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So I am currently at my first playthrough (cause in my original first one I missed important scene and could not trigger romance and I reliased something is wrong when I got to Baldurs Gate) and now I am heartbroken because I literally have no idea what to chooooooseeeeeee

Some of these lines, i feel like hes using a charm spell on the char. Or hes just got 200 years of rizz

i'm sry its the last line for me... ugh, just it coming full circle with us trusting him to bite us to now where he trusts us... ugh my heart

God, AA sucks. Especially since this is him on good behavior. His breakup with Karlach is unforgivable

The scene that cemented Astarion as my favourite character.

I know he's evil like this, but when he says, "That's what you want isn't it. To be mine...forever." My brain stops processing his evil and just melts into a puddle of submissive soup.

2:28 mom when she hears you whisper talkback

The first time I played they stayed and we chatted... the 2nd time they disappeared as soon as I entered the room.....😢

This is so heartbreaking ending. He will forever remain as a spawn and be afraid of the sun. He will forever be hungry..... No-no-no-no. I got this ending twice and i immediately reloaded my save file.

I ended my first run romancing Astarion, didn't let him ascend, and started a new run, telling myself I'll let him ascend on this one. Seeing this made me change my mind. There is no way I'd let him become this, oh god, it breaks my heart.

He is so sweet and kind

Astarion is cute

Astarion spawn or ascended ?

this is heartbreaking

This is honestly really sad The power of the vampire ascendant, and it's all copium

we fixed him guys

'Sorry baby, the lady slinging is aggressive AF today.' ( ´～｀)

Even though Astarion is well Astarion I still love him, and plan on becoming his spawn lol, but this scene was sad

I think he'd appreciate the drawing.

e ainda tem quem defenda o final em que ele ascende. por favor a felicidade no rosto desse homem sabe.

The delivery on “you’re full of surprises, aren’t you” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 how is he such a chaotic gremlin and so sweet at the same time aaaaa ❤❤❤

Awwww that's nice 😆

It's weird that they don't look like him. Reddish eyes, sharp canines, otherwise normal.

How do you trigger this scene?

What's the song please? 😭

there are so many layers to this. you're just watching a man unravel... trying to tie himself back together, but every attempt only misses the point and makes him unravel more

Funny how he got all that power and still is so insecure he resorts to insults. 😢

Um...he can't really tell Astarion if Astarion is legit choking him lmao

"What can I do for my dearest pet?" "I want a divorce" "...bitch"

Sure, you can “fix” him. But what does he need after you’re gone? To burn up as soon as your shadow passes him by? The utter pick-me girl arrogance of this ending makes me want to puke. Kill him or let him ascend.

I felt that quick save. This is the part where you gotta start saving him from himself. He gets a little manipulative, and a lot scared and thinks this is what he wants.

Acended scares me it makes me so sad to see him like this he lost all of his progress he made and just became like cazador 😭😭

UGH. he is insufferable. i wanted to help him ascend because i hoped it wouldn't change him, but after i read what happens i was like lol NOPE. this is awful :/ all that potential character development thrown down the gutter

I am doing a sort of like evil alignment even tho not as evil as dark urge but my character is sweet towards astarion and i am soo conflicted... Between letting him ascend or not

Besides all of this game's brilliant voice actors, I bow before the writer(s) of all those lines with a deep respect. c:

Oh wow, Astarion's lines really seem to chain us to his lips - judging by the extremely even contribution of the “watch time curve”, especially starting at 1/3 of this video, lol. :D

*sniff* *sniff* Hmm... You guys smell that? I think it's... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ✨️ UNDERRATED AF ARTIST ✨️

who is not just a simp for Astarion, but a simp for Niel in general?

I’m sorry the “are we here to piss on someone’s grave” caught me so off guard. I’m still laughing lmfao

Почему имя персонажа на русском, а сабы на английском?)) это моды? я когда язык меняла, менялось всё вместе

To the Ascended Astarion haters: The entire time you've known Astarion his life has been about drama, fun, lies, shenanigans and debauchery. There's a good soul in there, but there's also an irremovable desire to cause trouble, commit crime, and poke the bear. Becoming 'Ascended' gives him more tools to stir more chaos, while turning his back on the person he could be if he wanted so much to co-exist with others. It isn't birthing a new person, it's empowering the charlatan he has always been. It's protecting him from ever being too weak to stand against oppression, by becoming that which oppresses. Each ending is a success story for Astarion. Being upset that you feel he's colder to your Tav might be a shame for you, but Astarion in either ending exists with or without you, and it's so satisfying to see him excel as someone who overcame their trauma and broke the cycle (good aligned), or as someone who dominated their jailers and masters, only to become better at it than any who dared to enslave them, thus saving themselves from a life of misery until the end of time itself. (evil aligned) Man, I adore the writing of these characters. Both versions of Astarion are capable of so much, and that includes both good and evil acts. There's so much to love. Bravo :D

this is sad man... he became what he hated most...

It bugs me now, that the in-game dialogue constantly has Astarion saying he was a spawn for “nearly 200 years”. The key words being “nearly” or “almost”, when we’ve gotten confirmation through media and interviews that he was turned over 200 years ago. They did this so that we couldn’t just steal Gale’s scroll of True Resurrection to cure Astarion’s vampirism. 😤

When does he do this cause I have been at 100 approval before I got to the shadow lands and it still has not happen yet I have gotten to moonrise but have not done his quest in act 2 yet and I’ve been avoiding the drow

Honestly him ascending is entirely Tav's fault, the game throws SO many hints at you, and if all that goes over your mind, you can pass an insight check and the game tells you that he is not himself, that he is intoxicated by power hungry impulses and he is not thinking clearly, very similar to the dark urge impulses. So the right thing to do is to help him in his greatest moment of need and kindly nudge him to not ascend. I will protect the little scrap of soul he has left with tooth and nail in every playthrough :') So thank you for recording every dialog so i dont have to do it :____)

Astarion doesn't have any good endings at all. Either he is an egoist and Tav adapts to his desires, or Tav is selfish and through verbal manipulation forces Astarion to abandon his original desires in favor of a life convenient for Tav. Perhaps people believe that they “can fix” him, because he later thanks them for not to sacrifice 7,000 souls, but in fact he will suffer in any case, physically (being limited in his capabilities due to vampirism) or morally ( live in the illusory happy life of a powerful vampire). But THIS end, where Ascended Astarion loses the only companion with whom he would be satisfied with such a luxurious life, is of course the worst ending

This is why I don’t like to do romance in games, bro. Why are all romance plots so sad?

Perhaps the shadows arent so dark after all..

that last choice seems like...chaotic Neutral ill consider that good enough.

The dynamic reminds me of a mix of Zevran and Fenris from Dragon Age.