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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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hey guys why the fuck was fallout 4 about android rights

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Are you a trans man?

I'm a cis woman and I need to know what prompted this lmao

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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How I paint strawberries! 🍓

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*puts a disk in u*

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they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

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they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

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going on pinterest and commenting “hmm… i find this really.. pinteresting…!” on every single post i see

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Having fun with The Sims 1

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Feel old yet? Team Fortress 2 released in 1972

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Yall wanna see cope the likes nobody has ever seen?

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beautiful names for a baby girl:

- Jelita (like a fancy form of Julia)

- Melina (means raspberry in polish 😍)

- Morenka (so cute you could call her Rennie)

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