Astarion; the cause of and solution to most marital problems.

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I AM NOT DONE YET BECAUSE I LOVE ELF SHIT!!

More Astarion speaking elvish. More complicated emotion in regards to religion—for a high elf named after the stars, one who tried all the gods and was ignored. More about being abandoned by Correllon, the Protector of Elves, the Father, who guides wayward souls by starlight. More about his FAMILY because he's not even that old!! They're like most definitely alive!! Where are they from? Did he leave home on good terms? More Astarion as our translator, more Astarion gossiping with Elf Tav and feeling so much more at ease and less prone to performing, but if you EVER BRING IT UP he'll shut down. He's all pointy ears. I would like to discuss the pointy ears and their implications.

PSA: please tag your dadstarion posts with #dadstarion so the rest of us who have blocked that tag can avoid it.

Stop forcing me to see your breeding/family fantasy when I'm just trying to look at people's BG3 artwork and neat screenshots please.

---unpopular opinion---

Astarion would make an awful father as ascended (if he didn't outright kill it, pre or post born), and wouldn't be one as spawn as he's not a true vampire, and arguably would be a bad one even as spawn because he's got centuries of trauma to fix first (plus he's naturally an asshole and can't plan his way out of a paper bag).

few clips ive gathered of astarion being worried/protective

friendly reminder that astarion fell for kindness. he started genuinely caring because of kindness. because the "fierce leader" of their group helped people, helped him. it wasn't power, it wasn't authority, it wasn't seduction, it wasn't a promise of revenge - it was kindness, selflessness, companionship. it felt wrong and it felt strange but that's what got him to fall in love (or the closest thing to it). his "nice, simple plan" of seduction and manipulation fell apart because someone was good, because someone protected and accepted him. i think that says a lot about him.

Started a new run of BG3 and in character creation they're all just naked. Just bits all flopping about nekkid, going through their little introductory moves all saucily.

And I'm just browsing through them completely unresponsive to this oddity until I hit Dark Urge origin and the game freezes on a nude, male dragonborn - and I think what the fuck, what happened - shaking my steamdeck in frustration and having to reboot - and it's only when I return to character creation minutes later that I notice they're supposed to be clothed.

Well. I wonder what that says about me.

Judgey weirdos: “there’s somthing wrong with you if you like AA, your unhealthy, spawn Astarion is the morally correct pure ending”

My evil tav , gaslighting him into staying a spawn because she refuses to share power: “bet?”

I'm not quite sure how to answer this. But here we go lol

I don't hide the fact that I'm an AA girlie. I will shout it loud and proud from the rooftops. That's my screwed up toxic blorbo and I love him to death.

BUT.

Spawn A is, technically, the "morally correct" ending. It's the LESS CONTROVERSIAL ending. It's the easier to swallow ending. It's the happily-ever-after ending. And that is FINE. I think most people would agree from a moral standpoint that refusing to sacrifice the lives of 7007 people in exchange for power is probably the morally correct and less controversial move.

BUT.

You can also play your own character however you want. If your Tav is evil and you want to manipulate him, Astarion is morally gray enough to where it probably would work. At least for a little while. But given Spawn A grows a sense of self by the end of the game, he'd call your character out on it at some point. He's not going to let you continue to gaslight and manipulate him. He's not a doormat.

Spawn A =/= doormat. I don't think that's what you're trying to say here, but I have seen those sentiments within the community before in discussions of Spawn A vs. AA.

I've said this before, but imo, Spawn A is part of AA, and vice versa. They're two sides of the same coin. AA already exists within Spawn A, and still does regardless of refusing the ascension. Spawn A still exists within AA post-ascension. They are one in the same. It's just the matter of whose face you're looking at in any given moment.

I love both endings and support them both. I also support people playing the game however they want, because it's a game. It's your DnD run. You're the DM, to a degree. Do whatever you want.

we did the best we could to extract the perfect columbo reaction gif, and here it is - been wanting to make this for bloody weeks

Smooth.

Neil Newbon is just such a chaotic little gremlin sweetheart I cannot stop grinning watching his BG3 playthrough.

Astarion has the “it’s okay to murder people, but it’s never okay to disrespect my spouse.” energy and he would most definitely be okay with murdering anyone who would insult you because “insult adds to injury”, according to his judgment.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

— J.D. Salinger.