Agent companions :thumbsdown:

I've been watching an excellent playthrough playlist slowly by Blueflaime Studios of the Agent class. He's done a great job of editing the videos, and building cool looking looks for the character so that it's reasonably fun to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSI_BbY-Qcxjce73Vyngvy8ZxwBTLiFcp

However... he flirts somewhat with Kaliyo. I expect most agent playthroughs do. I do not. I talked to her giving her the benefit of the doubt with my first agent character, Johhn, but Hutran Thanatos and Vash Galaide have shut down everything she's tried to do hard. If I could have killed her on Hutta and never made her a companion at all, I would have in a heartbeat.

I don't use her as a companion, I shut down all of her overtures at conversation in as insulting and clear manner as the game allows me, and I try to act like she's not actually my companion as best as I can. In fact, in my own head-canon, I dropped her off at Lord Grathan's with his experiments while on Dromund Kaas, and had her lobotomized, her body replaced with an artificial body, and turned into a drone. That's the only way that I would have actually accepted her on my ship if I were actually playing this as a TTRPG instead of a CRPG.

That may sound harsh, but she's the worst. She's a narcissistic sociopath and a constant liability to the mission and the crew of the agent. How in the world we're supposed to believe that he really tolerates her, much less romances her, is just absurd. I know that the point of Robocop movies is the humanity of the cyborgs comes through in spite of everything, for better and for worse, but honestly that's kind of stupid. Kaliyo has been Robocopped, and she's not going to reappear, she's going to remain a lobotomized drone.

Even Raina Temple, who after being customization swapped with a prettier white girl with girl hair isn't that wonderful. She's reasonably cute, but she also threw her father under the bus for saving her life, which is—needless to say—an unlikeable trait. Then again, this is an Imperial character, and the Empire isn't supposed to be the good guys. On a whim, I turned on the "show dark side corruption" toggle for Johhn just now, and he looks pretty ragged, indicating that I've not really made a lot of "nice" choices, I guess, while playing him.