If the game really wanted to humanize the sex workers it would give you the chance to later learn how Mamzell Amira takes 80% of their profits and keeps them as forced labour (...)
You mean like the circus employees? When you enter the circus it's all fun & games in a slightly morbidly humorous way, but if you steal Lucretious's ledger and consider the implications of Dribble's quest, things look a little darker.
The seven original spawns, especially Leon and Dalyria:
Leon is the father of Victoria and tries to protect her.It seems that he succeeded and the body we can find is in fact not his daughter, but an urchin. I do feel with him to want to keep his daughter save and I'm glad, Victoria seemed to have made it. But pulling an innocent urchin into the mix and letting her get killed put a damper again on my pity for him. Still, there is probably not much, he could have done and it seemed, he tried to keep the urchin safe too by putting that curse on her. I now am even more motivated to save him, so that his daughter can be reunited with her dad.
Dalyria was the one, who killed the child. I felt bad for her in my first playthrough, before I discovered, what she did. She might have done a lot of bad stuff on Cazadors orders and that is nothing, she can be held accountable for, since she couldn't refuse, but killing the girl was her decision and that made me really dislike her. I have read, you can disrupt Cazadors ritual by killing one of the spawn - didn't do that before, but I might rethink that, because I do think, Dalyria has all the makings of a mad scientist (she killed the girl, because she thought it will cure her).
I don't have strong opinions about the other spawns (apart from the one, that is our companion of course), since we don't learn a whole lot about them.
Interesting, though I think Victoria is dead and the curse was mostly meant for Cazador, who seems to have had plans for the girl. I do like that the other spawn aren't perfect victims. When I first met Dal, I wondered how she could have remained so sweet and caring as on of Cazador's spawn. When I found her journal it revealed another side, that she is also a proud of her original profession and station and that she didn not want to blindly follow Cazador into his ritual, but tried to find a way out before doomsday. The way out is of course cruel and I fear my vampire bookclub will have to deal with a bunch of inter personal issues, one resurrection and a generally rocky start. ^^
I think my opinion is changing again, to dislike Wulbren even more, lol. He's also hypocritical for wanting to kill the Gondians forced to work for Gortash, considering he calls his forebears working with Sarevok "nothing more than foolishness."
I felt that he was maybe also a little bit jealous of the Gondian's achievement in a "they get funding for their project because they have no moral concerns, I on the other hand have to live in squalor without any recognition because I am righteous" sense.
In the future, I have to pay more attention to the different reasonings the Ironhand Gnomes give for having joined the cause. Laridda and Lunkbug seem to be mostly in it for their significant others. Then, in my most recent game, Philomeen died and Laridda never learned the truth about Philomeen's feelings, and when I encountered Laridda again, she had become very eager and hoped that if the day ever came, she'd die just as bravely for the cause. It shocked me a little.
