You have a very wrong understanding of what "waifu" means. A waifu is a woman who loves you unconditionally - just for who you are.
A waifu is someone's ideal romantic partner. Or more commonly, a character that people have parasocial feelings for.
What's the difference from what I described? It's not parasocial — every hikki dreams of having that kind of relationship in real life.
This doesn't involve unconditional love.
Ok, call it attraction or desire if you don't like the word "love", what's the differnce? It feels like you're just nitpicking over word choice.
1) There are no male waifus. Married men are not wives, hence they're not waifus
Everyone understood me. No point in throwing around pedantic terms when they don't matter.
2) Christian Grey is not a husbando. In fact, he's actually an incredibly shitty character and person.
3) Fifty Shades of Grey became popular because it was a mainstream way of exploring the taboo regarding bondage
You missed the original point completely. He's a powerful pos, but she bent him - because he loved her. That's the core fantasy for many women in this story: having a powerful scumbag they can bend and control.
Given the sheer popularity of Shadowheart, Astarion, Karlach and Lae'zel... I don't think they did.
Lovable and popular are different things. The whole game is a gem — everything about it is popular. But if you break it down into individual components, not everything is nice and shiny.
Just because YOU personally hate Shadowheart and Lae'zel and deem Karlach not attractive enough for your tastes, doesn't mean that Larian failed.
Are you sure you have a background in psychology?
I'm very curious how you managed to get to 150 hours and only now suddenly are having issues with characters. How were you going through the game that you had 0 interactions with Lae'zel and Shadowheart? While seemingly not wanting to play with male companions or hirelings?
Huh? My last playthrough was with Lae'zel regretting not killing me at the camp. It took 170 hours. I'm on my fourth playthrough right now
Hirelings only have Withers voice if you actively talk to them...
So they do have Withers' voice, right?
