Ok, so I'm kinda having a hard time understanding the ask here for some of these comments. Like, yes, the options are overly assumptive about the players motives, but his behavior post ascension is legitimately abusive. A character who's going to stay with him needs to reconcile that in some way unless you're a doormat who wants to be walked over.
He’s not abusive in my RP - I envisioned a cross between Frank N Furter and Dracula and that’s exactly what I got. It may not be to everyone’s taste but that’s why this is an RP. .
I hope, you realise, that you just named two posterchilds of abusive behaviour. Both Frank'N'Further and Dracula are highly toxic and abusive and I'm more than a bit troubled, that you would use them as examples for not abusive behaviour. But then, people are trying to excuse Edward Cullen and Christian Grey, who frankly both belong in jail.
Edit: I'm not really interested in talking about ascended Astarion, but I'm very familiar with both Bram Stokers work ( and I'm not talking about the mostly unfaithful movies, I'm talking about the book) and the Rocky Horror Show and had to pinch in here.
You’re probably right that I view it through rose tinted spectacles - as a woman born in the 80s, Dracula, Frank N Furter and Lestat were all high pinnacle romances for bad girls. That’s probably why I don’t have a problem with them.
People brought up on Twilight might have a different POV (which is totally fine), but at least I knew what I was getting when I chose Astarion’s ascended version.
I'm older than you. As I said, I'm ok with people liking the bad boy trope, I'm not shaming Here. But I'm an avid gothic and horror reader and a musical fan and had to just get that out of my system. I don't have a problem with adults indulging in stuff like Twilight, 50 Shades or ascended Astarion. I am a bit shocked though, that Twilight is for teens and it shows them a very unhealthy relationship dynamic.
But I digressed long enough, sorry, I see myself out. Happy discussions.
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