I think there's a lot of hangup on the choices you don't want to make anyway.

Like people don't want to cheat on her, but they are upset about how she reacts if they do. Well, you didn't want to cheat on her in the first place, the problem only exists because you have meta-knowledge about the code and writing outside of your roleplaying choices. Non-cheating Tav never learns or knows about Shadowheart's reaction to cheating, so non-cheating Tav wouldn't really have any thoughts or concerns about it. In terms of immersiveness I don't see a problem (with the caveat about the messy Halsin situation that can happen even if you aren't looking to make those choices).

Character inconsistency and writing is a different story, it's a meta-discussion and can of course include everything you know about the character in every scenario.

And propagation of rape-culture from a character that is supposed to represent good and healthy values is a real world problem and a very important discussion, because real people matter, unlike pixels and code.

Last edited by papercut_ninja; 07/10/23 02:20 PM.