"I will excavate the very depths of your underdark" i'm crying 😭😭😭😭😂

Funny how Neil actually becomes a vampire later XD

Where is my queen Arueshalae😔

Azata is cringiest of all paths

Wait so normal sized male Tav would be bottomed by this twink?

Did this guy just say she was 16 and he had left for college

Another possible way/outcome: I had met Raphael in last light with astarion, and astarion brought up his scars at that point. Raphael said he’d get back to us. Cue me accidentally going up to the temple without astarion in my party… raphael proposes killing yugir but no mention of astarion. Return to camp and astarion was disappointed he wasn’t there, but basically suggested killing the orthon anyways to get in Raphael’s favour. Next long rest, astarion talked to me in the morning saying that Raphael paid him a visit in the night and proposed the deal about reading his scars and I have the option to agree or scold astarion for making the deal without me. Hopefully a helpful FYI in case anyone wondered about another outcome/route

Oh, Neil did the mo cap for the lycans too?? That's so interesting

"hello mummy" nearly made me choke 😂

It's just astonishing Hannah never pressed charges and forced the band to change their name as was the case with Darling Thieves (who were originally called I Hate Kate)

I think we were all a little scared and a little turned on during this scene 😂

He is such a cutie patootie (both Neil and Heisenburg)

😂

😂😂😂😂

He looks like jerma

Astarion feels ace to me. Sure, everyone can romance him, and he's even having intercourse when romanced. But it always felt transactional when I romanced him, the same way romance and intercourse feels to me irl. I let you bang me and you buy me dinner, Astarion bangs Tav, Tav protects astarion. He even has a line where he admits that sex isn't about enjoyment for him, and another one where he mentions the lack of sex with Tav (at least he had when I "romanced" him. I ended up seeing him and my Tav as a happy ace couple once the Abilene paradox got revealed to them)

This game is so fucked up i love it lmao

I wonder what would happen if Astarion and Heisenberg were to meet, how would Neil react then?

WAIT IF YOU PLAY A TALL CHARACTER YOU GET TO CARRY HIM INSTEAD OF VICE VERSA? AMAZING

„My MOM saw the bear stuff!“ … pffffffft. 😂

The boundary talk before-hand is so refreshing in gaming tbh.

what does Bowie's being whipped mean? like i sense there's a sexual innuendo there but what is it

Neil and Karl are daddy

Well, to tell the truth, in BG3, all the satellites are pansexual. Even if you're a scary dwarf, the whole camp is ready to love you anyway. And this, to be honest, is not very good. If every member of the party had their own preferences, it would make them more alive or something. For example, DA Inquisition, I used to scold the game that some characters have limited novels. For example, Solas is only for female elves, and Dorian is only for men. But on the other hand, it's even good, it means everyone has their own preferences for race and gender. And Larian has everything available, and this is still with Divinity OS2. Take Fein, for example, he's an undead, he had a wife, why would he need a living mortal man? Of course, thank you for making the characters accessible to any race and gender, but this way they lose their individuality. I'm sorry, it's boiling over) 🤷

