In my first playthrough I decided to just go ahead and believe the dream weaver who ended up being a mindflayer. I stood by my squid through the whole game. That means I never bothered to visit House of Hope.
I had a few half-started playthroughs before deciding on a Gith Monk who wouldn't take any tadpole abilities and would tell the mindflayer whenever I could that I didn't trust him.
Also, I was going to free Orpheus this time.
Got to the House of Hope final fight and Raphael has his own Disney villain song because of course he does. And I choose to believe it was playing, not just for me, the player, but also for my party, just piping through the entire House like that "Turn Up the Radio" fight from "Alpha Protocol".
Also, it made perfect sense that his boudoir buddy was transmogrified and glamored to look just like him. Creepy. Weird, But fit his personality.
I only wish I'd had the chance to tell him "go fuck yourself -- oh wait, you can't because I killed him".
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