If I had a nickle for every time I cosplayed a traumatized abuse survivor who carries around a knife and calls you "darling", I would have two nickles, which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
"When I was a boy my mother told me, get married my son and how happy you'll be..."
Astarion is hardly the first time I've been a traumatized stabby boy who calls you 'darling'