#about durge i love durge because it connects to the world and for an angsty playthrough it gives extra content

[lucrezianoin]

Astarion, who believes in power, and that power guarantees freedom, and the strong manipulate the weak, would never give up the ritual for the sake of "morality". it's unnatural for his personality. I do not know for what reason he could have changed except for the "good hero Tav", who "showed him the opposite". what is really typical and banal? boring. at least for me.

EDIT: I completely misread the start of this ask, wait. You said "I do not know for what reason he could have changed except for the good hero Tav who showed him the opposite". My previous answer was about thinking you considered Tav too moralistic, but I missed that except word in there, so this is not about Tav themselves or Durge, it is just about how you see videogames.

The thing is... what about Shadowheart? What about Lae'zel? All the companions change because of Tav/Durge and their actions and words. That is literally LITERALLY what rpgs are.

Have you ever played other rpgs?

You will always encounter some characters you can influence. That is because this is a roleplaying experience, it is a staple of rpgs since - way way back.

Also... "showed him the opposite" is also not correct given that you can literally play as evil and still convince him to ascend. Astarion does not become an "all moral character" out of a sudden. He is still himself, just because you have less occasions to see him reacting as himself post his quest (because the game is almost over) it does not mean that you changed him completely.

What you are validating is the way he SEES himself. He sees the other spawns as himself, he saw himself as weak, he was basically victim blaming himself for being Cazador's victim. You are validating the fact that he does feel guilt and responsability. Validating being the key word.

In general regarding the whole spawn romance:

I'm sad honestly that something written so obvious is flying over your head. You think Astarion is and has always be a toxic abuser? Yikes.

Edit: adding this because I wrote this too quickly. Dark urge for the anon because they seem to find a good tav showing the way to Astarion paternalistic/unreciprocated.