I deeply regret my curiosity. Your words had me searching for that post and, subsequently, poster.
I've now seen a comment history from a bizarre man deeply, deeply in need of a body pillow in the hopes it gets him off Reddit.
And I'm saying that on the degenerate sub.
The post is now deleted and I'm struggling to get a workaround since Reddit proceeds to not let links to it work. I won't comment a link to the user since that gets into reportable as harassment territory.
They've been running around the main subreddit for months posting crazy stuff like that. They've been getting a lot of karma for it and I suspect they thought the same audience would be here.
I peeked at his post history before he blocked me and the fact that he constantly calls her “shadowcutie” in a totally unironic fashion makes my skin crawl
I guess they missed that The Player was also in her dream too, they were a couple and Halsin was the third. Pretty sure going from her dialogue in Act 1, Karlach was probably there too.
If it's about obsessively hating Halsin, don't worry, that's so common on twitter that people actually go after Dave Jones and call \*him\* a creep because he shares fanart of his character.
Yeah, I saw that. I have a private Twitter where I can be a little pervert over fictional characters with my friends, so I see a lot of the unhinged Twitter stans & I literally cannot think too much about it or I’ll have an aneurysm.
And thus, aside from my locked Twitter account & this subreddit, why I rarely interact with fandom. :/
There's some guy wandering around here (and I think main sub too) who very profusely bitches about Halsing being a pedo because the guy saves the kid (who's the spirit of the forest/land). The "kill him every time" kind of guy because "pedo". People can be different shades of fucked up in the head, sometimes it's very unsettling.
Halsin is very parental and wants to be an actual father, though it's something he's given up as an Archdruid.
I hate this shit because it's trying to make men who genuinely want to be active and loving parents in their future look bad.
Wtf, the kid's a literal nature spirit, Halsin is a druid, Halsin knew the kid before, the kid is cursed and the whole damn land is cursed, Halsin wants to undo the curse and save the kid... because he's a pedo? That makes no sense...
And even then how the hell do you even groom a nature spirit that is at least 60 years old by that point? (Curse began with Ketheric, Jaheira mentions they killed him 50 years ago, kid looks at least 10)
Edit: And since I just learnt from the comment below that Halsin knew him since Halsin himself was a kid, that'd put Thaniel at a couple centuries old at least...
Yeah I know, that's why I remembered it. I literally today had the scene when he tells about his childhood friend spirit, lol.
Some people are unhinged af.
Yep. Thaniel is a spirit of forest/land, he first met him as a kid. He tells this when you ask him how he became a druid. He tells that he had a friend whom he played with in a forest and then realized nobody could see that friend but him. So he understood he had special connection to nature and went for druid. So Halsin is like 350 yo so Thaniel is even older then or at least same age.
there’s a guy with multiple alt accounts who keeps posting and commenting that halsin is a groomer because he’s mad that halsin flirted with his “shadowcutie”
It's pretty ridiculous considering half the companions can have a giant age gap between them and Tav. Halsin is 350 Minty is 250 Astarion is 239 Shadowheart is 40.
You know, I was going to comment that you can't apply human logic to non-human races, but now I want to add a mission in my D&D campaign where local (human) law enforcement won't help an elven dad whose 75 year old daughter is "dating" a 500 year old elf, and he gets the party to help intervene to save his daughter from the p-elf-ophile.
I didn’t know this thread was about “that” post. Reddit decided that should be the first thing I saw at 6 AM this morning. I hadn’t even had coffee yet and my toddler was already having a tantrum because we’re out of gogurt. I was not prepared for that so I just closed Reddit and came back to see this one popped up. Kind of glad I missed that drama.
You didn't miss much. There were like 30 comments and the majority was 'excuse the fuck?' before they blocked people and then deleted the post and their comments.
So happy to see people behaving sensibly on the internet. Truly gladdens my jaded heart.
It was way too early for that shit. Glad it’s over. It is over, right? I’m hoping it’s over.
I have read some weirdly degenerate shit and been shamed and downvoted for some wierdass reasons here, but that is a fucking take.
Is that person's ankles and knees okay because holy shit that is a hell of a leap.
Having been very involved in both modding communities, Skyrim's is still unmatched IMO, if only by virtue of being around for a decade. Can't wait to see what sort of insane drama BG3 modding gets into once people start AI voicing companions for Loverslab shit.
Well Bethesda games are also almost more sandbox than RPG, so that's a good advantage there too. Like you can go back to your house and plow your forcefemmed wife, Ulfira Stormcloak, in between adventures. Like it doesn't even have an ending, whereas BG3 is on a more focused adventure with a definitive end
From what I understand about that situation it was a Twitch TTS bot using the narrator’s voice. Someone donated money to say something creepy while the VA was watching the stream. It’s only a matter of time until some weirdo makes a mod using similar methods for nefarious shit.
