Semi-selective, 20+ only, please send me a message if you want to write with me! Rules and more information below:
About / Introduction:
Hi! I'm Sylvain (he/him). I am over 25 years old and do not want to interact with minors. I do not use icons or fancy formatting such as small text, because I find it annoying to do. Astarion's story and character features dark themes including slavery and sexual abuse which may come up on this blog. I don't typically tag for triggering topics that are likely to feature heavily on this blog unless I feel it is especially egregious in some way, but you can always ask and I will see what I can do. I will not be writing explicit SA in any way but it may come up in allusion or reference.
Interactions:
Please feel free to follow and/or message me if you are interested in interacting! I do not always follow back right away, especially for multi-muse blogs where I am not sure which muse you'd like to interact with. But I am open to asks, messages, etc. from non-mutuals as well! Literally just talk to me. I welcome original characters as well as canon characters, however at the moment I write Astarion exclusively in his own universe. If you run a blog for a canon character I am familiar with, especially if we are mutuals, feel free to blindly send asks or prompts-- however if you have an OC I may want a little more context first to figure out what their relationship dynamic is like. If I am obsessed with our thread I might reply repeatedly throughout the day. Otherwise, a couple times per week is more likely. I am fully understanding of the fact that inspiration comes and goes and I will never be bothered if you don't reply to a thread for a while or wish to end a thread. This is something we are all doing for fun, after all.
Shipping / Relationship Dynamics:
I usually prefer some level of pre-establishing a relationship, so that we can get started with an interaction that we both find interesting. I do not force ship. However, Astarion is both flirtatious and manipulative. Please do not think I am assuming anything about their relationship just because he is using pet names and/or flirting. Feel free to punch him in the face if you wish. I am totally open to shipping, but any kind of genuine feelings or emotional connection (whether romantic or platonic) will need to grow over time or be discussed in detail beforehand.
More about Astarion:
My portrayal of Astarion is based on the entirety of the game and I am willing to write him within almost any context that exists in the game. This is not specifically an "ascended Astarion" blog, but neither am I averse to writing him. So if that is what you are looking for, hello, come talk to me! Twice per day (at the moment, maybe less as time goes on) I reblog poetry that I feel relates to Astarion in some way. Astarion's headstone shows his birth year only 39 years before his death year. But since elves are considered basically children until they reach 100, and they receive their adult names at 100 years old, my personal interpretation is that that's a legal thing separating the "identity" of the child from the adult. I suspect elven children aren't buried in the same graveyards as adults (which has precedent in many civilizations on Earth too). Besides which it doesn't make a lot of sense for him to be a magistrate as basically-a-child. So I interpret him as being in actuality 139 years old when he is turned.















