#I just can't imagine his romance being any fun if you're playing an emotionally mature Tav that instantly zeroes in on his trauma

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complaints like "my character wouldn't do this" about key elements of an optional narrative are always so weird to me like what do you mean not everyone treats their first playthrough of an RPG as a rough draft to use to figure out what kinda character would best suit their preferred storyline and love interest?

#am I just weird? #I come up with concepts but I don't get a true feel for my character until at the very least halfway through a first pt #and it's not until the second pt I can fully flesh them out #bg3 was kind of exceptional for me in that the concept I had come up with for Tav worked incredibly well with how I went through the story #and with Shadowheart's romance in particular #so much so that I barely had to change anything #but I was still filling in details and expanding on stuff #that's half the fun it's like colaborative storytelling with what the game has to offer #bg3 #like if I was romancing Astarion Id be either an evil mofo or some naive fool not seeing through his tricks #or even a selfish neutral Tav like the one I already have just manipulating him back #but those are just a few options of course #I just can't imagine his romance being any fun if you're playing an emotionally mature Tav that instantly zeroes in on his trauma #and refuses to take advantage of him #that's just removing most of the story beats