Baldur's Gate 3 Fans Are Convinced They Can 'Fix' Shadowheart

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Since Baldur's Gate 3 launched last week, we've heard a lot about how wildly horny it lets players be. And in pursuit of steamy encounters, it turns out that many players are willing to overlook some pretty significant character flaws. This has resulted in a lot of the community uttering variations on "I can fix them" for characters like Shadowheart, Astarion, and one other spoilery party member.

Warning: Below are very light spoilers for the early plots of Shadowheart and Astarion. Read on at your own risk.

While all the origin characters have their, well, issues, Shadowheart and Astarion are becoming especially known in the community for being "problematic faves" of sorts. In Shadowheart's case, she has some pretty strong feelings against certain races (Githyanki and Tieflings especially) that she isn't shy about uttering.

What's more, she pretty quickly reveals herself as a cleric of Shar, a goddess that explicitly seeks to destroy order and hope while embracing pain and grief. Shadowheart expresses unwavering, blind loyalty toward Shar early in her quest. Given that her memory has been wiped, it's entirely possible that supporting her mission could have potentially disasterous consequences.

Astarion, meanwhile, is wildly self-interested and pro-brain tadpoles, and seems to really enjoy it when the player character is mean to people. He's also, and here comes the spoiler, a vampire, and tries to turn the player character into one too shortly after being recruited. While Shadowheart is over there having moral dilemmas about the nature of good and evil, Astarion is just kind of a massive jerk who thinks it's fun to mess with others, and supporting him generally seems to involve doing everything from minor mischief to