Originally Posted by Noelle666
Originally Posted by Backinstyle
People keep saying that Astarion isn't a good fit because he's traumatized. Yet Shadowheart being tricked into torturing her own parents for like 30 years isn't traumatizing? Plus all the other stuff she's had to endure. Neither of them are a good fit I don't think.

I agree that Lae'zel would have made a better choice though because she definitely shows interest in being quite open early on. So it wouldn't come as a surprise to anyone if she were into poly or open relationships.
Yes, both Astarion and Shadowheart do not really fit for poly relationships, as it was said in their threads too. Shadowheart was chosen, I guess, because she and Halsin share the same writer. Astarion is, in some way, a fan service character (remember Only Fangs video?) who is expected to be very sexually opened (I would call it that way), very seducive until you realise why he acts like this.

Is it not more than just a matter of them not simply being fit for poly relationships (casual sex is more accurate here I think), but is actually very problematic for them to be used as such, given their trauma? They're both being taken advantage of and it makes me so uncomfortable.

I think the time and money that was spent on the drow/orgy scenes would have been better spent on making Halsin an actual companion with a story line in act 3. More people would have benefitted from this overall. And the romantic sex scenes we get with the companions were plenty enough for erotic content in the game, and were more meaningful. Larian obviously had a limited amount of time, but surely they could have come up with something better (and less problematic) like that tree in act 3 someone mentioned before. This would have made Halsin more likeable too.