[ Would it truly be hot to have a deranged elf glower at you from the other side of the room as you're trying to have dinner??? It's something that Astarion might have to deal with at some point or other, but for now, it's blissfully just the two of them (and Gale, occasionally, as he passes by the closed door and wonders if it's a good sort of closed door, or a bad sort of closed door).
It says something about the state of Iorveth's trust in Astarion that he barely even flinches when fangs cut through the thin layer of his skin and make a very vulnerable part of his body bleed. Iorveth has seen the way Astarion has fed on others－ with no care for the mess he makes or the pain he causes as a result－ but Astarion treats him with a kind of careful reverence that makes Iorveth wish he had more blood in his body to give.
A low exhale, and Iorveth presses his lips to the crown of Astarion's head. ]
The vampire ascendant, making a spawn?
[ There'd been mention that Astarion still thinks about what it would've been like if he'd completed the ritual. No judgment on Iorveth's part, but he isn't sure how he might have reacted to that particular power imbalance; he has no idea how the whole 'turning vampires into spawn' thing works, mechanically, nor does he really know how one could turn from spawn to vampire without the vampire killing his master. The politics of it all seem very messy. ]
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It says something about the state of Iorveth's trust in Astarion that he barely even flinches when fangs cut through the thin layer of his skin and make a very vulnerable part of his body bleed. Iorveth has seen the way Astarion has fed on others－ with no care for the mess he makes or the pain he causes as a result－ but Astarion treats him with a kind of careful reverence that makes Iorveth wish he had more blood in his body to give.
A low exhale, and Iorveth presses his lips to the crown of Astarion's head. ]
The vampire ascendant, making a spawn?
[ There'd been mention that Astarion still thinks about what it would've been like if he'd completed the ritual. No judgment on Iorveth's part, but he isn't sure how he might have reacted to that particular power imbalance; he has no idea how the whole 'turning vampires into spawn' thing works, mechanically, nor does he really know how one could turn from spawn to vampire without the vampire killing his master. The politics of it all seem very messy. ]