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.
Agree, but I want to make one thing very clear:
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.
This is NOT bdsm. BDSM is CONSENSUAL and sane. And if consensual, it would be okay to play it on the street, the place doesn't matter. The importance of it being consensual is paramount to keep within BDSM ethics and ensure that this relationship is a healthy one where both partners are supported, that is enjoyng it. Both partners have a healthy mind and are free from psychological derangement.
Tav is portrayed as an abused, unhappy, disgusted, rejecting sextoy, who has no enjoyment in it. He is showed as being mind-and body-controlled by his "Partner" with no own free will, forced to do things against his will. What is shown here is a sexual sadism disorder, where pleasure from inflicting pain on another, nonconsenting person in a sexual context. It’s classified as a paraphilic disorder — a category of disorders that involve having sexual desires or engaging in sexual behaviors that are atypical and that upset you, or that involve another person’s nonconsent, injury, distress, or death.
A sane and healthy BSDM lover is NOT pleased to see Tav like that. These kisses are abuse in the context of dangerous extreme sadistic tendencies. This Sadism shown here is a Mental Health Disorder.
Would the kisses be consensual, Tav enjoying and loving his partner, only then it would be bdsm. And only then, these kisses would be fully enjoyable.
But this is just a perverted sadistic abuse, what is shown here (and a dissservice to all BDSM lovers out there

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