Originally Posted by Anska
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. ^^;

I think a true friend would never let Astarion bite that vile Oblodra. I will always kill her simply for her boorish attitude towards Astarion, that's reason enough for me. But I will admit something that I take the game too seriously - to me the characters are alive, I don't get to "test" the game, I can only pick and choose even within the test what would be acceptable in reality. I don't think this approach is right, of course, and I'm often overly emotional about Astarion. Of course, a different approach to the game doesn't make anyone heartless.

One life, one love - until the world falls down.