Yes I want a cure for Unascended Astarion. The guy has suffered for nearly 200 years and what the hell else does anyone who has romanced him want if not a proper cure? I don't want him left in the dark with the hunger while I grow old and die. There are a lot of cures for vampirism, some in BG2, many in DnD5e and we have a death god in our camp that owes us a favour for sorting out the dead 3 to his apparent satisfaction.
Regardless of the above, the dock and the final chat scene need to be dealt with.
For a start the dock scene is unecessary, it's evening all they had to do was let the tadpole effect last 3 more minutes, he can find out in the morning not on the docks when all the other stuff is going on, and we can discuss it as part of the last chat.
If they MUST put it in because someone up high in Larian thinks it works (due to a lack of anything resembling empathy) then cut the stupider comments, especially those from Gale and Minsc. Only caring remarks or at least not outright cruel ones. Let it be the last dock interaction and let us follow him out. Preferably after I have yeeted any uncaring sods into the harbor.
Let the last talk we have with him have us properly together not standing 5 feet apart, holding hands while we're talking. And if we haven't managed to convince Larion to have a 'cure for Astarion' quest immediately after we knocked Cazador into the lowest reaches of the hells then we talk about the known cures, we have more than 2 lines of conversation, we decide to find Jaheira and ask her if she knows of anything, we do something hopeful rather than just stand there like stumps, and we end with a hug and a proper kiss (not one of those 1 second wonders Larian appears to enjoy).
Complete agreement. The ending is like... REALLY?! They gave this character so much depth, such a great development, just to stop any care for his arc after the Cazador fight? It is really like a joke, I cannot imagine that someone who wrote his story up to this point would be happy with the 'good' ending Astarion got.
And this kiss scene... I have not got to the end to see the final scene, because the lack of more companion's scenes in act III just makes me stop playing after fighting Cazador, but I suppose it is the same, like we have in the camp if we ask to kiss him.
This thing they call 'a kiss' and which so much resembles a kiss on a forehead somebody would give to their child just seems so absurd to me. I know he has intimacy issues, but based on his comments after the kiss - he has nothing against it, he likes it. Considering how much sex stuff is in this game, one would think Larian could be able to make a proper kiss scene. And I do not mean some extreme-kissing-getting-all-over-each-other, but just a little bit more passionate kiss than this. Or at least put there the hug option. How hard would that be?