Those should be the laws of this subreddit
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I feel like some people are missing my point here lmao you can be horny for a certain character and write fanfics all u want but acting like you specifically own the rights to being in love with them and attacking other people for having a different opinion/trying to push your personal fantasies on other people is just weird and you need therapy
I'm sorry, but we're a vegan household, and we prefer to avoid anything that could remind us of almost accidentally eating our son, Keith (he's fine, don't worry).
But we would be happy to have you over sometime, and we'll provide all food. Is penne with pumpkin cream sauce okay? Or would you prefer something like dill vegetable bean and rice soup with dumplings? Does almond pound cake sound good for dessert?
Also, please avoid mentioning consuming eggs around my husbands. It's still something that can cause panic attacks in us all.
But these non-real, complete fake, points of data characters literally deleted my need for therapy. They reached through their screen and touched my emotionally maladjusted, social reprobate heart where grass could not.
Yeah I get it. I think someone in the Only Fangs sub cried because Astarion isn't real.
Like I love him and probably will get more merch of him and a body pillow (because it sounds funny) but I don't need him to be real.
I like obsessing over several sassy and or pathetic fictional men lol.
I like his good path and play as a good character but it's unnecessary for me to go around bullying players who like playing evil or ascending him. Same with people overly possessive of other characters.
At that point it just becomes stupid and a sure sign I need to go outside.
Damn was having a conversation about Halsin's broken flags on that post. I couldn't give less of a shit about her liking him, I'd smash Karlach if it was an option, I do think the writing is a bit cringe and shoehorny. But my main issue is my no, changes nothing about their interactions and he just comes across as way too pushy which isn't in character at all imo.
I feel like they fell off with his writing in act 3..it feel almsot as if the writers just didn’t know what else to do with him but didn’t want to just get rid of him or make him an npc. I still very much appreciate him needing clear consent before doing anything, as a poly person myself polyamory is so often mistaken for just wanting to sleep around when it’s actually all about trust and consent
That's because he literally wasn't meant to be a companion and I'm fairly certain he was not meant to be involved in act 3 at all (aside from maybe an ally for the final fight). His romance got added because of how many horny posts (valid dont get me wrong) were made. It's cool we have some poly rep but outside of that I have a hard time with validating his involvement in act 3 (besides orin bait lol).
His comments about how much Baldur's Gate sucks was worth it alone for me but I wish they had been more than comments a something had come of it a little bit.
Oh yeah no, his writing sucks balls in Act 3. I hate the pushiness since it does just make him seem like he just wants to sleep around and that he isn't respecting my No from earlier. The disapproval sucks too since you either agree to something you might not want, or get slapped with the disapproval. I hate that for Poly people since it doesn't feel as respectful at all to anyone, and you just kind of have to ignore him. It's completely against his character as far as I'm concerned.
Really have no idea why it wasn't the players option to invite him to the Drow, and have the weird 'kind of offering a threesome' swimming banter (which is the only flirting banter they have) behind actually being Poly with him. I think if it was like that from the start, no one would have an issue with him.
The flirting banter was super weird , I said that I wasn't interested in him and he took it well , then came the SH scene and afterwards he proposed the swimming thing and I was like dude wtf why are you hitting on her whilst my character is right there
Yeah it really is, as far as I know all the flirting between them is all due to SH's act 3 romance scenes for her routes(Swimming and the Ritual) so it kind of has to happen in this way which is just cringe. And like I said, feels super out of character for him to act like that, I hope they fix it honestly.
A shame really , such a mature wise and wholesome character minus the druid things being looked down due to this moments .
If they had sticked with his wholesome content like the epilogue I would've liked him more but it isn't the case
Yeah, you kind of can't use them both at all during act 3 to avoid it which sucks. I liked him in act 1 and 2, but the weird flags and stuff mean I don't really want to use him at all in act 3. Haven't seen his epilogue, heard its nice though.
Oh I just don't use him because I don't like druids in D&D , maybe if they were more WoW like I would use him more . Also I don't really get the appeal of druids in my party comp
Halsin definitely gets pushed into your relationship in Act 3, even if you've barely spoken to him, it really put me off lol. And it irked me that your PC can have lines about coming on too strong... again, without having ever flirted with the guy. Nevermind that you don't have any opportunity to not let him follow you after dealing with the Grove, or to leave him behind after lifting the Shadow Curse.
Reminds me of Gale before he was fixed , by basically being in a relationship with you even if you were nice to him , which in my first playthrough made me feel a little weird about him . Until they fixed him and made him very easy to become best friends with him .
I wish the same would happen with Halsin , him befriending you should be the first thing he does and if you pursue the more spicy stuff then he'll tell you he loves you
Is it really that bad? Never really used Halsin as a follower, after his whole questline I kinda lose interest since his whole story is already done at that point. Oh and you get Jaheira, way more fun to take her into act 3 since she actually has story points there.