This character voice was horrible

Looking at some of the comments, i find it quite... interesting to see some people coming on a video of Astarion's actor confirming that Astarion is pansexual to claim to know better than the man who played the character for 4 years and that "nuhu, he's 100% gay / would be 100% gay if he wasn't pan". Stephen Rooney said the base concept for Astarion was "medieval Deadpool" (Deadpool is pan btw) and Neil Newbon has said David Bowie (who was bisexual) was one of his inspiration while playing the character. He even romances Astarion with a female character named Bow'ee in his own playthrough. But let's see the arguments generally used to prove he's gay or has a huge preference for men (buckle up it's going to be long) : He talks about "handsome virgin" and "prince-type". Well in the context of the game these are very much gender neutral. Handsome can be used for both men and women, and it is used in game for both, like Minthara calling herself handsome or Karlach calling a female Tav "handsome and talented" for instance. As for the "prince-*type*", nobility titles in game usually default to their masculine form, even for female characters like Duke (not Duchess) Stellmane who is a woman, Duke Wyll who can name a fem Tav Duke (still not Duchess) or Gortash telling a fem Durge that the two of them will rule as Kings (not King and Queen). In that instance Astarion is also talking about what we consider irl as the archetype of a fairy tale prince, just like when he calls Volo a "Damsel". Not to mention in both cases, considering the tone he uses, the context of these lines and in the case of the "prince-type" comment, the other things he says in the very same conversation, he's very likely just being sarcastic anyways. He has slept with more men than women for the past 200 years. Yes and he’s very clear it wasn’t by choice and he didn’t enjoy it. He compares himself to a prostitute and especially as Origin Astarion he can have an interesting chat with Nym and Sorn Orlith at SC where he tells them “I was once in your position, in a way” and when Sorn asks him how it was, all of Astarion’s answers are negative 1/”I try not to think about it any longer”, 2/”Just what I had to do to get by.”, 3/”I was forced into it, but it sounds as if you weren’t” and last but not least 4/”Horrible. Unfathomably so.” He also says himself about these relationships and his conquests things like “I spent two hundred years using my body to lure pretty things back for my Master. What I wanted, how I felt about what I was doing, it never mattered.”, “I've gotten on my back ten thousand times or more, and forgotten half of them.", "Enjoyment ? That didn't come into it. I never had a choice. I have bedded thousands of people. Half of them I barely remember. Most of them didn't even grant me temporary bliss.” or “They weren't lovers... not in the way that you mean. They wanted me more than I wanted them.” Then, since he’s often brought up, and people seem to really like to call him Astarion’s ex-lover, let’s talk about Sebastian. He was not a lover, only a victim. Astarion remembers him because he was one of the first and one of the few who didn’t abuse him and he feels guilty for ruining this nice man’s life, but even so, when meeting him as Origin Astarion there are a few interesting things we can see. First Astarion needs to succeed a DC 18 check to even remember his name or pass a DC 10 check to dig it from Sebastian’s head, all the other options are some variations of “I can’t remember”. And then, the only dialogue option implying he was even attracted to Sebastian is a DC 20 [DECEPTION] check. So, if these relationships are supposed to show a huge preference for men, what he himself says does a pretty good job at showing the opposite to be quite honest… Besides, considering he was picking up his victims in taverns and brothels, it’s not really surprising that a majority of them would be men, regardless of any preference. He probably simply had more opportunities with men than women in that kind of places. Now let’s see what happens during the game. He expresses in various dialogues that he finds both the male and female companions attractive, but his actions seem to lean slightly more towards the ladies actually. He consistently flirts with Shadoheart and Lae’zel the most out of all the companions through all 3 acts, but he can also invite Karlach on a date or Jaheira to a threesome with a romanced player (though to be fair, for the one with Jaheira, i think he's mostly being sarcastic here too). He can sleep with Lae’zel at the Tieffling/Goblin party if the player doesn’t sleep with any of them. She’s the only character outside of the player’s he will actually sleep with during the events of the game. He can also invite Alfira to his tent, and if not romanced he’ll flirt with the girl in the sewers. If he catches the player cheating on him with Mizora, UA will admit that he would’ve been interested in sleeping with her too before, and AA will admit that he’d be interested if she offered, complain that he wasn’t invited to join and ask to be invited if there’s a next time. So he is clearly written and acted as pansexual, he shows attraction towards both men and women and it’s not even clear if he even has a preference. In the end he falls for Tav/Durge no matter what’s in their pants because they’re the first person in 200 years who shows him genuine care and kindness, who isn’t with him only for his body but likes him for who he is and with whom he can form a real, safe and loving relationship.

