Tired JokesAstarion, Harsh And Fun In Character.

Tired Jokes Astarion, harsh and fun in character.

Disclaimer: I don't separate Astarion "before" and "after" the ritual - Asc it's still him, canonically confirmed. I sure that Astarion's personality is not dictated by anything other than Astarion, himself.

I thought about Neil's Mask-talk - Lord Astarion, and how Astarion had lost some of the fun, which was a "distraction anyway". I agree, that's exactly what I thought and felt. Then I remembered what Cazador said, "your tired jokes". Cazador Szarr: No, you always had a gift for words. Cazador Szarr: I fondly remember your empty boasting, your tired jokes, your endless prattle...

Casador didn't finish, by the way, Astarion interrupted him. Cazador surprisingly let him prattle on. Astarion reacts very sharply - he doesn't like to remember it. He's sick of the way he acted as a slave. (it dawned on me that perhaps "empty boasting" refers to his past before slavery - "always had" "always had" "always had" I don't let myself think about it yet, this game is still being worked on I'm talking about the time of slavery here) I don't think Astarion doesn't like, on the whole, to joke and lie about it. No, he loves it. Just not the way he did when he was a slave. But after all, he was a Magistrate (I'm sure he remembers that until Larian told otherwise) this is a man of power, and he had to be able to be formidable when required. I think he liked to be formidable early on. Narcissus (yes, always), racist (quite), from the Upper City, a Magistrate with power, harsh, given what he said about criminals, merciless. Lord hints at this a bit what a Magistrate he was. When he became Cazador's slave, he couldn't afford to be powerful, not in any way at all. He had to be mindful of his status as a slave. And all he could afford was to joke-prattle around, like a jester. Being a jester is the only way to express yourself without "subordinate status", jokes blurred that Master-slave distinction a bit.

When he became Master, he doesn't need jokes anymore. However, there's still a fun in him by his personality. That's why he's been talking so loudly since gaining Lord status, he was only allowed to jump around like a buffoon before. He wasn't taken seriously. Astarion revels in his voice, which is finally not slavish. The voice of the Lord and I think the voice of the Magistrate. Now having paid the price, he can do what the hell he wants. Speaking of romance that's why: it's time to dominate Tav\Dark Urge. He can allow himself to do that, finally, openly. (Unless of course it's a bdsm-s\d-fanservice dropped from the sky, yes, patch 6?) In my humble opinion, given that his self-esteem has been humiliated for 200 years, someone who obeys him willingly, with trust and respect, will be very precious and loved, but he would clutch a person like a dragon in his clutches.

While finishing up the piece with the dragon spawn I made studies to catch ascended Astarion character essence ✍️ Here’s one of them:

Astarion the Ascended 🖤

#astarion #baldursgate3 #bg3 #larianstudios

The video of the process is in edit 💪

The dynamic of Ascended Astarion and Tav

Tav is not Tav, lost yourself, after the Ascension. Lol yeah. It's really like that, gosh.

Ascension is running through my head and I think the dialogue should have been handled better for Tav that reflects the character throughout their journey, i.e. not "horny", "dick", "patronizing", and "power-hungry". Feels like I'm listing off an adult seven dwarves -_-

If we cared for Astarion up until Ascension, understood he needed blood, accepted that he was a vampire and that he wasn't a good guy, backed him up with Araj, helped him find out what his scars meant, and wanted to end Cazador for what he did to Astarion, we should be worried for his well-being after too. We shouldn't be taking him seriously as he went through something no one else has. After being told what it entailed by Raphael, it would imply that Astarion would be overstimulated as hell after 200 years of feeling nothing but hunger and pain as a vampire.

At the end of the ritual, he's a bit off his rocker and acts light-headed when he starts talking about hearing things. Wouldn't that be something that Tav, regardless of the reasoning for ascension or alignment of their character, would be concerned over due to being new because they care so much about Astarion? Shouldn't they be concerned that Astarion could hurt himself with this overflow of feelings and emotions?

Compare how Tav acts toward Spawn Astarion to Ascended Astarion post-ritual. Spawn Tav acts the same as they did throughout the game. Ascended Tav does not. They don't match. They should match. Tav should not have changed ANYTHING about themselves just because they ascended Astarion. And yeah, I absolutely hate it.

Why the fuck would Tav resort to calling Astarion Cazador when they know what he's been through with the guy just because Astarion is drunk on power? The fact it's used where it's at makes Tav look ten times worse as a partner because Astarion dropped the "Charming Theatrics" and is acting the way he wants to because he feels he can. There's no gentle warning to ask him to stop acting like a jerk, either. It goes straight to aggressive because he called them "Pet" in a way that some people may not like.

While Ascended Astarion is still Astarion, pre-ascension Tav is not post-ascension Tav and points to being the one who lost themselves.

THIS. Lol, it's literally true.

i'm just gonna say it.

a lot of the criticism of ascended astarion fans absolutely reeks of misogyny.

it's giving "women are too stupid to understand that abuse is bad" and it makes me want to wring necks.

"you can't romanticise AA's behavior because that can lead to harmful ideas in the real world!!!"

a few hundred women finding AA's abusive behaviour sexy isn't why men are abusive, and adult women are intelligent enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality. ironically, this demonstrates that you don't understand the difference between fiction and reality.

where is that tweet that says "stanning reylo is misogynistic, but what do you expect from stupid fucking women" because that's what you lot sound like.