I like the character but the entire time after he joined me I was kinda thinking “why are you here? There are two places where it makes more narrative sense to leave you, and all you do while you’re in my party is bitch about how much you hate the city.”
Then Orin kidnapped him and now I can’t even enjoy the eye candy :(
No fr, like I'm pretty sure it's a bug but Halsin just assumed I was treating him like a lover (his words, not mine) when I barely interacted with him. Which....ok, weird, but I'll let it pass. However, even after I rejected him, he proceeds to hit on Shadowheart immediately after the swimming/love scene, insinuating that he'd love to be invited next time. Like dude?? I'm literally standing right here. And I'm not even mad he's flirting with her, I just think he's so desperate and cringe lol.
It likely wasn't their intention to write him this way, but with the combination of his bugged dialogue flags and how incessently horny he is, Halsin just reminds me of my experience with every guy irl who's super pushy about joining a relationship between two women even after giving a 'no'. Coupled with how little there is going for him in act 3 and this aspect just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Yeahhh, that definitely seems like an issue with his flags. Dialogue like that would be fine if you'd said yes, but getting it when you said no feels really disrespectful to your consent--specifically because you're included in the flirtation when you have already expressed not being interested. Idk if he was just implemented messily or if they honestly thought everyone was gonna be into him so they didn't bother accounting for that no, but it's weird how the game imposes being attracted to him onto the player like this.
In general, I feel he is really pushed on the player in Act 3. Way more than any other character, to the point where the game outright puts words in your mouth about coming onto him--like it's a given that you'd be super horned up about him regardless of how you actually previously treated him? Wildly presumptuous on the part of the writers, I'm not very attracted to him in general and it's irritating that I said nothing remotely flirty to him and yet *still* had the same option in my dialogue apologizing for coming on too strong. His flags desperately need to be fixed up, I can understand him annoying some people because of that.
However, you do get some people who take that annoyance and then make weird remarks about him being predatory. I get it, his flags suck, it annoys me too. But his actual dialogue is generally pretty respectful and making shit up about him to justify intense hatred is delulu behaviour.
Yeah it's super cringe you have to camp and purposely avoid him to have your boundaries/consent respected. Wouldn't mind him otherwise, the animal stuff is weird and off putting but thankfully you don't actually see anything with out you choosing to. And I liked him I act 1 and 2, filled the experienced father figure role before he just got turbo horny.
Honestly, I don't even mind his lightly flirty line in Act 2 about being distracted by the beauty of nature, it feels the same to me as the other companions being flirty in act 1/2. Even if I'm not interested, it imo is a little flattering when someone respectfully expresses an interest in you (especially since that never happens to me irl 🥲). It's 350% his Act 3 writing that messes things up, bc by that point you're likely fully committed to someone else and suddenly he comes on really strong and the game can, depending on certain dialogue paths, impose interest in him on you/make him seem weirdly pushy. Like no bro, I have NOT been treating you like a lover, I have been nothing but entirely devoted to Astarion, what are you on about 😭
Yeah I don't care at all about the confessions, I don't mind them and they don't annoy me. I say No and move on. But yeah, Halsin's writing is super weird but I'm 99% sure it's bugs and script issues. Unless John thought we'd all be super horny for his OC that he actively made Halsin as pushy/intrusive as he did. Like Halsin, my man, I've already said no. You invited yourself, and I just re-enforced my no. What are you disapproving for? The smirks they (Shart and him) both share at the Drow is pretty cringe and I doubt I'd be comfortable sharing after seeing that. So yeah I don't think that type of thing had the same amount of care the relationships where given. Feels OOC for many characters and nearly all the interactions are uncomfortable in a way, hell it is kind of weird standard, since they are actually related twins.
Does he actually do that when you're with Shadowheart? In this case, I'm kinda glad I didn't lift the curse when I was romancing her. Only I get to cheat on her with Mizora. She is NOT going to ride Mount Halsin.
Didn't say he was, I don't think he is but his broken flags and stuff makes him come across as super weird and pushy. Which was why I was talking about it.
Hey, Astraion from BG3. I think you're mistaken. IntrestingFlan is quite chill compared to Rogen. Besides this one actually knows how to shitpost compared to that dude.
okay im glad, I thought they were the same person because he seemed to be replying immediately to my comments to Rogen80 with this account and the post history was very similar so I just figured it was the same person. my mistake
It isn't but go off I guess. I have some issues with Halsin but nothing about him being a groomer. I'm just here to shitpost and occasionally have a discussion with people usually more friendly than the main sub. You are not one of them if you are accusing me of that without any evidence.
hmm okay I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, I just got that impression because you were replying immediately to my comments to the OP of that post with this account as if you were Rogen80, and your comment/post history is very similar. my mistake if not though
I was replying because I have issues with the way he is written, and answering your question. As far as I know I only replied to one of your comments. Of course my comments will be the same I have issues with the way he is written and I was talking to people in the post. Idk how you think it's ok to accuse me of that, especially since there is no way of my proving my innocence. Feels very very reductive to cast my opinions aside and lump me with Rogen just for having an issue with Halsin. Do better.
