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George Martin has said that the ending of A Song of Ice and Fire will be “bittersweet”, which, to me, means that good will ultimately prevail, but at a great cost. Many beloved characters will die, and those who survive will be left with little more than hope for the future.

I’m not denying that there’s a certain beauty to that kind of ending, but it’s clearly not the sort of finale that will satisfy everyone. And we all know how much people “loved” the ending of Game of Thrones.

Also antis: create countless fake accounts to evade blocks and harass AA fans in our tag.

Claiming that one of those endings isn't the author's work at all is completely disrespectful to the years of effort he put into this character. Similar to VA. Do you even like Astarion? Because it certainly doesn't show through all this dismissal and devaluation.

Years of work that the writer came back to finish after his medical leave, writing two substantial epilogues for players who preferred different paths.

To claim that one of those endings was never really his work, especially when he was temporarily unable to continue but later returned to complete it himself, is outrageously dishonest. Some people are lying beyond belief.

Certain people were so freaked out by this. They cited the single sentence Rooney said about AA: that AA SOME KIND OF replaces Cazador. Well, actually: AA does replace Cazador in the ritual, and also becomes the Vampire Lord of Baldur's Gate. Wow, what a revelation. And he also becomes even more powerful. I think that's obvious.

While Rooney talked a lot about the spawn ending—that it's a tragedy, a bittersweet tragedy, that he loses everything. And Rooney prefers tragedy.

It's very strange that some people live on such strong copium and spew poison that they can't bear to watch this entire interview. Their own poison is holding them back, bro.

Not only can they not focus on the character they enjoy, they just are obsessed with being negative and passing of their headcanons as morally justified as if playing a videogame as intended is a crime.

This is their hobby. Just being bullies. Go back to highschool. I'm too old for this crap

They will not stop coming into our fandom tags to rant about how they feel bad for women!! Ignoring nonbinary people and men in this fandom. We don't exist.

I'm so fucking tired of homophobia/biphobia on this side of things as well.

It's just hateful spam. It's pride month. Kindly fuckoff please.

Don't romance evil vampire guy with your i can fix him fetish if you're coping so hard with his pansexuality.

Everything you claim to like about him? You hate it. Go to another fandom. Don't engage with vampire media. Don't engage with ttrpgs or dnd.

I consider this way of thinking to be a insult to all the long work that went into creating the character.

This happens bc this character is perceived as something so real and personal, including abuse topics, that criticism of such a black-and-white approach to analysis, steeped in double standards (Good luck fixing the potential Cazador 2) and personal projection, simply doesn’t resonate with anti-AA fans, because their view is always a solid red screen. For them, it’s always the ghost of a real abuser they’re hunting down, and they write their rants in AA shorts on the AA fans’ channel.

Wyll (who I romanced in that playthrough) literally says that now I’ll have to live somewhere in isolation, and he’ll bring me food and books because I can’t be seen by people anymore — otherwise I’d just get pitchforked to death.

And then the spawn ending absolutely finished me off: the scene where he runs from the sun, admits he felt ashamed in front of me and like he’d lost absolutely everything… only to suddenly add how ✨happy✨ he is now because “the shadows are part of him.” It feels so painfully forced and manufactured as a “happy” ending that I genuinely don’t understand how anyone can take it seriously.

Unless you genuinely enjoy suffering, I guess.

Supposedly, if you attack Ascended Astarion at the epilogue party, Withers doesn’t react to it at all.

And supposedly, if an illithid Tav attacks AA to eat his brain, everyone turns on AA instead of Tav.

I personally tested all of this, and it’s simply false. You can check it for yourselves too. At this point, this anti-AA “propaganda” is honestly getting ridiculous and going beyond common sense.