I despise something about Etheryn, and I'm not sure what. Maybe it's because he feels fake.
Imo they're completely shifting her niche, it's started slowly but is starting to go a bit faster. Niches like how brienne is champ focused vanilla with kink. To me etheryn was basically the broken bird trope, a abuse victim the player can support and heal (or keep broken down), starts off needing help but eventually starts helping back, and by that point is basically one of the pcs ride-or-dies, end game vanilla marriage option. Problems start there though. think there's a TiTs character with a similar problem, think it was a blind character you bond with a lot and help restore sight of then immediately wants to be banged by the metaphorical football team? Or like amily from coc. anyway, she requires a lot of help to open up, appears mostly PC sexual but then has no/minimal problem with boinking others. Heir plot is an issue. They could easily have used any number of plot devices resulting in either a. Etheryn keeping her dong but gaining taco or b. Lumia "hey lmaoo you just did me a kinda big solid let me help you out!"
Using brienne again it'd be like if they chose to have a plot where she has been cursed to love you since mad cow, and either starts going mad or dying unless she bangs someone else to break it, then afterward ya know she likes you ok but basically becomes cait. Alypia seems nice, and for the most part does her well (besides the script reading like you're locked in bimbo personality), but it really comes off like she's molding etheryn by her headcanon and oc, not by etheryns original design. Alypia wants to be a voluptuous woman getting pounded and impregnated by etheryn or watching etheryn impregnate others then her, etheryns feminine aspect and loving a male PC just the same and wanting to identify as a female is pushed more and more away, to fit alypias, or maybe not just them, but the teams desires.