I’m crying HE’S RIZZING HIMSELF 😂😂😂😂

Because at that moment it's what he felt like doing 😊

Thanks for uploading this. I was admittedly quite worried when I learned that Raphael was the key to solving Astarion’s scars, as he wasn’t in my party when I encountered Raphael at the Inn or at the Temple entrance…I was already in early Act III by the time I figured it out 🤦‍♂️. I was contemplating whether or not I should reload a save when I saw your video, and thanks to you I won’t have to redo hours upon hours worth of stuff lmao. You just earned yourself a sub, thanks again for uploading this 👍💯

Well ... while it's evident old Astarion is no more when he ascends, it's also clear he still deeply cares for you in a relationship. Sure, his ego is absolutely HUGE, but he shares it all with someone he does truly care for, in his own twisted way. Ascension Astarion may be rather monstrous, but he's still a caring monster who wants to keep his valued partner safe and happy.

I *always* ascend him.

❤I got this in my very first play through and forgot about it!

Jerma?

Oh yes. I LOVE Astarion, but I only prefer him as a Spawn. The ascended route is not only evil but also very...sad. A victim turns into tormentor. The circle of brutality closes. Love turns into a sick obsession. Even if I played an evil character, I would never allow the ritual. I like this character too much to hurt him like that. And Tav's behavior is also sad here. Instead of showing that Astarion is great the way he is and doesn't need to be some kind of Vampire Lord, she pushes him into this darkness. Ascending route is vey sad story for Astarion and for his lover. However, Larian did a good job of showing two different paths of a character who has been tortured for so many years.

God astarion isnt a chracter that i like normally but ehs such an ass when hes ascended 😭 wtf

Why did you ascend in a good playthrough? Ofcourse you're going to hate it if it doesn't match with your roleplay 😂

Kamski would win

*Neil and Tom playfully arguing about Neil romancing himself* Theo: 🙂

I love how Neil is living out his death by snu snu fantasy 😂 I’m SCREAMING

I absolutely love the dialogue “this is a gift you know, I won’t forget it.” He says the same thing in Act 1 when you let him use you as a sippy cup, lol. But hearing it again in Act 3 made me cry. Still does. 🥹🥹🥹

i didn't romance him on my playthrough, but he was never in the party to trigger any conversation with raphael, and i read the necromancy myself... his quest line went totally unbroken and simply skipped ahead. It was a touch confusing in act three suddenly talking about a ritual we never discovered, but the game went on regardless. I think generally, if you want to avoid the mess in the temple of shar or want to do it in a way that doesn't benefit astarion, simply don't let him meet raphael outside

Interesting... I kept Astarion at camp when we run into Raphy outside the mausoleum so we got to skip that so I could eventually recruit Yurgir the easy way. It did give me the option to tell him about it but I ignored it and by finding the spawn at the tavern and going to the palace, we still pieced it all together. But this is excellent to know! good job 👍

its so interesting seeing the solo interactions with astarion and the drow twins because if you romance him (SPOILERS) in either the ascension ending or the non-ascended ending, if you have sex with the drow siblings afterwards (he isnt ready before) both scenes show that astarion is potentially worse off for it despite what he initially says :(

It’s not entirely clear to me why many people consider him too feminine, I don’t see this femininity, facial features, behavior, yes there are moments, but nothing more. and when he takes away his theatricality, he is more masculine than many of the male characters in the camp

It’s not entirely clear to me why many people consider him too feminine, I don’t see this femininity, facial features, behavior, yes there are moments, but nothing more. and when he takes away his theatricality, he is more masculine than many of the male characters in the camp

Imagine heisenberg talking to heisenberg that would be complete chaos

The BG3 cast D&D session really casts the Drizzt option in a new light. This really is the game that doesn't stop giving.

this is what elijah did in his spare time after quitting CyberLife

What a mediocre and ridiculous character, maybe the actor is wholesome on the other hand.

This was actually pretty sweet, I liked it 🥲