Originally Posted by Zenith
Originally Posted by iloverainbow
I have seen a lot of people use manipulative to describe Halsin and I can't agree more especially the ending if you romanced him.


I think manipulative is a wild exaggeration. People are just projecting negative traits at someone for stating upfront his approach to relationships. We may not like those reasons, but it seems passive aggressive to call someone who will not negotiate an open relationship as some sort of callous manipulator. He's just written to have a romantic approach that does not have widespread appeal.

I refer to the previous post: it is not sincere, Halsin's character seems to create a bad relationship with Tav that whether people believe it or not:

1- with that thing of pushing Tav even though he has enough with Tav and Without Tav being able to reply, he complies quite well with: Baby, I know what's good for you, let me decide.

2- He fulfills a stereotype that ends in very harmful relationships for the deceived person: he drives you crazy by saying how much he loves you, that he needs you, and then tells you that he doesn't want anything serious with you. In my country they say that he is the type: that he promises and promises until he put it , once he put what was promised is over

3- This whole point leads to manipulation, and if Halsin, as it is written, is now himself a manipulator or a person with a split personality.

4-He only needs you, he doesn't want anything else, but he doesn't give you an important character reveal if you don't have group sex with the drow and him. What's the true? that he only needs you, that he wants to have sex with everything that comes within reach.... by the way, Halsin has a somewhat sick fetish with the drow, if you have played the board game you will know it


He is a typo? Sure, it doesn't fit with the rest of the game's personality or alignment, but Halsin is currently manipulative with tav. And please, I think we should all have the maturity to distinguish an unhealthy relationship even if it is in a video game, that is not "our vision of relationships" it is to distinguish what is wrong from what is right. For example, Astarion's bad ending gives rise to a pretty unhealthy relationship, you may want to play it just to try it but if you don't know that it is a bad relationship... bad thing.

Last edited by Chiquidmaster; 14/09/23 12:40 AM.