@KirscheVerstahl@MadamSavvy It's not optics, it's chaff
I: "what are you doing about all these murders and assaults"
P: "We put up those machete boxes"
I: "They obviously don't work"
P: "We need to give them more time"
or "Look at all these Machetes we've collected already"
etc etc
Ammo for deflection
@KitsuneroVT I don't think anything you've said is wrong per se, but it seems like "parasocial" is a useful term only if you apply it to the freak cases, when it becomes a problem.
Saying you're parasocial towards Astarion seems unnecessary, when you could simply say that you like him