Originally Posted by 7TeenWriters
So my girlfriend has sexual trauma and was really uncomfortable with how these scenes came up. Yeah, you can skip cutscenes, but it's too late for the ick, generally. She's been a fan of these games since BG1 as a kid, and is here for the rpg. The romance in the older games didn't feel like aggressive flirtation was shove down her throat without warning, and if it was it didn't feel as real because it was closer to reading a book. Lae'zel's come on in particular, and response to rejection turned out to be a pretty serious trigger and it felt out of nowhere since she hadn't flirted with the character at all.

[On a personal side I was a victim of sexual abuse and subsequent trauma, still I completely disagree with the "flag" system, to have a world that is fille with allerts doesn't make anything more than weaken and nweaken and weaken us, it doesn't aid the healing proccess, it doesn't gave a hand in metabolizing the scars that remain, it makes us fragile, it feeds and allows to grow the fright of any unknown situation, feeds our paranoia, let the pain, the suffer, to plant their roots deeper and deeper in ourselves, in the end flags instead of helpinf or freeing just rend us completely subjugate to past traumas]


@Wyrmblade: we live in times where the idea of not being able to do whatever we want it's dreared and thought as something impossible and feel like an imposition that mutilates our freedom (specially since there's payment involved), and no matter how the herosexuality (specialy how it's based not on dialogue but on appreciation system) makes the companions seem like groupies, even if Larian adds characters with a firm and delined sexuality they should add all the sexualities (I already hear the rumbles of people complaining because there's not a bisexual companion or a pansexual or an asexual).