When you absorb the new tadpole or keep it in your backpack and refuse to share with Astarion.
Yeah, that's interesting to see. I don't seem to have pissed off Astarion once in my game. Except for the first hit in the "kneeling scene", when I chose "no", desperately hoping that it wasn't the end, and there would be some more lines, it would be possible to somehow explain something, agree and "avoid humiliation" when turning into a vampire. Now I think that for Astarion it was something ritual, sacred, like "accepting the gift of eternity". I see that when you do something "not Astarion's way", not what he wants, he has very interesting reactions.
Originally Posted by Ametris
It seems like he loses some of his sense of humour and becomes more melancholic. I mean, I still love him no matter what happens to him, but I simply feel sad when I watch vids with non-ascended Astarion. He sounds mournful, misses that mischievous look in his eyes, looks rather depressed. At least he gets a bit better in the new epilogue.
This video makes interesting comparisons between him in act 2 and 3, where you can clearly see how he's more reserved and less joyful.
Good video, conveys the difference in Astarion's behavior even more obviously. I'll keep it as a keepsake until I finally buy a recording program and can record "my" Astarion... I miss sometimes the "old" lines like "pointy ears" and "Can we? I suppose we can" and others And, of course, the "languid look" from the first chapter Yeah, I felt the same way you did when I played with the unascended Astarion. You realize that everything is wrong, the feeling of powerlessness, impossibility to do anything... "I love you" in the cemetery with that smile, of course, takes a lot of heart, but even in that smile there is still sadness.
Originally Posted by Ametris
His comments are very insightful and funny. I kept him in my party the whole game because I enjoyed them so much.
Yeah, I never went anywhere without him. Like Astarion said in Baldur's sewers, "Wherever you've dragged me," something like that I'll have to look up the lines he says when you leave him at the camp, because now I realize I missed that too.
Except for the first hit in the "kneeling scene", when I chose "no", desperately hoping that it wasn't the end, and there would be some more lines, it would be possible to somehow explain something, agree and "avoid humiliation" when turning into a vampire. 
