The first day I didn't mind the new kissing animations with AAstarion but then, watching them several times and noticing the various details, I began to despise them. Reading the comments of other users, I notice that we are quite unanimous in the reason that makes these animations unpleasant: the expression on the TAV's face. The TAV is a personal thing: its characterization depends on the player's imagination. Making the face of the TAV scared and sad during kisses, in my opinion, is equivalent to a strong imposition on the part of the developers. As many have already said, if in my imagination I decided that my TAV chose to help Astarion in his ascension and agreed to stay with him, it makes no sense that he would now appear scared. I love the character of Astarion in his entirety and, as such, I appreciated and loved both versions of him. What intrigued me about AAstarion (but actually also about spawn Astarion and his future), was the possibility of giving the relationship with him various interpretations: you could create a tragic story of a subjugated TAV; or imagine a relationship between two evil souls. In general I have always thought that the authors left the players the possibility of imagining their own story and their own ending (epilogue in which the character with whom we have a relationship asks what we want to do), but this freedom now looks as if it had been taken away .
