Originally Posted by LiryFire
But if the character's face was happy, playfully, it would look okay. It's terrible now.


It also devalues the scene during the turn.
The player can choose to be rough or gentle. Astarion listens.
It devalues the scene that he (hysterically of course) lets the mortal Tav go without a tadpole. Astarion listens.
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I agree on that. Ascended Astarion's character isn't particularly coherent. It feels, as if different people have written different scenes for him. The Romance scene, where Tav enjoys Astarion doesn't fit with his disgusted face of the new kisses. He is definitely shown as a victim of abuse now. I like the kneel down and the bite kiss, also a slightly terrified face at the start or Astarion pushing Tav away, but not Tav's pissed off faces. While in the Romance scene there was love left, here is nothing now. It's just cruelness. Astarion's sadism is hot, but not Tav, who is not into the relationship anymore. At least, that's the feeling I got from it.

The one who decided the facial expression for Tav either wanted to show that Astarion became a cruel asshole or has no idea about masochism. Tav's face is definitely not fanservice to SM, more a fanservice for people with Sadistic personality disorder.
(Just in case SM fanservice was intended and they want to know a masochistic facial expression: Give Tav either an aroused, shy, ashamed or a lustful face. But not a disgusted and abused one. The player needs to FEEL, that Tav loves Astarion, and Astarion Tav, even if he humiliates him, otherwise it is not SM, only sadism on Astarion's side)

And also give us the patch 5 kiss back with the peach touch, please. So that at least one loving kiss remains, especially for those who are not so much into seeing victim abuse or sadism, but are already used to that fantastic kiss. Giving more content is nice, but taking things away is very dangerous.

Last edited by Zayir; 17/02/24 10:54 AM.
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