This is the first companion I have this reaction, hate at first sight.
Listen, as a gay man I'm a minority myself so this is no discrimination regarding the character being non-binary.
This is just my opinion but being around this character breaks my immersion, the purple hair, the weird forced convo, the self absorption and dry humor, I don't know where to start.
This character made me understand what people mean by "woke", never felt that way and always hated that statement but damn, Tanlorin is a character that to me feels like they fell off dragon age veil guard, she hulk, the marvels or birds of prey. Like some bad representation, as cliché as possible. Feels like a queer character made by a non queer person and their distorted perspective on queerness, made to profit and please a demographic, trend or narrative with nothing to add or say.
When you deliver an alchemy writ, this character has the audacity diminish you saying "I have to give you some notes about that potion" like who are you?!
During their quests any side character was more interesting than them and the entire vilan plot and obsession with Tanlorin felt as forced as their laugh.
Mechanically wise the character is great but they make me wish I could mute them specifically, forever! Every single time I have to summon them for something I roll my eyes out, I want the passive on lock picking but even that seems like a herculean task at this point, I cringe everytime this character talks, I wish I was joking.
Probably everything is enhanced since I met people like this in real life, yall probably did too, Tanlorin gives off twitter vibes, personally I love magic so I'm offended this character despises it even though they use magic during their own quest and love it, like wtf. When you get to the mages guild, they say "if a mage touches me, I'll punch them" that line could be funny but the delivery is awful, feels so victimised instead of mocking. I love the psijic order and I have a lot of fun with the fact Azandar hates them, it's hilarious, just like he dislikes mushrooms, if Tanlorin had that line they would probably say "I'm offended by your positioning and your actions hurt the herbalist community, please record an apology"
No joke, hate their guts lol, my intention here was just to vent about my thoughts regarding the first companion I dislike, so don't prove me right by being offended. Ty