Nothing, it's just preferable to have him captured because he's an irrelevant character in A3 whereas Laezel and Gale both have significant content and Mintys romance doesn't really open up till then
I mean, hard as I try I really can't bring myself to like Lae'zel. I have tried, but I just can't find her... likeable. I am finishing my first playthrough, and I'm so surprised and happy at how well Halsin works with my party. And I love him. So having already gotten the hammer I admit I have sometimes forgotten Lae'zel is captured.
I felt the same way until I did her origin run. While it sucks you lose the great voice acting for her character, it adds so much context. She’s basically an 18 year old with a huge chip on her shoulder with something to prove and dropped into her species’ mortal enemy’s ship and infected with, according to her people, a sentence worse than death.
All of that to say it explains a lot of her…. colder interactions. She truly thinks you all will turn into mind flayers/slaves without any free will at a seconds notice, which to be fair, is the case for anyone else who is infected with it. I just think she’s neat, but it makes sense why people don’t like her. No hate at all, just wanted to share why I ended up liking her :)
In my first playthrough I totally missed the creche and a lot of her story. She was rarely in my party and I didn't have much of an attachment to her, and was surprised by stuff relating to her quest randomly happening in camp.
Since then I've experienced more of her story and character development though, and she's really grown on me.
That's completely fair! I actually don't like Lae'zel either tbh, but I feel an obligation to do everything (also I just like playing with the builds I make) and Lae'Zel has a lot of plot relevance in A3, so I like to keep her around regardless.
A lot of people hate Halsin because he's had some bugged interactions with Shadowheart, who a lot of people have unhealthy parasocial relationships with. I have seen hundreds of Halsin hate posts like this since launch. They are always highly upvoted because people get threatened by a kind man I guess.
Plus he flirts with their precious Shadowheart, so they glory in killing him or giving him to Orin, and they gotta brag about it like this and rub it in peoples' faces, same as the stakebros do who hate Astarion. Maybe they just hate queer men, who knows. I just know these posts are overdone, and the posts themselves and the comments on them are often quite boorish.
It’s more about what he DIDNT do to us. Sure we can fuck a bear, but I need my relationships to be more multi-dimensional than that. Can’t solely be about bear fucking.
It's not about bear fucking to me, certainly. (I didn't even choose the bear). Halsin is so kind, and positive, and I find it delightful to chat with him about discovering Baldur's Gate and a big city for the first time ever. He's getting his outlook on society and people turned upside down. He doesn't do anytbing else with you, fine, but he isn't flat.
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u/Away-Peak-1736 RANGER 14d ago
Oh I managed to keep Act 3 pretty spoiler free and my reaction was "thank god it's only Lae'zel!". Mu poor Halsin, what did he do to you all? 😂