"I don't care about her at all. Now come on, let's kill the bastard who took her and get her back. Not that I care."

Whenever he's mean or rude to a child, I just imagine it's because he's trying to keep his own distance and convince himself that he dislikes them purely because seeing them reminds him of the children he brought back to Cazador. It's not that he hates them, it's that they just make him feel guilt.

Astarion: (doesn't want Yenna) Tav: (adopts Yenna anyway) Astarion and Yenna two long rests later:

I was so shocked when Astarion approved of me giving Yenna food. But it was a good shocked. Made me happy about how far he has come

Yenna, Arabella, Vanra... Astarion cared for every child we've met in my playthrough 😭 Sweet little star 🙏🌟

I’ve never seen this scene so I was actually getting really mad like “WHY ARE YOU BEING MEAN TO HER😡?!” But then I saw Orin and was like “oh”

Astarion is a genuinely good guy. His story is a redemption story. I realized he was truly good when he was genuinely worried about Lae'zel while she was being "cleansed". He said "so the plan is we just leave her in their to die?!". He was shocked. He also likes Arabella and wanted me to make sure the kid the hag ate didn't die while fighting her. People can defend ascended Astarion all they want, but if you don't let him ascend he acknowledges that he wasn't himself right after killing Cazador and he smiles so big. He's a good guy.

I remember finding arebella in yhe sewers and astarion was so concerned when he found her. Shows he really likes kids.

This is why I don't believe at all that Astarion, non-ascended, falls into the Evil alignment, which is what some people put him as. I'm 90% sure he's a Chaotic Neutral, he's definitely an agent of chaos but he's also not firmly Good or Evil, and instead is driven by his whims/self-interest, which is what Neutrals do. Astarion certainly does vary from being good (worried for Yenna and having a conscience over his role in the disappearing children in the city) and his usual tartness, so I think CN fits him perfectly.

Even though he says that we can't keep them in our camp, he doesn't disapproves, sooo He's just a cat

It's a crime that no one's pointed out how fine your character is. Not enough people play Half-Orc chicks. I am mentally shaking your hand in solidarity rn, there are so few of us

I remember how shocked and happy when Astarion approved of giving Yenna food, also when we found Arabella in act 3 he was the first to say something it's sweet

We definitely need companions' interacting with each other at camp.

So i see a lot of these things about yenna getting kidnapped but she never did. Orin kidnapped Lae Zel in my playthrough and i talked to yenna like EVERY night so it isnt like i wasn't progressing her story. She made the best soup. Slurp happy.

He also approved when i agreed to find Vanra, the kid stolen by Auntie Ethel. Not sure if he looked forward to killing her or to save a kid or both, but it was a pleasant surprise

The cat is so cute 😢😢 it’s the only cat I’ve spoken to in the game that is timid / lacking confidence. Spoiler: Orin can potentially kidnap Yenna. If she does, she cooks the cat as a soup. I was heartbroken and traumatised, reloaded and she took Laezel lol

Yenna always gets taken by Orin in my playthroughs. I have no idea why she never takes anybody else. Ive never had any of these interactions -- I'd assumed she existed to take the place of a companion when kidnapped if you werent close enough to any of the possible choices.

Thanks to this clip, my headcanon now is that my Tav and Astarion eventually decide to adopt Yenna as their own- Yennefer/Geralt/Ciri vibes 😂

I think Astarion cares in general for Children. He was also worried about the Child in the second fight against the Hag

Weird. I never had these interactions with Yenna. She was always just gone for some reason and the cat was still there.

Omg what a softie. Yenna's in my camp right now but I didn’t talk to her before a long rest, so I'll do that tonight. Glad I watched this!

i always feel so proud of astarion by act 3, dude really needed the power of love and friendship to help him frfr

I love the socially awkward cat

Cat Fact: The reason Cats go off to be alone when they sense their gonna die is to be in a safe place, calm down, and protect their bodies from larger predators. So Grub was actually spitting cat facts. Also I would die for that little scaredy cat!

"Not that I care, it's just that I care so much and my unbeating heart is breaking in my chest as we speak and what if the little urchin kid gets hurt oh my god oh my god we must be heroes and rescue this poor innocent child."

