Astarion gets protective over you when meeting Araj again (Astarion Romance) - Baldur's Gate 3
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If you let Araj Oblodra take your blood the first time around, and don't force him to drink the tainted blood back in Moonrise towers, this cutscene will happen. You meet her again in Act 3, Astarion gets fiercely protective over you and furiously defends you cus he doesn't want to see you hurt.
The second "reward" that I forgot to show was that you get a passive skill called "Unstable Blood", which causes your blood to explode when in contact with fire. EDIT: A number of people are asking how do I get this cutscene or who she is. You must meet and interact with her in Moonrise towers in Act 2, she will be around the first floor, alone in her lab. You need to be in a romance with Astarion, have good standing with him, respect his choice of not forcing him to drink her tainted blood in Act 2 for this cutscene, and also allow her to take your blood the first time around. You will meet her again in Act 3, progress a little until you enter the Lower City and she will be at X69 Y84, then this exact scene will play. Not sure if this affects it or not, but I had also completed his personal quest at Cazador's Palace, and asked him not to ascend. I've recorded and uploaded my first encounter with Araj here: kzhead.info/sun/iMuHltuoommXhH0/bejne.htmlsi=jUhU0RQXxoyw4lrC
i am not sure if i should do that as a fire-sorcerer
i am not sure if i should do that as a fire-sorcerer
That's actually a great DOS:2 reference as per the perk "Hot Blooded"
@@MyMayLily accidently i did and let me tell you its annoying to play as xd
@MyMayLily It's really annoying and even if you make a build around it 90% of the time it goes off when you don't want it to.
Astarion is radiating "He said no pickles" energy.
This is accurate in the most hillarious way possible 😂
I love how accurate this is 😂
His little stutter before saying "i don't want to see you hurt" is so funny. My boy is still getting used to be nice
I love how he's mildly annoyed that he cares now, too
what a cutie
*I *being
@@RebekkaJones English isn't my native language, sorry
@@RebekkaJones Getting was correct to use in that instance.
I love how back when she offered us that potion in exchange for Astarion's bite and Astarion said "no," we had the option to say, "He said no. There's nothing more to discuss." And now that she wants our blood, after we've said "no," Astarion sticks up for us and chimes in with, "He said 'NO,' You should learn the meaning of the word." I find it so cute how we have each other's backs.
A true love story
This is how I ran my evil playthrough, he and I had each other's backs and pretty much nobody else's. The other companions were just means to an end but when it was him or me on the line things got serious.
more like astarion just doesnt like her less than hes actually sticking up for you
" He said nooooo, you should learn the meaning of the word." Astarian has me cracking up
He said NOOOOOEEEWW! 😆☠️
6:55 for people like me with no attention span 🥹
@@user-sf9gs2pg1b thank you so much
Also "I always ask first" forgetting about the time he tried to drink while i was asleep
she insulted my vampire waifu so i ended her laifu in the tower. oh well
I absolutely lost it at "laifu"
hi this comment made me laugh until i was in tears thank you
cringe
@@Boredness90 yeah
how did you manage that? every time i tried to take her out she took off screaming for the guards, so i just turned her into my long rest piggy bank instead. a neat 27k, tbf.
Obsessed with his singsong "And I will keep refusing until the end of timeeee~"
Same😂
He's so childish, I love it!😂
It’s way too cute 😭
saaaaame😭😭
That part made me laugh
I care about Astarion a normal amount
As we all do xD My feed definitely isn't at least a third clips from the game by now, nope.
Yes. Truly a normal amount. *drops a handful of fanart* oops!
@@GigiBranconi i haven't even played this game and my feed is full of him cuz i guess KZhead is like "ok clearly this is the content you're thirsty for" lmaooo
Oh, yes... Me too... **furiously writes 10th multi-chapter fanfic**
Me too. Absolutely. Completely normal. The shrine is teeny tiny.
"Naturally I always ask first" Excuse me, Astarion? Who was it again who tried to take a sneaky bite from the Tav? lmao
Now now, let’s not get hung up on the past
@@mrjones2721 It hurts, because I absolutely know thats something he would try to pull. 🤣
To be fair, he didn't suceed, and then he did ask xD @@NyxNeverwinter
Technically he didn't trust us at first and he was desperate to feel strong because of reasons I won't spoil.