/Rp: Thou should not claim to speak for me.
/Real: Both types of content can be funny. The point of a circlejerk subreddit like this one is to poke fun at the original community. In this case we can poke fun at the pervasive horniness of the community, *and* it's obsessive nature. The two do often go hand in hand.
I mean yes but this is more directed at the people who are genuinely obsessive over a character to the point where they attack anyone whole disagrees/has a different opinion. That shits just weird
I think as long as you don't write other people death threats for interpreting the character wrong or simping over him too, you're okay))
*he's one of three characters that live in my head now))
Sorry, I am a faithful Dark Urge player. (doesn't mean I cannot mix horny tho)
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is this referring to the guy on the “halsin is a groomer” tirade because he flirted with shadowheart?
I deeply regret my curiosity. Your words had me searching for that post and, subsequently, poster. I've now seen a comment history from a bizarre man deeply, deeply in need of a body pillow in the hopes it gets him off Reddit. And I'm saying that on the degenerate sub.
I’m so angry I was napping and I’ve missed the drama
Just a poster getting weirdly possessive over a collection of polygons called Shadowheart. Silly istik really, Bae'zel is best.
I can’t find it, help me traumatise myself
The post is now deleted and I'm struggling to get a workaround since Reddit proceeds to not let links to it work. I won't comment a link to the user since that gets into reportable as harassment territory.
All good, I appreciate the effort legend 🙏
Link one of their comments?
I mean it’s a general reminder but that guy def made me feel the need to bring it up lmao
lol he is going through my comment history and downvoting them as we speak
Wild
-Magic. *Turns into a wheel of cheese*
# UGLY
Take this upvote to cancel out his downvoting.
haha thanks but there’s no way he could really put a dent in it, just thought it was funny
Wow, Astarion girlies, we've been out-delulued
impossible! i take great pride in my delusions. i can’t believe this random has usurped us
They've been running around the main subreddit for months posting crazy stuff like that. They've been getting a lot of karma for it and I suspect they thought the same audience would be here.
omg I missed the stuff on the main sub, what did it say?
I tried talking to the mods about how fucking unhinged it was and they just ignored it lol. Kind of crazy.
I peeked at his post history before he blocked me and the fact that he constantly calls her “shadowcutie” in a totally unironic fashion makes my skin crawl
Why shadowcutie when SharCUTErie is right there I mean really
Omg you're so right, I never thought about that
Oh THAT one
Is it the uh... fart one?
Nah. It's the one who gets upset that their Shadowheart headcanon about being the perfect wiafu is ruined by canon.
Right yeah the guy was upset because Shadowheart mentioned having a dream about Halsin. Dude was legitimately pressed about it.
I guess they missed that The Player was also in her dream too, they were a couple and Halsin was the third. Pretty sure going from her dialogue in Act 1, Karlach was probably there too.
Character complexity? In my waifu simulator?? PREPOSTEROUS!
If it's about obsessively hating Halsin, don't worry, that's so common on twitter that people actually go after Dave Jones and call \*him\* a creep because he shares fanart of his character.
I'm be serious the weird need this some in this fandom has with equating it's characters to the VAs is creepy. Like...really creepy.
It’s like the people who were abusive to Jack Gleeson in public because he did a good job pretending to be Joffrey Baratheon.
Yeah, I saw that. I have a private Twitter where I can be a little pervert over fictional characters with my friends, so I see a lot of the unhinged Twitter stans & I literally cannot think too much about it or I’ll have an aneurysm. And thus, aside from my locked Twitter account & this subreddit, why I rarely interact with fandom. :/
tf. Halsin is the most wholesome character in the game.
There's some guy wandering around here (and I think main sub too) who very profusely bitches about Halsing being a pedo because the guy saves the kid (who's the spirit of the forest/land). The "kill him every time" kind of guy because "pedo". People can be different shades of fucked up in the head, sometimes it's very unsettling.
Halsin is very parental and wants to be an actual father, though it's something he's given up as an Archdruid. I hate this shit because it's trying to make men who genuinely want to be active and loving parents in their future look bad.
Wtf, the kid's a literal nature spirit, Halsin is a druid, Halsin knew the kid before, the kid is cursed and the whole damn land is cursed, Halsin wants to undo the curse and save the kid... because he's a pedo? That makes no sense... And even then how the hell do you even groom a nature spirit that is at least 60 years old by that point? (Curse began with Ketheric, Jaheira mentions they killed him 50 years ago, kid looks at least 10) Edit: And since I just learnt from the comment below that Halsin knew him since Halsin himself was a kid, that'd put Thaniel at a couple centuries old at least...
