I wrote this post about loving all the companions but sweet mercy Astarion's everything is just so entirely in the back of my mind all the time. The way he doesn't respond well to your blithely saying 'I'll protect you' because hello? you just met, meanwhile he's been under Cazador's all-consuming manipulations for two hundred years. Of course he's not going to take you at your word--he doesn't know you have Main Character Powers. The way he says 'I don't want to tell you anything at all [about Cazador] but that won't do anyone any GOOD will it?' Is so choice too.

I just genuinely enjoy how reactive in a Real Sense these characters are, you really have to pay attention to what their personal quirks are to get the most interesting dialogues.

Also his writing is like....uproariously funny. Everyone has their moments of making me laugh but Astarion is a seratonin farm with how hysterical he is.

This game is in EARLY ACCESS and it's Act 1 of a larger narrative, stop treating it like it's a finished product!