(Growls Softly)

i considered not responding to this message 'cause i've explained why the swaps piss me off couple times already but... here it is. first off no, i would not want to 'get more visuals' with body swap mods of Taash. i'm not jealous of y'all, LMAO. i know my way around Frosty & could make a mod like that myself but, you see, it wouldn't be Taash. it would be a weird OOC puppet stuck in an off-putting loop of animations that don't belong or even fit them. whenever i want more 'Taash visuals' i can always boot the game & either take some virtual photgraphy of them or record them acting like themselves for gifs. it's a crazy concept to comprehend, i know...

maybe my hostility towards people making & using bodysnatching mods is weird for you but i'm fucking tired of seeing Taash treated as a vehicle to make sexy content for other characters. i've seen one too many examples of people shitting on Taash incessantly from day 1, only to turn around &, after replacing them with Lucanis/Emmrich/Solas/other sexyman of choice, cream their panties crazy style to the same scenes they were criticising a moment ago for being 'predatory' or whatever when Taash was involved. one does wonder why the same scene might be 'predatory' when Taash is in it, but turns fine & hot when a man is in their place... we shan't ever know what bullshit comes into play with that, ig. y'all would've loved your loverboys to have Taash's energy but alas all you can get are cringy, OOC body swaps. i'm almost feeling bad for you... except i don't.

the swaps themselves might not be done out of complete malice but the clear patterns of which characters are swapped most to which characters are pretty damn telling 'cause (a shocking concept) mods don't exist in a complete vacuum... & atp i run out of the amount of benefit of a doubt to give this fandom after seeing how many would've loved to experience Taash's romance but only in a way that excludes actually engaging with their character & story; after seeing comments on the nexus about how swapping Taash to Isabela "fixed the game" for them or seeing blatantly racist/pedo mods turning Taash into a skinny lady/teenage girl...

idk. maybe playing with swaps is fun for y'all when you only see all the gratitious swaps into your Rooks/your friends' Rooks/your favourite blorbos of choice... but it's not fun when you keep seeing fandom bending over backwards to find ways to co-opt Taash's scenes & narratives all while your friends are getting chased off this site/fandom for the crime of liking a video game character & daring to be outspoken about the fandom's bullshit surrounding them...