It might just be me, but I never felt it was this type of group or that I was that type of leader. I mostly feel like my character got the job because nobody else wanted it, and the group is just a bunch of unlikely maybe-friends who stick together because you have a shared problem and don't even 100% agree on what the problem is. (Just my impression of course.)
And I can see why folks who romance Wyll have a bit of an issue with Karlach's Avernus ending, since giving up your fairytale ending so you and your sweetheart can go on a road-trip to hell with your bestie, isn't a very conventional romantic fantasy. But if you romance Karlach your character stays by his lover's side through the worst, that's pretty romantic, even in the sense of the examples you gave in your first post. Just that not the side character sacrifices everything for the protagonist, but that the protagonist sacrifices their comfort to be with their lover. The reasonable case is, so she does not have to be alone.
Last edited by Anska; 09/10/25 08:30 PM.
