"The vampire has always been a creature of evil.If it wasn't bad in life, it was bad in the undead." That's what I meant when I wrote about Astarion. I don't think Larian missed this point. Admittedly, Astarion doesn't have the wild facial features or clawed fingers of the vampire spawn . However, as for the rules of their character, this seems to have been preserved in the game.
Astarion is a Personality. A living individual with his own unique character. A "creature of evil" is something of a codex for lawfully stupid paladins. Astarion shows himself as a person throughout the game, with his pain, his anger, his feelings and aspirations. The only rule, but not of character, but rather a peculiarity of perception of the vampire world, is dulled senses, but this will only be in the unascended Astarion after the larva is gone (as long as there is a larva, the feelings and sensations are the same as a human).
@ Great_Catsby
You have correctly pointed out - NO other choice is given. Not given directly by the script. Tav necessarily "likes to degrade themselves" because there is no opportunity for dialog, no opportunity to say something different, it's the usual "rails", Tav is just fitted to the "plot", to the "story".
You haven't missed any opportunity - no such opportunity exists. Notice the dialog scene before that - what can you say to Astarion? "I want to become a vampire", "I want your body", another line for a teacher with an IQ below 70 and meaningless swearing. There is a separate thread about this scene,
"Add more answer options for Astarion". The rails of the romantic scene are a natural continuation of the rails of the previous dialog.
Our protagonist can be the most devious character in all of Faerűn, but if the "author's intent" is that we help Astarion Ascend because we "want his body" and we "like to degrade ourselves," then there's nothing we can do about it.
