An aspect of the astarion ascension discourse, that I am putting into a jar and studying, is many discoursers have that whole 'revenge is bad? What are you, christian???' be gay do crimes teehee attitude combined with a deep need to have things they like be morally justified, so are now recoding the world's most obvious metaphor for the cyclical nature of abuse as a be gay do crime boyboss taking back agency empowrring tale and are either ignoring the whole living sacrifice thing or saying 'well it would be dangerous having vampire spawn running around!' (and what about all the other sacrifices including children taken away from people very clearly inspired by the Romani whom their booboo is also racist towards btw?).

And it's such a losing battle cause you won't convince anyone your media reading is the one that's REALLY morally superior and pro victim and empowering and whatnot, you'll just be annoying af. If you can't handle enjoying fiction without having to whitewash your enjoyment of spicy and morally dubious fictional characters and events, maybe you should read/play/watch something else?