He also approves of you being nice to the child's brain in moonlight towers. 🥺

3:10 This turned into a horror game real quick 😳

I'm never letting Yenna in my camp again after finding out the cat dies

Awww I'm sad I missed this. Halsin was the one who got kidnapped for me but Yenna just disappeared anyways. And then Halsin disappeared after I rescued him lol. Guess I took too long 💀

Grub the cat is alive in my save file even after Orin did what she did... So the next morning I wanted to give Grub a funeral but my character had a strength of 8, so instead... as messed up as it is but I promise it has a good ending...I chucked the cat's body across the camp to get it closer to Lazeal so she could pick it up. (In my mind she would take it, not get encumbered and we would find a spot for him) Strangest thing happened though, after I threw it it sorta splattered in the ground and (somehow????) fully healed itself and was brought back to life. Grub doesn't talk anymore but he IS alive and is just vibing in camp now. I like to think of him as Astarion's pet vampire/zombie cat now :)

1:48 "She might come later... I don't think she's coming." :(

not grub becoming grub T-T I'm so glad Orin took somebody else, this is so sad

On my first play-through I learned about Orin kidnapping one of our companions and I learned that pretty much the only way to guarantee both Yenna and Grub live is to ensure Orin kidnaps Lae'zel. Now I loved Lae'zel, I never took her out of my party before and honestly I hadn't quite gotten used to the combat so I relied heavily on her multiple heavy attacks to carry me... but in order to save both Yenna and Grub, I took her out of my party and waited for the reveal cutscene. And honestly it took me a long time to get her back because I had no idea what I was doing, but it was all worth it in the end, I learned to how to play without my babysitter Lae'zel, Yenna makes me some soup and Grub stays out of the soup 🥰

He says mean stuff but i see that approval rating. He’s a softy for kids and animals

"Not that I care" 3:24 - oh Astarion

3:30 "not that I care! b-b-baka!" I knew there was a reason I like him so much.

Dude what... I've got like 400 hours in this game and never once have I seen these interactions, Orin always takes Lae'zel!

Rangers have a dialogue choice that implies the mom actually just abandoned the child.

So... gortash said that one of my companions was a "traitor" or something like that. I see now that he was talking about lae'zel beeing orin. But for the entirety of act 3 I though Yenna was an enemy infiltrated on my camp lol

I kept waiting for Yenna to be Orin in disguise. But I guess since there is some weird mechanic which NPCs are Orin until they suddenly aren't, and I have no idea how the game chooses the kidnapped character, Yenna ended up just repeating one line in my camp.

Orin took Halsin in my game. She exposed herself right after we just had 5some with the Drow twins too.... now i think i may have just have the snu snu with murdering mommy.

Can we talk about how the poor cat --knowing Orin...she probably took Yennas form before killing him just so he died thinking she betrayed him...and Astarion is probably just trying to atone for gur kids he took to cazadorks

Nooooo she fucking kills the adorable cat?????

The guide I read said Astarian hates helping people but I guess the guide was wrong.

After saving Yenna, she said that she wanted to go home. I thought she was going to her actual home but she meant camp! SO PRECIOUS!

animals and respectful kids he approves.

protect grub at all costs

... Orin killed the cat!? That neck snap... I want to make it louder.

I did this with astarion in my party but didn't get the "astarion approves" in the upper left corner, I think the game stops showing approval once you reach maximum approval.

Awwwwwaaaa. Such a sweetie under it all. It all being his trauma.

Well damn, wasn’t expecting that transformation. I haven’t played this game yet

I NEVER HAD A SCENE WITH YENNA COOKING, OMG.

I just realized something.....Yenna describes her mother's sickness as how your skin gets weird after you evolve....I'm thinking she got infected, went to Orin to sort it out, something went wrong turning her into a dopple, and Orin's next best idea was to go for the kid.....MAN do I hate this villain so much....

what a rollercoaster; first I was saddened and then very scared

I kept turning her away because I saw what happens to Grub is Yenna is taken 😢 poor kitty

To save Yenna, have Gale, Laezel, and Halsin/Minthara the first time you go to sewers after u save her. To be safe, bring the three to meeting Gortash as well but I'm not sure if it's necessary. Also, I haven't been able to save Yenna in my runs cause I have a mod that lets me keep both Minthara and Halsin so Minthara is the one that appears.

headcannon tav and astarion adopt yenna at the end of the game. i will not accept any criticism

Poor thing, imagine what was going through his head when cazador compelled him to kidnap the gur children, thats so vile, poor trauma baby 😢

please do not the cat

Tsundere Astarion

Btw Yenna doesn’t just disappear. She DOES get kidnapped by Orin no matter who she kidnaps for u to save. And if you look around you can unfortunately find Yenna’s corpse.

I suspected Yenna might be Orin because Orin had infiltrated my camp so many times. So, I I saved, and then took her out to see if she would change into Orin. She did not. And the Oath Breaker knight went right into attack mode. Interesting. When I let Yenna stay in my camp Orin took Gale as a pawn. Yenna never appeared again. Her cat stayed. Her great cooking skills provided four meals of vegetable soup. I thought I might adopt her, which is mildly sad, but maybe she found a foster home. She probably should have taken her cat with her rather than leaving it with me. *The world's smallest violin plays just for me at this moment*

when this happened I feel like I fell in love with him all over again TvT

Somehow my game did not trigger having a shapeshifter at camp. Maybe because I visited the Dryad only after I killed Orin? Don't know. Next playthrough I hope to find out. Lae´Zel got kidnapped but there was no "replacement" for her, she just vanished. And Yenna was just Yenna all the time and stayed until the end.

