Originally Posted by Silver/
Considering this, it becomes a lot harder to tell if, say a) Astarion's poly path is not a little fucked up on purpose, b) SH acts this way for something adjacent to shock value, c) the writer thinks Halsin and his lack of last minute commitment is fantastic, actually. This is absurd to even consider, but at the same time, you must. This is the person who says: a romance can be you, your one and only soulmate, the only person you ever dreamed of, literally! ... and. Err. The player. Who you have enslaved. This is the person you're asking at what level of obsession can a character be only monogamous. How and when a character can change their mind. The Red Prince's change of mind, in my limited opinion, did not actively make more "sense". This is a character where this writer said: "this is fine and I will change *nothing*". My hopes are... moderate for Bg3.
I don't disagree. It's still worth discussing though, and it's always worth having a bit of hope. Especially with the consideration that Halsin was added late as a romance partner, which means it is possible that it was added late enough that other characters had to be changed quick to fit a poly situation and therefore weren't written as well as they could've to fit that narrative. Though on a sidenote, I'd rather it stays this way than have them write Astarion and Shadowheart to be even more poly. At least this way it's easily avoidable and ignorable since it's just a minor annoyance that doesn't change the rest of the story. Very unfortunate for those that wanted Halsin to be more, though.

As for the Red Prince, I only played D:OS2 multiplayer and we all played custom characters. I did hear it was more hinted at that his romance would end the way it did though. Not that I even know how it ended, but I assume it was something people were not happy with.

Regardless, I'm happy with the work he did on Shadowheart otherwise. And while I am not at all attracted by a big bulky man like Halsin, I too enjoyed his writing for the first two acts.

Last edited by Michieltjuhh; 06/10/23 01:08 AM.