Trouble Playing Baldur's Gate 3
I'm having trouble playing more Baldur's Gate with Miriam.
I was really excited that it offers couch co-op because the two of us have loved doing things like this together. I was having a hard time being interested in much of anything because of depression, but I was finding some enjoyment in it up until the scene where Astarion tries to bite a PC in their sleep. That character was mine in our play-through and I had a really hard time with it.
It feels a lot like rape. Vampire bites have been an analog for sex for a very long time. And metaphor aside, Astarion is committing really intimate violence. And just as much as the attack itself, I'm having a hard time with the seeming expectation by the developers that this will not be that big a deal. For me, it was a really big deal. Adding to that, Astarion guilt trips you if you say no once you wake up. It's so awful.
Honestly, it makes me want to kill Astarion right then. Both as a player and as the way I see my character responding to being assaulted in their sleep. But if I do that, I'm missing a lot of content further in the game because he's such a major character, and that makes me feel sad about missing all of that. And I hate having to make that choice at all, so I haven't really come back to it in a couple of months.
I'd really like it to be something Miriam and I can enjoy together, but I'm not sure how to do that. And then *that* makes me sad because we spent a lot of money on it thinking that it would be something we could share together while snuggled on the couch.