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@@mimi8808 I love it 🤭😍 and I just recently discovered Voltaire, so I'm listening to all of his amazing work and discovering something new still ✨💕✨

@@zer0sixx mm, I think that was rather Minthara's fear not his. His "kink created by trauma of the past" is freedom 😊 so... It makes perfect sense to make fun of "true love" since their relationship is clearly not that and one is being suffocated by overly attached and obsessive partner. However, later it does become rather funny since when you let him ascend that's exactly what he becomes - overly attached and obsessive, without allowing you to be free 😅😆 (I mean my many Tavs are into that, but that's beside the point) 😂

that would be quite a major-league-banger to start with :)))) 🔥 one has to have a reasonable PC/laptop or console that can run it, it's very enjoyable, amazing graphics and story-telling... however it's time-consuming (i.e. you cannot usually just play for 30min-1h and stop, this one requires a 2h+ sessions at a time - but therefore not every day) at least for me, to get into story and enjoy it, i usually take b/w 2-4 hour per "gaming session" whenever I can manage 😅😁

@@DforceAi good for u, I guess 🤡

a clown is what you are

do you know the meaning of chauvinistic???

absolutely, I'm just waiting until I'm done recording this entire playthrough (Act 1 and 2 are done... now the longest Act 3..😵‍💫). I already have an idea for the full music video with Voltaire for Astarion and me 😍❤‍🔥🤩

me too, I would often add this as an additional background music during boring parts where we run/fight 😆 ..and then Astarion would add his mini comments like "let's have some carnage" and I'm just sitting there grinning at my screen half the time 😅🤣

@@PenguinFondue thank you, indeed, bizarrely it suits him 😂 he can make anything look glam ✨

heh, i'm quite sure our "professional" here has a whole range of much more interesting surprises in store, i'd like to imagine 🤪

Google it

@@lafillemysterieuse6641 Neil Newbon 🔥 absolutely smashed it ❤️🩸❤️

@@PipMuir it makes perfect sense, we can all agree here 😂👌

thank you, that's dyed version of "Astarion's Gear" mod :) 🥰

@@jimenawera true, but I think he's oversimplifying his own hidden desire to survive which was lasting for a very long time, he did give up eventually, but ... never completely, otherwise that thirst for ...well, life, new experiences, ability to chase new dreams would not have resurfaced that easily 😅 Broken? 💔 Yes. Destroyed beyond hope? Certainly not. 🐈‍⬛💞 Heartbreaking still, true 😥

@@amistiel Yeah, you are right, he had some minimum hope, which I think appeared when the Mindflayers kidnapped him

@@jimenawera indeed, I think he was thinking "perhaps that's the end" but then discovered a new beginning, which suddenly gave him hope where he thought none can exist

@@luradouglass4981 I know right, my Tav almost dropped to her knees already in anticipation 🤣🫣

"a more magnificent bastard than I already am" 😂

@@grookey77 love that line, how he says it, moves his hands to demonstrate exactly how magnificent he already is, just 🔥🍒👌

@@lilylollielegs34 "the dark mind" - looted at the very start of the game from the nautiloid 😆 I kept it in my camp and before going to Act2 final battle took it with me as I saw that thing in my first playthrough 👌

@@amistiel oooo Ill hav to get it on my next play through

@@yourraywin Astarion is quite a work of art 😆✨👌

@@AZtheHippie-jq3ve absolutely, you feel he poured his heart and soul into Starry ✨❤️❤️❤️

@@reze3416 thank you 😍 I love drow aesthetic the most I must admit 😅 ❤️

Hmmm, that's so strange. I did exactly that - romancing just Astarion, full approval 100%, read his scars, drew them, met Raphael, visited Moonrise (didn't talk to Araj), went to the Gauntlet, tricked Yurgir into killing himself, Raphael appeared on the first long rest and told us the meaning of scars, second long rest I got this scene. (I'm also playing as a good(ish) drow, Dark Urge, saved Minthara and only romanced Astarion, also spared Isobel and resisted the urge to kill Astarion... and rested a bunch of times before we went to the Gauntlet to make sure I didn't miss any extra scenes with anyone so that I get his scenes for sure) 😍😅😅😅

@@beckijones9807 that voice acting is On Point ✨👌

@@Ulldraken 🤣 hahaha, true that, the flower almost met the same fate as that one Gur guy Astarion got all stabby-stabby with 😆😋❤️

@@navi_6621 indeed, Baldurs Gate 3 ❤️ the game which made me forget about all other games for a while now since I got it at the end of March ❤️✨✨✨

@@DZodiark10 I know right? Neil did a stupendous job of making all our hearts flutter ✨❤️✨

@@MortSalazar ❤️❤️❤️ I still need to play as Karlach origin and romance him, she gets so many cool lines with him 😅🤩🤩🤩

@@prinsauce naaaawwww ❤️❤️❤️ thank you, I'm saving all my favourite moments, funny, romantic, painful, lustful... Astarion is a gift that keeps on giving 💞🫣😍 I felt that a heartbeat would amplify the intensity of emotion in that moment, I'm glad you liked it too 🥰

😻 ahahaha, my Tav was totally sparkly-eyed at that moment, thinking "play it cool, play it cool girl, don't drool" 😹 Astarion and his promises, eh? 💖💖💖

@@Priestics these are "Eilistraee cleric and paladin gear" and "Astarions' gear" mods 😍

