#bg3 ascended Astarion

[jawstarion]

wdym with patch 7 i can no longer get Bloodweave kisses where Gale’s looking up at Astarion, scared and on his knees?

a tremendous loss for the toxic old man yaoi community because some of y’all are a bunch of weenies 😔

[alwachart]

Astarion & Tav

She's a bard lolth drow who romanced -obviously- Astarion and became a vampire.

This is another sketch idk if I'll ever colour completely. I'm happy with the results so far, pushing my comfort bubble with her body shape. The dress is a reference found on pinterest.

Also his shoes are horrendous to draw...and to look at.

I'm really tempted to just draw him in something else than his canon loafers.

[pastel-starr-bitch]

“I’ll never ascend Astarion but—“ anything after but is bullshit my friend, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t enjoy his ascended dialogues if you’re gonna be chronically online & harass people about it in every other regard.

[jacethegaymer]

Soo my bg3 throuple (Mishiri and Ascended Astarion) recently had a child and named him Draven. Astarion was being a good father and all…

And he left the baby on the floor to sleep

He has a crib, Astarion, pick up your child

[thelikesoffinn]

I've been living under a rock, it seems, because I just found out that there's an Astarion reference in the Sims 4 Life and Death, and I'm beyond shook.

That's like two of my personalities suddenly meeting for lunch, I can't

[nepherit]

portrait collection - Astarion

I've been filling my sketchbook with portraits of characters from Baldur's Gate 3 for quite a while. I was pretty busy during the last month, but now I finally had the time to color some of my favorites. I'm pretty happy with the ones I've finished, so I thought I might share them as well.

Here I've Astarion. I find him quite annoying to have around and not as useful as some other companions, but I must admit he's really good looking and always fun to draw, especially his hair 😂

[aenvittorielle]

GIRLS IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR ⠀

Shadowheart: well, not bad Alize: simply me, thanks for alive

AND BOYS:

Gale: looking magical…. 💅🏼✨ A!Astarion: exquisite….simply exquisite…🔥💋

[thewritetofreespeech]

Ascended Astarion who is all powerful, cruel, and calculating, but soft for Tav is my new addiction.

[misfitsims13]

Cinematic video of my Durge become a Vampire and ascended Astarion <3

If you like it pls Subscribe to my channel

Thank You all <3

[rafumeika]

Next bg3 run is gonna be the ultimate toxic poly group: A!Astarion/DJ!Shadowheart/GOA!Gale/Minthara

Still deciding who I should play as out of the three available Origin (so sad we can't play as Minthara 😔)

[bumblebree1903]

Edit: Please checkout my reblog, I didn’t articulate myself very well in this and come across as a massive dick. Sorry about that, seriously. I am legitimately curious as to the reasons behind the positive Ascended Astarion interpretations/what in the text makes people feel that way.

Okay I read something about this over the weekend and it’s been bothering me since because I feel like people are missing the point.

People were upset it felt like BG3 was forcing you into the role of a victim if you ascended Astarion during your romance. They were insistent they and their character HAPPILY and WILLINGLY ascended him and would be more than happy with him and his behaviour after. Which, don’t get me wrong, can be true.

You can very happily ascend Astarion and give him the power he wanted and support him throughout. It doesn’t stop the fact he’s going to abuse your character and that your character is going to become a victim. Because that’s the point. That’s what the whole deal with the characters are, finding freedom from unhealthy relationships of some kind. Astarion’s specifically touches on the cycle of abuse. Cazador abused Astarion and the other vampire spawn, and maybe Astarion isn’t making you eat rats and locking you in coffins, but he’s still abusing you. He will always have power over you if he ascends and he will never treat you as or respect you as an equal. He will isolate you and ignore your wishes and treat you as an object, because ascending him continues that cycle. He doesn’t respect you if you ascend him.

I’m not faulting anyone that ascends him, it’s not something I would do but that doesn’t mean you’ve done a bad or are “playing wrong.” There’s no wrong way to play the game, especially if they give you the option. I am saying, however, that regardless of how happily someone ascends Astarion and how much they support it they’re still going to become a victim. Even if it’s not right away, it will happen because ascending Astarion continues the cycle of abuse, just in a different form.

[alwachart]

have you heard about what this mod does??

Happy face expressions changes the whole game! Despite being advertised as a mod for AA, it is the perfect mod for evil runs as it affects all scared face animations in game

Laugh at disgraces, smile at the devil, be your true self!

I'm never uninstalling this jewel

LINK

[pastel-starr-bitch]

I find it amusing that the irritating nature of the BG3 fandom helped thrust me into accepting AA. I was staunchly against the ending (of course, before even getting to act 3) because of what I’d seen online. The think-pieces on how you’d have to be a monster to ascend him, that it’s repeating the cycle of abuse, etc etc etc. Then I came around to the compelling angle of it being a doomed love, that it would end horrifically (for the PC, obviously). Until I saw the incessant hate that seemed to follow the AA-lovers and I decided that I don’t enjoy throwing my lot in with bullies and purists. Now I’m at the point where I think “hmm, fuck it they’re an evil couple” purely because I find the anger it spawns too laughable. The fact that this character creates so much discourse and sheer frustration is honestly pathetic— the inability to let people simply interpret media the way they choose is pathetic.

So thank you to the haters because you introduced me to a very fun sub-community and a compelling character ❤️ I can only hope that one day they simply remember this is a video game.

[nerdmutant]

my toxic trait is that I think I could manipulate astarion to make me a full vampire if I convince him that it'll make him more powerful and feed into his paranoid tendencies

[web-spinning]

Spawn Astarion and Ascended Astarion are two different people in my mind.

[senairart]

“I'm doing this for you, too, you know. To make sure we're both safe. Forever, for good.”