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...

The scene with Ascendant plays out differently - he's getting attention instead of giving it like Spawn Astarion, they also both feed on the twins. Tav notices something is wrong after the whole thing and not during it. Either he was better at acting, he enjoyed it to some extent but still feels shit afterwards, or Tav just wasn't paying enough attention. You can see it in the spoiler if you feel like it.


The drow scene is crappy on it's own but what might be even worse is that there is no conversation about the whole encounter afterwards. He cannot be comforted in any way.