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[kimmuryiel]

I finished Darian's romance last night. I thought it was good overall. I did like that he needed time to get over prejudices. I always appreciate a romance that takes it's time getting to sex. Even if it means I miss a Bodhi-nap.

 

However I did have one big gripe and one small gripe. I'll be hiding them with spoiler tags.

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I was disappointed that your character being pregnant only made it into the very end with the choice between mortality or divinity, but not a mention at all when he asks for time to figure out his feelings. I know the pregnancy is a PID thing so it's optional, but it does get referenced in the mortality/divinity choice, so I don't know if or why it isn't in one of these talks. He could have at least had a line in one of those talks be something like "I know this makes me look cruel since you are with child, but...."

 

It might be better to do what they did with Kelsey's romance and move the pregnancy mention to an official lovetalk, but make it still an optional thing to say. It's something I would have missed if I hadn't noticed it when my sister did his romance (I don't often do PIDs). Maybe in his first ToB talk, at the end he can have added lines like...

Darian: You look like you need to tell me something.

player dialogue option 1: Darian, I think I'm pregnant.

      (this can continue as the PID does)

player dialogue option 2: I'm just worried that my place in Alaundo's Prophecy will be the same as the Five.

player dialogue option 3: It's nothing.

 

With that, it's still optional but isn't going to force it on a player who doesn't want it.

 

Also, in his last ToB talk he says he asked me for time but that I didn't give it to him...however all my responses to previous lovetalks were "take the time you need." (ok, I had to manually trigger the last two talks by setting the romance variable in eekeeper because I was heading off to kill Amelyssan and they hadn't triggered yet and I didn't want to wait)

 

Overall, I'd rate him about with Verr'sza. He's not going make you go "awww" and curl infinitely on yourself until you wink out of existence, but he's worth it to keep and run through however many times. I'll definitely be romancing him again. But I did get annoyed that I had to manually set his variable to get his final SoA talk and his last two ToB talks and that annoyance could have colored my experience. (I'd be willing to concede, however, that I just didn't take 6+ hours on ToB to get those last two talks naturally)

(note: while Verr is not one of my favorite romances, I did enjoy him. So me putting Darian there is pretty good (for what my opinion is worth ) He's kind of like a good-aligned version of Verr )