#she reminds me of astarion

[orangechickenpillow]

Tav waking up in a cold sweat to astarion looking for a midnight snack like

[lazylittledragon]

you know what fuck it we’re doing dadstarion

[hobbithoes]

ref sheet for durge’s scars + undies + linking the playlist #yolo

[aphony-cree]

saw this post by @spikes-left-eyebrow and couldn't resist. Congrats on your lesbian awakening!

[steampoweredstrawberry]

I let my niece pick which character I'll play in a BG3 origin run because she's got a crush on Wyll, and I knew she'd eat up his dancing scene.

I was 100% convinced she'd choose Karlach or Shadowheart. Shadowheart because she's the type of Pretty Girl character she tends to like. Karlach because she has horns and her and Wyll match.

She chose Astarion. 😂 We're Wyllstarion fans in this house.

[archdevilsupreme]

your honor, I love these fuckheads

[daily-sloop-john-b]

I want to see Harry Dresden as Tav. Give that wizard a gun. Have him be the token straight amongst the bisexual disasters. Let him make references none of the other tadfools understand.

He's gonna be real dubious about all the hot goddesses trying to fuck them over. Let him grab a beer with Gale and be like, 'depression year after your wizard hubris caused your girlfriend to break up with you, and you've spent a year alienating yourself from everyone but your cat? yeah, I've been there, buddy.'

[syrinq]

w. wh. when companions in a game have Trauma(tm) and Complex Personalities(tm) and an Entire Character Arc and they feel Alive and you're on a Journey to overcome the Obstacles And Everything Together

[graveyardcuddles]

"Did you get enough love, my little dove?

Why do you cry?"

[pricemarshfield]

played a little bit of leta’s act 1 earlier and god. so embarrassing for her, the barbarian, to fail at breaking out of ASTARION’S hold

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Baldur's Gate 3 early access for my birthday and I'm so impressed!

The games I gravitate towards all emphasise story, choice, and character so I'm definitely in my element.

We've also come a long way from Baldur's Gate saying evil aligned characters are the only queer romance and must all meet a terrible end. "We were simply too sexy and bad to the bone, baby," interjects Dorn and Hexxat (channelling Matt Berry).

I have a feeling Astarion and Lae'zel are evil aligned but they are also full of potential to grow and change beyond some strict 'Good and Evil' dichotomy.

Lae'zel has a limited ability to help how she was raised to think about anyone and anything outside her militant Githyanki cloister, but she's making small steps towards understanding (kinda) and her endearing hesitant curiosity is a poor secret underneath all that arrogant aggression.

Astarion is... ha... so wet. The wettest. I adore him and I'd be dissatisfied if he ends up being the Judas in your party. Mainly because I'd be disappointed at Astarion for being the most transparent idiot in all Faerun (but I suppose it's typical of him). Out of all the companions I think he deserves a redemption tale most. Or at least a chance to figure out who he is without centuries of compulsion and slavery. He tries too hard to be evil but his hearts not really in it, I think.

Given the conversations around Astarion I expected him to be more like Fenris or Zevran from Dragon Age fame but he's very different imo. If he reminds me of any other fictional character it would probably be Baz from Carry On... If Baz had been forced to be a kept boy by a sadistic sire for centuries...

Anyway, my money's on Shadowheart as your Judas (depending on your choices) but I can already see her lovers sharpening their pitchforks at the idea, so maybe not. (I love Shadowheart too but I can see her being the least loyal of them all. No matter how much she likes you she has her own goals).

[solasan]

i do think it'd be sooo funny 🤪 if alarice and astarion had actually met in a tavern in baldur's gate like a year or 2 before canon i wont lie. alarice doesnt remember it but astarion does n when they meet on the beach hes like 🤨 why do i know u. they flirted terribly before one of the other people in the guild came to grab her for a job and astarion went to find a different mark. mostly he remembers thinking it was a shame someone so funny was going to be ripped open so terribly by cazador. i think also he remembers feeling a kind of annoyed relief that she got away; annoyed bc now he has to start again with someone else and he doesn't have much time, but relieved bc he liked her and it's good she gets to live another day??? n that conflict rly weighs on him once he starts 2 Care About Her lol

[hellt00th]

w-WAIT I DIDNT KNOW HE'D COMMENT ON IT

[cushblunticoot]

sorry dint mind me basically just thinking very normcore about how fuckingeh syckk it woukd be. For crezia to be a good guy for most of their relationship w astarion and helping him out until her hardship inevitably catches back up with her for the 60billionth time and just retconning everything and them both deciding like. Actually fine. Lets make us both worse. Its where we were always going why not just let it be what it may

[bhaalsdeepbat]

I'm trying to work myself up to the bad end for Ashe. Accept Bhaal and refuse to take the brain, but my HC will be Ascended Astarion seeing if the powers of the Vampire Ascendant can rival the blood whispers of a God.

[fkitwebhaal]

Anyway, here are my thoughts about what each of the companions would present on if they had to give the rest of the party a PowerPoint presentation:

Gale: A completely accurate and detailed lecture regarding the theories of teleportation magic, how it works, and the differences between it and plane shift. There are multiple charts and graphs.

Wyll: “Choosing your hero name: an adventurer’s guide” He does have suggestions for the entire party.

Karlach: “Ranking bars in the gate based on how much they remind me of Avernus.” She has provided illustrations that she made herself. Anything in the Upper City is ranked “like Avernus” because “occupied entirely by pricks.”

Shadowheart: “So I was wrong about Shar: a reluctant apology.” It’s mostly a debunk of Shar’s lies but the entire time it does look like she is pulling teeth. However, she cheers up considerably when she presents on some of the church’s secrets, including the weird ass code names for things that she always thought were a little silly.

Lae’zel: a very educational and complete history of her people’s war against the mind flayers. It’s all rather academic until the last slide which says “AND THIS IS WHY WE DON’T EAT THE WORMS” in all caps.

Astarion: “Ranking you by whose blood I’d want to drink most.” In order, it is as follows Gale (rancid), Karlach (spicy), Minthara (probably is poisonous after all the poison she’s been exposed to), Jaheria (that story about what she did to one of the spawn was memorable), Shadowheart (does cleric blood taste radiant?), Lae’zel (curious how Gith taste, doesn’t want to die), Minsc (large and has extra blood to spare), Halsin (can turn into a bear, think of all that real estate), Wyll (canon verified snack)

Halsin: “Foraging: what’s edible and what isn’t” Gale takes very dutiful notes given someone gave him a mushroom two ten days ago that gave the entire camp food poisoning. Astarion, the only one who did not get food poisoning, who has completely forgotten what he foraged was the culprit, takes 0 notes.

Minthara: Battle orders and tactics. All of these fools need to get whipped into shape.

Jaheria: “Get it Fucking Together: Stop Doing this Shit.” What follows is a callout of everyone’s worst habits and decisions. One slide just says “stop snitching.”

Minsc: it’s just pictures of Boo.