Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Dorian Pavus and the Iron Bull from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.
"Adoribull" Homosexuality
2016, Kim Johansen Østby, "From Embracing Eternity to Riding the Bull: Representations of Homosexuality and Gender in the Video Game Series Mass Effect and Dragon Age", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 3192 more examples
Firstly, the game only hints at the Adoribull relationship and does not provide more than a dozen dialogue lines, which enables fan writers to develop this relationship freely and divert from the original storyline.
2018 April, Gaspard Pelurson, “Mustaches, Blood Magic and Interspecies Sex: Navigating the Non-Heterosexuality of Dorian Pavus”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 1, unnumbered pageI personally, love Adoribull as a ship. I think it is one built entirely on mutual attraction and want, that develops into a proper romance.
2019, "Aslinncosplay", quoted in Olga Svedin, "Fans som bråkar: Fans reaktioner på representationer av queerhet i dataspelet Dragon Age: Inquisition", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 38
Origin
Blend of adorable + Dorian + bull.
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