Please, don't do victim blaming.
Whatever Tav does, they have their right to break up with him and call him out.
It's very problematic what you are saying that a victim is responsible for abuser's actions. VERY problematic.

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t's not and the devs could've added two lines to the waking up scene to make it certain if they wished. We literally have an example of Cazador asking his friend for help only for his master to kill his friend in front of him as punishment so it's not some automatic compulsion thing either.
We don't know the details about that Cazador's friend scene. Maybe Vellioth did it on purpose, allowing him to ask for help, because he wanted a reason to kill Cazador's friend right in front of him.
Different cases.
We have the devnote explicitly stating that the Player can't get away from AA in the end. So it's canon, it's confirmed.

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Hell they could've given the player a dialogue option asking for help at the party only for the companions to react as though they said something else with a narrator line about the compulsion.
I'm not arguing that it could have been written and implemented better, but this proves nothing except it could have been executed better.