Serana walks away

[ShenGo]

So Serana (or Seran, in my game) refuses to follow from the moment I meet him. I heard this could be caused by My Home is Your Home. So I uninstalled it (and AFT, to be safe), started over (my game was at 55 hours), played 22 hours to find him again, activated the Monolith, talked to him, said "Come with me", and he immediately turns and walks off the way I came into Dimhollow Crypt.

 

So what else could be the cause? I heard sometimes it can happen if you tell Serana to wait, but I didn't even get the chance. As soon as I tell him to follow for the first time, he walks off.  I also heard this is fixed in USLEEP, which I have installed and fully up to date. I also heard this version of the issue also results in the option to make Serana follow again being missing. For me, the option is THERE, he just ignores me when I say it.

 

I'll post my load order once I'm back on my computer, but if anyone has had this experience and figured out the cause, I'd love to hear what it was!

 

Edit: Spending a little time watching, he appears to be sandboxing, if not sandboxing and slowly making his way out of Dimhollow at the same time. He walks around and examines bodies, and slowly gets closer to the exit (or entrance, more appropriately), but when I take out my weapon, he doesn't follow suit (like followers do), and when I fight the Gargoyles on the way to the TRUE exit, he ignores the battle completely. I knock him into bleedout, as soon as he gets up, off he goes again.

 

Edit 2: I should also mention, I've used the mod for Seran (that makes her male) in a 200 hour playthrough and he followed fine. That playthrough had the same mods I'm using now and then some, as far as I recall, and Dawnguard was astonishingly flawless in that playthrough...

 

Edit 3: I also read completing the current quest will help, but the quest is 'Lead Seran to his home', so obviously I can't complete it without him, and eventually, he just vanishes...

 

And edit 4: I went all the way to the Icewater Jetty and waited for him. He never showed. I used the 'prid' and 'moveto' commands, in hopes that he would go to his home from there, but he showed up at the Jetty and immediately started wandering away from it. If I take the jetty to the castle, THEN use the 'moveto' command, he immediately leaves via the jetty instead of heading toward the castle. I have no IDEA where the game is telling him to go or why, but I don't think I have the patience to follow him for god knows how long to find out.

[Monoman1]

I could be wrong here but IIRC there is a vanilla bug where if you enter Dimhollow crypt and leave before retrieving Serana that results in...... something breaking. I can't remember if it's the bug you describe but I do remember it being a complete PITA as I had entered Dimhollow only to warm up a bit (Frostfall) early in the game before exiting. Only to return after leveling up a lot to find it broken. 

 

I believe the honningbrew meadery basement also has a bug like this that breaks the thieves guild quests. 

[ShenGo]

6 hours ago, Monoman1 said:

I could be wrong here but IIRC there is a vanilla bug where if you enter Dimhollow crypt and leave before retrieving Serana that results in...... something breaking. I can't remember if it's the bug you describe but I do remember it being a complete PITA as I had entered Dimhollow only to warm up a bit (Frostfall) early in the game before exiting. Only to return after leveling up a lot to find it broken. 

 

I believe the honningbrew meadery basement also has a bug like this that breaks the thieves guild quests. 

Hmmm... I didn't discover Dimhollow until I was doing the Dawnguard quest, and never left until finding Seran, BUT, it's definitely good to know about both of those, so I know what not to do in the future. Thank you!!

[worik]

You could have a look at the "bugs" section at the bottom https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Serana

Perhaps you find an idea how to cope with that.

One of them looks promising to me, if I understood your issue correct.