#also imagining a little workout club with Astarion Lae'zel and Wyll where they're all watching each other + “critiquing” each other's forms

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My besties (@parad0xymoron + @1nchwyrm) were telling me about an Astarion (& Gale mod) which changes Astarion's physique into something without heavily sculpted abs, and then us discussing like why? Why is Astarion so stacked? We had always expected him to be really slender so Astarion-with-abs was a surprise

Is Astarion's physique just another way that Cazador controlled him? Making Astarion slave away year after year to keep himself so ripped, all for Cazador's own enjoyment? (side note: cackling over the image of some kind of vampire crypt gym AU)

And then @1nchwyrm offering such an interpretation of Astarion working out (in the crypt/in the camp) a la Love Island boys style. Making a whole thing out of going to work out, doing a couple of pull ups and then checking to see if anyone's watching him. He can't see himself but he's gonna make damn sure everyone else is looking