Durge, who could not resist Bhaal and his thoughts about their beloved.
Narrator: *As soon as it tries to pass through your lips, you feel violently ill.*
Astarion: *Now you are what he fears most. A starved ratling, an itching prowler. A reminder of his worst self, best left to history.* (my heart... it's unbearable.)
Shadowheart: *Neither Selûne nor Shar will claim her in the end. Bhaal wants her more than those graven gods.*
Wyll: *You are the one villain the hero could not bring himself to kill*
Lae'zel: *You taught her everything about this world. Now she knows what she will lose.* (this one is just... wow)
Karlach: *She's running from the finest day of her life - the last one.*
Gale: *You hate him. He had the chance to level a city. You blaze with envy.*
Minthara: *Once you forgot to break the neck you cradled. You will not make the same mistake again.*
Halsin: *He loves all living creatures. You wonder if he will forgive his own maggots.*
Companion toasts, enjoying the celebration, Dark Urge performs a twisted mimicry of the toast with their dagger.
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Look at how happy he is at the thought that he's getting midnight cuddles.
"Yeah, sex is great and all but have you ever been cuddled?" - Astarion discovering cuddles for the first time.
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A little family tree about Izveta and Astarion because I recently discovered that vampires in D&D can have children...
The appearance and what is written about Astarion's parents is just a headcanon created by me, I keep in mind that they never found their son and ended up dying over the years since the game does not mention anything connected abt Astarion's family.
I never wrote about Izveta's father, but basically he was a quiet man and obedient to his wife even though she was extremely aggressive towards him. She killed him a few years after adopting Izveta when he tried to get rid of the girl after overhearing her talking to Sceleritas.
The day that Sarevok had mentioned in his letter arrived and Izveta could no longer think rationally, she wanted children, she needed children and so it was done... Twins with Bhaal's blood, a boy and a girl who, since they were born, already had an aptitude for magic, Belgos and Amalicia or as the people in Baldur's Gate call them "Cursed Children.
Even though they were children of a Vampire Lord and a Bhaalspawn, Belgos and Amalicia did not grow up in a troubled home, quite the contrary, Astarion and Izveta had plans for their children and being bad parents was not one of those plans. The children were loved to the extreme and no one would dare try to hurt any of them, also because no one would be crazy enough to try.
I like to think that Astarion would be a drooling father, you can see in the game that even though he tries to pretend otherwise, he loves children. I think he would remove ALL of Cazador's paintings and decorations and fill the entire castle with paintings of Elbos, Amalicia and Izveta, every hallway and room would have at least two paintings of them so that everyone could see the GREAT family he and Izveta built together
Amalicia is defiant, she took this a lot from her mother, she always wants to go out when she shouldn't, she always wants to fight with people who shouldn't, Astarion and Izveta often had to solve many of the problems she caused, whether with Astarion's vampire spawns or with some hunters she provoked when she ran away from the Castle. Even with all the problems she causes, Amalicia is still a child and many times she just wants to play.
Elbos is a calm and affectionate boy unlike his sister and is almost always seen hiding behind Astarion and Izveta's legs. He likes rats and keeps some pets hidden in his room as Astarion makes a point of banning any rats inside his castle. .
Amalicia and Elbos' relationship tends to be the basic one for children their age, they fight and then go back to playing together, but sometimes they both seem to be far away from where they are, as if they were listening to something... Or someone...
Btw, if you are a hunter or a mercenary with a functional brain and love for life, you N E V E R try to hurt the children of a Bhaalspawn and a Vampire Lord... They will do really bad things to you
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Durge: Randomly says something wholly violent and completely out of pocket.
Most of the party: OAO
Astarion: Tee-hee! Oh, darling! You're so funny!
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Yes the reason romanced Astarion doesn’t react when durge is laying dead on the floor of the Bhaal temple and just gives a generic companion response is because the game developers only had so much time and budget so scenes that definitely should’ve had something got overlooked.
However consider this. Astarion doesn’t react because he can’t. After 200 years of being constantly subjected to horrible shit he just doesn’t react to horrible things. In the past reaction would either lead to punishment or just encourage Cazador to push him further. It takes him at least 5 to 7 business days to process traumatic events.
Imagine he doesn’t react much at all and your other companions that were with you and saw what happened are just constantly like “are you ok???” Maybe they're even mad at him accusing him of not caring or not loving them enough. Even durge tries to make sure he’s ok but they know him well enough to not push it or assume he just doesn’t care.
Then a week later maybe they’re all out shopping or down at the tavern just trying to relax for a moment and it hits him. All at once all the terror, all the grief, all the anger he felt as he watched Bhaal take the blood from their veins comes crashing down.
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lil sketch from my Dark Urge playthrough because this scene is so emotionally touching tbh
bonus doodle under the cut:
Astarion's face when he realizes someone is actually validating his autonomy and defending him:
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