Baldur’s Gate isn't My little ?p?o?n?n?y?/vampire spawn, is it? Don't get me wrong. I love Rarity.
It's just DnD, BG3 is Dark Fantasy.
Astarion is not a fairy tale prince.
Many are already writing his dark side is a mask.
It's certainly fun&cute to see how people want to fix:
Medieval, pale, noble, dangerous, decadent, corrupt, power hungry, magistrate, hedonist, racist, lookist, elf, rogue, undead, neutral-evil, vampire spawn who got slaved, escaped the cage and wants everything in the world.
Fix/cure and play patty cake with him in the evenings. Well, you're a Dungeon Master, okay, if you like sweets. I rather prefer spice, the old school love-obsession, vampiric decadence from the villain.
Ascension exposed by some as a non-Astarion, sort of a potato on legs, and not evil part of Astarion's own canon-personality, such as it is. And going from neutral-evil vampire spawn to evil vampire Lord, Ascended, btw he's a pretty new creature after that, interesting to learn more.
I met Astarion on the beach when he literally had a dagger to my throat, was making pro-slavery comments about gnomes and humans, (and it's a pity what the scene in the mushroom colony was removed), and was generally hungry for slaughter. And power wanted, even as a living elf.
Can we please have more attention and care, it's quite needy, to those players who just love its inner, wild, dark, charming mess.
D&D in general is pretty dark, Half-Orcs were the byproducts of r*pe at one point until WoTC retconned it, it made perfect sense why they retconned it since it's a touchy subject to begin with, I kind of see Astairon as Namek/Android Saga Vegeta, like while on the side of good, he retains most of his evil and ruthless nature, that fits Astairon, like he's not evil but more like he's evil leaning neutral,
Because of the titIe I kind of want to make a Shrek joke about Astairon, I present Shrekstairion like imagine Astairon is still a hot vampire elf but now listens to Smash Mouth and lives in Swamp, it's like Goosestairon all over again.
