Astarion gets protective over you when meeting Araj again (Astarion Romance) - Baldur's Gate 3 

The second "reward" that I forgot to show was that you get a passive skill called "Unstable Blood", which causes your blood to explode when in contact with fire. EDIT: A number of people are asking how do I get this cutscene or who she is. You must meet and interact with her in Moonrise towers in Act 2, she will be around the first floor, alone in her lab. You need to be in a romance with Astarion, have good standing with him, respect his choice of not forcing him to drink her tainted blood in Act 2 for this cutscene, and also allow her to take your blood the first time around. You will meet her again in Act 3, progress a little until you enter the Lower City and she will be at X69 Y84, then this exact scene will play. Not sure if this affects it or not, but I had also completed his personal quest at Cazador's Palace, and asked him not to ascend. I've recorded and uploaded my first encounter with Araj here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UgNfwpk7aQE.htmlsi=jUhU0RQXxoyw4lrC

Astarion is radiating "He said no pickles" energy.

His little stutter before saying "i don't want to see you hurt" is so funny. My boy is still getting used to be nice

I love how back when she offered us that potion in exchange for Astarion's bite and Astarion said "no," we had the option to say, "He said no. There's nothing more to discuss." And now that she wants our blood, after we've said "no," Astarion sticks up for us and chimes in with, "He said 'NO,' You should learn the meaning of the word." I find it so cute how we have each other's backs.

" He said nooooo, you should learn the meaning of the word." Astarian has me cracking up

Obsessed with his singsong "And I will keep refusing until the end of timeeee~"

I care about Astarion a normal amount

she insulted my vampire waifu so i ended her laifu in the tower. oh well

"Naturally I always ask first" Excuse me, Astarion? Who was it again who tried to take a sneaky bite from the Tav? lmao

I was already loving this game but I think just randomly walking through the city and all of a sudden a house explodes has to be my favorite part. Like, did I just pass a Baldurian meth lab?

i love u get to literally go "is she bothering u king"

she was 100% counting on you dying for the sake of getting more ingredients. I'm almost willing to put money on it roflmao

"He said nooo you should learn the meaning of the word" i think about the pale elf...a reasonable amount

You know Astarion absolutely bristled at Araj's use of the word darling.

Araj's voice actor is amazing. One of the most memorable NPCs of the game. 😂

I love that he’s protective over this giant lizard person in full armor lmao these playthroughs are amazing

Araj " prime bleeder." "risky but um safe" " Drink it far over there." This is a lady whom you can trust with a mystery potion no doubt at all. :p This is a character in a game that is clearly crazy as a cat but you hope she lasts till the end.

I love how Astarion butts in each time like a kid 😂 “He said nooo~”. With the strong body language.

I love the catty rivalry Astarion has with her

Love that mc is so tall Astarion looks up everytime he talks to them

Astarion's line of "We can always kill her later" reminds me of that line in supernatural of "If it doesn't work out we'll just kill them."

i never thought about getting this game but Astarion has now made me want to get it on payday lol

The game bugged out for me during this convo and I couldn't refuse the potion, so out of spite I threw it on the floor and shot it with a crossbow. Now I almost regret doing that. (but fun fact, if you drop the potion, she yells at you to be careful, and if you destroy it she turns hostile, so its cool they thought of that scenario lmao)

Its like she really wants us to look up her nose when she speaks

Lmao I unalived her after she insulted Astarion the first time

I'm in Moonrise Towers, and I got curious because I plan on killing Araj for how she treated Astarion. It's wonderful to see him so confident and relaxed. The dynamic is entirely different from the first time he encountered her. I love seeing him so happy (and protective).

My dumbass keeps forgetting my blood is literally now an explosive and I keep wondering how my party keeps catching fire

The way Astarion says "He said nooo." reminds me so much of Doctor Evil 😂 "How bout nooo, Scott?"

I love her voice actor🤣 her and astarion are so funny together

Oh uh... after she made my buddy Astarion uncomfy I kinda owlbeared her in tge tower

Astarion being so protective of Tav is so sweet, being worried of their safety.

