#be a complex fucking character. he's not a “absolutely the worst person in faerun with zero redeeming qualities he's just evil and it's all” | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

eldrichthingy · 5 months

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people that can't accept that astarion's alignment is absolutely, definitely, canonically fucking !neutral evil!, are hilarious to me. idk how??? did we play the same game?? genuinely?? do you think neutral character would approve of raiding the grove & killing a bunch of refugees & killing the gnomes etc???

#he's an asshole (affectionate) and I love him for it. I love pre-ascension astarion he's so fucking cruel and funny #also. btw. character being evil doesn't disregard his trauma. idk who needs to hear this? but even if he was like he was in ea... he'd still #be a complex fucking character. he's not a “absolutely the worst person in faerun with zero redeeming qualities he's just evil and it's all”#but he's also not a “just a baby UwU his acts of cruelty doesn't actually count at all and he approves of worst things because ✨ trauma ✨”#he's fucking complex?? hello???#he's a character with a lot of nuance to him and him being neutral evil doesn't take it away?? he's selfish. he's manipulative.#literally enjoys killing people for fun?? that's what makes him interesting. he doesn't have to be the perfect victim to enpathize with him #he doesn't have to be a good person in a slightest to be still be deserving of revenge #redemption (or power and vengeance).#he doesn't have to be a “poor little meow meow just a traumatized baby” to have empathy for his character & relate to him & love him???#that's the whole appeal of character???????#but you can't deny that he's evil (at least pre act 3 although he DOES approve of evil choices there too; regardless of path)#OKAY RANTING OVER A FICTIONAL VAMPIRE MAN OVER #it's my blog and I deserve to be annoying here and write whatever I want. so here's that #delete later #eldrich.rambles #eldrich.rants

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