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[(Anonymous)]

i will never understand the thirst for this egg. guy is a manipulative asshole

i also don't get the thirst for astarion or kylo ren

[(Anonymous)]

idc about the other two but astarion is the walking dsm-5 and that's so fun to rp off.

[(Anonymous)]

yes it's fun to rp off

what i don't understand is the thirst

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but he’s extremely attractive and he hits the target for a lot of people who are into cocky bad boys with a sad past. also he’s hot. i feel his voice actor’s is also part of it too between the accent and impressive voice acting

but i’ve also seen someone say that he sounds like stewie from family guy and tbh i can’t unhear that now either

[(Anonymous)]

yeah the stewie voice puts me off

he's just whiny to me

and looks like a golden girl

[(Anonymous)]

lmao

[(Anonymous)]

he's sooo blanche

[(Anonymous)]

tbh the whining is also part of the appeal for me, in the pathetic kind of man way

hes like one of those fancy lap dogs that can't stop shaking because they're not wearing a little doggy sweater

[(Anonymous)]

it's the stewie voice while assaulting the tav/player character multiple times for me

playing the game and realizing THIS is who fandom is insane about made me feel like i was a 1940s housewife being gaslit by her alcoholic husband

[(Anonymous)]

he's also funny, assuming you like that kind of snarky, irreverent character. i dunno that i care much about romancing him, but he's fun to have around for the running commentary

[(Anonymous)]

he's a skinny white guy who has an extreme traumatic backstory, it's the most basic character archetype to thirst over. it's ancestral at this point

the term "woobiefied" has been around for probably twenty years by now because of how long a tradition fandom has of thirsting over characters like this and simplifying them to be softer

[(Anonymous)]

don't lie, anon, there are no ic astarions in dwrp.

[(Anonymous)]

^this

[(Anonymous)]

personally i've hated rping with every astarion i've played with specifically *because* the players are always way too into "teehee, he's the walking dsm-5" and it sucks to play into because their tags are written with the assumption that you *also* should be obsessed with him

+1

[(Anonymous)]

astarion is a particular kind of grating

players who are self-aware enough to understand not everyone will fall in love with him are extremely rare

[(Anonymous)]

this. it's why i don't get why more astarions don't embrace the malleable protag cooties. those are your people, go tag the characters who are into that, custom made just for you and your tee hee wooby narcissist.

da

[(Anonymous)]

if i may, what does dsm-5 mean

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

my guess, a cluster b amalgamation

antisocial
borderline
narcissistic
histrionic

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses is the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s professional reference book on mental health and brain-related conditions. Also known as the DSM-5, this is the main guide for mental health providers in the U.S. The latest version, the DSM-5-TR, was published in 2022.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

DSM-5 is a gigantic fucking text, like what part of it are we referring to LMAO?

[(Anonymous)]

let me rephrase. characters who are fucked up, traumatized, annoying, have complicated motives, do and say opposite things, go against standard morality, make bad choices, are thin-skinned and reactive, violent, closed-off, abusive and/or pathetic, are (personally!) my favourite to play off in dwrp (for me personally, in my opinion!)

since i mostly rp ships, i would also say they are my favourite to ship with.

this isn't gendered or aesthetic, one of my favourite characters to keep an eye out for at the moment is shauna shipman from yellowjackets and i have also enjoyed threading with many jinx arcanes.

i get that astarion was marketed to the edward cullen girlies but unlike, say, kylo ren, that's his deliberate mask and underneath he's yucky. and that's the appeal. to me.

[(Anonymous)]

i respect your preferences i just don't think there are any astarions like that in dwrp

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but lmao bingo. as much as i love him i don't really feel like any of the astarions i've seen really capture the vibe he gives in game. sorry to the astarions out there.

i did try to pick him up because i figure i couldn't do any worse but the amount of attention i immediately got scared me off, especially since i was still trying to voice test because i don't normally play this type of character.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt i don't want to draw attention to any specific person in this clusterfuck of a thread but there's at least one.

i do think probably it's harder to see the depths people are willing to sink their characters to on bakerstreet. i tend to woobify my own garbage shithead man when i'm playing with strangers after one pm that was like "your villain was very mean in this texting thread, are you secretly someone who hates me, the player?" also this is weak but sometimes it's hard enough getting tags with a nasty man that if strangers want to play a "redeeming the dark fuck prince" au for a dozen comments of smut i'm happy to serve. it's just memes.

[(Anonymous)]

"guy is a manipulative asshole"

yeah that's the appeal