Understandable. I found this game long after early access, but if I'd been here from the start, I would've felt like the rug was pulled out from under me. As someone with a friend who was super attached to EA Wyll, I sympathize. It had to be frustrating to fall wholesale in love with a character, and then hit release with something that's several steps to the left of what you were enamored with, and now everyone is ranting and raving about something that's only loosely attached to the version you fell for, and half of them are rubbing the new canon in your face about how ACKSHULLY you're wrong and this is their character now. That's... very tough.
I'm... not really interested in deconstructing minutiae in light of that, unless that's something you actually want to do. Like, my understanding of Astarion accounts for all of those pretty dark bits, but we're coming at this from different angles and ultimately I think we want different things out of the character, so is it worth picking it apart if we're both happy with what we've got?
Pretty sure the murder-happiness is a vampire thing. He's still a gleeful psycho in his spawn ending, at least the unromanced one. But I agree the epilogue's a little too sunny about his prospects, alongside the whole 7k spawn question (in the Underdark? A horde of vampires, who are both ravenous predators no ecosystem could sustain and invisible to infra-vision? Every settlement within 50 miles is rolling for initiative. Though I also think having his siblings lead them all to peace and prosperity is equally weird when you figure they're just as hateful and cynical and traumatized as he started. It's also assuming a horde of 7,000 feral vampire spawn can be managed, but... that's a whole 'nother can of worms.)
