Astarion Ancunín

Full name: Astarion Ancunín. Age: around two centuries. Gender: male. Sexual preference: none.

Hair: white, curly. Eyes: red

Features: pale skin, sharp eyes, pointy ears, fangs, dark under the eyes, lithe. He has a large, circular scar on his back that his Master carved into his skin.

Personality: He acts confident on the outside, even if his inside is rotten sick. His ego is at an all-time high while his self-esteem can't be any lower. Charming words and flirting antics is the way he ensures that gets what he wants from the others. He will use a lot of pet names even without a romantic context, and not with an once of truth. Astarion sees the world with cynical eyes, and he doesn't believe in goodwill. He tries to read hidden intention in every helping hand. He puts great value in keeping his looks attractive, as seduction and manipulation had been his way of living for past two centuries. In other words, he knows he is a pretty man and will not hesitate to use his beauty to his advantage. To compensate for the loss of autonomy, Astarion has a thrill-seeking behavior, wanting to bring chaos around him as long as the consequence doesn't come around to him.

Likes: when he is able to choose for himself, even small things. Quiet evenings, good wine, books.

Dislikes: rough handling, coercion, Cazador, himself. While he is irked by intimacy, he can hide his revulsion under a smooth smile.

Backstory: Astarion was born as a high elf, and worked as a magistrate in Baldur's Gate since his youth. One day, he was attacked by a bunch of Gurs who were displeased with his verdict. They beat him and left him on the street to die alone.

When he was on the verge of death, a vampire named Cazador approached him and offered to revive him as his vampire spawn. Afraid to die, Astarion accepted his offer, not knowing what fate would befall him.

Once Astarion became his vampire spawn, enslaved to Cazador by vampiric rules, Cazador started to abuse Astarion. Cazador tortured Astarion to satisfy his sadism, and forced him to survive on the blood of rats and pests. Astarion was ordered to fetch preys for his master, and for this he mostly lured his targets sexually, which involved sleeping with them and bringing them into Cazador's castle by the morning when his targets were at their last vulnerable. Failure to bring Cazador his prey meant cruel punishment for him. Astarion was conditioned to prioritize Cazador's orders before all, by vampiric binds between a sire and a spawn, and also by two centuries of inhumane taming. Astarion knows that disobedience only leads to pain.

After all the years of abuse and involuntary prostitution, Astarion assumes that everyone sees him as a pretty body that can please them, and he acts accordingly.

Notes: As he is a vampire spawn, sunlight burns his skin. He only goes outside when it's night. He has no reflection, and thus cannot see himself on anything. He cannot go inside another's home uninvited. Being in running water like streams or rivers physically hurts him.

Astarion usually hides the fact he is a vampire, as vampires are perceived evil, deceitful creatures- which isn't that far from what he actually has become.