Companion Story Summaries?

[Harkmagic]

I was wondering if anybody could give me a quick summary of how the various companions stories go and how they grow and change as characters. I've looked and can find almost nothing on them.

To be honest there are several companions that I flatly can't stand in the early game, but I occasion I see people say these companions are very good and have interesting stories. I'd like to have an idea of what I'm getting into before I risk spending hours developing and playing with characters I don't like only to find I I still don't like them later.

[Jeysie]

I'll try to take a stab at this for you.

Amiri: Becomes more healthily self-assured and a bit more level-headed. Spends much less time worrying about proving herself and changes to more liking to beat up monsters just because it's fun to stick a sword in things.

Ekundayo: Becomes less obsessed with revenge and unable to think about more than being despondent about his family, and more concerned with just generally protecting and helping people. Still pretty quiet though.

Harrim: Becomes much much less emo, more just a sort of healthy pragmatism that everything ends eventually and that's OK and you should just live life as you can until then.

Jaethal: Mostly stays the same, but starts valuing other people a little more and less as just disposable resources for her own pleasures.

Jubilost: Proves to have a heart of gold underneath it all, becomes much less abrasive towards you and starts aiming his snark more solely at the bad guys.

Linzi: Mostly stays the same but is more worldly and thoughtful about how seriously her actions can affect everyone else around her.

Nok-Nok: He probably changes the least of all the companions. Mostly just finds out that being a hero means actually doing active good and not just killing bad guys in the name of Lamashtu.

Octavia: Becomes a bit less flighty and impulsive but doesn't really change all that much honestly.

Regongar: Becomes a bit less bloodthirsty and advocating killing everything, but much like Octavia it's a fairly minor change.

Tristian: Mostly stays the same, but he gains much more confidence/less doormat-ness and is a bit less serious and a lot more adorkably enthusiastic about new and interesting things.

Valerie: Spends less time obsessing over people flirting with her and much less time complaining about how art is an abomination to the universe.

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Basically on the whole, the companions don't really change their core personality traits that much; what they do is lose a lot of their personal baggage and express those core traits in healthier ways.

[gaming monke]

That's kinda disappointing tbh

[Jeysie]

It is realistic though, IMHO.

In my experience people don't really ever change, they just hopefully learn to channel who they are in healthy ways.