Astarion Romance - resist Dark Urge scene - ALL dialogue options 

Character growth right there. XD

Do as I say not as I do

I mean, he's teaching us the lesson he's learned from us XD

He doesn’t do it again tho

And he promises not to do it again, and he doesnt. Now he is just flipping the sides :D

"You will let me know the next time you need to be tied up up, won't you?" NOW LISTEN HERE

HE SAYS STUFF LIKE THIS, THEN HAS THE AUDACITY TO SAY "whats a little attempted murder between friends?" EXCUSE ME SIR HOW DARE YOU-

Honestly the fact that he can still be so unabashedly h0rny after his s/o tried to gut him like a fish is a HUGE part of why I adore him so much

@@3katfoxidk when he flirts like that i feel kinda bad because of his backstory😭

EXACTLY.. in my most evil runs, I cannot hurt him 😖

I listened to that line twice thinking “is that meant to be a double-entendre or did he mean it in a different way” 🤭🤭

That was not smooth. It was as subtle as a monkey awakening a tarasque with bad karaoke.

The little shimmy he does before saying it is too damn cute

He even senses something is different from the first meeting. “You have an irresistible urge of desperation about you,” is something he says only after meeting DU. I use that as my headcanon about why my DU paladin is attracted to him-she feels seen. (And all of us who romance him know how important that is…)

@@ChiakiNanami736 After Gale's first encounter he also points our how you're "twitching", having "bouts of swooning and swaying" and are grinding your teeth. To me Durge/Astarion is canon as a whole as he's the only companion who has so many extra lines with Durge. Like after you find out you're a Bhaalspawn in a dream you can have a full blown conversation with him about him where he talks about his past as well while the others only have one liners. I know the reason for this is mostly because Durge's writer also helped writing Astarion during busy phases of development... but idc! They fit so well. It was DESTINY she ended up writing on Astarion, hah. Though Shart is also a good choice.. memory loss, controlled by a God and all.

but he didn't kill, and he was under cazador will and such an irony, dark urge exactly killed not dozens (as he thinks) - but exactly thousands and with free will (almost)

He has no idea what Dark Urge did. Sweet, naive darling.

Needs to add an -s to that. He knows it was more than just a thousand.

A question for the ages

same!!

same.

Same 😭 he's beautiful, sassy, protective once he cares, his traumatic past with Cazador makes me want to hug him(with permission) and God damn the FILTH that comes out of his mouth does things to me 💀

I’m literally on a Astarion marathon like not kidding! 😂

@@arbsan8366 saammmeeee.

Yep textbook foreshadowing

The dialogues the next morning "here to kill me again?" And such. So 🤣

I was thinking about how he says at one point that he’s been feral from hunger so he probably identifies with that a lot and if he can’t help Durge through hers, then what hope is there for him?

I think in act 1 when he thought durge was just a regular super violent person he was fine with it just like he's fine with Laezel being super violent(and himself) but when he realized theyre under someone elses control and that none of this is their choice he became determined to help them. He thinks of Durge and the Dark Urge as two separate entities. Durge is the person he truly knows. "The Dark Urge" is who they become when they are taken over by bhaal's influence and he doesnt hold Durge responsible for those acts because he knows them to be better than that so he isn't afraid of them. Even if The Dark Urge does kill him he at least knows it was not Durge because durge would never consciously hurt him which is why he says that "you give me something to care for and that's worth the peril". He accepts that while it is a possibility its not their fault and they are already forgiven for it.

is he an elf or a vampire??

@@slaughtrrbeach He is an Elf Vampire spawn. I really do not know enough about dnd vampires to know what difference that makes. Just that he trances normally like an Elf.

No, if he is aware he's definitely not expecting you to kill him, as they say, he trusts you. If you give in to the urge you just kill him with zero resistance from him

@@silverstormsfury5349 What does it mean to trance?

