Fun fact: Sexual interactions between the party members and adventurers mentioned in the wiki article only seem to happen if you bring the the turbo whore Cait with you. If you bring any other party member with you that's not on the list, then they won't have sex either.
Regardless of that if Brienne is with the party, she will at the most just have a friendly conversation with one of the two adventurers that stayed back.
Cow waifu truly is best girl.
Apart from that what makes you think that Wsan would write a scene for Etheryn or any other character if he didn't get their writers okay for it beforehand? You might not know this but over a year ago Tobs wrote a cucking scene for Brienne and Savin gave the okay for it without consulting Wsan first. Needless to say Wsan wasn't having it and the scene was never implemented. Since then he has veto rights on anything written for Brienne and it goes so far that Savin says that Brienne just doesn't exist for him anymore.
So where am I going with this?.. Because of that Wsan strikes me as the last person that would write a scene for any character, other than his own OCs, that hasn't been read and given the okay from their respective writers. So if you read a scene like that that's seemingly out of character for Etheryn for example, then you can be very certain that Savin (Ryn's writer) has read that scene and given his blessings before it got implemented.
I.e.: When in doubt, it's Savin's fault.
Quoting this as a whole, in case anyone wants to read the comment as a whole for context, will reply to separate points below.
Fun fact: Sexual interactions between the party members and adventurers mentioned in the wiki article only seem to happen if you bring the the turbo whore Cait with you. If you bring any other party member with you that's not on the list, then they won't have sex either.
That's a fair point. I just think that the mentioning / implication that Cait and Etheryn had sex with Yani should probably be gated behind Etheryn having a High Libido, otherwise it just seems like another instance of out of character shenanigans - at least when considering the easily apparent change that happened with Hashat (that that was deemed out of character for Etheryn, and was reworked).
Apart from that what makes you think that Wsan would write a scene for Etheryn or any other character if he didn't get their writers okay for it beforehand? You might not know this but over a year ago Tobs wrote a cucking scene for Brienne and Savin gave the okay for it without consulting Wsan first. Needless to say Wsan wasn't having it and the scene was never implemented. Since then he has veto rights on anything written for Brienne and it goes so far that Savin says that Brienne just doesn't exist for him anymore.
So where am I going with this?.. Because of that Wsan strikes me as the last person that would write a scene for any character, other than his own OCs, that hasn't been read and given the okay from their respective writers. So if you read a scene like that that's seemingly out of character for Etheryn for example, then you can be very certain that Savin (Ryn's writer) has read that scene and given his blessings before it got implemented.
That wasn't my point. I'm not complaining about whether Wsan got permission or not from Savin for the scene - I'm saying that (in general, not specific to Wsan) I have a gripe with writers writing for characters that aren't explicitly their own regardless (regardless of whether they got permission or not, regardless if the original writer read through the content or not). The reason simply is that I often find that when a writer writes for a character that isn't their own, the characterization or the tone of the character seems to shift slightly - which is more apparent in some instances than others, granted. But it just always feels slightly noticeable, at least to me. Which is why I dislike it. Never said anyone else had to agree with me, but I don't really think it's fair (or really necessary in this instance) to critique an opinion, especially due to its subjective nature.
Also, on the topic of reviewing / getting permission, when you say that Wsan definitely got permission from Savin, you're not exactly 100% certain of that either (or how much reviewing / overhead was given). This is just speculation on our parts about what exactly goes on within the dev team. From how Savin was supposedly not aware at all about the Etheryn Hashat scene (despite definitely also would have been contacted by SKoW for "permission", surely ?), and thus had it reworked, it just seems like when they review things, it's actually more of a "review" than actually going and looking through the whole document in-depth, and making sure it fits with the setting, lore and characters involved. That seems to be the privilege of being a trusted writer, things seemingly don't get as much scrutiny before being added to the game than newer writers.
That said, one can never really know for certain.
I also find it somewhat interesting that you didn't address the point about Wsan writing those Lessala's Adventurers interactions for Berwyn, when at that point he and the other devs knew that Berwyn was not going to be a Companion moving forward - as well as Wsan's idea to keep this from the community for more than half a year.
I do get that being critical of Wsan isn't a popular opinion around here, so yeah, it is what it is.
