Look, I totally get that if you role-played Kassandra or Alexios as exclusively gay, the forced relationship with Natakas/Neema is bullshit and Ubisoft never should have done that. Even the later patch only marginally makes things better at the cost of Kassandra/Alexios being super OOC for suddenly caring enough about their bloodline to have a baby with someone they don’t love.
That being said, if you role-played your Eagle-Bearer as bisexual like I did for Kassandra…… I honestly believe Kassandra and Natakas had the best written romance in Odyssey. Especially if you romance as many people as possible because a lot of those romances either end up being flings or end in tragedy (unless you’re a horrible person and straight up lie to Kyra about killing Thaletas).
We basically have the story of a badass misthios who’s extremely good at killing but also a hopeless romantic who falls in love very easily and who’s every attempt at love either peters out or crashes and burns around her. Now here comes someone who more or less lives the same life. Someone who more or less can keep up. And this is someone who looks at you like you’re Aphrodite and Athena mashed together.
Someone who sticks around long enough for you to build a family. And depending on how the Deimos story ends, that can be an even bigger deal than it already is.
From the way I role-played Kassandra, I got someone who longed to share her life of adventure with someone, tried and failed so many times to hold onto that, finally getting exactly what she wanted… which makes it all the more tragic when it’s all torn away from her.
Again, it’s absolute bullshit that Ubisoft forces that narrative on you. I can totally understand why that would absolutely kill any value anyone could find in this entire DLC. You are right to be pissed about it.
But for someone who kinda naturally chose that narrative… I have to be honest with myself and say that I absolutely loved it.
