But I will always stand by the point the non-con should be the work of modders. And a consensual romance path should be...the normal romance path.
Non-con is already in the game. The fact that AA refuses Tav to let them to leave once tadpoles are gone is canon and it's in the game. Twice. No other companion has that narrative. Personally, I don't see AA's kisses as non-con, but your argument doesn't hold water, because this narrative is already in the game.
That's not true. Minthara is even worse than AA. From the moment you start a relationship with her, you never have the chance to break up with her. You are forced to stay with her. At least with AA, before the end, you can leave him at any time. She also has various dialogues in which she physically threatens the player (for example poisoning). Even with her, in my opinion, there would be valid reasons to insert expressions of terror/concern, but no one would ever dare to ask that to be inserted during kisses because it is a romance path that, like the others, to obtain it you have to overcome steps, steps that determine consent.
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But I will always stand by the point the non-con should be the work of modders. And a consensual romance path should be...the normal romance path.
This is one of the main reasons why I am personally against the reintroduction of the expressions from patch 6. For the game, romance paths are, basically, consensual because, as said before, to obtain them you have to overcome steps and if you accept them it means that it is what you want and, consequently, the TAV appears happy. If the player/TAV is not satisfied, he can always end the relationship at any time (except with Minthara). For me it is not about roleplay, no one can take that away from you, no one is stopping you from imagining and playing a TAV who does not have the courage to leave AA or who is afraid of him, but this does not mean that the game must necessarily take this hypothesis into consideration when there is the possibility of ending the relationship. And therefore also to put an option that leads to having a terrified TAV during kisses which are a voluntary action that the TAV performs, and not forced by the NPC.
