Hi, I just want to say that your work is stunning and we're very thankful for it! I also hope that nobody is causing you problems about liking that other route...It's ludicrous that people still act like children when it comes to what others enjoy, not to mention that if you show them two pictures of Astarion they won't even be able to tell which one is the 'bad' route and which one is the 'good' one.
Other than that, I wish you a very nice day!
Thank you so much! š„¹š„¹ Iām so so happy you enjoy my content.
Thankfully no one has caused me any issues with Ascended Astarion stuff haha. I guess because I do acknowledge he is 100% evil if he ascends, but SOMETIMES I LIKE ME AN EVIL MAN!! I enjoy both routes and think they are both super fun to play.
I love Spawn Astarion for him being able to overcome his fears, open up, heal and become ābetterā (but still pretty cheeky and wanting to create as much chaos as possible) and end the cycle of abuse, which is very personal to me as well in my own trauma. I love that he is able to overcome what I would consider an unhealthy coping mechanism to his fear; he is scared, so his reaction is to obtain as much power over everyone else so no one can ever hurt him again, but then he would lose himself in the processā¦ and his SO if you decide not to become his spawn. I mean, he pretty much becomes his BIGGEST fear, his own source of 200 years of trauma and abuse (āthe new cazadorāājust like Cazador did since he was also a spawn and killed his own master for power out of fearāif Iām remembering correctly).
BUT I also like the Ascended Astarion route for how tragic it is. How you can really see right through him and how he ISNāT satisfied. He gets so angry with you if you even point it out a little bit, that sacrificing all of those souls, including his own in a way, didnāt fix anything. Heās still so insecure. He is still afraid (heās just much more aggressive and defensive about it). He is still unhappy and he will never actually be free. I mean, itās a deal with MEPHISTOPHELES. He might have been freed from one master, but now he owes his power to another, much more dangerous and powerful being. Not only that, but he will never be free from himself. If you listen to Cazadorās inner thoughts, you can hear how much he WANTS to die, how much he HATES being a soulless and vile vampire with only a lust for blood. No capability to love, to care, to be any part of who he mightāve been before.
The song āhurtā by NIN makes me think of Ascended Astarion. He says āwe can have it all, we can take the worldā. But what is āhaving it all?ā. āHaving it allā to me would be the Spawn ending. Being free of his abuser, being free of owing his power to someone else, being able to be HIMSELF and surrounded by people who care about him because of who he is, not because of his power.
Anyways Iām not that great at writing my thoughts coherently so Iāll stop there lol, but I also like his voice lines cause they can be kind of hot because also kind of goofy š š and itās fiction!! I read the wildest fanfic out there but if an actual man spoke to me that way, I would be OUT OF THERE SOOOO FAST lol
I donāt like to call them the ābadā or āgoodā ending, because itās different for everyone. I mean, itās a ROLEPLAYING GAME. Yeah, if your Tav/Durge is good alignment, then the spawn ending may seem to be the āgoodā one, but if your Tav/Durge is evil then wouldnāt the vampire ascendent ending technically be āgoodā for them? Anyways, I just think people struggle to separate reality from fiction when they get too deep into it. I love soft-ish and cheeky vampire and also evil and hot vampire like WE CAN ENJOY BOTH!!!
Anyways, thank you so much again and I hope you also have a wonderful day!! ā¤ļø
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