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Hello, and thank you for your attention!

I’m Litsen, quite of a mess of a person from France. I’m in my mid-30s and I try to do things… Can’t promise to be coherent or to make sense. Please, bear with me 😅

I mostly post about BG3, especially about Astarion, through screenshots and gifs, but also personal opinions and analysis of the characters, and also through a few fanfics, sometimes centred on my Durge, Ellith, and sometimes not (I like writing from the general “you” pov to explore some Astarion fluff or angst).

Oh and just in case you’re not sure, I’m kinda genderfluid/nonbinary, and you can use any pronouns when you talk about me, I really don’t care (But I’ll always respect your pronouns of course 💜)

Also, here, you’ll get some information about my blog (and myself) + I have the personal stufftag for my life and rants, and the pet family tag for the fluffy babies!

Ah! And if you strongly disagree with me; it’s ok. We can agree to disagree. But if you feel like being insulting, disrespectful and/or passive aggressive, you should unfollow [/block] me right now. It will be better for both of us.

Also: if you think using Gen AI is okay - or /can be okay sometimes/ - just unfollow me.

Thank you! 🙏

The masterpost about Durge Ellith is HERE.

My opinions, headcanons and analysis:

• Astarion and Irony
• Astarion’s boundaries
• How Astarion handles tenderness and care
• How a former sex-worker relates to Astarion’s experience
• Why does Astarion claim he enjoys killing so much?
• Astarion’s state of mind in the first sex scene
• Refusing to sleep with Astarion a second time
• Astarion craves connection and a long answer to a comment about it
• Night two: Astarion asks you how you’d want him to kill you.
• Astarion’s feeding and the “Hot Vampire Fantasy”
• Astarion’s midnight snacks, but on his own terms
• Bonding with Astarion in the Shadowlands (Act 2 hc)
• Being Astarion’s friend
• Astarion / Lae'zel: similarities and differences Part I - Part II
• Astarion’s scent
• How the idea of Astarion’s ascension affected me (cw eating disorders)
• Astarion’s cheek biting
• Act1 Astarion: When the mask falls for a second
• My two cents to a post about Astarion’s ptsd
• My two cents about Astarion ‘not getting cuddly’
• My two cents to a great to discussion, esp. about AA being “kind when you’re nice to him”
• My two cents to an excellent essay about AA, concerning how he perceives love and if he needs his consort
• General perception of Astarion’s and Halsin traumas
• Garlic love (silly little hc)
• Durge pre-game chronology (questions)
• The influence of the companions on Resist Durge
• Degrading yourself
• Gortash in French
• Gale in French
• Horny BG3 tierlist
• Astarion’s heartbreaking face during that first night and here for more
• Astarion’s type? (No.)
• Astarion as a hero
• “The charming rake”, the anti-hero(?)
• Astarion realises heroes don’t have to be flawless
• Minthara about Astarion running from the sun
• Cazador and children (cw mentions of child abuse)
• My two scents on the alignment system
• The flophouse scene; Astarion’s violence
• “This isn’t about sympathy”… or is it?
• Durge created the Absolute: Astarion’s reaction
• Astarion/Sauron?
• The Crimson Manor, AA’s eternal prison + Health and safety violations in the Palace (crack post)
• Astarion and Thaniel/Oliver: a similar story?
• Astarion: An addict to blood and freedom?
• Astarion, a “banisher of shadows”
• Astarion’s self-esteem and sense of worth
• Helping Astarion on his healing journey: a few leads
• What to do with the spawns after Cazador’s gone for good?
• Astarion Origin second nightmare
• “Don’t eat your friends”
• Wyll encouraging Astarion in act 3
• Karlach being proud of Astarion
• Former Magistrate Astarion offering his service
• The Gate as Astarion’s home
• Astarion always “ending up in crypts”

BG3 Fanfics (AO3 links, but you can also find them all with the tag: my writings):

• Safe Touch (2nd person POV - how to help Astarion relax)
• Little by Little (2nd person POV - Astarion’s struggle to keep himself fed).
• Waiting to Have you (Astarion getting reading for the first night with PC)
• I call them Friends (Resist Durge realising how precious life is)
• The Rusty Ring (About Durge Ellith’s past and how they met Astarion back then)
• The Book of Ashes (Durge Ellith’s struggle during Act 3) – unfinished (yet)
• Our own Tale ( Durge Ellith and Astarion try to talk about their relationship in late act2)
• Blood Tie (Astarion’s past abuse, about a headcanon I have)
• Warmth (Astarion’s stream of consciousness)
• Threat of Love (Ellith and Astarion have a little argument)
• Poetry (Ellith tries something new, Astarion is… curious)
• Part of the plan (Astarion’s conflicted feelings about his “plan”)
• An inconsequential game (Ellith’s version of Part of the Plan)
• What he needs (Astarion x reader ficlet)
• Did you miss me? (Astarion x reader crack/fluff)
• Flipping Coin (Devlin x Ellith x Astarion being teasing shitheads)

Other tags:

• This tag for my screenshots
• Here for my gifs

Requests and asks:

Just so you know, if you have any request in terms of Astarion screenshots (a dialogue or cutscene in particular, an expression, body language, or photomode silliness, that kind of thing…), feel free to send it to me.

