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name Astarion Ancunin.
canon Baldur's Gate III.
species High Elf, vampire.
age 263, died at 39 which is young adulthood for an elf.
gender Cis male.
sexuality Bisexual.
information Some character personality vibes and his basic backstory summary, for the canon unfamiliar.
By default I play an unromanced, post-game, spawn Astarion. Thief 4/Gloomstalker 8. Willing to be flexible on the details of choices, companions, and the worldstate; I have about a thousand hours logged so I've seen just about everything.
content warnings Lying and manipulation. The cycle of abuse. Blood drinking (human and animal) due to his vampirism. Astarion's past includes torture, starvation, being buried alive, isolation, and scarification. His master forced him to bring him hundreds of victims, this included prostituting himself, taking advantage of the inebriated, and kidnapping children. Topics that may be triggering from his more recent past include: the threat of physical change/brainwashing from the parasite infesting he and his companion's brains; his attempts to exchange sex for personal safety; his treatment of monstrous but sentient D&D races, and the small races (gnomes, goblins, halflings) as lesser lifeforms (fantasy racism). I can try to avoid these topics as needed if asked, but the first three are pretty intrinsic and bound to come up in anything more than a text meme. Contact me to discuss your limits or opt entirely out of Astarion here.
my limits I am not interested in pregnancy, transphobia, child abuse, playing out non-con as a kink, or shipping with underage characters.
shipping I like ships that develop organically and am often taken by surprise, but I am also down to work out how to bring our characters together, especially if it's a smut-forward meme.
There's no adult character I wouldn't ship with if the stars aligned, but if you're coming in hot with a villainous canonmate, reach out and let's make sure we're on the same page.
violence Yes please.
smut Sure, but it's complicated due to Astarion's trauma. If he cares for someone who wants it of him or he thinks it will help him survive he will force himself and the narrative will reflect that; for genuine enthusiastic consent there needs to be a relationship of trust and an understanding of his past. Be ready for him to abruptly change his mind a lot, and to prefer non-sexual intimacy and kinks. For a smut-forward meme/psl, I'm willing to build out a backstory or handwave previous CR, but I do like getting weird with it. Kink list and more smut info here.
comedy, crack etc Sure, though not as the driving force of the thread.
original characters Very welcome, including Tav/Durge, so long as you have some info I can read to learn about them.
crosscanon My bread and butter! Here's some canons I'm familiar with - as you can see, any medium is fine with me. Generally on memes I assume both characters are in a generic jamjar with a network, but here's some ideas for AUs and crosscanon hooks if you would like to get more specific.
boomeranging Sometimes, if timezones and enthusiasm align.
backtagging Memes/psls, forever, come back to our thread whenever, poke me if it's my turn. In a game, four weeks.
fourthwalling Only if it's non-diagetic (i.e. in the narration) or ingrained in the character (i.e. Deadpool.)
threadhopping Check with me and my thread partner first.
tag format I prefer prose but I'll follow your lead.
canon Baldur's Gate III.
species High Elf, vampire.
age 263, died at 39 which is young adulthood for an elf.
gender Cis male.
sexuality Bisexual.
information Some character personality vibes and his basic backstory summary, for the canon unfamiliar.
By default I play an unromanced, post-game, spawn Astarion. Thief 4/Gloomstalker 8. Willing to be flexible on the details of choices, companions, and the worldstate; I have about a thousand hours logged so I've seen just about everything.
content warnings Lying and manipulation. The cycle of abuse. Blood drinking (human and animal) due to his vampirism. Astarion's past includes torture, starvation, being buried alive, isolation, and scarification. His master forced him to bring him hundreds of victims, this included prostituting himself, taking advantage of the inebriated, and kidnapping children. Topics that may be triggering from his more recent past include: the threat of physical change/brainwashing from the parasite infesting he and his companion's brains; his attempts to exchange sex for personal safety; his treatment of monstrous but sentient D&D races, and the small races (gnomes, goblins, halflings) as lesser lifeforms (fantasy racism). I can try to avoid these topics as needed if asked, but the first three are pretty intrinsic and bound to come up in anything more than a text meme. Contact me to discuss your limits or opt entirely out of Astarion here.
my limits I am not interested in pregnancy, transphobia, child abuse, playing out non-con as a kink, or shipping with underage characters.
shipping I like ships that develop organically and am often taken by surprise, but I am also down to work out how to bring our characters together, especially if it's a smut-forward meme.
