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fucking hate texting dracula i'll send him a funny meme and he'll call me to be like "i need to take a SCREAMshot on my HELL phone" like oh my god we get it youre scary

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companion of the week.

Astarion has negative gold stars

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A Chinese Water Deer taking a swim with her fawn 

Photograph by  Hans Watson

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as nice as companion approval is, bg3 is the first game where it sometimes feels good to get disapproval notifs. i feel like a momma cat dragging her sopping wet kitties around by the neck whenever i ignore their pleas to stop doing the hero thing. im driving up to mcdonalds while my companions cheer, ordering a single black coffee and leaving. oh you dont wanna help people astarion? did i ask? are you in charge? *shoves him* is your bitch ass in charge?

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first sunlight in 200 years

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this might come as a shock to many but i happen to be quite fond of vampires

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How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

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I've been dead in the ground for long enough.

It's time to try living again.

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*gets caught pickpocketing cos i keep saying ‘yoink’ outloud when i do it*

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I did a doodle today and it ended up turning into a meme i guess

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wait... you're thinking about gay sex and killing yourself again aren't you

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if vampires can't come inside without permission does that mean that you can just keep riding that thang and they can't um . yknow

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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

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cuntiness is such an important character trait

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vampires sparkle because they were cursed at the beginning of time to reflect the vicious cruelty of the cosmos — so, like the cosmos, they have starry skin