Originally Posted by Elly
Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
[quote=AnnaMyrk]

Why should I agree with something that came out as much as six months after the game came out and turned the character of AA upside down? AA had a tender kiss for half a year, I don't understand why you insist he wouldn't be a good fit for your Tav?

Again, that it "turned the character upside down" is your opinion. The kisses and Tav's reactions to them were an intentional addition, and at least one of them has been in the game files for much longer than Patch 6 (you could see it in Karlach's origin route). It didn't change the narrative, it added to one that already existed, that being the story of a Tav who feels scared and trapped.

The way you sometimes mention Karlach's kiss is a bit misleading.
It's true that that kiss has always been in the game but, until patch 6, it wasn't an AA kiss, but a spawn Astarion kiss (and it still is with Karlach). When it happens we are still in act II and it was a kiss created on purpose between Astarion and Karlach.
It was then included among AA's kisses because many players had considered that kiss suitable for the character for a long time. They considered it suitable for AA not because of Karlach's expressions or for who knows what other reason, but simply because in it Astarion appears dominant, self-confident.
However, no one had asked that the TAV keep the expressions that Karlach makes, expressions that were also appropriate at the moment the kiss between her and Astarion occurs... And that actually, given the situation, were funny.
Maybe it's true that the authors were inspired by Karlach's kiss for the others with AA also for the TAV's expressions, but not in a negative sense. Maybe they thought it was funny, given the reaction of some on Valentine's Day when the video of the kneeling kiss was published. But they probably didn't consider to much that in the case of AA, kisses are a repeated action, not a moment like with Karlach.

Last edited by Mordred92; 25/08/24 08:20 PM.