Yeah, kid just disappeared from my game after I got to the Elfsong. The cat was still around though. And Orin was Lae'zel. Though I fully expected this scene to happen, it never did . . I wish the Orin scenes would have an insight check, cuz from the 2nd one it was always like, duhhhhhhhhhh.

i never got the interaction where she actually gives you stuff she just kept repeating the same stuff over and over.

I've done two playthroughs and I've never gotten a scene where Yenna cooks. She's just stood there and did nothing the whole time.

he is so cute

half orc slay

Its weird how she is forgotten in the epilogue... not even a letter from her

you know when you show off a scene in particular, maybe dont skip through the dialogue

" [foreshadowing]" 100%

Even if you save Orin's victim within the day she abducts your companion, (therefore skipping Yenna's implied death with the letter on a pool of blood) Yenna would still be gone. I'm pretty OP in my current playthrough cause I have the lvl 20 multiclass mod so I was able to sweep through her Netherstone immediately after arriving at Baldurs Gate at lvl 15. Still, she wasn't there.

In my first play through, Lae’zel got taken by Orin but Yenna also disappeared. I hope things turn out differently in my next play through

I was terrified that yenna was going to be orin in my first playthrough, then when I saw what she did to the others she impersonated I was glad she never did

am I the only one who thinks the scene with yenna and the scene with the refugees wanting to squat at that one guys place is a reference to the Dragon age origins?

Yenna has just disappeared from my camp with some blood in her old spot, Orin hasn't said anything to me about it. 😅

Yenna just disappeared one day leaving Grub - who never became friendly. I assumed Yenna was never real and just Orin playing tricks? I guess she was real and you can save her.. whoops.

Strange, when I gave her food I got a different reply from her, she said something about how her mum had left her some food but she ran out a while ago

I love this maaaan

I’m afraid to help this kid I am the dark urge what if I can’t control it what if I loose control again

That's so weird, I didn't get Astarion's approval when I gave Yenna food nor did he say anything when Yenna asked to come to our camp. I wonder if it was a bug or something on my end

Well now I have to speed through act 2 so I can get to Yenna and her cat

Yenna died in my playthrough thanks to my shit rolling. Sadly no one reacted much. Wish they did it broke me heart losing her to Orin killing her while disguised as Lae'zel.

RIP cat

oh that is interesting! my reveal of orin was actually the gith warrior trying to kill Yenna, saying she saw her shapeshift. So my quest now is to save the gith

I thought I was the only one who had the Fuzzy Hair and messed up skin bug, good to know it isn't just me lol

Yenna is so cute, I accidentally killed her the first play through though because I thought she was Orin. She wasn’t. She was in my second play through

This girl straight up disappeared from my camp at one point and idk what happened or if I was supposed to do something or what

Ive always see ppl misunderstanding astarion's character, saying he's Unredeemable, a straight up monster and is pure villain coded.... as if they forget that this Is a role playing game and your decision/route + aproval rate has an effect of all their characters outcome...Like Acended astarion personality cannot co-exist on the same universe as a mellowed out Spawn Astarion, if you only got a 1 dimensional character out of him ever thought you did something wrong along the way and its not JUST hows he's written up? 😅 like these ppl dont give a shit about him, choosing all the dismissive dialogue option and its surprise astarion still doesnt like you and treats you with disdain 🙄 Like bruh the same type of people, they be defending their waifu , saying shes just a tsundere or whatever , yall be like "shes just misunderstood, shes like an onion she has a lot of layers to her, she has the best development i swear yada yada" lol yeah they ALL have have developments thats the point 😂

1.10.23 I KNEW HE HAS A HEART!

My game bugged out and I didn't get any orin cutscenes in camp, one day yenna and lay'zel both just dissapeared 😢

Yenna dissapeared from my camp, same time that Gale was taken by Orin... Sadly I didn't find her back :(

So if Orin takes Laezel, does that mean Yenna is not Orin? She took Laezel in my play through but Yenna is just gone now. Grub is still there, though.

Is yenna's story different for everyone? My yenna told a different story..

Aww

wow your orcish lady look cool af.

Think there's a bug or glitch cause there was a time I saved Yenna from a certain psycho then she just disappears anyway? Like wtf.

I had yenna in my camp but Orin took lae'zel instead 😅 at least I still have karlach for a tanky companion

😂 the cat 😂