I read through pretty much the whole thread and I disagree pretty much entirely with the title itself. The real problem is just that however the dialogue is coded, the portrayals of Halsin and Shadowheart BOTH suffer tremendously for Halsin's forced involvement in a Shadowheart romance if he has explicitly been rejected. That should be changed. The rest I look back to papercut's post on page 7, Shadowheart's writing is otherwise totally fine (though I do miss the barbs from Early Access). It adjusts slightly pending the choices of the individual (as does the contextual reading of certain interactions), and there's nothing wrong or unrealistic about that.

I don't see a reason anything needs to change (on Shadowheart's end) except the rejected Halsin interactions. It all checks out to me otherwise.

Last edited by Auric; 09/10/23 04:49 AM.