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bragganhyl · 17 days ago

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regarding that josh tweet you just reblogged. how much experience do you think aloth has, just in general? he's obviously not very social and he notes the watcher as being one of the first people he's ever been really close to. the banessa stuff initially made me think he had some game, but i'm curious about your opinion.

I'd like to think he's had *some* experience but... yeah not a whole lot. In addition to what you said, Aloth also spent quite some time working undercover/using an alias and he really doesn't strike me as someone who would pursue people sexually/romantically while lying about his identity. But yeah, we do know that Iselmyr liked to urge him to get a partner and he had time during the timeskip between PoE 1 and 2 (and we do know that he had people crushing on him during his academy years too, no matter how asocial he was there). So yeah, that's my 2 cents, Anon.

#replies and whatnot #Anonymous #I remember getting a similar ask years ago but I couldn't find it #but yeah a lot of this is rooted in my personal preferences #not bc I have anything against inexperienced characters I just don't like it when the main character #is also their LI's first and only love ever #it feels like a copout from writing a LI who has figured what they like in a relationship and a MC with a clearly defined characterization #Ik that often this is done to help the reader/player self-insert but uhh... Yeah I don't think that makes it any better #And ngl I do appreciate that Aloth is written as a character who knows what his boundaries are and isn't afraid to reject the Watcher #if they don't respect those boundaries no matter how much he loves them it's a really mature way to write their dynamic

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