I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post, but I could only find one thread on this forum which even vaguely addressed my question: Is there no way to tell Kelsey I just want to be "friends"? I'm a female PC, and so far I've not shown any romantic interest in him at all - I've just chosen the nice, friendly dialogue options which don't involve being a jerk to him. And yet somehow his romance variable just moved to 2. I don't want to romance Kelsey with this character - she's romancing Arath. I want to be able to say "hey, you're great, but I just want to be friends" so he'll start a romance with Imoen.
Is this not an option? If I want to be a decent female person do I not have any other option but to set his romance variable manually to 3?
Thanks for any help! I've just started replaying BG2, so I know I'm a little late to the Kelsey party . . .