Clearly Tav was into it so I say that's a free pass
I was already loving this game but I think just randomly walking through the city and all of a sudden a house explodes has to be my favorite part. Like, did I just pass a Baldurian meth lab?
That made me laugh until my face hurt.
“Jesse, we need to remove the tadpoles”
Basically yeah
"He said nooo you should learn the meaning of the word" i think about the pale elf...a reasonable amount
I read reasonable amoount of fanfic about him...
I mean, it is fully reasonable, and I am definitely not speaking from a point of absolute insanity about this man xD
she was 100% counting on you dying for the sake of getting more ingredients. I'm almost willing to put money on it roflmao
After taking a look at her basement, yeah that was definitely her intentions
I won't be surprised
probably not counting on it.... but would DEFINATELY consider it as a consolation prize for more materials for science
lol yup @@jamesvega6813
How would she benefit? Being dead doesn't generate more blood
i love u get to literally go "is she bothering u king"
I love that he’s protective over this giant lizard person in full armor lmao these playthroughs are amazing
You know Astarion absolutely bristled at Araj's use of the word darling.
Araj's voice actor is amazing. One of the most memorable NPCs of the game. 😂
Yeah definitely one of the best!
She sounds like shes reading a play, not talking. So... its not mine. But she isnt bad either,
@@pocketbread7535I think she sounds like she's trying to sound normal.
@@pocketbread7535that's just how Drow talk. Specially the cuckoo Lolth Drow.
I can't stand her ☠️ And the way she keeps flashing her nose holes at you is extremely distracting. But to each their own.
I love how Astarion butts in each time like a kid 😂 “He said nooo~”. With the strong body language.
Araj " prime bleeder." "risky but um safe" " Drink it far over there." This is a lady whom you can trust with a mystery potion no doubt at all. :p This is a character in a game that is clearly crazy as a cat but you hope she lasts till the end.
Astarion's line of "We can always kill her later" reminds me of that line in supernatural of "If it doesn't work out we'll just kill them."
I love the catty rivalry Astarion has with her
Love that mc is so tall Astarion looks up everytime he talks to them
I'm in Moonrise Towers, and I got curious because I plan on killing Araj for how she treated Astarion. It's wonderful to see him so confident and relaxed. The dynamic is entirely different from the first time he encountered her. I love seeing him so happy (and protective).
you can't. i tried.
@@kristinaterry152you can’t what? kill her? I killed her.
@@kristinaterry152 Nah, you can. She was the second or third I assassinated while trying to thin out the numbers in Moonrise. I don't know what she does if she's allowed to act, but for isolated kills I usually cast hold person on a stronger target and try to take them out before they break free. Maybe that's what made a difference for me.
@@kristinaterry152 nope you can, i cleared the tower before the boss fight
@@chi3043 I didn't know you would lose this opportunity if you go for the Nightsong. So Araj is nowhere to be seen. And that bloody Zhentarim trader as well. I wanted to kick her ass since the goblin camp. I guess I'll see both in the city.
Its like she really wants us to look up her nose when she speaks
i think its because the player is a very tall dragonborn
I was wondering about that as well. 🤭
My dumbass keeps forgetting my blood is literally now an explosive and I keep wondering how my party keeps catching fire
I love the very beginning. Your character just trotting through town. Then, when the sudden explosion happens, they run in the opposite direction for a second. "La, la la, la-la-" *_BOOM_* _"-NOPE!"_
The game bugged out for me during this convo and I couldn't refuse the potion, so out of spite I threw it on the floor and shot it with a crossbow. Now I almost regret doing that. (but fun fact, if you drop the potion, she yells at you to be careful, and if you destroy it she turns hostile, so its cool they thought of that scenario lmao)
I threw it at a wall
I carefully put it on the ground and let Astarion do the honors of shooting it.
Astarion being so protective of Tav is so sweet, being worried of their safety.
i never thought about getting this game but Astarion has now made me want to get it on payday lol
Do it.
Do it, do it!
He's not the only delightful character. If you can, make sure you get the Speak with Animals spell or skill somehow, because there's so many animal interactions in this game that are just golden. I mean, you can easily craft/buy potions for those, but still...
its so good id highly recommend
Same, I know nothing about the angsty vampire but I already know I can fix him 😂
The way Astarion says "He said nooo." reminds me so much of Doctor Evil 😂 "How bout nooo, Scott?"
