Being horny for Astarion has made players better at the Rogue class in regular D&D

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    1 year ago

    I think you’re overthinking it. He’s just a vampire and that’s why he acts kinda rapey without any allegorical implications. Then once you know, it’s less rapey and more… Jeffery Dahmer. The same way Lae’zel seems like a huge bitch because that’s just how the Gityanki are.

    • Fushuan [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      what is even that “acts kinda rapey”? I have seen none of it. He is murder happy but nothing that reminds me of rape.

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        1 year ago

        The first encounter where you catch him trying to bite you and the dialogue preceeding it? It’s pretty sexual/date rapey until you figure out he’s a vampire and he’s been alluding to that and not sex. Knowing after the fact doesn’t change the vibe they definitely did on purpose for the less perceptive players that didn’t notice his fangs or the bite marks on his neck. Personally, I found it pretty funny in retrospect. Which I think was what Larian intended more than any sort of social commentary.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          41 year ago

          Idk, I’ll remind you that you sleep right next to your other 3 companions, rape didn’t even cross my mind, he comes sneaking and you catch him with his fangs out, if I didn’t notice I would think that he is trying to steal something from me since he’s a rogue. I really don’t see that vibe you mention and with the EA I’ve done that scene more than 10 times. Maybe it’s the fact that he gives the vibes of a predator for a moment that made you think that.

      • stopthatgirl7OP
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        31 year ago

        I think it’s the way that you find out in game that he’s a vampire, when he creeps up on you for a bite while you’re sleeping.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          121 year ago

          but… that’s not rape, it’s nothing sexual nor about power not control, it’s just sustenance. I would prefer to use other terms, but in any case, he does that just once and never again, while saying that he acts kinda rapey gives the vibe that it’s something constant. Also they way he acts is not really because of vampirism (well, besides the obvious blood sucking), it’s because he has been a slave for 200 years, trained for deceiving people and bringing pain and suffering, and we know that people that live through those events then without guidance tend to become the perpetrators, which is literally what’s happening to him, he was trained for 200 years to be deceiving, that the pain of others is pleasurable and that control over others is the ultimate goal.

          You find him in the sun extatic about the fact that, for the first time in 200 years he can sense the sun and be free. He doesn’t want to help others, he wants to experience LIFE, which for him is what cazador lived as, inflict pain without consequence, gain power for himself, and be free. Once you get to know him, his fear of cazador showing up shows up, with the gur hunter, and he begins to show more aspects of himself, even trying to court you to gain power from it. Then, as he gets to know you and actual feelings being to show up, he stops being so flirtatious and explains why he was doing it, that he has no actual experience in normla relationships and that he wants to explore it slowly, lol.

          Anyway, I simp for shart so fuck that guy but he’s no rapist lol.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            1 year ago

            I simp for shart

            Oh fuck no! That’s NOT an acceptable diminutive of Shadowheart! 😮🤣

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                51 year ago

                I will if they ask lol. Popularity doesn’t make it right 😂

          • stopthatgirl7OP
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            11 year ago

            I mean, I personally don’t think it’s very rapey, but I can see how it can be read that way by others.