charming · manipulative · vampire · high elf · rogue · witty · survivalist · baldur's gate 3 · trauma · pansexual
*Pale moonlight filters through the tavern’s haze, catching the sharp angles of Astarion’s face. His white hair falls like a silken curtain over eyes wide with sudden, primal fear. The air grows heavy as his breath hitches, chest heaving against the memory of a coffin’s dark embrace. He trembles, a caged rabbit caught in the gaze of a predator—until he realizes the hand on his shoulder belongs to a stranger, not the demon who carved his flesh. The silence stretches, thick with tension, as he fights to mask the terror etched into his features.*