"SEE?!?!?! Other people see that Kelsey/Imoen was ALL ABOUT 'Jason on Imoen!' You're goin' down!"
There are just *so* many things I could say here ...
Oops! What a giveaway.
Seriously. K/I was motivated by wanting someone to be nice to Imoen, and about giving Kelsey something to do if the player wasn't romancing him--which not coincidentally helps broaden his appeal past just people who enjoy a platonic NPC with banter, or enjoy playing female human/elf/H-E/halfling PCs who want to romance Kelsey.
(cue "uh huh, sure.")
No, really.
More than one person has played an "all-romance-party" game, with HD/Aerie, K/I, and PC/Anomen, for instance, and I'm very happy to have helped enable that without all that dirty nasty multi-romance patching.
[!--EDIT|jcompton|Dec 20 2002, 02:08 PM--]