There's no adult character I wouldn't ship with if the stars aligned, but if you're coming in hot with a villainous canonmate, reach out and let's make sure we're on the same page.
violence Yes please.
smut Sure, but it's complicated due to Astarion's trauma. If he cares for someone who wants it of him or he thinks it will help him survive he will force himself and the narrative will reflect that; for genuine enthusiastic consent there needs to be a relationship of trust and an understanding of his past. Be ready for him to abruptly change his mind a lot, and to prefer non-sexual intimacy and kinks. For a smut-forward meme/psl, I'm willing to build out a backstory or handwave previous CR, but I do like getting weird with it. Kink list and more smut info here.
comedy, crack etc Sure, though not as the driving force of the thread.
original characters Very welcome, including Tav/Durge, so long as you have some info I can read to learn about them.
crosscanon My bread and butter! Here's some canons I'm familiar with - as you can see, any medium is fine with me. Generally on memes I assume both characters are in a generic jamjar with a network, but here's some ideas for AUs and crosscanon hooks if you would like to get more specific.
boomeranging Sometimes, if timezones and enthusiasm align.
backtagging Memes/psls, forever, come back to our thread whenever, poke me if it's my turn. In a game, four weeks.
fourthwalling Only if it's non-diagetic (i.e. in the narration) or ingrained in the character (i.e. Deadpool.)
threadhopping Check with me and my thread partner first.
tag format I prefer prose but I'll follow your lead.
character information for the unfamiliar.
- Fussy princess, hedonist, high camp.
- Curious about the world and the people in it.
- Manipulative liar, especially if he feels unsafe, but is trying to do better by those he cares for.
- Used to be willing to use his body to get what he wanted but is trying to retain his own agency now.
- Rebuilding his sense of self after trauma using positive examples of those around him.
- Was unpleasant and judgemental even before he was forced into committing vile deeds for his master. Morally injured, numb to evil.
- Loves to bully, gossip and tease - and cannot take what he dishes.
- Processes most negative emotions as anger and disgust, aimed outwards.
- Not great at planning ahead or thinking about consequences.
- Violently loyal.
- Enjoys quiet activities like sewing and reading, but is also fun at parties.
- Kind of like if they sexualized gollum.
history As a human, Astarion was a well-off magistrate in the city of Baldur's Gate, until a judgement against a member of the nomadic and often discriminated against Gur meant the clan members beat him in an alleyway. He was "rescued" from the brink of death by the powerful vampire lord Cazador Szarr, who enslaved him as his first spawn, and physically, mentally and emotionally tortured Astarion for two hundred years.
By happenstance, a mindflayer nautiloid (DnD's psychic aliens with the Cthulu tentacle mouths) happened to pick him up as it teleported through the city, and he was given a parasitic brain worm that the mindflayers used to brainwash their victims as they underwent 'ceremorphosis' into new mindflayers, building the hivemind. However soon after the flying ship crashed, and Astarion was able to come in under the protection of a mysterious artefact that protected he and his companions from that monstrous transformation.
The worm, even in this stasis, severed Cazador's hold over him and allowed him freedom from the drawbacks of being a vampire spawn, able to walk in the sun and enter buildings without an invitation.
Unfortunately the artefact shielding him is wanted by many parties, and the group is drawn into a massive political conspiracy, where the Chosen of three different death gods have banded together to use a magical crown to control an "elder brain", the psychic being that is the central control of a mindflayer hivemind. Alongside some other wacky adventures, Astarion helps his new friends take down these Chosen three, returns to Baldur's Gate to kill his former master, destroys the elder brain and saves the world.