Originally Posted by 🌸Yume🌸
If we're talking about AA in general (not sure if you were, but since you started talking about Shadowheart it made me think it was general): he also got a whole new animated evil ending too which is a change.
There is no evil ending that is specific to AA only, each companion got a unique evil ending (when playing as their origin). Astarions is the same regardless of if you ascend or remain spawn.