Originally Posted by ldo58
There are many things that you could sum up as faulty or that could be done better in the BG3 story and cast, but this
Quote
Orin feels like a edgelordy serial killer ripoff of Harlequin.
is a totally wrong statement. In fact it has it all backwards. The seductive evil and cruel mass-murderer woman is a thousands-of-years old archetype in mythology and consequently fantasy literature. (Think of Circe, Medea, Morrigan..)
So they really nailed Orin very well as a Fantasy creature. One could see Harlequin as a superhero ripoff from the fantasygenre

None of the three you mention are homicidal maniacs and none of them are portrayed at the level of a pantomime villain in the ancient texts.