Girl help I keep restarting my BG3 playthroughs the moment I reach act 3

I made so many of these, and I have NO idea what to do with them, so here you go💀💀

halsin (color study), 2x2, oil on canvas

okay so a large part of my issue with halsin is that his character feels inconsistent, right. like larian wanted him to be a wise older man mentor character but then they wanted him to be fuckable, and they wanted him to be a nontraditional/nonmonogamous romance, so they made him sexually experienced and confident and casual, but he's also a romance option, so he talks about having Feelings for the player character. and then he needed to be a quest-giver, so he needed to ask for help. and what we ended up with is "guy who up and abandoned his responsibilities at the first chance of adventure, got captured and needed rescuing, makes all sorts of comments about his sexual experience but loses all self control and wildshapes at the first glimpse of ass, tells you he has feelings for you to get you in bed then leaves at the end of the game, and makes inappropriately sexual comments abt the sexual abuse victim if you're romancing him" - all of which reads as an uncomfortable, unlikeable mess of a guy.

halsin suffers from a lack of focus - he's neither a full romance on the level of the origin companions, nor is he a fling or sub-romance; he got more care and attention than wyll, in some ways, but the writing is flaky and weak and makes him look, frankly, like an incompetent, immature manchild. the bear scene is grossly pubescent (it should've been player choice to initiate that, not have it dropped on you that if he gets too horny there's a risk he'll CAST A SPELL and turn into a literal animal. by mistake. and if that's his reaction to seeing tits what's gonna happen when he cums) and the way he pushes for astarion to join you if you tell him you're in a relationship feels wildly inappropriate.

I know halsin has a history of sexual abuse himself (and I've seen good analyses/critiques of the way that's handled) but again I find it weird that finding out about that is locked behind not just a sex scene but a threesome+ scene - the writers really wanted to drive home that This Guy Fucks to the point where he comes across as pushy, and his trauma is reduced to background noise in a scene where he is essentially a sex object. he is simultaneously objectified by the writers, and in-universe by himself and those around him, but instead of exploring that we're just supposed to go with it; likewise, his lack of commitment and emotional immaturity aren't problems in and of themselves, but it feels like the writers aren't aware that that's the character they've written, and so these things are never appropriately addressed, and his arc and romance don't match up with the other characters' stories about growth and development.

not rly sure where I'm going with this, but it bothers me!! I think it's a nasty mix of the writers' intentions at a cross purpose with the push for fanservice, and the whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth t b h.

What if we adopted Arabella and/or Yenna together? Haha just kidding...unless?

like idk. personally if the ex military buzzcut guy with a dead wife tersely told me that i didn't know what the wasteland was like before the colonial entity he was raised up in got their hands on it and that the ncr was actually "civilizing it" or whatever. and i then pieced together that he had been conditioned by the military he was a part of to mercy kill and is therefore very against that now but also definitely did that to his wife. and he then informed me that i should leave him behind because he was literally incapable of not shooting anyone in certain faction armour indiscriminately. my response would not be to try dating him. even if i did not know about the specific war crimes he'd done yet.

Halsin calls you "my heart" and "lover" oh my god

First time drawing Halsin and it's cus I'm grieving my hamster

23 hours into baldurs gate (still in act 1) AND I HAVENT EVEN BEEN KISSED YET!!!! evil…,..,,

no but like. why can’t i talk to wyll about anything. i can’t even ask him how and why he met mizora lmfao hello???? can i get a basic explanation of his backstory?????? you can ask astarion how he became a vampire and karlach how she ended up in the blood war and gale how he started pondering the orb

even if he just deflects like he did when i asked about his eye, bc im sure it won’t Actually be revealed until i try to get him out of the pact but it should still be an option???

a twt artist just gave me a fucking ball kink by drawing halsin from bg3 w/ the biggest breeder balls….. pls i don’t even go here… smash

astarion just dumped my tav in act 3 youre JOKING...

Got damn

I'm literally so upset about bg3 rn 😂😭 [spoilers]

I got to all The Emperor things in the Astral Prism and when he offered the tadpole I tried investigating it, but it just made me accept- which I didn't want- and now all the companions are judging me for it 😫 like babe!! I didn't want this either!! Don't act like I did!!

(Also my Tav now looks like she's going through a goth phase and trust me, it's not a good look 😂)

I'm almost tempted to restart a save except I've gotten so far that 1.) I am not redoing all that and 2.) I'm pretty sure that save's gone now it's been so long

Time to suffer and kill The Emperor ig 😂😂

i know i kinda have a reputation to uphold as an astarionposter but like. he's not even my fav character in bg3...

damn the créche was intense,, so many dialogue choices,, I quick saved so many times oh god