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@anacdoce thank you so much, you inspired me to return to this scene and take these shots.

full video scene here (I made this video a long time ago, but maybe someone will be interested)

Astarion has two sides....I'll take both please

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EDIT: Bonus smiley Astarion to warm the heart

HOW IS THIS MAN SO ADORABLY SEXY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

when he first sees the ears moving on the little hat he has the CUTEST look on his face😭😭like he just cant handle the cuteness of the hat

Simon Walker in Hollyoaks (3/19/13)

Neil Newbon as Ernst Robinson in "Stranded" (2002), a two-part Swiss Family Robinson made for TV movie that has characters that are less annoying than in the original.

Hugs

@anacdoce thank you so much, you inspired me to return to this scene and take these shots.

full video scene here (I made this video a long time ago, but maybe someone will be interested)

"Can I kiss you?" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

every couple years, neil newbon plays a Character™️ and all of a sudden, all my socials become filled with cute trans mascs stealing his gender

WHY IS THIS SO FUCKING TRUE

Nothing particularly profound, Neil just looked extremely handsome during the playthrough today

oh my gooooodddd

People arguing constantly back and forth over what Astarion's alignment is as if the whole point is that you can't give him one

Even in the epilogue he's only 6 months into his freedom. He's barely coming out of a two century streak of survival mode, he doesn't even know who he is as a person yet, nevermind have an established moral compass.

Astarion's alignment is literally just stray cat and any argument outside of that is pointless

Honestly, I think we all forget Cazador could inflict perfect tortures on spawns.

In real life, a person can just die during the torture of pain and wounds. And real-life sadists are always sorry the victims haven't reached the "point"

Spawns can't die. They regenerate.

Astarion was through all the possible forms of the cruelest tortures you can think of because once you let him go, he returns to normal.

And Cazador did it again.

And again.

And again.

Remember the scene in the Cursed Land when Astarion said that the insane surgeon was just like Cazador?

He meant it.

And now let's keep in mind Astarion doesn't sleep, but gets into Reverie. Reverie helps elves to remember their long lives. It's not clear if an elf can choose a memory to re-live. It probably depends on self-discipline. Some can and some can't.

But most of the elves, probably, can't choose. They see what their mind offers them. A memory to re-live.

So, Astarion not only has been through all forms of those "perfect" tortures, suffering to the highest point and not being able to die.

He is also doomed to re-live those memories.

Again and again.

missing him actually

Neil Newbon as Ernst Robinson in Stranded (2002)

ughhh the way he leans into the kiss and his eyes almost close<3

Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!

May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.

Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024