Honestly, your post there was what kind of gave me the courage to try and make this into its own discussion rather than part of the larger thread there. If anything, I should be thanking you. It feels less lonely knowing others have the same feelings as I do.

I really wanted to highlight this because I'm afraid it would be overlooked in favor of the more broad topic. I debated on putting this in Feedback or the Character/Story forum but I figured maybe Larian would have a better chance of seeing it here?

And I know what you mean. I was "lucky" enough that I saw a post about it before I encountered it myself. I abandoned the save I was playing too, because I thought his romance would be fun but- yeah. Now I really don't even want to interact with him in the story because it feels like I'm a joke or something, you know?