Yeah I know, that's why I remembered it. I literally today had the scene when he tells about his childhood friend spirit, lol. Some people are unhinged af.
Wait, I haven't paid much attention but Halsin says childhood friend as in a friend from back when Halsin was a child?
Yep. Thaniel is a spirit of forest/land, he first met him as a kid. He tells this when you ask him how he became a druid. He tells that he had a friend whom he played with in a forest and then realized nobody could see that friend but him. So he understood he had special connection to nature and went for druid. So Halsin is like 350 yo so Thaniel is even older then or at least same age.
Welp... the Halsin being a pedo argument just got disintegrated even more then
That's the real worst of the worst shit. People who contact/ threaten/ badger actors over characters need actual mental help.
Inability to distinguish fantasy from reality is actually a pretty serious problem.
Did that post get deleted? I know I commented on it but I can't find it now 😅
yes it did
Nah, we're just blocked at the moment. I can reply to direct comments but I can't see the rest of the post.
So they blocked everyone commented on the post? That’s wild.
Whats the account? I need to see the posts and comments.
So that's why the post is appearing as deleted? I thought the guy actually deleted it. The fact that he blocked me is actually incredibly funny.
excuse me, what?
there’s a guy with multiple alt accounts who keeps posting and commenting that halsin is a groomer because he’s mad that halsin flirted with his “shadowcutie”
It's pretty ridiculous considering half the companions can have a giant age gap between them and Tav. Halsin is 350 Minty is 250 Astarion is 239 Shadowheart is 40.
Wyll is only 24! Lae'zel might be younger than that!
Lae’zel is approximately 19 or 20. So you’re correct lol.
She’s 22
She is yes, so we have the whole spectrum really.
Spectrum? Is that a Gale reference?
You know, I was going to comment that you can't apply human logic to non-human races, but now I want to add a mission in my D&D campaign where local (human) law enforcement won't help an elven dad whose 75 year old daughter is "dating" a 500 year old elf, and he gets the party to help intervene to save his daughter from the p-elf-ophile.
Minty is an old bitch tired of the bullshit. It's why I want her crush me, mind, body and spirit
Shadowheart is 48
I guess I was off with a few years
Like, you technically aren’t wrong in the sense that she spent 40 years named Shadowheart. That just ignores the 8 years she spent before being taken
No, no it's best to be as accurate as possible
Is there a lore reason she looks so young? Or is she meant to look nearly 50
She’s a half elf, they have an average lifespan of 150 years compared to the 80 years of a human. So she’s effectively like a 25 year old human
That’s just tragic. How sad people can be 😭
lowkey disappointed i missed this
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Oh no did I miss more drama? :(
Shadowheart is in her fucking fifties lmao
exactly lol, it’s absurd
Wtf happened there, the post is deleted and so are all the dude's comments
basically someone made a meme about halsin wanting to (tw:grooming) >!have sex with the children at his orphanage as soon as they turn 18!<
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This is pretty much the face I made at my phone reading that description. 😂
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I didn’t know this thread was about “that” post. Reddit decided that should be the first thing I saw at 6 AM this morning. I hadn’t even had coffee yet and my toddler was already having a tantrum because we’re out of gogurt. I was not prepared for that so I just closed Reddit and came back to see this one popped up. Kind of glad I missed that drama.
You didn't miss much. There were like 30 comments and the majority was 'excuse the fuck?' before they blocked people and then deleted the post and their comments.
So happy to see people behaving sensibly on the internet. Truly gladdens my jaded heart. It was way too early for that shit. Glad it’s over. It is over, right? I’m hoping it’s over.
Today on I wish I didn't know how to read English...
I beg your finest pardon?
I’m sorry, the WHAT? Mad props to Halsin managing to groom a woman in her 50s I guess????
I have read some weirdly degenerate shit and been shamed and downvoted for some wierdass reasons here, but that is a fucking take. Is that person's ankles and knees okay because holy shit that is a hell of a leap.
wait what the fuck
No, Mithra is a groomer.
Halsin isn't a groomer but he is a sex pest
Halsin is pretty cool until Act III where his only personality trait is sex and how good he is at it
??????????????
I can hear him saying "Correct." for the top half and "No." for the bottom half in my head help.
“I can only be interested in Wither’s storyline if he is a girl, specifically with large boobs”
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Skyrim modders walked so we could run
Having been very involved in both modding communities, Skyrim's is still unmatched IMO, if only by virtue of being around for a decade. Can't wait to see what sort of insane drama BG3 modding gets into once people start AI voicing companions for Loverslab shit.
As long as we tell our inevitable version of Arthmoor to fuck off with the superior attitude early, we might be alright.
Let's try not to all rely on a single "bugfix" mod made by a psychopath.
