This devnote is confimed by the game, though. 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.
Ah fair enough I don't consider dev notes canon. But the inability to break up I don't argue my only argument was the compulsion stopping them from asking for help.
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It also doesn't deny it. It works in both directions, you know.
We have been over this. That's my point. It's headcanon which fair enough.
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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.
Easily the epilogue is hastily slapped together fanservice and certain things make this *abundantly* obvious. For instance if you choose to travel the world with Astarion (and he cheerfully agrees) you still are throwing parties and there's *zero* dialogue about this. If you are Astarion's spawn and dumped him before the brain hit there's also *no* difference between that or dumping him pre turning into spawn. It's a video game. Some of the writing is going to have holes in it by the medium's very nature because the devs either forgot all variations or didn't accomodate for them.
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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.
I mean this argument is how the kisses *are against the story as written* the abusive plot being half assed is very much on topic.
