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If it's no big deal and not special there shouldn't be any problem showing it, though, especially since it would reinforce showing the perfidious xenos as the vile scum that they are, and give the player more reasons to hate them, and show real, genuine torment and trauma being inflicted on your crew. For some reason sexual violence works much better at conveying that kind of thing to an audience, I guarantee that if your entire crew was raped absolutely 99% of players would kill Yrliet rather than just 90%. How many players would sympathize more with Cassia saying she'd rather die than have been raped when pushing for Yrliets execution VS the current scenario where she says she would've rather been killed than go through her horrendous torture?
For some reason stuff like having your organs boiled or being forced into sensory deprivation torture to the point you go insane or being embraced by a fucking Talos pain engine doesn't register to the average person, but you bring up sexual violence and suddenly they actually FEEL the pain and torment being inflicted on the character being portrayed. Which is pretty crazy since extreme physical torture is much worse than rape but yeah that's just how it is in entertainment mediums, which is they Dark Eldar should've raped your entire retinue, so it would actually get across to the player how fucking evil and disgusting they are. Especially imagine the reactions of players romancing Cassia only to discover her horrendous fate, god it would've been glorious to see the xenocidal rage that would've resulted. Real missed opportunity by Owlcat all around.