Originally Posted by Sobocles
It's a shame that Larian still hasn't bothered to remove or at least modify anything about all that infamous garbage with Shadowheart and Halsin. They're not even capable of removing the flirt dialogue from what I've read. I mean, we're not even asking for it to be removed, just to put it in a poly romance with those two, but they don't even want to do that. From what I see, they made a change with Gale due to a single post I saw on Larian's Discord where someone complained that the game didn't allow you to be kind and understanding to him for not wanting to participate in the interaction with the drow twins, and immediately Larian solved the problem. Why don't they do the same with SH if people have been asking for it for a while? Could it be because their writer doesn't want to? I honestly believe that's the case. Apparently, they intend to change Astarion's reaction when you cheat on him with Mizora. I think they should at least do the same with Shadowheart since her current reaction doesn't fit either route, and Shadowheart and Astarion are two equivalent characters, so to speak. It seems Larian is going to implement the ultimatum dialogue; I would prefer them to solve the problem at its root instead of avoiding it, but well, at least we have a canonical way to get rid of Halsin xD.

I agree with you, it feels so weird if the Tav is in a relationship with someone who openly flirts with another party member, same as if said party member tries to flirt with Tav's LI. Like they don't give a damn f what the Tav thinks?
Put all of that in a poly relationship, give the player the chance to have any polycule they want and then it's fine, but not in a mono relationship. If they really care about diversity, they should add any combination of polycules and not just Halsin + Astarion/SH.

I feel like Larian wants to keep the flirty stuff between the characters because there are still too many peeps on Twitter who are shipping different combinations of origin characters. That being said, those are the same people who are all in for adding Halsin to the Astarion relationship while the latter feels really uncomfortable with it and even shows how bad he's hurt if you read between the lines.

Last edited by Filia; 23/02/24 09:14 PM.

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