This is what happens when you *don't* push Astarion to bite the "stinky-blooded" drow Araj Oblodra in Moonrise Towers during act 2. As a reward for that she brews you a potion. The potion in question permanently increases your strength by 2 - which is quite powerful. It's something she brews in spur of the moment, so it's not possible to buy it off of her or get it from her body via pickpocketing or looting her corpse. Still, you can very easily make him do it, he will push his disgust aside and follow your lead, even if you do it in a way that's not overtly direct and authoritative. The reason why he does that is well explained here as well as in that scene, if you're curious as to what he exactly says you can check that video on this channel.

During this conversation pressuring him into sleeping with you will immediately cause a breakup [as can be implied by his huge grimace and his genuine deep contemplation before he gets the courage to break up]. Once again Kudos to everyone, from writers, animators to Neil Newbon himself, because you can genuinely tell just from the scene where he sighs how much he hates to be proven right about your character - that to you, too, he is just a tool and a toy made to amuse and be used, with no agency of his own. He explains it very plainly here - not wanting to be used just for something he's grown numb to, something that he used on his victims before *and* your character ["seeking protection"]... And perhaps most importantly wanting to be seen beyond just his allure and his body, as a person, with the desire to find the one confidant rather than some person from his hundreds of lovers.

The dialogue options that are as a response to his thanks change nothing, hence the fact that I didn't really include them, except for "Not interested" which results in the brief conversation at the very end of this video.

So, simply put if you want to successfully Romance Astarion, just care about what he wants to do and don't do stuff he doesn't consent to.

Time stamps
0:00-3:15 Full conversation I had
3:16-3:53 Morning after talk
3:54-9:15 All the other options
9:16-17:10 Sleeping with him & other

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