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Make Orin romancable please, or at least where we have the chance to spare her. Orin isnt the bad guy when you know her story, so there should be a way to convince her and spare her where she comes into your camp instead of getting killed by your character, i always feel bad for her and i even dont want to continue the story because of this.. i love her character, she is similar like mizora, evil but a beautiful character.

Unfortunately, while I do adore Orin as well, I don't think she will ever be spared. She's too far gone. If only she had gotten the Dark Urge treatment, who knows. Alas, she's a tragedy, and I enjoy her story as is. Sad stuff, despite everything. Also, yes, she is absolutely gorgeous.
However: I have also given thought to the idea that Orin could impersonate Tav's love interest and start a respective kind of suspicious romance scene until she reveals herself. That would require a lot of work though, and also her kidnapping the LI, which was the original intent but was scrapped after feedback.

Let's hope for more Orin content if they release definitive edition, at least.

Whoever wanted to romance with Orin could only become another piece of flesh materials for Orin's artistic corpse crafting.

The Dark Urge and Orin have one crucial difference: The Urge had been physically killed, deader than dead. The Urge in the player's control is no longer the same - that's why the player is given the opportunity to write and rewrite a story for the Dark Urge. Orin? Never had this experience and can never have this either. Technically, the Urge is a genuine clone of Bhaal. Orin? Just a spawn of a spawn, enabled via a special blood line. The Urge could survive being erased, ultimately because he/she had no ordinary birth to start with.

Durge and Orin would make a great couple,

Orin - as in the girl, who wears a humanoid flesh suit, lives among corpses and probably smells really bad - and yeah, gets off on frigging killing people?

Ok, I thought spider boy were the low, but this is ... something.

Morality or... stinkiness... isn't the real reason why Orin shouldn't be romanceable. Pathfinder games already made this pretty clear with, say, Camellia. And, well, this game has Minthara.

The REAL reason an (at least, conventional) romance doesn't suit her is that it's not her thing. I don't see why she would care about that. It probably doesn't even register for her. And even with sex it's probably something quite twisted and somewhat devoid of sexual aspects, if she even has any. The idea I mentioned could work since it's more for trickery reasons and general Evilness, but a more conventional affair/romance just isn't very in character for her.

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roughly translating "we should have an option to romance us! if we can save a four legged brain, we should be able to fck a four legged brain!"

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That was, what I mean by gets off by killing people. That is literally a thing with Bhaalists and I doubt, that a conventional romance would do it for Orin in any way. Her romantic partner would not survive a day or night in her companionship.

You can’t fix her… lol. Definitely NOT in favor of an Orin romance. Why don’t they fix the romances that already exist? I’m looking at you, Minthara. No more romance additions until existing content is fixed. Besides which, I’ve seen bugs for Lae’zel and Shadowheart, as well, in their romances. Larian has more than enough on their plate already.

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As long as it somehow copies the exact plot of Hellraiser. I mean we basically already got the box hehe

Honestly though, what would it take? Like what would Orin be into?

I think first you gotta put on a display for Loviatar with Abdirak at the Goblin camp to work another angle on it for the jealousy pantheon. Then probably would have to off every single other companion, but in ways that are particularly messy and showboaty.

She already writes us letters and tries to get all creative about it, so we would probably have to do that too, you know, just to keep it super conventional.

She's the belle of the Bhaal, so it would have to reign Red in like every Act - Carrie style. Putting a ring on it would be like giving her Gortash for the coup de grace killshot somehow. Afterwards, some kind of brief Natural Born Killers Bonnie and Clyde style romp around the Lower City, and then back to Rivington for the anticlimax encore at the 'Circus.'

Surely Orin just ends up killing us anyway at the end, like carves out our still-beating heart and then stomps on it. Maybe makes out with our doppelganger in front of us while we bleed out on the floor - and just laughs?

That might work actually! lol

Of course I'm in favor, cause it would clearly require recording a bunch more voiced lines.

Also Lens is like my favorite bit character in the whole game, so I could see a tie-in there too. Perhaps where we can somehow ditch Orin at the last second, for a semi redeemed version of Lens who could then relate the whole thing as a cautionary tale via Baldur's Mouth. Stage play adaptation staring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Doppelganger 1 and Doppelganger 2. Triple Mmm rating for sure lol




Durge True Romance!? Like where even Astarion is judging us for too much blood and gore...?

The Baldur's Mouth Gazette gets bought out by Fangoria Magazine, and we just never sleep again from the sheer horror of it all! heheh

ps. This game still needs a Bard's stronghold, but like what if it was in the subway sewers and just full on terror? Like shadow puppets or Possession or something? The Bard play stronghold could solve the 17000 endings problem! Maybe this is just one riff that goes all horror flick ravens loft for the cheap seats in the back. Double feature at the drive-in, midnight grindhouse etc. Think of how many tiny plays they could do hehe. All of em really, I bet. But with more voiced lines recorded for sure. If somehow we got a BG3 Bard's stronghold out the Definitive whatever, I could go for that! Even if it went off the rails into fright night, and withers had a skullet mullet. Or Figaro Pennygood invents the T shirt, and Oskar has ideas for the poster, and the only way out is through the power of dance, closing your eyes and just hoping you wake up from this nightmare lol.

I think I'd settle for maybe if we could just have Orin's hair on our PC? Like if we do some ridiculous quest achievement and just get that. Getting the long braid on a hireling zombie or Durge at the mirror and we could at least pretend at camp lol.

pps. if somehow Orin is ever made recruitable or the visualizations are unlocked for hirelings or whatever other thing might be made available, whether it's through bardic inspiration or something who can say, but then I'd like to see something similar for any NPC character in the entire game. Maybe that works somehow? How many more bards could they fit in this game? BG1 and BG2 had so many bards! It would make sense if they had like 3 times as many in BG3 somehow - for the replay hehe.