#i can make him worse :-)

[idontcarecarebear]

????Who am I talking about????

[themostfinalofpams]

The Greendale Seven are a found family who made each other worse

[apraxvalith]

Cooper WIP 🫠

[incoherentchanting]

id like to crack open his legs like a steamed crab and suck out his bone marrow

[sunfyredefender77]

[geisali]

This is how I imagine Astarion's design was discussed.

[ycewa]

TS!UnderSwap and UnderTale Yellow

I am in love with Koffin-K, Mettacrit and Starlo

GOD DAMN ARE THEY FINE

(Mettacrit x Koffin-K) is a crackship idc if you actually ship it or don’t like it it doesn’t matter ig

[spacealienrobot]

The writers of Skybound really looked at Starscream and said: “I can make him worse”

[garrus-appreciation]

Paragon Shepard romancing Garrus and thinking "I can fix him" vs renegade Shepard thinking "I can make him worse"

[queenfishie]

I love him Your honor.

Quick sketch while I’m at work.

How do you think Mammon is in bed? I’d say he’s probably pretty….Greedy?? Eh?? Okay sorry.

[localaceken]

While everyone is thirsting over Cinder can I declare myself the CEO of Ras???

Nobody gets the old tiger murder man like me actually fr I swear

[solradguy]

I am so easily distracted by sad monster men with beautiful hair and claws and perhaps a large sword

[biochemsitry]

"I can make him worse" *fixes him* is such an underused trope which should be illegal bc of how frickin funny it is. Like "let's give this fricked-up man more issues than he already has" but he develops morals instead

[birb--birb]

The more I play, the more I think people that who super dislike Astarion have never experienced a trauma before.

Like ofc you're allowed to dislike a character for any reason, but it also makes so much sense why he is how he is when you unlock his positive approval rating covos. He's a snarky stab happy fuckboy yes, but his quest for power isn't unjustified. Astarion is scared, he's terrified he'll be brought back to Cazador and tortured 5 ways to sunday, if not outright killed. The tadpole is what's keeping him safe, and he isn't going to give it up without a fight. So he thinks the only way to ensure his safety and freedom is to go full scorched earth, take as much power by any means possible no matter who it hurts. He's a spurr of the moment decion maker, of course he's not going to think it through. When your ticket to freedom after 200 years of torture is right there, you don't stop to think about the cost of it, to yourself or others.

Astarion doesn't want power so he can rule over the sword coast, he wants power to make sure no one ever can ever hurt him again. You hear something simular in folks who have experienced trauma (plz understand that I'm generalizing here, trauma is processed differently by different people no one brain is the same). Anger, grief, fear, confusion, terror all are things that can go through your mind after a traumatic event occurs. Your brain is trying to find a way to make things hurt less, so if there's a chance for revenge, or the ability to take back power, you bet your ass its gonna sound delicious to your emotionally flooded brain. This is what I think is at the core of Astarions story. That this confident, cunning, flirtatious vampire is mostly an act, it's what he's practiced and what's protected him thus far. He likely learned that showing any sort of vulnerability is a weakness that will be used against him. His grab for power is selfish yes, but not in the way it seems at the surface. But absolutely power will corrupt absolutely, which is why I say his desire is justified, but not exactly supported depending on what type of run you're doing.

Idk man I just immediately looked at this man and went "aweeh.... it's traumatized". That boi ain't got any coping skills whatsoever and I'm a sucker for characters who's confidence is just a ploy to keep you from seeing just how fucked up they actually are. Anyways each character in this damn game is written so freaking well I could write a billion essays about it everyone say thank you Larian

[lazyvoyager]

Love these two messy idiots with a passion