#im telling you poe and astarion are a match made in heaven

[orangechickenpillow]

No but the fact that Astarion is canonically an Edgar Allan Poe fan (or, at the very least, familiar with his work) is sooooooo good. Not only does Poe's work tend to have a dramatic, sorrowful, desperate flare to it that is very on parr with Astarion's own personality and backstory, but he also has a whole fucking story about being buried alive

#its literally so fucking perfect #because astarion could read stories like the tell tale heart and the masqurade of the red death #and be so into these stories with 'monsters' and madmen arguing their own morality #but then he could also read stories like the premature burial and just..... sit with the feeling of being so *seen* #im telling you poe and astarion are a match made in heaven #just like gale and rilke #theyre 🤝 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #edgar allan poe