Before everyone gets carried away with the "Raphael is Alive" even if you killed him scene, I have to let you know:
His whole ending is bugged right now.
Something is flagging wrong. No matter what you do with Raphael, he believes that you gave the Crown to Gale and Mystra. I specifically made the deal, gave him the Crown, and was originally receiving the "Thank you" ending. Post 5.0 he believes I'm betraying him.
They've implemented a Mystra ending and it's now overriding everything else. Sorry to crush the hopes and dreams. He's still dead. :/
Also I just wanna be clear that like. It's not bad to like Astarion. You're not a bad person if he's your favorite character.
It's just that it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when Larian shows such blatant favoritism toward him and their listening to his stans the most.
And like. Idk abt y'all but I don't like being pandered to. Astarion is great, but frankly there's enough of him in the game. I'm romancing Gale rn but Astarion is constantly the one with the ! above his head, every other long rest. And like I have barely interacted with him with this Tav. But he's still constantly got shit to say, and Gale is one of the companions with the most content to begin with. So can we like. Get to someone else now.
And the thing is ... They're kinda. Making him worse. Kinda undermining the point of his story a little bit? Like. Can we leave well enough alone and do some other stuff. For five seconds. Leave the horny kissing and lip biting to the fandom mayhaps.
If you wanted no plot, I'm here to provide. Hickeytozer PWP for no other reason than constant horniness for them. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing <3