Astarion has always warned you that becoming someone's spawn is a very bad idea. The dialogue leading up to the last-night-alive lets you echo these concerns if you so wish. So the thought that Astarion will have the same power over you as Cazador had over him has always been in there, and with Ascdended Astarion's mindset of the strong being allowed whatever they please, this is an ominous position to be in indeed. I think his new evil ending cinematic show the arbitrariness of such a mindset very well and the unease you might feel even when living on the good side of such a person.
And this:
Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
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What a mean thing to say to someone, especially when people saying they didn't know if they could play anymore was also a sentiment that was echoed here repeatedly during the Patch 6 kiss threads. Even then, where I felt some users were being nasty towards the people who wanted gentler kisses, I didn't see anyone saying "great idea, don't play it then."
I honestly believe that people who think the AA route is an abusive cycle and AA is a rapist in no way can be fans of it. And they can safely play the spawn route that exists for their comfort and their preference. Not requiring adding problematic things to the AA route. I consider the latter to be a mean thing to do.
Is entirely unfair because it for one argues from the position that you can only like Ascended Astarion as a type of romantic wish-fulfillment which is very narrow-minded and in itself preachery in that it tells people how to like something and how to be a true fan, and secondly disregards the people can be fans of villainous characters because they are villains, tragic ones in Astarion's case.