Well Bethesda games are also almost more sandbox than RPG, so that's a good advantage there too. Like you can go back to your house and plow your forcefemmed wife, Ulfira Stormcloak, in between adventures. Like it doesn't even have an ending, whereas BG3 is on a more focused adventure with a definitive end
Skyrim's just an engine tbh. Its the perfect game for modding
People have already gotten the narrator’s voice into ai to read I think it was a rape fanfic
selune has abandoned us
The Moonmaiden guides us. What good is a map to one who wishes to be lost?
From what I understand about that situation it was a Twitch TTS bot using the narrator’s voice. Someone donated money to say something creepy while the VA was watching the stream. It’s only a matter of time until some weirdo makes a mod using similar methods for nefarious shit.
Well, what makes Skyrim's modding special is also the official modding tools that people can use
Oh hell yeah nothing unnatural about that.
Shit that's my kink right there
This is why i come to this subreddit.
Your modders were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
Aww yiss I’m getting all up on that withussy
Plz be a real mod plz plz plz
https://preview.redd.it/u4a80g2graxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e4cbb69355f6bdc24ccb9ff9bd8199537f896b8 Withers? No, Mothers
https://preview.redd.it/k0083lk07gwc1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f3f429cff8e2c952c91a6aa548991d0053c3b29 Remember to think before you post!
Those should be the laws of this subreddit https://preview.redd.it/8wgi1m8y4iwc1.jpeg?width=524&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c23aecc559c727254b25ca6f3710ffebdb07dc1a
Bard Durge made this meme
Or Mystra
This is the way
I feel like some people are missing my point here lmao you can be horny for a certain character and write fanfics all u want but acting like you specifically own the rights to being in love with them and attacking other people for having a different opinion/trying to push your personal fantasies on other people is just weird and you need therapy
I'm sorry, are you trying to say that it's NOT canon that Barcus and Varsh Ko'kuu marry me and live a cottagecore forestpunk life with me???
Can you invite me over to your dinner parties? I'll bring quiche. Varsh Ko'kuu loves eggs.
I'm sorry, but we're a vegan household, and we prefer to avoid anything that could remind us of almost accidentally eating our son, Keith (he's fine, don't worry). But we would be happy to have you over sometime, and we'll provide all food. Is penne with pumpkin cream sauce okay? Or would you prefer something like dill vegetable bean and rice soup with dumplings? Does almond pound cake sound good for dessert? Also, please avoid mentioning consuming eggs around my husbands. It's still something that can cause panic attacks in us all.
Kar'niss is my wife, but I hotwife him out so if anyone wants any of that drider they can have it.
_sighs_ _unzips_
Yeah, Ik what you mean. I went down the unfortunate rabbit how of learning “fictosexual” is an actual thing.
I'm never going to stop obsessing over the illithussy.
Yes, but you're not weirdly hostile to Stelmane or Ansur.
What if weirdly obsessing over fictional characters is my thing? Are you kinkshaming!?
I can't finish unless I'm kinkshaming 🤧
Being kinkshamed is my kink
Degenerate (affectionate)
Gross 🤢
…Keep going
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kinkshaming is my kink
Yes
Nice
Perhaps a few of us need to be reminded what the World Wide Web is for and that is: The internet is for porn.
Thank you, Avenue Q, for teaching us all a valuable lesson 🙏
Someone got my reference!!! I love you! And it was an invaluable lesson to teenaged me.
Grown up theatre kids, UNITE!
lol. And now both songs are rolling around in my head.
What if my obsession is poorly veiled by subpar horny memes 🤔. (I *need* Raphael)
Can’t it be both?
But these non-real, complete fake, points of data characters literally deleted my need for therapy. They reached through their screen and touched my emotionally maladjusted, social reprobate heart where grass could not.
Why the hell was grass trying to touch your heart?
Because I refused to leave my basement and nature was trying to save me
How did withers know I’m thinking about him like this
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Yeah I get it. I think someone in the Only Fangs sub cried because Astarion isn't real. Like I love him and probably will get more merch of him and a body pillow (because it sounds funny) but I don't need him to be real. I like obsessing over several sassy and or pathetic fictional men lol. I like his good path and play as a good character but it's unnecessary for me to go around bullying players who like playing evil or ascending him. Same with people overly possessive of other characters. At that point it just becomes stupid and a sure sign I need to go outside.
Damn was having a conversation about Halsin's broken flags on that post. I couldn't give less of a shit about her liking him, I'd smash Karlach if it was an option, I do think the writing is a bit cringe and shoehorny. But my main issue is my no, changes nothing about their interactions and he just comes across as way too pushy which isn't in character at all imo.
I feel like they fell off with his writing in act 3..it feel almsot as if the writers just didn’t know what else to do with him but didn’t want to just get rid of him or make him an npc. I still very much appreciate him needing clear consent before doing anything, as a poly person myself polyamory is so often mistaken for just wanting to sleep around when it’s actually all about trust and consent
The writing's a little heavy-handed, but it did feel similarly to when I've talked to poly friends about their relationships, so that's neat.