I know it's because your choosing the dialog, but the silence and stare after she's suprised you lived had be howling

I love the very beginning. Your character just trotting through town. Then, when the sudden explosion happens, they run in the opposite direction for a second. "La, la la, la-la-" *_BOOM_* _"-NOPE!"_

Astarion is just a tsundere. 😂

damn i refused to give her my blood AND told her to back off astarion :/ but at least i nailed the incubus so i got that fun cut scene of astarion being protective of me later when my character gets notified they're using my shape lol

she is definitely my favorite npc in the game. so many other people be like "i killed her back in moonrise tower and didnt let her get my blood or make astarion drink her blood! me: my drow princess, you can have it all! its a give and take kinda relationship because as i am in conversation with her i switch characters to astarion and pickpocket her dry so in the end everybody is happy. i also gave astarion the +2 str because with his dual wielding attacks he could use it more than my warlock main.

you can make this work for your party if you can get the player a immunity/high resistance to fire.... rush into the fray get surrounded and have one of the other members hit you with fire spells to trigger the exposition

I didn't really know much about the drow race, so I just assumed Araj was just a coincidentally unsettling/disrespectful individual (asking permission from ME about a service she wants from ASTARION, and asking ME to make him behave, like I was his handler or something). I didn't think much of it besides assuming she was put here as an excuse to poke at Astarion's autonomy issues specifically. But then later I read about drow society and how all males are considered property/breeding slaves of females (and I was playing a female-bodied Tav), and I realized: 'Ohh, I see; she thinks he's my dog'. She wasn't being a bitch, she was just being a highborn female drow xD Wish there would've been a difference in her tone depending on what gender you play as, though. Like, if you play a male, she'll adress Karlach, Lae'zel, SH or Jaheira instead like you're not even worth her time.

“He said nooo.” 😂 Oh, he’s my favorite!

Araj is crazier then my own dnd character who is not only a goblin but a alchemist AND a alcoholic at that

Why does everyone love her so much? I mean the voice acting is great but she only sees Astarion as an object.

I love how you both stand up for each other ❤

"He said noooooe, you should learn the meaning of the word."

6:55 I love the way he says no lmfao

It's funny how Astarion is so bold from behind your strong scaly shoulder😄"Yeah! You tell her off, dahlin'!"

I like when you tell her 'no' at the end cause then she gets aggressive and you get to kill her. Win/win.

I killed her on act II cause I couldn’t rob her so i just took the things i could from her corpse 💀

I don't know why but being view by Drows as a incredibly rare and precious asset don't sound very good... XD

The way she says "and drink up" Has me laughing.

I just did this scene but drank it in front of him and he just called me a damned idiot haha

Wait, you can meet her again... of course you can. I swear, the city is so big, I was pretty sure I did almost everything, but I missed so much.

I literally adore him

Omg that's so cute 😭 when you know that in act 1 he enjoyed watching you get BDSM in goblin camp. His evolution is everything!! 😢❤

I love that Gale approves of you supporting your boyfirend. So wholesome!

I had been avoiding this video till now to avoid spoilers. I did not expect that I would explode, and then Araj had the nerve to get upset at me for blowing up in her house when she had blown it up just a minute before.

Fun fact, small spoilers depending on if you did Astarion's story with Cazador first: When she says the line, "Erm...Safe!", around 04:15, Astarion in this playthrough says "Say no - the only thing she's offering is pain and I don't want to see you hurt." But with a maxed dispositioned, Vampire Lord Astarion, he says, "Do not trust anything this woman says. And certainly don't drink anything she offers you." I read a comment somewhere that vampires in DND have an alignment shift; that love in a sense is twisted to lust, protectiveness, ownership even, and it really comes across in this line. One will care about the player because of love and not wanting to see them hurt from a potion. But Astarion the vampire lord will see the potion as potentially harming what is *his*. All the other lines remain unchanged though.

