#he does it because he loves astarion

[squid-johnson]

Literally never posted my durge before on this site but this is what he looks like in a cow costume (as I was told to draw by some discord friends). This is Shiv. He looks like he's having an awful time but I'm sure he'll get over it.

[lesbianwyllravengard]

No but Astarion wanting to be valued for more than sex and seen for something that's not just sex regardless of who romances him and Wyll wanting a chaste and genuine romance with sincere and committed courtship with no sex regardless of who romances him is insaneeeeee. I know everyone's talked about this before but everytime I stop to think about it I lose my mind. They couldn't be more narratively bound I'm clawing at the bars of my cage

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

[miraculan-draws]

I see your "elves need earmuffs in winter" and RAISE YOU those knitted or fuzzy headbands that go over ears BECAUSE Astarion would look very cute in them and it would keep his growing hair out of his eyes. He made it himself. I was going to say "bring him yarn/fabric of your desired color and he will make you one" but I realized he would be choosing the colors himself with childlike glee and would not entertain any arguments on the matter. Interrupting conversations that do not involve him that way he can measure someone's head. Once he learns he can make them out of fur it's all over. Don't have big sensitive elf ears? Irrelevant, you will be cozy as well, sha'tel'quessir, and it will be both fashionable and practical.

[herotune]

so much shadow around us. to think we almost missed the light...

(a belated entry for wyll week day 6! favorite ship...i adore them ok)

[moltensmusings]

Concept: elf tav who is just under 300, all of her children died as adventurers or guards. Her husband and her became vastly different people in the wake of all the grief. They havent spoken in years, incapable of existing around each other before breaking down. The journey after the crash she keeps seeing shadows her kids in the various party members and as such she desperately wants to help them. Save them in ways she couldn't for her own children. A pillar of love and guidance because her children may be gone, but she will always be a mother.

[moderncryptid]

Astarion stealing Tav's body heat at every possible opportunity. He is putting his cold-ass hands up the back of their shirt. He is pressing his face directly into their shoulder and breathing pure winter chill down their neck. At night he's like a weighted blanket made out of ice. He loves being warm and will do everything short of crawling into their skin about it but he looks so happy that tav is just accepting their fate at this point.

[jacqcrisis]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING THIS WHOLE FUCKING GAME TO HUG THIS NERD AND ITS AS WONDERFUL AS I'D HOPED

[leavemetoplaythesims]

this game is so fucking pretty

[manyothermusingsofmine]

Tbh I think what sold Astarion on Willow is that I think she uses vicious mockery less for like, general insults and instead its more like

Willow: I don't like using vicious mockery people have said I'm incredibly mean when I use it

Astarion: Isn't that the whole point?

Random thug: Oi, she-devil, time to go back to the hells-

Willow: Acting this way is not going to give you the approval you so desperately crave from your parents.

[tombware]

astarion's arc mentioning redemption doesn't make as much sense as it seemed it was going to in EA. like Ulma mentioning he might achieve redemption doesn't make much sense now since she's talking about victims he got while being almost literally puppeteered.

Originally it seemed pretty clear we were going to find out some heinous shit he did to the Gur as a magistrate out of his own free volition.

[v-i-r-i-d-i-a-n]

When you really like Astarion and his relationship with your tav so you search him up on TikTok because oh I’m sure people have made good content of h-

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The deeper I went into the “Astarion Girlies” (BROTHA EUGH) the more I wanted to dive bomb off a cliff

LIKE WDYM YOU THINK AA AND TAV ARE HEALTHY??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU THINK AA LOVES TAV??? AFTER NON ASCENDED ASTARION LITERALLY TELLS YOU HE ALMOST LOST HIMSELF?? AND WOULDVE IF YOU HADNT CONVINCED HIM NOT TO ASCEND?? The game tells you AA actively thinks you’re disrespecting yourself by being with him?? But it’s fine because maybe that’s what you want. You’re quite literally disregarding his ENTIRE story- you objectified him SO MUCH YOU TURNED YOURSELF INTO AN OBJECT.

[fragglerockopinions]

white man experiences racism for the first time. sad!

[youredreamingofroo]

nirvana moodboard of sorts

[snowberry-pie]

tbh i feel like ascendant astarion would eventually get bored of a spawn!tav after a few years/decades. kinda like a kid with a toy that they eventually outgrow and leave to collect dust on a shelf. he’s not gonna let them go Obviously but i think the novelty of having a ~dark consort~ is bound to wear off sooner or later.

[invinciblerodent]

oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am

like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies

okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace

since very early in act 1.

it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)

I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.

and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.

it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.

so. um.

guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.

if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.

you'd be very wrong.

((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))