@@DrDumpling Neil did an amazing job there, the character and the entire range of his emotions come to live so vividly, it's beyond words ❤️❤️❤️ I'm absolutely in love 😆

true, i honestly think that when you "show him via mind link" there should be another dialogue option for it, not like when you just tell him.. 😅😍

@@amistiel that would be nice. or at least a better indication of what you're showing him. The animation of both characters' foreheads and closed eyes is a little lacking lol

@@Xenolithial very true, i can even forgive the animation, afterall - it at most describes and rarely shows actual thoughts, so it's quite in line with the game, but not having a special reaction to the intuitively best dialogue option in light of his trauma is ... puzzling at the very least 🤔😅

He doesn’t seem to mind the hug as he hugs back. ❤ Even people who have had the most damaged past don’t mind a hug a time or two. Also, if Astarion didn’t want a hug, he would have let Tav know.😀

@@Nirual Oh yeah, just to clarify I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the hug at all. Given the context of the scene though, where he is literally confessing he has had no say over what happens to his body for the last 200 years, it seems to me like the more tactful option may have been to at least ask if it was okay with him first (which probably would have annoyed him but ah well) rather than just immediately initiating physical contact. He doesn't seem to initially understand what you're trying to do or how to react to it either The hug could also have ulterior motives, whereas the mind link has the added bonus of being pretty hard to fake. Whether he likes it or not there's clear evidence that you do care about him and that's just something he's going to have to learn how to deal with As for whether he'd let Tav know if he didn't want the hug.. on that part I'm honestly not so sure he would He's very bad at putting his foot down and holding to it when it comes to Tav especially. The very scene in this clip can lead to Tav coercing him into having sex when he really doesn't want to. He'll essentially just say "if this is what you want from me... Then I guess I shall provide." The next morning he'll express disgust over what happened but not in the moment. You can also coerce him into sex with the Drow twins. He'll initially say he's a little uncomfortable, but if you push he'll go along with it and end up dissociating part way through. So that's a little bit more leery imo That being said I do still prefer the hug sequence to the mind-link one for the animation, which ends up being very sweet

he's amazing indeed 🖤🖤🖤

I love it too ❤ I need to know as well😂😂

Mod called "Eilistraee Cleric and Paladin Gear" - i really enjoy that one during camp scenes ))))

@amistiel omg I think I have that, I have so many 🥹😂 I add every clothing mod and half the time I have no idea what it is till weeks later 😂😂😂

@@moona_ttv ahaha, that's why i try to avoid nexus page - too many shiny options 😆💖 i only downloaded mods twice (first batch of 15 and then another 15 next time... and decided that's way too many for me for now) they are all just visuals however, I don't want to add new classes/hints/tips/OP weapons/gear etc - I still want to get my achieves in Steam haha ))))

@amistiel I have almost all steam achievements- by accident honestly 😂😂 but the outfits are a problem currently for mods I have about... 🥹👉🏻👈🏻 290 In my game and it runs well just lotsa clothing and other quality of life options (I knows all the shineys for clothing on bg3 I think by now)

@@yokonee I never met the Drow - went to Moonrise, skipped her room, went to the temple of Shar and offed the demon instead - Rafael shows up to read the scars, the next time you rest Astarion starts his confession:))

@@amistiel OH okay! thank you! i never knew he still confessed even if you didn't meet the drow!

@@yokonee i tried all the options there - met the drow, got confession, met the drow and forced him to bite her, still got confession after playing around, but i didn't like any confessions after drow - so reloaded and went for this alternative which I must say I like a whole lot more. The most surprising discovery honestly was that you can force him to bite the drow and then playing with dialogue still make him confess. It was so cruel 🥺😢😱

@amistiel right!!! it's so unlogical. you literally show him that you see him the same way as cazador did. the truth is that astarion doesn't really know other life than this, it would be so easy to manipulate him into serving just another tyrant. he's simply lucky if the player decides to have a good heart and release him.

@@yokonee ​ true, well ... first time round I played as a chaotic durge, so we ended up as bhaal-babe and ascended starry ruling over all the mortal planes in a twisted dark romance tale )))) i really enjoyed it for my first play-through and now feeling more generous - being a nice red-durge and spawn ))) 😏😇😈

sure he does, otherwise how would the whole "sleeping together" part work, why would he sweat in the forge, how can he bleed :) technically, I fully understand what you mean, but in this bg3 universe the lore seems to be different 🫶

@@amistiel a vampire is a dead creature therefore does not have a heart and Yeah Astarion sweating after sex doesnt make sense either but in my game tho he doesnt sweat only the TAV/durge are sweating that makes more sense

@@amistiel i dont think you understand how vampires works! Vampires are not humans they are undead creatures which means he’s originally dead I know that the Bg3 universe are a bit different but vampires are undead creatures no matter what media! The heart beat is a romantic gesture tho, I am a fan of vampire media in general

@@amistiel everytime TAV hugs him I always picture like aww that looks like a cosy hug and how warm and comfort he’s body warmth but then I realised yet again he isnt alive/he’s undead mostly likely Astarions body are cold

@@amistiel he’s pale becauce originally his body is dead

@@aspiringbaker3607 exactly my thought, I was very much like "HUH?! What did you see in life that that's fine?" O.o

@@Indikid9149 Karlach is that buddy you always want to be on your side 😂😍