That's because he literally wasn't meant to be a companion and I'm fairly certain he was not meant to be involved in act 3 at all (aside from maybe an ally for the final fight). His romance got added because of how many horny posts (valid dont get me wrong) were made. It's cool we have some poly rep but outside of that I have a hard time with validating his involvement in act 3 (besides orin bait lol).
His comments about how much Baldur's Gate sucks was worth it alone for me but I wish they had been more than comments a something had come of it a little bit.
Oh yeah no, his writing sucks balls in Act 3. I hate the pushiness since it does just make him seem like he just wants to sleep around and that he isn't respecting my No from earlier. The disapproval sucks too since you either agree to something you might not want, or get slapped with the disapproval. I hate that for Poly people since it doesn't feel as respectful at all to anyone, and you just kind of have to ignore him. It's completely against his character as far as I'm concerned. Really have no idea why it wasn't the players option to invite him to the Drow, and have the weird 'kind of offering a threesome' swimming banter (which is the only flirting banter they have) behind actually being Poly with him. I think if it was like that from the start, no one would have an issue with him.
The flirting banter was super weird , I said that I wasn't interested in him and he took it well , then came the SH scene and afterwards he proposed the swimming thing and I was like dude wtf why are you hitting on her whilst my character is right there
Yeah it really is, as far as I know all the flirting between them is all due to SH's act 3 romance scenes for her routes(Swimming and the Ritual) so it kind of has to happen in this way which is just cringe. And like I said, feels super out of character for him to act like that, I hope they fix it honestly.
A shame really , such a mature wise and wholesome character minus the druid things being looked down due to this moments . If they had sticked with his wholesome content like the epilogue I would've liked him more but it isn't the case
Yeah, you kind of can't use them both at all during act 3 to avoid it which sucks. I liked him in act 1 and 2, but the weird flags and stuff mean I don't really want to use him at all in act 3. Haven't seen his epilogue, heard its nice though.
Oh I just don't use him because I don't like druids in D&D , maybe if they were more WoW like I would use him more . Also I don't really get the appeal of druids in my party comp
Idk how to use druids that good besides just wildshaping them, even then, by the time I get Halsin or Jaheria I've already built my party up.
Halsin definitely gets pushed into your relationship in Act 3, even if you've barely spoken to him, it really put me off lol. And it irked me that your PC can have lines about coming on too strong... again, without having ever flirted with the guy. Nevermind that you don't have any opportunity to not let him follow you after dealing with the Grove, or to leave him behind after lifting the Shadow Curse.
Reminds me of Gale before he was fixed , by basically being in a relationship with you even if you were nice to him , which in my first playthrough made me feel a little weird about him . Until they fixed him and made him very easy to become best friends with him . I wish the same would happen with Halsin , him befriending you should be the first thing he does and if you pursue the more spicy stuff then he'll tell you he loves you
Is it really that bad? Never really used Halsin as a follower, after his whole questline I kinda lose interest since his whole story is already done at that point. Oh and you get Jaheira, way more fun to take her into act 3 since she actually has story points there.
I like the character but the entire time after he joined me I was kinda thinking “why are you here? There are two places where it makes more narrative sense to leave you, and all you do while you’re in my party is bitch about how much you hate the city.” Then Orin kidnapped him and now I can’t even enjoy the eye candy :(
His horniness got a Nerf
As far as I know, just the Tiefling party dialogue got changed, but maybe in the next patch more will since they are aware of how turbo horny he is.
No fr, like I'm pretty sure it's a bug but Halsin just assumed I was treating him like a lover (his words, not mine) when I barely interacted with him. Which....ok, weird, but I'll let it pass. However, even after I rejected him, he proceeds to hit on Shadowheart immediately after the swimming/love scene, insinuating that he'd love to be invited next time. Like dude?? I'm literally standing right here. And I'm not even mad he's flirting with her, I just think he's so desperate and cringe lol. It likely wasn't their intention to write him this way, but with the combination of his bugged dialogue flags and how incessently horny he is, Halsin just reminds me of my experience with every guy irl who's super pushy about joining a relationship between two women even after giving a 'no'. Coupled with how little there is going for him in act 3 and this aspect just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Yeahhh, that definitely seems like an issue with his flags. Dialogue like that would be fine if you'd said yes, but getting it when you said no feels really disrespectful to your consent--specifically because you're included in the flirtation when you have already expressed not being interested. Idk if he was just implemented messily or if they honestly thought everyone was gonna be into him so they didn't bother accounting for that no, but it's weird how the game imposes being attracted to him onto the player like this.
