Does anybody else think Cassia’s romance is a little bit creepy?

[RavenBiscuit2004]

The girl is basically a sheltered pampered little princess with no life experience and by the voices you can select, we can pretty much assume our Rogue Trader is well over the age of 40 by the events of the game.

By rights our character would be at the very least twice her age and much more experienced/worldly. Having someone like Ryzza as a romance option would have been a better alternative I feel as the power dynamic would have been a little more balanced.

Thoughts crew?

Edit: I wish to state that I no longer have this rather moronic take on this relationship and that this thread can die an ugly death for all I care.

[Tarvitz [OEG]]

Normal noble family activity

[prpl_mage]

Well, age is a bit wonky in the grim dark future to begin with. There are a lot of officials, commanders, rogue traders etc who are some 100 years + because of rejuvenation treatment. And then there's some time dialation going on with warp travel and such.

Even if she's a classical princess archetype it doesn't mean that she's young though, mastering the navigator things probably takes some time and they could've given her some treatment to keep her body young likewise.

[May XD]

Yep, 100% it is very weird.
I was trying to romance her and it made me feel rather uncomfortable multiple times before I felt it's best to cut it off because I really didn't need to see a conclusion to that.

She has a very strong ~anime~ vibe to her, and not the good kind. I like her as a character, she's funny in how monstrous she is in her judgments, like comically cruel for how uwu she appears otherwise... but not romance material, no

I'd rather go for Jae next time

[RavenBiscuit2004]

Originally posted by May XD:

Yep, 100% it is very weird.
I was trying to romance her and it made me feel rather uncomfortable multiple times before I felt it's best to cut it off because I really didn't need to see a conclusion to that.

She has a very strong ~anime~ vibe to her, and not the good kind. I like her as a character, she's funny in how monstrous she is in her judgments, like comically cruel for how uwu she appears otherwise... but not romance material, no

I'd rather go for Jae next time

Yeah she just seems to act like a child, constantly wandering around the ship like nothing matters and coming into your quarters whenever she feels like it for virtually no reason whatsoever. Leaving little love quest clues and dropping her hankie like “oopsie senpai me so hawny”.

Everyone else is way more mature in comparison, Ryzza or Incendria would have been better options.

[jonoliveira12]

It is not creepy at all, it is a space opera take on the traditional magical princess romance story.

It is very cute. I just could not do it, because she kind of became my adoptive daughter instead.

[Black Magic]

Yes.

She has the mind of a naive child, she acts like a child, and is developmentally arrested because she has been sheltered all her life up into the point you meet her, having been groomed the entire time by her house to be the heir of Tisiphone as the new Novator and nothing more, nothing less.

She wasn't even conceived a natural way - she's the result of splicing Human and Aeldari genetics together in a lab (you discover this the more you learn about Tisiphone's experiments). In-fact, her entire purpose was to be nothing more than the new host of Tisiphone's spirit.

I'm not attracted to children.

[Sliscus]

She's very naive and that comes off as childish more than a few times.

[May XD]

Originally posted by SmallMercies061121:

Everyone else is way more mature in comparison, Ryzza or Incendria would have been better options.

Incendia has such intense dommy mommy energy, I would kill for her to be a romance option. Her and Calligos are both extremely hot, it's a crying shame they aren't even voice-acted.

And Ryzza.... man, all those potential heretic friends I'll never have...

Cassia reminds me a bit of Aerie from bg2 but even more infantile. Good character, but romance... it starts kind of funny, but the more it progresses, the more it becomes an old creep simulator, yeah. Doesn't help it's male only.

[Moonlight Knight]

Yeah it definitely comes off a little creepy, but in a way that feels sadly natural within the context of 40k as a setting. I was never really interested in romancing her, partly for that reason and partly because of her attitude about nobility, but it doesn't feel out of place given how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up 40k is overall, especially about grooming noble children for a lifelong role they don't have a choice in.

[meatmaaan]

i mean cassia is referred to as "the child" in game but i always assumed she was at least in her 20s?

[RavenBiscuit2004]

Originally posted by meatmaaan:

i mean cassia is referred to as "the child" in game but i always assumed she was at least in her 20s?

I think she’s around 20 but don’t quote me on that. Somebody more knowledgeable will be able to correct me.

Off the top of my head she mentioned something for 18 years and then another 2 doing something else. That’s where I got the idea she’s 20 from.

[May XD]

Does anyone remember that one planet with sentient black hole monster, that makes you trip and wants to sacrifice your party members, and in hallucination they all appear as "their essence" sorta

for me it was

abelard - ancient sick old man
pasqal - a multiheaded mutant
heinrix - a young boy with blindfold
cassia - ..... a literal screaming baby

nuff said

[meatmaaan]

Originally posted by SmallMercies061121:

Originally posted by meatmaaan:

i mean cassia is referred to as "the child" in game but i always assumed she was at least in her 20s?

I think she’s around 20 but don’t quote me on that. Somebody more knowledgeable will be able to correct me.

its always a touchy subject when we dont have official confirmation tbh.
me personally i think the cassia romance is sweet IF you dont push her to abandon her duties. that path seems incredibly selfish imo. whereas she takes a step towards being more mature when you convince her to abandon the atlas but not her duties

[RavenBiscuit2004]

Originally posted by meatmaaan:

Originally posted by SmallMercies061121:

I think she’s around 20 but don’t quote me on that. Somebody more knowledgeable will be able to correct me.

its always a touchy subject when we dont have official confirmation tbh.
me personally i think the cassia romance is sweet IF you dont push her to abandon her duties. that path seems incredibly selfish imo. whereas she takes a step towards being more mature when you convince her to abandon the atlas but not her duties

Her ending where she abandons her house for you is pretty tragic, the poor girl mutates so badly in the space of a few years then disappears to probably die sad and alone. All for a couple of years of being the Rogue Traders personal concubine.

Ouch.

[meatmaaan]

Originally posted by SmallMercies061121:

Originally posted by meatmaaan:

its always a touchy subject when we dont have official confirmation tbh.
me personally i think the cassia romance is sweet IF you dont push her to abandon her duties. that path seems incredibly selfish imo. whereas she takes a step towards being more mature when you convince her to abandon the atlas but not her duties

Her ending where she abandons her house for you is pretty tragic, the poor girl mutates so badly in the space of a few years then disappears to probably die sad and alone. All for a couple of years of being the Rogue Traders personal concubine.

Ouch.

i was quite happy with my ending with her. we had our time together before we had to go back to our duties. she kept in contact through letters and lead her house to glory while also turning down potential suitors bc she loved me