big smile is hard to get, and is usually only seen when Astarion is doing something sexual or romantic with him.
🍄‍🟫Alister is on a constant mission to make Astarion smile. He’ll flirt, be inappropriately sexual, get him gifts, insult strangers, anything he Astarion likes. Astarion does the same

of good old fashioned racial discrimination, and he thinks most of the clothing choices his bestie Karlach makes are bad (she finds this funny)

he is always confident that his opinion on such matters is the correct one.
🍄‍🟫There is nothing about Astarion he finds ugly, but there is about his friends. All of his female friends he finds to be a little ugly just because he’s very very gay, he finds his human friends to be a little ugly because+

this, but he also won’t lie about what they are if someone recognizes it. The story of how he got them he keeps to himself, just giving a blanket “my surgeon sucked” and leaving it at that. He does eventually tell the whole story to Astarion though

had two lines of silver stars going across the bottom of each pec.
🍄‍🟫Alister is a little slut and very openly displays his chest, scars included. Most people assume them to be some sort of magical tattooing, as they don’t really look like your typical scars. He won’t correct people when they assume+

in an attempt to heal himself. It would have been too much for him even if had he been healthy, but he just kept trying. He managed to keep himself conscious enough to properly heal his nipples, but then it all became too much and he blacked out. When he awoke again there was no more pain, and he *

had brought some homemade healing potions and drank those, but the damage was too much. He was still new at learning healing magic/channeling the power of the stars, but he knew he’d bleed out if he didn’t do something, so he made a desperate prayer to his beloved stars and pulled on their energy+

and death was better than living with the dysphoria. The doctor took him to a basement he would have never set foot in were he not desperate, and put him under. When he awoke he was covered in blood and in searing pain. His chest was flat, but it was completely open, and the doctor long gone. He +

proper surgeons in town knew better than to operate on some rich kid without his parent’s consent, so it was difficult for Alister to find a surgeon. He eventually had to resort to scrounging up his allowance and using it to pay off some sketchy, hack doctor, because in his mind risking infection +

threw in there when he first left his family to aimlessly travel around.
🍄‍🟫Despite already having a hoard of items in his bag, Alister does also keep a private chest at camp. This is mostly for appearances, because he doesn’t want any potential theives to know how much he has in his bag

you’d do anything for me except the one thing I actually want you to do.” I based that off what I wanted to yell at my ex in-laws😂.
🍄‍🟫Alister’s is probably either just scoffing, or “You’re really going to wear *that*?”

a lot at first. Once feelings were confessed, he felt comfortable just saying exactly what he felt, which Astarion loved. He’ll never admit this, but Alister started off by basing his romantic flirting on the cheesy romance novels he’ll deny liking 😂

to make it clear what he’s interested in. He and Astarion were doing this to each other at the same time, which of course resulted in sex, but once they started developing feelings neither had any idea what to do. Alister had never flirted in a romantic way before, so he stumbled over words+

else about Alister is fancy as well. His handwriting is full of unnecessary swirls, he carries himself with his chin up and face cold, he tends to talk down to people who aren’t beautiful men, etc.
🍄‍🟫Alister tends to be a suave, but very forward, flirter. He’ll drip out compliments on a man’s body+

to notice😂. Occasionally he’ll catch Astarion and insist the vampire try to sketch something of his own, which typically ends up in embarrassment for Astarion😂

things found in nature as well, usually as something to reference back to later for inspiration✨.
🍄‍🟫Astarion likes to sneak up behind Alister and watch him as he sketches, especially when Alister is working on designs for him. Alister doesn’t really like being watched, but he gets too in the zone +