#astariya

19. What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

Anya’s fear of finding out her partner’s true feelings inhibits her ability to ask questions outright, hindering the communication between the two of them. Anya is used to one night stands in taverns; those don’t come with long conversations about where their relationship is headed, so when she does find herself in what could be a long term relationship, her lack of communication and unwillingness to resolve arguments by simply talking ends the relationship. All the emotions she’s been bottling up over the course of the relationship does tend to tip over though, leading to a meltdown on her side.

44. How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

It is incredibly difficult for Anya to say “I love you”--as she’s only ever heard it from her mother and her mother’s been dead for decades--and she has to be fully committed to a person to even think it in her head. That being said, she needs to make sure the other person feels the same way, which leads her to assess their entire relationship. With Astarion, Anya says it for the first time in the heat of the moment during sex, which freaks Astarion out, to say the least. It leads them to have the dreaded “What are we?” talk, which promptly ends their relationship (for now).