Astarion slowly falls in love through greetings | Baldur's Gate 3 [Cinematic GMV]

astarian's enemies to friends to lovers pipeline is real

This isn’t a greeting but he kills me whenever you switch to him and he says “Don’t touch me.”

Gotta add the one from the final battle, when he tells you he hopes he can keep kissing you forever.

therapy: expensive looping Astarion repeatedly calling us "dear" and "beautiful": free

To be honest, most of Astarion's flirt during act1 is just pretending. He plays a role, you can tell he is just reeling his phrases out like he know them by heart. However, there are few scenes in act1 where you get to see the real astarion (not the sex slave that had to lure preys for his master for 2 centuries). To me, those scenes are the real ones where you see him coming to trust and like Tav : the nighty sky scene (when he suddenly fell silent staring at you, astoned), the mirror scene (when he says he wants to know what people see when they look at him, what Tav see), and of course, if you're playing DU, when he gets to help you out through the night (and he says "you've got this, and I've got you"). And to me, the way he progresses over himself and his feelings makes him even more worth fighting for. :3 (Digging for the real Astarion beneath the veil :3)

i love his little giggle after "there you are, MY Friend!"

"Im all pointy ears my love" and "gods, youre beautiful" had me giggling and kicking my feet ❤ as if i wasnt a 30 yo woman

Him calling you "my dear" and "my sweet" has me dying... hes too fecken perfect i swear

You missed the best one! "You're so adorable when you're thinking what to say."

Having the scene switch from hyper-expressive Astarian to the player character’s mostly blank face consistently hits me over the head

After finishing gameplay for both male Durge and female Tav, I intended strongly to start another and romancing Gale. I failed, inevitably. Sweet Hells, these pixelated vampire sucked the resolve out of me.

Bro, I wish that the "precious little bhaal babe" line wasn't just something he says only once, CRIESSS

This man destroyed me.

"On my honour, the only thing on my mind is depraved, carnal lust." That line is funnier than I expected

Early on each time I'd speak to him and hear "Yes?" felt like a dagger cutting deep into me, like WHEN WILL YOU LOVE ME 😭

I love the part in the video where it’s back to back him saying simple yet endearing greetings. “Yes, darling?” “Hello, my sweet” “Hello, my dear” “Hello, beautiful” “Gods, you’re beautiful” Those flurry of greetings ends with him being just so captivated by your presence

My favourite is “it’s always a pleasure seeing you sauntering over” not only he’s happy to see me, he’s happy that I’m going to talk to him.

"I'd rather be the only dark power inside your body, if it's all the same to you."

Neil Newbon HIT this out the ball park. I will say I love how at times Astarion meand genuinely we are friends and other times he mocks it out of genuine frustration that we are JUST friends. Love your character design. She is cute ❤🎉

I like how slowly he falls for you over the course of the story but the minute you’re an official couple he dives right in. Like, no second thoughts, no hesitations, just full on commitment.