Also the same guy who is chill with you going to Avernus and letting you become a certain thing in the evil ending.
He is such an abusive monster that they even included these new hidden dialogue options in the script in the same (!) patch:
It's kind of depressing to read the comments under the video. Fans are already normalizing Tav's faces and behaviour as "roleplaying".
The dialogue seems to be Karlach exclusive, though (not for a Tav accompanying her) as it has the REALLY_KARLACH tag. And it also has the break-up tag, so I don't read this as him "being chill" with her leaving him. It's the same reaction he shows a few nights after Tav breaks up with him - trying to get back on the high horse and not showing that he regrets losing them, covering his wounded pride and sorrow with badly played indifference and benevolence. "I let you go" sounds better than "You left me".
Be it as it may, it shows he secretly cares (even if the big, bad, evil Vampire Lord wouldn't admit it). In one of the epilogue videos from the same poster he says it's a lonesome existence to be in power and pretends to shrug it off. Oof. So why would he want to make Tav miserable as long as they are playing along? And obviously we have a choice to play along as we can play the evil power couple in the epilogue through the dialogue with him - there's no scared face and abused Tav/Durge in sight. It just gets hinted at if you choose the freedom-dialogue, otherwise you can boast how formidable you are together.
Originally Posted by Ametris
It seems like someone from Larian does want to give us a good dark romance but then they get trolled by someone else who wants to push the abuser theme, and we end up with a narrative mess.
It certainly looks that way. It's mindboggling how the kisses can exist in the same patch as these layered dialogues.