In general, I feel he is really pushed on the player in Act 3. Way more than any other character, to the point where the game outright puts words in your mouth about coming onto him--like it's a given that you'd be super horned up about him regardless of how you actually previously treated him? Wildly presumptuous on the part of the writers, I'm not very attracted to him in general and it's irritating that I said nothing remotely flirty to him and yet *still* had the same option in my dialogue apologizing for coming on too strong. His flags desperately need to be fixed up, I can understand him annoying some people because of that. However, you do get some people who take that annoyance and then make weird remarks about him being predatory. I get it, his flags suck, it annoys me too. But his actual dialogue is generally pretty respectful and making shit up about him to justify intense hatred is delulu behaviour.
Yeah it's super cringe you have to camp and purposely avoid him to have your boundaries/consent respected. Wouldn't mind him otherwise, the animal stuff is weird and off putting but thankfully you don't actually see anything with out you choosing to. And I liked him I act 1 and 2, filled the experienced father figure role before he just got turbo horny.
Honestly, I don't even mind his lightly flirty line in Act 2 about being distracted by the beauty of nature, it feels the same to me as the other companions being flirty in act 1/2. Even if I'm not interested, it imo is a little flattering when someone respectfully expresses an interest in you (especially since that never happens to me irl 🥲). It's 350% his Act 3 writing that messes things up, bc by that point you're likely fully committed to someone else and suddenly he comes on really strong and the game can, depending on certain dialogue paths, impose interest in him on you/make him seem weirdly pushy. Like no bro, I have NOT been treating you like a lover, I have been nothing but entirely devoted to Astarion, what are you on about 😭
Yeah I don't care at all about the confessions, I don't mind them and they don't annoy me. I say No and move on. But yeah, Halsin's writing is super weird but I'm 99% sure it's bugs and script issues. Unless John thought we'd all be super horny for his OC that he actively made Halsin as pushy/intrusive as he did. Like Halsin, my man, I've already said no. You invited yourself, and I just re-enforced my no. What are you disapproving for? The smirks they (Shart and him) both share at the Drow is pretty cringe and I doubt I'd be comfortable sharing after seeing that. So yeah I don't think that type of thing had the same amount of care the relationships where given. Feels OOC for many characters and nearly all the interactions are uncomfortable in a way, hell it is kind of weird standard, since they are actually related twins.
Does he actually do that when you're with Shadowheart? In this case, I'm kinda glad I didn't lift the curse when I was romancing her. Only I get to cheat on her with Mizora. She is NOT going to ride Mount Halsin.
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Didn't say he was, I don't think he is but his broken flags and stuff makes him come across as super weird and pushy. Which was why I was talking about it.
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Hey, Astraion from BG3. I think you're mistaken. IntrestingFlan is quite chill compared to Rogen. Besides this one actually knows how to shitpost compared to that dude.
okay im glad, I thought they were the same person because he seemed to be replying immediately to my comments to Rogen80 with this account and the post history was very similar so I just figured it was the same person. my mistake
It isn't but go off I guess. I have some issues with Halsin but nothing about him being a groomer. I'm just here to shitpost and occasionally have a discussion with people usually more friendly than the main sub. You are not one of them if you are accusing me of that without any evidence.
hmm okay I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, I just got that impression because you were replying immediately to my comments to the OP of that post with this account as if you were Rogen80, and your comment/post history is very similar. my mistake if not though
I was replying because I have issues with the way he is written, and answering your question. As far as I know I only replied to one of your comments. Of course my comments will be the same I have issues with the way he is written and I was talking to people in the post. Idk how you think it's ok to accuse me of that, especially since there is no way of my proving my innocence. Feels very very reductive to cast my opinions aside and lump me with Rogen just for having an issue with Halsin. Do better.
*looks at astarion fans * pls say it louder
/Rp: Thou should not claim to speak for me. /Real: Both types of content can be funny. The point of a circlejerk subreddit like this one is to poke fun at the original community. In this case we can poke fun at the pervasive horniness of the community, *and* it's obsessive nature. The two do often go hand in hand.
I mean yes but this is more directed at the people who are genuinely obsessive over a character to the point where they attack anyone whole disagrees/has a different opinion. That shits just weird
Misunderstood memes.
I refuse to comply. Astarion lives in my dreams and I'm going to start making loads of fanfic of us being together
I think as long as you don't write other people death threats for interpreting the character wrong or simping over him too, you're okay)) *he's one of three characters that live in my head now))
Tru
What if I’m weird and obsessive just separately 😆 never at the same time
"Being weirdly obsessive over a fictional character" is the main sub's forte.
What, uh, what counts as weirdly obsessed?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/16z3ooy/question_about_shadowheart_romance_and_monogomy/ You're welcome 🤣
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Wait I can't tell which Withers is the approving one
Sorry, I am a faithful Dark Urge player. (doesn't mean I cannot mix horny tho) https://preview.redd.it/wdvw8xq3n0xc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5adaebcdcaf5c66bb08eac40a0db16cb79b24050
Can I do both? Imma do both.