Originally Posted by NomTheBurritos
Look, I just can't unsee the fact that she's genuinely a person fighting for her damn needed freedom, finally getting it, finally feeling like she fights for something that matters and for people she LOVES, only to break down because soon it will all be taken away from her. How can Gale deus ex his way out of his baddabingbaddaboom, how can Wyll get out of his pact, how can Shadowheart do what she gets to do, how does Astarion get to take two very different paths, how does Lae'zel get to pick between such major figures and what to fight for.

How are our other companions presented with long questlogs filling as we pursue the story, and Karlach's just boop, completed, when you barely did anything at all???

That's the whole problem, everyone has close to impossibile odds and they get a solution or a least you actively work towards one, more often than not going actively out of your way (considering narratively you should be pursuing a cure and stopping the big baddies).
During my first playthrough Gale felt way more doomed than Karlach, i mean fuck mate i am going to help but what can we really do about it? let's see where things go, maybe you'll get deus ex'd by your former lover at the last moment. and would you look at that, you have been granted this gift lmao.
Everyone else? Oh you need to go kill your vampire master? Oh you need to find out about your past? Oh you need to lead a revolution against the lich queen? Oh you need to free the shadow cursed lands from corruption? Oh you need to go and free your father and maybe snivel your way out of your contract on the way? Oh you need to go free your old friend Minsc? No sweat at all, let's fix all these situations, maybe i'll even get myself a nice sweet little epilogue where i am reminded of everthing i did (Doesn't happen tho.)

But Karlach?
"My heart is exploding"
"Sounds bad, we are looking for a solution, hope the little infernal patches dammon applied are holding up well"
"can we find something better while we run around fixing everyone else's problems?"
"We are working on a solution :)"
"Are we?"
"Maybe we will find a solution, who knows :)"
"I'm literally dying"
"I wish i could do anything to change it, but i just CAN'T" (after fixing nearly everything else.)

You're the shining light in all of these character lives, yet for Karlach you're reduced to a parent that just got asked "Can we go to disneyland" and you can only answer "i don't know, can we? we'll see :)"

Then you go bonk Gortash and you get hit with a "We did everything we could for Karlach. All she wants now is to see the city saved."

I DON'T KNOW MAN, DID WE? WHO'S WE? I CERTAINLY DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING I COULD FOR KARLACH, I CERTAINLY DIDN'T ASK TOBIN FOR ADVICE ON INFERNAL MACHINERY WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY GODDAMN FACE.
AND THAT'S NOT EVERYTHING SHE WANTS, SHE SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT SHE WANTS TO LIVE AND SHE WANTS TO STAY, IN PROBABLY THE BEST ACTED SCENE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME.