Originally Posted by Liarie
Here's a question for all of you folks who have solomanced Halsin -- if one stays monogamous with him, and doesn't visit brothels or entertain devils, the only letdown is the end? I'm not giving this the thumbs up, I'm just wondering if I should risk it at all.

When I soloromanced him, I didn't really notice anything particular other than the ending that stood out to me in regards to him hitting on other companions. I did also visit the brothel with him just to see what people were talking about and then rolled back to before. As much as I dislike the brothel scene, having soloromanced Halsin I didn't really find any of it particularly odd at the time. It was Tav who asked Halsin if he was up for it, and he said yes, and they went in and spend a couple of minutes with the drow where the drow were basically just watching, and then it was over. Obv, the revelation that came out of it about SA and all was not suited for that particular situation (still standing in the room with the drow).

But if we skip the part with the brothel, most of my issues still lie with the ending, and the fact that he refuses to call it a relationship, and how it sort of seems he's pushing the player towards being with others.

When he says (with an emphasis on the word I): "I only want you. But I won't hoard you to myself. Let others know the pleasure of being with you." To me that felt icky. It felt like he was pushing my character towards sleeping with other people, as if he had some fetish where he wanted to watch, or just know that he had scored with someone attractive enough to entice other people too. I don't know. Probably reading too much into it, but it really bothered me that I wasn't able to tell him I didn't want to be with anyone but him.

Add to that how he sort of doesn't do anything in ACT 3 and it was the perfect letdown for me. The only thing to do with him in ACT 3 as a LI was to ask him for a kiss and enjoy the short line he gives you when you approach to talk to him. Other than that, it was the same dialogue over and over and over again until he finally left you in the end.

To clarify: I also don't really pay attention to many of the "in world" banter that happens unfortunately. I'm the kind of person who tend to move the camera far from my group to find where I'm going and click in advance, so often times, the companion voices end up so far away or low in volume that I don't catch what they're saying. So I haven't come across any inappropriate behavior from Halsin here.


Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
Hmm. I don't know if I should open this can of worms, but... if you're romancing Halsin + Astarion and you kiss Astarion out in the "open world" with Halsin in your party, Halsin makes a comment. Unfortunately I can't remember what the comment was. I wonder how, uh, voyeuristic it sounded, and if he has a similar thing reacting to Shadowheart/Tav. (Astarion will also react to you kissing Halsin; and Gale will react if you'd been romancing him earlier in the game, then broke up! I couldn't believe it...).

I'm not going to say I'm certain here, but I have some memory of Halsin commenting on Tav kissing Astarion (while also romancing Halsin), and I think Halsin just said something about nature and love and wonderful. Not in a creepy way, but more like "Finding true love is certainly one of nature's most wonderful gifts".

Last edited by EMar; 17/10/23 08:27 AM.