In Astarion's case, I feel the "I will always protect you ..." line is not great for the romance, I'd say it contradicts everything said in the scenes before. So having this changed to something with a more suitable spin, preferably something that can be personal to the character you are playing, would be great. An option to gift Spawn-Astarion the portrait Oskar promises you would also benefit the story, I think, as it would give a conclusion of the mirror-plot-line from act 1, as well show the two of you overcoming one of the obstacles of Astarion's condition.
Agreed. To add to this, he also has no reaction if you make a statue of him. He hasn't seen himself in 200 years and misses "petty vanity", come on! It's such a glaring omission when Larian was the ones to put in ways to create art of your companions in the first place.
In my opinion, since Larian advertised all those kisses as a Valentine Day gift to all the fans, it's really valid to ask them to make this equal. It's very weird to say: "This is a present" and then give someone everything (like Gale) and then some other companion pretty much nothing.
It looks pretty offending and unfair.
If Larian themselves didn't treat these kisses as such a big deal, then yeah, I would have agreed it's not that important. But now it just gives the wrong vibes, to put it mildly.
Honestly, I agree. They hyped it up and got my hopes up. I was very disappointed by the inequality when patch 6 came out. I hoped that they were planning to even it out in upcoming patches so I didn't complain, but then that didn't happen in patch 7 at all. :\
