Originally Posted by Marielle
It's hard for me to understand how Astarion could be induced to do this, knowing his history, his trauma. He allows Tav to do this to himself because of his love for Tav, himself thinking, I guess, that "there's no harm in it", putting on a mask as if everything is fine, "playing the seducer". I wish at least the Ascended Astarion would have behaved harshly with a Tav like the one in this video, ended the relationship and not allowed himself to be tortured...
A big respect to Gale! At least he's doing the right thing. Decent way out of the situation.

In the romanced version of Astarion, he flat out says that he doesn't want to join Pre-Cazador and that's it. However, Post-Cazador Spawn-Astarion says that he wants to find out what he likes. So he is exploring and it backfires, that is ok. It's not great but it happens. That you can't help him out of a very bad situation which your character is completely aware of, though, is absolutely not ok. (Discussing how stupid it is to drag Astarion back to the brothel in the first place, would be a different can of worms.) Friend-Astarion never had his Araj-moment, I guess? I don't know. Or Tav is just callous in that case too. ^^;