Idk why vitaminbear deleted their post, but I agreed with them. This is exactly it. The other thread is an absolute echo chamber because all disagreeing arguments were bullied off it. I personally provided a (in my opinion) good stance from BOTH sides to avoid this becoming an echo chamber as well. Believe me, my original wall of text was way way more fiery and calling out people way harsher, I edited it to be as neutral as can be.
Again, and I know I am repeating myself here, but tell me one good reason why having a choice in this matter would be bad? Don’t come with the arguments of all companions needing these choices, they do not. Astarion is the one companion who has the biggest change. His romance and dialogue changes completely, whether you see it as worse or not, it is different nonetheless. Shad stays the exact same whether she is DJ or not, Wyll stays the same whether he is BOA or BOF or duke. In terms of narrative and canon, AA and UA are way more different than selunite or DJ shad. You can still have the smiling animations, absolutely nobody is arguing against that. There are good valid RP reasons to go either path, smiling and not, and not all of them are as bad as you make it out to be with “you’re making AA a rapist”, nobody is saying that. And having your headcanon(!) made canon for everyone is just as unfair as having our headcanon(!) made canon for you with patch 6. We just want the same thing now as you did with patch 6, how can you not see the hypocrisy?
@ Natasy 1) it’s crazy to tell us to use mods when you could’ve done the same and kept quiet about it, but you didn’t. And nobody faulted you for wanting it changed, but now you come for everyone who challenges you. Adding two lines of dialogue that don’t even need new voice lines will not take anything away from fixing other problems. 2) this isn’t about the game as a whole, you have hundreds of choices throughout the game, and your character can change throughout. We don’t want to change the whole mechanic of the game. Like I’ve been saying, this isn’t about non-con. As far as the game is concerned, there is always consent. Don’t try to put words in our mouths. Edit to add: this is the exact same thing as when durge is revived and can either speak aloud or keep their thoughts to themselves. This would be just two lines of text of what is going on inside their heads. 3) where did anyone on our side state their narrative as being the one true narrative? We are arguing for DIFFERENT narratives, many of them. Not just ours. I also want one of my Tav’s to be into it, others I don’t. What’s so bad about it? You can happily choose the option you want, and I can happily choose what I want.