@@slaughtrrbeach As I understand it full blood Elves/Drow in the forgotten realms can go into a trance/meditation for rest and concentrate on past lives or past memories. They are in a state of awareness, and I guess they can be in a variety of positions to do it, even sitting up if they so wished. "Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep." This was taken from generic 5th edition DnD elf rules Cancel Reply

Oh, hey my people

Any recommendations? XD

HEY! I will NOT be called out like this 😭😤

So yeah, I've seen people make compelling arguments towards Durge being the canonical protagonist, and Astarion being the canonical love interest because of that particular point you're mentioning

@@samf.s.7731 Durge is the most direct successor to the player characters from BG 1 and 2, for sure.

i keep looking at their clothing and thinking "God, i want to dress like that!"

@@platedlizardSaaaaaaame…

Especially since it's preceded by such a beautifully tragic poetic line

​@@jordanjoestar-turniptruckmakes me wonder if he has a future career, under a nom de plume 😉

Join the club…

Also, this line is supposed to make the Dark Urge second guess their relationship together. They'rere fighting their very nature by resisting their urge, and for what? To love someone fundamentally unable to love them back? It's such a calculated line meant to portray the Dark Urge's feelings as futile. Like you said, it's vile.

well, they write about him alright, they call it fanfic hehe

Erotic romances. So *that's* what they called smutty romance novels back then... Or, in this case, smutty fanfics.

The dice are the mod "astral dice" found here! www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1266

Zevran? 😛

@@ChiakiNanami736 Yes, and I love that in Dragon Age Awakening, when talking to Nathaniel Howe, if you import a DA:O warden, there is the option to choose "Some of my best friends have tried to kill me"

LOL

You have to reguse killing isobel

Attention, soldier! You do not have permission to freak the f*ck out right now!

It's the Basket Full of Equipment mod: www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/87 (combined with the basket equipment to camp clothing mod). Tbh they were both wearing more interesting outfits in my game but I chose more neutral ones for the recording 😅

@@clocksprocket Very cool. Just two more mods to be added to my next playthrough lol. Thank you!

Ahh, yay! I’ve noticed Astarion has so many Oscar Wilde-like qualities… I thought I was alone in thinking this! Especially when talking about his ‘mad love…’ I wonder if it’s something the writers thought about 🤔

@@LaraWhitehead1602 Ah, I was actually talking about Scleritas Fel's line about "we all kill what we love most" being from an Oscar Wilde poem. Though, now that you mention it, I do see Astarion's similarities to Wilde.

Hi, this is from the astral dice mod which you can find here: www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1266

1) it's an RPG and *very* heavy on the roleplaying aspect, so yes, there are many choices for you to do and some of them lead to a romance with Astarion, and some don't. If you're an asshole to him he can and will refuse you. 2) not really. the game takes place 100 years after bg2, so while there are some callbacks or returning characters, the main story is completely separate. it may be worth playing bg1 and 2 afterwards if you like the game and would love to know more about the world, but it's definitely not necessary to understand the story.

Chronologically it's afterwards, yeah.

I actually managed to get this scene with him before the hug! I had exceptionally high approval with Astarion so idk if that helps, but basically I resisted the urge to kill Isobel at Last Light Inn. Then I got this scene with the butler next long rest. I then had the scene telling off Araj and the hug scene after that. It was actually super sweet the way it played out in my game because the two scenes ended up happening almost back to back. Astarion helping Urge and then Urge standing up for him. It made the hug scene afterwards feel extra special. ❤

For the player character I used this mod: www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1017 The hairstyle itself is used by one of the umberlee priestesses you see in act 3!

@@clocksprocket thx!!

You can purchase dye ingame and dye the clothes

The Dark Urge has killed thousands for Bhaal before the nautiloid crash

@@uwu-uv4mg that is still a novice next to a two century old vampire.

It's from this mod: www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1017 I haven't tried it on the latest patch but it should still work :)

@@clocksprocket Thx