You can have a super feminine paladin who hates dwarves.
Or just a general "high Drow female" who thinks of male Drow as toys and male non-Drow as a fetish. >snort
I'm not sure if we need more masculine characters vs. just older, more mature and chill companions. I've noticed that the current companions all exhibits emotional struggles we commonly associate with younger adults (not to say older people don't do this). They just remind me of characters from Young Adult fantasy books:
- Gale - handles rejection like an unhinged teenager
- Wyll - trying way too hard to prove himself, still cares way too much about what others think (hence the boosting and self-aggrandizing)
- Shadowheart - has no idea who she is
- Lae'zel - covers up crippling insecurity by acting domineering
- Astarion - supposedly 200+? But highly impulsive and self-absorbed like the stereotypical teenage rebel. Trying too hard to hide from his trauma with the snobbish persona
Interesting. Never saw it from that perspective but there is some truth to it.
Wyll just appears like the tryhard heroic type. His backstory makes sense too for his current personality.
He is impatient and knows how quick and easy everything can go to sh*t.
He is like "Goblin Slayer"

(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Slayer - very good Manga with an air of D&D around it and also has an Anime Adaption )
, when nobody acts, nobody feels responsible, nobody
cares,
then it is over!
So Wyll rather acts and fails as to not act and let happen.
^
Which is simply life in total.
You act, or you are passive.
You are either a maker, or a made one.