Originally Posted by Marielle
It's just to the point of tears... Why do they allow this to be done to Astarion? Why does he let them do it? As I watched that scene, my hands shake and I just want to rush in there and kill them all... Slowly. Yes, there are plenty of "opportunities" in the game to betray Astarion, kill him, say or do a rare abomination towards him, but this is something special.

In Astarion's case it at least is a honest mistake. It is horrible, but no harm was meant. For me the biggest issue is, that there is no way to react to it. It's treated seriously elsewhere in the game but in this case, they just let it slide which makes it extremely creepy.

If you take Gale along, you force him into it, fully aware of how much hates it and he "dissociates" by sending his projection in and leaving. It probably wasn't the intent of the scene that I feel a bit proud of Gale and literally hate everyone else - apart from the Drow. They are ok, it's their job.