#TavQOTD From Twitter:

#TavQOTD from twitter:

What is something modern that your Tav/durge would’ve loved/loved doing?

Astaroth would love playing Genshin impact, proceed to lose 50/50 to Dehya and maxed out ascended Astarion's credit card :3

Sorry for disappearing, got into modding consoles and playing some games I haven't in ages XD

Anyway, while I'm waiting for my Steam Deck OLED to come in, I had this thought.

I think Ascension fails to be the "Bad route" because it doesn't give Astarion any downsides. It was only designed to provide a ROMANCED TAV with a bad end if the player wasn't aiming for an evil character but still found a reason to ascend him while romanced. Astarion has a lot of things in his favor with Ascension but doesn't lose anything unless he's romanced a Tav who decides to leave him after choosing to ascend him. Otherwise, everything else goes his way.

It's not like Shadowheart who loses her memories and more and faces possible punishment if she fails to live up to her new status or Gale who will lose his sense of mortality and possibly be consumed by Karsus magic in time or Lae'zel who will lose her life. Astarion doesn't have anything like that, not even in a future sense.

Astarion can now openly be the prick he is with little consequences but doesn't have anything really rivaling him as a downside. It's not like he's defenseless. He never was, really. The only one he had no control over is now dead. He won't become the next Cazador because his personality is different, has plans for his own spawn that Cazador would have never allowed, and still seems to have a heavy reliance on consent or his entire group would have been turned into spawn long before the six-month reunion.

So yeah, looking back at Ascension compared to the other endings, there really isn't much stopping Astarion from having a good ending with it. Yeah, you can speculate that he'll have issues with trying to take over Baldur's Gate but it wouldn't be much different if he was a noble. The game really doesn't give us a downside for his ascension other than the "my Tav is not evil" schtick.

some wip

when will tumblr users learn to make posts spreading information without guilt tripping people

parasocial relationship with a corporation is always baffling. LARIAN STUDIO ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!

They are strangers selling you things

People need to stop praising Larian like they can’t do anything wrong. I know they’re awesome in many things, but they obviously bad at other things. I really need Larian to know that women abusers are abusers and it’s a serious problem. They minimize it so much in the games that so many players refuse to acknowledge. Gale one is very manipulative and not in the face situation, but Wyll one is right in the face 😭 how Larian handles them is so bad. I think Larian only sees them as little meanies

I'm not gonna lie, I usually play evil and my good runs with me actually paying attention have so far only just gotten to Act 2, so I can barely comment on Wyll and Gale's situations with proper perspective right now... But!

I will say from what I can see, you're certainly correct... unfortunately. The fact that your PC can sleep with Mizora and convince Gale to ask for forgiveness from Mystra is... interesting to me.

I think people tend to overanalyze Astarion and his story, to the point that they add details and meaning that is only there for them personally based on their own perspective and experiences.

But people tend to under-analyze Mystra and Mizora and the full release game certainly downplays it all which only reinforced that. I think that EA Gale had a much more clearly turbulent grooming experience with Mystra and that dialog got dialed back in the full release of the game.

I do wish Larian would give that perspective a bigger spotlight. Female abusers do exist and it's not sexy.