it is indeed a merry-go-round.
I stand by the opinion the face needed the change and I'm glad to hear that is the case.

by all means I would prefer gentle or rough options depending how you answer turning night that would be a win -win not going to be a thing though so neutral would be the best option.

As stated in the thread that was 50+ pages
there is no signs of violence towards Tav at any point in Astarions role after his first initial scenes bite/dagger I have Ascended and Unascended him many times I'm at 20+ Tavs and I currently have a bug that I only romance Astarion though I picked Minthara/Gale on the choice dialogue so 20+ Astarion romances lol.

Patch 6 kisses were flaming awful and the 6 months prior to them they were not a thing there is no evidence in his story that they should of been a thing I don't even like the Karlach kiss.(pre patch 6)
I do believe we need to nuke the topic until after patch 7 .

There are less people wanting these patch 6 kisses to stay then those who want rid of them.
those who want to keep them seems to of inconveniently forgotten they didn't exist for 6 months beforehand.