Originally Posted by Syraxfyre
Another thing I just thought of is that it seems like the writers acknowledge that Halsin is this groomer type, which makes me think this is all intentional. After things get serious with Astarion and you ask him what he thinks about going poly with Halsin, even his reaction is subtly like *Uhh... Halsin is a creep who seduces everyone... But ok. You do you.* given the fact that he already knows that Halsin wants to get into Tav's pants, and makes a passive insult / mockery of Halsin's character by saying that the mighty nature loving bear "Would outlaw clothing if he could".

It's pretty interesting that Astarion is seemingly against Halsin or at least he sees through Halsin's charming attitude and whats beneath it. So if that's written (and recorded) intentionally, it makes the writing (and the writers) even more questionable, because what'S the lesson to be learned here? Every groomer or creep can end up as a pretty normal LI who lives with you? Thats BS. Be careful not to fall for a charming guy? If so, why do we never really get to see a really bad ending to that? I don't know. What's obvious is, is that no one can defend Larian like "Yeah they didn't pay attention" or "Maybe it's just a mistake".

Also, if Halsin has been written like this to serve as an option to a poly relationship, why would you even come up with negativity towards him (like Astarion does)? It's the Tav who looks dumb in the end.
I will never even understand how people are celebrating a Halsin-Astarion poly, especially not if you see how it hurts Astarion. When I saw his line about him being worried if you want to f*ck Halsin just because Tav and Astarion havent had *it* for a while, I really felt how hurt he was.

If you want to answer to any of my posts with just hate, please just don't answer at all.

If you want just to white knight everything and can't accept opinions, please don't even answer me.

Thank you!