This devnote is confimed by the game, though. (Warning, discussion of abuse)
Because you really can't break up with him once tadpoles are gone. (And yeah, personally, I don't pick and choose which devnotes I consider canon. I totally agree with Astarion being okay with Halsin being canon.) So these two things just reinforce each other, unlike very bugged Minthara. And honestly, if Minthara were really written as someone who won't let their partner go, I would have been all for the option to choose scary expressions in her scenes as well. It doesn't apply to AA alone if it were the case, but this thread is really not about other companions.
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Yeah but that's a *maybe* much like *maybe* Astarion told the player not to ask for help. There's no *definite* there's a just a *maybe*. The game doesn't confirm it.
It also doesn't deny it. It works in both directions, you know.
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? Wait what? Those are two different things. Player being unable to leave Astarion's side and being under a compulsion not to ask for help are not the same.
Then how else can you explain that the game doesn't allow you to break up with AA in the end? How else would you explain that the game clearly shows you two together with him despite your attempt to break up? And to your request for freedom AA answers: "Not this again". Which means that you have already tried to break free of him several times.
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I mean it proves they half assed it which is the more condemning thing for me personally. An abusive plot is not something to half ass.
Maybe, but this is not the issue we are discussing in this thread. In this thread people are asking to give them an option to choose.
