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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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Astarion Ancunín from Baldur's Gate 3 has narcissistic and borderline personality disorder!

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Another part of my Astarion/Wyll comic. For part I check out the tag #Astarion and his angsty vulnerable internal monologues

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He's in his home, don't bother him.

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It's all coming up Astarion.

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waiiittt…. if du drow and devlin are both… dark urge…. and their father is bhaal…. uhm…

LOL don't think about it too hard 😂

DU Drow belongs to @meanbossart !

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Missing the boys

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astarion my beloved i don't draw you often enough

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Vampire Lord Looking at Skull

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astarioncore

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“oh i like wyllstarion because they’re narrative foils” “oh i like wyllstarion because they have horrible crushes on each other and it’s so romantic and sweet” “oh i like wyllstarion when they’re divorced”. WRONG. I like wyllstarion because of how much it makes ulder ravengard’s life absolute hell. any iteration is funny but duke wyll trophy wife spawn astarion wyllstarion maybe the funniest. you abandon your son to the wild and the grips of a devil at age 17 and he comes back hero of baldur's gate and you already have to grapple with how the hell you apologize for something like that when the meanest most terrible invested in chaos and ruin VAMPIRE SPAWN in all of baldur's gate has made a home not just in your son's heart but also in YOUR home. AND THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED. AND HE HATES YOU. i'd kill myself

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another quick doodle, this time it's wizard time

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🔥🔥VIOLENCE🔥🔥

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tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

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A fanart of our beloved vampire :)

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"you should be at the club" I can't go to the club I'll be in there saying shit like "perchance" and "thrice"

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I'll admit, ive been thinking about them lately