So when i create my own tav, and then my own love interest, i create a perfect replica of myself.
I’m interested that you seem to see what we’re doing here as creating a love interest and then romancing them. If you are indeed talking about creating the dream visitor’s appearance rather than a custom party member?
The way I see it is that we’re telling the game up front what our character finds appealing, so that it can later show whatever power it is visiting us in our dreams taking on that shape to mess with our heads.
When I do this part of the CC sometimes I head canon it as someone that the character is actually in a relationship with (pre kidnap), or an ex, or a lover who had died, or some other real person they know, and other times I think of it as not being a real person the character knows but just representing the type of person they might find attractive. I’ve never just created a copy of my Tav but I could totally see that being a valid and interesting choice for a character I might want to play. But in each case, I think whoever is visiting us in the dreams is the same being, just wearing whatever face we have told the game our character would find most appealing.
Or perhaps you see it that way too, and I’m just reading too much into what you’ve said about romancing the character you create?
