Star Wars: Knights of The Quondam Republic (KOTOR) offers y'all the chance to befriend a colorful bandage of characters, to know and fight alongside them in a milky way far, far abroad. Each character has their own unique story to share with yous. However, what the game doesn't tell yous right off the bat is that you can actually romance characters in KOTOR.

While lacking the cinematic flair of romance in games today, romancing someone in KOTOR is a satisfying experience nevertheless. While romancing a graphic symbol isn't necessary to consummate the main story, information technology is certainly a worthwhile matter to do as information technology does have a small-scale impact on certain parts of the story.

Who Can You lot Romance In KOTOR?

There are 9 companions that tin be recruited in KOTOR only only iii of them can be romanced. Those 3 companions are Bastila, Carth and Juhani.

Unfortunately, the game does non let you romance either Mission or Canderous who at kickoff seem similar they could be good romance options. For whatever reason though, the game won't let y'all and only the above three tin can actually be romanced.

How To Romance Characters In KOTOR

Each romance in KOTOR generally requires you lot to talk to them frequently. It is ordinarily adept to talk to them either after you explore each planet or when a prompt appears telling you that they have something on their mind when they are in your party.

Regardless of how you come to talk to them, y'all generally want to exist squeamish to the person and generally exist sympathetic towards their plights. Being too negative towards them will cost you your shot at romance in KOTOR. You will also have to clear a personal quest for them if y'all desire to romance a character. Bastila, Carth, and Juhani each take certain criteria that demand to be met if you want to romance them.

Bastila

Bastila Shan as she appears in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Bastila is recruited into the political party on Taris after y'all rescue her. In order to romance Bastila, y'all have to be a male person character in order to romance her without mods. Bastila generally adheres strictly to the teachings of the Jedi code and you can sometimes play around with her in dialogue.

Her personal quest involves dealing with her female parent on Tatooine and one time you do and so, you tin continue her romance. To complete the romance with her, you must trigger a kiss scene with her before you're kidnapped on the Leviathan as Bastila won't be a office of the party afterwards that point.

After that you won't exist reunited with Bastila until you reach the Unknown Planet, Lehon. Once you get to the temple summit at that place you will find out she has fallen to the dark side. From here you lot can either embrace the dark side with her or stick to the light and endeavor to redeem her.

You'll be able to romance her either manner and if you lot choose to follow the light side, your romance with her can be used equally a way to redeem her without having to try and persuade her. Past the end of the game, she'll either be a redeemed person by your side or trying to conquer the galaxy beside you lot. Adept times either way.

Carth

Kotor Carth Onasi with guns

Carth is the first true companion you lot recruit in KOTOR and tin but be romanced by female characters. You'll observe out quickly though that he has immense trust bug stemming from how his mentor, admiral Saul Karath, betrayed him which led to the death of his wife and son. Just endeavor to be patient with him equally he will somewhen larn to trust you and the others.

He really doesn't have a personal mission beyond just talking to him. His personal vendetta against Saul is laid to residuum when you kill Saul aboard the Leviathan during the main quest. After that, it is best to talk to him afterwards in regards to the revelation aboard it.

When yous're forced to choose between the light and dark side on the temple summit, choosing the light side will enable you to complete the romance with Carth and share a buss with him earlier the final assault on the Star Forge.

Choosing the dark side on the other manus will have him run abroad on Lehon after yous show your true allegiance. Dissimilar if y'all didn't romance you, he shows up afterwards you beat out Darth Malak to endeavor and bring you lot back into the light. It is fruitless though and you will take to kill him.

Juhani

Juhani-KOTOR-Star-Wars

Juhani is a Jedi who can exist recruited on Dantooine should you successfully persuade her dorsum to the low-cal during your quest to find the cause of Dantooine'south Grove corruption. She is really attracted to other women, meaning you lot have to actually be a female character to pursue a romance with her. Having a confimred LGBTQ character in a game without any negative stereotyping was a pretty big deal for a game in the early 2000s.

You can talk to her to eventually discover her backstory of how she came to get a Jedi and will discover that she was actually a slave at one bespeak before beingness freed past the Jedi. This will trigger her personal quest chosen Threat From Xor, in which a slaver named Xor volition confront you at either the spaceports on Dantooine, Tatooine, Kashyyyk, Manaan or Korriban. He'll tell yous that he intended to buy Juhani before the Jedi freed her and that he plans to make adept on his promise.

When you render from exploring on i of those planets, Xor will ambush you and try to impale you. After defeating him, you will accept the option of either urging Juhani to kill him or let him die. After you lot deal with Xor, keep talking to Juhani a bit more than to continue downwards the romance path.

When it comes to the decision on the Temple Summit, exist sure to choose the light side, as choosing the nighttime side will force you to kill her and Jolee, who are always in the party at the peak. After you reunite with the group outsiode the Ebon Militarist, Juhani will confess her feelings for yous and the romance with her is at present completed.

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