#meanwhile virl is a bleeding heart who wants to help everyone so astarion kinda scoffs at them

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Absolutely incredible the difference the scene is where you tell Astarion about the scars on his back when you're just going for a friend route vs when you're romancing him btw. He is WAY more willing to trust Tav/Durge with that info when they've already proven they don't intend him any harm and presumably have already seen it before at the party.

I didn't get that scene with Virl until way towards the end of Act 2, and even then Virl's relation to him is still only Fair so he was very apprehensive about the whole thing. But with Kallos, who's at Very Good with him (and who's also a Tiefling which helps), he was way more receptive to letting him read it and much more appreciative about the help.

It makes sense of course, if I were him I'd closely guard my own scars and letting someone I travel with but am not Especially close to see those would put me on edge too. It's just the sheer difference in attitude/tone between those two scenes that really got me on this durge run.