Originally Posted by florence82
see Astarian as a sex object or something like that, would it be one of the reason for the sudden change after patch6?
Again please correct me if i am making a false assumption.

Yes, it was in the fall. A lot of people know that, In detail. You could, for the sake of a mental experiment, switch places if it was said about Spawn End and even more realize how inappropriate that is. You heard right, but I don't think this is the place to discuss it. But it still the elephant in the room.

Originally Posted by Ametris
"You're my favourite"

An acquaintance said it's more about flavor, like taste. Like a delicious dish

Originally Posted by Lorna
so sad that I can no longer enjoy my evil path if I'm romancing him

The most frustrating part is that it's literally rewriting story. Yes, it is. Here
Just traveling, enjoying life together or making power in the city together.
I hope Larian doesn't rewrite the original narrative.

It's true that the epilogue has other answers besides "freedom?" - where lover and ally.
Which really gave hope, as here have written, that the line of complex evil would continue in a pretty good way.
But now the kiss literally victimizes and distressed player. A kiss.
There is a strange, obscure to me opinion in the community that evil - must suffer, not happy, not able to love tenderly (or does it only work with Astarion there must be a reason ranging from DnD to real psychology).
Evil is punished in fairy tales. If something is evil (it does), there shouldn't be anything else and it's still bad if anything is - reduction to caricature. B&W, Purity culture.

In my opinion caricaturing evil, flat out, is a devaluing of good. They should be equally appealing to themselves to make it fun to think and play.