Likewise, if you have a question about my interpretation of a scene, or a dialogue or banter, my askbox is open! It also works for my Durge, if you ever have questions about Ellith 🖤

I can’t promise I’ll do everything you might ask, but if I can and if it inspires me, I will. ✨

Ah, and here are the specs about my current computer system.

And finally, life has been tough lately, since gen AI is stealing my job and I’m very broke, so if you like my stuff, if you want to help me and if you can afford helping, I have a kofi here💜

I’m also on Discord for mutuals (only) - Feel free to dm me here so we can get in touch 💕✨

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“We are rather good together, aren’t we? I never saw myself as a hero, but fighting alongside you has been special.”

Post game events, would Gale offer your Tav/Durge to give a lecture to his students?

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Would your OC(s) accept?

Miss Fortune would do anything for Gale, no questions asked, this included. And seeing as they visit him in Waterdeep quite often post-adventure, to the point where Gale and Rolan work together for an entire year to cast a permanent teleportation circle between Gale's Tower and a secret room inside Miss Fortune and Astarion's home, they would be able to do the class at any time.

What would the lecture be about?

No Components? No Problem: Self-Defense for the Magic User

In a kind of reverse lesson from the ones Gale gave them on incorporating magic into their melee fighting to enhance their prowess and get themselves out of a bind, Miss Fortune would teach spellcasters how to add hand-to-hand or dagger combat into their close-range spellcasting or how to survive/get the upper hand in a scenario where they are silenced/out of components or spell slots.

Would they do it alone or with their partner(s)?

Astarion would come along initially for moral support, taking a seat in the back of the class and propping his feet up. But once he saw the spellcasters coming up to demonstrate moves with Miss Fortune were "positively hopeless, darling," he would come to the front to help them show everyone how it's really done and wind up staying with them for any other demonstration needs (read: he's having fun).

Should anyone dare to scoff at his beloved, he'll shoot them a murderous glare so foul the recipient of such a look will have to roll a constitution save to avoid soiling themselves on the spot.

Starting to think I have a type

Astarion and irony, my two cents.

Alright so I was reading this post on reddit about how Astarion's charisma is not that good, and how cringe and awkward he's when he flirts. Very interesting reading, the comments too were inspiring.

Although I agree with a lot of things written by the OP, I wanted to give my two cents... and it turned into a little 'essay'. So I thought I could post it here too.

(As always, it's only my pov, and I don't expect anyone to agree)

Indeed, you can easily tell that his beauty was enough for him to pick up victims for Cazador. With a smile like this, it doesn’t take too much effort to seduce people, especially vulnerable, desperate/drunk targets.

But there’s also something that is rarely addressed: Astarion's dark sense of humour, self-derision and tragical irony. It’s particularly visible in the mirror scene (“tell me I’m beautiful and we can call it a day” with that smirk, or his approval if you tell him you find another companion prettier). Also the dialogue about how you (I'll be using the general you) would prefer to die, or who you would bite; they're all dripping with sarcasm and irony. Likewise, when he tells you, after the first night, that the others could probably hear you from camp: he's jesting, because he's feeling comfortable for the first time in 200 years.

And even the dialog about his favorite pick up lines. Of course he's still trying to seduce you, but I think he's perfectly aware that those “lines” are over the top and won’t work on you. You just challenged him to find something better that "my little treat", so he gives you the worst .

To me, it seems like he knows how ridicule it is, and that’s precisely why he quotes them with so much emphasis. It's dramatic in a sense, because he's doing what he was forced to do for years, although he knows he doesn't have to do it anymore. "His favourite lines" he calls them, although he must hate them (hence the dark look upon his face when he quotes them.); irony again. And no matter how much he must loathe those lines, he seems to be having fun practicing them with you and seeing your reaction. (And if you ask him if he's having fun, i think he's really honest when he says yes, "it's hard not to with you")

Keep reading

The man is judging.

You know that moment in act 3 when Orin kidnaps one of your companions or Yenna; well, it can happen at camp, or near the Undercity ruins if you get there very early after reaching the Gate.

And I like how different the events go (some excerpts are from my Durge playthrough, and others from my Lae'zel run)

[Huge shoutout to all this talented cast 🩶]