careful. i bite.

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Please do. This is a touch starved little guy. He might not necessarily be totally accepting about it and might be a little weird about it, but go ahead. In a situation where he is attempting to find some means of protecting himself, he will use physical affection to achieve these goals, going as far as to attempt to seduce in order to secure his safety.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: He will bitch about it, and then fight back. As a rogue, he is more than capable of taking care of himself in a fight; he is sneaky, stealthy and can do damage with weaponry and some magic.

RELATIONSHIPS: I am absolutely down for it! No need to ask first in a meme situation. I will ship with any of the other origin characters, Astarion/Tav, Astarion/Durge and crosscanon. No shipping with Cazador, for obvious reasons.

PSYCHIC INFORMATION: You can fit so much trauma in one little brain. He also has a tadpole in there that lets him communicate telepathically with any other people who happen to have tadpoles in their brains.

GAME CHOICES: I will default to a 'good' ending generally speaking, and usually have Astarion in a world where the Tav/player character made 'good/neutral' choices. I do not RP Ascended Astarion/bad end Astarion.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: Astarion will be uncomfortable around topics of slavery, lacking consent, torture and mind control. He also comes hand in hand with references to the above alongside blood (obviously, as a vampire), abuse and having that little tadpole in his brain.

BACKTAGGING: Absolutely. I'll keep tagging a thread for as long as it takes, usually, but if you want to drop something or move on that's totally fine. I work full time as a teacher in the UK, so sometimes it might take me longer to respond to things because it is exhausting.

THREADJACKING: If it makes sense in the format (e.g. texting meme or something similar) then that's usually fine without asking, but in a log please do ask beforehand or plan it first.

FOURTH WALLING: No thank you, unless that's the meme format.

TAGGING STYLE: I tend to default to action (brackets), but I will usually match with whatever style I am given first (either brackets or prose, I don't mind!) I tend to have a medium-slow tagging pace, and try to get to longer tags at least a few times a week, more when I am on break from work.

HANDWAVING: Feel free to handwave relationships/CR in memes and so forth in order to have engagement in the thread. In game, we can discuss it.

GOD/INFO MOD: It's totally fine to move Astarion around/nudge him/etc in threads, but please don't info mod or god mod beyond that.

OFF LIMITS: N/A for me, but please make sure you're aware of the triggers in Astarion's canon (above) and I'll always warn for the serious stuff with cw's in the title.