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I've tried this, too, and they always self-destruct. Their character growth when you don't play as them is so tied to them reacting to the player character's influence that taking that influence away tends to prevent them from growing.
With Shadowheart in particular,
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Nightsong made a convincing argument that I shouldn't follow Shar anymore but I saw no reason why I should just go along with the vanilla thing that she immediately switches to being a cleric for the opposite deity and I spent Act 3 bumbling ineffectually through a couple questlines with no clear ideology to lean on, plus a history that had previously skewed quite evil and thus left me without the alliances a more moral character would have developed by now.The two exceptions to that rule have been Karlach who right out the gate has got her shit shockingly together for this cast and, hilariously, Astarion who absolutely thrives as his worst self. Those are the only two Origins I've managed to beat without betraying the RP of it all.
That's fair. I've also noticed dialogue in places that assumes you are not the origin character you are playing, or ignores when specific characters are not in your party.
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When you recruit Minsc as Shadowheart, there is a place in the dialogue tree where you refer to yourself in third person.There was a line suggesting I ask Lae'zel about a githyaki slate in Act 1 when I chose to kill her instead of join her earlier in the game.
I wonder if the difference is because Karlach was a later addition to the game as an origin character.