YOU ARE SO RIGHT LMAOOO
Lmao I unalived her after she insulted Astarion the first time
Good job
MVP
Oh uh... after she made my buddy Astarion uncomfy I kinda owlbeared her in tge tower
natural reaction tbh
Oh yeah I straight up murdered her despite the game clearly not wanting me to
I’d gladly do the same
I don't care how big the room is, I can't fireball!
I know it's because your choosing the dialog, but the silence and stare after she's suprised you lived had be howling
I love her voice actor🤣 her and astarion are so funny together
i hate the character so much but goddamn her voice actor is charismatic
It's that hateful banter that makes it funny 😂
I didn't really know much about the drow race, so I just assumed Araj was just a coincidentally unsettling/disrespectful individual (asking permission from ME about a service she wants from ASTARION, and asking ME to make him behave, like I was his handler or something). I didn't think much of it besides assuming she was put here as an excuse to poke at Astarion's autonomy issues specifically. But then later I read about drow society and how all males are considered property/breeding slaves of females (and I was playing a female-bodied Tav), and I realized: 'Ohh, I see; she thinks he's my dog'. She wasn't being a bitch, she was just being a highborn female drow xD Wish there would've been a difference in her tone depending on what gender you play as, though. Like, if you play a male, she'll adress Karlach, Lae'zel, SH or Jaheira instead like you're not even worth her time.
Reading about the "breeding slaves of females" just made me emit an audible"yuck"
@@prnc96 There is a certain dead drow you can ask with speak with the dead "What was your profession?" and his answer is "Male".. Cracks me up every time..lol
@@FranWest. Big Kenergy vibes there hahaha
Fun fact, small spoilers depending on if you did Astarion's story with Cazador first: When she says the line, "Erm...Safe!", around 04:15, Astarion in this playthrough says "Say no - the only thing she's offering is pain and I don't want to see you hurt." But with a maxed dispositioned, Vampire Lord Astarion, he says, "Do not trust anything this woman says. And certainly don't drink anything she offers you." I read a comment somewhere that vampires in DND have an alignment shift; that love in a sense is twisted to lust, protectiveness, ownership even, and it really comes across in this line. One will care about the player because of love and not wanting to see them hurt from a potion. But Astarion the vampire lord will see the potion as potentially harming what is *his*. All the other lines remain unchanged though.
Yea dnd vampire lore is pretty grim.
also around 2:22 at the end of the line, Vampire Lord Astarion adds something like "as long as she rembers who belongs to whom this time" I don't remember the exact line, but yeah
So he goes from chaotic neutral to lawful evil? Sounds like a really gross downgrade.
Still hot af, I mean, you have the 'On your knees' scene, but yeah, indulging in his pursuit of power will make him like Casador. You can't disengage with him once he becomes a vampire lord, he simply doesn't allow you (not that I would, but yeah he doesn't respect you as an equal anymore, you've become his possession)
@@GrammerPancreasAstarion was never chaotic neutral to begin with. He's always been chaitic evil. Just look at the dialogue options he approves of. Usually not helping others or even straight up snitching or harming them.
Astarion is just a tsundere. 😂
damn i refused to give her my blood AND told her to back off astarion :/ but at least i nailed the incubus so i got that fun cut scene of astarion being protective of me later when my character gets notified they're using my shape lol
There's an incubus??
ye when you go to house of hope you can fuck an incubus in order to get a key you need--or roll a nat 20--and the incubus makes a deal with you they get to use your body shape whenever they want and you'll know when they do it cuz your character w basically start O'ing in public @@irinarichmond2447
Wait?! When do you get notified? I thought they just threw that in there for fluff, not that it'd actually happen in game. I feel like I wasn't long resting enough in my playthrough, but there were so many long rests where nothing happened so I assumed there wasn't anything else. Kind of annoying.
@@irinarichmond2447 Act 3, House of Hope
@@th0rne_999I got it a few days later ig after walking away from the Wyrms crossing (?) fast travel section, like you're just on the street when it happens but I'm not sure if you need to progress any other quests or anything
“He said nooo.” 😂 Oh, he’s my favorite!
you can make this work for your party if you can get the player a immunity/high resistance to fire.... rush into the fray get surrounded and have one of the other members hit you with fire spells to trigger the exposition
Yeah, I'm a bard that's mostly ranged, and my first thought was, "well, this isn't the most useful thing on my current class really... But imagine if I was a monk or barb or fighter or something, and a Tiefling!"
