So it's either Lana or Arcann?

When it comes to companions whose original writers left, the new writers need to seriously sit down, pull up youtube and watch how the companions were in vanilla and even some of Makeb and Shadow of Revan. I've seen fanfiction writers who capture the companions 10000000000 times better than writers who are paid to write dialogue and personality.

This exactly. I've had this debate with others here on the forum in on our own little FB group and really, whoever's been writing the more recent stuff seems pretty darn clueless on the personalities and background of these characters. It's annoying and shameful, and like I'm getting strangers shoved in my face. I get people changing over time but not like that, nope. Hell even I watch YouTube vids at times of companion romances and class stories to make sure I'm not voicing them in an immersion breaking way when I write. Takes little effort to do and if you actually care about your job and work at all, you should make that effort.

*sigh* There's always fanfiction I guess. I know I *********** love Phyreblade, I think is his/her name, they write a DAMN good Quinn who has a damn backbone and they just write fanfiction.

This exactly. I've had this debate with others here on the forum in on our own little FB group and really, whoever's been writing the more recent stuff seems pretty darn clueless on the personalities and background of these characters.

The ONLY character in the game or in fanfiction who should be totally and completely unique from class to class or fiction story to fiction story, is the player's own character. Maybe there's a reason why you're a sith warrior who is light 5 and loves bunnies and such. Or why you're trooper is a dark 5 killing machine who even hunts down children.

Are you a character who sleeps with anything with a pulse, or are you chaste to the point the companions are annoyed. Etc, etc.

The companions on the other hand have set personalities. Now, of course you can tweek them, make Quinn aggressive in the bedroom with his wife in private, make Corso sometimes drop his 'aw shucks' act when his wife or bro (if male player) get into danger, or maybe explain in detail why you would think Doc would stop chasing skirts to marry your JK.

That's all fine. But lately, some of the companions are turning into people I don't recognize. It's not the voice actors, they still capture their character pretty well even if they get meh scripts to read, but seriously. Are we, the players, and fanfiction writers, the ONLY ones who give a **** to research if we don't want to play through the story a second, third, tenth time?

We have a little Facebook group?

I love her writing too! She's one of my guild leaders and I'm too shy to say anything

My SI wouldn't ever date Theron or Koth, they are both too goody two shoes for her. And she doesn't trust Arcann any further than she can throw him. So she stayed loyal to Andronikos. He supported her darker tendencies through vanilla and she liked the whole not wanting to be tied down, but can't resist you thing that they had going on.

I imagine Theron, even if you didn't fully romance-lock him before KOTFE, stayed mostly faithful/single but that is in large due to his character. He doesn't open up easily, he doesn't connect with people easily, he makes it pretty clear during SoR that such things are uncommon for him and it makes your situation rather unique. I headcanon Jonas tried to set him up on a date or two, to get him out of the office and take his mind off of you but it didn't amount to a thing.

My favorite quote from her Sw/Quinn story, right before the hand comes after they're bombed to ****.

Quinn: Damnit, Luciel!

He goes on, but I was like 'hell yes! Quinn with a damn backbone!! About time!'

ETA: Also like after she uses some force heal on him and didn't do it before the incident and he gets pissed off at her. I can't say what HE says, NSFW, but damn, it made ME upset. In a good way though, cause again, BACKBONE!

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Personally, I don't think Theron is a goody-two-shoes at all. He's a spy. He's responsible for the deaths of thousands (check out "The Lost Suns" and "Annihilation"). He's assassinated two Dark Councilors (one of them by a point-blank toxicity dart to the neck). He's not afraid to get his hands dirty. At all. But a lot of people tend to forget all that, because it's Imperials he's killed n' such, so whatevsies I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love putting him with a Sith. He seems to grow more as a person, forced to reconcile who he is and what he believes in. And to put him with a Dark Councilor...after knowing that he's already killed two of them? Yeah...yeah...totally yeah.



I imagine that as a spy, Theron's ideas of physical intimacy and mental intimacy are completely separate concepts. He can do whatever and whoever he needs to in order to get the job done, and I'd gather he's done that a lot. He's also into destructive behavior...he's restless...doesn't sleep enough...doesn't eat enough...drinks entirely too much. So, I'd imagine that casual sex for him is most definitely a thing. But that's just the way I write him.

Actual relationships? Those he has trouble with...

Getting his freak on? Not so much.

But again, this is just my interpretation after reading the companion media as well as seeing what little they give us in the game.