Originally Posted by Cowoline
What is worse is that Larian has done this before with The Red Prince in DOS2 - and that was just as big of a twisted manipulating mess.

I will say this for TRP (because I'm a TRP fan but it's been like 2 years since my last play through so I might not remember everything 100% correctly here.)
The very first conversation you have regardless of race or origin he interviews you to be his new slave. When you meet on the beach he treats you like his slave. He tells you he will not choose you over Sadha. Part of your romance is peeping on him getting freaky with Sadha. His entire personal quest is to sleep with Sadha, have a baby with Sadha and potentially save Sadha. If you play him as an origin, you have way more variation in his story and can turn down or kill Sadha. IIrc in his final romance scene you again talk about Sadha and he tells you he will not leave her before you can continue on. There's for sure variations to this, I think I tried killing Sadha or letting her marry Shadow Prince but he still wants you to be his slave at the end.

I give this dump of info to say that Halsin lacks these things. TRP is actually quite up front about what a piece of shit he is and is the most immoral of the group. Halsin by comparison is a saint. He doesn't try to sleep around pre-romance, he doesn't disregard your feelings or thoughts pre-romance, and he's very sweet even his romance dialogue is all very sweet and caring until you realize you have absolutely no agency outside of breaking up with him or denying him an orgy.