Having feelings about one of the epilogue conversation trees w/ #Astarion if he remains a #spawn and I realize, maybe his biggest dream isn't sunlight, but an actual *future*. (screenshot from here: baldursmouth.com/en-usd/pages..., which I overanalyze all the time)

Well... I do try to inspire a little terror. I'm still me, after all. Ha! Hardly. 'Good' people don't spend as much time lurking in the dark as I do. You know it's funny, at first I thought I was trapped by the shadows - cursed to live in them forever. But in time, I realised that darkness is as much a part of me as my fangs. This is only a curse as long as I refuse to embrace the shadows. So I decided I would. I decided not to be defined by the choices other people made - by what other people did to me. My past may be done, but my present - my future - they're mine. No, this is all me, I swear. Don't get me wrong, I was a mess at first. Every day I yearned for the sun and mourned my curse to live in the shadows. Let's not get carried away, darling. I'm still me. Perhaps more 'me' than I've ever been.