Personally, I never thought the only problem with patch 6 was that my roleplay was broken. The biggest problem for me was that they changed the Ascended Astarion. So I don't agree that I'm being hypocritical to any degree when I oppose allowing other players to react to kisses with fear.

Patch 6 kisses themselves aren't non-canon, but expressions of fear definitely are. Because in the case where Tav asked for tenderness, Astarion was gentle.

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I'm pretty sure the kisses in patch 6 were a failed fanservice, because a lot of people write everywhere they can that AA scares them. But these are often people who haven't played the AA route themselves.

I encourage Larian to stick to his original script.