Today I am thinking very hard about the fact that Astarion, post-ascension, believes that MC will be degrading themself if they stay with him.
Generally I'm seeing a lot of people take it that he's looking at MC from a genuine place of superiority, but - at the risk of giving a scalding hot take - I... absolutely didn't read that line that way.
He thinks they'll be degrading themself forever if they stay with him. To reframe that sentence a bit: he thinks being with him is something inherently degrading.
But he knows that they 'want to be degraded.' Or in other words; he's certain in that moment that they want to be with him.
I'm not trying to say Astarion after the ascension did nothing wrong, and I'm not trying to make him sound better than he is; I've gone on record saying how I feel about this ending, and how I vastly prefer the other one because I want this character who I'm desperately in love with to get on the path to healing.
But... I was watching some scenes today, and this moment stuck out to me in a really big way. Astarion has always, all the way through the game, pretended to have more self-confidence than he actually has - it's not all an act, but a certain amount of it absolutely is - and I think this scene shows that beneath all the attitude... ascending hasn't actually changed this aspect of him as much as it seems at first.
If you want to know just a bit more, check out the pinned post on @belior's blog! I'm currently on chapter 3 of Ryft, and Prisma will be made available once chapter 1 is complete!
I completely forgot Salade Grecque was coming out today too!!! The episodes are almost an hour long though so maybe I’ll watch one per day, depending on how long the free Prime trial is
why are all italians so fucking hot??¿ i can't stand this shit like i know casting really attractive people is a thing but god damn i have never seen a not conventionally attractive person in an italian show what is going on we need to study this
*knocks down everyone’s doors* WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MAX BRINLY WEREWOLF FUCKER CONTENT???? WHERE IS IT???? you can’t just drop this boy in this game as a power fantasy continuation of Josh’s whole survival situation in until dawn and not give me sweet “I don’t wanna hurt you but the full moon is rising and I need you so badly” raw dogging in that treehouse!!!! YOU CAN’T DO IT!!! not when also after he changes back he changes into that crop top!!!! LIKE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET A GRIP EVERYBODY