Originally Posted by Cowoline
Not to very pessimistic, but I am not sure they will change him. A lot of people like that he is the way he is and are extremely LOUD. I have been called a number of interesting things lately and told that my own personal trauma is invalid. So, that's always fun.

in any case, the amount of work he needs is a massive undertaking, for a character who is not as popular as Karlach, Astarion or even Minthara (just look at the reponses and interactions they get on discord.) I think they will either make very minor changes, or simply not address it at all and leave him as is and stay silent. But Larian just cannot get polyamoury right (Red Prince from DOS2 comes to mind - who I had no issue with at all. He is awesome).

If I had any say, I would say take Halsin's character and give it to Rooney (who wrote Fane in DOS2 and Astarion), because he is a champion at doing this sort of thing right - especially trauma. Corcoran can then give advice on Halsin's tone of voice. But seriously, I know he is lead writer, but Corcoran should leave the companion writing to his team, and focus on his own personal strengths - because writing companions is not that. And I will absolutely admit he wrote the start Halsin wonderfully, and it was so great - but when you release him on his own it just goes haywire. Abd I am certain he has great other skills, and is a talented writer - just so that is said. (For referrence, he is the one who presented the bear sex scene).

Where are all those people who love him as is and are loud about it? To be fair, apart from some fan-fic thirst posts on Tumblr, I've only seen valid criticism about how he turned out.

Last edited by EMar; 14/09/23 04:21 PM.