Let's all at least be honest, that the only reason people *want* to like SH and to *desperately* try to make her be "good"/to "redeem" her, is because she is attractive and she gets to bat those eyelashes at you. To me, Lae'zel is by far the more legitimate companion for receiving the benefit of the doubt or for "redemption" by the PC, and yet nobody cares about any of that with her. Why? Because she is not cute like SH (same argument can be made about Astarion).
