Originally Posted by Michieltjuhh
Originally Posted by Amirit
Maybe it never triggered in my games because I romance Astarion.

Aye, Astarion will be Lae'zel's first choice (in my experience) if you choose anyone else than her or Astarion. And unlike with Wyll, it actually happens (Wyll just talks with her). However, this can easily be excused by Astarion taking the opportunity to do the same with Lae'zel as he would with Tav. She is after all a very strong warrior and a perfectly fine option to try seduce for protection if Tav isn't interested.

Originally Posted by MarbleNest
I kind of view Astarion as being similar to myself, just flipped; he likely only feels both physical and emotional attraction to men, but over the 200 years he was having to bring people back to Cazador and essentially sell his body out to do so, he can likely at least manage an emotional attraction to a woman, even if it may not fully extend to physical attraction. I think if you put a male and female Tav with him, and they both tried to romance him, he would be more partial to a male Tav over a female Tav. That doesn't mean he can't feel anything for a female Tav at all... just, that preferences would still create a bias.

And this more or less highlights the issue I can support. All companions are written to treat the player character the exact same no matter the choices you make in character selection (with the exception of class, and sometimes race, mainly Githyanki I think). The only thing that will matter otherwise is your in-game choices. So the dialogue remains the same no matter who you romance him as. That's also how the game is advertised and as far as I know it works just fine for all other companions (if you can accept the Gale/Mystra situation).

Therefore, if a male Tav roleplayer will get the feeling that Astarion is interested in them emotionally and physically, but a female Tav roleplayer only gets the feeling that he's interested in them emotionally, then I can fully understand people have an issue with that.

Originally Posted by andromeda087
basically, I always play myself in every game (lack of imagination, I guess).

Or you just imagine yourself being a lot of different things. Nothing wrong with that.

People seem to misunderstand to issue here, it has nothing to do with a playersexuality. It has everything to do with a fact that Larian deemed appropriate to make a clearly "one sexuality oriented" guy as a romance option for traditional female player. There is nothing in Astarion's past story to indicate that he is even remotely interested in females. Nothing.

Please, if I missed something then bring it to light. I have a friend who is of the same particular orientation as Astarion, and I can assure you that under no circumstances he would ever consider getting in to the relationship with a opposite sex.

The problem here is not Astarion's orientation, but the fact that Larian didn't change his story to fit role-playing a female romance with him. With the way his story is presented in the FULL RELEASE game, I just don't see how it's even feasible for him to romance anyone but a male.


Unless his story is corrected to show more of sexual preferences (different romances in his past for example), it is all one-sided.