#also astarion is just me i also hate it when my partner leaves the bed

[solmesia]

Sleepy Vampire Noises

(thanks @lassieposting for letting me play with this lol)

[astariondisapproves]

How would Astarion feel about a Tav who started off as female coming out as nonbinary and expressing they experience gender dysphoria? 🤔 I can imagine Tav would also be scared Astarion would leave them due to them not wanting to present the way they did when he first fell in love with them.

Astarion, being pansexual, never really paid much attention in regards to gender and relationships. To him, he always looked at who they were as people and if they were a fun time in bed. But with Tav, it was different. He fell in love with them. He viewed them as more than a fun time in bed. They were his partner, for life, or so he hopes.

So when Tav confessed to him how they felt uncomfortable in the body they were born in, Astarion listens intently. He could sense their fear with their elevated heartbeat. They were afraid he was going to leave them, so after they word vomit everything, Astarion looks at them with such affection.

"Darling, all I want is for you to be comfortable in your own body, and if you wish to no longer identify as a female, I will love you regardless, and I will treat you and call you by your preferred pronouns and name because if that's what makes you happy, it makes me happy."

He explains softly, kissing the top of their head as he holds them close.

"Now, love, you mentioned wanting a new wardrobe? Bring me all your old clothes, and I'll alter them for you in your preferred styles. I am rather skilled at sewing, after all."

HI REBBY HERE. TYSM FOR THIS ASK HONESTLY. As someone who was born as a female but realized later in life that I'm nonbinary this ask made me feel so many things. All my life, I felt super uncomfortable in my body, hating the fact I was born in this body. I'm 29 now and didn't figure it out until I was 27. I still have bad days with body dysphoria(I'm very curvy in all those places legit have an hour glass shape body) and still get misgendered by my family. But my partner? He knew me and dated me when I still identified as a female, and he still decided to stay when I came out to him, immediately switching over my Pronouns and no longer calls me his "girlfriend" but "partner" and like ???? I can't begin to tell you how much guilt I felt because I felt like I tricked him, but he assures me that wasn't the case and that he loves me regardless and thus post just made me think og my partner so it made my heart really happy. 😭😭

[pricemarshfield]

general 2, 4

story 6, 8

romance 10, 12

:3c

HI FOX MY BEST FRIEND FOX. GOING BONKERS UNDER THE CUT ♥️

2. Do the other companions have special comments or reactions upon recruiting your Tav?

yeas :)

shadowheart: hmph. i’m sure she’d be useful, but i don’t think we NEED her.

lae’zel: chk. better her than shadowheart. at least she’s demonstrated prowess in a fight

astarion: as long as you keep that lightning away from ME, i say we bring her along.

i cant think of gale and wyll and karlach’s comments but they Would have them. i know this

4. What sort of general actions raise or lower their approval?

acting with caution, lying for basically any reason (if it’s useful, she respects it, if it’s not useful, she just thinks it’s funny), supporting party members (regardless of the moral implications of whatever help you offer, ie giving astarion or gale the necromancy of thay would net approval even though it’s perhaps not Smart. BUT she’d approve more if you gave it to Her), and also everything i talked about in the previous ask fndndnd. also mocking raphael (she disapproves of taking haarlep’s deal but you get a full +10 approval if you call raphael bad in bed to his face so like net positive).

6. Will they stay with the Player Character regardless of siding with the goblins or the tieflings, or is it possible for them to leave the party permanently?

she will stay no matter what! she does not care! if she’s not the leader of the group she has no reason to keep up an act of altruism to keep the group together. however she will speak sadly about missing wyll and karlach even up until late act 3 if you side with the goblins, and never seems to get along with minthara quite as well as she did them. (she does laugh when minthara is mean to people though. especially gale. she likes gale but she’s a cunt with a complex about wizards so like you know how it is)

8. Do they have comments on who the Player Character chooses to spend the night with? 

YES.

if romancing lae’zel and SPECIFICALLY sleeping with her at the tiefling party, she’ll gripe in the morning about how you took the only partner she’d planned on sharing her bedroll with, but she’s smiling and not upset. UNLESS she propositioned you and you rejected her in which case she’s honestly pretty annoyed. no approval loss or anything it’s just like 😒 for a bit. either way, she tells you to take care of each other.

with astarion she questions your judgment (lol. lmao, even) but is supportive of you both, moreso than some other companions! she’ll also probably have banter with astarion where she kind of pokes at his actual motivations for seducing the pc because she’s terrible

with shadowheart she shovel talks you. she Adores shadowheart. they have a complex about each other but she loves her (platonically. they are besties :) )

with karlach she will actively offer to help find ways to help with her heart/infernal iron if you met dammon! she thinks karlach’s great!

with wyll she’ll tease you both gently but fondly, and will probably ask you if you’ve thought about how you’ll react if/when mizora gets possessive. she approves of any reasoned or determinedly protective answer, and disapproves of “why would she?” or “that’s wyll’s problem, not mine”

with gale she’ll less-gently tease you and will not care if he’s around. HOWEVER she will pull a hard 180 once elminster shows up and tells gale to kill himself because she’ll be like UH?? THATS OUR WIZARD?? and gale’s like i thought you hated me? and tav will go 🙄 i don’t think about you enough to hate you. and then they hang out and talk about magic a lot :)

with minthara she’ll Actually question your judgment, as she doesn’t trust minthara. if you tell minthara about that you immediately net -5 approval

with halsin she’ll go “huh. good for you. not my thing, but good for you. did the wildshape stay on?”. you get +1 approval if you tell her. the same is true if you poly romance him with her :) she doesnt want him but she thinks he’s fine!

10. Will they join in with the PC and the Drow Twins, or no?

“is the sibling thing marketing or real?” “uh—“ “ew. real. absolutely not.” pushing further after that exchange nets disapproval.

12. Free space! Share anything from your companion!Tav au!

this girl LOVES the society of brilliance. helping/being nice to omeluum and blurg nets approval and her “good” post-game ending is joining the society as a research assistant. (her bad one is if you push her towards pure obedience and faith towards talos, in which case she starts just rampant destruction on the seas and is actively trying to form her Own world-destroying cult.)