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Metaphor by the Crane Wives= Astarion

"I've gotten good at making up metaphors, I've gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape"

"Don't look too hard cause you won't like the scars he left in me"

"And all these words are sweet and meaningless, you can't trust a single thing I say"

It's literally him.

Made this a while ago back when i first finished the game. I got a quick recording of astarion and my dark urge kissing and karlach in the background killed me.

I've been thinking about Astarion's weird obsession with virgins. He makes several references to them throughout the game, and it always caught my attention as being a bit odd and have since come to 3 possible conclusions:

1. Virgins, assuming they were eager to not be virgins anymore, would have made for easy targets. Their lack of experience (sexually speaking) would have made them easy to manipulate and lure back to the palace. Also, they probably would have been gentler than he says some of his other targets were and it would have been unlikely that they would hurt him.

2. Sebastian was a virgin when they met. There is no doubt in my mind that Astarion truly cared for Sebastian, and perhaps he left such a lasting impression that it made Astarion more inclined to virgins as a whole.

3. On the flip side of point 1, virgins, if they were content to remain virgins, would have been the only ones not to expect anything from him. Perhaps he dreams of a virgin romantic partner because he imagines they would not pressure him into doing anything sexual. My thinking about this stems from his line if you try to sacrifice him to BOOAL in act 1 where he says "and I want to wake up beside a handsome virgin every morning". If he were waking up beside this hypothetical individual in the morning and they were still a virgin, that would mean that they'd gone to bed together but didn't have sex. He really wants to have someone who is content to simply sleep beside him, and nothing more.

Idk these are just my thoughts about these lines, since I couldn't stop thinking about them.