I want Astarion hurt/comfort when heās not remotely attractive. Heās dirty and gross, thereās something matted in his hair and he doesnāt even want to imagine what it is. Heās sick, heās coughing up something disgusting and his voice sounds terrible, or he had some bad blood and now heās got a very upset tummy in the most unpleasant way. Heās injured, really injured in ways that hurt to even look at, and heās in too much pain to even try to be charming. Heās never looked less sexy, at least in front of Tav who wasnāt around for the rat eating era.
And guess what? He still gets love and care. He still gets treated tenderly even when he isnāt something pretty to look at. Like maybe thatās not the only thing of value about him.
when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now
if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?
i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve