "a grown man asking for his flower back..."). However, the subtext is very thin, and is complete with [[Final Fantasy IV|Cecil]] appointing himself Firion's wingman.

* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' teases Red x Elh enough during the main game, but the DLC quests take it [[Up to Eleven]]. In #5, {{spoiler|they both act embarrassed when Red sees Elh in her cheerleader outfit, and she's disappointed if Red doesn't manage to beat the track record (which is the condition she agreed to in order to wear that outfit in the first place).}} In #7, {{spoiler|she gets extremely upset when Red has Princess Terria and Toffee fangirling over him, and in the end Red admits he wanted to give her the tournament prize as they make up.}} #8 {{spoiler|borders on "[[They Do]] with the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]", as it eventually turns into an [[Interrupted Declaration of Love]].}} It also teases Béluga x Merveille a couple times, with him {{spoiler|giving her a hologram of flowers}} and {{spoiler|losing an arena match because he was trying to show off too much.}}

* Shale in [[Dragon Age]] gets a telling remark about how attractive Sten's body looks in battle, while he affectionately calls her 'kadan', a term that means something like 'close to the heart'. And then there's all of Zevran's leering at Wynne in particular. In the Awakening expansion, which features no romances, Nathaniel and Velanna, and Anders and Female!Warden have a fair bit of flirting. In [[Dragon Age 2]], Bethany gets flustered around Sebastian, who happily flirts with her when not romanced, whilst Carver has a very obvious crush on Merrill. Fenris and Isabela are also revealed to have a friends with benefits relationship when not romanced, while Aveline can be flirted with repeatedly by Hawke, only for it not to go anywhere. Hawke can even throw a couple of flirty comments Varric's way.