I love this game but i hate how easy it is to start gaining those Sadist Passives. I try running away from battles from time to time, i try losing some battles... but no matter what i do, karryn ends up becoming somewhat sadist... Have anyone found a reliable method on how you should approach the battles in order for karryn to not become sadist. I thought what i do of running away, and not attackin more than 3 times on row, and losing battles should be enough.
I believe you need to rack up masochist passives as fast as possible, because they lock the sadist progression at some point, you'll need to check the passives' unlocking conditions to be sure, as I'm not a hundred percent certain of that, there's maybe sadist passive unlocking up to the confident trait no matter what. you can do so with the cheat menu mod, even without modifying any variables, if your goal is to play somewhat legit, but if you don't really care, you can simply lock the sadist passives progression in the cheat menu.
on a personal note, I find that it's sad that the sadist route isn't properly expanded, like Karryn becoming a ravenous dom queen in a "I'm not locked up with you, you are locked up with me" kind of situation, the inmates terrorized by her, appropriate scenes like cum draining on unwilling inmates and role reversal when she will get too far and an alternate to the empress ending where she still marries the emperor, but basically take control of the empire by making him her sub sex slave. going full BDSM isn't necessarily needed, just exacerbating her domination streak she seems to already have at the start at full throttle.