ARSON ARSON ARSON ARSON
Why does everyone love her so much? I mean the voice acting is great but she only sees Astarion as an object.
people love characters who are absolute messes. i mean, astarion himself is a prime example
The banter between these two is great and I wish you could have her at your camp lol.
Despite how fckd she is I love how ridiculous, camp, over the top, psychotic, etc. She is lmao. She’s a queen.
If you're not useful then you're useless. Which would you rather be?
Her voice acting sounds very forced and too pompous. I get that she is lying and all, but it still doesn't sound realistic to me.
It's funny how Astarion is so bold from behind your strong scaly shoulder😄"Yeah! You tell her off, dahlin'!"
Araj is crazier then my own dnd character who is not only a goblin but a alchemist AND a alcoholic at that
Are you Sam Riegel?
That… sounds like a DANGEROUS combination 😅
"He said noooooe, you should learn the meaning of the word."
6:55 I love the way he says no lmfao
she is definitely my favorite npc in the game. so many other people be like "i killed her back in moonrise tower and didnt let her get my blood or make astarion drink her blood! me: my drow princess, you can have it all! its a give and take kinda relationship because as i am in conversation with her i switch characters to astarion and pickpocket her dry so in the end everybody is happy. i also gave astarion the +2 str because with his dual wielding attacks he could use it more than my warlock main.
Wait you can pickpocket the potion??????
I love how you both stand up for each other ❤
I like when you tell her 'no' at the end cause then she gets aggressive and you get to kill her. Win/win.
I don't know why but being view by Drows as a incredibly rare and precious asset don't sound very good... XD
I killed her on act II cause I couldn’t rob her so i just took the things i could from her corpse 💀
I love that Gale approves of you supporting your boyfirend. So wholesome!
The way she says "and drink up" Has me laughing.
I just did this scene but drank it in front of him and he just called me a damned idiot haha
Omg that's so cute 😭 when you know that in act 1 he enjoyed watching you get BDSM in goblin camp. His evolution is everything!! 😢❤
Wait, you can meet her again... of course you can. I swear, the city is so big, I was pretty sure I did almost everything, but I missed so much.
Astarion dating a huge dragon dude is something i appreciate
When you try to have a conversation with someone and your significant other continues to bitch from the sideline
I love you for posting Astarion content. 😂
Lmaoo I died when the camera turned to your character, was not expecting you to look like that
I had been avoiding this video till now to avoid spoilers. I did not expect that I would explode, and then Araj had the nerve to get upset at me for blowing up in her house when she had blown it up just a minute before.
Omg I thought MC just fuckin exploded after drinking the potion and laughed out loud 😂
I literally adore him
Lowkey kinda loving that ur character doesnt look like just a classic handsome man or beautiful woman but this fucking awesome badass like yessss Though your companions must have sore necks looking up at you so often
Her VA does such a good job or delivering every line like she thinks you are the stupidest baby on the planet
to be fair alot of Drow Elves are like that XD
That's a Drow for ya 😂
Ahhhh there she is. Ever since she made my boy uncomfortable in moonrise ive been looking for her 😈😈😈😈
Bleeding can cause kaboom after Tav drank that potion? Bruh, imagine if its human female Tav, periods will be even more... tricky with that effect
This was a delight! Thanks for sharing!
Hes so sassy when he comments 😂
i wonder what would happen if your romancing Karlach with this ability.... Fireworks
Her voice is soooo nice
I kinda love her 😂
I must have completely missed this NPC in act 2 😢
Hoooow shes right in moontower 😭😭😭
@@Tran809 I ended up looking her up after this. Turns out I did meet her but didn’t trust what she wanted my blood for so turned her down. Now I’m sad. Just means I’ll have to make sure to do it on my next playthrough.
@@whisper_dvm5157damn I met her, gave her blood and then killed her. Regretting it now. Oh well, next playthrough it’ll be different.
I missed her as well!!! Oh well, my next round I'll be romancing Astarion and I need to find her.