When you try to have a conversation with someone and your significant other continues to bitch from the sideline

Astarion dating a huge dragon dude is something i appreciate

I love you for posting Astarion content. 😂

Omg I thought MC just fuckin exploded after drinking the potion and laughed out loud 😂

Lmaoo I died when the camera turned to your character, was not expecting you to look like that

Bleeding can cause kaboom after Tav drank that potion? Bruh, imagine if its human female Tav, periods will be even more... tricky with that effect

Ahhhh there she is. Ever since she made my boy uncomfortable in moonrise ive been looking for her 😈😈😈😈

I kinda love her 😂

Dnd vampire lore is actually darker than warhammer vampire lore. That takes some doing.

Lowkey kinda loving that ur character doesnt look like just a classic handsome man or beautiful woman but this fucking awesome badass like yessss Though your companions must have sore necks looking up at you so often

Her VA does such a good job or delivering every line like she thinks you are the stupidest baby on the planet

i ended up killing her in the moonrise towers in my playthrough, bc i accidentally started a fight and ended up wiping half of moonrise at the start of act2 💀

i wonder what would happen if your romancing Karlach with this ability.... Fireworks

I must have completely missed this NPC in act 2 😢

Hes so sassy when he comments 😂

That dragonborn looks awesome!

he said NU

I love him sm

this bitch is crazy... I love her so much

This was a delight! Thanks for sharing!

is this an evil astarion/evil playthrough? Astarion behaved differently for me here. He was a lot more relaxed and softer.

The white haired guy is the same VA who plays Zeon in xenoblade 3 and im tempted to play BG just for him

Her voice is soooo nice

Huh I missed this because I just went through Moonrise Towers clearing out the Absolute before the final battle. She was long gone. I was playing a Gloom Stalker Drow Ranger. I put Astarion on Assassin. Being proactive seemed the right thing to do in this case.

This is the video that made me start down the Balder's Gate 3 rabbit hole and start my very normal affection of the pale elf...

Well, I killed her at Moonrise for talking about my sweetheart vampire like he was an object, so I guess I won't have this scene...

As someone with an unfortunately inherited past of sexual abuse and general abusive control (I suppose that's pretty much as close as we can get to Astarion's many years of it) I absolutely adore Larian and Astarion. Thank you to all involved

Why is Araj permanently looking up like her neck is broken???

Holy shit, Your Tav looks almost identical to my first Tav who also romanced Astarion. What are the chances?

gale approving after you stick up for astarion's feelings ;)

I'm romancing him and he said nothing when I met her in the city. Even she pretended as if he wasn't there. Is this a bug?

not me thinkin her face is very "Facin the sky" before realizin its cuz your dragonborn is a tall boi

anyone have any idea how to keep her alive for act 3? i gave her my blood and denied her astarion's bite (i wasnt romancing him though) but then during the moonrise charge she got killed along with everyone else in the tower, she became hostile with the rest. but a lot of people seem to not kill her and just meet her in act 3. any idea how to make her go away before the assault at the tower / not kill her then? i plan to do an astarion romance next and i'd like to get this scene...

I love thé shit talking he does about her being Drow given he’s madly in love with my Drow😂😂😂

The way she is such a villain yet kinda awkward here is killing me. "Risky. But - erm - safe!" AND IS NOBODY GONNA TALK ABOUT THE GESTURES AT 4:32 *"Marvellous. 👹👹👹 Just... stand over there- **_FAR_** over there. 😬And drink up! (voice cracks, looks at you like a concerned toddler)"* Like I can't even. Thanks for uploading this entertainment.

At 05:01 when Durge says “explosive” I swear to god it sounded like Sigma from OW

Are we gonna talk about the house exploding?

i made these same choices and it was heartwarming. she creeps me out lol

The two in the back looking up at you at 3:35 has the *mom talking to her friend* *me waiting for her to finish to tell her something* vibe

literally "is this lady bothering you king". i love it

Turned us into Soldier boy from The Boys 😂

Does drinking the potion mean you can't let Astarion drink your blood anymore?

Oblodra... OBLODRA ??? Is she Kimmuriel's sister ??? One of my fav DD character 🥺

I put Astarion in the same Spider Silk armour and dyed it the same color. Wild.