[ It's the privilege of having a strong foundational core: when one has something to rally oneself around, when one builds himself around an unshakeable pillar, it makes it difficult to understand why others wouldn't also be confident or sure about themselves. Iorveth, who has now molded his future to Astarion's shape, can't quite see why Astarion wouldn't have been confident enough in his character to lead with it.
A bad, obnoxious bias. It bleeds into his reaction to Astarion essentially telling him that yes, Astarion anticipates Iorveth's negative judgment. An unwarranted sense of frustration, like the aftertremors of a big quake: 'why would he think that?' ]
If knowing you more makes me like you less, [ he states flatly (probably unhelpfully), ] then I clearly don't deserve you.
[ "If I suck, dump me," says the man who was proposed to just upwards of 24 hours ago. He has to be setting some sort of record, here. ]
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A bad, obnoxious bias. It bleeds into his reaction to Astarion essentially telling him that yes, Astarion anticipates Iorveth's negative judgment. An unwarranted sense of frustration, like the aftertremors of a big quake: 'why would he think that?' ]
If knowing you more makes me like you less, [ he states flatly (probably unhelpfully), ] then I clearly don't deserve you.
[ "If I suck, dump me," says the man who was proposed to just upwards of 24 hours ago. He has to be setting some sort of record, here. ]