Originally Posted by Marielle
Oh, it's obvious to anyone with a clear head (especially if your partner has a history of severe trauma related to this). I may have spoken too harshly, but it really hits a nerve. I truly understand and sympathize with all the Shadowheart fans who are pissed off about the whole Halsin mess. It's much easier for me, I feel rage for Astarion, not at Astarion himself, but when your beloved wants such a thing... It's a pain.
Thats the thing, it feels extremely OOC if you think about it more(for Shadowheart) and can be justfied only by writers "fun" or bugged something.
Selunite Shadowheart:
Act1 all you can get from her is romantic date ending with the kiss. She doesn't sleep around when unromanced(at all stages of the game), shows interest only in MC. Doesn't want to be a spare lover("In truth...I don't think I'd wanted to be your spare love" is literally her quote from poly proposals in act2) Has all this sweet talk at the end of act2/act3 on romanced path. Her act 3 scene is the most romantic and vanilla one. Her epilogue is very wholesome on selunite path aswell. You are basically in for the fairytale with Selunite Shadowheart's romance.

The Halsin comes, ruins your beautiful act3 scene in the morning by proposing a threesome(just instantly, so ehhh, I saw you f*cking, lets f*ck together next time), putting his nose into brothel shit. Worst of it all is that she actually doesn't fend him off and answers with reciprocity and tells that she dreamt of f*cking him. Of course it raises fat questions and rightfully so.

Then she is back to her normal self like nothing of this happened, Halsin becomes nothing for her again and acts like nothing of this happened.

Sharran Shadowheart
Well, her first thing that she says in act3 is that she can't really love you because Shar forbids this, but you can have all the fun with her. Her act3 scene is disturbing. She breaks up with MC in the epilogue no matter what.
Shouldn't she fit well into all this poly stuff? Like she shouldn't be threatened at all by this scenarios. Cheat with Mizora? No problem, she would've done this too probably. Climb mount Halsin? Hell yes. Orgies? Of course, these are fun.

Don't you see difference in personalities and goals for these paths? Like I don't understand why Larian haven't separated it when it makes perfect sense for 1 path to be into this things and 0 sense for the other path.

Last edited by Netav; 09/01/24 10:25 AM.