Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion [END SPOILS WARNING] Addressing Karlach (PLEASE PUT SPOILERS IN TAGS)

I made an account here just to chime in as well.
I have already put an embarrassing amount of time into this game and have been loving it so far. (though i can see the time crunch and the extra bugs in act 3. but its still good.)
I knew nothing about Karlach aside from what the early accesses meetup with her explained and didn't know what to expect. I honestly ended up loving her almost immediately, perhaps even more than Astarion. They did such an amazing job with her character. the little dances she dose, the stuffed bear by her tent, the little bouts of singing- they went out of their way to make her easy to love.
She quickly became my favorite character and one of my main go-to party members for every encounter. And as other have already said, she is one of the very few characters in our party who despite everything that has happened to her, has chosen to be unabashedly good even though it would have been perfectly understandable for her to be bitter and cruel after everything that happened.
the fact that her only options are basicallyHonestly i was planning on my first playthrough to be with my og character, an evil aligned sorcerer who juuuusst scrapes by doing a little more good than bad so long as it progresses her own goals first and foremost. Basically she is very selfish and self-serving but she is willing to commit endless atrocities (or, regrettably, heroics) in order to protect her friends. So this sucks. She chose Karlach as one of her main fighters because of her combat prowess but having the persistently good-natured Mom Friend fighting by her side ended of softening her up a little bit. more than i was expecting.
So when both myself and my character learned she was on borrowed time and we got the incredibly obvious chekov's gun about theI ended up spoiling myself to Karlach's fate because i honestly thought i must have missed something obvious/ encountered a bug or maybe just picked the wrong path whenI didn't romance her, and i already freed I honestly may end up putting the game on pause and hoping for an update. I dont mind there being bad or tragic endings, but considering how everyone else can live through the ending and get some level of closure, it feels like Karlach got singled out and done dirty. Especially considering the massive amount of solutions there are to her problem. We have grown powerful, met people with the skills to stabilize similar constructs and have encounters gods and devils alike. And yet no one could find a lead? personally it boggles my mind that they would do this to her, especially since she can be romanced. People want the option to give their romanced character a happy/satisfying ending and it looked like all the parts were there and laid out for us to find a solution for her. so why did she get left behind?
I havnt lost all hope though. i know Larian has been pretty good about listening to player feedback, there are a few big patches planned and i hear they fixed up a character's ending in a different game in the past- so i really do think she has a real chance of getting something better. i truly hope so.