Agree.
There is only one ascended Astarion, but there are many types of tavs: everyone chooses to have a romance relationship with AA with a personal perspective based on the person’s living culture, background, understanding of the world, past experience, and appetite of literary and artistic works. NOT ALL AA PLAYERS ARE BDSM LOVERS. I’ve been chatting with some other players after patch6, some agreed with me that BDSM can be played in a bedroom and both tav and AA should enjoy it. We can’t accept it to be played on a street in front of everyone.
It has been several months since BG3 released, each player has already build his/her own logic chain, has a different understanding of AA. It will be hard to accept the character got OOC after a single patch. Character changing makes players nervous about future playing and nervous about Larian: logic chain built in one patch will be easily destroyed by another.
I really love the metaphor of defeat the absolute's authority in BG3. And I believe characters in a good piece of art work should not be 100% bad or 100% good. LEAVE BLANK SPACE is very important, leave the space for players to have their own imagination, please don’t play the absolute’s authority manipulating players’ thoughts. Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all. Or to provide more choices: rough kisses and gentle kisses both available, let the players choose by themselves.
AA is an outstanding character with his own bones, fleshes and spirits, there are many aspects can be discussed about AA, not only evil and sex, especially sex, which is the last part this character would like to be linked with.
