Of course. I was sure that after "No" there would be some other lines, not this one... Astarion's answer: "Because it's important to me". - That would be enough, it's already clear that he's not mocking, that it's important, to think about a certain sacredness, ritualism of the act of turning into a vampire. I didn't know about the bride ritual at the time (true, there's no description of the obligatory kneeling in the bride ritual), but still. Tav still goes to bed afterwards and manages to fall asleep like nothing happened, completely unrealistic, instead of going out to get drunk in cheap taverns and get into fights so that the party can search for her all over Baldur with the help of Scratch and Astarion realizes his wrongness. smile Well, or at least a shot of Tav crying so that it looks like human behavior after a relationship breakup. This situation is pretty delusional, a total lack of roleplay, the author kind of makes the decision for the player that the player refuses Astarion and wants to break up with him, even in the morning I was running to him with the thoughts that it can't be like this, that there will probably be some dialog now, but no. When before the romance played naturally and it felt like the characters fit together wonderfully. Really only pretend you didn't see it, because Tav's line itself is deceptive, it has a completely different message than what the player wanted to put in, Astarion is reacting to the message of the writer of that scene, not you. To reassure yourself and realize that it's not "you and Astarion wouldn't really work out without the possibility of a reset", but that it's just that the scene is railroaded, you can tweak it with headcanon, play it nicely and everything will be fine.

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