I want to be a vampire, like you. (selfish, transactional) I want you, I want your body. (selfish, transactional and completely insensitive!) You can tell me that you've learned something from all this. (Preaching and hostile) I am not your pet. (hostile) .
This is a great outline of the dialogue options during post-Ascension discussion where it becomes problematic. It's seems like the writer(s)/director(s) wanted to make sure you feel bad for helping ascend Astarion. Like they are directly calling you selfish or stupid.
It's a little offensive to us players and completely disregards that someone might be roleplaying either a naive character (who didn't do it because they insensitively only want his body) or someone who just made a mistake and is rolling with it because they are partly responsible for what he becomes, but they're not going to abandon him and they still care about him. There's all kinds of reasons for ascending Astarion that aren't selfish or stupid. There's just no reload sometimes and mistakes happen. Why is this roleplaying possible throughout the whole game up until Astarion's ascension?
All of a sudden having an issue with being called pet is out of nowhere, since Astarion has called us pet before and we didn't jump down his throat for it.