I assumed moontower would want my blood the moment I walked in so I avoided that place till I finished the crypts 🤣
i ended up killing her in the moonrise towers in my playthrough, bc i accidentally started a fight and ended up wiping half of moonrise at the start of act2 💀
I love him sm
That dragonborn looks awesome!
This is the video that made me start down the Balder's Gate 3 rabbit hole and start my very normal affection of the pale elf...
he said NU
is this an evil astarion/evil playthrough? Astarion behaved differently for me here. He was a lot more relaxed and softer.
No, I'm on neutral/good alignment. Not sure if this helps but I'm Dark Urge, finished Astarion's personal quest so I'm romance locked, persuaded him not to ascend, and accepted his "no" during the first Ablaj encounter in Moonrise.
this bitch is crazy... I love her so much
literally "is this lady bothering you king". i love it
As someone with an unfortunately inherited past of sexual abuse and general abusive control (I suppose that's pretty much as close as we can get to Astarion's many years of it) I absolutely adore Larian and Astarion. Thank you to all involved
The way she is such a villain yet kinda awkward here is killing me. "Risky. But - erm - safe!" AND IS NOBODY GONNA TALK ABOUT THE GESTURES AT 4:32 *"Marvellous. 👹👹👹 Just... stand over there- **_FAR_** over there. 😬And drink up! (voice cracks, looks at you like a concerned toddler)"* Like I can't even. Thanks for uploading this entertainment.
The two in the back looking up at you at 3:35 has the *mom talking to her friend* *me waiting for her to finish to tell her something* vibe
gale approving after you stick up for astarion's feelings ;)
Dnd vampire lore is actually darker than warhammer vampire lore. That takes some doing.
The white haired guy is the same VA who plays Zeon in xenoblade 3 and im tempted to play BG just for him
And heisenberg in re8
Welcome to the club, he's the reason why most people buy the game 😃 I know I did
And Gavin/Kamski in Detroit Become Human
@@bigppishaSame, though before I first heard his voice, Astarion's aesthetic and nature reminded me of my comfort character from my adolescence (titular vamp from Legacy of Kain). And the more I learned about Astarion, the more I could draw parallels between his story and Kain's, so the spawn became another one of my favorite comfort characters. 💗
not me thinkin her face is very "Facin the sky" before realizin its cuz your dragonborn is a tall boi
Why is Araj permanently looking up like her neck is broken???
Because she's looking at a giant dragon
Huh I missed this because I just went through Moonrise Towers clearing out the Absolute before the final battle. She was long gone. I was playing a Gloom Stalker Drow Ranger. I put Astarion on Assassin. Being proactive seemed the right thing to do in this case.
Holy shit, Your Tav looks almost identical to my first Tav who also romanced Astarion. What are the chances?
“ Naturally I ask first….Unlike you 😒 “
I love thé shit talking he does about her being Drow given he’s madly in love with my Drow😂😂😂
Turned us into Soldier boy from The Boys 😂
At 05:01 when Durge says “explosive” I swear to god it sounded like Sigma from OW
I'm romancing him and he said nothing when I met her in the city. Even she pretended as if he wasn't there. Is this a bug?
Yes
Make sure he is close when it starts, I recommend slowly walking up to her and if you can stop and let everyone catch up
@@user-mu8ok5xf8d he was right behind me, he didn't say anything. My approval with him is exceptional too and I've had a pretty decent romance so far. But this isn't the first bug I've faced in the romance so, oh well.
Did you speak to her and do her dialogue in Moonrise Towers? Otherwise yeah, it sounds like a bug :(
@@caramellpanda yeah I did, and I didn't make astarion drink from her. But I tried talking to her again, making sure astarion was right beside me and it worked so thanks to the person who suggested it
i made these same choices and it was heartwarming. she creeps me out lol
...ain't that the same chick that wanted astarion to bite her and was talking to him like i owned him? yeah, no, i let him murder her expeditiously. she died IMMEDIATELY after that conversation. xD i guess i'll have to take out my anger on someone else next time and let her live a little longer.
he said "Hello, Beautiful" to me last night I haven't recovered.
He is biting no one but us as Tav!
Well, I killed her at Moonrise for talking about my sweetheart vampire like he was an object, so I guess I won't have this scene...
I put Astarion in the same Spider Silk armour and dyed it the same color. Wild.