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Well, it's not that I'm shy, rather, I just really hate to pick anything negative towards Astarion. I love verbal duels, banter and jokes, but for me it's always been an “arsenal” for “outsiders”. When someone becomes close or engaging, or I strongly sympathize with them, then... I don't want to maintain that style of communication at all. Here if it was possible, as in BG2, to take part in dialogs between companions, when they start a dialog on the map among themselves, but it does not happen in the form of lines overhead, and the form of a full text dialog, in which you can intervene, take sides, etc.., and you could, at the moment when one of the companions says some barb to Astarion, then, after Astarion's answer, turn around, intervene in the dialog and prick this other companion so that they would jump out of their pants and Astarion would bend from laughter - oh yes, that would be pure joy! But in BG3 for some reason we don't have any joint group dialogs at all, on the map we act as passive listeners, and the dialogs are mostly one-on-one (except the conflict scene between Shadowheart and Lae'zel is a nice exception). Although, about the concerns, I was really exaggerating before, lol. I didn't bother to say the “You don't own me yet” line to Astarion during the first night, afraid it would sound like rejection, and opted to go straight to kissing him quickly, passionately, and clearly so he'd have no chance to run away from me. And there's such a beautiful flirtation there actually... I enjoyed that scene even more now, as well as the better, more extended dialog during the party (with the “I love you” when his facial expression changes so much for a second <3), and I also missed it before because of agreeing too quickly, like, “You don't have to ask me twice” and that's it. It's worth asking him for more compliments to hear that “I love you” (this goes for party dialog if you're already having an affair with him). And when he drank me dry, well, he's already worried about it, I want to on the contrary cheer him up and calm the bitey sunshine, especially since I didn't purposely pass any checks myself. But I guess a line like, “Don't worry, darling (especially since he wasn't ‘darling’ at that point), it's nothing! One more time, one less, what the hell difference does it make! I regularly die in combat anyway...” would be too crazy to have something like that in the game, lol. Although I'd love the roleplay of such a crazy-ass character!