Personally I do not see any "greater scheme of things". The sex fantasies are the great scheme and the companions were designed for that, including the elven supremacy. Honestly, the cast of BG3 reminds me more of a visual novel dating game cast than companions for a RPG. And the only character in BG3 that might make any "Top X RPG character" lists is Raphael, but none of the companions.
Its no coincidence that all discussions about the BG3 characters are about sex and that NPCs got upgraded to companions because of thirsting. Larian planned to make sex a central attribute for their companions to get away with otherwise mediocre personalities and stories.
So don't blame the fans for thirsting, they are just doing what Larian designed the companions for.
I think you'll find that the most common complaint by a long shot is that there is not enough act 3 content for origin companions, romance or not, including epilogues. But there's little more to say there other than "Hey, we want more." so it's not a point of discussion. Well, except the Karlach thread, which is bigger than the rest combined and talks specifically about her lack of content, not her sex scenes being out of place.
I also think the lack of racial diversity in the cast is unfortunate. Helia would've been a welcome addition. But to slight the personalities of the ones we have.. well, I find them to have great personalities, in no small part thanks to the excellent work of the voice actors/actresses. Them having a bad personality is a take I'd expect someone to have when they killed them all before reaching the grove because they question your decisions at the start. I like that, I want to be questioned. Give me pause to think about what I'm doing.
Originally Posted by papercut_ninja
I am not taling about the sex connected to the origin romances as side content. I am talking about sex with drow sex workers, devils, demons and mindflayers. They don't matter to the story at all and are just fully optional little erotic side adventures.
Ah, yeah, that much is true. It's just unfortunate that in some of those cases they add backstory to them, meaning that it's impossible to tell if it was merely there as a porn script to appease the hornies or canon. With that in mind I almost prefer the Emperor/Haarlep situations, where your companions don't even acknowledge it. Therefore those are completely ignorable as porn and nothing more.
