I assume you are referring to the fact that patch 6 introduced some changes to AA. One is that Tav looks very uncomfortable after a kiss (which, I agree, kinda weird, players should be able to decide if Tav is cool with it or not),
Great, that you are supporting us in changing Tav‘s Portrayal. We appreciate it.
Originally Posted by Gooby Dooby
and the other is that AA is more evil and demeaning of a love interest, which makes sense, since he's evil. Literally evil. Unquestionably, unequivocally evil. Now, if you want the edges sanded off of AA, because an evil vampire lord being evil to you ruins the fun for you, fair enough, but Larian is not some kind of malicious, disgusting monster (nor is the writer in charge of Astarion) for deciding to write him this way.
We are not asking to change AA. Your description of AA is a bit flat, but I will not discuss it here. Noone of us want AA to be rewritten, so we ask Larian to stay with the old vision of him and not to rewrite a whole path.
Originally Posted by Gooby Dooby
No. I absolutely do not, in any way, respect wanting a writer to be fired because a fictional character makes them uncomfortable, after they chose to push that character to mass murder 7,007 innocent souls (and condemn them to the hells) in a canonically evil ritual, and the end result of that choice is that the character became evil.
Noone here asked to „fire“ someone. You are the only one, using this word. (What does it have to do with someone pushing to mass murder 7,007 souls ingame? It’s a roleplay game. Besides of that, Astarion chooses to sacrifice them, Tav didn't push him, Tav was begged. Ahem, so please.)
Originally Posted by Gooby Dooby
Also, I'm sure there are survivors in this thread, but frankly, I think it's quite cheap and manipulative to cite your (admittedly tragic and unfortunate) own past experiences, and then project them onto the game,
You don’t seem to have a lot of empathy with other people playing other routes or playing their game in another way (enjoying deep fantasy stories and Romances), so I will not comment on this weird statement. Also your previous post was very derespectul not only toward players, also toward holocaust victims and other reallife victims (beside of holocaust you mentioned 9/11 and cancer).
Originally Posted by Gooby Dooby
My wife (who is also a huge Astarion fan) is also a survivor of SA (and, in case you were worried, she's sitting right next to me, and has given me permission to share this factoid).
I am glad to hear, that your wife is comfortable with the sexual violence context in these kisses. But other women were not so lucky and were suffering.
Okay, so that someone doesn't twist our words, an explanation from my own point of view, I am only speaking of myself: A person (if it wasn't AI controlled) portrayed Tav as an OOC abuse victim and sex slave, thereby harming an entire fan base including SA/DA victims. We simply ask that the Larian team take a closer look at this case. Either Tav's portrayal was a big mishap or intentional. If the potrayal was intentional, we simply ask the Larian team to take a closer look at this case, whether this person has narcissistic and/or sadistic and/or malevolent traits or not, and if so, to decide whether this person should continue to work on the Astarion (Romance) route or maybe be used elsewhere, e.g. in the main story. And if it was intentional, but the one, had maybe no idea of the route and the vision of the old writer, then to give the person the possibility to read and understand the romance. It's up to the team how they will handle this now. If they don't change something, and the route will be rewritten (and not be enjoyable for anyone), most players on this route will leave the game, if that's their wish then so be it.
Originally Posted by Gooby Dooby
Point the 3rd: Rewrites happen
This is a feedback and suggestion Thread, so we give feedback and suggestion.
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