I love how Astarion quotes The Tell-Tale Heart every once in a while. It's a rarer line, and initially I thought it was out of place (Neil is very well versed in theater, so I assumed it was a riff from him), but since reading an analysis of the work I think it was pretty purposeful.
The piece is all about fear and paranoia, things we know Astarion is plagued by despite how he might act. Similarly, the narrator of the story also tries to convince the reader that they are not as troubled as they seem. In the end, the narrator is consumed by the beating of the heart of the old man he killed and dismembered, the sound growing louder and louder until in a fit of rage he reveals the body to the police to absolve himself from the persistent beating.
Except the police never heard the heart beat, because it wasn't the old man's heart at all. The narrator was consumed by the sound of his own heart beating more and more rapidly in his chest from fear. He was the owner of the thing that forced him to reveal his true nature, he is the owner of the tell-tale heart.
And what happens with Astarion after you romance him? He realizes over time that, while he tried to deny his feelings and was initially only interested in manipulating you for his own means, he actually has grown to care for you. You have done something to his heart that hasn't happened in centuries, you have made it feel as if it has started beating again.
Therefore, his tell-tale heart leads him to admit his transgressions, which were committed out of fear and paranoia for his safety.
So the line is actually very, very apt. His confession during Act 2 is his own version of "Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" Except, of course, it is his own heart that he is unearthing for us (and it's not so hideous, after all).
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you know what would be fun? fucking my sweet boy in front of a mirror and making him watch.
i should've done more when he was here. SIGH. it was so cute to come up behind him and slip my hands up under his robe, pulling him back against me to rest my chin on his shoulder.
dragging my fingertips down the center of his ribs before moving to play with his chest. he turned his head when I did that and oh my GOD. getting to kiss his cheek with an "ah-ah. mirror." and waiting until he looked up before I continued <3 Poor boy immediately turned red.
next time I'll have to reach down and play with his pretty cock, teasing him while he has to watch in the mirror. He get so flustered making eye contact with me when I fuck him-- so he can just look at himself instead! <3 everyone wins.
I wanna gently pull his cunt open, drag my fingers over his exposed cock until he's shaking, redfaced and panting. I wanna run my fingers along his entrance while he sits there looking mortified. Pushing a finger gently in and out before pulling away to show him the mess on my hand <33
and then fingerfucking him until he's whining, clinging to me, stopping if I catch him looking away. God he'd probably fuckin edge himself unintentionally
BUT I think it would do. Very good things for me. If I made him watch himself cum. <3
this is about transfaggotry, cis ppl dni
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OMG SCOOPED MICHAEL AHHHHH I LOVE HIM SM IM SO HAPPY YOUR FINALLY DRAWING THE LIL GUY
THE GUY EVER is finally here!!
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ok this one's better. ignore any previous villain donnie's left in your inbox oooo
[meteorologist voice] well folks if you look to your night sky you'll have a chance of catching a special treat tonight! looks like tumblr user desceros has fucking exploded and will be ascending to become a star in our cosmos. wow, what an opportunity to see spontaneous human combustion in real time. truly something special. anyway, back to you, janice
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