Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Make changed/positive facial expressions for Ascendant Astarion kisses optional

I don't want scared facial expressions even as an optional choice. The main complaint about these kisses is that they rewrote the character, before them Tav wasn't afraid of AA in any context, fear of AA was fanon. People were conjuring up scenes of violence in the AA route that weren't there. Angst fans simply have no business being in the AA route. AA talks about protecting Tav and that Tav has nothing to fear. People saw this exact dynamic between Tav and AA all six months after the game was released, when Tav was happy when AA kissed him. And then there were these expressions of fear that were not justified by anything. In all the developer notes, even when AA grabbed Tav by the neck - they BOTH enjoyed it. Every time Astarion bit Tav - Tav enjoyed it. Not once before in the game was Tav horrified by what AA was doing. I repeat, that was the main complaint about patch 6 - people were faced with a completely different reality based on the fanon of people who barely play this route entirely. And now OP wants that back in the game, even though AA fans were pushing for fear to be completely removed from the AA route. As an AA fan, I will never accept that the AA route was rewritten half a year after the game was released. Patch 7 fixes the mistake. AA fans know this. And everyone knows who benefited from the emotion of fear on Tav's face. On the part of an AA fan, asking to leave the emotion of fear is a shot in the face to yourself.