Plenty of us think the patch 6 ascended Astarion kiss animations were very appropriate for the story being told and many of us planned characters knowing we weren’t going for a happy ending.

When the kisses are changed in patch 7, I’d like to request a way to have the old patch 6 version of the kisses via branching dialogue option flags, especially if the final version of the kiss isn’t completely neutral.

A positive / happy kiss would feel highly inappropriate to me given the general roughness of the kisses and the established abusive behavior of Astarion in some dialogue options. The old kisses adequately reflect a character who feels trapped in a relationship after being turned.

Alternatively, going back to the drawing board and making the kisses less “performative” (e.g. BDSMy) and instead more “theatric” (e.g. Wyll) would be another reasonable compromise.

Last edited by Yharmeru; 15/08/24 03:26 AM.