bitch is hyperfixated again

here we go, in my bg3 era (I’ve been playing since august tbh but I’m slow with my art)

Halsin's entire arc is him facing one isolating experience after another!!! DO YOU REALIZE THIS do you realize that he has spent his entire life fucking alone (even if he was surrounded by people) because he went from being a sex slave in a society that treated surface elves like less than dirt, to losing his ENTIRE family, to losing all of his friends and colleagues to the Shadow Curse, to being forced to take over as leader of the Grove ensuring that he couldn't stay friends with hardly any of them because they saw him as just the leader instead (AND he was also isolated from nature to boot because he had to deal with their problems instead), to struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with alcohol (addiction or even pre-addiction being an inevitably isolating experience) until he swore it off, to being kidnapped and tortured by goblins???

AND YOU AS THE PLAYER are literally the first person to not wish him harm, and to be on an open level with him, to be someone who can help shoulder his pains (not that he'll let the player do that since GUESS WHAT he is well out of the habit by now), to actually want to know who he is, to CARE ABOUT HIM!

And then people are surprised he latches onto the player so hard like dude at this point it's amazing he doesn't have intense separation anxiety towards the player tbh!!

AND just to make this even more heartbreaking think about how much power an asshole!Tav has to break his heart at every turn. If he talks about friendship like in the new scene they can say they just want him around to lift heavy things (they ALSO can say this when recruiting him), they can shoot down his romantic confession in the cruelest way imaginable by calling him a "tonne of dumb muscle", they can let him get kidnapped by Orin and then tell her to kill him, hell even in the goblin pens they can join in on torturing the poor bear, they can romance him and then emotionally abuse him by utterly fucking with his heart to the point that he actually asks you if it pleases you to see him look crestfallen-