Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
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That's not true. Tav could always be scared of AA. For example, they can be intimidated out of breaking up with him. Since you brought up the devnotes, the notes for his line in that scene even indicate he's supposed to sound threatening and abusive.


What scene? Can we get a little more specific?

Tav saying they want to break up in dialogue. It's the note on his response "No, I thought not. I don't want to hear anything like that from you again, my pet. You know I adore you terribly."

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
I completely understand that you're trying to link dialog about freedom with faces of fear, but even in those dialog lines AA isn't sadistic or anything, he may be angry and grumpy, but there's no hint there that he enjoys scaring Tav

The notes for the breakup attempt at the end of the game specify "Genuine laugh - the player can't get away from him. Not even if they want to." I think that counts as enjoying scaring Tav.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
Now Tav has the same exact face when her neck is grabbed during the kiss.

Yes, which bothers us, because we don't think it should be decided for our characters that they would make a sex scene face at their throat being grabbed out of nowhere when they ask for a kiss. We have explained why it can be unsettling, uncomfortable or even triggering many times in this thread.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
That kiss belonged to the spawn, not AA.

Yes, I know. My point is that it has been in the game and likely a planned addition for quite a while before the patch.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
To me, gentle AA is canon.

And I'm happy for you to have that in your game. I just don't want the same interpretation of the narrative to be forced into my story.