There are a bunch of throwaway comments that you might or might not get since they appear kind of at random, some of them might be overly sweet but I don't find them jarring/OOC (for example, him lamenting Gale's death, since they travelled together for 4 months) but some of them I'm like ohhhh that's a bit too much.
Maybe I'll get a few more of those the next time around. With Gale's Origin I also had an extremely short dock scene - though I absolutely do not miss witnessing Astarion burn up.
Originally Posted by jinetemoranco
P much every PC gets the same dialogue no matter what and it's quite short, they could've done something like Shadowheart's romanced epilogue where she's pondering which stories to tell (similar to human Gale). The positives for me are that the hug contrast is a nice callback, and at first I found his body language while saying "bitter and twisted" cute but now I kind of cringe a bit haha. The dialogue just feels very standard and flavorless (and almost rushed, when compared to other companion's epilogues) when Astarion is usually quite distinguishable, I think p much anyone could say what he said to a romanced PC (that we all deserve happiness etc. I'm not against him saying something like that but it still felt weird to me?). I saw it more clearly during the epilogue with friend Durge where he's hiding a knife, that's a moment where I thought "yeah that's Astarion alright".
Rushed or incomplete. Shart or Gale (everyone really) also feel like they were affected by the different things that happened to them during the past half year. Friendly adventuring Shart is not unhappy but still searching for meaning and really glad if you send "the Cub" her way, while cottagecore Shart is almost saccharine in her cute family life bliss with petting zoo. Romanced Professor Gale is a bit stuffy again, while he is a lot more relaxed in his adventuring ending (and they even make it a plot point) and he got some specific lines for Astarion's Origin too. Astarion is pretty much the same no matter the direction his spawn ending took. (Though his campfire comments vary.) In the Origin too, Gale-Origin has unique lines with almost everyone, he gives Jaheira city building recommendations, has some details about what magical exploits he's been up to with Minsk, Shart and Halsin and some cute banter with Karlach. With Astarion, reclaiming the night is the topic but it gets never explored in detail and - what confuses me - with romance Astarion I can chat with Minsc about searching for a cure, with Origin-Astarion it's not a topic.
About the "bitter and twisted" it felt a bit cringe to me at first but after a bit, I got the impression, that he maybe has something on his mind - returning to the first campsite might bring back memories - but since we can't talk about it ...
