Thinking once again about how Astarion never once asks to feed from you except for the very first time.
He always waits for you to let him feed from you. He never once comes up and asks for blood (what is honestly his only real food).
His first bite is canonically after a nightmare about Cazador denying him the blood of thinking creatures. He’s scared and desperate to find out if he can defy Cazador’s orders, so he makes a very stupid decision to sneak up on you when he’s weak and stumbling.
But every other time in the game, he waits for you, his friend and possibly partner, to offer him sustenance.
He hasn’t been able to ask for anything other than what flavor of torment he’d prefer in 200 years.
And he’s still not asking for what he needs to survive.
