This is the third time this thread has been created, and its creators write literally the same thing in each of their posts. The same talking points over and over again, despite having been challenged a thousand times in previous threads, are now right there in the thread header.
I asked myself that too. I actually stay out of discussions that view Astarion's kisses in a romantic way, even if I personally don't like them. I always look at the facial expressions from the perspective of an evil Durge and they were a real storykiller and I always criticized that.
What bothers me here is that Astarion as "Villian" is automatically associated with "badwordwitha". As a Durge you are, by definition, probably a bigger "Villian" than AA ever will be and the Durge also has aspects in his story that in my opinion would not have been needed in his narrative to know who you are facing there. I'm glad that many things from the Dark Urge story that were "badwordwitha" have been removed from the game and hopefully will never appear again.
As Marielle said, Astarion was written as a funny villain and I'm very happy that he has finally returned to that role and will rule the world at my side. To me it's rather offensive that he was ever portrayed this way and I'm glad that this mistake has finally been fixed. I think it was bad enough that Patch 6 had to be discussed for so long in this forum. This forum can be read by everyone and it should be a place where you don't portray many players' favorite character in such a way because it is hurtful to many players and everyone should have fun in this forum.
