I doubt Larian added those AA kisses for the benefit of Spawn Astarion fans. They would not have wanted to cause such unhappiness.
It's the spawn fans who write fanfics about the violence in the AA route and create videos like this. Larian clearly created kissing based on such creativity:
The game didn't have that mood until patch 6.
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My biggest issue is that the new expressions are extremely upsetting to me and other players, to the point that I don't even want to play this route anymore.
Great idea, don't play.
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I don't think it's fair that people are arguing against compromising and giving players more choice. Especially when limiting role-play was the exact same argument given to support this change in the first place.
It's not a compromise to make AA a rapist. And it's not a role-playing issue. It was never just a role-playing issue. It's an issue of AA being rewritten as a character, devaluing the script among other things. The personality I saw in patch 6 was not the Ascended Astarion. It was the Ascended Astarion from the fanfics. A compromise would be the return of the gentle kiss (patch 5) for those who prefer a more gentle relationship dynamic rather than scared faces. But every single one of you ignored that compromise. Because the only reason people are so angry about the changes in patch 7 is because you've been stripped of the strongest argument for AA being an abuser and tyrant. It's not about roleplaying, it's about this.
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