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Keeping things fresh with old habits | Part 1 Part 2 ->

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Keeping things fresh with old habits | Part 2 <- Part 1 | Part 3 ->

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Keeping things fresh with old habits | End <- Part 2 | Beginning

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Astarion is truly ride or die for his beloved. Durgestarion is my fav ;w;

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Me trying to boop back the lovely people who booped me, only to realize they'll show up as coming from my main blog and not this one:

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Trying out new material on the hard to please bf

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"You never felt the call of the divine, Astarion?"

"Oh, I tried them all. None of them answered."

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The other portrait.

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Astarion sketch

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Captor: "Say it. Say that everything is perfectly fine post canon and Astarion is NOT struggling with peace after 200 years of no bodily autonomy and relentless trauma. Say that he's well adjusted and his healing is NOT messy, so messy that he still sometimes hurts the ppl he loves, the friends he's made. Say there is NO resentment that his partner talked him out of ascension when he's at his lowest, when he's most afraid. Say that his healing DOESNT have an ugly side To it. SAY IT!

Me spitting blood: Fuck you.

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Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

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Astarion, the Decadent Descendant - bg3 Spawn Astarion comic

It's Batman! But jokes aside, hero Astarion is a lot fun to write and draw. I hope you enjoyed!

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...whyyyyy would you follow a blog that, just by looking at the title itself, is CLEARLY about Lynn and Astarion... if you don't want to read about Lynn and Astarion?? I mean the unfollow button is RIGHT THERE, nobody is holding you hostage!

Will you ever stop talking about Lynn and Astarion? You are getting lowkey boring

No, as a matter of fact I will yap about my blorbos as much as I want

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I don't think they're gonna come to a consensus

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Chicken scratch memes, batch #1 for your day.

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larian wheres the romance scene that we help him braiding?

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I've seen a lot of people point out that while Astarion's whole "thing" in act 1 is that he's this sexy sweet talking savant, he only has 10 charisma and actually isn't all that good at it.

He practices cheesy pickup lines within earshot of the person he's going to say them to, and every single time he flirts with tav it's extremely heavy-handed and almost cringeworthy. It's pretty obvious that he's trying to manipulate tav, even if the reason doesn't become clear until his act 2 confession.

But here's the thing: Astarion never actually needed to be all that good at flirting.

He says himself that the vast majority of his "targets" were drunks and brothel-goers. People who never actually saw him as anything other than an object for their pleasure. They were going to go home with him no matter what he said. A few pretty words and his physical beauty would do the rest.

But Tav is the first person to actually view him as a real person, which is why it becomes so glaringly obvious that he's not nearly as charming as he thinks he is. Astarion tells them at the tiefling party that "every part of their body screams temptation" and their response is that he's "sweet" and "silly". They're not buying it for second, because they don't need to be told pretty lies to like him. They like him because of who he really is as a person. They fall in love with him not because he's good in bed or has pretty eyes or a sexy body. They fall in love with him because he's sweet and secretly very kind. Because there is so much pain and sadness and fear in him, and he truly cannot see how amazing he really is. That his goodness never really went away, it just got hidden for a while.